As with all the songs in this album, the spoken voice snippets are public domain.

Glitch in the Dominatrix

Who Is

We were very good friends. Sometimes a word can be misunderstood and leave room for incomprehension that could harm the strongest friendship. The stupid ego poisoned our relationship. It's sad to see where we got considering all the things we went through together. We shared great moments and wonderful conversation. We should have been more sensibility in handling our last conversation but you know what? Past is past and we are still friends.  At the end dialogue can solve and overpass every issue.

You're Still My Friend

A piano concerto with strings, 1st movement.

Watch video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/DWNfJHBK_kg

Piano Concerto #3, 1st movement*

The strength... the power... the illusion... the magic...
Simply... ORK!DEA

ORK!DEA

Monumental Times was inspired by my dear cat, Ziggy. Evolving from past mistakes, isolation from society, current crazy worldly affairs.

All songs written, arranged, produced, mixed, mastered by: Daniel Lars 
All instruments and voice effects by: Daniel Lars

Monumental Times

Gravity Pul

Gravity Pull

My words here were inspired by a magic mushroom experience I had a few years ago, and the gorgeously dreamy, trippy music was put together by APi_ZZ who skillfully waved his wand over some AI sounds from UDIO.

Words: 
I have been to the cairn
Where the two seas meet.
I have been to where 
Fish-tailed sirens sing
Each to the other.
There I meet the Lover,
In that perfect stillness.

To describe these feelings,
Words are too cryptic.
For dreams, like paintings,
Are huge vivid triptychs,
Monet masterpieces,
Every brush mark
A holy-graphic jewel.

They say a picture speaks
A thousand words,
How could they know?
The error’s made unwittingly.
For minds cannot conceive
Of the love of ten trillion
To the power of infinity.

Words by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Copyright © Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, May 2024, all rights reserved

Music by APi_ZZ via UDIO
Copyright © APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner), May 2024, all rights reserved

Where Two Seas Meet

According to the alchemists of old, there are four different kinds of fire: celestial fire, earthly fire, elemental fire … and secret fire. This song is about the secret fire. 

I'm very grateful to @APi_ZZ for setting my words to such captivating music. 

Words and vocals: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Copyright © Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, May 2024 

Music and cover art: APi_ZZ 
Copyright © APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner) May 2024 

When Prometheus stole the fire from Olympus, 
It wasn’t a nova that illumined his course, 
Neither peat of hearth, nor flames from forge; 
Or passion smouldering in his phallic horn. 
All these fires already by man were availed. 
No, it was the secret fire, 
That no mortal man ever saw unveiled.

Now the ziggurats are scarlet with blood, 
Inanna's chalice, snatched from her hand, 
Pours into the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile, the flood. 
Hierodules torn from purple sheets 
Sold in the market like prostitutes. 
The Mysteries parsed through cost benefit sheets, 
And twisted to fit by men in black suits.

If Forethought was there, what was his reasoning? 
The collapse of His-story, the church and the steeple? 
To bring the Black Swan and open Pandora's Box? 
Now refugees swarm like Sea Peoples of old, 
From the cruel bloodbaths of Masters of War, 
And Lady Victory turns away her cheek, 
Refusing to grace such monstrous cheats.

The moral of His-story? There are no morals anymore.
They quickly followed all sense of decency, 
as it was jettisoned out the door… and yet… 
It is the only boat back to shore.
So take it, or be lost at sea, 
In the deluge sent by those Olympians of old 
And understand, now, all those who can, 
in order to be a god, you must first learn to be a man.

 I speak of the secret fire, flash of enlightenment, 
The wise serpents of divine lightning. 
It made Saul fall from his horse; 
In the Upper Room, struck the twelve apostles. 
The grace, the Shekinah, to us was delivered 
By one chained to a rock, while a crowned eagle 
Pecked away at his liver.

When Prometheus stole the fire from Olympus, 
It wasn’t a nova that illumined his course, 
Neither peat of hearth, nor flames from forge; 
Or passion smouldering in his phallic horn. 
All these fires already by man were availed. 
It was, now you know, the secret fire, 
That no mortal man ever saw unveiled.

Secret Fire

Devastator

In the Future .mp3

Musique / Music performance : Christian Levitan
Paroles, chant, mixage, mastering et jaquette / Lyrics, vocals, mixing, mastering and artcover : Lukowig

Paroles / Lyrics :

Je n'ai pas osé
sur tes lèvres déposer 
le plus doux des baisers
je n'ai pas osé
t'embarrasser

Je  n'ai pas osé
tendrement t'enlacer
réchauffer tes mains glacées
je n'ai pas osé
de peur de te tracasser 

Je n'ai pas osé
à ton cou me pendre
t'attirer dans mes méandres
je n'ai pas osé 
t'embrasser

Je n'ai pas osé

Je n'ai pas osé [Levitan and Lukowig]

A cautionary tale from out of the Midsummer Mists of Avalon, with some extraordinarily-inspired kling klang from @APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner). It's Fellini meets Dante's Inferno on magic mushrooms sorta thing! Or perhaps it should be The Nightmare Before Solstice, a la Tim Burton? Anyway, we're willing to bet it's a Fairy Death March the likes of which you've never heard or seen before!

It begins:

A full moon was sailing through clouds that midsummer’s night 
as I was coming home from the Summer Solstice rites
where, it has to be owned, the mead had flowed without halt.
Now walking along Paradise Lane ‘till Wicks Hollow neared,
and the three-way crossroads there, my eyelids felt heavy,
so I flopped down on a mossy bank, and leant up 
against a rock... and it was then that the fairies appeared.


I’ll let you listen to what unfolds next ... if you dare! 

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Copyright © Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, Summer Solstice, June 2024 

Music and cover art by APi_ZZ 
Copyright © APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner) Summer Solstice, June 2024

Midsummer Night's Dream

Daniel Lars: Born, grew up in the heart of San Francisco. Music was deeply rooted in his blood at the young age of four. The Music scene in San Francisco was quite amazing, dynamic, reverberated around the globe. Nevertheless, Daniel was deeply influenced by a wide variety of various cultures & styles of music...such as Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Motown, '60s pop music, Funk, Soul, Disco, Acoustic Folk, Dark Folk, Goth, Classical, Jazz, Jazz Fusion. 

Daniel Lars: "My dad was sometimes up till the middle of the night on weekends, playing stacks of his used record collection from the second hand store in the poor part of town where we resided. From The Beatles, Big Band, Classical, Jazz, Elvis, Motown, Country. My oldest brothers were heavily into '60s Rock & Acid Rock, during the initial Psychedelic wave in San Francisco Bay Area...late '65/early '66."

At the young age of twenty, Daniel started to seriously pursue his music career. Started his first band with younger brother on bass. Played with various musicians/bands in the San Francisco Bay Area during the '80s. Formed his own power trio called "Third Eye" in 1985. Playing various popular clubs in San Francisco. Later moving to the East Bay in a small  town (Pleasanton). Daniel was briefly in a up and coming popular East Bay Area hard rock band called "Most Wanted." Their last gig was a major benefit concert with other popular Bay Area bands to support the October 17th 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake victims. Several years later Daniel Lars was hired as a professional house guitarist at a major recording studio in Jack London Square. Oakland, California. During the late '90s. By 2008, Daniel left California. Moved to Colorado. 

Other links to hear or purchase music from Daniel Lars: 
https://daniellars.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/zapme9

Gravity Pull

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