love how it morphs into something electric...  very cool layering.   avant garde rock.  very nice...  

Confusion! I love the piano notes, which, in the strange atmosphere of this track, take their time.

At some point, a long time ago, I gave up on creating a "new" musical language. It was still possible, in the late nineteen eighties and early nineties when I came of age, for me to see music as a linear progression. In my early twenties I would compose pieces that I thought of as new jazz. Of course they weren't. Just very individual songs in older styles with some ideas for other styles. A dash of Duke Ellington arraignment, a snippet of Monk perhaps a teaspoon of Syd Barrett mixed with some rock and roll harmony. Eventually, after a long pause in playing at all, I came to make music, I see as, more in line with the pop artists like Warhol and, especially Lichtenstein. My own musical ideas are still there but slyly inserted into pieces that are consciously, imprecisely, modeled on other works or styles. Anyway I went to see the new version of West Side Story with my wife the other day. The original show made right before that "pop" era. It was so sincere. No irony with an honest attempt to bring musical theater "forward". I so enjoyed it even if it's a bit middle brow Americana. I'm writing this description in hopes of being equally sincere. The melody borrows a bit of "Somewhere" as a tip of the hat. I hope. My big musical ideas, besides that, are as follows. The key may sound a bit vague at times but floats between B major, E major and A major so that classic one four five, if somewhat buried. the time signature changes a few times, briefly, and syncopates when it doesn't. There's the Syd Barrett influence for those keeping score. There's also some willful changes from major to minor in the harmony that are classic rock ideas. Even if, in this context, they eventually become key changes. Well that's enough sincerity. Oh except for the photo. It's Miss Place. My wife maiden name and me back when I would have written something like this. ;)

Miss Place

(If you like this song, you may also like the rest of the album: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-merkwurdigliebe/sets/slipthought)

Hai hai hai hai, what you're gonna be like
Hai hai hai hai, what you're gonna find
Hai hai hai
Oh me oh my, you are very fine
My my my my, gonna make you mine
Hai hai hai

So much is thought about your attitude
So much is lost to your body
I I just wanna be, wanna be

So much is said about your gratitude
(High high high high as a kite tonight)
So much is known by everybody
(I know that nobody got it)
I hope we catch a wave too

Hai hai hai hai, what you're gonna be like
Hai hai hai hai, what you're gonna find
Hai hai hai
Oh me oh my, you are very fine
My my my my, gonna make you mine
Hai hai hai

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Come Morning, Gene Jumper, Gene, singing all vocal's, ( cover)

Come Morning, Gene Jumper, Gene Singing All Vocal's, ( cover)

Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Mike Luv

ML- Generative Patching in VCV Rack

Styli

Thank you Jonathan for adding your wonderful guitars!!

OKAY I WON'T                 Janine Levinson 2022

Guitars: Jonathan Beckenstein @jonathan_beckenstein
Song, bass, keys, vocals: me

Don't be sad    
Don't be shy    
Don't give yourself to every guy

Don't be hard 
Don't be small            
Don't be anything at all

Okay Mom, I won't      
Okay dad, I'll be     
Just what you want
But there's one thing 
I won't be me!

Don't be weak   
Do what's right   
Don't stay out too late at night

Don't be fat 
Don't be lazy  
Keep your mouth shut 
Don't act crazy

Okay Mom, I won't      
Okay dad, I'll be     
Just what you want
But just one thing 
I won't be me!

Time will tell if you destroyed me
Or just simply took my joy
Could it be that I annoy you
Or did you wish you had a boy?

Don't be me
Just be them
Satisfy their every whim

Don't be real,
Don’t be ferocious
Don't reveal my real emotions

Okay Mom I won't
Okay Dad I'll be
Your nice little girl
But just one thing
I won’t be me!

Okay I Won't  -with Jonathan Beckenstein

This is my first song for this year's 50/90 songwriting challenge! (https://fiftyninety.fawm.org/)

I've been thinking about little ones leaving the nest quite a lot recently. My kids are 10 and 7, so not imminent, but it still makes me feel a tiny bit sad (and a tiny bit relieved). I certainly know others with kids who are closer to that point, so this one's for them 🙂

When I'd finished my bits on the track, it felt like it was still missing a little something. So I sent it over to my man @nahlejmusic for some sweet percussive magic and, as always, he promptly delivered the goods. Thank you!

LYRICS & MUSIC © David Taro

Oh little bird standing on the edge
Of your nest, will you fledge
Are you ready for it yet?

Oh little bird do your feathers feel the breeze
In the leaves of the trees
Will you spread your wings and see?

Oh, little bird...

Oh little bird getting stronger ever day
It's okay, fly away
You were never bound to stay

Oh little bird, there’s a future yet to write
Taking flight out of sight
In the hazy morning light

Oh little bird...

Oh little bird, wherever you may go
You must know, though you roam
This will always be your home

Though you roam
This will always be your home

Little Bird

Acoustic Guitar and Djembe recorded with AKG P170
Drum patterns taken from FPC plugin
Mixed with Fruity Loops

Torella

4Dec22

https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/sets/looking-through-different

:D

Looking through different windows [part 9]

White Owl (part 1) - (pinkdot & my antiques in my index #2 prod. by pinkdot)

｢彼女の象徴的な陛下の要求 ~ GRAVE CON FUOCO｣

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
No relation to, and not inspired by, certain album by The Rolling Stones.

Cover art: "A Vision of Fiammetta" (1878) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edited by me.

Her Symbolic Majesty's Request

ＨＥＲ･ＳＹＭＢＯＬＩＣ･ＭＡＪＥＳＴＹ＇Ｓ･ＲＥＱＵＥＳＴ

This track contains modified Creative Commons samples from...

Bound_to_Sound
https://freesound.org/people/Bound_to_Sound/sounds/564609/
NoiseCollector
https://freesound.org/people/NoiseCollector/sounds/64363/
AlienXXX
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/271649/
buggly
https://freesound.org/people/buggly/sounds/729289/
transitking
https://freesound.org/people/transitking/sounds/59284/
FullMetalJedi
https://freesound.org/people/FullMetalJedi/sounds/383493/
busabx
https://freesound.org/people/busabx/sounds/639418/

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