[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 163

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2022/07/08

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As per usual, a work in progress until the last day of the corresponding month.
To get on these playlists, you have to make music that I like. 
That's the only criteria.

MTD Mixtape August 2022

The show also featured artist,

Debbie Fisher ~ Finding My Way Back Home (Pennsylvania USA)

Ian Foster ~ I See You There (Newfoundland)

Mark Langlais & The Gastric Band ~ Mr Sunshine (France) 

Wally Dae ~ Handsome Johnny (Newfoundland)

Unsigned Radio Hour #9

About magician's assistants

I am the girl
in sequins and pearls
I live my whole life
As your prop

With a sleight of hand
I'm at your command
I am your girl in the box

That's how things go
In this magic show
I never know what you'll pick
And it's hard to see
which victim I'll be
Until we perform the trick

So I step inside
Go for my ride
And fold myself up in knots
Then you saw me in half
While I try not to laugh
I am your girl in the box

I spin on your wheel
As you throw your steel
And the colors pass by in a swirl
And if you're remiss
If you happen to miss
Will you find some other girl?

When I'm in this chest
I cannot rest
Because things are not 
What they seem

But your magic is too strong
So I play along
All the while I scream
I am the girl
Who tumbles and twirls
Never escaping your locks
My life is mis-made
I live in my grave

I am your girl in the box

Girl in the Box

A big thank you to „The Neighbor“ for playing the guitars and to SuZanne Ledwith for this great and special vocal appearance, thank you so much…
Please take a closer listen to her work, it's amazing:

https://soundcloud.com/suzanne-ledwith 



Bubbles

1.
Some bubbles don’t have the slightest clue
What public relation is capable to do
That  we don’t really know what we want
Because the real free will is not at hand
Some bubbles are just notorious
They tell you that they’re great and glorious

If you believe in what they’re bubbling of
If you believe in what they’re bubbling of
If you believe in that 
If you believe in what they are bubbling of

It still might just be
A product of the PR-industry

2.
Some bubbles think they’re superior
Consider all others inferior
They’ll never ever gonna get it why
Other bubbles can be LGTBI
Some bubbles are just really dumb
Thinking their leaders have the biggest trump

If you believe in what they are babbling of
You think you’ re entertained with lots of laugh
If you believe in that
If you believe in what they are babbling of

This works everywhere the same
Think!
Propaganda was it’s name
All of us just might be 
Influenced by the PR-industry

3.
Some bubbles are just smaller than
Other bubbles who are taller and
Some bubbles are just intolerant
They’re not indifferent `bout the difference
Some bubbles are just really tough
They never ever seem to get enough

If you believe in what they’re bubbling of
If you believe in what they’re babbling of
If you believe in that
If you’d believe in that

This works everywhere the same
Think!
Propaganda was its name
All of us just might be 
Influenced by the PR-industry

out
But if you’d think that there is something more
That there’ s a force that is in all of us
There might be a chance for us
If you believe in, if you believe in
Love

Up in the North
Down in the South
Deep in the West
And far in the East

Bubbles (ft. SuZanne Ledwith and The Neighbor)

Rainbow bodies and vaccine nation obligations... 

https://neurologickthunder.bandcamp.com/album/vax-ov-al

PFLANZE K - Dusk Ov Humanity (from thee album VAX ov AL, 2022)

Two Shy People In Conversation

I was going through old files on my computer and found this - looks like the master copy is lost and all we have is this lossy MP3 but we might as well wack it up onto Soundcloud for posterity.....just me on pokey rudimentary piano, Gina on gorgeous vocals and the drummer we use while our demos are still in the very early phase of the creative process, the ubiquitous Mr. G.Arage-Band.....who is always upset 😡 when we replace his parts in the final versions of the songs........🤣
This version has different chords to what we ended up using in the finished version.
If you want to hear the "official" version you can find it here ----> https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile
And if you really want more, you can find the cute remix which we quite like here --->  https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile-zen-heartbeat-mix

Smile (Simple Piano Version)

It’s all around
Daylight breaks on frozen ground
And I've never told you
How good it feels to grow old with you

The night is cold and hard as steel
But you and I will never feel
The silent night the shivering morning
This burning ember heats our home

Its all above
An icy wind. A burning sun
And I’ve never told you
How good it feels to come home to you

The night is ours. It’s short but sweet 
And desperate hours before the week
A daily grind a cold design
This burning ember heats our home

So cry out
What's wrong with the world?
Why can’t they see
Things like you and me?

It’s all around
Daylight breaks on golden ground
Have I ever told you
How good it feels to have grown old with you?

