This song rocks. Love that riff. Ten out of ten in my book...Great work DT!

Great “rocky” song David! Almost, dare I say, Beatles-Lennon-ish!!!

Epic blues number David. Love the slide beneath the riff.  Encouraging words to the young where every major event can seem so momentous!

Ooh thats a rude slide, we know when that enters the room. Door smashed open....Im fucking here!!!! Awesome geetaring. I was gonna say, I could hear Lennon wacking this out, someone beat me to it but Ill say it anyway. You produce great work man.

You and your collaborators have created a fantastic batch of songs this month. It’s been fun listening to them. Will be listening again for sure. Well done!

Great song ❤️great production 🔥🔥🔥

Layered sounds like a mille-feuille

nice deep repetition

This Is Not The End

Here's my latest single 'Judy', an indie pop song about life, dreams & spreadsheets. All the important stuff, basically.

Check it out on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4WnwbUC9pkhF5oJo2s5IcV
Bandcamp: https://davidtaro.bandcamp.com/album/judy
Youtube: https://youtu.be/BllYMQOmOS4

[UPDATE] Reviews are coming in for Judy!

“From start to finish this song packs a beautiful punch and encourages the listener to ultimately get out there and live their life to the fullest.” - Gifted Balance Records, The Study Lounge Blog
https://www.giftedbalancerecords.com/thestudylounge/davidtarojudy

“A beautiful and pretty sounding song with a stinger ending and a great, radio friendly length, Judy has all the elements needed for a huge hit that already sounds absolutely timeless. One of our favourites in a long time.” - Send Me Your Ears
https://sendmeyourears.com/david-taro-judy/

“Representing the London music scene, David Taro is a singer, songwriter, and multi-talented performer who’s put his signature essence on his latest, ’Judy’. Keeping things genuine in the song’s prowess to tell a compelling story through imagery-filled lyricism, there’s definitely an optimism that comes through by the final notes.” - We Write About Music
https://www.wewriteaboutmusic.com/reviews/david-taro-judy


Thank you for listening

LYRICS:

Judy wakes up
Sips from a cup of coffee
Runs for the bus
Same way she has forever
And if you don’t get too excited
Well, you won’t be sorry

Judy is bored
Largely ignored by colleagues
Chews on a pen
Turns back again to the spreadsheet
And if you don’t have dreams to start with
Well, they can’t get broken
And ah, they can’t get broken

Judy has friends
Katie and Ben and Emily
Known them for years
Drank cheap wine and beer in their company
But she don’t see much of them these days
They’ve all got families
And ah, they’ve all got families

Judy, if wanna live the way you wanna
Who am I to judge you
You don’t have to be like you get told to be like
Don’t need someone to love you

Judy comes home
Has dinner alone in her bedroom
Washes her plate
Stays up til late with the TV
And when she turns the lights off
Well, she won't be sorry
Ah, she won't be sorry
Ah, she won't be sorry

Judy

Arbeit macht frei. Work sets you free. This is what is written with all the unimaginable sarcasm possible at the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camps that can be visited in Poland. This site makes us remember what Hitler was capable of. About at the same era, Stalin planned and exacerbated the Holodomor in Ukraine to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Some people estimate that 5 million people died during the Holodomor while 6 million people died during the Holocaust. Do we remember it? About a century later Mr.P is trying to do the same Holodomor, again, in Ukraine. Don’t we get it?  

“This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is not a coincident. Those are historic facts”

Music & Production: Syrel 
Photography: Syrel   (Auschwitz as I visited on 2016)

Musical Note: This score was mostly made using a trio of Spitfire Audio (SA) LABS plugin “Cello Moods”, which is the Cello marvellously played by Alice Allen and to whom I should give all the credit for the cellos emotion in this music. I also used some instruments from SA TUNDRA library as well as 2 instances of SA BBCSO.

Remember (feat. Alice Allen on the Cello)

Last Day Of Eternity

Favorite Beatles Song!!! All recorded on GarageBand iPhone!!!

Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles Cover)

Composed & Performed by Chris Dargay
E.O.S ~ 2022
For Mike

Desert Walk 3

A spicy collaboration between the two great minds of MrMules and the Pharmaceutical Phaggot.  Huge thanks to MrMules for working with me.  I had a lot of fun working on this, and could not have done it without him.  Here are the links to his pages:

https://soundcloud.com/user-402326148
https://mrmules.bandcamp.com/releases

Personel:
MrMules - Vocals, lyrics, drums, bass, piano, percussion
The Pharmaceutical Phaggot - Guitar, slide guitar, piano, bass, sound effects

The Demon Drink

The Demon Drink - MrMules collaboration

Télégramme

Oh j'aimerais te revoir
Toi dont les yeux ont brillé
Dans la pénombre du soir
Comme la paille et l'espoir
Dans nos âmes abimées
Oh j'aimerais te revoir
Pour simplement raviver
Ce moment dans nos mémoires
Au détour de cette allée

Comme rêve evanescent
Comme euphorie transitoire
Nos vies se dispersent au vent
Et c'était il y a longtemps
Qu'on s'est perdu à la gare
Comme rêve evanescent
Qui brûlait dans ma guitare
Et dans tes yeux scintillants
De s'en remettre au hasard

Emportés dans d'autres villes
Où d'arrivée en départ
Chacun déroule son fil
Les souvenirs en exil
Remisés dans les tiroirs
Disparaissent sous la pile
Emportés dans d'autres villes
Quand les chemins se séparent
Et les illusions s'effilent

On est désormais si loin
Etrangers et sans savoir
Ce que l'autre ailleurs devient
Effacés des répertoires
De plus de signe à plus rien
Entre nous des territoires
On est désormais si loin
Mais j'aimerais te revoir
Et savoir que tu vas bien

Alexis Roche's Album

Télégramme

Lyrics:
No one can tell you anything babe,
You gotta decide on your own.
No one when can take you from me babe,
You gotta fight and say no.
And from the mouth of babes, it's known.
Especially when the light is shown.
Spinning that yarn all alone,
Someone's gotta clean up when you're gone.
No one can take you from you,
Unless you lett'em have their way.
No one can tell you anything babe,
You gotta decide on your own.
Especially when the light is shown.
And there'll come a time you'll have to throw,
Away all the things you've been told.
Especially when the light is shown.
Especially when the light is shown.

When The Light Is Shown

I've been noodling with this riff most of January, so it seemed a good starting point to build a song around today. It's kind of an open letter to myself aged 16. Back then I had a pretty catastrophic falling out with my friends (entirely my own fault I should add). It ended up being quite a sliding doors moment - I went to a different sixth form, joined a band which I'm still part of today, met my wife-to-be. Anyway, I distinctly remember feeling like the world had ended. And I wanted to sort of reach back and tell my younger self that, while it may be rubbish at that particular moment, you'll learn from the experience and... it will get better!

(Special thank you to my erstwhile friend and lead guitar maestro Fareed Sahloul for the screaming guitar solo on this one!).

LYRICS:

I know you feel bitter
I know you feel ashamed
I know you feel broken
I know you feel blamed
I know you feel compromised
I know you feel stoic
I know you feel sorry
But you’re too proud to show it

But boy this is not the end
This is only the beginning

I know you feel empty
I know you feel proud
I know you feel worthless
I know you feel cowed
I know you feel an aching
Deep down in your heart
I know you feel everything 
Is slowly falling apart

But boy this is not the end
This is only the beginning

I know you feel haunted
I know you feel mad
I know you feel reckless
I know you feel damned
I know you feel insecure
I know you feel branded
I know you feel something
But you can't understand it

But boy this is not the end
This is only the beginning

(Let me tell you 'bout the future...)
Some dreams they happen
Some dreams they don't
Some days you'll be happy
Some days you won't
You're gonna have family
They're gonna fill you with you love
Not gonna get everything
But you're gonna get enough

And boy this is not the end
This is only the beginning

Everybody falls
Everybody falls
Everybody falls
It's how you come back

This started life with me messing about with a capo on a high fret of my nylon string guitar. My first attempt at words was genuinely awful. "You make the dinner and I'll pour some wine...." sort-of-thing... BLEURGH. As with many slow numbers, I found that going darker with the lyrics unlocked the song. Disclaimer: I don't think anyone would actually be like this in real life, I just rather enjoyed the metaphor (and the title, I like the title).

