A playlist with only very nice colleagues and friends that I respect.
Touching their strings and things so beautifully ;-)
Thank you Soundcloud for connecting me to them.
Enjoy it people.

STRINGS AND THINGS (Friends and colleagues on Soundcloud)

Geronimo by Quantafide

Written, recorded by Quantafide 2015 and 'remastered' by Quantafide 2016
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/user/quantafide/playlist/4gcmtfIBEkOFjtWpUAR3TO)
iTunes (http://apple.co/25MAkc6) 
(C) Quantafide 2015

Geronimo

Featuring audio kindly donated by: @couch-king-presents, @pretzelsmalone and @spicy-invalid.

Artwork by Emma Parker: https://www.facebook.com/emmaparkerlondon/?fref=ts

More info on 'The Audio Bin' project, and how to join in: wouwouandthewormling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02…in.html

- Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Bandcamp

Pop Waste

I was glad to contribute some guitar parts to this summer confection from Marcus and Martin of Splintered Finger @fraudstein.

For those keeping track at home, Splintered Finger created the basic tracks as an open collaboration. I added that melodic 70's-style rhythm guitar part as well as a spacey guitar pad. The first solo is also me. The second solo comes courtesy of the always distinctive and ever rippin' Martin Reed @its-tophonicus. Then Jörg @joerxworx brings his smooth and sexy alto (you can hear more of that horn here: https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/sax-on-sunrise-redemption-by-splintered-finger) Finally Martin picks it up again and takes it all the way home and beyond. Martin also edited and mixed. 

This track kept me good company recently on a particularly salty week away from work. I'll keep it posted until the end of summer, or whenever summer ends for me, anyway.

And check out Tante Meli's take: https://soundcloud.com/fraudstein/sunrise-redemption-with-tante-meli



Sunrise Redemption (Splintered Finger, Tophonicus, joerxworx and me)

the cow IT004990735855 was born in July 2010 and died by the human hand in May 2012

recorded and mixed by me 
mastering @ msd studio by Lucio Munari (thank you my friend!)

b.i.p.r.p.: vocals. guitars, bass, korg Ms 2000 and Korg Es-1mkII

we are animals (mastered version)

“I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.” 
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCulqT4kBA

Sincere thanks my friend!

Hans- Original music and composition
Me- Telecaster

Tango Noir (Clouders for: & Telefan)

Words: @pretzelsmalone
Beat: @midipunk
Everything else: Wou-Wou & The Wormling

More info: http://bit.ly/1PHFtIU
Pretz's music vid: https://youtu.be/UdZot5adKBg

Baby Fudge (feat. Pretzels Malone & MidiPunk)

The Line

All Guitars, Vocals & Lyrics by  Michael Walker 
All Drums & Percussion's by Adam Coppock
Music by Screach

Mixed & Mastered by Erika Bach at her Strudel Girl Studio in Ithaca Greece - https://soundcloud.com/lolademo

Hold Time

How can you run from me
When all I want to do is hold you
How come you cant look at me
When all I want to do is help you
How come you cant look in my eyes
When all I want to do is hold you
How come your always running from me 
When all I want to do is help you

My heart aches inside
My heart aches inside

I can never tell just what you are thinking
I cant ever tell, I cant ever see it, I don't feel it
Why don't you see the love in my eyes
Take my hand and hold it and squeeze it tight

Just squeeze my hand firm and tight and look me right into my eyes
All I want to do is
 Hold you
We are the same you and I 
Same purpose, Same reasons why
Take my hand and hold it firm and tight

All I have is yours
Take all that I have in this world
It doesn't mean anything to me
All I want is your love



Hold Time

God's Biggest Mistake

Dodeca Cauldron

Dear Sound masters, -blasters, listeners, mates and contacts,
I wish you and yours a merry, happy, joyful christmas,
a still continuing creativity, humour and a bright 2016.
I´m glad we share our passion for inventive sounds.
Cheers :-)

RW&TL is one part of my soundtrack for a local movie "City Stories", a portrait of six different people, six short cuts. They are about their life and visions, and future dreams in our rather small town...big and small things, that keep the engine burning...
Track 6,
VideoLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD6oIW049Vk
the whole movie with all the six short cuts:
http://hildesheim-tv.de/kunst-kultur/143-kunst-kultur/1298-stadtgeschichten.html

This track is about a female dancer, her dance is inspired by sign language...
Playing table guitar was the only way to get some humble results in the wet cold...and the idea for the further arrangement. 
By the way - if a singer wants to add some lyrical stuff, spoken or sung, I would like to make a re-arrangement / second version :-)





You Dont Know How I Feel

whatever happened to the teenage dream[marc bolan]
I dont stop believing..Why should you?
youth culture was just a moment in time
hope i die before i get old[pete townsend]

the empty street lights of a broken culture
Going off the radar ..sliding off the rails
jumping off the wagon,chasing vapor trails
captains lost the ship on the golden coast
Another teenage dream ,gotta find the ghost

The ones im close they hurt the most
The ones that heal will lead the blind
if all a blessing and a curse
you gotta leave it all behind you..

