Been There Done That

Before The Devil Knows Your Name! (basic demo)

Adam Coppock - Live Drums
Michael Walker - Guitars, Bass, Harmonica, Vocals

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered on the Fostex 8 under the Big Purple Datsun Sky Rocket Flares...

Today is The Day

When I woke up today 
I had the guts to finally say
Told myself today was going to be the day

Wipe that smirk right off of your sleeve
Put on some ambition and try and believe
Deep down I knew it was up to me

There is no reason why I cant fly 
Just as high as the birds up in the sky
Making Honey out of other peoples Money 
Isn't all there is to me

I figured out its OK just to be me
I figured Out it's OK just to be me

No I don't want to live alone
Alone all by myself
There is too much to share with somebody else
So I give you my trust 
It's worth it
There is no doubt to me

When I come down alive
Through these crescent eyes of which I will carry
Knowing better now 
Direction is no longer blurry

With a smile I will look back at you
Holding back the laughter and the tears
There is no reason why I cant die now
No Failure, No Fortune , No Fears

Through the years, the smoke and the mirrors
There is no place I would rather be
It's because of you I found myself My dear

it's OK, It's All OK

Today's the Day

Over the Rainbow / Great Ash influenced my guitar !

I Wanna Feel We're Just Like One

I wish that I could meet the crowd 
and feel that feeling once again 
I wish one day the business man
could join us to be as one
I want to spend a lot of time
in the land where there's no pain

I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one

I wish that I could meet the crowd 
and feel that feeling once again 
I wish one day I would not need
to exchange my time just for cash
I'm just feeling I'm part of a being
who exploded into infinite grains

I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one

I Wanna Feel We're Just Like One

All instruments, drums programming, production and Mix : Al' Z (https://soundcloud.com/al-zheimer-un-autre-jour)
Lyrics & vocals : Livra LB
Picture: free adaptation of Cristiano Suarez's poster
#EleNão #FreeLula #FreeBolivia #FuckFascism #FreeChile #PowertothePeople #AmericaLibre

(Lyrics)

Dark Side Of The Clown

stupid minds club
presents new show 
dark side of the clown
evil wants more
millions of idiots
paid to see
the pure justice
raped by the beast

spell is done
distorting one by one
like Dio said
the Sun is going black
but what does it matter
in the reign of blindness?
brain sucking process
in the develish way to success

The Dark Side of The Clown (All'Z Collab)

MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/@fotofilmdesignmusik8316/videos

Bluebird Wine My Coverversion

LivraLB: Lyrics, Vocals and Instrumental
Martin Luther King Speech (links below):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWe4XptHO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s

Lyrics:

Capitalism is Killing Planet Earth

Welcome to the church of the good spirits against capitalism
Welcome to the church of the good spirits against capitalism

I look at the sky and ask to the good spirits 
Pour upon us the light of Martin Luther king
I look at the sky and ask to the good spirits
Pour upon us the light of Bob Marley
I look at the sky and ask to the good spirits 
Pour upon us the light of Nelson Mandela
I look at the sky and ask to the good spirits
Pour upon us the light of John Lennon

You're a Bible plague , yeah
You fool them all
You kill the children 
Inside us
You kidnapped me
So young
You owe me
My real life

and they say buy, buy , buy,buy, buy , buy
buy, buy , buy,buy, buy , buy

Capitalism  is Killing Planet Earth
Capitalism is Killing the Best of Us
Capitalism  is Killing Planet Earth
Capitalism is Killing the Best of Us

<Martin Luthr King's speech>
"I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here?”
 that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring
 the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question,
 “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising
 a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin
 to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions
 about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must
 come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. And you
 see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question,
 “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that's
 two-thirds water?” These are words that must be said."

You're a Bible plague, yeah
You fool them all
You kill the children 
Inside us
You kidnapped me
So young
You owe me
My real life

and they say buy, buy , buy,buy, buy , buy
buy, buy , buy,buy, buy , buy

Capitalism  is Killing Planet Earth
Capitalism is Killing the Best of Us
Capitalism  is Killing Planet Earth
Capitalism is Killing the Best of Us

<Martin Luthr King's speech>
"Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city,
 we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, 
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Capitalism is Killing Planet Earth (included speech by MLK)

First song Annie ever wrote, and its about yours truly...... (no really I am as great as mt Bendigo!)

The Great Mt Bendigo

Video here => https://youtu.be/uqH4vr0IRMI

Orchestral soundtrack written for :
Organ, 6 solo violins parts, symphonic strings section (1st and 2nd violins, violas, celli and double basses), three french horns, trombone, trumpet, bass drum, cymbal and an electronic pad.

