Homemade VIDEO, shot on summer 2021 tour: https://youtu.be/Cb2j3lcyiZs

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London-based 7-piece Cable Street Collective’s latest single, ‘The Wolf’, is an upbeat banger guaranteed “to make you dance your beep off”. 

The track, which features their signature combination of thumping dance rhythms, African-influenced guitars and an addictive chorus, was written during lockdown, with demos flying back and forth over Zoom calls – and an early version of the band playing it “together” appeared online in March 2021, with each member recording their parts from home. 

Despite the knock-on effects of lockdowns on the live music sector, Cable Street Collective road tested The Wolf extensively this summer, playing at Latitude, among others, on a 17-date summer festival tour. The band recently announced a further UK tour for February 2022.


While the music of The Wolf is upbeat, the lyrics deal with darker themes. “It’s about subconsciously seeking out toxic relationships as a means of self-flagellation,” explains singer Fiona Jane. “That absurdity, when you’re most comfortable in relationships that are bad for you, is fascinating.”

The Wolf

3. Conditioning:
Unlike imprinting which requires only one experience and sets permanently into the neurons, conditioning requires many repetitions of the same experience and does not set permanently. Behaviorists also know how to reverse conditioning by counter-conditioning, but Dr. Timothy Leary has claimed to know how to reverse imprinting!
Curiously, laws currently forbid others to repeat and test Dr. Leary*s experiments and treaten them with prison if they get cought repeatig this research.
The idea , that the Inquisition died 170 years ago seems - like the separation of state and church - just another myth, unconnected with how our government actually functions. 
- Robert Anton Wilson (Quantum Psychology)

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The inspiration emerged from the raw emotions that surge within us during life’s tumultuous moments. Our feelings can take us on exhilarating highs and heart-wrenching lows. The lyrics capture the essence of holding on when faced with twists and turns. Imagery of sunshine and rain symbolizes growth, resilience, and the enduring power of love. Ultimately, it’s a celebration of the wild ride that is human connection and how, until our last breath we hold on to love.

Last Breath

My latest album release “Hexad” is exclusive to Soundcloud and consists of 4 tracks all related through themes/sounds and by using a maximum of 6 synthesizers (+ vox samples of me from my Octatrack). Hexad I-IV differ somewhat in mood, structure, melody & length. Slower, more downtempo vibe here as the tempo sits around 88-110 bpm. Enjoy!

Hexad II

On Our Way (Where?)

Butterflies at Night

When the days were long
And the nights were warm
We saw the break of dawn
When we were young and strong

Rode the whole day hard
Worked the ranch and farm
Till the sky turned dark

Didn't see it coming
You not around
Only the faint sound
Of when the days were long

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/14x-UskbrZTRWFjkMvjEK1cOj7QreykGh/view?usp=drive_link
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WHEN THE DAYS WERE LONG

"Thank You For Last Time," Project Blackbird’s new single, sees the band’s shapeshifting sound subtly moving in a dub-flavored direction. Echoing elements of spy-fi movie soundtracks, the band creates swirling grooves beneath a blanket of vocals that recall ‘60s French pop.

“It was just two words in my head: time, fiction. That was the jumping off point,” notes vocalist Ming Nagel. “I went back to Iceland a few years ago (after first going there in the '90s), and culled some of the lines in the verses and the spoken word part from a poem I wrote during that second visit. There’s a phrase in Icelandic that basically translates to ‘thank you for last time.’ It’s what Icelanders say when they bump into old friends. On the surface, the song is a love letter to Iceland; it’s an incredibly mysterious and inspiring place. On a deeper level, it’s about the elasticity of time and the process of grappling with getting older and meeting your past selves.”

As the song unfolds like a slightly funkified casual Sunday drive, a dreamscape travelogue emerges, adding an air of mystery that hints at multiple layers of meaning beneath the surface. It’s otherworldly and earthbound all at once, defying time and creating new musical fiction.
(Night Train PR)

Lyrics:

to everything that I adore
in this isolated world:
fates and furies, nights unfurled

time – fiction – time – fiction

mounds of graymoss in the fields
reptiles swelling to reveal
cracks of their tectonic scales

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

I head to sands that are still belted by a sash of volcanic boulders
it’s strange to be back again - 20 years on and feeling much older
like looking in a mirror through a hazy lens, backwards over your shoulder
later we search for the cottage, on the coastline where I stayed

waters rich in alkaline
write a somnolent slow sweep
dreams tilt on the edge of sleep

time – fiction – time – fiction

each departure is a loss
each farewell is something gained
time stealing itself from time

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

here it stands – Bakkasel, my age
I know that both our stories have changed
I walk past expanses of green and unused foundations
everything is dying or in a state of gestation
the corrugated slopes bleed into the sky like an impressionist painting

Credits:
Music: Varley / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel

ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – bass guitar / JON READ – keyboards, trumpet / MING NAGEL – vocals

Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).

This is the first single from Project Blackbird's forthcoming (2024) album, True Names.

Thank You For Last Time

Marina Abramovic is an acclaimed performance artist whose shtick revolves around bodily endurance. I recently saw an exhibition of her work in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and this composition is my musical impression of what I saw.

A Marina Abramovic Tribute

Urgency

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Cable Street Collective make rhythm-driven, African-influenced sunshine music that they call Carnival Pop.

With an ear for a catchy tune and a stomping beat, they have been tearing up dance floors and festival stages up and down the country over the last 18 months.

Their music draws on influences like Congolese Soukous and South African Kwela as well as sounds from closer to home such as Primal Scream, the Stone Roses, Major Lazer, the Beta Band, Tune Yards, and the Happy Mondays.

The Wolf

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