This certainly doesn't leave me cold, instead it gives me a warm feeling. Great collaboration from you both

good changes-marvelous  lyrics-and always charming vox

You know how to choose your musical partners, who allow your talent to express itself .... It's still a success here.

Really beautiful song! Thank you Dear Annie. It is always so inspiring to hear your songs!

Annie and Current Device tracks! 😊🎶

LOLA

Water Coloured

Part 28 of 266
I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds within the scope of the Taffeta project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

Recently released on Bandcamp, TAFFETA (Vol. 1 of 18) The first 15 parts are found on this album: belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-1

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part1
Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part2
Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-3
Part 4: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-4
Part 5: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-5
Part 6: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-6
Part 7: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-7
Part 8: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-8
Part 9: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-9
Part 10: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-10
Part 11: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-11
Part 12: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-12
Part 13: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-13
Part 14: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-14
Part 15: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-15
Part 16: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-16
Part 17: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-17
Part 18: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-18
Part 19: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-19
Part 20: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-20
Part 21: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-21
Part 22: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-22
Part 23: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-24
Part 24: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-24
Part 25: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-25
Part 26: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-26
Part 27: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-27

The TAFFETA Playlist: soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 28

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. Website: tomeofstars.net

The sixth and final section of “Tome of Stars”, “Scripture”, leaves narrative behind to consecrate the poet’s enduring, unrequited love as sacred text. Comprising nine sonnets, it transforms the terminal condition of quixotosis (a delusional devotion stripped of belief in reciprocity) into liturgy, adopting the voice and cadence of timeless religious writing.

“Dance, Stars!” is the first song in every album and is an outlier in “Tome of Stars”. Unlike the other poems, it was not composed through conventional inspiration but assembled from a word-frequency analysis of the manuscript. After completing the first drafts, the poet examined the text with automated tools to uncover unconscious repetitions and verbal ticks. From the ranked list of words, a new challenge suggested itself in the poet's mind: to fashion a poem by following the order of frequency while introducing only minimal grammatical adjustments.

What began as an artistic experiment under these constraints produced a poem that surprised even its creator. Despite its eccentric genesis, “Dance, Stars!” seemed to capture the essence of the collection in a compressed and distorted form, serving as a mirror and a parody of its language. The poet therefore placed it at the threshold of the book, as an Epigraph, where it functions as a playful yet telling distillation of themes that the subsequent sonnets will explore.

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Lyrics
Dance, stars!
Grace bright cosmic souls,
endless hearts 
within lost skies.
Art flames upon star chains!
There lies Void’s 
sacred madness, 
a sweet, shattered
space of truth-pain.
Thus, kiss song-joy, magic mortal!
Beneath worlds, 
divine, sublime gods 
shall dawn tears 
in wild touch!

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3dMNga3PaxcmTfrYH3OSfM
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/stargazer-elentirmo/1842303474

Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Dance, Stars! (Scripture)

Thank you to Scott @currentdevice for inviting me along to sing and add piano on this lovely track! We hope you enjoy. 😀

BECK AND CALL (Voice/piano by Annie Smart & music by Current Device)

Thank you to @currentdevice for inviting me to sing and play piano on our second collaboration! Love how much this makes me dance. Twas very fun to sing. 🙂🎶 

Lyrics
Keep me up all night if you want to
You can read my mind if you want to
Have me lost in your eyes if you need to 
Oh...
You can read my thoughts if you want to

And you can have me
All to yourself
And you can have me
For as long as you want

You can read my mind if you want to...

ALL TO YOURSELF (Current Device and Annie Smart)

Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). Substituting double bass, trumpet, and trombone for harpsichord. Modeled after the Glenn Gould version.

Aria

A couple of years ago I dedicated this song to Sandra. After listening she said: "Mmm, yes, nice, but I prefer another piece, that one that you let me listen a few months ago".
Damn sincerity! :)))

Lately i decided to record it again with a different arrangement, this is the new one.
But this time I'm not sure i'll let her listen again :)))

Here you can find the other previous version, the "rejected" one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhvv6Rw2zWo

The other piece, her favorite, was this:  https://soundcloud.com/francescocartocci/la-danza-della-lontananza

Sandra

Step right up and get yer biscuits and gravy!
hilariously terrifying :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2C7_n8ZB8

biscuits 'n gravy across the nation

I'm excited to introduce my collaboration with the incredible musician @dariusz-jackowski-1. This track has been on ice for over two years and forgotten since then. Now it's finally time for it to see the light of day. What strikes me immediately is how good the production is. You've done an fantastic job. Kudos to you, brother!

Prepare thoroughly
Visit the sacred places
Wait
Observe
Feel

X faktor (feat. Dariusz Jackowski)

Tani,?

companion to https://soundcloud.com/herronsound/broken-erhu
remixed drums on 01/06/2021 and remix/master on 10/17/2022

Nikkatsu Pink

Hollow Beholder

Thank you so much Current Device for asking me to join in on this lovely track. I enjoyed singing, adding some piano sprinkles, percussion and clarinet parts. 
We hope you enjoy our 3rd collaboration! 😊🎶🎹🎼🎤

@currentdevice for more wonderful music...🎵

Picture taken by me today. 😊

LEAVE ME COLD (by Current Device featuring Annie Smart)

A female composer, singer, musician, pianist, piano teacher, choir leader (Heart of Scotland choir), song writer living in Bonnie Scotland! I have grade 8 piano with distinction and an LTCL piano diploma. On band camp too! 
I also have a duo with the wonderful @wane-of-summer
Follow us @user-949559825 (Passion Arcade) 💕
I teach online piano and singing via video if anyone is interested just message me!

LEAVE ME COLD (by Current Device featuring Annie Smart)

Annie Smart

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