Written for February 2022 monthly online songwriters meet-up  with 'Drunks In A Midnight Choir'. Prompt was to find one of the many (many, many) 6 word stories available out there on the internet and write a song. I used Apple loops and a midi keyboard to create the melody. (Headphones recommended to appreciate the juicy bass loop 😎) 

Kudos and thank you to Finley Parkinson from Longcroft School in Beverley for the six word story: 'Found her shoes on the roof.' (Read article about the 2019 competition here: https://firststory.org.uk/six-word-story-2019-shortlist-and-winner/)

Found her shoes
Up on the roof
But did she jump 
Or was she pushed?
Found her things
In a neat little pile
And when I asked around no one had seen her in a while

Found her shoes  
But did she jump or was she…
Pushed?

(She really loved those shoes)

They packed her room up
Parcelled it all away
Why she did it
No one ever would say
Glossed it over
Nothing happened that day
And when I asked her mum, she just looked the other way

Found her shoes 
But did she jump or was she…
Pushed?

(‘Cos she really loved those shoes
Man, I miss her and her shoes)

Did she jump, or was she…
Pushed?

Did She Jump (Or Was She...) - DIAMC Demo

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/north-at-defining-moment.html

North At Defining Moments

Standing on a tiny feeling wave
I asked myself.

What I always wanted
Was real closeness to you,
Every time I tried, I failed.
Every word I should have said to you
Was swallowed up by demons inside,
Was swallowed up inside.
Infinite deepness was beyond my reach,
But the longing was strong,  the Longing was strong,
And the closeness so far
And only these scars remind me of the war I waged with my little ray of hope 
Against myself, against myself, against all darkness.

Standing on a tiny feeling wave
I asked myself.

What I always wanted I let go like a tow rope I was hanging on, 
Unable to move on, so I held on to you. 
There was nothing you could do to help me out of this swamp, 
I kept on trying to drown myself again and again and again. 
So the days went by and you had enough of this unhappy man. 

Standing on a tiny feeling wave

I had no words, you had patience no more
Had no words, you had patience no more 
And I would have really liked to find out what closeness is for.

Standing on a tiny feeling wave
I asked myself.

Standing On A Tiny Feeling Wave

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry
Final mix by Jason Mowry
@asleepwithheadphones
@lazydadamusic

Outspace

Outspace by Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry

Inspired by the use of silence as a powerful musical tool used by Nadir. I took some scary musical risks at 2.5 minutes. Trying to be comfortable playing some uncomfortable notes that are normally harmonically musical enemies of each other.
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Windowsill

The Fringes

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In The Fullness Of Time

Tabula Rasa (Free Download)

clockwise

A newer version of a song I wrote and I recorded a couple years ago – title is from a book by Chogyam Trugpa Rinpoche I read 50 years ago. I suspect that I still haven’t learned its lessons…   

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
copyright © 2023 Don Nelson
Out on the highway
Away from it all
Learn how to fly
Learn how to fall
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism

The deepest of oceans 
The brightest of stars
The crown of creation
Do you know who you are? 
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism

Over the earth
Under the sky 
Learn how to fall
Learn how to fly
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (c) 2023 Don Nelson

Unfortunately, more and more people of music are leaving us. Fortunately, great music remains. Tina Turner passed away a few days ago and that's what prompted me to do this cover.
Video can be watched here:
https://youtu.be/8zl_gyC0rdw
I invited Per (PJ Project) to collaboration. He accepted the invitation (thanks Per!) and added another guitar, bas, drums and mixed it all up. Here's what came out of it. This is placed for now on my YT channel.
https://youtu.be/KaHDTVOnZfY

Tonight, Tina Turner, David Bowie, cover

Six over Six

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