Some songs stay with us forever other we forget. Im glad you remember how good it was to record again . Your catching the feels again in this  great performance 👍

Great song Nathan! Superb vocals and lyrics!👍😎✌🏼

Music:  PJ Project & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocal:  Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix:  PJ Project

Lyrics:

So much to catch up on
Some of it never gets done
Time is too short, passes to quickly
suddenly the day is gone

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

People fussing, children shouting
So much noise all around
High demands coming from all sides
No peace to be found

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

Life is short, use it well
There is so much to gain
By slowing down, take a break
Time will pass anyway

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

It Will Be Fine   W/PJ Project

improvisation qui m'a emmené dans cette mystérieuse région qu'est la Bretagne.
improvisation that brought me into this mysterious region that is Britain.

*Magifique photo de Selin Florio.

Breizh

'my love'
https://www.instagram.com/one.man.verity.show/reel/C4reGikusR2/

Times have been hard on you and I.
Our blinds have been drawn blocking out the sunshine.
Let's pull them up and let's see what we may find.
For I need your love, you'll always have mine.
My love. You're my love. 

I'm mesmerized by your beauty and your mind.
Still, after these years, I'm amazed that you're mine.
Especially after my mistakes and selfish times.
I must hold on to you for you are divine.

my love

Chrome City Fusion

This was a difficult one to do because I tried to closely replicate how it was recorded by me in 1997, on my Farfisa F1 workstation.  Was a great bit of kit, at the time, and it's amazing what I was able to do with it.  In any case, I've remade this in a way that sounds close to how it did back then, only with much better equipment this time.  

I wrote this when I was 17, almost immediately after I wrote a sad song for a family friend's funeral "A Day will Come," which is on here too, I guess in some effort to write something a little more happy sounding.  This song is about a secure relationship, and a sense of aching that comes about when for some reason or other there are nights away from one another, that's it.

There are a couple of odd lyrics, well, one odd one at least, but I decided not to change it.  A lovely dollop of naivety here, that I wanted to keep hold of, in as many ways as I was able to achieve, making it pretty much exactly how it was in 1997, with a 2024 brush up and polish!

Lyrics

A year ago we met
It seems like only days
Since we kissed and held each other
A memory I'll always save
It seems to me time's running out 
Not something we can fight
And every time I hold you it seems
A second more till light

Time's a sickness 
Time's a weakness we can't cure
But if could we'd make it matter
Never drag our love across the floor
We can't stop the clock
Or stop the world from spinning round
It makes me feel as though my feet
Are stuck into the ground

I cry at night 
When you're not with me
Holding on to love
And keeping all my time 
Enclosed in your sweet life
I cry at night 
When the shadows of the day
Disappear 
And you're not lying there 
Close enough to drain my fears

A blooming rose inside your heart
Inside your smile
A kiss so pure so sweet to touch
I'm feeling like a child
Imagine what our lives would be
Always side by side
A roller coaster of a life
From darkness we shall hide

I cry at night 
When you're not with me
Holding on to love
And keeping all my time 
Enclosed in your sweet life
I cry at night 
When the shadows of the day
Disappear 
And you're not lying there 
Close enough to drain my fears

I Cry at Night (1997)

RPR08_71

This song was recorded as a collaboration between two home studios. My friend Greg Bartlett played drums. My friend Dean Constance played bass.

The Serpent & The Bellman

AMETISTA

Project RESIDUE (As the Crow Flies)

© 2024 Pantomime Riot

Drop a dice in the chemical soup 
Stack the odds on a splinter group
Curious tale of a naked ape 
Twisted cells now taking shape 
Make the tower and build a drone
Extract the data for your clone 
Observe the violence under stress 
Cannot cope with its consciousness 

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

Stay quiet till the morning light
Lost strength and nocturnal sight
Rub two sticks and make a flame 
Plug right into the new main frame
Commandeer and accelerate
Capture and domesticate
Fingers reach into the sand 
Claiming fertile hallowed land

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

Made a plan for a new attack 
Removed the straw from a camels back
Look into the dark night sky 
Opportunities have all passed by
Will not break and will not bend 
Has a castle to defend
So Resolution must remain 
Oblivious to the garden’s pain 

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

TELOMERE

Japanese Child

I've been writing songs for ages and ages, because it's something I enjoy doing, and that's about it. 

I've added dates to titles, however, these aren't always dates recorded, mostly just dates written because the original offerings, back then, had little to be desired with consideration to production values and all that stuff!  For the older tracks some tracks have the old backing with a modern vocal (often with a lyric rewrite), the original vocal with a new backing (when I could work with the original vocal, but not the original backing), the original song newly recorded in all areas, and less often the original vocal and backing, but with a few additions, "No" is one such example.  Otherwise, most of it is newer stuff, post 2018, and is as is, when written and recorded.    

I've had to re-record some things on account of my abilities to record demos and all that being very limited once upon a time.  

In the early days I only had a Farfisa F1 workstation thing (it's amazing what I managed to do on that), later an Atari ST, with Cubase 2 probably, a Proteus 2000, and Fostek 8 track recorder thing, and now I've got Native Instruments 14, and Cubase 12, in what amounts to an astonishingly good set up compared to my earlier resources, for about the same money as that older rubbish was back then. 

I still use the microphone I've had since I was 18, though did just recently upgrade that as well, however still pick up and use the old one, as it's still good - a Sure SM58 with a dent in it! My upgraded mic is a Sure SM7B, which is great, and I see it all the time on TV and podcasts, so must have made a good choice! 

My musical chops are focused on the piano, my main instrument, and the ukulele, which I play a lot as well.  Not doing a lot of piano-orientated songs at the moment, but I do sometimes, and mostly try to get the best out of my Native Instruments stuff.  I'm barely scratching the surface with all of the NI stuff I've got.

I Cry at Night (1997)

Dirk Diamond

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