Before and After Language....This song is a Markov Blanket between the two.....

Before and After Language

Hi,

I am a Soft Classical, 1930s-40s British Dance Bands , Big Bands, Jazz music listener and small time amateur composer.

I play the saxophone and piano by ear and I normally only play tunes that I know well from memory.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my first album and tracks.
These compositions are some of my musical ideas and experiments in assorted styles of Soft Classical, New Age and Tudor England style music.
I am not a musician and cannot read or write music down and I have had no formal music lessons or piano training in my life. 
I play very basic piano, on my old 1994 Yamaha Clavinova … a real pianist will hear this straight away, so I prefer the composing side of music more.

I usually get my inspiration whilst sitting at the piano or if I see something outside of the window or if there are any special occasions at the time.
Some tracks, you might be able to hear that I am recording them straight off as I play, in an unedited improvised way, so some tunes are a bit of a mystery tour, all 100% original, albeit raw…
My long-term aim is for someone to convert some of my composed tracks down on to manuscript and then it would be great if a professional orchestra could make a full orchestration of certain tracks and then may be used for a TV theme, or a film score etc.

One of the hardest things for myself to take on board is that once a new tune has been finished, I can only ever play it again if it is still fresh in my mind or practice playing it repeatedly…time passing is not good for my recount.
I did not ever envisage that I would put an album out to the public, so apart from the newer tracks, which sound better as they were recorded directly from my piano to my upstairs PC soundcard with a 7-metre cable.
Some of my earlier composed tracks were recorded with just a Smartphone, so they are no way near to approaching studio quality…. saying that…hopefully they give you some atmosphere and charm with a flavour of what I was trying to achieve.
I have put this album out mostly for my family and posterity …. music is for sharing and I have nothing to lose.

Best wishes,
Nick
(Album also on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music)

sky_sensei_mccloud

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kixZuKKtfSUifaBgPNFtH4GOnXJh1-LQg&si=tA3Q8taESqbQRxjE&fbclid=PAAab1lVp1y0S7LuQG-3I9k_QDWYRHEIoajcV4fyNO6BWRpkqCBvBplvn0L_g

Street pirates 

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l5wzZL-m4IO6NXStLfYYjRRJNR7Geqy5I&si=00m13nEnWy_EJpDv&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabgN1AkA8GkLGb7NMeUsYDPLrHMWkjLyusA0KxEHZJRD2mqx-cWo7TwtvE_aem_xKaovBM-9pHgzFHwwGSvGQ

hold up wait there's more 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kP2ucGQi-Om0Pf1vSY3myP1B3Yzewd3Ok&si=87VEh4JSOHQCLbsg

A Falling Robin are UK group split between Wigan and Newcastle, via Belfast and Leeds, who write and record their own music. The nucleus of the band are the two main songwriters and singers, Rachel Darling and Robin d Bailey. A-chance meeting on Soundcloud after Robin heard Rachels original songs, and vice versa, resulted in a mutual respect and appreciation for each others sound and songwriting. A partnership that has now evolved into quite a unique sound with some very emotionally laden songs produced. We have been played on BBC Lancs, BBC Merseyside and BBC6 music. We suspect Kate Bush and Bob Dylan listen to us, however we know they would never say...
“A Falling Robin hits that sweet spot, that is so rare, between classical song writing, assured playing and a yearning emotional beautiful vocal delivery”   Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music.

Sais Steely Dan keyboardist Jim Beard… “Congratulations on a marvelous album JOrdon!”.

Albany’s WXET Dave Michaels sais “ JOrdon your Pixie Dust album is a masterpiece!”.

Hello magical entity... Thank you for visiting..

Three names I go by are JOrdon, Jae Ordon and Mascot’s Distance,(which I use everywhere such as Spotify, Apple, etc.).

I've written music for Taye Diggs, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Pete Yorn, the Gorillaz Dan the Automator, John Spencer Blues explosion’s Russel Simons and Bed Bath and Beyond.  In summer of 2022 my recording Life Whispers On was #7 on Canada’s Cashbox Radio.  Currently finishing up a musical called Humane.


