Somewhat of an undemocratic approach to saving democracy, don't you think?
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For this one, I rounded up my fantasy band, the Famous Texas Men Of Note, to perform at the imaginary Seven Sisters Dance Hall, some 40 miles west of Austin, in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.  The crowd wasn’t huge that night, but it was plenty raucous.  Needless to say, we brought the house down.  We always do.

LYRICS
Finally bagged the prize,
Event commemorated with a photograph,
A delightful list of crimes,
Got ‘em prancin’ with the lawyers down the primrose path,
The scribes down in the court,
Breathlessly report,
With a glee they can’t contain,

Oh they’re giddy….

Giddy like the rats that swarm the sewage slag,
Giddy like the vultures, feasting on the rotted culture,
That has spawned them from its womb,
And they tell us all how grateful we should be,
Cause they’re doing it to save democracy.
 
Yeah all fortitude & grit,
Our protectors wouldn’t quit,
On this noble quest,
There would be no rest,
Staged sudden raids, drew dossiers,
Tried Russian links, threw kitchen sinks,
To cage the dreaded pest,
Damn the proper form,
They’ve snared Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,

And now they’re giddy…..

Giddy like the buzzards circling o’er their prey,
Giddy like the varmints, chewing on the hated target,
While the judges hold him still,
Giddy like the frantic hawks, flailing with their shrilly squawks,
The fear they just can’t kill,
Damn the coming storm,
Now they’ve booked Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,
Hey, the law may be applied unequally,
But it’s the only way to save democracy.

I beg you Lovely Lady, turn your head away,
Away from the shame, away from the pain,
America, America, how did we let it get this far?
We are your sons, what have we done?
What have we done……….

Ah but giddy doesn’t last, when the vengeance & the wrath,
Shred the piers that bear the load,
No it won’t be so hysterical, when even Heaven’s miracle,
Can’t keep our father’s code, 

Oh but decision day is nigh, & the beast is still alive,
And far too many still believe…..

So arrest the Monster!...show it on TV,
Silence him & anyone who won’t concede,
There’s no time for constitutionality,
When the mission is to save democracy.

Giddy (now with lyrics)

Light 
an expérimental vocal track idea I created with acoustic guitar raw strumming and plucking 
Moe Howard and Neil Tam are two brilliant musicians, producer and engineers that made my idea come to life.

Moe Howard - Piano Production
Neil Tam - Electronic Background Effects Mix and Master
Ana Ros- Vocals Guitar Electronic Viola, Cello and French Horn

LIGHT - ft. Moe Howard + Neil Tam

Find the English description here: https://soundcloud.com/fectoper/sets/sierva-del-tiempo
"Sierva del tiempo" es un viaje lento y envolvente entre lo oscuro y lo sublime, donde la opresión se encuentra con la redención, donde se funden lo ambiental, lo gótico y lo industrial, metales percutidos, voces, ruidos y electrónica. La canción avanza lentamente, como un engranaje cósmico que gira bajo el peso de su propia existencia, arrastrándote a un universo de seres agónicos condenados a liturgias implacables. Como en un rito iniciático, las secciones por las que transcurre su avance inexorable amagan promesas de transformación. Los caminos espinosos, trazados entre la fragilidad del tiempo y la dureza de la materia, evocan la nostalgia de un espíritu eterno que se viste de mortalidad para experimentar el dolor y la belleza de existir. Y al final, en mitad de las tinieblas y del ruido, una luz angelical se abre paso, transformando la opresión en liberación, y dejando entrever un modo de existir más allá del tiempo y del destino.

Escucha la música de lht aquí: https://soundcloud.com/lhtrah

fectoper: composición, producción y mezcla
lht (https://soundcloud.com/lhtrah): voces originales y procesadas, imagen

Sierva del Tiempo

New Life

Sir Walter Taffy photo by Cole Coldheart 

Coldheart: guitar , vocals
Casio keyboard: everything else 
Key of D

120 bpm
The drum beat is bolero.  It comes from a song called Bolero, written by Maurice Ravel.  Happy 97th Bolero!

The chorus is from a song from my childhood 
We sang “Lo Bridge “ in music class
You know: I’ve gotta mule
                   Her name is Sal
                   Fifteen miles
                   On the Erie Canal…

Lo Bridge , Everybody Down - written by Thomas S. Allen in 1912.

The verses about time are mine
Thanks fer listening!

Erie Canal 

Cast adrift 
On this river of time
Who’s that in front
Who was left behind 

Life lifts you up
Spins you blind
Then casts you adrift 
On this river of time

One place
One time 
When yer life
Drifted into mine

Once here
Now gone
Only a splash of memory 
Lingers on and on

Lo bridge
Everybody down
Lo bridge 
Cause we’re coming 
To a town 

And you’ll always know yer neighbor 
You’ll always know yer pal
If you’ve ever navigated
on the Erie Canal

Erie Canal Redux

Single swing of the hammer drive the nail
Single wag of the tongue drive the jackknife

Drag me out by my feet, hands bound
Drag the poor man down, drop in quicksand

Struggle all your life
Do what's right
Struggle all your life
To be fair
Then in the end you end up a pile of bones

Call for help but no sound, I still scream
Fires rise around pile of bones

Struggle all your life
Do what's right
Struggle all your life
To be fair
Then in the end you end up a pile of bones

Violence begets violent life
Frantic in the quiet

Violence begets violent life
Frantic in the quiet

Struggle all your life
Do what's right
Struggle all your life
To be fair
Then in the end you end up a pile of bones

Dropped In Quicksand

Hello again Listeners,

I do realize that i have been posting a lot lately as i catch up on all the weekly jamming that my Saturna Island friend illio and i continue to enJoy... but what can i say? Only that we Love sharing our musical conversations with all of you.

