Sonic Sunday's #2

And now.. for something completely different!
I began writing this song in June of 2020, shortly after fast food restaurants re-opened for drive-thru during the pandemic. I saw KFC boxes littering the streets on the very first day, and began to feel very despondent about the future of humanity.

My reaction was to write this song. The lyrics didn't take long, but it's taken me ages to actually put it together, create the drum track, and record instruments and vocals. I've been putting together the video over the past couple of days, recording myself playing the different parts in my room, and borrowing snippets from news articles I found online. I'm proud of the result, and I hope you like it too. It's loud, angry and definitely a bit inspired by my old love for Enter Shikari! 

It's called Dystopia.

Lyrics:

This world is disposable
Your soul decomposable
But why live for tomorrow
When your time's always borrowed?


(Dystopia)
Planet's in flames, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be launching off in rockets
To terraform Mars!

(Dystopia)
It's all decaying, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be running to our ships
To inhabit the stars!


Throw your cans on the pile
(IT'S GETTING BIGGER! *screams*
SIR, PLEASE DON'T PANIC)
Your concerns are on file

It's a hard pill to swallow
That's why we'll do it tomorrow


(Dystopia)
Planet's in flames, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be launching off in rockets
To terraform Mars!

(Dystopia)
It's all decaying, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be running to our ships
To inhabit the stars!


The sea's on fire
But they don't give a fuck!
They wanna build another oil field
I don't know how much more I can take of this
I THINK I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND!


Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

(No new oil, no new oil, keep the carbon in the soil)

(That vital climate conference in Glasgow, billed by many as the last chance for humanity to really cut its carbon pollution)

(Is the UK government really about to allow Cambo, a massive new oil and gas field?)



Procrastinate
And incinerate!

Getting kicks from the flames
To keep us dancing for days!


(Dystopia)
Planet's in flames, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be launching off in rockets
To terraform Mars!

(Dystopia)
It's all decaying, but who cares?
By the time we've finished ours
We'll be running to our ships
To inhabit the stars!


The more things change
The more they stay, the fucking same!

Dystopia

I remember some advice my parents said
But I didn't take much notice then
It was to the point and that was the point
It was keep it simple and go ahead 

Keep it simple do it well
Wherever we go in life is swell   CHORUS
Complication is just hell
Keep it in the real world 

Whenever we try to do too much
Just step back from such and such
Get back to basics, back to life
And ditch all that strife 

And keep it simple do it well
Whereever we go in life is swell   CHORUS
Complication is just hell
Keep in the real world 

Just a final note to add
Complex lives are really sad
Think back to when you were young
When you weren't quite so highly strung 

CHORUS


232. keep it simple do it well (harding).mp3

I am Tortoise

ILLEST OF OUR TIME OUT NOW
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Illest Of Our Time

ANIMAL FLOW OUT NOW 
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Animal Flow

Slava Ukraini

War is awful.  Peace and love needs to prevail worldwide.
There's too much hatred, pain and division.
When will we ever learn...?

Another falls before the silence of indifference
Another lost within a city on the hill.
And up we climb towards the light off in the distance
Not thinking of the things in lives we might instill.

Yea we get away and escape the pain
of witnessing the decay
it washes away with the rain
when it falls at the end of the day

Lay in wait here we stay
the comin' day will take us away.
Lay in wait here we stay
the comin' day will take us away.
Lay in wait here we stay
the comin' day will take us away.

The dust and ash fall slowly down upon the people.
The fire and smoke reach out to choke them to the ground (Choke them to the ground)
Sidewinder flies above the city like an eagle.
Hunting their target they come screaming through the clouds.

Lay in wait here we stay
the comin' day will take us away.
Lay in wait here we stay
the comin' day will take us away.

Another falls before the silence of indifference
Another lost within a city on the hill...

- V5.01

Sidewinder

Suic*de out now.
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Suic*de

Ren - Suic*de

More info & buy the EP : http://versatilerecords.com/release/various-artists-acid-arab-collections-ep03/

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Portishead/Miles Davis (mash-up)

