Well it has been a dull few months, hence the need for surprises. I'll leave it up you as to what the surprise might be.

Big thank ya to Jörg https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx and Yaron Engler for helping out this lounge lizard on this track.

If you'd like some visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl143kuuqE8

Lyrics

I’ve got a surprise for you  
Like Miles you’ve been feeling ‘kinda blue’
Missin’ Valentine’s was hateful 
Now we’re here in April
But I’ve got a surprise for you

First thought about getting a tat-too
An arrow through the heart, that’s cut in two
Or something from your wish list
We don’t have to wait till Christmas
I’ve got a surprise for you
 
I’ve got a surprise for you
So what if we’re financial-la-ly screwed
No compromises
When it comes to surprises 
I’ve got a surprise for you   

I’ve got a surprise for you
I’ve got a surprise for you
Open up your eye-ziz
I know you like surprise-ziz
I’ve got a surprise for YOoooooooouuuuuuu xxx

I've Got A Surprise For You!

I 've Got A Surprise For You! (feat: joerxworx)

I have been playing around with.....ii V I progressions and the Bebop A dominant scale. I call this one an Indie Dark Jazz flavor. Hope you will like some part of it and maybe hum along before it ends..... 
Thank you René for feedback on the first draft! 

Live from Chicago 
Written by TJG March 2021
Mix 1: March 23, 2021

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars
Rhythm 1: Guild DV52
Rhythm 2: Les Paul Standard
Lead1: Fender Stratocaster
Bass: Fender Squire

Percussion: 
Pearl Cajon Mach 2 – with brushes
Pearl Hi Hat with Zildjian symbols - with brushes - no idea what I'm doing here, but I like working the foot pedal. 

Mics: Neumann TLM 67 (vocal)
AGK 414 & Shure KSM44 on guitars, cajon and hi hat

Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape. I used an input and output transformer to give some additional harmonic distortion......I just like pushing the buttons and watching the reels spin…;-)


Verse 1
They’re all buying guns
To take a shot at you
But you’re still smiling
Because you died a long time ago
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain 1
It’s live from Chicago
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago

Verse 2
When the morning breaks
The camera fades away
But you’re still smiling
Because you’re still standing tall
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain2
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

outro
How was I to know?
It's live from Chicago....

Let the camera roll
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
Here in Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
let the cameras roll
let the cameras roll
it's life in Chicago
it's life in Chicago

Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

Live from Chicago

Funk Etc

Voz: Leo Andina @leonardo-andina
Bajo : Rodolfo Planes @rplanes
Guitarras, Coro y Producción : Pichy Sotomayor

Ciudad Prohibida

Ya no hay mas nada que ver,
no tengo nada que hacer,
voy flotando con  la brisa.
Yo necesito saber
como me vas a   encender.

Angel del amanecer,
ven a buscarme otra vez
para sanar las heridas.
Para ponerme de pie
y atravesar la ciudad 
prohibida.

Veo tantas cruces de madera,
veo tantas almas con la misma sed.
Los bemoles en sus madrigueras,
tejen sus mentiras por la red.

No vivo para temer 
yo sirvo para crecer
lejos de tanta codicia.
lo que yo llevo en mi haber
son mis sueños en papel.

Musa del amanecer,
ven a ayudarme otra vez
para colmarnos de vida.
Para ponerme de pie     
y atravesar la ciudad 
prohibida.

Veo tantas cruces de madera,
veo tantas almas con la misma sed.
Los bemoles en sus madrigueras
traman sus mentiras por la red.

Letra y Música: Pichy Sotomayor

Ciudad Prohibida ( Andina / Planes / Sotomayor )

I was 16 when I arrived in Liverpool, in 1955
I knew no one, thought no one knew me
Till I heard someone call out my name

At the port I was ordered to sign papers
but I could not read or write
Ashamed and weighed down
It said with me all through my life

Leaving Ireland, is my way back to you
I will return very soon
Over the sea that separates you and me

Part of a three track EP, Where lines meet, featuring Dónal Lunny 
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea live sound engineer for Danú. 
Bouzouki, guitar, bass and drum programming Dónal Lunny
All vocals, acoustic, ukulele Suzanne Ledwith
Music, lyrics and photograph by Suzanne Ledwith
Vocals, guitar and ukulele recorded by Suzanne Ledwith
All songs copywritten.