LYRICS

You strike a match
And I'll toss it in
We'll watch together
As the fire begins
It's a kind of addiction
We both know is a sin
But who cares

Stand in the moonlight
Watching the flames
The innocent victims
With unmemorable names
And sooner or later
We'll do it again
So who cares

There goes our love again
There goes our love again

Your friends think I'm crazy
I'm poison for you
I'm weak and I'm lazy
Hell, most of it's true
But deep down they know
That you're built like that too
So who cares

When we're together
The flames never cease
We’re both like a jigsaw
With one missing piece
I guess maybe someone
Should call the police
But who cares

There goes our love again
There goes our love again

Oh, I know it’s crazy
But I love to watch it burn
So let’s burn it down again

There goes our love again
There goes our love again
There goes our love again

The Arsonists

For my sister, and the many other strong women that we all know. Backing vocals and co-write courtesy of the inestimable @sonya-heller.

LYRICS:

There are times
When I forget myself
And all the trouble in this world
Then I feel guilty
For feeling happy
I know it sounds absurd

But when I think of you
Things you’ve been going through
All I really want to say is

Sister, oh my sister
You are strong
Stronger than I'll ever know

You’ve been dealt
Your share of hardship
Oh, but in the face of yours
You walked for miles
Across the desert
Now you're running many more

So when I think of you 
And every sister too
All I really want to say is

Sister, oh my sister
You are strong
Stronger than I'll ever know
Sister, oh my sister
You are strong
Stronger than I'll ever know

Oh sister
If the truth be told
I don't know what the future holds
But, it's like we've learned to say
Don't do tomorrow
What can be done today

Sister, oh my sister
You are strong
Stronger than I'll ever know
Sister, oh my sister
You are strong
Stronger than I'll ever know

Stronger, stronger
(Stronger than you'll ever know)

Sister

This was recorded sometime ago: It depicts the missile hit, the long fall from the sky, the crash, the souls rising to heaven. Violin improvisation by Matilde Pinho. During the high international tension that followed the tragedy, an officer in charge - Stanislav Petrov - refused to pass up the alarm of a balistic missile attack, apparently coming from the USA, generated by an early alert system that was supposed infallible. That refusal broke protocols and doomed his military career. But he probably saved us all from nuclear disaster.

Estivemos bem perto do fim, quando o Sol brilhou sobre as nuvens, e os braços dos que caíram do céu ainda se erguiam desde o fundo do mar, clamando por vingança. Mas tu, na hora mais extrema, não cedeste à lógica do medo, ao conformismo da nomenclatura. Não alertaste o líder supremo. Eram tempos de paranóia, e acabaste os teus dias despromovido, porque viste mais alto. "Não sou herói. Só fiz o meu trabalho" - dizias. Mas, agora que partiste, te lembramos e dizemos: "Avé, Stanislav. Os que por causa de ti não morreram te saúdam."

KAL 007 e Stanislav

Don't Squeak Unless You Are Squoken To (acoustic guitar instrumental)

Here's the first of two older tracks that I've re-recorded to go onto a potential album later this year. Hope you enjoy!

LYRICS

Daniel, you could get away with anything
Cos the world seems so much brighter when you’re smiling
Daniel, when did you get so big?
You're running round the garden with those older kids

And you’ll always be my baby
But it’s crazy how you grow
Daniel we were young
But now we’re getting old

Daniel, seems like no time at all
Since I held you to my body in the hospital 
Daniel, I never want to let you go
But I know I'm going to have to, it's inevitable  

And I'm watching all the changes
They're amazing to behold
Daniel we were young
But now we’re getting old

I took a picture, put it in a book
Maybe in fifteen years you're gonna take a look
And then in fifteen more you’re gonna look again
Remember just how much I loved you, my friend

Daniel, you could get away with anything
Cos the world seems so much brighter when you’re smiling
Daniel, I never want to let you go
But I know I'm going to have to, it's inevitable

And you’ll always be my baby
But it’s crazy how you grow
Daniel we were young
But now we’re getting old
Daniel we were young
But now we’re getting old
Daniel we were young
But now we’re getting old

Daniel

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Half-British, half-Japanese, South London-based singer-songwriter and producer. Indie pop, rock and blues. Thank you for listening!

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