2nd version for Daisy's repose: new sax/flute improvs with added beats.
https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/cat-sleeping-1
[Pic: Daisy Rascal getting down to business.]

Cat Sleeping #2

Anna, Produced by Ihaji Made It
Lyrics in Swahili

VERS 1
-Umenifanya nisahau
-Yale matusi na dharau
-Nilopashwa na awale nyang'au
-Ni wewe, furaha yangu nipewe
-Nimefuta namba zenu ,mnielewe
#-Ona ,wametuna
-Wamepoteza majina
-Kuongea nao tena ,
-Huo mpango mimi sina
CHORUS
Anna, Anna
Kwa mapenzi yako
Ntaponapona
Anna, Anna
Mimi na wewe, 
Wameonaona
VERS 2
-Haturudi nyuma, tunasonga
-Ona midomo wazi ,bado mnatushangaa
-Mnajiona watu wa mjini sana ,mnaganga
-Mimi na yeye, maisha tunapanga
-Sio yale ya Brown na Sidika
-Mdogo mdogo ,tutafika
-Baby usijali, ntaskika
-Ngoma zangu zitashika
#-Ona ,wametuna
-Wamepoteza majina
-Kuongea nao tena ,
-Huo mpango mimi sina
CHORUS (Repeat once)
BRIDGET
-Sio yale ya Brown na Sidika
-Mdogo mdogo ,tutafika
-Baby usijali, ntaskika
-Ngoma zangu zitashika
#-Ona ,wametuna
-Wamepoteza majina
-Kuongea nao tena ,
-Huo mpango mimi sina
CHORUS (Repeat once)







Anna

When I was a little lad, I would have these mental breakdowns where I would be in a secluded part of the house, lost in my head for hours... I would experience these weird sensations that I had dubbed "the slow fast", "the quiet loud", "the far near", "the dark light" ... by far the most sinister and disturbing among them was the quiet loud. I would picture a thousand demons around me screaming at me from all directions... but there was a nomadic man standing directly in front of me. If I made eye contact with him then suddenly it would become quiet around me except the look of disappointment and that disapproving shaking of his head although silent, would start to magnify in my head to the point of me having to look away and then the screaming of the demons would start again. I had to go back and forth from loud to quiet to loud to quiet until I'd snap out of it.

Mahan Mahan (an unauthorized autobiography ~ pt.2)

After the storm.

From an album THE CLOCK STRIKES ZERO released on Bandcamp.
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/the-clock-strikes-zero?fbclid=IwAR14c6nyVTXnyt91f-ZvW9fI6Z1q5V3krS1ShwD_a4TA3BfJpzYOiO4VtSs                                   (Headphones recommended)

Zero Plus Fifteen

What does forever mean to you?
She asked
I just didn’t know
I just couldn’t say

Is it a year, a month or a day?
She asked
I just didn’t know
I just couldn’t say

Just when I thought I found the words
Just when I thought I’d found the courage
Just when I thought… 

It all flew away
Up up and 
away
so high

And I’m 
just holding on
And I’m 
just holding on
to you

Step back and try to look inside
There’s nothing to hide
You might like what you find 

Some things last and some things just break
We won’t know which
until it’s too late
Until it’s too late
 
Talk is cheap I want to see results
She said
I just couldn’t think straight
I just couldn’t communicate

The more we do the less we say
I said I think that’s OK
It’s forever and a day

Forever and a Day

Childhood Friend by Keri Johnson

Photo credits: Annie Spratt

Seemed so simple then
we became fast friends
were we wiser then before life set in?

Thru the twists and bends
broken hearts to mend
every moment spent with you made me believe

And I won't let these moments be forgot 
my childhood friend

And let's not let these memories be forgot
my childhood friend

All those letters you sent
one day I'll read them again
hope one day we're looking back in our golden years

I wonder how you've been?
picture the street we lived
never thought that we'd be here saying "remember when"

Keri Johnson's Album

Childhood Friend

Ilari I. (I-la-rI) Rantala - Lead vocals, lyrics & bass guitar
Olli Lehtonen - Guitars, keys & synths, harmony vocals, lyrics, percussion & sampling
Composed by A/D
Cover art by I-la-rI
Produced by Olli Lehtonen

© 2021 A/D. All rights reserved.

My Flesh

Sad and blue

Splitz

A song that playfully asks the philosophical question: do our pets go to Heaven. If so, is this all pets? Or is there a cuteness filtering process?

Pet Heaven

I'm putting up new original material on my Spotify channel https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PtcG937rHfQWJwv0Zi4um?si=t1ppLngORgmuqz9qeoDOzw 
Mostly original tracks, a few covers here and there. Thank you for even getting this far. Thoughts, opinions, suggestions all welcome. It's pretty lonely out here toiling over every sound wave and grubby plugin. Any feedback is appreciated and if you've got a track you want me to hear send it over - what comes around goes around etc. A huge shout out to Len Rice for all his production suggestions on this and other tracks of mine - a true expert, check him out https://soundcloud.com/lenrice
One day I hope to get some collaborations going and a far off dream is to re awaken all these tracks in a live environment with a live band and maybe even a live audience. For now the dream keeps me going. Thanks for listening.

I'm trying to use as much real instrumentation as possible: a Taylor and a Norman acoustic guitars, a Fender Strat Roadhouse that goes out of tune if I even look at it, a cheap Vintage mandolin that hurts to play and listen to, an 80 year old zither banjo that screams 'I was never destined for this' and a borrowed Aria Pro II bass that a friend can never be bothered to take home on the bus. Synths are a plasticky Roland FA06 and a fun but dumb Korg minilogue. Throw in some Native Instruments software primarily for smoochy piano and strings, a £15 melodica full of tramp spit, some harps in impossible tunings, and a box of percussion and assorted prehistoric flints (are you really still reading this??). 

All recorded on Logic Pro X on an ancient iMac that is going to explode any minute and take my entire oeuvre with it. And most likely burn the house down.

Forever and a Day

C h r i s t i a n T W a l s h