this reminds me of 'empire of the sun' sound.. dreamy, very beautiful 👍🏻

It's peaceful, you take your time when you listen to this piece. Very well done, airy, I like it.

Musings on the death of conscience

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

I Recently had the pleasure and the honor of working on a Furico Music Team-music works Album project. A Fantastic and wonderfully complex collection of 10 songs  simply called "Leaked Live FMT 1" and "Leaked Live FMT2". I am presenting this song With FMT and Windscale Blues Experiment's kind permission.  It is a first take out-take that i was quite Taken with, And quite a bit different than the final cut. Thanks for the listen and Please check this "Live" album out!😊🕉
Lyric..
I just had and idea about an idea about an idea that someone else had.
The Cats were meowing the Farmers were plowing
The Earth was spinning around and around.
There are a few moments that are truly sublime
but most of the time, that's just not the case.
one thing iI've learned in this life that's true.
One psychopath is better than two.

I thought it was dollar but it just turned out to be a dime
i thought that i had found true love but i got out just in time
I thought it was a favor but it turned out to be Crime,
I thought it was just a moment, but it took up all my time..
furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/leaked-l…fmt-2.html,@windscaleblues,

Bangriddim 594 (outtake From "Leaked LIVE FMT2"album)   Furico Music Team/Windscale Blues Experiment

Lay Flat

Live with all of the pain I've caused
Tattooed permanently on my mind
See what goodness is left behind
I could be a find
Could be yours

Ridicule me I'm a laughing stock
Punish me for all my obvious crimes
We always have the very best of times
Well in my eyes
We're like rock

I swear that I'd give my life for you
Left my heart open on a page
Wait for you till I'm an old age
This is our stage
I'm for you

This chant is for over thinkers
These words are confused and wet with tears
Constantly challenging my own fears
And it appears truth lingers

Chant For The Over Thinkers

I recall I wrote most of the melody of this song inside my head while travelling and on some pre-written lyrics.  However when I got down to the singing, I couldn't cope with some of the notes.  I'm so glad Terry came to the rescue and did a marvelous job here.    He also brought some very nice tweaks to the melody, lyrics & harmony arrangement.  Hope you like our collaboration.

[CREDITS]
Vocals / Organs – Terry Wigmore
Music / Lyrics / Programming – Michael C. Lynn
Sax Solo – Jack Stafford @Band-in-a-Box

[LYRICS]
Skies, inconsistent skies, bring uncertainty
Rain, incessant rain, keeps on pouring...(pouring down)
Hopes, elusive hopes,
Only keep us dreaming
Endless waiting is the saddest place to be

Oh I have tried so many times to do the best I can
Somehow it doesn't seem to matter at all
I ask myself what I'm gonna do when all's been done and fallen through
Now I'm standing with my back to the wall

(Chorus)
Life, everyday sort of life,
Living everyday through the rain and shine
World, this ruthless world,
Keeps on spinnin' in time
Empty days, and rocky ways,
Far too many for us to face
It's been one of ….......
It's been one of…........
It's been one of those days
It's been one of those days

Instrumental break

Repeat Chorus

It's been one of, it's been one of….
It's been one of those days

One Of Those Days (featuring Terry Wigmore)

The Manitoban - Part 1

Finally working the Volca Drum back into the mix after not having used it for a little while. I like the lofi effect it gives the drum beat. With this track I leaned a little heavier into the Vital VST I've been experimenting with, also used the old minilogue and microfreak. Thanks for listening!

Homeostatic Imbalance

Lost Manuscript

Love...as a feeling you get when you go over Niagara Falls in a barrel?

That image was developed by simply approaching a collaboration (with UK musician, Anthony Gee - Liquid on mp3u) with the "start where you are" wisdom. What is more iconic for people working with a Canadian than Niagara Falls? 

Anthony had been exploring electronica using a midi keyboard, but had never written a rock tune. Ever ready for opportunities to help others, I asked Anthony for a keyboard progression as a foundation, since he was taking piano lessons at the time, and from that foundation the rock track would be built with the addition of lyrics, guitar, and harmonica. Eventually the song needed an instrumental, and that was where the real learning for Anthony took place - he had never learned to improvise, only to read music. Thinking out of the box and feeling the music is a little intimidating for some. So, many file-exchanges later, he had let his hair down enough to try that rock organ phrase that appears here. 

Here's to learning, to experimenting, to learning to give control over to others and to celebrating life-long learning. Who ever said you can't teach old dogs new tricks?

Lyrics:

I thought love was so simple,
But it turns out it's really complex,
With a lot of inuendo
There's body language
There's the subtle conversation,
And it's driving me mad
I feel I'm in a barrel going over a falls
In a barrel, going nowhere at all

I thought love was the cure that I needed
But it seems I was wrong
And there's no doubt about it
Love can be easy, like a lazy river
But when the current picks up
You better know how to paddle
I feel I'm in a barrel going over a falls
In a barrel, going nowhere at all

(instrumental)

I thought love was gonna take me to places
My heart hadn't seen, and I was anticipatin'
The joy and the bliss 
That I had found with your kissin'
Took me too far from shore
And now I'm self-destructin'

I feel I'm in a barrel going over a falls
In a barrel, going nowhere at all

Anthony Gee: piano, organ, bass
Terry: lyrics, vocals, harmonica, guitar

In A Barrel (With Anthony Gee)

Christmas swing (Django Reinhardt)

Tried a song idea in waltz time. Scat lyrics and pretty loose, but a first take.  Grateful to have a pro jazz drummer keeping things on track with both cajon and shaker - insane skillz. And then to have a nephew show up same day and overdub sax? So fun.

Dm Waltz (WTJB) 10-24-24 v2.4

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

It’s hard to put faith in the wisdom of choice
When reality sinks in a cesspool of noise
…from overgrown boys

Old Aunty balances truth with lies
And fantasy island is never corrupted with facts
…by the usual hacks

They wallow in excesses of self-esteem
They swagger and they bluster, born to rule
…the archetypal fool

Convinced yourself that they’re better than you
But scratch away the surface and you see what’s true
They’re imposters too


Saxophonic embellishments courtesy of Jonathan OGara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

Imposter

New norm, Art form, Wavestorm

Time trial, Speed dial, Loose end, Press send, Wavestorm

Late night, Stage fright, Mind game, Time frame, Wavestorm

A C÷M collaborative venture.
https://soundcloud.com/cdividebym

Tune composition and flute allures Jonathan O'Gara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Words, voice and musical arrangements Craig Winstanley

Artwork Jonathan O'Gara

WaveStorm (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)

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 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".

Conscience

Craig Winstanley

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