Name: The World Is A Stage by Bergman
Duration: 5 min 34 s
Description: Recordings & mix: 12-13 August 2012 NW1 London

I'd totally forgotten how varied and incredible your music is and hope you're off making it bigtime somewhere :)

Jesus wept! You are one talented man, Mats!

 i'm in love with that piano ...the sound n'all ....love it...

Sensuous vocals, ethereal piano, and the drums!!! wow! marching me right through the song. Love, love, love this!

wonderfully mysterious song, this is bloody great, my friend ! Your production and arrangements are fantastic ... haunting track ...

Written by David Sylvian

Re-imaged by S Grieve & K Fleming with some Tempus Collective special sauce.

Music & production S Grieve
Vocals K Fleming

This is an old track taken off one of Japans best albums, "Quiet Life" It remains one of my personal favourites.

Despair

The Tempus Collective - "Despair" (Sylvian)

28 - 10 - 2022 - Mr
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This haunting driving opening track of the 1978 Street Legal album is definitely in my top 5 of Dylan tracks. Lyrics and music fit like a glove and the response singing on the original is very uplifting. My cover attempt is but a small humble exercise to emulation, Learning how to play this, hoping to find fellow musicians.

Changing of the guards

Dylan - Changing Of The Guards

Lonely Heart (Qvist & Qvarsebo)
Mangold
Mikael Qvist: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Jonas Qvarsebo: Drums, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Mix & Mastering
Åsa Qvarsebo: Backing Vocals

Lonely Heart - Mangold

A melancholic ambient piece based on an improvised organ chorale in D. I left the original organ improv untouched and just added to it.

Rustic Elegy

A song about grudges, missed opportunities, trains not boarded, inertia ... that kind of thing.

Old Scores

I guess I was trying to settle
Old scores
But the people that need taught
Don’t live here any more

I guess I was waiting to give it
One final shot
But the targets have been moved
They told me, I forgot

I wish that I had been faster on my feet
I just stood there proving I could stand the heat
And now the last train is leaving with an empty seat

I guess I was hanging on to see
If the skies would clear
But the forecast didn’t lie
It was raining all year

You come to depend on those rhythms
That familiar drill
And you think you’re on a journey
You’re really standing still

I know I should have been planning for this day
But I thought that the tougher thing to do was stay
Now the last train in the station is pulling away

I guess what we’re saying is it’s much
Much too late
Someone told me to hurry
Something told me to wait

If I could go back I would drag me
Screaming and scratching
Clear of this invidious fate

Old Scores

Music – Stewart Grieve & Kevin Fleming
Lyrics – Iain White, Kevin Fleming & Stewart Grieve

This song is for my very good departed friend Brian Lennon, and released on my late brother’s birthday. It was made with love and respect...

King of Catastrophe

One day feeds to another
Flick the radio on – don't even bother

A chasm grows, resentment gathers
Silence – our currency in tatters

Do you feel me? King of catastrophe
Teardrops – become the rage in the sea
Raindrops – rage in the sea

An empty room, my eyes feel the weight
Revel in the gloom, life’s in a state

I’m always here, where I've been before
Thinking that I can’t knock down this door

Just a fate that came too soon
Our demise in fractured full bloom
I’ve got no big master plan
I’m the real nowhere man...


(For Brian Lennon)

The Tempus Collective - King Of Catastrophe

Recordings & mix: 12-13 August 2012 NW1 London

The World Is A Stage

A wintery sounding bit of Abstract Shoe Gazing Deep Chill Jazz from the Tempus duo....

"Run The River"

I run the river
The river runs to me
Dances clear and so very free,
Like veins that will carry
Bloodlines flow, into the sea

Dark water still - today
Deep and cold as, night becomes the day,
Bewitched by the winter,
The frozen lochs are skater free…..

Run the river, Run with me….
Hold forever, hold that fear….

The path is soft but, crisp below
The leaves that breath hold
Secrets of us all
Submerged by the waters
The undertow will pull you through the day
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Music by S Grieve & K Fleming
Words by S Grieve & K Fleming.
Recorded & Mixed in January 2019.

The Tempus Collective - "Run The River"

Dear SC friends, I have a new album "Embers" on Spotify. https://spotify.link/cbJ583K3mDb

And Apple music, youtube etc...

/Bergman

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