The music was composed to accompany a video made from collages of photographs, creating striking alien landscapes.
Download from: https://craigwinstanley.bandcamp.com/track/sunrises
Video: https://youtu.be/W5xSth6-j50
Live version: https://youtu.be/tf89UmzgRF0

Sunrises

Music to accompany a video made from more than 100 photographs taken from the same position over the period of a year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIjNoyC0gQ

Walk Through a Pandemic #1

Music composed to accompany a video showing >100 photographs of the same view taken over the course of a year:
https://youtu.be/CL6ahmqruE8

Walk Through a Pandemic #2

Music composed to accompany a video showing >100 photographs of the same view taken over the course of a year.  Third in the series.
For video, see https://youtu.be/tEuRxZBihBU

Walk Through a Pandemic #3

Growing tired of the liars and the cheats, the deceits of the elites….
Self-unaware at the Vanity Fair -the highest possible priority to saying words
Sow what you reap, bullshit is cheap, selling out to the dragging feet, of the elite
Slipping away, save it for a rainy doomsday, making hay, on the way
Sinking deep in the shadow of the valley of time, bluff on the causes of crime

Video: https://youtu.be/185DOo7AGxE

Conscience

From the show "From Where? To Here". Recorded live at the Empty Space, Salford (Sept. 2021).  
Video: https://youtu.be/-Q-yzkIZ4mE 

Using an artificial intelligence system developed by Dr Anna Djambo (University of Leicester), recordings of neural network representations of our musical DNA are used to play a variety of sounds, accompanied by improvisations. Each performance will be unique.  Incorporates Whistling Warriors: Bravely fighting phantom wars, they haunt the modern mediascape.

Hark, the roar of the silenced boys
Filling the air with deafening noise
Hark, the cancelled women complain
Again and again and again and again

Random bores and media whores
Bravely fighting phantom wars
Bravely battling for billionaires
Brave generals in brave armchairs
Bravely signalling virtue-free
Peddling fantasy history
Bravely following the people’s clown
Saluting the flag hung upside down

Whistling warriors call their pack
Lighting gas for the snark attack
Money makes the merry-go-round
Sell fake England by the pound

C: myself
M: Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
(see craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information)
For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

Who are we Here? And who are we There?...(performed live by C÷M)

From the show "From Where? To Here". Recorded live at the Empty Space, Salford (Sept. 2021).

C÷M are myself and Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
(see craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information)
For a review of the show, see thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/…re-to-here/

Thunderstorm (performed live by C÷M)

C÷M performing Journey's End live at St. Augustine’s Arts & Events Centre, Brighton 6th May 2022) as part of the show "From Where? To Here" 
(see https://craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information). For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

The voice hasn't recorded brilliantly, but you can hear the saxophonic and flautistic journey of Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics), who is M to my C...

When time weighs heavy in a distant place
When bygone memories swarm diminished space
When the past’s trodden path dwarfs the future’s trail
When what once shone bright, flickers drawn and pale
When the sweetest taste yields a bitter hue
When all’s grown tired that sparkled new
When you reach in vain for neglected friends
Thoughts turn to journey’s end

Journey's End (by C÷M , recorded live in Brighton)

Eyes on the prize and the latest lies …. he said
Lead us on to the bridge of highs…. he said
Milk and honey, follow the money … …he said
Giving up the ghost of the Sunday roast… … he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

Offering the lamb for the latest scam…he said
And it came to pass, following the ass…he said
Disciples scream as he’s selling the dream…he said
Playing the clown as the people drown…he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

On your side with the mockery of pride… he said
Believe in me and the land of the free… he said
Onward Faustian soldiers march… he said
In the theatre absurd, he doesn’t mean a word he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

C (me): guitars, voice, stuff
M (@allopenelectrics): selling the sax...
Video: https://youtu.be/2DxgmWbfpHM

Selling The Dream (by C÷M )

Taking five, waiting for the time to arrive, searching for the will to survive, on the drive of your lives
Taking four, chilling for another cold war, dreaming of the broken dance floor, falling through another trap door, hoping for more
Taking three, dominoes are falling over me, imprisoned in the land of the free, submerged in a fake reality
Taking two, power trippers calling after you, looking for another breakthrough, rejoicing at the callous menu, it’s true
Taking one, mad dogs running for the sun, fat cats have only just begun, creaming cream, having fun

Counting Down

Music to accompany a series of images taken of the same view over a period of about a year. Includes many sunrises. The video is available from:
https://youtu.be/pf5dPaugpEY

A walk through time (position 6)

Built around a recording of an alarm forming the audio background to a hospital visit. Musings on dementia.

