by any means, perish. +prod. neverforever+

RENDEZVOUS

In December 2017 I collaborated with Adelmo Silva on “I Gotta Getta.   I sent him vocal and rhythm guitar tracks, and Adelmo took it from there.   I promised at the time to post the original song “in a week or so”.   Well, it's been a long long week.
	The rhythm guitar and lead vocal tracks are the ones I sent to Adelmo … all the rest has been added since.

	This song is about being human - there are days when you wake up thinking you have missed out on life, and worse, that is is your own fault!.   Part-and-parcel with this realization are deeply held, if unrealistic, ambitions, and a largely illusory view of what life has to offer.
	Adelmo's remix can be found at:
		https://soundcloud.com/kcm069/i-gotta-getta-with-adelmo


Lyrics:
	I never had no passion and I never had no cool
	I never learnt a trade and I couldn’t finish school
	I never got to travel and I never saw the light
        but I gotta get some action and I gotta getta a life

	I gotta find enlightenment and learn some cosmic things
	and I gotta have a reason to laugh and dance and sing
	but I’m dying on the dole, cannot find a good career
	and I’m running out of money so I gotta get outta here

	now I wanna be a pop star, and have a hit or two
	and I wanna getta habit, cause that’s what pop stars do
	and I wanna be a S.O.B., and drink and screw and curse
	and when my fans get wind of it, I wanna make it worse

	I gotta get some status, gotta getta female friend
	and I gotta have a party where the good times never end
	and I gotta getta Cadillac and drive it all around
	impressing all the sheilas with the power of my sound

	I gotta getta
	I gotta getta
	I gotta getta
        I gotta getta, gotta get outa ...

Not For Sale

I Gotta Getta

free download

Shameless plug for my other project.  A new song is up as well as a live version of Hide the Sin in Your Eyes: https://soundcloud.com/cngchorale.

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Haunted Player Piano

YouTube video link: https://youtu.be/Gm96bh0OhOE
Here is the result of my pent up frustrations over, what I truly believe, a wildly inflated pandemic...The global economic suicide that has taken place on an unprecedented scale will only succeed in creating new opportunities for opportunistic greed, and an even more complex, less free life for all of humanity. Tell me your life hasn't already changed~ 

Oh to be a spider
To sit down beside her
Right now
And take in those curves and waves
Lucky you with eight legs
Right now
Getting through the isolation
Darkness
Dark confusion
Somehow without any loneliness
Right now
In this exercise of fear
I hold dear
I move in and out of fear
Right now
In panic
Right now
The rage and denial
Right now
That they're doing this to humanity
All the world's on trial
Right now
Cut it all out
Remove the subtle
Right now
Replace non-sensory overload
Castigated through no fault of our own
The magnolia trees bloom white
Right now
Still
Except deep inside
A blood red rose
The center hides the truth
Right now
Behind this unfurling petaloid awakening
Pulse the limits of recompense
Towards the reign of infinity
The end of the blindness.....
The collapse of the white blossom
It will lead to a perfect cone
Lopped off
Right now
The twisted will regather
And see again
Right now
And some of the uncertainty has consumed us
Right now
I already feel freak enough
Let alone when I walk down the street
On the sidewalk
People run to the other side
Touch-less fucking society
Right now
Black fruit
My soundtrack
For this stinking fucking life
No, it's not yours
Bug off
Right now
Petaloid awakening
(p)(c)2020 Michael S. Cichon. All rights reserved

Ode To A Spider (Right Now)

So enjoy collaborating with others, like my good friend, Lawrence Farr. It is enjoyable because they do all the work! Lawrence had this posted for a bit on his side of the cloud of sound.  I just want to put it up on mine so I can listen to it easily. Love me that Do Wop. And, thanks a million Lawrence!  My friend Nicky on Fiverr played guitar!

Do Wop Girl (Collaboration with Mr. Lawrence Farr!!!)

