℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Logic.
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 6th Fret)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
Lyrics:
Sometimes I like to go fishing 
Down on the river side
Being out there in the open air 
Watching those fish go by

With a pole and line in the water 
Sit back and just wait 
Never catch a fish
Never get a bite 
Never use any fish bait

You would not call me a fisherman 
Happy just to let things be 
I don’t bother those fishes 
Those fishes don’t bother me 

You might find me
On a summer’s day 
Down on the river side
Listening to the sound of a running stream 
Watching those fish go by 

With a pole and line in the water 
Sit back and just wait 
Never catch a fish
Never get a bite 
Never use any fish bait

You would not call me a fisherman 
I’m happy just to let things be 
I don’t bother those fishes 
Those fishes don’t bother me

Never Catch A Fish

My first DAW song!
I enjoyed very much doing this song?
Can you also enjoy it?

Under Pressure
In this world of expectations where success is a decree
All the pressure from everywhere can easily break you and me
Schooling us with numbers and facts, who care is’s breaking our backs
All the promises I must keep still hunt me in my sleep
In this circle of demands the pressure still expands

Education should be the key, but if the pressure breaks me?
What if I cannot break free?

You think when I smile I’m shinning so bright, but deep within there is a fear I can’t fight
All the pressure closing on me, expectations, how to be free?
How can I handle the wight before it is too late?
The obligations are so strong, where do I belong?

Success is what we strive for, but I wonder if there’s more
Expectations are everywhere,  all the pressure I have to bear

Under Pressure

Excited to present ‘In Your Heart I Stay’..  release 26 July (linktree). Second in my album Blissful and Beyond.. @Adam4le: piano

Blissful Enchantment: releases 16 Aug

https://open.spotify.com/album/1JTl04yCfZ4ytupY5nMVvI?si=hK4ZVGXJTquYncBHJx0mSQ

15 August Newsletter: 
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/dfP58BgCy?languageTag=en

New updates in 12 August newsletter:
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/5cP4_Fo7_?languageTag=en

16 August: Blissful Enchantment: https://gyro.to/BlissfulEnchantment

I have TMJ jaw surgery on my birthday 20 August.. good or bad we will see.

Unbelievable, Spotify people still try to sabotage me. A girl from instagram (AC) and her piano, string label tried to secretly release her songs/album (oh, just coinicidentally 8 tracks as well) on the day before all my releases and my album). Sad she does not believe in her own music?? I believe in my music. I have changed all the dates now.. Stay tuned for the details. You can still presave without a problem..
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In my heart the memory of what would never be
will remain forever free..

A fragment of a dream
in an achingly bright reality never seen..
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SEC

Streaming platforms: https://gyro.to/InYourHeartIStay

Chopin and Originals Piano Live: New Release 'In Your Heart I Stay' from Blissful and Beyond; 26 July: https://www.youtube.com/live/QUN5Z5IUeQU?si=5DwS0Qwd0v5vKioL

Eight feel-good tracks from album Blissful and Beyond...pop classical piano, violin, cello orchestra originals for the summer.. Album hits Bandcamp with Chopin and originals performances in Sept. Watch for details!


New Release!! In Your Heart I Stay from Blissful and Beyond Album: https://gyro.to/InYourHeartIStay

New Release!! (as played in my lives and on YT, second moniker) Auld Lang Syne: https://gyro.to/255201AuldLangSyne

Pre-save!!
Blissful Enchantment (Aug): https://gyro.to/BlissfulEnchantment
Hello Love Goodbye Rain (Aug or Sept): https://gyro.to/HelloLoveGoodbyeRain
Blissful and Beyond Album Release (Sept ft. premiere, the culmination of 8 tracks, 'Sun Never Sets': https://gyro.to/BlissfulandBeyond

Producer/composer/violin/orchestra/strings: Sharon Chen

Blissful and Beyond

In Your Heart I Stay

In Your Heart I Stay (New Master)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Andy McLean... saxophone solo. Hammond B3 Organ solo.  Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Organ with bass peddles Rhythm. Horn section, Alto, Tenor, Baritone Saxophones, Trumpet. Vibraphone solo. Trap Drums full kit set. Percussion Wood block, 22" Zildjan Crash & Ride Cymbals.

