REACH FOR WHITE EGGS IN THE GREENFIELDS

I was honored when https://soundcloud.com/graphicsontelevisions asked me to remake ‘Tattlesnakes’ from their fantastic album ‘Pun’. Maybe it’s the wildest one, unpredictable but coherent, it inspired me immediately !!

I've remixed to my taste their original studio stems (drums & keyboards), adding my own vocals, guitars & more... hard recommendation of headphones again !!

Lyrics are from another of my ancient poems, where I played with oxytone & eproparoxytone rhymes (translated below but with lost effect in English).

Full versions album here: https://soundcloud.com/graphicsontelevisions/sets/another-pun-a-brand-new
Downloadable: https://graphicsontelevisions.bandcamp.com/album/another-pun
I suggest checking out the original tracks too: @https://graphicsontelevisions.bandcamp.com/album/pun !!!

Letra  /  Lyrics:

Claro que ya no soy plástico,  /  Clearly I’m not plastic anymore,
ni estoy falto de razón,  /  nor lacking of reason,
puesto que, siendo simpático,  /  since, being friendly,
de sangre es mi corazón.  /  of blood is my heart.

Claro que soy esporádico  /  Clearly I am sporadic
en locos cantos espléndidos.  /  in splendid crazy singings.

Gritos de loco dolor,  /  Screams of insane pain,
llenos de mudo amargor,  /  full of mute bitterness,
claro que ya no son gélidos.  /  clearly are not icy anymore.

Claro que ya soy simpático  /  Clearly I’m yet friendly
y estoy falto de amargor,  /  and lacking of bitterness,
puesto que mi corazón,  /  since my heart,
siendo de sangre, no es plástico.  /  being of blood, is not plastic.

Y en mis cantos esporádicos,  /  And in my sporadic singings,
claro que ya no soy gélido.  /  clearly I’m not icy anymore.

Gritos de loca razón,  /  Screams of mad reason,
ya no gritos de dolor,  /  not screams of pain anymore,
claro que ya son espléndidos!  /  clearly are yet splendid!

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Tardigrade & Tattlesnakes (with Graphics on Televisions)

Nice to have a song featuring Kevin (Gibbons) on vocals!

1. Not so long ago,
I thought that i was happy on my own.
Feeling no connection
Convinced me I was better all alone.

Chorus
Then I reached out,
Didn't know  that I could have such feelings
When I reached out,
I saw a door, I saw a new beginning.

2. This prison, self-imposed
A captive in the walls of my mind
'If I could just escape
There would be contentment to find.

Chorus

Instrumental

Bridge
Seems to me
What I'm saying
Life is a state of mind.
It's up to you how you live
You can change it, anytime.

Chorus


Wigmore: Music, Production
Gibbons: Lyrics and vocals

Then I Reached Out

Songwriters : Frank Miller - Richard Dehr - Terry Gilkyson
ISWC : T-070.234.56-3
Publisher :  Montclare Music Co Ltd \ Wise Music France
Released : January 25,1960

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“The Brothers Four” are the Four harmonic voices.

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This song really made an impression on me 
when I had already started playing the guitar
(more than 30 years ago...)
It was at Christmas dinner in 1979 
at my parents’ house.
At the end of the meal, my two older brothers had
a jam session. (Photo)
They played this track, with my eldest brother
Phi Van singing lead vocals and my second oldest brother
Phi Hai accompanying on guitar and singing backup vocals.
I didn't often see them sing together,
because they were almost never there for special occasions...
I told myself I had to play it and sing along.
Except that I quickly gave up...
I was all alone singing with my guitar,
and it sounded very hollow! 🙂

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Since August, I set myself a CHALLENGE:
To do all my covers myself 
(recording the guitar, vocals, and mixing).
The vocals are fine, the guitar isn't quite there yet.
But the mixing is a real headache. 😩
I think it will take a lot of time and practice of the mixing.
I still have a long way to go...

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I really like this song.
Since I don't know how to sing choirs
To fill out the track, I did some Fingerpicking
(I've been practicing since the end of October, it was hard...)
I did a lot of takes to get there. It's not great!
I recorded the vocals and guitar accompaniment
at the same time and in one take.
There are still quite a few imperfections...
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Anh / Semi-acoustic Guitar : Fingerpicking & Accompaniment, Vocal.
Recorded : November 26, 2025.
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Greenfields - Cover (The Brothers Four)

I've always wanted to make this song. I'm very happy with the way it came together!  There are 12 individual tracks and below is a description of instruments...
Celtic Flute (Keyboard)
Background Synthesizer (Keyboard)
Peavey Bass Guitar
Piano tracks 1 & 2
Glockenspiel (Keyboard)
Strings (Keyboard)
Harp (Keyboard)
4 individual Vocal tracks (1 Main and 3 for harmonizing choir)

Image: My parents' barn at the bottom of the mountain at their home in Tennessee, United States 20 years ago.

It was snowing all night while I finished this song up and that made it even more magical!! Hope you enjoy!! and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

White Christmas

Part 2 of the final track of Then She Reaches For The Gun's 2nd Album
released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel in Adelaide Part 2 (Yahtzee with Mackerel on the Bed Mix)

Black Friday Dub Mix 01 is created by David Levinson