Here is when I hear some kettle drums building and providing power and low energy. And perhaps some cymbal crashes

Excellent song Nathan, I think with a full band it 'd even be better...

Wow, you're been in quite an emo phase! At least lyrically. The sparse arrangement sounds good. Listening to it with my monitor speakers and I don't hear any mixing mistakes.

A strong melody and nicely performed - fine song writing!

pretty dark man but the music compliments the lyric perfectly.

[Art Cover thanks to Jinie Ph of Pixels.]

Comatose State

illusions Of Safety(COMPLY)

Humanoid

If not feeling particularly terrific, maybe something like this may help you to feel a little less alone in those moments.  It's really just about some of those thoughts we sometimes, or always, struggle to let go of.  A reflection on self-fulfilling prophecies, in some respects, too much focus on the negative, and similar treasures!

I wrote this when I was 22, 21 years ago.  Adjusted the lyrics a little bit, but only a  tiny bit (extra verse too), but was still quite surprised by them ahead of the tweak, and also sad to find myself relating to these lyrics nearly 22 years later. 

Production wise, regards mastering, I like this in my headphones, but don't like it so much played through my speakers. Needs a tweak at least.  

Lyrics

You don’t know what it’s like for me
Always trapped inside my head
I'm not even old but I’m dead
Don’t know how I survive going to bed

Quick little fixes from time to time
Mean nothing to my mind, my soul
I’m not even old but I’m dead
So far away in my head

Can’t keep giving my life away
Fallin’ to pieces day by day

It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
Everything I’ve touched
Everything I’ve Loved
It all get’s dead
It all get’s painted red

Every time I try to hide, something 
Get’s me trapped inside my head 
Can’t seem to be heard like I’m dead
I feel like I’m cold, inside my bed

Everything I seem to like flips a 
Switch inside my mind love comes
To take my breath, I feel dead
The things I have hang by a thread

Can’t keep giving my life away
Falling to pieces day by day

It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
Everything gets cursed
Everything I love
It all get’s red

It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
It’s in my blood
Everything I’ve touched
Everything I’ve Loved
It all get’s dead
It all get’s painted red

Red (2002)

In The Beginning

Friday

In my collection of travel field recordings, there is a very strange tape that I don't remember having recorded... It's with this tape that I made most of this montage, with a few others field recordings also caught in Zagreb... 
Dans ma collection de field recordings de voyage, il y a une piste très étrange que je ne me rappelle pas du tout avoir enregistré... C'est avec cette piste que j'ai réalisé la majeure partie de ce montage, plus quelques autres enregistrements également captés à Zagreb...

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Bower is a surreal, downtempo soundtrack. We all need a place to call home 🖤

Lost And Found

Bower

This is another tune I worked on last week when I was kidnapped, er, when I collaborated with Josh and his band of maniacal musicians.    These guys GIT R DUN I tell you . This one evolved lots just in the few days we worked it up.  
This is June Bug

June Bug  - (Eclectic Collective)

Too Much Is Not Enough

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.

Red (2002)

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