De-tuned Bass, your speakers might groan .. with spoken word (sorry it's a bit low in the mix) 

The Tower

The quest for treasure carves a tortuous path
Heavy with scent and endeavour
Taken as a symbol, that innocent dust
Wound round the homestead
Led you away from that which was comfortable
To a land of discomfort

Written in chunks of granite
From boulders lain in strata for centuries
Expressing the need to strike its colours
Expose the flanks, hoist the standard

Naturally flawed like the best of us
Imperfect faith like the rest of us
Not to be sneezed at as expressionless
Nor even Impressionist imperative

The Universal air alive with the tiny hum of distant voices
Eternal priapic malcontents devoid of humility
Bathing in reflected glow of arrogance
Radiating from rafts of mediocre constructs
Artificially produced from over-rated, second-hand psycho-babble

If ever the tower needed pulling down

The Tower

This has been on a long journey before getting to this stage

Brahma Youth

Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain

Nice tune by The Byrds that we had fun playing.

Ballad of Easy Rider - [The Byrds]

The False Knight on the Road (Traditional)

Nottamun Town (Traditional)

Wonderful Land

Instrumental
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8MO5Xok3M&t=87s&ab_channel=DrustIV

Too Much Fugue For One Gringo

Three sisters run a grocery shop on the outskirts of Wirksworth, though only two have ever been seen. This is the last mix of the latest tune we did before the computer blew up.

Three Sisters

An instrumental we've just recorded. Pueblo: North American Indian settlement of the south-western US, especially one consisting of multistoreyed adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.

Pueblo

Take a Breath

The Panmure Testimonial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Rbh6YxusE

Number 25 Infinity Drive

Fresh off the mixing desk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFV_-71_Js&t=4s

Aw Snap!

Just a bit of fun to try out some AI voices.

Fugue to Go

Ice Age caves near Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

Pictones & Venicones

Creswell Crags

Concerning a contemporary international correspondent

Eloise Real

Fugue:  a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts. Picture shows famous Fugue composer, the unfortunately named, Joseph Fux whom I've never heard of (you couldn't make it up!)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6DXBfJhOY&t=65s

Fugue-in With Mr Fugue

From a dream about reading a book with an illustration of a young girl in the 18th century, hanging out clothes with the scent of Lavender everywhere. Thanks to a dear friend and Poet, Leaf Pettit, who allowed me to use some of her words in the spoken part - her interior monologue.

Lavender Girl

Recent acoustic ballad with added brushes, bass and electric guitars.

The Waterfall

A song written on hearing about the death of a friend of my brother, some years ago. Davey Adams was county Librarian for Angus until 1990's. A keen cartographer.

Concerning Davey Adams

Dr. Syn in the House of Fugue

In the Shadow of Sartana

I've always loved this song and the band Canned Heat. They kicked off the Summer of Love at Woodstock all those years ago with this song. Hope you like our tribute. Drums by daniB5000

Whatever happened to Peace, Love & Understanding?

Goin' Up The Country [Canned Heat]

Featuring the new self assembled Blue custom Telescaster

2018

Who Wrote the Book of Love ?

Done in 2017 very quickly, had some words and was thinking of Carlos Santana when we did it, but turned out more like Herb Alpert, which isn't a bad thing in my book! My old friend Mick Lynch played Bass and keyboards on it, he's now living in Jamaica.

When the Night is Calling

An old track from 2005 that I stumbled across.

We've Just Got To Do These Things

Slow Rock Ballad. Featuring my recently acquired Juan Tejiero Classical guitar.

Sea Shells

Weep Not

melancholic vapours featuring a quality Drone from Drop


Metal Bridge (ft. drone by Weakheart Drop)

Folk-Rock with Acoustic and Electric guitars, Rock music.

Notes on Delivery

The Budding enthusiast that comes, by design or chance, to discover this collection shall, upon Preliminary Survey of its Contents, find him or herself confronted by divers  ‘Fulsome Bloomings, Abandoned Airs and Declamations’, all, indeed, allegedly composed by Messrs Drust & Erskine. 

It is, however, to be Anticipated that the fledgeling aesthete may, whilst hopefully being familiar with the general Thrust of this or that Song, find him or herself Uncertain as how best to approach the True Form of the Musical Pieces, and, moreover, how best to discern the Melody and Intonation: indeed, how to Discover, and consequently Interpret, the Leitmotif. 

Be then reassur'd that the Composers are devotees of Cantabile, and each Song in this canon has been thoroughly Mulled Over and Subjected to Rigorous and Demanding attentions. By this Means, Songs, that may, upon Inspection of the grounds upon which they were first Inspired having revealed a requirement for overly-exacting Polytonality or Interval that may Induce a certain Reticence, have subsequently been Hammer'd into a Shape that Messrs Drust and Erskine aver is Deliverable by one Mode or another. 

Accordingly, Messrs D & E press you oil your lung, fill your chest, loosen your tongue, and hold forth in as fulsome a voice as your maker may have designed for you, and relish every nuance of counterpoint, every flourish and every roundelay here afforded for your delectation.

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