Detach yourself from reservations
Attach your dreams to situations
vwhen we were young,lived like midnight vultures
the empty street lights of a broken culture

ahh the displaced dreams of forgotton childhood
When we were young love would conquer all
looking for an answer in the wide wild wood
Wasting time believing we were cool
the things we did,you had to laugh
like fools we hid upon a path
to try and gain another day
turn back the clock would be ok

stepping back in time to your adolescents
frozen in a picture of your very essence
Growing up and finding everybody changes
empty street lights of a broken culture

its just a phaze of disillusioned youth
its just a phaze we didnt know the truth

Skipping though the vinyl of your memorys
remember people,its just temporary
just a displaced member of the population
Theres ones who sit on golden thrones
in disbelief on mobile phones
theres songs of life and disbelief
so carry on and grit your teeth..your not alone.

jim nov 2015

The Empty Street Lights Of A Broken Culture

BOX OF MEMORIES

radiation burns off my hair,
bad mojo heavy in the sun,
where god doesn’t care,

red meat, blood in surplus, so serious 
your heart chose me

Punished for the one I love, buried in the setting sun,
Trust, punished for the one that I love

Bad Mojo

Lyrics John Eagle 
Drums MidiPunk
Guitars, vocals, arrangement, mix
Additional Verse Russ Sinfield

John and I were talking on here while I was up in Norfolk about the Fen Men, lost treasure and the shaping of the country both where he is in USA and where I am in Cambridgeshire. A couple of months on and he presented me with these lyrics which were loosely based on the events in our conversation...good eh :-) I laid down bass, a rough beat and some loose chords and Pete did the business with the drums, we went a bit towards the funky side of rock I guess, suited the vibe, again he added to the track his own distinctiveness which then got guitars in various guises and a little bit of mixing..well OK quite a lot LOL
 
The Fens
There’s something shiny
On the darkened moor
The peat is dark
The water so cold
The moon sits high
In a blackened sky
The stars are shrouded
And has been there nigh

Croyland Abbey
The monolith near
Had a coin with a sign
Guthlac was here
A Roman coin
Found in the fens
Somewhere near Trinity Bridge
It caused a row
Between men of means
But the people know
More than it seems

And jets flew high
In the blue of the sky
Epochs and doctrine
In a unforced clash
Of might and sin
A coin is never as old
As the land that holds

Croyland Abbey
The monolith near
Had a coin with a sign
Guthlac was here
A Roman coin
Found in the fens
Somewhere near Trinity Bridge
It caused a row
Between men of means
But the people know
More than it seems

The smell of cakes burning 
came as a warning
for those who sought paths to safety
 
The Fenman watches 
all fires are extinguished
left to drown, passage paid in blood washed into the sea.

Croyland Abbey
The monolith near
Had a coin with a sign
Guthlac was here
A Roman coin
Found in the fens
Somewhere near Trinity Bridge
It caused a row
Between men of means
But the people know
More than it seems...




The Fens with John Eagle, MidiPunk and Russ Sinfield

Influenced by many styles (punk, rap, electronic, world) and made into an own mish-mash. Quite melodical stuff with a lot of anger in it.
I'm not well equipped for recording my or someone else's voice(s) so I'm presenting my songs without vocals. I have written loads of lyrics and none of them are happy themes.
Oh no! The world is turning mad in many ways so that is my inspiration.
Everything has been recorded in 16 bit in Logic.
Apart from these 6 songs, I have written two dozen more in the last year. 

Fox vs Chix

Please check also my side project: 
https://soundcloud.com/froxie-dub

Yowza!
My main influences are punk, rap, dub, world and electronica.
I'm not a programmer. I record the majority of my tracks live.
Here and there I use loops/samples when they suit the need.
Several people that have heard my tracks describe them as mini soundtracks.
Agitated bodysmack movies that is!
I love collabs! They are a wonderful way to work together with a bunch of wonderful people. 
People that have been following me know that I've changed my avatar on Christmas day 2015. The image has been drawn by a good friend of mine. Thanks a million Ramses. You're a great artist.
In return I am working on a track that will be called after him and that will be dedicated to him.
Exchange of art, you could say. 
I'm not a person who reposts tracks a lot. I 'like' what I like and put them in playlists now and then. But to be honest: I miss loads of good stuff just because there is too much. 






STRINGS AND THINGS (Friends and colleagues on Soundcloud)

crankyfox