the pure essence of a Song.
the pure essence of songwriting..Piano and voice..that is all it takes..top!

I really like it! Keep playing with that passion!

Empathy, passion, talent = a blessing to hear you, thanks for sharing🙂

🤷‍♂️ I’m not overexplaining it.

Come have a seat, I need a favor 
Incensed craving, a need to savor 
An intense yearning, an urge to please  
Want you to feel the pleasure of 
Release (release)

One more time and check the box 
One more grind and pick the lock 
It’s coming on now, so don’t you stop 
Explode on me and feel the shock 
Release (release)

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow
Let it….

Release

Vidéo : https://youtu.be/0H3VKS--Tsk

Tout s'efface   (Translated after the French text )
Texte : Say M
Chant : Did Wilkops
Musique : Alain Illos

Je te lis
Tu me lis
Mais on n'se livre pas
Tes mots quittent les lignes
Quand mes pensées t'échappent
On ajoute
Plus de vide
On s'évide même parfois
Rien ne change à vrai dire
Les mêmes mots les mêmes phrases
Synonymes homonymes
Tout s'efface après ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface
Tu me lies
Je te lie
Les contraires nous éloignent
À défaut on s'attire
On s'arrime au clivage
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface
Synonymes homonymes
Tout s'efface après ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface...


All fades away 

I read you
You read me
But we don't surrender
Your words leave the lines
When my thoughts escape you
We add
More emptiness
We even escape sometimes
Nothing really changes
The same words the same phrases
Synonyms homonyms
Everything fades after that
We've worn out our eyes
Trying to say better than that
We've worn out our eyes
To say better than that
All fades away
It's all fading away
You bind me
I bind you
Opposites drive us apart
By default we attract
We cling to the divide
All fades away
All fades away
Synonyms homonyms
All fades away after that
We've worn out our eyes
Trying to say better than that
We've worn out our eyes
To say better than that
All fades away
It's all fading away...


Tout s'efface avec Did Wilkops

Pour cette première compo de 2025 j'ai fait dans l'epic Pop. Je venais de finir la série Arcane et je voyais bien cette chanson pour l'illustrer
J'aurais du la finir plus tôt mais j'ai chopé une angine que j'ai immédiatement exploitée pour certains passages :)
Bonne année à tous et merci de votre support!
(traduit plus bas)
[NO AI INSIDE]

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When the world is crashing down
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
Plug your ears until it's gone
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

If i squeeze my eyes shut to hide
Why i still don't feel safe inside
Why future looks so heavy
And so blurry

Is there meaning lost in the haze
Because I cannot break through this maze.
I try to chase the doubt away
For a clearer day

A better day

When the world is crashing down
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
Plug your ears until it's gone
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

Should i worry ?

Whether we're right or wrong 
It's unvarying
Change is part of life as we know

And what goes up, comes down or disappears
Men of power also will leave the show

-----
Quand le monde s'écroule
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Bouche-toi les oreilles jusqu'à ce que ca passe
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Si je ferme les yeux pour me cacher
Pourquoi je ne me sens toujours pas en sécurité à l'intérieur
Pourquoi l'avenir semble si lourd
Et si flou

Est-ce qu'il y a un sens perdu dans la brume
Parce que je ne peux pas sortir de ce labyrinthe
J'essaie de chasser le doute
Pour un jour plus clair

Un jour meilleur

Quand le monde s'écroule
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Bouche-toi les oreilles jusqu'à ce que ca passe
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Dois-je m'inquiéter ?

Que nous ayons raison ou tort 
C'est invariable
Le changement fait partie de la vie telle que nous la connaissons

Et ce qui monte redescend ou disparaît
Les hommes de pouvoir aussi quitteront le spectacle

You don't really want to know

Musique pour faire dancer les Bébés.
(Pour mes petites-filles..Mattea et Vannina) 
A piece to make babies dance.
(For my granddaughters..Mattea and Vannina)

M V Dance

Mix/Master: Mcallisterstudios

LYRIC
You don’t have to know why, why, why
You can just go and cry, cry cry
To your mother and sigh, sigh, sigh
Life isn’t fair

You (contributed) blood and sweat
Took out cash to place a safe bet
A pile of nothing is all you get
Life isn’t fair

The wheel of fortune rolls through
Across all your dreams
If circumstance controls you
Don’t cry at the loss of your dreams

We can offer a second chance
You just have to pay in advance
If your wallet’s in your other pants, well
Those are the breaks
We all make mistakes
I've no wisdom to spare
But this much I’ll share
Life isn’t fair

The winners all got lucky
You tell yourself that still
Well what you’re calling lucky
Might well be
The greatest skill

You can give one more try, try try
Tape some wings on and fly, fly fly
Then you fall from the sky sky sky
Well say hi for us
To Icarus 
Time to face facts
You chose wings made of wax
Why do you think they call it a dare?
Life isn’t fair

