Wonderful mix of this poetry recital with the driving instrumentation. Works really well.

Great track - gonna comment on the drums again - cymbals especially that tap on the ride - fantastic!

Ooh that’s nice! Love the vocal interpretation

Really cool song, vocal and music are interesting.

Dark Bass,  Tremolo ,  Slide guitar ..   What more could you ask for ..   Ohh  a sultry vocal  ...

Another great, deep, emotional work of art!

great rocker sound meshed perfectly with The Ballad

Mixed for Blank Shell Shutter

Produced, arranged, composed and performed by James Murphy - 'Byrdz'.

Lyrics :- All Of This Falls Away

All of this falls away,
But I want you to stay!
I like it where you are,
So near but so far,
But yet so far,
It's been great,
Hearing about you,
Carve out your way,
Not taking anything lightly,
Young and sprightly,
Nimble and slowly...
Yeah, nimble and slowly...
Making your way;
In this life,
Hopefully your happy?
And seeing how great,
This life is...?
It's not hard,
To make the best of things...
How they are, when they lie,
how they lie, when they do,
When they do,
When they do, when they do, 
when they do!

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Artwork credit to - Alan Davis

Cian's Song

All Of This Falls Away

keep the hope...

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ひとり刹那 / beauty in sadness
========================

風のささやく声が　通りすぎて　今

夏を連れていった
想い出に変えていった

ひとり刹那の　波に揺られ

いいことばかりじゃない
わるいことだけでもない


たたずむ　今日もあれ　見えない距離
やがてこの地上も　雪の音を　聴く


風のささやく声が　通りすぎて　今

夏を連れていった
想い出に変えていった

ひとり　音無し　路に置かれ

今年も　また　ひとつ
歳は　離れ



祈る言葉さえ　どこ吹く風
やがてこの地上も　雪の音だけ　聴く


風のささやく声が　通りすぎて　今

夏を連れていった
想い出に変えていった


ひとり刹那の　波に揺られ

いいことばかりじゃない
わるいことだけでもない

ひとり刹那 / beauty in sadness

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

Pillow

Extracts from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

“Son,” said my mother,
   When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
   And not a rag have I”.
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
   Nor thread to take stitches.”
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody will buy,”  
   And she began to cry.
 
…

Men say the winter
   Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
   And food was dear.
 
A wind with a wolf’s head
   Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
   And sat on the floor.
 
All that was left us
   Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody would take,
   For song or pity’s sake.
 
…

Looking nineteen,
   And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Leaned against her shoulder.
 
Her thin fingers, moving
   In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
   Wonderful things.
 
Many bright threads,
   From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp-strings
  Rapidly,
 
…

There sat my mother
   With the harp against her shoulder
Looking nineteen
   And not a day older,
 
A smile about her lips,
   And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp-strings
   Frozen dead.
 
And piled up beside her
   And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
   Just my size.

The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver

Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was channeling more of a Neil Young, Bob Dylan and THE BAND pre Americana country rock thing. But jump ahead 40 years and here we were just this last Saturday night churning out JOSIE from AJA in a set of originals and covers full of Jazz Chords and RnB beats. So this new song absorbs a lot of that stuff. 

HR Kiosk

Next to you, I feel a hero
The maintenance of normal, while you’re a trip to Cairo
Circa 2023 I’d like to paraphrase
Cause cities like that and Khartoum
Once set a soul ablaze

So book yourself into an HR Kiosk tonight
There’s gotta be an on-line guru who could shine a light
Infiltate you with guile
Make you think there’s actually an I in why 
Yeah yeah yeah

Time spent in Aja did it make me cynical?
Made me feel ok to rave 
And pull you off your pinnacle
Of course it’s arrogant to judge, someone on culture
But I see you circling thru the sky, with the eye of a vulture

Know you kinda inside out
So I’d try it with a hundred grand
I bet you on your virtual couch 
You’re lying on a slippery Sam

Course you’re going even lower - way below zero
Sayin’ hey let’s all be friends
Like Ghandi and Nehru
Your time at the Taj Mahal, did us no favours
After breathing in the rarified shrine
Where’s your reconciliation pavers

HR KIOSK

Reflection

https://bentenlaughing.blogspot.com/2024/04/danse-breakdown-arterial-flow-in.html

https://davidkaspencer.bandcamp.com/track/danse-breakdown-vocals-vocalatti-co-writers-kadish-lucas-scott-slater

Northern soul, Latin, Funk. Psychedelia. 
Danse Breakdown'. Vocals. Vocalatti. Music. David. k. A. Spencer
New music, composition, encompassing , the vocals of 'the original song, Danse Danse': Kadish, Lucas, Scott, Slater (Apra/Amcos 2022)

David Lucas and his late father, Bill Lucas, an acclaimed Sydney architect attended my voice workshops held by the "Once Extra Dance Company" back in the "80's". Adventurous , creative souls with no holds barred on what was the beginnings of Danse Danse. It was then called "Dance Out Of Beat" and was a commentary on the club scene that I'd very much been a part of in the "60's" In recent times I invited Annette Scott on board who has brought it brilliantly to fruition along with my longtime collaborator, Jazz pianist/composer, Kirk Kadish. Now we have a new take on the current dance scene with a touch of empowerment as to who has the final moves.  

Janice Slater

Please go over and listen to more wonderful music @arterial-flow

Danse Breakdown. (Vocals) Vocalatti

So on this one we have Jim Sanders on the drums, Dave Toolan and Charlie Villiers on guitar, and myself on the bass and singing (it’s Dave you can hear adding some lovely high harmonies here and there as well). I wrote the music and words. As usual it was recorded just with the ipad on a shelf in the corner, hopefully you get the jist.

~Lyrics~
I’ve been running around all day
From London Bridge to Grand Parade
And the one thing that spurs me on
A promised land where I belong

A band of legends in my mind
The most esteemed and much maligned
And I thought I was alone
To think I nearly stayed at home

You were the one with the rueful smile
I was the one who could run a mile
It’s all coming back to me now
Your joie de vie is infectious
So carefree that it’s reckless
Ha, it’s all coming back to me now

Music and dancing, and the joy of laughing
And crashing through the decades as we fell
We took a moment right there on the floor
To marvel at the evening’s carousel

And I know I might only say it when I’m drunk
but it’s true never the less
I love you with all my heart and soul
And there’s only one thing that really breaks my heart
…my biggest regret…
I just wish we saw each other more.

All Coming Back To Me Now

This is my newest track ONE LOVE featuring RAX.  It seems like currently the World is full of Chaos, Division, Hatred and WAR. The only thing that can unite Us is Universal Love! 

*Vocals & Lyrics by RadBabyJoe and Rax.


                                                 
                                                          ONE LOVE


                           RadBabyJoe:  One Love a Universal Theme (x2)

                           RAX:
                                        I said you better come with Fire!
                                       That Universal Love's required.
                                        It's what I feed into my Desires.
                                  You make me feel like I'm going higher.

                           RadBabyJoe:  
                                                    You're my Desire.
                                                    Better come with FIRE.
                                                    Cuz I'm in Love with You. (x2)

                            RAX: 
                                         Higher, Higher, Higher
                                         Got me Feelin it.

                          RadBabyJoe:  
                                                    I'm the ONE. (x2)
                                                   One Love a Universal Theme.
                                                   One World... One DREAM! 





ONE LOVE

RAILRIDA

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