Something fun - check it out on youtube - search Ferensick

Groove

Our version of The Cure's Lovesong. with a spanish twist. Check out the video of it on our youtube channel here https://youtu.be/5754SwiHDqs   xx

Lovesong - The Cure (Lily Brings the Weather Cover)

Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Cover, Arr. by David Brandt, 1-1-21)

This is probably one of the larger “productions” I've done. I’d always been moved by Greg Allman’s solo LP version of this tune. The song itself was written in 1907 and has been done countless times. When my father became ill and finally passed in late 2018, I put down a version of this. But everything was out of tune - the banjo, auto harp, etc. So I shelved it. However when my mother became ill this past year, the song came back to me and I decided to re-record everything in it except for the original vocal and rhythm guitar which seemed to me to still carry the spirit/feel that I desired.

This tune is particularly poignant during these Covid times with so much loss/grief.

Then I thought this definitely needed Youth Is Wasted’s touch and so Ann Schurmann and Erick “Peewee” Burdette both kicked in on some super vocal backgrounds and Erick added the driving bass line! Plus Erick added a killer bass lead at the end!!!!!

Then I thought, “hmmmm”, a violin would really be awesome in this and thus entered Natalia Dmukhovskaia from Russia who is a graduate of the Russian Conservatory there - and she knocked it out of the park on her solo!!!!!

Otherwise, I’m on the guitars, glockenspiel, pianos, banjo, autoharp, all percussion and the lead vocal. This was both cathartic and fun to create and produce.

Thanks to Max Ibaceta for his help in bringing this from GarageBand to Logic Pro and w teaching me Logic!
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"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel. The song is often recorded unattributed and, because of its age, has lapsed into the public domain. Most of the chorus appears in the later songs "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Daddy Sang Bass".
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Video production, concept, direction and shooting by Soule Videography. Viewable on Barnesivan8 - my YouTube channel.

Acting Cast: 
Ann Schurmann - Vocalist / Violinist
Erick Burdette - Vocalist / Bass Guitar
David Brandt - Vocalist / Multi-instrumentalist
Bishop Antomattei - Young Boy
Fredie Antomattei - Young Girl #1
Olivia Monderoy - Young Girl #2
Albert P. Antomattei - Shadowy Violinist


A Special Thanks goes out to Jay Richardson, Siobhan Morello, Reverend Ann and Jeff Korgen for allowing and facilitating the use of the First Congregational Church in Montclair, NJ an incredible and historic building, as well as use of their 1920’s rare Steinway piano.

Also, special thanks to:
- Mel and Gene Gonzalez, and the entire Antomattei family
- Caggiano Memorial Home in Montclair, NJ
- Northeast Elementary School
- Montclair High School
- Rosedale Cemetery

Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Cover, Arr. by David Brandt, 1-1-21)

I labeled this as country, but honestly I was thinking Tom Petty and Marshall Tucker but it was something different.  I had this chord progression looking for a rock tune it just never made across the line.

Who's Lovin You Now

New melodic metal track from Demembration

DememBratioN - Instant Evil

Just a bit of fun here. And as the song says, it’s the most tremendous new musical experience you can have....
Found an old collection of bass loops I'd recorded way back in 2015 / 2016 for a song that never quite worked out when I tried to record it. Anyways, for reasons unbeknownst to me now, at some stage over the last 4 or 5 years I sped those loops up and duly forgot about them again.  After getting a new computer last month I decided I should either delete or do something with all the random incomplete or abandoned music taking up disk space. Thusly I dragged a generic drum beat in with the loops and added some old advertisement and movie samples found at archive.org and behold, I created what is the closest I'll ever come to creating a novelty song.
The original music from which the bass loops for this song were taken can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/graeme-mc-pherson/they-dug-everything-out-of-the-earth

And if you're a glutton for punishment, there's a video for "1 minute 40 seconds" here:
https://youtu.be/J0q-bC2qrbk

1 minute 40 seconds

Dutch Metal band DemembratioN, consists of former members of Ominous (RIP), Currish (RIP) and Turbulence (RIP).
After more than 2 decades of playing music, several band member changes and musical directions Drummer Eric, Guitarist Wouter and Vocal / Guitarist Ruud rejoined with Turbulence bassist Danny.
With a focus on a more mature sound with every band member participating in the creative process of writing music and lyrics.
All recording, Mixing and Mastering by Ruud

DememBratioN - Instant Evil

DemembratioN (NL)