Composed by Johany Berland :

Composer, arranger, orchestrator
-
Compositeur, arrangeur, orchestrateur

All Rights Reserved

Visit https://www.johanyberland.com

Kósmos

Voice: Santi Sotomayor
Bass ; Rodolfo Planes https://soundcloud.com/rplanes
Guitars, Midi Instrumentation: Pichy Sotomayor

Original song ©2016 Pichy Sotomayor
Reversion: 2020

Blazing

There is fire that lights me, burns me and wraps me
In games of magic and chimera
Whispers that bleed, insanities that run aground
In weird places waters,

Poetry that peep, words that implore, 
Images that cry and wait, 
Songs of crazy friends, love from a few, 
Passion blazing in my veins,

Blazing, blazing, 
Books, guitars and your love, in my bonfire. 

I saw holy fire, winged demons,
Painted on antique coins,
Broken manuscripts, drawings and pictures,
Locks and old candles,

Flames of deception, old memories, 
Light trails and the candles,
The cross, rosary, my noble background, 
Alchemy of sparkles and wood,

Blazing, blazing, 
vices, certainties and pain, I my bonfire.

Arderán

Un fuego me enciende, me quema y me envuelve
en juegos de magia y quimera.
Susurros que sangran, locuras que encallan
en aguas de extrañas fronteras.

Poesias que asoman, palabras que imploran,
estampas que lloran y esperan.
canciones de locos, amor de unos pocos,
Pasiones ardiendo en mis venas.

Arderán, arderán...
los libros, las guitarras y tu amor, en mi hoguera.

Vi fuego sagrado, demonios alados,
pintados en viejas monedas.
Manuscritos rotos, dibujos y fotos,
candados y antiguas candelas.

Llagas de un engaño, recuerdos de antaño,
senderos de luz y las velas.
la cruz, el rosario, mi noble prontuario,
alquimia de chispa y madera.

Arderán, arderán...
los vicios, las certezas y el dolor, en mi hoguera.

Arderán -  Ft.  Santi & Rodolfo

Lyrics:

Draw me after you let us run
His banner over me was his love
For behold the winter has passed
the rain is over and gone
The Flowers appear on the earth
The time of singing has come

Arise my love
How I’ve longed here
For love is as strong as death

Sick with love

As i sleep my heart hears you knocking
Into your chambers please lead me
I’ve been searching for so long

Arise my love
How I’ve longed here
Till the day breathes and the shadows flee
Come away 
My beautiful one 
Through the wild over the mountains through the sea

Through the wilderness for me
Oh I am Sick with love 
so sick with love 
Sick with love

How I’ve been searching
How I’ve been dying

Oh I am sick with love

Sick With Love

Dayflower（露草）

Insects written, produced and recorded by RosesAreBlue
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All rights reserved June 2020
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Please rescue an insect today
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I see you strutting
Standing on my head
Going round and round
I see you coming

La la la la la
La la la la la ....

If only they could see
All the things you do
With all of my heart
I promise you
I will rescue you

I see you strutting
Standing on my leg
Going up and down
Over walls and up the trees
I see you running

If only they could see
All the things you do
With all of my heart
I promise you
I'll rescue you

If only they could see
All the things you do
With all of my heart
I promise you
I'll rescue you

La la la la la ....

Insects | RosesAreBlue

when did it feel like you were gone?
what does it feel like to be wanted?
you all assume that i've got souls chasing after me
did it go just like you had planned?
or was it all a crack in your hand?
did you know that it never ever takes control?
so far there hasn't been a day 
where you don't cross my mind
so far there hasn't been a night 
where your face does not appear in my dreams

ॐ

in c# major (a=432) and f# major (a=432)
written, performed, and recorded by viola moonshape in may 2020
mixed and mastered by brahma
copyright © 2020 viola moonshape

ॐ

vocals > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (tracks 01–07)
"proco rat" vocals > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > proco rat > logic (tracks 08,09)
yamaha clp-575 > garritan abbey road studios cfx > logic (tracks 10,11)
arturia pigments > logic (track 12)

ॐ

cover by brahma
photography by viola moonshape
copyright © 2020 viola moonshape

ॐ

Reaction to Pyramid Song

About this song

Psycho

... hopefully a most enjoyable, hypnotic, psychedelic, funkadelic listen !!!

re.fun.ked

Written by Terry Reeves

Terry Reeves: Vocals
Hans Albers: All instruments, Arrangement, Production & Final Mix

Watching my brother Bri living out the last few months of his life was probably the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.  We had been told that there was no cure for his illness and that, at some point, the inevitable would happen.  But right up until the final few days, he refused to accept this, believing that, somewhere out there, there was some magical remedy he would find to take it all away.  He consulted with so many ‘alternative’ therapists, who all promised their brand of snake oil would deliver him from all that ailed him.  These were always both expensive and totally useless.  