Life Isn't Fair

Cast of characters:
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick four-string fretless bass, PRS semi hollow body electric guitar, seed idea
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums 
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- Yamaha Genos 2 organ
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–  Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar and additio0nal mastering
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – Squier Custom Telecaster electric guitar processed through a Line 6 interface to sound like a synth, mix, and production
Eclectic Collective -- composition
This song started around the New Year holiday, when Josh was playing around with a looper beat on his bass. He came up with the bass line and structure for it before turning it over the the rest of the Eclectic Collective to work with. 
  Ken was first up, giving the beat its due as a real drummer, and making it his own, expertly, as always. JJ was up next with his dynamic, lush organ, propping up the groove and adding sonic flavor throughout. Stephen came through after JJ with his foundatoinal, gritty, groovy guitar. It was sitting there ripe for a melody at this point, so Josh heard and added a melody vaguely inspired by the Simpson's theme and added it with his electric guitar. Tez wrapped the whole thing up with the exciting "synth" part you hear in the middle with his custom Tele, which he processes through a Line 6 interface.
  Once it was in the bag, Tez did the honors of producing and mixing it for us, and he did so exactly as we wanted it.
  This is an example of a song Josh started with a groove and set loose on the rest of the band. It is also a good example of what happens when we're all moving towards the same vision. We hope you enjoy hearing this song as much as we enjoyed creating it.

SUGAR BRITCHES - The Eclectic Collective

Sur une musique de Christian Devienne, merci à lui. 

Ça fait déjà quelques années
Qu’ils préparaient son arrivée
Disant le tout et son contraire
Avec des mots très ordinaires
Prêts à tous les excès pour plaire

Charmant des esprits engourdis
par le malheur et par l’envie
De mensonges en raccourcis
La bête a fabriqué son nid

S’imaginant fille d’un dieu
Pas vraiment miséricordieux
Elle n’a plus à se confesser
Puisque le mal n’est plus péché
C’est tellement pratique pour rester

Lorsque sur des tombes encore fraîches
De morts qui sont encore pleurés
La bête prévoit d’édifier
Des Disneyland et des palais

N’importe où, qui que vous soyez
Même silencieux et caché
Louvoyant la tête baissée
Lorsque votre numéro est tiré
Ses sicaires sauront vous trouver
Pour vous pendre ou vous enrôler

Quand la raison meurt sous le fer
Le pire qu’on croyait révolu
Laboure des terres inconnues
Plus brûlantes et noires que l’enfer

Mais si la bête toujours renaît
Le meilleur aussi apparaît
Si d’autres monstres ont paradé
Ils ont tous fini par tomber




la bête

Old original song here. I haven't played this in a long time, and it's true what they say, even my grandmother has always said..,fingers don't forget, so it quickly came back.  I hope you enjoy this live take I did tonight, on the old baldwin, using a rode nt1 mic and tascam portacapture x8. Thanks for listening!:)

Next to You

Tell me when and where and I'll be right there
If you're lonely or if you're scared
I will run through this cold night air
To share what we always have shared
Nothing in this world can compare
You burned through my despair

Ooo

It's all I ever wanna do
It's all I ever wanna do 
Be right next to you absorbing only you
It's all I ever wanna do 
It's all I ever wanna do 
Be right next to you rescuing only you

And I don't really care what's out there
Mistakes are never truly repaired
I'm here to stay I just could not bare
Not staring how we always have stared
Nothing in this world can compare
You burned through my despair 

Ooo

It's all I ever wanna do
It's all I ever wanna do 
Be right next to you absorbing only you
It's all I ever wanna do 
It's all I ever wanna do 
Be right next to you rescuing only you

From dawn to dusk 
And all through the night
From dawn to dusk 
And all through the night 

I'll be there 
I'll be there 

It's all I ever wanna do
It's all I ever wanna do 
Be right next to you 
Be right next to you 

©Daniel Colter Valentine

Next to You (Original song live)

Heliosphere (2025)

Stayed is an album about the kinds of love that don’t shout, but linger. Built on quiet moments, half-closed doors, and the echoes of words never said, each track traces the soft ache of connection—how it forms, how it frays, and how it somehow endures. These aren’t grand declarations. They’re confessions left on voice memos. Glances held too long. Goodbyes that felt like maybe.

With textures ranging from ambient folk to cinematic indie, Stayed drifts through longing, memory, and stillness. Some songs ask to be heard in headphones at midnight. Others belong to empty roads or rooms that still hold someone’s scent.

This is not an album about falling in love.
It’s an album about the people who never left you—
even when they did.

The Way You Stayed

I Found Love.

MORE SONGS COMING SOON!! 

Including my newest song called Ankylosaurus ;) 


Hey! I'm colter. Thanks for stopping by!:) All recordings done on my old Baldwin piano that my amazingly talented grandma gave me. I'd like to think it holds some magic. All original songs, recorded live. I took a few years of classical lessons when I was very young. Fond memories bicycling down E. Brown street to my lessons. Dearest Faye...sweetest teacher ever. 

Throughout the years I'd always tinker on my Mom's old 1900 Ludwig piano through passing, playing songs I had learned, like Fur Elise and The Spinning Song, but it wasn't till I was in college when I fell in love with those keys. There was an old upright in the student center that I'd sneak off to late at night, and ever since then the playing has never stopped, and it never will. I never knew I could even make up melodies, let alone write a song. What a therapy it has been over the years, expressing myself through experiences, and feelings of the hopeless romantic in me. God is good! I'm so thankful. I hope to connect with many and make new friends. Hope you enjoy the songs!:) 

No Ai whatsoever, just my voice and piano, playing and singing simutaneously. 

All music written & recorded by ©Daniel Colter Valentine

"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable!" 

Beethoven

Next to You (Original song live)

Colter Valentine 🎤🎹

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