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

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

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".