Wow magnificent production, great instrumental and work 👏👍

There’s something so warm and nostalgic about this recording — it captures not just a performance, but a moment in time. Carlos R’s vocals are full of feeling, and the band supports with great chemistry. It may be live and raw, but that only makes it more real and heartfelt. Thank you for sharing this memory with us!

Very nice live track! Invigorating vocals..marvelous lyrics.. brilliant guitar work captivating & mesmerizing..perfectly executed..brilliant effects..sumptuously infectious..excellent mix & recording production!

Moving beyond the animosity of a broken relationship in the hopes the hate will move on

Open Wounds

LYRIC VIDEO : https://youtu.be/FhXG2eUCCJs
This Song is What Can Happen when I have a Bad Week or the Heavy Weight of the World is Spinning in my Head & my Imagination Kicks In :-)  
To HOPE  !!!
It was a Fast Write & Really Fun to Record ~~
Hope Everyone Likes It !
©2025 Donna Dior

UNREST IN THE GALAXY

One of the many unforgettable Motown classics, this recording is a cover of the 1965 hit by The Supremes. Once again I took a live, somewhat flawed iPhone recording and simply added more vocals to better capture the soulful beauty of the song (written by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland). I had conceived this interpretation of the song decades ago but this is the first time I recorded it.

Credit and my thanks go to Haracio30 (Pixabay) for the cover photo.

Stop In The Name Of Love

Stop in the Name of Love

Re-release of this 1970 protopunk classic by the Flamin Groovies played on my nylon string. Rock and roll!!!!

Heading for the Texas Border - reprise (by the Flamin Groovies)

Eternal Music

Faces in the Crowd
Live at  HardRock Club - Year 2000 Portugal  (sound check)
Carlos R & The Deep Flower Band
Composition, lyrics and vocals - Carlos R
The Band - Nuno Marques, Joao Cabral, Sergio Oliveira
As for the sound quality, it was the best I could do taking into account the recording made with a cell phone.

Faces in the crowd LIVE

(No GenAI used - My voice + Vst instruments)
J'ai écrit cette chanson en pensant à certains lanceurs d'alerte visionnaires et courageux dans notre histoire qui se sont battus et continuent  de se battre, souvent seuls au début, jamais dans leur intérêt mais pour un monde meilleur, quitte à chambouler leur vie à jamais
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J'ai marché loin des cartes
Et j'ai vu des choses qui n’existent pas encore
Des lumières dans la nuit, des arbres vieux qui chantent
Et la vie qui disait merci

Mes mots tombent, sans écho 
Tu regardes ailleurs, isolé dans tes écrans
Je trace des cercles dans le sable rouge de mon sang
Des idées debout dans un monde qui dort

J'ouvre les yeux, je suis seul sur Mars
J'entends mon cri dans le casque
Qui s'éteint dans un vide infini

J'ai pris la route sous un ciel sans phare
Cherchant l'esprit derrière le masque
Rien n'est écrit

Je grave des poèmes sur des vitres givrées
Quand tout est figé, exilé dans ma capsule 
Des mots laissés pour ceux qui pourraient me trouver 
Espérant qu’un jour, ils feront le détour

J'ouvre les yeux, je suis seul sur Mars 
J'entends mon cri dans le casque
Qui s'éteint dans un vide infini 

J'ai pris la route sous un ciel sans phare

Et personne ne croit
Le monde que je vois
Mon rêve et ma voix

Et c'est ici que je vis
(Et personne ne croit) 
Vis seul sur Mars
(Le monde que je vois)
Dans mon esprit
(Mon rêve et ma voix)

Et c'est ici que je vis
(Et personne ne croit) 
Seul sur Mars
(Le monde que je vois)
Dans mon esprit
(Mon rêve et ma voix)

Et personne ne croit 
Le monde que je vois
Mon rêve et ma voix

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I walked away from maps
And saw things that don't exist yet
Lights in the night, old trees singing
And life saying thank you

