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

Paleolithic Dance #4

Free As A Dreaming Machine

Having some fun experimenting with physical modeling synthesis using the newly released Objekt Modeling Synthesizer from Reason Studios.  All sounds are generated in real time (not samples) from 12 instances of Objekt in a Reason Rack.  I started with some stock patches and just started tweaking parameters.

An Objekt Lesson

forgetfulness overload (oblivion in a fade world 2)

[i got loads of bot plays on this for some reason]

the meme of 'the 3 magi' developing through the passage of millenia

[if anyone wants to redo this somehow using  all or none of the elements, it would represent the fragmenting and re-interpretation / embellishing / layering of ancient texts..]

the second of the 3 traditional 'dreams of the magi' on the night before departure....

k'asper dreams of  faces he knew
who succumbed to their addictions

he dreams also
of an estate in the country
to retire from journeying
settle up &
settle down

k'asper will look with longing at a few 'here's' on the way
little places where the air is thick with atmosphere
where the guard drops
and it's sunset forever.....
perhaps he will go awol, and a replacement will appear to fill his place

perhaps no mention of a swap in the text (hell..that's good old ancient writing :)) bit of a 'paul is dead' thing, but with togas or furs :))
but later 'scholars' gush over this song as a coded reference to a lost soul on the road, who has been airbrushed out, and conspiracies abound !
the main bone of contention seems to be about whether kasper was autobiographical or simply storytelling in this little note, that created a ritual song, many hundreds of years later

k'asper is often known by the epithet 'dab'ani' in celestian myth, meaning 'he who strays from the way'

that's as clear as mud then, yeh ?

................   .........   ............many............... ....... millenia........... later,
the 'magi in space' will find related documents and some audio sweeps to piece together 'what actually, actually happened?'....a popular 'meme' of the time

archaeology's reach has grown to allow much more accurate and penetrating research, peeling back the onion layers of time to reveal little microscopic details of the actual texture of cultures long gone

....it's time for your close up mr k'asper.....
___________________________________

i try to leave you
city of my birth
streets like a mother's womb
when i come back

my holy city
on the point of a needle
lining up the satellites
with all my ach-ieve-ments

and when i come back
you
city of my birth

snuggle me in your dawn
blue holes womb bells
in your evensong

i try to leave you
city of my birth

the streets in a mother's womb
when i come back

from lining up the satellites
from counting out the stars
with my
achie-ve-ments

faraway
from you
city of my birth

snuggle me in your dawn
the blue holes
the womb bells
your even song

.

i try to leave you
city of my birth

the streets like the mother's womb
when i come back

my holy city
on the point of a needle

journey of the magi : k'asper : city of my birth

This is a song which my dear friends, Kenneth Karasek, Chris Maness, Joshua Clary, JJ Terell and Tez  made this solid and very nice
Love those guys !!! Check em all out they are really special and ooooh so good !!!!
Thank you Folks !!!

Romance with Kenneth Karasek,Chris Maness, Joshua Clary,JJ Terell and Tez

Fixed some parts from the preliminary mix, restructured, additional mastering applied..

This is part of the Myth Wave collection, see the "buy" link for the free-to-download album on Bandcamp...

Mnemosyne (factual mix)

Homage to the Manchester to Batley Ale Train

Contains snippets of Pink Floyd, Prokofiev & the 1960’s Batman theme.

Manchester to Batley Ale Train - http://www.realaletrail.net/ (basically a pub crawl by rail)

Boogie woogie is an example of 20th century music taking inspiration from industrial sounds, compare  this with Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express; same source, but different music.

Remaster published on SC 24 July 2023

My love will put you in hospital

Ale Train Boogie Woogie (remaster)

Ghosts of the Road
Rail road tracks run straight through town
everything is closed, it all shut down.
No need to stop 'cause there's nowhere to go.
Riding, yeah riding, searching for the highway home, riding with the ghosts of the road.

Caution light, big yellow moon,
you're longing for a familiar tune.
Running through your head is all the people you know.
Riding, yeah riding, searching for the highway home, riding with the ghosts of the road.

Riding, Riding...
When I began my journey, there was snow around my knees.
When I reach my destination there'll be flowers on the trees.
It's a paradise that no map shows.
Riding, riding...riding with the ghosts of the road.

All-night dinner, get ya something to eat.
Look at the faces of the souls you meet.
All of them heading where they don't know.
Riding, yeah riding, searching for the highway home, riding with the ghosts of the road.

If you want to arrive alive,
kick back, let the white line drive.
Black river running sweet and slow.
Riding, yeah riding, searching for the highway home, riding with the ghosts of the road.

Riding, Riding...
When I began my journey, there was snow around my knees.
When I reach my destination there'll be flowers on the trees.
It's a paradise that no map shows.
Riding, riding...riding with the ghosts of the road.

Highway will take you, take you home.
Country road cuts straight to the bone.
In the rear-view mirror you are never alone.
Riding, yeah riding, searching for the highway home, riding with the ghosts of the road.
Riding, riding, riding...with the ghosts of the road.

Ghosts of the Road

A little fun and twiddling in a particular style.
I am joined for a little vocalisation in the second part by my friend Nadia Selvaggi https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi . I have grossly underused her talent here, she was only acting on orders : )

(A)musing (incl The Sids Of Knightonia)

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".

Sunrises

Craig Winstanley