Craig Winstanley

Isolation/Lockdown collaborations with Jonathan O'Gara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics).  All collaborations complied with current social distancing guidelines requiring weird musicians to interact only at distances >170 miles.

Isolation Projects

grooves 4

A year trapped on plague island (2020 tracks)

Cast of Characters:

Jeff Roberts-- @jeff_roberts – bass, seed idea
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– guitar solo, rhythm guitar, arrangement , production, mix, and mastering
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – production, editing, synth bass in the break section
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, electric piano, synthesizer
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – guitar solo
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, percussion, lyrics and lead vocals in the bridge section 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – rhythm guitar, lap steel, vocals and lyrics for the verses, vocal harmony in the bridge
Composition – The Eclectic Collective

 This song began with a bass part that Jeff came up with and shared with Stephen, who had added some fiery guitar and foundational rhythm guitar to it. However, it languished on his digital shelf for many months as two parts, until he recently remembered that he had it. So, he decided to share it with the rest of the group. We were salivating, all of us, when we heard Jeff's bass line, so we began with Ken laying in the groovy drums and the tight, driving percussion, which propels the entire song. Once we had a beat, we decided to edit the part to include the break you hear about a minute into it. Mark took on that task, and deftly added the bass in that section, too. 
  Josh was up next, and decided to add a rhythm guitar inspired by Talking Heads. Once he had done that, he started hearing a simple, catchy melody in the main verse part, too, so he came up with some simple lyrics and recorded the vocals for that. At the same time this was happening, Ken also came up with some lyrics and a vocal melody for the breakdown part, which he added. After Ken had added his vocals, Josh added a harmony part on them. He also added the lap slide melody you hear in that section, as well. 
  JJ was next up to bat, laying in the breathtaking organ throughout. He also backdropped a canvas of synthesizer throughout and put in some electric piano too. Tez came along not long after and added the ripping guitar solo in the jam section. Once everyone had added their parts, it was up to Stephen to produce, mix, and master it. He arranged and added some length to it, then mixed it in his usual expert manner.
  This is the first song the Eclectic Collective has done with Jeff, though Stephen has worked with him in the past, and we were all fans of his music, and thus very excited for the chance to make music with him. Hopefully, this will be the first of many.
  We all hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. If you comment, please share, too. 

Original lyrics by Josh Clary:
The trees talk to each other
They send messages through the breeze
There's magic all around us
If we look for it, we can see
 
Original lyrics by K2 and the Three:
Hey, how you feeling about love and lust
Hey how you dealing with all the lies you trust
We're here to be clear
Not a walk in the dark

A little woweluja
Little halleluja

Wowlelujah (Eclectic Collective) - feat. Jeff Roberts

PAIPAI perfomed on the LAST date of our TUKTUK tour in the Iberian Peninsule. As in all perfomances, PAIPAI is one of the last tracks and features Jorge (André Calvário, from "Cardíaco", "Signs of the Sillouette", "Ácidos" and other bands) on the bass!
...
New release on BANDCAMP soon!

PAIPAI (featuring Jorge) @ Armazém 22 (Gaia)

a continuation of https://soundcloud.com/craig-winstanley-1/ambient-3-taming-chaos
but with added ranting:

Sifting through the wreckage of the aftermath
For the truth diluted out by the homeopath
What a laugh

The jokers play the ancient game of shifting the blame
It’s always the same when there’s chaos to tame
What a shame

The misinformation superhighway
And antisocial media
Make it hard to avoid
Ranting into the void

People might call me a misanthrope
I hate them for that
I hate all of them for that, all of them
I hate all them for that

Chaos (Ranting Into The Void)

Understand (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1ADA7lNy8)

In the land where they bury their heads in the sand, understand
In a place where you can’t look a man in the face, understand
In a time when compassion is viewed as a crime, understand
In the mind of the sociopatholog kind, understand

Where you can’t abstain from causing pain, understand
It wasn’t planned

The climate of change is unerringly strange, understand
It wasn’t planned

(an instrumental version of this track has been posted before, as "Stationary Phase")

Understand

Let's walk, walk hand in hand
Through time, Through sand
 
Let's talk, talk smile and sing
Through space, Through heat
 
Let's laugh, laugh run and jump
Through light, Through love
 
Let's hope, hope feel and weep
Through us, Thorough peace.
 
