Septembre 2021

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 160

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2022/06/28

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Para Lia - Kassandra
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis 'Light From A Candle' 

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

The background for the inspiration of course is Homer and the tales on the Trojan war. But Kassandra does not tell a story – it’s a kind of a painting with an ancient scenery or maybe just a sketch: Kassandra in front of the burning city. And it could be a modern painting. We are in a distance of more than 3.000 years to the plot of the ancient tales – and still mankind has Kassandras and tears in front of burning cities.

Working on Kassandra i had in mind from the beginning that Cindy will take the main voc in this song. So i wrote the harmonies and the song structure with that in mind and i love how she sings the song. Kassandra also includes a few notes played with a Greek Baglamas and helps the song to get a special note. This string instrument is the small sister of a Bouzouki. 

lyrics:
on sungod days in the morning dew
the tears of kings are just a few
meaningless rain drops

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
and the ships are grounded

in the golden light of the afternoon
she is dancing like the queen of doom
she blinks into the sunlight

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
into the sky
into the sky

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

Kassandra

You Are Not Alone
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Artwork: Harutmovsisyan

Lyrics:
You are not alone

You Are Not Alone

Written and Sang by Travis Houghton.  Me- Guitar.  Drums- Greg Bartlett. Bass- Alex Kercheval

As we walk the shakedown

Routine

fata morgana (2021), for organ
performed by Huw Morgan at Mainly Slow Organ Music, St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol. 14th May 2022

fata morgana

A collaboration with Claude 4268

album available here :

https://malady-of-knots.bandcamp.com/album/o-le-d-sert-entend-la-mer



Derrière cette apparence d’être, il y a la trace d’autre chose. Mais Quoi ? Il y a beaucoup de pays dans le pays de la mémoire. Où et quand l’arbre de la parole perdu, l’arbre de la parole retrouvé ? La Mère de vie universelle est l’Introductrice au Royaume. Ce qui est au cœur du très harmonieux, du très pur, du très tendre, c’est la Main de vie maternelle. Mais combien ignorent ou feignent d’ignorer qu’elle était l’esprit de ce qui allait arriver ? Ceux qui arrêtent le voyage sont déliés au lieu d’être reliés. La recherche de l’Autre ou d’autre chose est souvent dévoyée par les longues fatigues de soleils dans le mouvement continu des apparences. Les racines de l’arbre spirituel ont été coupées. L’expérience de renaître nous confronte à une dissémination des rêves de l’origine et nous fait basculer dans une autre étendue intérieure, mais qui est celle de la vérité essentielle qui nous a irrigué depuis la concavité matricielle. La Mère est quelque chose de plus grand que le territoire du Père. C’est Elle qui accueille en premier l’enfant qu’elle vient de mettre au monde. La couleur bleue de la Voie Clarté, de la mer et du cosmos les imbibe et les pénètre.


https://indiciblement.blogspot.com/

Brighid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42O-OB8tYmY
https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMPelHFttc/?hl=fr

KIDZ ARE FOOKIN'STOOPIDZ (vid)

KORG series Berlin Grand A000 - Improvisation by Magician

Grand Day Out

Years have passed and I will never forget my one regret. A friend of mine jumped off of the Tobin Bridge in Boston because of the pressure his family put on him to send money back to them in his native country - They should all be crucified. This is my recollection. I should have been there for him that day - instead I was looking to be seen "AGAIN" - always craved attention... Full lyrics below
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who was I to you guess I was just a ghost reached out to everyone and played the clown but it turned out you needed me the most I wish i never ever let you down - but I was just a kid and i was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
Was in the lunchroom making a cup of Joe - when you walked in trying to compose yourself - I felt like there was something I should know - but i bit my tongue cause I didn't want to pry - saw it in your eyes you were alone but carried on as if I didn't care truth was I was having a bad day consumed with all the problems of my own - but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
The next morning state police had questioned me they said that you had jumped the night before and even though they placed no blame on me - my aura showed that I was ugly
but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't d----

One regret (for Diego)

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

get the album

Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

Are You Human? (Simply A Machine)

Four meditations on global crises and mortality, set in a weird proggy science fiction fantasy. Recorded at Grovehill Studios

Aliens

Blender and Chirp is my current indie project.  I'm here to just try to improve and to listen to what other independent musicians create. 9 of the songs posted are part an album that is a work in progress hopefully nearing completion. 7 of the songs posted are from a previous project including "In My Lifetime" , “Routine" and “That Dam Song” which were written and sang by my friend Travis Houghton.