I really love this kind of ethereal production... Very well done!

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

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, instruments, recording, mixing - Dmitri Koteshov
Mastering - Vlad Revtovich

Grodna

For a broken relationship, some slowly sinking ship or what we hope will only be a deadly, deathly blip.

The Afterglow Only Lasts So Long

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

It’s an emergency!
Its an emergency!
It’s an emergency!
Its an emergency!


Let’s go swim 
Tsunami’s comin' in and it’s the perfect time!

Its gonna hit the coast!
Its gonna make you toast !
Its goin' emergency!
It's a big emergency!

Let’s go swim 
Tsunami’s comin' in and it’s the perfect time!

You really oughta..shut your mouth!
But you really oughta…shut your mouth!

You running up the hill?
You oughta take a pill!
Let's hear your sheeple speech!
We’ll be here on the beach!

Tsunami Warning

artwork : Wayne Haag
http://www.ankaris.com/

From my Album LV426 : https://smarturl.it/g58jzy

LV-426

Dust

Cinematic soundscape: Japanese inspired work moving through spiritual and industrial evolution...

“Unbind your thoughts
open your mind
step into a peaceful world
close the door behind...


...we will all be
one”

root instrumental (composition with piano+) . Enigma Curry @enigmacurry
find it here: "Migratorium" https://soundcloud.com/enigmacurry/migratorium
arrangement, additional fixings (bass, guitar, drum), final mix & master . Arma Ignifera @herronsound
lyrics , vocals & their pre-mix, artwork . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

https://nothingispersonal.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/warmth/
This poem was also weaved into this song https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/beauty-soul-maat
WARMTH
---------------
and i go to those hidden valleys and ridges
known to the likes of ancient creatures and spirits
and with my eyes down and my hair wild
i ask my lovers of past
to take my picture

as if the mist did never have lips!
and mossy bark won’t hold even a scrape of my skin!
there standing in
defiance and manic understanding
like a tease
my hair wild

i feel
i am no mystery
without my warmth
for the cold-pressed loss
lasts, lasts
time itself, baked in your name

the creatures and spirits
my eyes and hair,
we burn
and rise once again

so lovers of past
take my picture
for my warmth i send

________________

background lyrics:

FILLIIN UP WITH MO

see far, no worry my love
said we never know (wait...)
oh all i can say
I am full and 

said i wanted for nothing more
said i wanted for nothing more

my love
well we never know (really) know a way
a way

said i wanted for nothing more
said i wanted for nothing more

still fillin up with mo

and I'm still fillin up with more
fillin up with mo

I am full and i'm fillin up some mo*!

* remembering 'mo(u)rning'

Fillin' Up With Mo`  - A MyrmahEnigmaniferaCurry

Someone is going to be sorry
Someone is going to be glad
If you tell me what time your train leaves I’ll work out if I’m happy or sad

You came here unannounced and uninvited
With a shoulder bag and a coat
To a small town in the sand dunes
And a string of fishing boats

Down the alleyways and the backstreets
Past the boarded shops and pubs
windows covered with posters for karaoeke clubs

The market place is empty,
Cobbles glisten in the dawn,
but the sun doesn’t rise as the
mist comes in, off the shore

Someone, somewhere
In a street in a town in a country over there
Somehow, someway
With a wish with hope with a prayer
With a desperate heart full of fear
With the promised land so far and yet so near


Somebody took advantage
Someone else took pity on you
Pulling beer in the volunteer
Under flags of red white and blue

Your accent is confusing
From somewhere to the East
You said the name but it didn’t mean much to me

Your skin is pale like paper
hair is black as tar
You lined up shots like bullets
And arm wrestled me off the bar

We all stood to form a queue
Of knuckle cracking clowns
Our tattooed facing sweated
As you took each of us down

Someone, somewhere
In a street in a town in a country over there
Somehow, someway
With a wish with hope with a prayer
With a desperate heart full of fear
With the promised land so far and yet so near


Somebody’s going to be angry others will be satisfied
I’ll make up my mind in a year or two
When the memory of you has died

Someone is going to be sorry
Someone is going to be glad
If you tell me what time your train leaves I’ll work out if I’m happy or sad


Someone, somewhere
In a street in a town in a country over there
Somehow, someway
With a wish with hope with a prayer
With a desperate heart full of fear
With the promised land so far and yet so near

So Near, So Far

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)

After a long break and a serious hardware change its time to start publishing again.

This is the second track from the album: The Force Files.

Enjoy!

Stay Creative & Stay Safe !! Keep the music coming!

Composed, Produced, Programmed, Mixed & Mastered by Douwe van der Boon

Recording & Mixing in Ableton Live 10 Suite
Mastering with Izotope Ozone 8 Advanced

The Force Files

The Perfect Mix

This is the result of one of the jam sessions with Maxim Lichtenwald (@maxim-lichtenwald) and Leo Cuznetov. As per usual, the jam session took several hours, and we experimented with many sounds, settings and ideas. Since I've been listening a lot to Dark Ambient lately, I kinda steered the jam session in a more industrial setting and incorporated some glitch elements and several pre-recorded samples.

We hope you enjoy!

- Boss RC-300
- Korg R3
- Korg Kaossilator Pro+
- Eurorack
- Various guitar pedals

The Machinist's Dream [Jam session sections: RAW2020 - 10]

Danke für die 2 hey`s an  Rock Flexible. Noch mehr Stimmeinsatz: @https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexible

Wieder

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".

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