Turbulent word streams, erratic coherence
Urgent meanings frustratingly mislaid
Inner sense to outer muddle [innocence]
Interface to inner struggle [in your face]
Fragmented paranoia, translucent target, floating beyond the grasp of balanced conscience
Unviolated nuance beyond interpretation
Disjointed intelligence, resentful agitation

Agitation

Schizoid dance of the criminal clown,
Seldom up, but never down

misleading you in good faith...

Schizoid Dance of the Criminal Clown

Originally inspired by visions of Fjords...
Saxophone by @allopenelectrics
Video: https://youtu.be/rnGQiQ-Fzis

Pining (a C÷M track)

the lyrics are regurgitated phrases from the Old Testament (King James Bible)

Apocryphal

Stagnation: a state of not flowing or moving...

Stagnation

The true spirit of Christmas...buy my new book

New Book

Transience

saxophonic moments brought to you by https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics

Moments In Time (a C÷M  track)

Guitar Interlude (incorporating children's story)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakGLRTbV9o

Connectivity (v1)

WinterSong

What are words worth?

Time and tide and Slime and slide and Crime and cried and
Dream and died and Scream inside and Gleam and glide and
Mime and mired and Prime and pride and Rhyme and ride and
Vine and vired and Wine and wired and Shrine and shade 
Fear and fade and Line and lied and Spine and spied and
Time and tide

Much admired and Acts inspired and
Lost inside and Totally wired and
Petrified 
Events conspired and
Odds defied
Paternal pride 
Reluctant bride 
Secrets confide and Warm inside
False override
Gentrified
Personified
Occupied and
Time and tide

Withering looks
Dithering minds

Won’t somebody think of the children?

Time & Tide

with added sax-olation provided by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBoFZMDydk4

Shivers down the spine 
The spine of the book
The book of the film
The film of the day
Day or night-time
Time to shine
Shine the light
Light the scene

Scene-set the place 
Place the order
Order the treat
Treat the cause
Cause the ruin
Ruin the play
Play the song
Sing the fear
Fear and isolation
Isolate the source
Source the space
Fear and isolation
Fear and isolation

Isolation

featuring reflective sax by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeJ6iSJlmI
For more photographs visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1ADA7lNy8

The path of least resistance
The certainty of doubt
Reflections in a mirrored cage
The withs who are without
The burden of conformity
The illusion of choice
The silence of defiance to the inner voice

Waking up, coming home
Waking up, coming home

The safety in compliance
Shielding from the light
The appliance of the science
The truth that’s never right
So many years to drift the drift
The winding lane of fate
Released for good behaviour
It’s nevermore too late

Waking up, coming home
Waking up, coming home
(Following the path of least resistance)

The actor leaves the stage

Reflections

a C÷M song (collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

Space – you never told me ‘bout the pastures in your head
Face – you never told me ‘bout the actor's life you led

Walking through the silent timeline

Time – you never told me ‘bout the time it takes to learn
Crime – you never told me ‘bout the wasted time you burn
Hate – you never told me ‘bout the need to let it go
Wait –you never told me ‘bout the rustic lies you know 

Walking through the silent timeline

In your imagination, the fields and the sky, the wind  in your hair, in your mind’s eye
With nature your soul-mate, your bountiful friend, your loyal companion, love without end
A life without worries, anxiety free, a life without danger, a life without me
But that’s just a dream, a construction, in vain
The cruel rustic silence would crush you again

Rustic Silence (by C÷M )

Ranty sax and the odd piano tinkle courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics).

