No wine?!?!!! - NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really Cool Cosmic Keanu! I like the break down!

Damn, was not expecting this sound from you!  Great exotic chords and sounds used in this one, and I'm all here for it!  Love it Keanu!

Dude this sound's so original and classic 🤗 🔥

I Am

I Am Earth, Wind, Water, Fire

Thanks to Chloe for vocal harmonies

Who are these, their lips curled back
Their intense eyes are down where their intent lies
And the great trees are unmoved as they look up to the sky
Who are these with a vital mercy mission
Their incandescent sparks flashing  rages in the dark
The Sun cares nothing for them, nothing for them.

What single beat knows it's resonance?
What precious heart can stand to be apart?
-      It’s in the endless now
And a breath is just a breath and is all until it’s spent
-      Ever falling down
Delicate blooms reach up, captive by their roots
-      If there’s no way out
Their self fulfilling purpose an insubstantial circus 
-      Then let them slay me now
They are entwined, but they are blind

A View from the Great Trees

Saw you walking last week
Down a stale local street
And the colours, they all fade away,
As we step through this dance of dissolving

My friend is beginning to melt
All her edges beginning to fade
All the lines on her face become cages
Tied up with all the nooses she has laid

I called out, but she can’t hear through the changes
All the ways that she has chosen now to be
Pulled aside the warp and weft, a little bit bereft
Like a fleeting streetlight trembling out to sea

Saw you walking last week
Down a stale local street
And the colours, they all fade away,
As we step through this dance of dissolving 

A tangle of matchsticks combs her hair
Just a woman who is never really there,
In a melting dream of someone, watch the edges drift apart
All out to sea…


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Written sung made and played by Emma

All out to sea...

one upon a time we went to the House of Nanking restaurant and as we sat down a quarter-pounder cockroach strolled down the counter. nobody was bothered and we stayed and ate 'cuz the food was so damn good. still a favorite and inspiration for this exotic musical dish called House of Nanking Blues.

created in Logic audio, guitars by naldo using Rabea plug-in.
artwork by firefly

House of Nanking Blues

Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. Guitars by Massimo Primiero. All other sounds by Whittlesey. 2024.

A rocker in which I hit an E5 and F5 at the end. Hang in until the end to hear it.

Many thanks to Massimo for his atmospheric guitar work in the bridge and outro sections. The YouTube video will arrive soon. In the meantime please visit my YouTube channel and subscribe if the spirit moves you. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCI-QbxkOHwReMj69quyaOEQ

There are new videos of new songs released almost every week. 

Thanks, 

Roger

Caught in the Moment

Produced by Clay Young
Lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
Music created with Udio AI

Nevermore

Emilio, https://soundcloud.com/stranger-something and https://soundcloud.com/olla-de-insomnio , sent me this wonderful instrumental with the hint that „…at some point it had occurred to me that it would be called "When I see you“…“ 
I had a lot of fun writing and singing along to it. 
A Big Thank You for the great music, mixing and mastering and also artwork. It was an honour and a great pleasure...

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When I See You

1
When i see you
I could almost puke
When I see you
A strange shudder goes through and through 
When I See You
My head turns bloodred
While the world shifts in two halves
None of them would last
Without the other one…

2
When i see you
And that happens now and then again
It’s too uneasy to explain

My knees tremble
My mouth is all dry
My tongue is paralyzed
I break out in a sweat
I have to look at the ground
My breathing gallops
And then my heart, that pound
And am all agitated

I avoid all pictures of you
Try not to think about it too much
Close my inner eye, too…

3
When i see you
And that happens now and then again
Oh, it’s so uneasy to explain

My knees tremble
My mouth is all dry
My tongue is paralyzed
I break out in a sweat
I have to look on the ground
My breathing gallops 
And then my heart that pounds… ahh…

solo

4
You never talk to me
No reaction you show
Just stand somewhere off silently, 
Peripheral,
In the background
Wthout a sound

How can I see what is not there ?
How can I remind what never took place ?
How can I feel that i was close to you,
Even if that was unreal ?

And if I’d see you
As a monster,
As a hypocrate,
As a drama queen ?
And if i’d see you
As a mirror image,
As a saviour,
As a lover … ?

out
When I see you
Oh, when i see you
It’s so uneasy to explain
It’s too uneasy to explain…

When do I see you ?
When will i see you ?
When will i see you again ?
Ohh

When I See You (wt Stranger Something)

To Higher Ground

When I heard the truth,
I began to shake
My legs gave way,
all I could do
was tremble and wait
Now I stand,
unafraid and awake
Waiting for
the day of the Lord

If trees don’t bloom,
no fruit on the vine,
crops disappear,
and there is no wine
Flocks are cut off,
herds gone from their stalls
What shall we do
when we’ve lost it all?

I will thank the Lord, He saves,
giving me the strength to carry on
Making my feet swift as deer,
To higher ground He leads on

The Lord is in 
His holy place
Let all the earth 
seek His holy face
For all the earth
filled with glory be,
as the waters
cover the sea

I will thank the Lord, He saves,
giving me the strength to carry on
Making my feet swift as deer,
to higher ground He leads on

If anyone wishes to come after Him, 
deny the self, take up the cross and follow Him. 
For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it;
But whoever loses their life for His sake will find it. 

For what does it profit to gain the whole world and
lose your soul? Or what will you give in exchange
for your soul?

For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory
of His Father with His angels, and will then repay 
every one according to their deeds

To Higher Ground

This must be the quickest recording I have ever made. I spent an entire day listening to the original non-stop. That same night I started recording, and in less than two hours, I had a decent take. If you're familiar with the original, you'll notice that I’ve infused it with a completely different feeling. That's what renditions are all about, right?

I knew that this first take wasn't perfect and planned to revisit in the following days. Big mistake...or maybe not? Two days later I was totally unable to match the same tone and mood. You see, feelings change and so do voices. So, I'm now committed to this first, decent take. Be easy on me. 😊

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Oh blinded, now I see that I 
could not hold you 
My orange tree left in the darkened 
room for three of us to share
 
Oh, maybe you were free before my 
blackened wing covered you 
I took the sing from your song 
I made a bed...

where you don't belong

Oh, poor me
She fell beneath the wheels to help me up 
Black sea, I failed to be the light you found in love

Oh, poor me
She fell beneath the wheels to help me up 
Black sea, the monster killed the melody you loved

And now I'm going places on my own

Blinded, now I see the death moves amongst us 
And with such ease  arrived to surround us      
These silent beasts are hard to bear

Lonely, oh, no not me 
I have a grave to dig 
Fast moving feet 
You gave me light 
where it once was gone 
I made a bed...

where you don't belong

Poor me
She fell beneath the wheels to help me up 
Black sea, I failed to be the light you found in love

Oh, poor me
She fell beneath the wheels to help me up 
Black sea, the monster killed the melody you loved
And now I'm going places on my own
On my own

Esmeralda - Ben Howard Cover

E-Paralympic Games

Jack by Jeamland & joerxworx

Be excellent to each other!

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
--Ephesians 6:12

"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."
--Thessalonians 2:16

Enter through the narrow gate. 
For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
--Matthew 7:13-14

For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
-- Galatians 1:10

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
--Matthew 6:24

To Higher Ground

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