C'est super bien réalisé. Les réponses du chant aux phrases de Hawking sont trop bien trouvées :) Bravo!

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love your intro! it captures ones ear right away!

Wonderful piano, really nice punchy groove and a really good use of samples to tell the story!

Ghost Train

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Hans Albers: All instruments, arrangement and production.

Einstein determined that time is relative and that the rate at which it passes depends on your frame of reference.  Now I’m not saying that I’m much of a scholar of his work but what I do know is that when the Covid pandemic was at it’s height and we were all confined to our homes, many of those that I spoke to didn’t even know where in the week we were, let alone the time of day, so yer man Einstein probably had a point.

This song was written long before the pandemic surfaced and came during telephone and email conversations I had with my two fellow Cripple Club garage band members, Gary and Hans . For example, I was chatting to Gal one day when he said “You know, I just can’t get the hang of time, these days.  Weeks seem to just merge into each other”. 

On the very same day, Hans sent me an email in which he stated "I’m really struggling to get the hang of time at the moment…” As someone who spends much of his time at home anyway, the two ‘hang of time’ statements did resonate with me and therefore carried an intriguing synchronicity.  I’m not someone who thinks these things have any mystical significance but the fact that they had both used precisely the same expression on the same day certainly placed the idea for this song in my mind.

Thanks again to Hans for taking the concept and formulating it so brilliantly into his arrangement for the song.  And many thanks to you for listening.
(Terry Reeves)

I just can’t get the hang of time
Tomorrow seemed a million miles behind
And yet a date turns up in front of mind
What more to remember or try to find

I just can’t get the hang of time

Another month goes by without a breath
Although breathing in moves me to the left
Time to the right can cause calendar theft
Pitching very low sounds to a musical clef

I just can’t get the hang of time

No shaking up time without showing my age
As click track continues keep missing the page
Never losing my temper but cheating a rage
There is never a tempo that keeps sounds in a cage

I just can’t get the hang of time (Repeat)

BREAK

Qualified people pointing a direction to live
Not one understands why I’m mentally captive
Each box with a tick but the time doesn’t give
My Individual need making all words so inactive

I just can’t get the hang of time

A window reflection shows a man with a beard 
Tuesday or Wednesday? All days disappeared
I just can’t get the hang of time
It wasn’t meant to be an ageing skill of mine.

I just can’t get the hang of time

THE HANG OF TIME - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

I found this old track of mine that I still really liked, and since it sounded a bit more soulful/organic/pop than the more electronic stuff I usually do, I felt it would be a good idea to ask Mark (@markjbennett) to see if he would be up for the challenge to add some vocals to this. 

Thankfully, Mark agreed, and he came up with some lovely vocals. 
I'm really happy with the result and I hope you'll like it too!

Thank you Mark for another awesome collab!

LYRICS: 

Like Nothing I've Ever Known

Feels like nothing I've ever known
Takin’ me so long, 
A long way to go, 
Don’t know where I’m goin’, 
Don’t know what I’m feelin’, 
While my head is reelin’, 
Not sure what I’m sayin’, 
Am I goin’ or am I stayin’?

Like nothing I’ve ever known. 
Passion and exhilaration.

Takin’ me so long, 
A long way to go, 
Don’t know where I’m goin’,
 Don’t know what I’m feelin’, 
While my head is reelin’…

Passion and exhilaration.

…Takin’ me so long, 
A long way to go, 
Don’t know where I’m goin’, 
Don’t know what I’m feelin’, 
While my head is reelin’…  
Takin' me so long,
 Takin' me so long, 
A long way to go...

Won’t be the first time,
 Nor the last time, 
That I fall, fall in love. 
Yet this time, It just feels a little serious, 
Not a bad way, 
Just a sad way, 
I don’t know how to take.
 Yet this time,
 It just feels a little curious. 
Won’t be the first time, 
Or the last time, 
That I fall, fall in love. 
Yet this time, 
It just feels a little serious.

Feels like nothing I've ever known. 
Passion and exhilaration.

Takin' me so long, 
Takin' me so long, 
A long way to go...

Won’t be the first time,
 Nor the last time, 
That I fall, fall in love. 
Yet this time, It just feels a little serious, 
Not a bad way, 
Just a sad way, 
I don’t know how to take. 
Yet this time,
 It just feels a little curious.

Like Nothing I've Ever Known (Wane of Summer & Mark J Bennett)

The Manitoban - Part 1

Music, lyrics and mix by Julien Vescovi
This track is a tribute to Stephen Hawking (RIP), every spoken words are taken from conferences or books that he made.

Locked-in

Falling upward

Falling Upward

Nightly lights flight

i’ve got a hot foot, i’ve got to drive all night
gonna’ drive like crazy til i feel all right
drive like crazy til i feel all right
beep beep, beep beep, beep beep. oh yeah yeah
baby some night i’ll get where i’m going to
maybe some night i’ll forget about you.
i drove fifty thousand miles in my car last year
never leave the city, never leave third gear
i only drive at night and always alone
i sleep all day i don’t answer the phone.
chorus
i don’t look in the mirror and i don’t look back
keep the doctors away cuz i don’t drive fast
i don’t need my medicine i’ve got my car
you can find me when i’m lost i won’t drive far.

written by naldo,  produced & performed by kid otari
drums by Emu-drumulator
mastered by guillaume
0225W2 & SFX Shorten

cover art by Steve à la Basquiat Davy

Beep Beep

I think the lyrics pretty much speak for themselves, or was that me?

Well alright!

O-Bremer Katze

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

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