White Noise

taken from the album Livity,to be released the 20th of october on Versatile records
It's already been 5 years since the last Zombie Zombie album "Rituels d’un Nouveau Monde" has been released, after which the group has explored other territories by signing 2 film scores; "Loubia Hamra" by Narimane Mari and "Irréprochable" by Sébastien Marnier, as well as creating the music accompanying a contemporary circus show called "Slow Futur" by Martin Palisse and Elsa Guérin.
Wouldn't these beautiful parentheses make you want to return to the sources? After 10 years at Versatile Records, 2017 also marks the anniversary of the release of their first album "A Land for Renegades" in 2007, at the time considered to be one of the 10 best albums of the year according to Rough Trade.
This new opus "Livity" seems to plunge us into science fiction, with a cover designed by the mythic cartoonist Philippe Druillet, who is also the founder of the Métal Hurlant comic series. The title of the album is somewhat misleading, as one could think of a certain dub record made in Jamaica at the famous Compass Point studio at the Bahamas. If you didn't know, "livity" or "life force" is actually a Rastafarian concept. The record was finally recorded last winter in Paris, in a very short time frame. 7 tracks played live in 7 days, by Etienne Jaumet (synthesizers / rhythm box / metallophone / sax), Cosmic Neman (drums / vocals / sound effects), and Dr. Schonberg (percussion / electronics / trumpet), recorded at the Red Bull Studios by Thibaut Javoy and Jerome Caron, their 2 very competent engineers. To keep it in the family, the album was then mixed by another member of the Versatile stable, the mysterious and legendary DJ/producer I:Cube, done in the label's studio, Victor Studio.
On this album the principles that are dear to the group rest being respected, still as far as always from the standards of 'radio play'. A living kind of music, composed of long instrumental moments recorded with analog synthesizers and drum machines, accompanied by drums and percussion. But I:Cube's touch may bring that unique energy that one finds at the group's concerts; on certain titles like Livity (with its classic 808 drum kick club side, well ahead and bewitching with jungle sounds recorded in Laos) and especially on Hippocampe, which gives the impression of hearing an old school hip hop rhythm with the power of a metal band, having replaced their guitars by synthesizers: recommended to listen to in a convertible at the ring road.
The cinematic connotation is still strong, on titles like "Ils existent.." or "Acera", originally composed for ciné-concerts accompanying films by Jean Painlevé et Maurice Pialat. The energy of the beginning is still very present, as is - of course - the kraut inspiration. But it's also an album that takes new directions, like on “Looose”, which brings to mind the "Art Ensemble of Chicago", like a groove of James Chance in New York in the early 80's, with the free sax solos of Etienne Jaumet and Dr. Schonberg with the trumpet. The group also offers some slower and calmer titles, like "Heavy Meditation", as well as to explore new more experimental tracks in the line of French 70's groups such as Lard Free or Richard Pinhas, for example on the bonus track "Black Moon". 
Take your time, and enjoy listening!

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Livity(album mix)

Our Ancestors Stand Behind Us by Miranda Rondeau

Our Ancestors Stand Behind Us on guitar by Miranda Rondeau

Multi Layer Music, Atmospheric and Dreamy.

Mid-Dream

Polybius

Dandy Lion are   
•	Mad Mo Mosley rhythm guitar and lead triangle ( originally from Satan’s lounge Band)
•	Johnny Malkav ( originally from Growth)
•	General Beavis Rimmer lead guitar ( originally from FCK That)
•	The Rev Jebus Crusty spiritual guru and drugs administrator    
Dandy Lion can best be described as Hank Marvin dipped in a vat of acid. The band was created from the dying embers of Satan’s lounge Band a 1920s trad jazz band, Growth a late 80s grunge band and FCK That a tribute band for Take That. During the early 90s the band became very politically inactive with the apathy movement. This led to a lot of friction within the band as Mosley’s many multiple personalities formed artists against apathy and also thought about forming the apathy party but due to a lack of interest from the rest of his personalities he couldn’t be bothered.
During this period they also discovered spiritually through Couch King Potato who would later become The Reverend Jebus Crusty thus a new form of Christianity was formed Couchism with the Rev Crusty as its guru.   This happened whilst watching an episode of Songs of Praise and being unable to find the remote. This led to the band becoming a born again Christian band. Pope Benedict XVI once claimed that “This is the most excrement band that I have ever seen in Christendom with the potential to be a lot worse!” 

The band are currently wanted by the CIA and MI6 for left wing tendencies and admitting to being fans of Status Que. They now reside in the independent state of Inner Hash mere a small enclave on the edges of Dartmoor National Park and are currently engaged with counter insurgency with   the Talibanies headed by Mad Muller Mosley and the KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). A Northern Irish para military group headed by Big Mac McDonald and a leprechaun called Semtex. Yet again this friction has been instigated by Mosley’s multiple personalities. Rev Crusty has managed an uneasy cease fire between both fractions but as yet both sides refuse to decommission their vast arsenal of water pistols and flower bombs. Both have agreed to cease engaging in biological warfare decommissioning their obnoxious effluvia and flatulence in the BIO hazard removal unit (the WC).     
Moving on to more positive things. The bands influences are truly cosmopolitan inspired by Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin, Gerry Adams, Reverent Ian Paisley and Simon Cowell. Mainly Simon Cowell. Pope Benedict XVI has stated “This band is an example to all Christians embracing all faiths and ideologies. These guys are going to be bigger than John Lennon”.  

All songs are dedicated to the memories of the inane, mundane, has-beens, wannabes of the Voice, XFactor and Britain’s got talentless. Sweet Jesus, mother of God, remote control remove your souls. Amen!

All songs are written by Mosley and Malkav including covers. Which Mosley intends in sue all artists for plagiarism.

A finale word from the Reverant Jebus Crusty “Easter is a very special time for all Christians giving us all a sense of wellbeing thinking of some poor bastard nailed to a cross and eating lots of Easter eggs.  Happy Easter folks.”       

I hope you enjoy their music and even if you don’t they couldn’t give a folk!
All music recorded at Smeg Studios 
Love, piece and scabies

White Noise

Dandy Lion

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