Guitar And Synth THE BIRDS

Do you recall when you lost your mind,
When you misplaced your voice within the silence,
Where the fear suppressed your nerve to fight,
Where you casually succumbed to mental violence ?

Do you remember where you left those polished shoes
When you were free to chose to run, walk or creep ?
Did you forget that you still have that path to choose
When they clicked their fingers and told you to sleep ?

They told you to sleep

Come back into the room
Come back into the room
Come back into the room
We need you

Come back into the room
Come back into the room
Come back into the room
We need you

Come back into the room
Come back into the room
Come back into the room
We need you

Come back into the room
Come back into the room
Come back into the room

Do you recall when you lost your mind
And why the fear masked your nerve to fight ?

Back In The Room

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…

how many layers can you peel from my heart?
and yet still, I am standing here, holding you tight
my arms enfolding you as promises of all
the everything you ever dreamed, that could come true

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

now, as the sun sinks down behind a winter sky
you are snarling as a wildling,  all the snares you have laid,
flowers lying broken, all the bottles overturned
all the ashes spilling over, all the bridges that you burned, you burned, you burned...

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart
 (but something’s broken and I can’t bring it back)

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…
although it hurts so much, to stay

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

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Written made sung and played by Emma

hard it is so easy now...

Rauno Lehtinen composed this beautiful song in 1968. In song the person is remembering one of the past summer when he/she was fall in love.
I played this with steel string parlor guitar. Sound was captured with matched pair of condenser microphones. This was first time I used FMR audio`s RNLA7239 hardware compressor helping recording process.
Only little bit of EQ and reverb has been added afterwards.

Muistan Kesän (Comp. Rauno Lehtinen)

This was inspired by my daughter - who was describing her life and her relationship with school! I realised that most of our lives are like this no matter how old you are.... need to make time to live our dreams too...

Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Verse 1
Another day. Another dollar
Sometimes I just want to scream and holler
Get out of bed and put my face on
Get in the car and the race is on
Chorus
And I’m stuck in this loop, on this carousel
Going round and round, stuck in its spell
And I want to get off and rest my feet,
Bu I can’t ‘cos I’m on…Eat, Sleep, Repeat.
Verse 2
I look around and we’re all the same,
Why don’t we pull the cord and stop this train?
Don’t wanna be someone that life’s passed by
Wanna spread my wings and take to the sky
Chorus
Bridge
The player goes back to the start of the song
And it starts again and we sing along
But I’m tired of hearing this same old tune,
I wanna make my own and make it soon
Instrumental (ba da da dum)
Chorus
Verse 3
Another day, another dollar
Now I really wanna scream and holler
Get out of bed and put my face on
Fix my smile til the day is done.

Eat Sleep Repeat

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"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." 
Izaak Walton

Carameladora - DREAMS

I am one year on SC today 30 Oct 21. So I just though I'd put a quick track together, just a fun one with loads of effects on vocals and guitars, even brought back the trigger gate which I used on a lot of earlier songs. Was fun for me hopefully is for you and always listen to that little devil on your shoulder!!
I also appeared on Graeme's blog this week so if you fancy a read have a nose - https://soundcloudstories.com/2021/10/29/default-sensor-ireland/

And You Know Me

This is a remaster of a song I wrote and recorded about 10 years ago.
I had a discussion(argument) with my teenage daughter and, when I reflected on it, I realised that the things we said replicated similar discussions with my parents when I was a teenager. The song is from my daughter's (and my younger self's) perspective. She loved Green Day so I wrote it in that style and even borrowed her Mike Dirnt bass to play it.
She said " Yeah, that's alright dad"

I Might Change My Mind

I might change my mind
You know I do it all the time
And I don't need you to help me change it

I know what I want
And I know that you just don't
So leave me alone to live my own life

Don't waste my time
I don't want your nursery rhymes
You can't help me so why not leave it

Don't give me your shit
I don't need it, not one bit
You think you know things that I don't

Its useless to me now
Because you're stupid anyhow
I'll make my own mistakes in my life

I might change my mind
You know I do it all the time
And I don't need you to help me change it

I Might Change My Mind - Remaster 11.01.22

pristine snow flakes eventually turn into grimy slush on the road. both are beautiful in their own way. maybe

art by Greg Rosenke: https://unsplash.com/photos/9TfupynMF-A

slushy wonderland

A dark, cinematic Blues track set in London’s Soho district in the early 1960s. “SOHO” paints a vivid portrait of seedy nightclubs, brothels, and back-alley brutality, where fake champagne and whispered promises mask danger. With gritty verses and a haunting chorus, Ray Conn channels the menace and seduction of a city that never sleeps — unless it’s with a Micky Finn and a bang on the head. The track blends noir storytelling with atmospheric production, evoking a world of velvet lies, rotting dustbins, and power behind closed doors.

SOHO

A raw, blues-grunge confession about being kicked out by family, burned bridges, and the shame of stealing while young and dumb. Sludgy guitars and distressed vocals deliver a punch straight from the gut of a 19-year-old who had nowhere left to go.

HARD APPALACHIAN

THROWN OUT OF FLORIDA

All written by me and my guitar, home produced and mixed just for fun as well, with virtual instruments and a midi keyboard. Purely for the enjoyment of it.

And You Know Me

Default Sensor