At the end of the tunnel
I dream, I dream
At the end of the tunnel
I dream, We dream
  
(repeat verses)

At the end of the tunnel
I dance, We dance
At the end of the tunnel
We dance, We dance

A C÷M collaboration: @cdividebym
Music : Craig Winstanley
Lyrics: Jonathan O'Gara (@allopenelectrics)

an instrumental version was released into the big wide world some time ago:
https://soundcloud.com/craig-winstanley-1/at-the-end-of-the-tunnel

At The End Of The Tunnel (C÷M)

Proggish repetitions in roughly three parts.

Percussive discursive patternity of the third kind.

From Fear To Patternity (v1)

Are you inside the bubble, or outside causing trouble?

From circus and bread to Facebook instead.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5RktP0j84

Glorious sax appeal supplied by Jonathan Ogara (Open All Electrics): https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics

This wasn't written about COVID-19 self-isolation, but it could have been.

Inside The Bubble

perfectly timed for when nobody can go out, a dance track for you delectation, with accompanying rant

thunderous sax courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

They won’t be voting for the cause 
You’ll have to settle for applause
A charity sing-song day
Is your substitute for pay
The biggest thank-you yet
Is worth more than a safety net
They won’t be voting for the cause
You’ll have to settle for applause

They can grandstand and preen
Be robust as they please
But bravado won’t protect them
From this insolent disease

They measure worth and quality 
By the size of your salary
Behind the claps and bonhomie
Lie contempt and hypocrisy
As they smile and they pledge
Your left to wriggle on a knife’s edge
And as they lie and they blunder
Hold on tight to your silent thunder

Silent Thunder (this insolent disease)

Music and Words by Jonathan Ogara (@allopenelectrics)

Guitar and backing voice - Jonathan Ogara
Guitar, voice, programs and arrangement jiggery-pokery - Craig Winstanley

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DNZZYj0RM

So Far:

A gentle soft heart
Hidden in her hills
Her life deep lived
Lost in her dreams

She would sing long songs
She would tell those tales
She would right those wrongs
And dance through dales

She finds the sun, she finds the sun

Wherever she is, she will find the sun
Wherever she is, she will find the sun
We were so near, we were so far
We were this close, we were this clear

She would walk on hot coals
And take the holy ghost
She could breathe through souls
And fix buttonholes

And She would ask us
“where is love?”
And our eyes would dance
And our hearts would run

She finds the sun, she finds the sun

Wherever she is, we find the sun
Wherever she is, we find the sun
We were so near, we were so far
We were this close, we were this clear

So Far (a C÷M track)

a track remixed, reimagined, regurgitated...

with sensual sax by Jonathan O'Gara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

if/when C÷M ever get around to playing live, it will sound like this...

Quorum Sensing (2020 Vision)

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

Curvaceous saxophone courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Video: https://youtu.be/vNYwDHQgydM

You wake, with senses opaque, to the fuse of your muse, confused by the shape of things that have gone, departed, confined, but with saccharine grief left behind, and the certainty that you find in the memory banks of the past, you contrast with the doubts and the fear of what horrors are yet to appear, but the now and the here is a shape that you cannot control, and it shifts and it squirms as you grasp to try and make sense of the present tense

And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve
And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve

The Curve

original composition, final arrangement, mix & master:
Monkey Blood Lowdown @monkeybloodlowdown

lyrics, vocals & their pre-mix, cover photo-art:
Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

THE ODDEST OF THINGS
____________________________
in another world
in another world

day by day
i am wondering
wondering
oddest of things

say what now?

what did she say now?

what does she say now?

wondering, i am wondering the oddest
the oddest of things

wondering!
oddest of things!

somebody! pull me back!
somebody, pull me back!
but there’s no body
here
but me

nobody here
here

yea-heh! pull me back on my own
hoping something deep down
help me!
on my own
deep down

somebody! pull me back!

the set

The Oddest Of Things | The Consolers

Great privilege to team up with Gary Rees in this Windtronix release. As the track takes off Gary's wizardry boosts our humble wind ensemble into the stratosphere!
https://soundcloud.com/gary-rees-since-87
 
[Pic taken from The Dragon Balloon....looking back to the launch site in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield...on a windy day...scary!]

Gaining Altitude - Gary Rees | WBE

Estella Scry

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".