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

Blackstar Jazz ideas

C÷M (which includes me as C & https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics as M) performed live shows as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in September 2021 (at the Empty Space, Salford). 

Further details and videos : https://craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/

Versions of the songs included in this playlist were performed, not always exactly as they sound here...better!

For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

From Where? to Here

holiday retreat

Reconnaissance 2020 !!!

Birth was played as part of C÷M appearing at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival (Sept. 2021).  See live video: https://youtu.be/cSlwPqf8e1U

The track includes recycled lyrics.  I always put my recycled lyrics out on a Thursday...

(previously used in https://soundcloud.com/craig-winstanley-1/imposter)

Birth (a C÷M  track)

If you download these mixes to listen to later, please pop back here and click the remixers you're into some love for their work before the 26th of May. The remixer with the most heart then wins a Keith McMillen controller and some Plaid swag, http://tinyurl.com/myannzy The original version of Tether can be heard and played with via Jono Brandel's web app, http://tether.plaid.co.uk and is included on our album, Reachy Prints, http://warp.net/records/plaid/new-album-reachy-prints

Tether [Eutechnik Remix]

Bewusstseinstraining

Communication

DRUMS BETWEEN THE BELLS
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Drums Between The Bells

bless this space

Brian Eno and the words of Rick Holland - bless this space (taken from Drums Between The Bells)

Open The Door - You're In

"Feierabend" is another Track from my last Album "Wer nicht fühlen will". Bit housey, made for your car stereo when u drive home after work and for long evenings in yer favourite Club.

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Feierabend

Subterraneans (1999 Remaster)

Black Earth

Constant Fear

My Love

Dropsonde

Birds Fly By Flapping their Wings

Hollow - Your Own Shadow - Demo

A diversion into acoustic folk-land, covering the entire history of human communication and reaching the inescapable conclusion that we are not very good at it.

I contributed words, guitar playing, unsatisfactory voices and keyboard bits.
Musings on the flautistic spectrum were contributed by Jonathan OGara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics).

The lyrics goeth thus:

In the beginning was a scream… it was quite obscene
And then the word was heard… it was quite absurd
Then the night and the light had to fight for the right.. to be seen and heard
And the day had to wait for the night to be done.. and the light had won

And the void was annoyed to be deployed.. before the humanoid
And the man did what he can … for the master plan
And you see only what you want to see, And you hear only what you want to hear
And you fear only what you want to fear
And you believe, what you want to believe
(me too)

(WARNING: this song contains references to an annoyed void, a thing best to avoid)

Echo Chamber

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)

Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric feat Lokier (Remixes)

Tracklisting: 
Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric feat. Lokier
Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric feat. Lokier (Club Mix)
Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric (Kris Baha Remix)
Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric (Curses Remix)
Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric (Lokier Remix)

Are Friends Electric feat Lokier (Remixes)

Djedjotronic - Are Friends Electric feat Lokier (Club Mix)

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)

Seven and Storm

Dark Jazz

Türchen Nr. 1 - Markus Wesen - Klangliche Traumwelten

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

https://soundcloud.com/effacemusic an den 1's & 2's

#32 / effacé - Siesta Forever

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

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)

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".