My words fall, without echo 
You look elsewhere, isolated in your screens
I draw circles in the sand, red with my blood
Ideas standing in a sleeping world

I open my eyes, I'm alone on Mars
I hear my cry in the helmet
Fading into an infinite void

I hit the road under a lighthouse-less sky
Searching for the spirit behind the mask
Nothing is written

I engrave poems on frosted glass
When everything is frozen, exiled in my capsule 
Words left for those who might find me 
Hoping that one day, they'll make the detour

I open my eyes, I'm alone on Mars 
I hear my cry in the helmet
Fading into an infinite void

I hit the road under a lighthouse-less sky

And no one believes 
The world I see
My dream and my voice

And this is where I live
(And nobody believes) 
Live alone on Mars
(The world I see)
In my mind
(My dream and my voice)

And this is where I live
(And nobody believes) 
Alone on Mars
(The world I see)
In my mind
(My dream and my voice)

And nobody believes 
The world I see
My dream and my voice

Seul sur Mars

Get Pretty

First song in a long time, and another collaboration with my great music-maker sidekick Tom Régnier. This one is dedicated to our friends lost forever, whether they stay with us in silence, memories, or songs.

Music, all instruments: https://soundcloud.com/tom-r-gnier
Lyrics, voice: https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2

Amie si j'avais su
Qu'on ne se verrait plus
Que ce moment passé
Était le dernier
J'aurais pu dire
Ce que tu inspires
À mon âme voilée
Ou rien mais faire au moins
Un signe de la main

Si des fois tu me vois
Sous le ciel étoilé
Rêvant à qui à quoi
Errant de mon côté
Tu sais sans doute
Que je pense à toi
Sur les chemins les routes
Que je guette de loin
Un signe de la main

Un signe (Tom Régnier/Alexis Roche)

Rob Olsson lyrics vocals bass drums mixing 
Single Use guitar

Lyrics:
Ceiling over my head, only thing I see
Door to open sky is closed tight

In a sad way these four walls come closing in
Nail pops in the drywall pushing out

Anticipate the hour freedom arrives
Anticipate open sky

Pour into ceramic cup
Water over magic bean
Roast by angry fire
Grind up like bone
Sky without limit

Bearing focused toward my destination
Targeting door to open sky

Anticipate the hour freedom arrives
Anticipate open sky

Where imagination is
The only limitation

Reaping the harvest, bringing all of it in
Claim another hard earned milestone

Anticipate the hour freedom arrives
Anticipate open sky

Where imagination is
The only limitation

Coffee Is The Sky

Laura Elle : drums
Evan : keyboards, sequencers
Gage : bass, backing vocals
G : guitars, backing vocals
Xav : vocals

Rescued from Laura Schellino's playlist.
The sound couldn't be worse, and megamono at that - don't know how that could be, but that's the files she uploaded.

So it is what it is, I've rescued the sound as much as.

Cannot remember the name for the studio we did these Colin-produced demos at. Pretty sure it was pre-Chippin Norton residential studios, a pre-demo of the demo, as desired by Polydor - cause Chippin Norton being residential, twas 5k a week.

ACACC - 1995 studio demo - Engineered & Produced by Colin Thurston

Hi, thanks for stopping by.

I have been a musician and producer for as long as I can remember. I started playing keyboards and singing when I was in high school and together with a group of friends we formed our first band. We played in bars covering songs by Frank Zappa, Police, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Talking Heads etc for many years, it was the livelihood of musicians who were not in the mainstream.

The love and pleasure of creating songs has always been with me and so in 2003 I decided to start making songs.

 I recently decided to release my first original album featuring the participation of unknown singers who deserve more than just being heard because their voices are amazing. And so I invite you to listen to this album.

​For me, music is oxygen and has no genre; it just requires an open mind.

For more details visit my website www.carlosrodrigues.ch

​Thank you

Faces in the crowd LIVE

Carlos R

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