Band 4

Chrome City Fusion

This is just a very simple song, reflecting on all the shiny aspects of a nice relationship, somewhere down the road!

I wrote it for a friend at work, in 2000, for their wedding anniversary.

Re recorded it in 2024, but just thought I'd keep it the same as it originally was in 2000, aside from the drastically improved production values!  I've not changed a single lyric, though very nearly did change the whole thing.  

I thought for a while that I must have taken something from someone else's song, and have looked, but can't find anything, but I think that that concern says a lot for a certain amount of potentially unavoidable cliche in this case.  I don't mean to be horrible about this song with that reflection, as clearly, in re-recording it, I must have been somewhat taken with it, so here it is.

Lyrics

Once my dream
Everything I ever wanted
Now reality
All the love just as I said
Was there for you and me
And even after all this time
You are still there for me
So close to me
That even when you close your eyes
I fall asleep

Inside your arms, inside your dreams
See everything you are brings out some best in me

And Heaven can wait
Cause baby you’re my saint
And I have been told
This love will never go cold
And Heaven can wait 
Cause baby you’re my saint
See Heaven’s too late
Cause baby you’re my saint

When you hold my hand
You lift away the aching scars
You seem to understand
You've pulled together all the parts
Of life that scattered free
Giving me another way 
To find that light you see
There for me
Giving me a hope to hold 
And ease my sleep

Inside your arms, inside my dreams
See everything you are brings out some best in me

And Heaven can wait
Cause baby you’re my saint
And I have been told
This love will never go cold
And Heaven can wait 
Cause baby you’re my saint
See Heaven’s too late
Cause baby you’re my saint
And Heaven can wait
Cause baby you're my saint

Saint (2000)

A Bossa Nova tune about a dreamy trip. Hope you enjoy!

All The Stars

Afro-funk II

Project RESIDUE (As the Crow Flies)

I met Dave Bayes on soundcloud, with his beautiful compositions and excellent guitarplay. We had already worked together. I needed a beautiful instrumental and he needed a voice,...look what happened. Hope you like it!

Zen warrior lyrics

I’m not the kind of girl
That you see in me
I not even come close to who you want me to be
You see in me some kind of fighter in your fantasy
You call me zen warrior
Well it isn’t me, it isn’t me it isn’ t me , no  no

I’m mostly calm and at ease, my breath is deep as a soft slow breeze
Live and let live, avoid the negative
I am I am I am totally zen
(4x)

You never see me start a fight
but don’t attack me
Don’t touch my basic right 
Wanna stay out of trouble
Don’t wanne make it double
Zen warrior zen warrior

Zen Warrior (collab Dave Bayes X Saskia Goethals)

'Maybe Another Time' a Jazz Fusion track that I recorded some time ago and overlooked. So here it is now and hopefully you'll enjoy the listen.
Alan

Or Is It All An Illusion

Maybe Another Time

She's Stacey

The Lantern Fouling the Brittle Air, Listening to the Dog and the Echo

method: first, I created a shaman-monk-version (mostly ‚Gregorian‘ voice and jaw harp) on cassette tape (this is where some of the noise - especially in the first section - derives from) and zoom r20 with a vacuum-tube pre-amp for the voice ….. all of which I then treated like a field recording sample in Samplitude - sculpting it with vst instruments and effects. 
narration: it feels like I have sonified this poem a million times before …. which might be the case because I have lived through it that often - I and others I dearly care for …. but then again … I might have actually done so. it is also part of the cycle SONIC CASCADE published in  A SINGLE LOOP OF FORTUNES. Alternative titles are ‚TWO-PLACE‘ and ‚04s SAMPLE‘. For this publication, I simplify the title to  ‚SAMPLE‘.
Image: copyright jo richter. you see some of the instruments used in the shaman-monk-version, arranged with a bracelet as though displayed in a museum. 

poem / copyright jo richter:

two-place sleeps on the ground
and still doesn‘t know where it is -
all of its strings sound sound
in heaven-hellish bliss -
nothing, it says, goes amiss
that doesn‘t want to be found

sample

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.

Saint (2000)

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