Great combination of terrific vocals and guitar work. The background effects all work really well here. Durge

Like what you have done with this Brian, sounds great.

Vocals, lyrics and production...all excellent.

Oh yes, a very choice entry for the rhythm acoustic; wonderfully expressive in a finely crafted song.

Truth is "love is not enough" but some finely played guitar helps immensely:)

Wow..Very nice song..great vocals and guitar!!

Songs That Need Repeating!

Creepy, sinister, cryptic and a bit demented maybe?  Shades of Radiohead, David Bowie or David Byrne (Talking Heads), or so I'm told.

Purchase track at https://disconnectica.bandcamp.com/track/the-shape-of-pears

This sixth version has lots of changes.  The drums and strings are completely replaced, and the sound of the guitar, piano and vocals changed.  Many vocals are single now rather than doubled.

Please follow, like, comment and repost!  Thanks.

Lyrics:

She keeps her love in a shoe
High upon a shelf
(Sombrero)
And when she's not all there
I go and help myself

She wouldn't recognise me
If I was inside out
(Sombrero)
You shouldn't trust anyone's tea
Just coz they're short and stout

It makes me cry
It makes me try
Not to cry

A workout for your mind
Defence against attack
But I can jump the fence
and run around your track

There's something wrong
I tell myself there's
Nothing wrong

Shhhhh

She confides in me
About the shape of pears
(Sombrero)
But when there's no one home
I sit in all the chairs

She came to stay
She floats away
Stay... away 

She keeps her mind wrapped up
Underneath the bed
(Sombrero)
But no matter how you try
You can't untoast your bread

Lock it in
Block it out
Block it in

(Sombrero)

Clear blue sky, clear blue sky, clear blue sky
Clear blue sky, clear blue sky, clear blue sky
No photo... so it didn't happen
No photo... so it didn't happen
(Sombrero)
It's a river in Egypt... just a river in Egypt
No photo... so it didn't happen
Clear blue sky, clear blue sky, clear blue sky
Clear blue sky, clear blue sky, clear blue sky

The Shape of Pears (version 6 - OLD)

Number04

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All The Headlights

You yes you’re living in a cage
You’re bouncing off the bars
But it’s my ribs and tissue that’s inflammed
Yes it’s I who’s watching for your car
My roots are deep here in the west
Invested here I have to stay
But you got gypsy in your blood
Your fiddles playing the sounds of Spain
And so I’m watching yes I’m watching
All the headlights - all the headlights
Oh I’m watching yes I’m watching 
All the headlights - all the headlights
Coming up over the hill - hoping that one of them is you

Though you’ve had a travelling circus life
You been courting stability
And I’ve been prostrate at your feet
I been licking your toes to sleep
And though you bathe in pleasures warm
I sense our wine is running dry
I know as you commute each morn
You’re not the type to say goodbye
And so I’m watching  . . . you

This evening’s sky is coal dust cloud
You’re late and I’m a clairvoyant
This house empty of all sound 
This house is empty
This house is empty

ALL THE HEADLIGHTS

I have again the honour and pleasure to share with you a composition by Jean-Pierre Dubois (JiPé)...I was really pleased when he had sent me this composition he wrote a long time ago, as the title mentions it too!:))
I hope you will enjoy my interpretation of it....

Valse Retrouvée by Jean - Pierre Dubois (Performed by Liz Dicker)

Transcendence

MusikLogo RootRock KE311227 BiaB 31.May.2020

After visiting the music of a friend, I came in a mood for good old rock (and somehow roll)

You can also visit my friend who seem to be in a similar mood in some records. But check yourself:
https://soundcloud.com/johncarusone

Root Rock

RootRock

Garddwr Rhuddgoch (Instrumental)

... where superheroes are called Jane/John Doe

Emergency Room

A songwriting assignment "Great Divide". Our lives have been divided into Before Covid and now.

Great Divide

This SeafoamSweaterGirl's song - you can find it on her profile. I made the instrumentation tracks around the vocals and mixed it. Thanks Nicole for another opportunity to enjoy and learn from the creative process.
This is a new version..

Truth is (feat SeafoamSweaterGirl)

Another one-night jam session, written and recorded 3rd July 2019

Photography by Patrick Tomasso
https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt
Used under Creative Commons license

Help me

All guitars (Fender Strat & Epiphone ES 339)by Martin Jansen: https://soundcloud.com/m_ja // Tenor sax & Akai EWI by joerxworx // Keyboards, vocoder, vocals, beat programming, mix & mastering & sound design by Morten Jeamland https://soundcloud.com/orteneamland
Words & Music by Jeamland

Upside Down // Morten Jeamland featuring Martin Jansen & joerxworx

Written and recorded 3rd January 2021

My first jam and recording session of the year... another song based on an improv with my bouzouki, which is the main rhythm instrument in this track.

After a difficult year, and a socially distanced Christmas and New Year, the only solace is knowing that we are doing what we can to keep each other safe.

Artwork based on a photo by Tim Mossholder
Used under Creative Commons license
https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder

Lyrics:

These darkened days
We've stayed away...

A small price to pay
To keep each other safe

No face to face
No meeting place

A small price to pay
To keep each other safe

We'll join again
Some glorious day

A small price to pay
To keep each other safe

Safe

Nat Daniels:  Vocals
Ben Juul:  Drums, Mix & Master
Dirk Taubenheim:  Guitars, Bass, Keys, Vocals

Written & recorded at Gatsby's Garage 2020

A million thanks to Nat for her gorgeous vocals here. This song is for the soldiers who risk their lives for us and get nothing in return but mockery. We hate war and want our boys back home. But those who fight for us deserve respect and recognition.

Politicians sent our boys to war
to a place they've never been before
I'd like to send the old guys instead
to make them think about a senseless death

Hey, this is no game, you have no right to waste their lives
hey, have you no shame, you wouldn't dare to be on the other side

Defend their country - that's all they should do
but there is so much more you send them through
how can you make them fight in foreign lands
cause you know pretty well how that will end

Don't leave them alone
bring our boys back home

Badly traumatised when they return
rejected by the people makes them burn
they risk their lives but mockery's all they earn
will the politicians ever learn?

They deserve respect, please act like that and honour them
give them all they need to find their way in life again

Don't leave them alone    
bring our boys back home

Home  ft. NAT DANIELS

Martin contacted me with the title of the song in his mind...he wanted me to put his excellent acoustic recording track with some lyrics.
I was glad to offer my ideas and the result was a true folk song of modernity.
I hope you enjoy our collaboration.
https://soundcloud.com/martin-hirsch-656665916

03/February/2021

Give Me More Than A Second w/Martin Hirsch

Two song writers, two kindred spirits... that found each other by pure happenstance and great fortune, to collaborate and create music together.
To see our separate artist pages, please click on the following links:
Nat Daniels   https://soundcloud.com/natdaniels
Craig Durgy  https://soundcloud.com/durge

Old fud fannyin aboot putting dittys the gither - building up to maybe doing something a bit more serious - who knows ?

Truth is (feat SeafoamSweaterGirl)

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