Name: The Apparition by Cross Wires
Duration: 2 min 23 s
Description: Taken from Cross Wires second album ‘Yesterday In Mourning’ Produced by Rory Attwell.

Would you chop down the forest
would you freeze the bog
would you sell the sun

Recorded  and mixed by Darren Flynn
Drums Steve O'Keeffe (https://www.bluesconfidential.com 
Blues Confidential/The Pale) 
bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale)
Lead vocals. guitar, art Suzanne Ledwith
Information about fairy/ringforts and why I prefer them to a new road.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/072…ions-rural-ireland/
Halloween link: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1020/1172649-irelands-gate-to-hell-oweynagat-roscommon-otherworld-halloween-folklore/

Change of Address

Money Mad

ecstaticupliftingchoir

Why does this You-n-I-verse allow the Best of Us to Age and Crumble when they have given us so much and asked for so little in return?

True Superheroes should live forever, g-dammit.

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LYRICS

After the first, Scared shadow of a man
stares at me 
and says “I see myself, son’s eyes scream everything”

Then he says,

“Not so long ago, I’m in your place, 
glare at own dad’s face
and hear myself, Confused and questioning”

At what moment in the growing weight 
of a life does it break one’s back
at what point does one run away from the light
and pray to fade through to the black?

He struggles to explain, 
but thought and memory soar free 
from a plaintive self
the strain so deafening

In this fluorescent silence 
a gap of decades 
and five feet separate our selves
why can’t I say anything?

Awkward moments, statements slur together, 
can’t even sense if he is still himself
where is the one who for years kept us glued together?

Where is the father who raised us from the start
that Big Red lug who moved mountains 
with his superman heart
Where is that strength when he needs it to live
Why does world take from one who only knows how to give?

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Second time worse, three days and nights in straps and drips, 
full-intubated self
scared, darting eyes that don’t see anything

At what moment in the growing weight 
of a life does it break one’s back
at what point does one run away from the light 
and pray to fade through to the black?

Where is the father who raised us from the start
that Big Red lug who moved mountains 
with his superman heart
where is that strength when he needs it the most
how do I stop a soul from leaving its fraying host?

Moving Mountains - The Two Attempts

01 Lights Over London

City Of Deception

Peil!

Collaborate project from a invitation by Marco Lucchi:  https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/rainbowing-original-score-90-bpm

This has been lying on my recorder for a while, I was not sure how to participate on this since Marcos track was so massive in sound. I took the info I had, it was a beat of 90 that I could use for a sequence and a drumtrack. Then I searched for what sounds that could fit in, tried a lot but fell down in this sequenced piano(Yamaha P200) and added guitar to make a change in the middle towards the end. I digged out my oldest guitar FX unit as well, I think it sounds much better than my newer one. Well, it became my version of it, I could have taken it even more into the far out landscape, but I'll leave it for now. Thanks for the invitation Marco!

Peace on earth, peace in our mind and hearths.

MARCO LUCCHI | Ingvar Tautra - Rainbowing Rainbows

Another strange non-local and temporally disparate collaboration between Gonio & Krakenkraft, this time with a lot of modular, samples, granular and whatnot.

Associated bizarre AI video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0A5HTvh3WE

Also visit Gonios soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/peter-hostermann/session-60-joint-gonio-krakenkraft

Cover based on a StableDiffusionXL image.

Session 60 Joint

Gonio & Krakenkraft

Session 60 Joint —|—  Gonio & Krakenkraft

A X6402 Collaboration.

CREDITS:
Music, Instrumentation and Production: Six Four Zero Two.
Lyrics and Vocals: Emma Forman.
Engineering: Jon Gilbert.
Cover design: 6402. 
Cover image: AI generated using Midjourney.


LYRICS:

She’s got her own demons.
Battles them every single day.
Can’t see no potential.

Don’t go breaking her heart.
Catch the moment in a photograph.
All for the rush of love.

All because.
All because.

It’s all she wants.
It’s all she needs.
It’s just, a rush of love.
It’s just love.

So tell the world to listen quietly.
Hush, the beating heart races so fast.
All because of the rush of love.
All because of the rush of love.

Don’t go breaking her heart.
Catch the moment in photograph.
All for the rush of love.
All for the rush of love.

It’s all she wants.
It’s all she needs.

RUSH OF LOVE

Taken from Cross Wires second album ‘Yesterday In Mourning’ Produced by Rory Attwell.

The Apparition

RTE Radio1 Folk Award nominee (Best Emerging Artist category 2022), Ciara O’Neill releases new track ‘Woman’ the first single taken from her upcoming EP of the same name following the release of the celebrated ‘La Lune’ and ‘Le Soleil’ singles.
Ciara says: “Woman is an exploration of the beauty and complexities of being a Woman in modern society. Looking at myself, my own female relatives and those Women in history who have lived lives in the shadows, it’s about having a desire for more, not feeling the need to conform to expectations placed on us, and allowing ourselves to be visible and speak our truths.”

Woman

Cross Wires are an East London based four piece consisting of Jonathan Chapman (vocals) Peter Muller (guitar/vocals) Matt Lazard (bass) and Ian Clarke (drums)

The debut full length album from the band ‘A Life Extinct’ was released on Culture War Records ‪on Friday 1st November‬ on Vinyl as well as digitally. 

It was recorded at Kluster Rooms in Limehouse, East London and produced by Rory Attwell (The Vaccines, Telegram, Traams, Palma Violets, The Goa Express)

‘A Life Extinct’ is not a concept album in the traditional sense but the theme of extinction looms large across the 11 tracks. Tracks from the album have received airplay from John Kennedy on Radio X,  Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, Jess Iszatt on BBC Introducing and American Punk Music and Black Flag legend Henry Rollins on KCRW over in the US.

The second LP ‘Yesterday In Mourning’ was released on 5th May 2022. Again produced by Rory Attwell. It received great reviews and Radio plays from Louder Than War, Artrocker, Radio X and Amazing Radio.

Cross Wires have built up a great live reputation playing across some of the best venues and festivals - Tramlines (The Leadmill Stage) Shiiine On, Camden Rocks, The Great Escape (Alternative Escape) and The Old Blue Last, The Shacklewell Arms, Sebright Arms, The Victoria, The Windmill, and Ramsgate Music. 

Cross Wires have been featured on a host of well respected blogs and websites including - Fred Perry Subculture, Tom Robinson’s Fresh On the Net (Fresh Faves) Little Indie Blogs, God Is in The TV, Killing Moon and The Devil Has The Best Tuna.


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