Singer/Songwriter hits

Some of the music I have come across, created or been invited to play on, that I feel closest to.  Many new musicians here for me.  Hope you enjoy exploring some of these creative players and a little bit of their music.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Best of 2017 - Favorites I have come across.  Great stuff

Under Control: Conover/BITs sounds - Conover

AUTUMN DELIGHTS

All songs were recorded through an analog sound chain including mastering.
# tape hiss

8 TRACK TAPE(Pure analog recording)

UNDER CONTROL  (Abbey Road Mastered)

Saxworx / Collabs with Bruce Conover

Southern Funk  (BITs & friends)

CONOVER - Singer songwriter -  Manhattan Beach , California - United States

Fools Forever  
Bruce Conover composed and performed except
Intro Guitar and 1st half of guitar Solo by  https://soundcloud.com/its-tophonicus
https://soundcloud.com/michaelredman-1 on 2nd half of guitar solo.
© 2016 Conover



You could take care of me
I could be your fool forever and ever
That would be wrong wrong wrong

You could find a lover in me
I could see the same in you
Oh we could get lost
That would be wrong wrong wrong

You could take care of me
All of my life
I could be your stupid Hero
That would be wrong wrong wrong 
That would be wrong.

Fools Forever

They Got Me Crawling in a snow drift
They got me shaken in my boots.
They say it’s all this global warming
I think they’re play'n in cahoots

It’s gonna be a long long winter 
mark my word
It’s gonna be a long long winter
I’ll give it to you on that!
It’s gonna be a long long winter 
mark my word
funny mouth sound made with index finger

They Got Me Crawling in a snow drift
They got me shaken in my boots.
They say it’s all this global warming
I think they’re play'n in cahoots

It’s gonna be a long long winter 
mark my word
It’s gonna be a long long winter
mark my word.
repeat and go inside by the fire..


Music composed and performed by Ivan
Milhet.
https://soundcloud.com/ivan-milhet/newmp3
Lyric and all vocals Bruce Conover

Mark My Word!!!!    Conover / Ivan Milhet

Story Left Untold
music from the "Friends" track composed by laser beam
Lyrics and vocal sketch by Conover

There's a stretch of land between your eyes and mine
Now that's a property I'd surely like to find
Won't you navigate the course between these lines
 And the space that fills the atmosphere that hanging right in front of me  
 With a verse that’s choking on it's very first line
And a song that's never ever heard in time  
And a story left untold
It just never unfolds for you
It just never unfolds for you
It Just never unfolds for me 

Tell your story Man

Story Left Untold        conover/laserbeam

Vocals and lyrics inspired by this track composed and performed by Ambrose Akinmusire
Vocals and lyrics by conover



Ayneh (Cora) Conover/Akinmusire

a 6 hands keyboard funk jam..
with; Jamie Rhind @jamie-rhind
An idea that came out with lot of energy, happy dance feelings and friendship. To share this huge fun with all of you, dear SC friends.
Thank you Jamie.!! 
8-)


BITe Funk (Jamie Rhind & BITs)

Heartbeat - by LYON 
As heard on NBC's "Heartbeat" Match Game Episode 8

Mp3 available for sale now:
www.iamlyon.com/lyon-store/heart
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/heartbeat-single/id1116229381

Lyrics:
Written by Lauren "LYON" Malyon and Nygel Asselin

Heart Beat, Wake up, We fight, Break
Heart Beat, Make up, We try, Break

I’ve been running around circles, chasing daydreams late at night
You’ve been holding out for nothing, 
skipping heart beats every time

I’m ad­dict­ed , to your roller coaster highs
Am I over thinkin, or have my stars been realigned

Heart Beat, Change Up, We hide, break
Heart Beat, Wait up, We lie, break

You’ve been running around circles, 
chasing daydreams late at night
I’ve been holding out for nothing, 
skipping heartbeats every time

I’m ad­dict­ed , to your roller coaster highs
Am I over thinkin, or have my stars been realigned

Ahhhh, Ahhh
I'm addicted to your heartbeat, heartbeat

I’m Addicted to your roller coaster highs
Am I over thinkin, or have my stars been realigned
I'm addicted to your heartbeat, heartbeat
I'm addicted to your roll, rollercoaster

