The Jazz Joint Donkey Floats Downstream

Zappa wants you to dance, 
This track contains elements of many of my old tracks  The music merges the bass and drums from "Those Sounds" (120bpm)and the guitar solo from "The Regretful Donkey Dreams of Power" (130bpm)
Also featured are the voices of - 
Frank Zappa (Dance Contest, Bacteria Language)
The Tipsy Lady
The Frightened Tipsy Lady
The Excited Train Guy
Donkeys
Dormice
Pigs
The Laughing Old Man
The Woman from Watch with Mother
Opening a can of Guinness
A Bell and a Horn.

I tried dancing to it and i danced like i have never danced before : )

You Are Going To Dance

The donkey story continues................... remember the ritual tap dance that the two missing donkeys had to perform? Of course you do, well the dwarf donkey druids were the ones responsible for thinking up all the daft rituals. In their spare time they assemble under a mighty mushroom and chant incomprehensible, but beautiful, nonsense. Video here - https://youtu.be/b0KKwI87Xow

The Chant of the Dwarf Donkey Druids

This is a cover of David Bowie and Brian Eno's  "Subterraneans" from the 1977 album "Low"


SUBTERRANEANS (David Bowie cover)

Over the last few weeks i have been watching the daffodils in my garden steadily growing while the rain pours down, day after day, week after week. While the Dormouse sleeps the daffodils grow and the rain pours down. 
The daffodil is the national flower of my home country, Wales. Yes the same Wales that is going to win the 6 Nations Rugby Championship for the third year in a row. Time will prove me right or wrong but one thing is for sure, the dormouse will keep sleeping and the daffodils will keep growing.
Thats actually two things but who's counting : )
The "musical formula " for this track was that all the phrases should rise in pitch (there are about 4 different melody tracks and multiple phrases) but i kept to this formula without exception, except on two occasions, well, perfection is such a burden don't you think?

Rise Of The Daffodils

I am old enough to be Katie Perry's father, but thankfully i am not.
I like Katie Perry as a reggae baritone, she is much more expressive. Frank Zappa is music, Katie Perry is also music and a legitimate target for me to manipulate. I love this track but then it was written by a committee of evil songwriters, i didn't stand a chance. I prefer my twisted reggae baritone version though : )


Wide Awake (Reggae baritone remix)

Tis the season to be jolly, so i thought i would experiment with some sparkling wine, Lagioiosa Proseco Doc Treviso, £6.99 at Morrison's, bargain. 


One Good Sparkling Wine Is Enough

This is Tom Waits reading a Charles Bukowski poem called "The laughing heart"
The first version is here - https://soundcloud.com/deeplydazzled1/you-are-marvelous-and-the-gods-wait-to-delight-in-you-bukowski-laughing-heart-read-by-tom-waits

You are marvellous
the gods wait to delight in you.

You are marvellous
the gods wait to delight in you.

Your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.

You are marvellous
the gods wait to delight in you.
You are marvellous
the gods wait to delight in you.

There may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.

You are marvellous
the gods wait to delight in you.

You can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, 
You can't beat death but
you can beat death in life,
That's a beauty
That's a beauty

the gods wait to delight in you.
That's a beauty
That's a beauty


#Tom Waits #Charles Bukowskiughing heart"

You are Marvellous (Second version)

Does this track go forwards? or backwards? I think the horizon lies somewhere in the middle, so if you listen in stereo you should be OK.
Koa Telecaster

Where Can The Horizon Lie?

Steve Hillage = Gong = Daevid Allen. 
Back in the 1970's, things were quite normal and very Very modern, as each year went by, everything new was state of the art. Gong fitted right in, under the radar, swimming with the Mothers in the cess pool of excitement. I miss those dirty old days...



Gong Is something in the mind

This is track 5 on CD 2, Recorded in 2003 on a  MT400, 4 track cassette recorder.
No beer, just tea and Golden Virginia rollies with a Swan slim-line filter for my health.
The first half of this bass riff is a direct copy of the first half of a Bill Nelson bass riff,
The second half of the bass riff is just what I came up with next and has nothing to do with Bill Nelson whatsoever.
I played the bass on a Yamaha PSR 320 keyboard.
A brief guitar riff on an Epiphone Les Paul Custom.... and...
Then I figured out how to use the Arpegiator on my Yamaha PSR 320  keyboard.
Then I figured out that if I put TWO Swan slim-line filters in my Golden Virginia rollies, I would live twice as long.
Then I figured out how to record audio from SKY TV into the MT400,
I think it was the GOD channel that I stumbled onto and a preacher called Benny Hinn singing "Then sings my soul" 
Then i rolled a double filter rollie and played Benny Hinn singing over my Bill Nelson inspired backing track and I thought I was onto something.

CD 2

Angels are waiting.

This is a track made up of lyrics that I wrote in 1982, spoken in 2017 over an abandoned backing track from 2012 called "Donkey belly dance".
I also added a guitar part, in 2017, on a Yamaha SG2000s which I bought in 2006, which was last re-strung in 2016 and played with a plectrum I bought in 2002
The image is of a book of lyrics that I compiled in 1984 on an exercise book that I stole from Derek's book shop earlier that year (I got away with it as i always did , sorry Derek), The image was taken on a camera that I bought in 2003 and uploaded in 2017 to a computer that i bought some years ago.
Time keeps on slip slip sliding away........

Monument

May 2020
Drums - EZ Drummer 2
Bass Riff - Squier Blaster bass played by DeeplyDazzled three times and looped
Lead guitar - Fender Stratocaster Deluxe (Fen) played by DepplyDazzled
Voice - "Are you sitting comfortably" by David Bowie from "Peter the Wolf" LP


I was aware of this track in the mid 70's, my brother had the album "Tago Mago" by a group called "Can". and he let me listen to it with several conditions attached to the borrowing, one of which was that he would torture and then kill me if there was any dust on the record when i returned it to him. Having returned the record to him I promptly ran away from home fearing imminent torture and death.
I never listened to "Can" again until i bought my brothers immaculate vinyl collection from him in the early 2000.s. 
I immediately listened to this record again and left it out in the dust for a week and then put it away.
I listened to the album again recently and loved this track, particularly the bass riff, which is really quite fast, and i also liked the the general bonkersness and analog feel to the whole 18 minute track and the album too.

Halleluwah (by CAN) (DeeplyDazzledDonkey sitting comfortably version)

More tunes here - https://soundcloud.com/deeplydazzled1
I like recording music. 12 guitars, E-Bow, Line 6 pods, TH2 amp modelling, Roland XP30, Omnisphere, Trilian, Stylus RMX, drum sample Cd's and Ableton Live Lite 7.Influences include - Guinness. 

Deeply Dazzled Donkey

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