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

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

Not so much shanty as ranty...

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

Brave Trombone by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

Whistling Warriors

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)

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

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)

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

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 )

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

The flute on this little ditty was played by Jonathan Ogara (@allopenelectrics) 
Still waiting...

The here that’s always wrong
The now that’s much too long
Waiting for you, still waiting

The day remains unseized
The crowd remains unpleased
Waiting for you, still waiting

The time that’s never called
The action plan forestalled
Waiting for you, still waiting

The target never reached
Destination unimpeached
Waiting for you, still waiting

The curtain never raised
The mission reappraised
Waiting for you, still waiting for you

Waiting For You

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".