A few weeks before he died, I was sitting by his hospital bed when he actually asked me, “Do You Believe In Magic?”  Knowing what I knew, what possible answer could I give?  Bri already knew the answer too but, all the same, I wished I could have given a convincing and unequivocal ‘yes’.  Difficult though it undoubtedly was, I had to reply that I didn’t but wanting to support him as best I could, told him I believed in him and would always love him 

There is nothing worse than watching someone in their final moments, particularly when they have been such an essential part of your life.  As you get older, facing this scenario becomes unavoidable and though age provides a better understanding of the fact, it never reduces the pain.  Both Gal and I faced similar bedside questions from Bri and this song tries to reflect those onerous, interminable times when one has to be both supportive and honest all at the same time.   

What can you say about Hans that hasn’t already been said?  When I sent him the demo of this song I did wonder if the subject matter may prove difficult.  But his  incredible ability to manifest every emotional nuance in his arrangements is something that always inspires and impresses, as demonstrated so beautifully here.  (Terry Reeves)

Do you believe in magic?
Do you believe in changing world?
Do you believe it's tragic?
Do you believe there's more to be told? 

Casting spells with waving hands
Praying thoughts with pagan strands
Making deals with Devil's soul
Sharing fears for spirit parole
No, no

Do you believe in magic?
Do you believe in immortal thoughts?
Do you believe in metric?
Do you believe in nine times nought? 

Tribal dancing, releasing curse
Tantric thinking, avoid the worse
Watching stars for future needs
Not drinking tea but reading leaves
No, no

Do you believe in magic?
Do you believe in sacrifice? 
Do you believe in panic?
Do you believe in rolling dice?

Chanting mantras one more day
Reiki heat takes pain away
Resurrection not in the plan
Wooden cross protect the man
No, no

Do you believe in magic?
Do you believe in searching prayer?
Do you believe in medics?
Do you believe in going nowhere? 

Holding bible in folded arms
Writing words, performing psalms
Chasing shadows, finding light
Avoid the truth, increase the fight
(Repeat verse)

No, no

Do you believe in magic? (Repeat until end)

Do You Believe In Magic? Cripple Club & Hans Albers (please see description)

FR "Impressions" est une composition symphonique (Cordes et bois) illustrant une peinture de José Gastardi, appartenant à la série des "Nouvelles Impressions". Pour découvrir son univers :

https://www.josegastardi.com/

EN "Impressions" is a symphonic piece (Strings and woodwinds) based on a painting by Jose Gastardi, which is part of his "Nouvelles Impressions" series.

https://www.josegastardi.com/

Compositeur /composer Johany Berland
Art                                    José Gastardi

Tous Droits Réservés /All Rights Reserved

Impressions

some good vibes in 175 bpm :-) enJoy !!! // Photo by Yuiizaa September on Unsplash

Sweet escape

EASIER THAN LOVE         

2020 Janine Levinson 

There are simpler things In life than love
Like a blue sky calling when you're waking up
Or a flower when it opens from a bud 
Easier and prettier than love

It's simpler to enjoy a walk outside
Or taste a piece of fruit that sweet and ripe
But try explaining why we stay to fight
There's something here that just won't be denied

It's love making us irrational
It's love turns us into criminals
It's love that makes us act like animals
It's love.  it's indefensible.

There are smarter things for hearts to do than love
Like keeping time and pumping us with blood
If we dare to let our hearts dip into feeling 
As quicksand, we are pulled into the mud

It's love making things impossible
It's love and sometimes it feels terrible
But only love can make us feel so wonderful
It's love, and it's unbearable

It's not the same for everyone
It's one day pain and one day fun
But its been the same since time began
A paradox we're driven to
It's like a counterclockwise screw
We fall in love and it can't be undone, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

There are simpler things In life than love
Like a clear day, blue sky hovering above
Or a flower when it opens from a bud ....
Prettier and easier than love

Song, music, artwork: Janine Levinson 2020

Easier Than Love

My new album "Dreams of the Byzantines" is streaming June 13th, 2025. Please check out my new website darrencsullivan.com for videos and albums to purchase.

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Been There Done That

Darren Sullivan