The lyrics goeth thusly:

Dogmatist insistence, compromise persistence
Poisonous necessities, extinction resistance
Merry Gerry-pandering, oblique meandering
Moments of clarity, hipsterous dexterity
Contraphobic sanity, Ponderous calamity
Peripheral profanity, Stat-packed insanity
Throwaway connectiveness, ultra-bright defectiveness
Nominated reprobate, virtuous advocate

Deceptive conformity, emotional deformity
Factual ambiguity, intellectual nudity 
Off the shelf pomposity, counterfeited prudity
Border-line depravity, empathetic cavity
Hand-wrung gesturing, half-baked posturing
Blame game moronity, stupefied stubbornity
Blinkered conformity, dubious patternity

They’re laughing at you 

Wall to wall stupidity, stupefied community
Working, working tirelessly, optimist futility 
Easy sell simplicity, smugnorant complicity
Manipulated ignorance, proudly flaunted bigot-trance 
Cheer the nicely spoken thief, Kick the gift horse in the teeth, 

They’re laughing at you, because you want it to be true

GadDad Rant

Shifting sax and floaty flute played by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
For a solo, live, acoustic version see: https://youtu.be/IPTSFz0ap1c

It’s a time of the sighs and the lies on the radio
Dumbing down
It’s a sign of the times and the crimes of the bully boys
Lost in all that noise, with their dangerous toys
Shifting sands, shifting sands, camouflage guilty hands
Do the straw man, law man, flag man, bogey man
Fooling fools
Salesmen, pale men, stale mediocrities
Riding the wave of faith, nothing’s safe

Strive all your life, take the long road to understand
Knowledge base
You can search and research, learn the lessons from the history
They believe the mouth instead
The mouth in the empty head

Shifting Sands (a C÷M track)

To mark 5 years on SoundCloud, this is a repost of the track that has had the most likes (with some minor changes)
For video, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNS5SmiOCQ
Download from https://craigwinstanley.bandcamp.com/track/a-thin-slice-of-reality

A Thin Slice of Reality (2020)

Round and round the endless road, repetition overload, 
The circus of life
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Blinkered and bound
More lost than found
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
Perpetual game, conceptual shame
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Collective mass amnesia, wilful anaesthesia
Fire and furious reaction
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
The actors and the faces change, storylines remain the same
Blame it on the scapegoat faction
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Blinkered and bound
More lost than found
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
Perpetual game, conceptual shame
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

None So Blind

A philosophical treatise on the perception of being (possibly)

Momentous sax by Jon Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

All moments pass, not yours to choose
Which to keep and which to lose
Which to save for a rainy day
Which to bury far away

For more photographs see 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYwDHQgydM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1ADA7lNy8

Moments (a C÷M track)

A C÷M track. Blue saxophone courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daSERd3MmoA&t=113s

The silence of the scams, The bursting of the dams
The glitching of the time, The stitching of the crime
The rising of the few, The taming of the blue

The speaking of the ill, The creaking of the will
In sickness and in wealth, The quasi-rational health
The rising of the few, The taming of the blue 

The dotting of the I, The lowest of the high
The ticking of the box, The changing of the mocks
The rising of the few, The taming of the blue 

The linking of the weak, The evil pseudo-speak
The storming of the calm, The fire in the alarm
The rising of the few, The taming of the blue

The Blue

There was a time when this track had a lot of words. I removed some, then deleted more, then rejected almost all of the rest, leaving the meaning incomprehensible, just like real life.

Subfuscian sax contributed by Jonathan Ogara (@allopenelectrics)

Subfuscian dialogue eviscerated

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3elFiLg1DY
Download available: https://craigwinstanley.bandcamp.com/track/water-tower
Water Tower is a work that combines ambient music and a collage of overlapping images.  
Further information about the water tower can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hill_Water_Tower

Water Tower

A combination of bemused rantings into the disinterested void & ambient doodling. Visit https://craigwinstanley.online I would like to create dark impenetrable experimental music, but I'm too fond of melody...
Bandcamp: https://cdividebym1.bandcamp.com/

Also see collaboration with Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
https://soundcloud.com/cdividebym

Other collaborations with the wonderful Augenmerk (https://soundcloud.com/augenmerk; https://soundcloud.com/augenmerk/from-the-inside-of-being_craif-winstanley-augenmerk) and Lemonade: https://soundcloud.com/lemonadelove/red-queen-by-craig-winstanley-ft-lemonade-1

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakGLRTbV9o

MintFam community: https://soundcloud.com/mintfam.
Exclusive track (Smoothing the Wrinkled Front): https://soundcloud.com/mintfam/craig-winstanley-craig-smoothing-the-wrinkled-front

All tracks created using guitars, keyboard (midi) and Presonus Studio One Artist software.  Oh, and sometimes a microphone.

On here since October 2015.  

I've never really understood musical "genres".

Craig Winstanley

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