Credits:

Written by: 
Lauren Malyon (www.iamlyon.com) 
and Nygel Asselin (www.nygproductions.com/)

Produced by: Nygel Asselin

Additional Production by: Will Kennedy (www.willkennedyproducer.com)

Recorded by: Nygel Asselin, and Will Kennedy
Additional engineering by: Yonatan "xSDTRK" Ayal
Mixed by: Will Kennedy
Vocals, violin, piano:  Lyon
Additional keys and programming by: Nygel Asselin
Mastered by: Jett Galindo (www.jettgalindo.com)

Thank you to Jana Cleland and Red Brick Songs (www.redbricksongs.com), NBC and the Heartbeat team for making this happen!

Heartbeat

Heartbeat - from NBC's Heartbeat ep Match Game

Moran Magal performing another one of her magical live  piano & Vocals  arrangement - this time for Dream Theater ! !
Taken from Moran's new Album - Shades of Metal - Private Collectiton
Let us know what do you think - get the album - here - www.moranmagal.com 


Moran Magal - In The Name Of God - Dream Theater Cover [ Piano & Vocals ]

Little by little I have lost my heat
I’m just a lump of coal laid on the sleet
I feel my ember in the drown now
I’ll soon be wrapped in cold and ready to bow 
Don’t give me love unless you really care
My life depends on you to give me air
I need your oxygen to stick around
To lift my glow by the end of this countdown 
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
I am reborn now that you’re here with me
I feel so strong that I could light the sea
I’ll keep a spark that you can admire
Just burn with me and we’ll always have fire 
Little by little I have memory
A bygone time’s connecting energy
I see the treasures of a distant light
A flickered candle that still flames so bright
Don’t take away this newfound ambiance 
You know our time is fixed by transience 
I fear I’ll fade into darkness again
Without your countdown to restore me now and then
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
You’re at my centre, you’re the blaze o’ blue
The greatest part of me is drawn from you
Together our warm glow will inspire
Just melt with me and we’ll burn out on fire
Ah, and I need you
Ah, to stay true
Ah, to burn blue
Ah, to air through
The passing years that I’ll need oxygen
You’ll light me up all over again and again

Songs Of A Science

A Love In Embers

Our world is being buried, population being carried
By the twenty-first century, erasing all our memory
Destroying all our leave-behinds, ignoring all our warning signs
Cutting off our family thread, forgetting us when we are dead
To last we must be on guard, and non-assuming 
The answer’s not very hard, just time consuming
True, every generation feels, our fate has finally been sealed 
Still one of them will live this truth, and bid farewell to future youth
So I guess I’ll see you at the chime, our birthing at another time
Or at least throughout our final fight, before the end of the night
4…3…2…1…

The Nights Eleventh Hour

Irie my friends , 
here some minimal roots meditation for you .
Have a nice chill with it ;)
one love and respect !

Roots Meditation

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WaWa

Irie everyone ,
Irie : A Jamaican expression used to describe a feeling of 
happiness , harmony and contentment ! ... :)
This one livicated to my SC friends , fans and supporters : Thank you a lot !
I wrote and recorded this song already  in 1997 so I did it again ..
It is not my best vocal but I really love the groove and wish you an Irie weekend - one love and respect !

Irie !!

madrugada

Here's my original track I made after a long long time...
dedicated to the loners who had envisioned a design for his/her ideal city during late modern times, which has never been realized because of its radical idealism and criticism against the reality of materialistic world.

It's an instrumental blues rock, but actually, I wrote the draft at first as a song with lyrics a couple of years ago, but I couldn't finish the lines, and let it alone... then almost have forgotten... but I found it on my HD a few months ago, then have revised it as a completely instrumental version...
I hope you enjoy. Any feedback will be appreciated...Thank you in advance.

[Ain't the one - Music info]
- Music Composition, Instrumentation (Guitars, Bass Guitar and Drums) and Production: Hiroshi Kohno
 - All were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic-rec)

This time, I didn't use any distortion effector...instead, done with minimal overdrive of amps to avoid the undesired turbidity of sounds while picking the several strings at once, since I found that my strat had the problem with intonation tuning on the high position, which I couldn't adjust myself...

