Edmono: Follow the Light

I wrote and uploaded this prior to Ukraine getting attacked as it has, and their demonstrable resolve.  I think it fits, to some extent! 


Originally, this was written with a particular friend in mind, a particularly resilient individual!

The vocal has been getting on my nerves - sounds deep enough in the mix on my main headphones, but on anything else it's too damned loud, and drowns out the backing.  Then I've mixed it on other headphones as well, and find it goes out of whack in other ways when I put my main set on - causing an unhelpful mixing conflict! Comes about from not being a pro I guess! 

Anyway, it's a positive message, least I think so - about acceptance, and how we adapt in the face of change and other challenges, but ultimately not wishing for anything different to our lived experience.

It's a warrior song I guess, about someone shaped by their experiences, who wouldn't be without them, wouldn't undo them, on account of having a certain sense of strength that can be attributed them, and ultimately being at peace with what they've come to be, in light of all experiences.  I visualised all sorts of things, but ultimately it focusses on resilience in the face of new difficulties life throws at you , and feeling more equiped than we would have been way back when... it's that sort of thing.

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Bring You Down I Wanna

Strange Ore

Don‘t Fuck The DJ

As well known as it is that the memory is used to falsify our past impressions in innumerable cases up to the unrecognizability; you pay very little attention to the fact that the gift is also inherent in it to correct impressions. Thus it sometimes happens that we see a being before us in the spirit with an attitude, a gesture, a look, as we have never actually perceived it in this being. And yet, just as it stands before us in our memory, it appears to us as absolutely real. Such a memory picture represents, so to speak, the arithmetic mean of hundreds of pictures of that being, which we have actually seen in the course of time, or which we thought possible. And so the memory, just the memory gives us a higher truth, as it could not be granted to us in the really experienced moments.

S'il est bien connu que la mémoire a tendance, dans d'innombrables cas, à falsifier nos impressions passées jusqu'à les rendre méconnaissables, on remarque très peu qu'elle a aussi le don de rectifier les impressions. C'est ainsi qu'il nous arrive parfois de voir en esprit un être devant nous avec une attitude, un geste, un regard que nous n'avons en fait jamais perçus chez cet être. Et pourtant, tel qu'il se présente maintenant à nous dans le souvenir, il nous apparaît comme tout à fait réel. En effet, une telle image souvenir représente en quelque sorte la moyenne arithmétique de centaines d'images de cet être que nous avons en partie réellement vues au cours du temps, ou que nous avons crues possibles. Et c'est ainsi que le souvenir, précisément le souvenir, nous donne une vérité supérieure, telle que nous n'aurions pas pu l'obtenir dans les moments réellement vécus.

Είναι γνωστό ότι η μνήμη τείνει σε αμέτρητες περιπτώσεις να παραμορφώνει τις εντυπώσεις του παρελθόντος πέρα από την αναγνώριση, αλλά είναι δύσκολο να παρατηρήσει κανείς ότι έχει επίσης το χάρισμα να διορθώνει τις εντυπώσεις. Έτσι συμβαίνει μερικές φορές να βλέπουμε ένα ον μπροστά μας στο πνεύμα, με μια στάση, μια χειρονομία ή ένα βλέμμα που ποτέ δεν έχουμε πραγματικά αντιληφθεί σε αυτό το ον. Παρ' όλα αυτά, μας φαίνεται, όπως μας παρουσιάζεται τώρα στη μνήμη, ως απολύτως αληθινό. Μια τέτοια εικόνα μνήμης είναι, τρόπον τινά, ο αριθμητικός μέσος όρος εκατοντάδων εικόνων αυτού του όντος, μερικές από τις οποίες έχουμε δει ή σκεφτεί στο πέρασμα του χρόνου. Και έτσι η μνήμη, η μνήμη και μόνο, μας δίνει μια ανώτερη αλήθεια, την οποία δεν θα μπορούσαμε να είχαμε αποκτήσει τις στιγμές που τη βιώσαμε.

So bekannt es ist, daß die Erinnerung unsere vergangenen Eindrücke in unzähligen Fällen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit zu fälschen pflegt; man beachtet sehr wenig, daß ihr auch die Gabe innewohnt, Eindrücke richtigzustellen. So kommt es zuweilen vor, daß wir im Geist ein Wesen vor uns sehen mit einer Haltung, einer Gebärde, einem Blick, wie wir ihn tatsächlich bei diesem Wesen niemals wahrgenommen haben. Und doch leuchtet es uns, geradeso wie es nun vor uns in der Erinnerung steht, als durchaus wirklich ein. Ein solches Erinnerungsbild stellt nämlich gewissermaßen das arithmetische Mittel vor aus hunderten Bildern jenes Wesens, die wir zum Teil tatsächlich im Laufe der Zeit gesehen haben, oder die wir für möglich hielten. Und so gibt uns die Erinnerung, gerade die Erinnerung eine höhere Wahrheit, wie sie uns in den wirklich erlebten Augenblicken nicht gegönnt sein konnte.

The Persistence Of Memory

KRAE-  - _JUST PRETEND THAT I'M NOT EVEN HERE_           _INSTRUMENTAL_

Music to accompany a series of images taken of the same view over a period of about a year. Includes many sunrises. The video is available from:
https://youtu.be/pf5dPaugpEY

A walk through time (position 6)

Cosmic Cycles. collaboration between Steve Coombes & Anomon.

Knock Around

Thank you Jenny and Kim for lending me your sweet voices :) :) xx

Do you receive what they say ?
Would you believe it all anyway ?
Through those eyes, do you realize 
it’s me ?

Do you receive what they say ?
They say it’ never all pink, all grey
Colour-blind, help me please to find
it’s me...

You take it, don’t choose it
You learn how to use it
You try not to lose it

Do  different stories bloom ?
In that mind, do you walk from this room ?
Tell me the tale of the blue whale
it’s me


Sweet darling Seventeen
were you keen, did you have youthful dreams
or did you think that this life would stink
it’s me

You take it, don’t choose it
You learn how to use it
You try not to lose it

One spark outrun
There goes the sun
Now things are done
Let’s all go and have some fun

Do you receive what they say ?
They say it’s never all pink, all grey
They I guess, most surely know less
than me

mOag - it's me

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.

Water Rises

Dirk Diamond

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