A song about a fated downfall.

~ Instruments I used in this: Epiphone acoustic guitar 🎸and a Gresch steel body resonator guitar, alto saxophone 🎷, Yamaha electronic drum 🥁 kit that my fam has had since 2007 (yes it lasted this long), electric piano 🎹 for dramatic sound effects
~ My grandma Shirley fell hard in the bathroom and fractured her hip, it took her five hours to reach the phone and dial 911 ☎️, so my call to attention here is to please get a “help I have fallen but I cant get up” emergency button 🚨 set up for your grandparents or yourself when you reach your senior years. Put pride aside, it saves lives.⚕️

Big Fall

Improvised arrangement. Inspired by the things that go down on my radio show, Moon Apothecary Radio.

Moon Chune

Couldn't sleep so I worked on a song. 
A song about sour cream and onion Ritz crackers. 
I made this track during a Full Moon in Gemini.
Improvised arrangement
Instruments:
Piano keyboard, violin, vocals, bass

Lyrics:
It's been the third day in a row
I had sour cream and onion crackers

An appetizer 
I was told
to put it in a bowl
and eat it

Sour cream and onion crackers
Is this what Scooby Snacks tastes like?

Scooby Snacks (demo)

I was having a cup of my favorite ginger honey citron tea when I heard a strange sound in the house. I went to go look to see what it was...

Lyrics:
So I was sitting
At the kitchen table 
It was just past quarter to three

This was the time that
I usually have
A citron honey ginger black tea

Then something changed
In the frequency
I could feel 
An energy shift 
Right under my feet

What was that sound
Gonna go check it out now
Oh my god wow
It's a ghost in my house
Oh it's even worse 
It's a vampire in my hallway
Woah
What do I do now

No time to chat
I need to act fast
I know what I've got to do

I was so shook,
I went to work 
On an armor 
of gold and silver

I put my armor on 
Took a glance at the hall
Took a hot minute, but I decided
Feck it all 

Back to the kitchen I went,
Sat my fanny down

Audiddies

Quarter to Three

Transportation, technology, fears of the future, clinging to the past, feeling stuck in limbo. 

Song lyrics + tune by Erik Coates
Arranged + performed + recorded by Audrey Schalhoub (audworld)

Beating Heart

Lyrics:

I look out my window
And what do I see out there
A fire burning inside of me

I look out my window
And what do I see

I've been down this road before
Why should I return to it?
Why should I go?
Why should I try again?
Why should I go?
(I don't want to go)
I died
I died
I died
I died
Why should I go?

I look outside my window
I hope that I can find
(And what do I see)
I don't know why I can't
(A fire that's burning inside of me)
I just want to stay inside

Where I know that my heart can
(Your mine, your mine, your mine)
Find itself 
(Your mine, your mine, your mine)
In the rhythm
(Your mine, your mine, your mine)
In the rhythm

I know you don't know why
I say to you every day
I say what you doing to me baby
I love you anyway
I don't know why I do

God damn you
I need you
I love you 
I want you
(I need you baby)

A fire burns inside of me
What can I do
What can I do about that baby

Window

Window (Instrumental)

Stripped back version, recorded for the reboot of my internet talkshow, moon apothecary radio

Dedicated to my dad, John Jr.

Too short for music stores to accept, but SoundCloud takes it

moon chune small sound v1

for all the trouble I caused, a weird apology letter, an exercise of on the spot composition and writing, inspired by Randy Newman and Toy Story