The depths of loneliness

Played with parlor -style steel string acoustic guitar.
Tone captured with matched pair small diaphragm condenser microphones.
Recorded in an one take and only little bit of equalisation and reverberation has been added.

Dschingis Khan (Comp. Ralph Siegel)

Slippery slope

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocals / Guitar
Hans Albers:  All additional instruments, Arrangement and Production

When Brian first played me “If The Stars Are The Dreams Of Spacemen“, I was absolutely stunned by its brilliance.  Of course, having grown up with his songwriting, I was already a huge fan of everything he wrote but did think there was something extra special about the song.  Knowing him as a brother, I saw just how revealing it was about his often uneasy relationship with the world and his place in the scheme of things.  The closing line, “Who am I?” said it all for me.  It was a song to which I often returned, particularly after he was gone.

Eventually, I arrived at the idea of writing something that in some way linked to his original composition but told the story from my own perspective.  Not wanting to ride on his coat tails in any way, I felt very uneasy about doing this, so decided it was something I would do purely for myself.  It took many long months to come up with something I thought would be a worthy companion piece but the more I wrote, the more the idea took on a strength and shape of it’s own until I had fashioned it exactly as I wanted it to be.

It took quite some time to summon up the courage to play it to Gary, thinking if he thought it was any good, I might take it further.  When he said that he thought that it was one of the best songs I’d ever written (something I really didn’t expect) and that I should send it to Hans, it had an overwhelmingly emotional effect on me, particularly since I was very doubtful about playing it to anyone else at all.

Hans always has a way of emotionally inhabiting the songs I write and the arrangement he produced was exactly what I felt the song needed.  There’s no doubt in my mind that if he and Bri had ever played together, they’d have created musical dreams that would spread throughout the universe.

Today, the 22 August 2021, marks the ninth anniversary of Bri’s death and I can only hope that this song does him justice.  We miss him more than ever.  (Terry Reeves)

*Manu (https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill) put together a wonderful version of Bri’s original song a few years back.  If you’d like to hear it, you can do so here:
https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill/rocky-mountain-wmoag-the-inconsistent-jukebox-if-stars-are-the-dreams-of-spacemen  


How can I write a song about the stellar writer?
Breathing music in space, helping bands to be tighter
A Bishop’s marriage of schemes inside your wigwam 
As the cluster of stars reflects only you as it can 

CHORUS 
If the stars are the Dreams of spacemen
Floating around by imagination 
Adjusting scope to seat the nightmares 
A magnetic field of dreams 
With musical chairs

A spaceman in search of the perfect mate
Floating through Galaxies more dreams of love can’t wait
Loving tears never seen behind a facial shield 
As the Milky Way melts revealing what Kepler’s laws might yield 

CHORUS 

I could never write the songs of stars
With your heart so full of love from here to Mars
The spaceship framed inside a past that lingers
Touching gravity with your skill of voice and fingers

CHORUS 

Isolations ending showing fusions of greatness 
Will never explain your skill of silence and lateness 
Knowing love as you do 
Making love a sad fool
I will never fully know who you are

CHORUS

Rabbit In The Headlights

Come Una Guerra Dentro

Originally recorded this in 2017 but I learned a thing or two about mixing and mastering since then. Also I have better tools to perform said mixing and mastering more adequately. So I went back to the recording and fixed the drums, guitars, bass, vocals, overall mix and mastering treatment.

Especially this track for the run at the time was in need of it (I am happy with the other tracks for the most part).

enjoy!


lyrics

firing shots into the unknown
already lost inside a dead zone
no walls at all to run into
no prayers and thoughts that can reach you
a realm of fading memory
like slipping away under the sea
with a side of anxiety

forever life under construction
poised to rake the interaction
the fallen cry to reroll dice
but it all went down with the other lies
and none to witness the sacrifice

❤️ @Bandcamp

Long Shot (2021 remix)

So happy to release this one! It's a beautiful and soothing orchestral piece AND it's my 200th uploaded song!! :)

Enjoy!

Starchild

A sunday acoustic song I wrote and recorded today.

Maybe

Lyrics:-
Once upon a time 
There was a grand magician
He would put on shows
To make the people gasp
In disbelief
All the Kings and Queens
Would ask him to their castles
They showered him with riches
And his popularity increased

Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale 
Be mindful of the trickery, the swindle
It's a smoke and mirrors plan
Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale
In pulling back the curtain
No surprise
There is an ordinary man

Now we have 
Celebrities and Politicians
Putting on an act
To entertain the folk
And keep them none the wise
All the kings and queens
Still ask them to their castles
Still shower them with riches
So they toe the party
Toe the party line

Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale 
Be mindful of the trickery, the swindle
It's a smoke and mirrors plan
Beware the Fairytale
Fairytale
In pulling back the curtain
No surprise
There is an ordinary man

2022 winkandwoo

Fairytale

Wenn alles fällt und nichts mehr hält

Piano player, singer,  righteous upright bass & concatenator of disparate factors.

Rabbit In The Headlights

burn.it.smith