Remixed and edited version 09/2024
 from Daydream I Grey Shoes (2018) 
Recorded and produced 
 by greyshoes#music-berlin.

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Artwork by P. Werzlau
using the photo:  Cold Dog, (detail)

Daydreaming is everywhere.
“Cold dog” is a kind of wonderful ”cookie chocolate cake” 
and is called that here in the region.
“Daydream I Remix #2024” is also a dreamy journey 
back to the days of childhood, but definitely also 
from there to the present.

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Daydream I Remix #1

FULL ORIGINAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN07D6coCjg
“Finding YOUR WAY does not mean that you always know where you are going. The important thing is that you know how to find your way HOME…”.

“TAKE ME HOME” feels nostalgic and familiar in its essence as the soundscape and lyrics remind you that our biggest quest is to uncover our truest selves and discover where we belong. Home is 
where you feel the most comfort and the most inspired, and when you arrive at that place, you'll never want to leave again.

Take Me Home

A simple, rather loose, jazz ensemble, and a simple message.
It seems as though the social and political turbulence is much like trying to paddle your own canoe - it's going to get rough and it will feel as though hope is lost, but don't stop and don't despair. Hope Floats.

The song was originally intended as a relationship muse, where two people are supposed to be paddling, together, in the same direction, but the boat keeps turning 'round and 'round. It takes courage to realize you can only control your own paddle and how you use it. It can be overwhelming and daunting, at times, and you may be inclined to abandon ship: don't.

Uploaded one week into the Trump 2.0 Administration

Lyrics:

I got my paddle in the water, 
I'm paddling with all I've got
The bow is sinking slowly, 
Glanced off a rock.
And i'm startin' to sink down into the water
Losin' myself in the current,
Goin' down, down, goin' down,
Lord help me I'm goin', goin' ,goin',  down

(instrumental break)

I got a bucket in the water
I'm bailin' but it's not enough, no.
The water's slowly risin'
And I'm runnin' out of luck.
And I'm startin' to sink down into the water
Losin' myself in the current
Goin' down, down, goin' down,
Lord help me, I'm goin', goin' down,
I'm goin' down.

Jazz Collaborations

I've Got My Paddle in the Water

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – The Gargoyles
January 2025
Duration: 2:55
Listen to more music for the ballet: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-hunchback-for-notre-dame
Inspired by the opening theme of “Chout” by Sergie Prokofiev
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Hunchback of Notre Dame June 6th and 7th 2025 in Colorado.
For strings, flute, clarinet, english horn, bassoon, contra bassoon, cathedral bells, timpani and percussion

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Gargoyles

THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG 

There’s something wrong with the system 
There’s something wrong with the machine 
It all seems so disingenuous 
It all seems so ethically curupted  

There’s something wrong (x4)

There is something off about the
Look they give us
There is something off about the lies and
Visual display 
The hatered
The carelessness
The inhumane plan
The viciousness 
And the moral decay

There’s something wrong (x4)

The expectation of a full dictatorship 
The way they think we’ll just fall in line 
The way they ignore our every move
The way they ignore our uprise 

There’s something wrong (x4)

There’s Something Wrong

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Threw the keys in the sink disposal
Found 2 bodies in the bathroom stall
I just don't seem to care
Never really cared at all

They ask, How could I not have noticed?
How could I have lived with you there
I just didn't seem to notice
I just didn't seem to care

That time was only metal for you
That time was always dirge
I didn't seem to want to know
I didn't have the urge

Kept clean and did the dishes
Fed the dog and the fishes
The cat could never be found
I never bothered to look around

Staying awake seemed a chore
Yet I smiled as I swept the floor
I don't remember having this many walls
I guess I never really noticed
Never really noticed, that's all

February 28 and March 3, 2025

Untitled Song 1

Hiya Listeners,

We so appreciate you taking the time to dig our full on rough n ready Improvs from Saturna Island.

ilio and i are releasing this track from last year that begins slowly... but  builds to a vigorous boil  :-D 

Beyond da Blues...we hope you'll enJoy our wider musical adventures in full-on Improvisation. They were all recorded with just one Stereo Zoom Mic in my living room.

May you enJoy!  We certainly did!


Electric Piano and Acoustic Classical Guitar.

Beyond da Blues * illio & i

Written, arranged and produced by DAVIDE ANGELINI
Vocals & instruments: DAVIDE ANGELINI
Album: SYMPHONY FOR A NEW GENERATION
Originally (p)&(c) 2014 Davide Angelini
This remaster (p)&(c) 2023 Davide Angelini

Lyrics:

FORGIVE ME NOW
Yesterday I lost my way
I remember all that day
    when my heart was hot as fire
I dreamt your eyes...forgive my cries.