The night is hard and cold as steel 
But you and i will never feel
The hardened heart, the cold of shoulder
This burning ember heats our home

It's All Around

Collab with Entheogenic Psychonaut.
I sent Josh a DADGAD electric guitar track, he put vocals and instruments on it and then I did a remix - this is the result :)
Great vocals and melody!!

Check out Josh’s SC page here

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cWZpPoToWhSV2pAE7

I'm Gonna Get You - with Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)

The Edge of Daylight

remember you hate me (original)

Unfortunately, Schmitty and Nekbhet were busy eating a snack during the time of this recording.

Syntania: mooing, snorting, neighing, braying, vocalized boat horn
Midori Cullnough: backing vocals
Brian Ordbon: cowbell

Additional Personnel
Schmitty's dog: barking

Song For Cowbell And Voice

This is a magical collaboration with folks I've admired a while.   Finally got a chance to make something happen.  Thanks to STONERJAZZ for asking me to play on his cool bossa nova track.  Hope you enjoy! 

STONERJAZZ - https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679
Janine Levinson - https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Uziel - https://soundcloud.com/user-455619833
Jo Richter - https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures


lyrics
Wretched light so aptly said libra ish in their balanced dread
Wretched light of another day ln the soup out there
the falling down and getting up, it's "Showtime" Fossi said
As he popped amphetamine in the shower scene
Or so it's said by some writer of his dreamy technicolor happenstance
That made the cut.

Could it be scorcery that I see
Through jaded glasses full of gin
Or just a conjury of collected clarities'

So sweet the experiential meat
Dark or light the gods prefer
Is not what we do not do for us
But them.

The guillotine of thoughtless bliss
Takes the Serpent's head
And tiny lights appear around my bed.

Chase the monster south for 14 winters and a night
It grinned across the canyon with a monstrous delight
I thought I saw you yesterday up on the ridge behind my house
It might have been the way you turned your head to speak
But the wind you know it blew your words away
What you said I couldn’t’ say
You know it really doesn’t matter anyway

Know-Ware - STONERJAZZ, Janine Levinson, Uziel and Jo Richter

Out Of View

This is the second track off "There to here (Part 2)." It continues the story of a young man putting his feet on new soil after travelling across the Atlantic ocean from Ireland. 
It is also at Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/track/5bvqXEYsSNF9u7oCzTQMwQ. 
The album is at: https://open.spotify.com/album/6Ku9FqCADHIPlilLXnTLTG
Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen 
Acoustic and electric guitars: Phil Bowen 
Lead and backing vocals: Phil Bowen 
Keyboards: Phil Bowen 
Lyrics
Verse 1
We sailed into port on a hot afternoon
I felt we had been back and fore to the moon
Salt in my eyes and salt in my throat
I’ve never been so glad to get off a boat

Verse 2
Rapped up in hope and quite a bit of luck
I looked up at fortune and then a thought struck
I’m a stranger in this land but I feel so at home
From my head to my feet and every bone

Chorus
To realise my every dream I’ve had
Realise the choice of good and bad
I may be a stranger in this distant land
But I feel so at home with my brother Galahad

Middle 8
I feel such an old man at age of twenty two
I’ve seen so much hardship with so much to do
I pull myself up with an invisible hand
This is my home. This is my land

Verse 3
The crowd surged forward in the afternoon sun
A voice shouted walk and please don’t run
And then I saw someone raise a gun 
It chilled the spine, I’m sure, in everyone.

Verse 4
I closed my eyes for a moment or two
The crowd surged forward. They stepped on my shoes
Crushed up together, I felt black and blue
The queue seemed so long but soon I was through.

There to Here  Pt. 2

America (Stranger in This Distant Land)

America (stranger in this distant land)

Rise To Your Knees

Disappear

Alexandra Rose - Après Jeudi

The Cat is currently sleeping while I look for a singer....
If you're interested in being part of Cat Came Back V2.0......drop me a line.....

Cat Came Back (up to 2023) were:
Gina Graham - vocals 
Graeme Mc Pherson - bass, keyboards, samples, beats, production. 
Music written by Graeme, words by Gina.

Our music can also be found on most of the popular streaming platforms but I can't guarantee it will always be there or even here on Soundcloud for that matter.... 
So if you really liked anything you heard here and want to keep it, please visit our Bandcamp page. Or if not ours, support someone else's music you've heard here - it's a tangible gesture that will make their day. 
There's a link below to my personal Bandcamp purchases and recommendations, many of which were artists I discovered here on Soundcloud.

Thanks for listening, Graeme.