2 fine inspirations! It's all bedded in nicely - love the organ part

Ah,how many folk know Robbie now? It's a generational thang,perhaps.

I used to rock my daughter asleep to 'Storyville',when she was a baby. Cool Gilmour licks bro.

Really nice my friend. I love moody pieces.

very nice gloomy track, the production sounds smooth as silk

Para Lia - Kassandra
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis 'Light From A Candle' 

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The background for the inspiration of course is Homer and the tales on the Trojan war. But Kassandra does not tell a story – it’s a kind of a painting with an ancient scenery or maybe just a sketch: Kassandra in front of the burning city. And it could be a modern painting. We are in a distance of more than 3.000 years to the plot of the ancient tales – and still mankind has Kassandras and tears in front of burning cities.

Working on Kassandra i had in mind from the beginning that Cindy will take the main voc in this song. So i wrote the harmonies and the song structure with that in mind and i love how she sings the song. Kassandra also includes a few notes played with a Greek Baglamas and helps the song to get a special note. This string instrument is the small sister of a Bouzouki. 

lyrics:
on sungod days in the morning dew
the tears of kings are just a few
meaningless rain drops

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
and the ships are grounded

in the golden light of the afternoon
she is dancing like the queen of doom
she blinks into the sunlight

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
into the sky
into the sky

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

Kassandra

Running On - written by Randy Belculfine and recorded in October 1993 by our college(and beyond) band Darius. Darius is Randy Belculfine(Guit/Vox), John Hogan(Guit), Ken Loiseau(Drums), Tony Misale(Keys) and Bob Moody(Bass). Remixed in August of 2013 from Tascam DA88 to ProTools.

Running On by Darius (Original by Randy Belculfine)

I don't know what this is really,probably just more DV bollox!

The inspiration for the track came last year when part of my favourite walk was closed for renovations,but I sneaked in past the barriers most days anyway!
Being alone is a landscape prompted be to imagine I was the only person left alive. This in turn took me to what we are doing to the planet and what we might do to help.
Yeah,I was right the first time,more DV bollox!

Taking the shortcut
Past the sign pathway closed
I know I really shouldn't
But as long as no one knows

The sea is ever present
Turning pebbles into sand
As I begin my descent 
Into no man's land

Could be the world has ended
Erased the human race
There are times I have pretended
We didn't leave a trace

Fragile our existence
Living unaware
Yet somewhere in the distance
A rolling nightmare

Reflecting on our being
We seek to understand
Looking but not seeing
We live in Wonderland

Could be the world has ended
Erased the human race
There are times I have pretended
We didn't leave a trace

Wonderland

Original composition.  Available on vinyl for the cost of shipping b/w “Unbound Spirit” on side B. Message me!

Somewhere Between Mercury and Mars

Somewhere Between Mercury and Mars - Original - Randy Belculfine

Inspired by Robbie Robertson and David Gilmour  and early Waterboys... its the start of a balmy evening blues rock piece..... work in progress - fixed some guitar solo parts, overlaid some more guitars, and added keyboards and that funky piano. Gotta love Mike Scott.

Delta Handle

A tribute to my Da. He's a shadow of his former self,but still hanging in there.

I was born in the golden time
Ten years after war
People didn't have too much
But they worked damn hard for more
All those years of uneasy truce
Before the long farewell
The truth of making peace with you
Was to make peace with myself

Well I don't really know if you're a good man as such
I don't really know if it means that much
All those years I held a grudge
But I'm old now myself and I'm slower to judge.

I used to think you hated me and punished me each day
But no father held your hand,no one showed the way
You did your best to guide me through the good and bad
But you never read the book,'How to be a Dad'.

Well I don't really know if you're a good man as such
I don't really know if it means that much
All those years I held a grudge
But I'm old now myself and I'm slower to judge.

Ah,the times were good
We had a ball
We didn't make much money
Sometimes none at all

We played our songs
Believed the part
All that we played and sang
Came from the heart

Remember when the fire burned bright
Playing those songs every night

Ah time moves fast
But we move slow
Nothing ever lasts
We weren't to know

Burned out and faded
The passion gone
Going through the motions
For every well known song

Remember when the fire burned bright
Playing those songs every night

Remember when the fire burned bright
Playing those songs every night

Fallen Star

I composed this song somewhere during my first year on university - which means a long, long time ago. The string part I played on guitar as a finger pick up, and main melody I was singing with lyrics about ecological awareness. When I played around with different sounds, I stumbled upon string sound and we had a winner. Then I done bass line and all rhythms. 

Structure is simple: pick up/riff, verse, bridge, chorus, which all goes twice. First time no drums, second time with slow rock rhythm, and at the end I throw faster rhythm with pick up and do some around 5-6 fill ups. Pretty sure that's my record for number of fill up in one song (at least so far). Bass is slightly distorted, continuous, and dark and loud. It only plays cord progression, nothing fancy. 

Sounds I used: (categories are in brackets)
- synth strings - strings staccato (other)
- bass - 70s classic synth bass (bass) - smooth
- oboe - oboe (other) - in first verse
- french horn - french horn (other) - in second verse
- hi-hat - modern 909 (electronic)
- snare + kick - crate digger (electronic)

p.s. Later on I found out that there is a porn actress named Autumn Falls, so to be clear, that is a pure coincidence. I wanted to name the song after a town in Vampire diaries, but that was Mystic falls, and I already had song Mystic bass around that time, so it would be clashing. 

Hence, autumn falls. It sounds dark and mystical. Picture is made in Canva, as always. I chose dark, autumn forest, with ground covered with fallen leaves, and air full of fog. It nicely represents unknown and mysterious atmosphere that is characteristic to the sound and feeling of this song. Enjoy.

Autumn falls

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

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Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

get the album

Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

Don't Know Why. Demo

This is a slow one.
All instruments are played (guitars) and programmed (bass, drums) by Szabolcs Kontra.
Release date 30. dec. 2020.

Cover photo is from Egor Kamelev.

Ice - VII

Musician and home recording enthusiast from Dublin, Ireland. Music here is mainly all original work.

Formative influences have ranged from The Doors,  U2 and Simple Minds, the Pixies, the Waterboys, R.E.M. to Thin Lizzy and back further to Hendrix, Jimmy Page and early blues artists like Lightning Hopkins. Most recently I have been listening to Elbow and Johnny Marr.  

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy the music.

Delta Handle

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