- Guitar: Fender USA Stratocaster '58 extra re-issued(tuned to one semitone dropped down)
 w/ Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Amp.
>> Lead(on the right) & Some other small fills (various position): 
 Front-PU, w/Boss CS-2, Vintage CE-1 & Maxon AD-9. 
 Additionally, Boss BF-2 for Choir-like fills.
 >> Rhythms (on the left): 
 Half-tone(front-middle PU), w/Maxon RTC600, MXR Phase90 & Maxon AD-9.
- Bass: Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass 
 w/ Fender Bassman Amps, plus Boss CS-2.
*All effectors were anterior use to amps. 
- Drums: Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec).
- Mixing and a few minor edit (revision) of drums : DAW.

© 2017 Hiroshi Kohno

Ain't the one

Ain't The One - aerogene070

A tribute to one of my biggest guitar influences & great American composer Pat Metheny - including Antonia, Minuano, Tell her you saw me, How Insensitive.

Tribute To Pat

Man don't need direction
Man know where to go
Women need da roadmap 
Wanna know where to go

Can't we please find a way to explore all the differences
Can't wait please find a way to move forward down the road

Will you need a compass
Will you find the north star
Flying by the seat of your pants

Read your maps and make a firm plan
Fill up with petrol and take plenty of snacks

Man don't need direction
Man know where to go
Women need da roadmap 
Wanna know where to go

guitar:


Man don't need direction
Man know where to go
Women need da roadmap 
Wanna know where to go

Can't we please find a way to explore all the differences
Can't wait please find a way to look forward down the road
 
Man don't need direction
Man know where to go
Women need da roadmap 
Wanna know where to go

MusicPerformed and composed by Tom Régnier https://soundcloud.com/tom-r-gnier
Vocals performed and written by conover
guitar solo and muted Bach trumpet by conover

Man don't need Direction: conover/régnier

it's almost winter
how cold will it get
and when will you come home
to celebrate the snow    
i’ve cleared off the front walk
put up the kindling
it’s time to come home…..

This year, it's time to come home

Music by Roman Gotchi   https://soundcloud.com/gotchi
vocals and story by conover

Winter Shine*       (Conover/Gotchi)

I have the pleasure once more of working with my good friend Vocalatti. This is our ninth song and as always exciting from start to completion!
Thankyou so much Annette for your wonderful evocative music, beautiful inspiring lyrics, and excellent production.
Vocalatti  Lyrics, Orchestration, Outro arrangement, Mixing and Production.
Lizzie  Music, Guitar, Vocals

Willow Winds   Vocalatti/Taypen

Music and world domination : agent "JJ"   https://soundcloud.com/bits-sounds
Vocals, production and those pesky details : conover
Guitars and 6 string flamethrower : Andrew Fitzsimmons at https://soundcloud.com/afitzsimmons
Bach trumpet and ballistics : https://soundcloud.com/styrmonix
Saxophone : and Aerial gymnastic : https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Strings,Orchestration and those wonderful secret agent toys : https://soundcloud.com/cermat
Linguistics and big picture : Ian Greaves @  https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio's Alex Wharton
https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-wharton

Keep it safe out there......

To keep this under control
You've got to hide your identity
To keep this under control
You've got to keep yourself looking real fine

Gun to my head  I'll keep my secrets
And there will be no more.

Under Control: Conover/BITs

Round II feat. Emily Coy  Paploviante & Lillithe
Backing track - Stone Cold - Paploviante
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante2/tracks
Vocal: Emily Coy
https://soundcloud.com/freevocals
Sax: Eric Marienthal
Arrangement Vocal, African Kalimba,  and Percussions : Lillithe

Round II   feat Emily Coy   (Prod. Lillithe & Paploviante Collab)

Modern City / Paploviante 2017 / open collab
Bass Paploviante
Logic Pro X - BPM 100
Explanation to my open collabs:
The track is downloadable as a mp3 file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!

