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Tradacoustic series no. 235
Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2023/03/22

hk_tradacoustic_235

Drops

Piano track

ASCARIS:Deep In Yer Guts

An exercise for school with a given theme and moods to adapt the theme into: Bittersweet Goodbye, Mysterious Place, and finally Running Against Time. It's placed in that order to give the work a slight story arc and better movement from one piece to the next.

Three Variations On A Theme By Patrick Kirst

Sometimes You Break

Dangerous Assignment

telephone the twilite zone and check the mists aswirling 
and see if they have got a line on a fella named rod serling.
set him down and warm his bones and enquire so politely
about his health and what he sees in the zone on TV nightly
reruns reruns reruns, ozzie desi lucy, beaver follows sky king
so much time who can be choosy
chorus
black and white, no blue no red,
there’s no color in the zone when you’re dead
black and white, no yellow no green
we all live forever on the silver screen.

press the button, change the channel, what is real distinguished panel
doctors lawyers cops and robbers, cowboys indians knowing fathers
endless talk show sitcom movie, of your fate it does behoove me
to forewarn you, to advise, less your demise should surprise
no hot flames no sulphur pits, repeats are the worst of it.
chorus 
black and white, not blue no red,
there’s no color in the zone when you’re dead
black and white, no yellow no green
the dead live forever on the TV screen.
they’re timeless lights and shadow
live forever though they’re cancelled
change the station change the view
i think they died from deja vu.
. . . . . 
written by naldo
produced and performed by kid otari
keyboards by guillaume
guitars, vocals & drums by naldo

Twilight Zone - 2.2.2

Twilight Zone

Collaboration with @wichita-nynke

Used samples:

Title: rural summer 2005PM 220621_0426 AB30
Author: klankbeeld
Link: freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/696532/

Title: Maraca.wav
Author: sonsdebarcelona
Link: freesound.org/people/sonsdebarcelona/sounds/68597/

Title: Men at work.aif
Author: arnaud coutancier
Link: freesound.org/people/arnaud%20coutancier/sounds/370119/

Strange Attractors (featuring Nynke)

Remix of this track many people here liked.
thank you for all your support !
I made the picture using javascript and svg on a simple html page.

Paradoxe D'Olbers (augmented)

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

Tracklist

01. Harry Towell - Prunus Avium
02. Memory Scale - Après La Pluie
03. Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning - Spectroscopycon
04. Daily Rituals - Self-portrait under rusting sun
05. Ghost and Tape - Plgn
06. Stijn Hüwels - Falling head over heels
07. Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Fadings
08. Moss Covered Technology - No Words Needed
09. Dead Bell -  Above The Dappled Sunlight
10. The Humble Bee - Concealed by yellow

Dangerous Assignment

BARFF RATZZ