This one has a lovely lilting Classical feel to it. I would even go so far as to say that "it's a thing of beauty"! 

We hope you'll continue to enJOY.

Spirals

lyrics

I ain't a child no more
I make my own way
I will walk through that door
I see my own fate

emotional no more
emotional no more
emotional, emotional

I can make up my own mind
You don't have the say
I can make the glee inside
I set my own place

emotional no more
emotional no more
emotional no more
emotional no more
emotional, emotional

no more

emotional no more

Strange N Moving     (Stray Penny/Conover)

And I Love Her / The Beatles
https://youtu.be/Nm4YlZ3oYsQ

This work was supported by many people in the winter of 2019. The listeners were mainly in various area of the United States. I am very grateful for that. I decided * WINTER 2019/2020 * for this work. I wish you a good Christmas and a good year.

This classic Beatles song is designed to raise the key by a semitone at the stage of the guitar interlude. Some people do not realize that it has been changed the key because it is so natural. I think it's a really attractive and mysterious melody. I developed it and experimented with this recording to see what would happen if I continued to raise the performance of the song by a semitone for each theme. For those who are practicing the guitar, I think it can be used as a basic lesson to aim at playing in any key, whether it is chord stroke practice or melody line practice. 
However,  I know that some people who are practicing guitar can only play the same melody line with different pitches, because the chords are different. If the songs are different, other instruments will perform quite differently. Therefore, even if your performance while practicing guitar is always doing almost the same thing, it is often the case that the listener hears it playing a different performance. What is unfortunate is the fact that you can't grow at all during that time. The problem is that you stay there for years. If you later realize that you were wasting a terrible time, you can't get it back.It's a serious wall for beginners to overcome. Even if you are a skilled top professional guitar player, if you don't pay attention to your condition, it is said that you will be playing only the usual phrases. It is the same that we should always be aware of.If you can't get out of the symptom that the melody you play is almost the same, even if you use different titles for each recording, you first need to realize that you are always playing almost the same phrase.
Such people terribly often don't know or ignore the difference between the Western scale and the Blue note scale. For example, if you add an E-flat sound to the C major scale or A minor scale, and you think it is a blue note scale, it won't cause a catastrophic failure if you are a keyboard player. However, if you are a guitar player, it will be fatal.They are even suspicious of whether they have found a usable scale from the chord progression and are starting to play.Often they do not seem to be fulfilling the important mission of matching rhythm and melody.What's more, it's impossible for a sensitive listener to allow someone to pretend to be a blues player while making a sound unrelated to the blue note scale.To make matters worse, such people do not even master the Western scale enough,many good listeners will gradually move away from the artists who release or spread the works that cannot be called works. We will need to be very careful about that.You may struggle and find someone to pass on responsibility. But that attempt will fail. We all pay laziness and self-satisfaction by ourselves.
Alternatively, some beginners can imitate the performance of a great guitar player, but cannot freely improvise. In general, it is until the early teens that a boy or a girl who is crazy about guitar playing is expected to see the future from the audience by imitating the performance of a genius guitar player.As is well known, copying and covering are completely different acts.That is also a serious wall. In order to overcome this, there is no choice but to accumulate a lot of issues from basics to applications over a long period of time. I would like the recordings shown here to be used as the first step before getting into there in earnest.
December 2019

The chord progression from the 11bars.
F#m7|E6  |F#m7|E6  |
F#m7|E6  |A       |B7     |E6     |E     |

And I Love Her ～slide To End（Instrumental cover,The Beatles）--- * WINTER 2019/2020 *

Released on Spotify🎧   It’s minor changed version…
https://open.spotify.com/album/3l7z53yKI44vFrj7XqfWPD

YouTube  “Acoustic version..Stand Alone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ITg1qLHi0

Lyrics

Rising to my eyes and always facing is myself
I let you down
Closing down your fate out to the end
Nothing all your words
Stand alone

Oh ,wake me up
Oh .wake me up
Upside down to love
Wake me up,just wake me up

Stand alone
Leave me stolen
Need nobody’s help
Stand alone

Leave me stolen
Need to go outside
Stand alone
Have to be gone

🌕My friend Fvll Moon’s REMIX version is here , please check it!
https://soundcloud.com/fullmoonofficial/stand-alone-chihiro-matsumoto-kyouko-chill-remix

Stand Alone

If there was only two traits that came through in my music, I would hope that it would seem to be effortless and inevitable.
The Kind Place Studio

Strange N Moving (Stray Penny/Conover)

conover