Yesterday I lost again
My desires I could not restrain
    and my heart was hot as fire
I dreamt your eyes...forgive my cries.

Yesterday I lost my way
I remember all that day...

Forgive me now
I wanna explain, see you again, show you my pain
My heart is just for you.
Forgive me now
I wanna cry, I wanna try, show you the life 
    I dreamt for you and me.

Yesterday I lost my way
I'd been waiting for that day
     and my heart was hot as fire
The air was cold, my love unfolded.

Yesterday I lost again
Your chose made me pain
    and my heart was hot as fire
I dreamt your eyes, I did my cries.

Yesterday I lost my way
I remember all that day...

Forgive me now
I wanna explain, see you again, show you my pain
My heart is just for you.
Forgive me now
I wanna cry, I wanna try,  show you the life 
    I dreamt for you and me.

(c) 2014 Davide Angelini

Symphony for a New Generation (2023 Remaster)

Forgive Me Now (2023 Remaster)

Bandcamp

FORGIVE ME NOW - (2023 Remaster)

liner notes: this song took some maze-walking to arrive at its destination. our album of collaborations on bandcamp ( https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out ) spawned a sonic thank-you card from Jeff. the lyrics came together fast and dirty from both Jeff and I.  soon, we had enough material for several parts. references to literature and history spanned all around us like a rainbow bubblegum bubble inflated by the selfish lungs of a baby dictator. at some point, even a common friend joined our efforts which then led to side-projects being spawned. all of this turned into a creative tornado driven by such an energy that I could not stand it anymore and withdrew to the sidelines .... and just a few days later, Jeff shared this beauty with all new music to our common lyrics. jeff, my friend, you're a ****** genius! Generously, Jeff indulged me in accepting the suggestion for a cover image I produced - based on a Budapest statue I photographed in 2011. no, the world is not spinning as fast as our creative processes -  but you need a darn good stomach for sure .... and hope still sits somewhere in the dark looking out, wide-eyed. jo

A Makeshift Life--co-written by Jo Richter and Jeff Gardiner

we do not need a future
we do not need a past
the eagle glides where people fall
Oceana Oceana Oceana , Eurasia

a makeshift life
instructions not included
do you want to sing along
with a wordless song
that goes like this--
blah blah blah
blah blah blah

carved from duty
eugenic beauty
Hugo Boss is your tailor
ordained and named in the mainframe

look at the broken plans you fixed
or all those cigarettes you smoked
think about the dogs you might have known
or those Righteous fights you fought
or friends who've come and gone
does it matter or does it not-

it’s another helpless history day
and that genie in the laptop has had his say
just check the box is still okay
just check Pandora’s box is still okay

taygetus mons

taygetus mons (1984 revisionist edition)

la nua

la nua No. 07

Note: (As a personal protest I'm not doing the below anymore even if the technique works. I read one great artist questioning another great artists authenticity and I found that pretty shit and it's the way we are currently embracing ai that's to blame. So I ain't feeding the beast at all anymore. However I will leave it here as a mark to as much of it as I ever justified in my head) (FUCK the way humans are dealing with AI)

AI voice modeling is a phenomenal way to practice this and hone your voice. I'm not for a second suggesting use it in the result of a piece of art however as a tool to train your good self. Absolutely 

AI can model your voice at different ranges and make you sound real. The nuances of your own unique delivery are brought across so you can actually use this to become your own amazing frame of reference to sing with and improve your own material in the sense you end up closer to what you can imagine given your expanded ability and range you've delivered yourself with modern and very specific practice. It's particularly handy if you are attempting something for the first time. Pitch shifting with the correct subtle gradual movement to the range you struggle in can be a way of getting there. During the process you retain that confidence of enjoying a solid performance and don't get frustrated doing it wrong while trying to train the muscles to be able to actually get there. We inspire ourselves in every musical moment by staying inspired and it sounding good for me is an important part of staying lasered to that instinct which allows you to deliver your best everytime. Maybe it's me but if an idea is running flat... I forget it and move on... So in that light this is a great way of staying ahead of that dagger that might have you doubting yourself 

This is a good example in my opinion of using the tool to become more creative and not the opposite like a lot of people do. If the tool makes art for you ,you are a tool as we would say in Ireland. Use the tool then You are an artist...

Singing Tip - Make your own frame of reference

Music available on bandcamp https://thebargainbasementbutterflies.bandcamp.com/

The Bargain Basement Butterflies are gleefully inspired by Kraftwerk, Erasure, OMD, the Lightning Seeds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, The Cure, Laurie Anderson and a host of other terrific artists old and new.

Living Life and Making Music, because what else is one to do? 

Open to collaborations.
I do love to sing...or play.