I'm playing all the instruments on many tunes, ones I'm not are…Brian Allen of Lori McKenna, Christopher Cross and Robben Ford on Bass, Michael McDonald's horn section, in addition to Yutaka Uchida playing drums on some tunes and Laurent Medelgi on guitar, also Danny Zanker and Joe Bearclaw Burcaw playing bass.
Thank you for listening to my Vegan, Folk-Jazz-Rock recordings…

I’m a singer-songwriter from Derbyshire. All songs on here are demos. Just recorded on my phone or iPad. I have songs also on philbus.bandcamp.com . Also on YouTube at @Philbus77 . I’m also on instagram at @philbus850 . My email is philbus850@gmail.com . 
    I love bands like Crowded House, Embrace, Depeche Mode, New Order and singer-songwriters like Josh Ritter, Josh Rouse, Neil Young, Kara Jackson and also all of the girls from Boygenius. Please check out my new album Tales on www.philbus.bandcamp.com
   I have been writing songs since I was about 10 years old, maybe even a bit longer as I can recall being younger than that and strumming a toy guitar and singing some sort of melody. I can play the keys a little bit and that’s where I write my songs at the keyboard, because I don’t have a band behind me, at the moment songs are recorded using keyboard presets as backing music with me singing over into my iPad. 
  I’m in the process of changing my setup and will soon start using a laptop and a keyboard to make hopefully a more unique sound, at least I hope more professional.
  I hope that you enjoy my music, that’s why I make it, because I enjoy it and I want other people to as well.
  Thanks, from Philbus, or Phil if you want to be more personal.

Based in Wigan, London and LA.
Multi Instrumentalist and songwriter: Gaz Moore
Multi Instrumentalist and songwriter: RDB

Born in Miami, managed rock bands at 14, college at 18: AA in early education, BA Mass Communications. Rock Promoter, band manager, Recording Studio Producer. Now: Singer/Songwriter Producer, Arranger.

Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.

Hidden away in the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly shapes songs that wander between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and the quiet strangeness of the everyday. Acoustic warmth, blues-stained guitars, jazz-streaked piano, and dreamlike textures fold into each other, creating music that drifts between clarity and haze.

His track In Parks Of Tall Trees found its way to Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape, a small ripple in what has become a steady tide of restless ideas. From first picking up a guitar in the late 90s and stumbling through those formative songs in the early 2000s - many of which later resurfaced on Apprentice Green - flakebelly’s path has been one of constant diversion and reinvention. The early singles collections - The Orkney Tapes (2022) and The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023) - were restless, experimental documents of sound-searching, sketchbooks where ideas were tested, broken apart, and pieced together again in the pursuit of a voice. Those experiments fed directly into the indie-folk EP Behaviours (2022), the rough-edged Lo Fidelity (2024), and the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024), described by SNACK Magazine as “like being Alice in Wonderland, transported through a maze of moments in flakebelly’s imagination.”

Now comes The Boy In The Diving Bell - out now - a 17-track reckoning with past ghosts, unfinished business, and the fragments of memory that refuse to settle. It is a psych alt-folk soup of acoustic laments, fractured tape loops, and warped dreamscapes. Much of the sound was dragged through the teeth of a battered 1960s reel-to-reel, used not as a recorder but as an instrument - reels halted, jolted, rewound, coaxed into blurples, screeches, and ghostly echoes. Mistakes are left in, first takes are preferred, imperfections celebrated. The result is an antidote to the sterilised sheen of digital perfection and the creeping spread of AI-reproduced music: deliberately irregular, defiantly human.

The Boy In The Diving Bell is only the beginning - the first of three interconnected albums, the demos for which are already written. Yet even as that arc unfolds, flakebelly has begun detouring into a very different landscape: a new project built from vinyl samples, drum loops, and dirty guitars driven through vintage outboard gear, cassette recorders, and battered mixers. It is dark, abrasive, and deliberately uncomfortable - sound pushed to the point of collapse, distorted tape glued together with transformer saturation, live mixes through old delay units, dials twisted until frequencies scream. If The Diving Bell trilogy is haunted by memory, this parallel work dives into raw sound destruction and the strange beauty of degradation.

True to his solitary instincts, flakebelly writes, records, and produces everything from his home studio. The result is music that feels lived-in and handmade - always shifting, never fixed, and forever searching for new shapes in the sound.

All socials: @flakebelly //

"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of – a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game." - Lewis Wade, Is This Music?

"Refreshingly individual and very likeable" - Neil March, Trust The Doc Media

Before and After Language

Divide the Sun