Leaving Ireland

Leaving Ireland Featuring Dónal Lunny

Starring the wonderful A K Sanderson on lead vocals.  Check out AKS's songs here: https://soundcloud.com/phoebeelena

A New Way to Pass the Time

We used to stay together – by being apart
Avoiding one another – we got it down to an art
Now the next wave – is about to begin
So the Chief of Police – says we gotta stay in

The butcher will deliver to the door
No need to venture to the store
Even Hollywood on demand
Can’t fill the hours we have to hand
So oh oh we gotta find a new way to pass the time

So we wonder how to devour the time
Without committing heinous crime
Pluck teeth from the tiger’s jaw?
We must not step outside the law

The world is getting better – it’s good to be free
Avoiding one another – can be done easily
The Chief of Police – says we can do what we like
But the gym and the bar – they can go take a hike

The butcher still delivers to the door
No need to venture to the store
Even Hollywood on demand
Won’t fill the hours we have to hand
No – oh - oh ‘cos we found a new way to pass the time

A New Way To Pass The Time

Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. ©2021
Here's the link to the music video: https://youtu.be/zROnLnwBUIs
I hope you subscribe to my YouTube channel. 

Floating

A stone in the sea, and then you look at me
And I'm floating away

Heart filled with lead, and then you turn your head
And I'm floating away

Wait, it's only love
It's only love
I've been looking for but
Wait, it's only love

It's all gravity, and then you talk to me 
And I'm floating away

Time weighs on my mind
I see you and the clocks unwind
And I'm floating away
Floating away
Floating away
Floating away

July 27, 2021

Floating

Don't miss the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86QGnhPJeI

Para Lia - Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady Haddad)
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2020
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band
www.youtube.com/channel/UCNABsfHKaCDk28fOj91Dc1g

Meeting @fadysporz on Soundcloud back in 2018 felt like a meeting of soulmates. There is a mutual respect for each other’s work and i wrote the track with room for Fadys heavenly synth work in mind and also with the idea that he joins Cindy and me in the vocal work. With Fady having the ability to ‘read’ the way of the songwriting and harmony construction it was effortless to work together - he is a fantastic musician. Thank you Fady for joining us here! 

how can you sleep, did you sleep
how dare you sleep?
when the water already laps your feet
it's time to move offbeat

you are the rider on the withe horse on the dike

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away

how would we guard what we love
if we were stuck behind a broken dike
how would we save what has to be saved
without a heart and nothing but an angry mind

we are the children of the flood

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away
we are the children of the flood

Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady)

Dormidos

Asediados,  cansados, filtrados, perdidos en un mundo diferente.
conquistados, dormidos, forzados, cercados por un monstruo irreverente.

Como un estigma que te marca la piel.
con una furia que revienta la hiel.
Estamos perdidos en la ruta.

Como una saga que te cuesta creer.
como un designio de tu verso mas cruel.  
Estamos dormidos en el mar.  

Enclaustrados, sentidos, fundidos, quemados en un páramo candente.
Condenados, curtidos, ceñidos, callados con bozales, brutalmente.

Como un reflejo de tu miedo mas fiel.   
Como una plaga que se empeña en crecer.
Estamos perdidos en la ruta.

Como un pasado que se niega a volver
Una poesia que te cuesta leer
Estamos, dormidos en el mar.

Asombrados, temidos, cambiados, sumidos en un sueño permanente.
Aburridos,  cooptados, sacados, centrados en un dialogo demente.

Como un estigma que te marca la piel.
con una furia que revienta la hiel.
Estamos perdidos en la ruta.

Como una saga que te cuesta creer.
como un designio de tu verso mas cruel.  
Estamos dormidos en el mar. 

Letra y música : Pichy Sotomayor

Dormidos

Out on the porch, pickin' & grinnin' & drinking beer, waiting for the fiddle player and the mandolin guy. Neither one showed, so we did the best we could with the guitars. My daughter Julia helped out on the vocal harmonies.

This little ditty is my attempt to musically chronicle the 44 years my wife & I have been together.

Two Vines

Bruce Avery