Modern City - Open Collab

Guitar : https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Sax : https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Music composed and produced : conover

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the thing that causes the greatest fear
is the source of the greatest wisdom.
~C.G. Jung~

This flavorful recipe for Kung Pao Noodles can be made with chicken, shrimp, tofu or my very favorite….roasted cauliflower! A few years back, while visiting China, Brian and I took a couple wok cooking classes and got a feel for authentic Kung Pao which is the perfect balance between spicy, tangy, sweet and umami flavors. This is my own simplified version that I like to serve with noodles instead of traditional rice. Keep it vegetarian or add meat — it’s up to you.


 Kung Pao Cauliflower over noodles. Fast and delicious! | www.feastingathome.com

Kung Pao: Conover/ joerxworx & Welin

Guitars by: Andrew Fitzsimmons  https://soundcloud.com/afitzsimmons
Texas Swamp Guitars by Jon Lock at https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5
Bad to the bone Drums, Bass and guitars by  https://soundcloud.com/keitonie
Ultra Sax by : @joerxworx
Shredding the Hammond C3 organ and Piano by https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Vocals and Mix by conover
Loose salute cover of the Electric Flag song Texas.


This documentary blog link below joins hand-in-hand perfectly with the music that we attempted to cover above. BC

 Leonard Cohen took years  to craft a song. Rufus, can cover one in an afternoon. Hallelujah. God only needed 3 days for Texas. This tune plows the terra firma of such great bluesmen afore with a great Leon Russell dust bowl homage  sewn in..... David Conover

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/07-hallelujah

photo art info:
The Electric Flag onstage at the Fillmore Auditorium, August 29, 1967. From left, Barry Goldberg (hidden), Nick Gravenites, Michael Bloomfield, Buddy Miles (behind drums), Harvey Brooks, unknown and Peter Strazza. Photo courtesy of Richard Lewis
AT THE END OF February 1967, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band returned to Boston for the second time in just over a month. The band had been on the road constantly since returning from its first trip abroad, a 30-day whirlwind tour of 28 different venues in England and Scotland in November. Since their arrival back in the States, the Butterfield Band had played New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and numerous places in between. Now they were back in Boston.
They were scheduled to play three colleges in one day – a chilly Saturday, February 25. The shows were to begin at noon with an appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and the guys had to unload the van and set up the equipment first. Butterfield’s star guitarist, Michael Bloomfield, lost it.
In a state of agitation, the exhausted Bloomfield had been suffering from insomnia for weeks. His was a hyperactive personality under the best of circumstances, and now the band’s non-stop gigging had thrown his system into disarray. He could no longer stand the demands of performing night after night.
He decided he had to quit the band that day.

And Michael Bloomfield was suddenly without a gig.
Bloomfield retreated to his Christopher Street apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village to rest up and think things over.
It wasn’t long before he began to think he should have his own band.
 
Forgotten Flag

Few today recall that there was another rock/horn band – a band that started it all. Or, if they do recall, they don’t recall much about it.
The Electric Flag deserves a better fate.
The creation of Mike Bloomfield, America’s first electric guitar hero, the Electric Flag was a ground-breaker in a numerous ways. In addition to being pop music’s first rock band to include a horn section, it pioneered the use of electronic instruments, blended a variety of musical genres, experimented with sound sampling and was one of the early racially-mixed pop bands. It also had the dubious distinction of being rock’s first “supergroup.”
Because the Flag has been largely ignored by critics since its dissolution in 1968, its story has never really been told in detail. A rock ’n roll rags-to-riches-to-rags tale, the history of Michael Bloomfield’s experiment in American music makes for interesting reading. But it also foreshadows the growth of American pop music away from the narrow confines of its segregated genres and toward an open confluence of styles and cultures. For that reason alone, music lovers – especially American music lovers – should know about the Electric Flag.

On The 8th Day God Created Texas

Composed and Performed by Jussi Welin https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Orchestration by Roman Czerny    https://soundcloud.com/gotchi
Flute performed by Jörg Stohwasser  https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
vocals, production and mix by conover
mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
© 2017 Conover/Welin

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion\\

Spoken word penned by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
Voiced by conover
Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/dominiquefrench and conover
Photograph c) 2014 Nicolas McComber
https://mccomberphoto.wordpress.com

B r e a t h e D e e p.   (The Conover/ Welin Adventure)

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