A jazzy blues celebration of the end of the 9-5 working week, unwinding to music in  a bar. Co-written with my friend Steve from South Africa. We sometimes played the little bars together in the mid 70's, and reunited for a song a few decades later via cyberspace! The guitar track is a phone capture. Steve was a tapper before tapping began: listen here to the guitar wizard in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIUkbvMNnE

Guitar & instrumental composition ~ Steve Newman
Vocals and lyrical composition ~ Chris Okunbor

Unwinding      2019 Okunbor & Newman

Heading down a street called Main, just one thing on my mind
Shake off the troubles of the work day, I'm needin' to unwind
Goin' to a place where the sweet jive rules
Down at the house of blues.

Resonator steels are beaming spotlights
Harps bend and fire the fuse
Wails pierce the stillness of the winter night
Outside the house of blues
Mmm they're heating up that cold night air

Cruisin' down where the music rules
I know that you're gonna be there too
Swayin' to the rhythms of the old skool
I think I'm gonna join you at the bar of jazz & blues

When the jazz gets Friday night a-jumpin'
And the beer is bitter sweet.
Crowd is a hummin', bass is a-thumpin'
Carving up the heat.
Mmm we love to move 
with that old skool bluesin' beat.



Image of the rainy pavement from freeimages.com

Unwinding ~ Chris O & Steve Newman

Violin
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC75yod6RSSe4JLRdhnW8StA

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist and International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist ... someday I'll win one of these f@#kers.

Singer/Songwriter/Multi-instrumentalist ... I have two guitars.

International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist (2021) for "Sometimes I Want to Be a Dog."

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist (2019) for "The Reefer Song." (Not sure what they were smokin'!)

Thanks for follows/comments/reposts ... Cowboy's got more songs in the works!

In a way or by some means that is not known or not stated:
It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
I'm not sure how, but somehow or other we'll raise the money.
​for a reason that is not clear:
I know what we're doing is legal, but somehow it doesn't feel right.
News of the pay cuts had somehow leaked out.
A small dog had somehow managed to survive the fire.
She's managed somehow to procure his phone number.
Although her name is Clare, her little sister called her Lali, and somehow the name stuck.
Money has been extremely tight, but we’ve managed somehow.
He felt that everything was somehow connected.
He saw that the intellectual side of him could not be wrong, somehow he must baptize it.
One could point to facets of the system and to the ideal of public service broadcasting, but somehow the whole defied adequate description.
The pages turn, but somehow it never seems to get going.
Vanished now are the untroubled meadows of spring, and the landscape acquires a realism that is somehow a little harsh.
An architecture without rhetoric is evidently an architecture that does not set out to persuade, yet somehow convinces.
The only concern is somehow to ensure nice convergence.
We can see that gerund constructions only gained frequency in those areas where they somehow came in useful.
Is not everything on this planet somehow influenced by humans?
They already know something of this from the words and meanings somehow retained in the letters and words in books you can read. 
The screen window may somehow constrain wider semantic construction of the text, and foster more literal attention to the wording.
Dreaming consists of a transparently meaningful and organized perceptual world, not of random noise that the brain struggles to make sense of somehow.
However, in 54% of the threatening events the dream self was reported to react somehow to the threatening event.
There were, however, many areas that were regularly raided and somehow survived.
None of this proves it to be somehow unfair if nobody rules at all or if social order is maintained without resorting to governance.
inputs in (51a, b) must somehow yield the corresponding outputs.































SOME REVIEWS FROM 
Yankel Muromachi 
ヤンケル室町 
Янкель Муромати
of the "The Eniwetok Symphony Orchestra"

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"As usual, The Somehows make a great sound that’s musically compelling, navigated by very listenable vocals. Even though the genres change from song to song there’s an underlying coherence provided by a distinct sound."
on Some Of That Days
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"Great soaring melody. Excellent vocal performance makes this a catchy tuneful experience"
on If You Only Were Here
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"Laidback, pensive mood"
on See You Again
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"What a terrific racket! This what happens when combining the DNA of Mark E. Smith & John Lydon."
on Postmodern Nightmare
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"Pounds along like an HGV with no brakes, beyond all appealls & negotiaton. Nice guitar work"
on Never Ever Give Up
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"Heavy as depleted uranium, wildman screams into the wilderness. Is the Last Train a metaphor? Big noise done with style & vigour."
on Escape Plan
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"Tones of PIL"
on It Ain't Easy

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Qnd5A07g7LNnRtF7DIGsc?si=215574cdf49c4834

•Support from :
@space92
@Umek
@the-yellowheads
@tonyromanelloofficial
@paco-osuna 
@patrickscuro
@thisisluciid
@nihil-young 
@mia-mendi
@ltgtrmusic
@modeadj

•Label releases :

Animarum
Black Booking Records
Egothermia Records
Electrovino Records
Elyseum
Red LFO records
Rogues Music Group
Future Techno Records
Frequenza Records 
Red Chanel Records 
Suah 
Sevens
Sleepless Recordings
Trippy Code 
Hybride Ricordz
RunAfter Records
Dynamica

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Gigs played with :

Olivier Giacomoto-Dasha Rush-Mia mendi- and many more

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Chris, hailing  from North West  Tasmania in Australia, is a singer-songwriter who pens originals, and  plays vintage music the way it used to be.  Her mashup of  Folk, Blues,  &  Americana  draws on a lifetime of  encounters with places, people, and the magic of nature;  echoing  a multitude of  global grassroots traditions. 
Traveling around carrying her “band” like a pack pony ~ lap-slide, banjo, uke, as well as a few plain ole guitars, she  regularly performs in Australia and Europe.
Growing up in Merseyside, England, Chris was exposed to the vibrant music scene of the late 60’s and 70’s,  and her music is has been influenced by  traditional folk, country blues, and  world music .
In 2016 she represented her State at the International Blues Challenge & National Women in Blues Showcase in Memphis,  and her second album,  “Wailin’ & Raggin’ the Blues” was  a   finalist for “Best Self-produced CD with the Blues Foundation , USA.  Her third album, “Twisted Roots & Twisted Highways” was  a finalist for Blues & Roots Radio Album of the Year in 2018.
www.chrisokunbor.net

My name is Martin Hirsch, I work with  Mixcraft 9 and 10 / Ableton Live 10 / Steinberg Cubase and Studio One Music Programms / Computer win 11 / Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Interface / KRK Rokit Powerd 6 and ADAM AUDIO 7 Studio Speakers / Midistart Keyboard / Novoation Launchkey Mini /  Austria Audio AKG OC 818 Microphon . I only work with Loops that are licensed and legally purchased

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

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I would be genuinely happy if my music could evoke your profound feelings.  Please use headphones if possible. 

I sincerely appreciate your interest and time.

Unwinding ~ Chris O & Steve Newman

Chris O (2)