Cannery Row

Groove Street

The last track for this year 2024 from the G.O.T.E. 
Wishing all the SC community all the best in 2025!

I'm waiting here. 
Spinning around and around and around in a web called life.
I'm hanging in.
Entangled by your love.

Entangled by your love.
What'll it take to bring you back to me?
What'll it take to win your heart.

I'm losing time.
Waiting for you to come back here and eat me alive.
A black widow's treat.
Entangled here for you.

Entangled

Ruggiero Miles - Love is all we got

-Mirror-

Calming Life Form

Last "Buzz" section from 6th take. Noise and FX from a keypad with rythmic and distorted beat.

R&N (6.8)

with apologies to Kevins, past, present and future
thank you, Kevins McHale, Costner and Bacon for participating 

Never Trust A Kevin 

When I was just a little boy                                                         
There was this nasty kid                                                             
Kevin was wild, Kevin was vile                                                   
All the twisted things he did                                                        
I tried to be friendly                                                                     
I tried to play nice                                                                       
They said, “Kevin behave”                                                             
“You will scar that boy for life”                                               

Never trust a Kevin                                                                     
I can never trust a Kevin in my life                                             
Never trust a Kevin                                                                     
I can never trust a Kevin in my life                                              
                                                                            
Run from the school, coming for me 
See him beat me down the block
I'll wait till I'm older, got to get stronger 
And in time, I'll clean his clock
But that day never came
We both slowly moved away
But his legend still haunts, the pranks and the taunts
I still cringe that name today

Never trust a Kevin
I can never trust a Kevin in my life 
Never trust those Kevins 
Never trust those Kevins in your life

Kevin Smith, Kevin Bacon                                                       
The Costner, O'Leary and the                                                 
Federline nations                                                                    
 Mr. Spacey,those things they said you did                                            
And Kevin McHale..........                                                                 
You ain't no paraplegic kid!....   

….   Artie walks! .....what a fraud ......
                                            
Never trust a Kevin
You can never trust a Kevin in your life
Never trust a Kevin 
You can never trust a Kevin in your life 
Your life, my life

Too many Kevins in my world
See the way they bring me down 
Remove the K, turn the N to L
And you can call them EVIL now
So what's in a name, what's in a face
It's a childhood memory 
That's seared in my brain, I can not erase…. that Kevin close to me...

               



Never Trust A Kevin

Yes, it's all about the ride, so forget about the finish line
Spoken words mainly from Bob Dishy and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman(in his scene stealing performance as former bagpiping childstar Sandy Lyle) from the 2004 movie Along Came Polly...Let It Rain!

If  you feel the need to bust out and solo,   Mr. Hoffman will gladly demonstrate how to find that freedom to rock out
take a look

https://youtu.be/Z5sH9Gpa4PM?si=d99f_6wXgcx9h1aI

Lyrics

Yesterday's gone                                              
But this race keeps dragging on                       
The rules they believe
Not the same for you and me 
Hard to play fair                                             
Hard not to cheat                                          
Hard just to stand on your own two feet         
No need to deceive                                        
Just walk on by                                                             
Forget about the finish line                           
Forget about that finish line                               

A prodigal son
I'm tasting moonbeams on my tongue 
Your greatest mistake 
Let's celebrate and cut the cake
Face to the wall
I turn and say cheese
Time to confess this misery 
No need to grieve
Let's dance on by
And forget about the finish line
Let's forget about that finish line

One foot in front of the other                               
Lunge, leap, somersault, and roll              
Always falling down in your bread and your butter             
Take a chance and lose yourself                        
It's not the end you need to encounter              
This life in cruise control                                     

Hard to play fair
Hard not to cheat
Hard just to stand on your own two feet 
No need to grieve
Just dance on by
Forget about that finish line 
Forget about that finish line
Forget about the finish line



Forget About The Finish Line

There’s a treasure down deep in this wonderland
To find it, plug your nose, feel the dirt on your hands
The word and rhyme, a message, in this song it stands
my rock n roll Rosetta Stone 



Never Trust A Kevin

Hand on the Rock