Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

LISTENING POST: BATCH 545

Cover of the Dire Straits classic - sometime its good just to have some fun. Best heard with AirPods walking at a brisk pace.

Six Blade Knife

Original Adam
Take me in your spare bedroom
We’re swapping atoms
The way he feels
He tastes like apples and venom
He left his mark on me

So surreal
The way this feels
A severance deal
Don’t make this weird

So what now I gotta control myself?
You’re wanting me placid but you know that I’m oceanic
So what now am I supposed to hold myself?
You left your make on me

It so surreal
The way this feels
A severance deal
Don’t make this weird

DONT MAKE THIS WEIRD

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) Mars/2024.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:

Lyrics
 
Every day,
every night,
every moment,
in my dreams,
I miss you,
I miss you,

I'll never forget,
your smiles,
and your mind,
forever in my memory,
I miss you,
I miss you,

Every day,
every night,
every moment,
in my dreams,
I miss you,
I miss you,

I miss you

I Miss You

Tropicana

Come On Outside

Your Love

Your Love (Edit)

Having returned from the silver planet, they wielded instruments of light that resembled future form and technology

Diskow

Today is my personal anniversary, so I chose a track from past recordings that makes me feel happy and somewhat proud as the flowers are in full bloom.

Flowers are in full bloom

The Gaze

Perhaps it was 2007, I started a moleskine as I have done for centuries, but this time without writing any dates, and mostly consisting of drawings. It was the year I first conceived Dream Society, graduated from art school, became self employed, lived in Battersea in a house with green walls, somewhere in a world beyond time and space; spending hours writing the most extravagant colourful websites using only a text editor, creating experimental films in which I cut out each frame by hand, making music with house hold objects and discovering a world of books that opened my mind and being to infinite possibilities, pondering about the nature of reality, consciousness and existence. My pals and I would go to the supermarket at 2:45am; I wrote songs on an old ships piano I had to tune anew every day, and a harmonium in the key of not-quite-Bb. 

Sometimes I had visions, like lucid daydreams, or frames of future memories: I once saw myself in a flowery dressing gown, writing books, in a flat with green walls in Amsterdam.  Another one had me play on Top of the Pops. Now wouldn’t that be funny, I thought. Sometimes a song would appear like that. Like this melody that appeared, and I had to write it down, and it never became a song, just a small mantra that kept popping up, sometimes, especially at times when becoming aware of my supreme impatience; a wanting of it All, Now! 

Yet when I create, I am patient, there is -only- Now. 

Many years later, in Amsterdam, not yet with green walls but in a colourful flat on my favourite canal, I started playing around with some homemade sounds, a harmonium, some birds, and then pressed record as I sang into the mic and words and melodies flowed freely, and there it was, this melody that time travelled and brought the rest of its song along, because sometimes this is how it goes, and time folds, and everything is different and yet in essence, so very much the same; falling awake from the illusion of time and space and separation, and there is only Now, and Now, and Now, in tune and in sync with the divine perfection of life.

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Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Arrows flutter in the skies
And hollow holy earth,
The under breath of wanting to believe
And the slightest lion eyes
Behold
And the crowd is going mad
Cause they want us to glorify
And the flowers glow
Sleepless nights

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Round & round rivers,
And on the boat we rock
Back and forth
The lion sleeps and slides
Sleep and find me home

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle
Be patient, love will come
Be well patient
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Bloom de Wilde: Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Synth
Nick Trepka: Bass Guitar, Birds
Sam Ritchie: Flugelhorn, String Arrangement 
Juba Wetzler: Drums

Written by B. de Wilde de Ligny
Produced by Nick Trepka, Bloom de Wilde & Sam Ritchie
Mixed by Nick Trepka
Mastered by Nick Watson @Fluid Mastering

Recorded at:
Lullabye Factory, Amsterdam
Dream Society HQ, Amsterdam
Trepka Studios, Brighton

The Circular Being

Be Patient

GOTCHU

Lyrics 
“It’s a Dopamine”
“Run and Hide, you can find your Shelter”

Find Your Shelter

Original song written over a year ago now. Inspired by someone very special, during a very trying time we went through. I was running through it tonight and decided to try and lay down a take, and thought this would do, even though this kind of song deserves the best studio. A live take here just me and my Baldwin. Thanks for listening!

Evergreens

Oooo we made it through the fire
God gave us our desire
Oooo we're shaking off the ashes
Let me dry your tear soaked lashes
Embers in the distance
How we missed the stars and their brilliance

We're both safe in the shadow of His wings
Far away from noise and all the machines 
You're the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen 
Standing underneath these evergreens 
The sunlight is breaking through
I love you 
Everything will be okay

Oooo we're gonna be a family 
God is pulling us in like gravity
Oooo forever starts today 
Leap of faith God carry us away 
Walking strong like lions
Brown and blue eyes on that horizon

We're both safe in the shadow of His wings
Far away from noise and all the machines 
You're the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen
Smiling up above the evergreens 
A narrow path right in view
I love you 
Everything will be okay

We've stood in the deepest ravines
Woken up to a loved one's screams
Holding hands while fighting upstream
All the nightmares longing for our dreams
But now we know what all this means 
Looking on eternal things unseen
We believe

We're both safe in the shadow of His wings
Far away from noise and all the machines 
You're the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen
Looking back at all those evergreens 
Everything ahead is new
I love you 
Take my hand lets go home

©Daniel Colter Valentine

Evergreens (Original song live)

A sunlit day that feels hollow and cold.  
Shadows and silence stretch across a muted world.  
Joy and warmth are absent, dreams lie dormant.  
Step by step, identity drifts toward anonymity.  
A silent, ordinary day that quietly becomes a void.

Нету веселья Нету радости Нету счастья

Tell Me Lies

A song for hope and determination and to say "never give up" no matter what...

SURVIVING LIKE AN ENGLISH ROSE - FEATURING - THE DUKE

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DONT MAKE THIS WEIRD

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