music video: https://youtu.be/Ly_GYdvIwKI

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iTunes 
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“You have the ear of the nation 
You seem to know what we need” 
“I’m hearing rainbows and ponies” 
“I like the hope that you breed” 

“You’re gonna give me just what I want” 
“You’re gonna give us just what we need” 
“You switch disaster to fable 
So good at turning the table” 

Lies lies lies are sleek 
The truth shall set you free 
But this ain’t what you speak 

“You tell me just what you need to” 
“I wish that I was your friend” 
“Your words speak louder than actions” 
“Huh?” 

“I’m buying what you are selling 
‘Cos you’ve got it all figured out” 
“Sometimes I wish you were telling me 
What your secret’s about” 

“You say the things that I like” 
“You’ve got the answers I want” 

Lies lies lies are sweet 
The truth shall set you free 
But this ain’t what you speak 

Lies lies lies are sweet 
The truth shall set you free 
But this ain’t what you speak 

“You will not fool me” 
“You will not fool me”

SABOTACHI

The Truth [by SABOTACHI]

Why don’t you speak it like you feel it? 
Your lies are stealing our time away 

I think you know the deal, I feel you get me 
We both know something we could do to seal it… 

Please don't pretend you don't know what I'm going through 
No don't pretend you don't see that I'm seeing through you 

So why don't you break the pact, betray? 
Just face the facts: you gotta stay 
You gotta stay 
You gotta stay 
Please release yourself 
Stay! 
Please release yourself 
With yourself 
It’s you, and you are fooling you 

Why don’t you speak it like you feel it 
Your lives are stealing our time away 

I think you know the deal, I feel you get me 
We both know something we could do to seal it 
We can’t be denied 

Please don't pretend you don't know what I'm going through 
No don't pretend you don't see that I'm seeing through you 
We can’t be denied 
You choose: tonight, forever? 
Tonight? 
Stay with me tonight 
Please release yourself

Please Release

Please Release [by SABOTACHI]

A medley of tunes from the debut Duncan Alex album "Beyond the Gift"

Beyond the Gift - medley - Duncan Alex

"This next track is crazy, but crazy brilliant in a good way", "I can hear the Michael Jackson, definitely" - BBC Radio Devon, 20/02/16 

featuring the brilliant guitar work of Ian Davey

https://twitter.com/BBCIntroDevon/status/701140277449240576

Now available on Google music
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Duncan_Alex_Before_Us?id=Bjdodqeajkqo6rztsvkmrvbqoyy&hl=en_GB

iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/before-us/id1091633353

© 2016 D Wheeler

i wish i may i wish i might 
have the wish i wish tonight 
it is the dusk, it'll soon be night 
darker than the iris of your eye 

slip into the hourglass 
a thousand years, the time will pass 
all we know a grain of sand 
and all we love is suffered by our own hands 

all we love is smothered by our own hand 

a billion mouths a billion pains 
drought and rains are all our banes 
and we shall pray and we shall fight but 
all we know is gone before the light 

now i can get up on my high horse 
but you wouldn't listen to me 
cos i do the same thing that you do 
i live and i eat and i breath 

but this ain't the way we can make it 
this ain't the way that we relieve 
and this earth was here long long before us 
and she ain't gonna cry when we leave

Before Us

Before Us - Duncan Alex

Now available on Google music
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Duncan_Alex_Before_Us?id=Bjdodqeajkqo6rztsvkmrvbqoyy

Now available on iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/before-us/id1091633353
© 2016 D Wheeler
LYRICS:

don’t say a word 
like your lips are sentries
you won’t make a sound 
cos your lungs will be empty

don’t think a thought 
cos we can see you have plenty
and you paid for the view
there’s no time for repenting

don’t look away cos we have a reminder 
your life to us is as a fly to the spider
and we need you to see just what we do with insiders
so look to the sky ‘cos the stars cannot hide us

go to sleep now, don’t you use your mind
for in your mind, are the answers
mm, we don’t want you to find

say it’s absurd, just once out of twenty
to keep yourself sane, from all that is empty

you don’t feel the gap
don’t see the trap
but you fill it with empty

go to sleep now
stop, take a nap
need you to see
stop, take a nap

Stop, Take A Nap - Duncan Alex

...with Ian Davey on guitar

Lyrics:
No need to step outside
Don't know how to feel
The thrill was in your mind
They told you this ain't real
Come in make yourself and home
Condense trickle down your throat

Chorus
You know if you once stood strong virtually
And now you're looking like a frail form
Wandering in the sand through a desert dream
Skeletal arms hung helpless by your side

Then one day it all became dirty
Once was sanitised
I can't remember what it was like
Living in real life

Chorus
And all of us fell for all the lies
Got washed away before our eyes
When real life was so hard to find
With the world condense down a telephone line
Reinvented to your favourite style
They know what's always on your mind
You feel pain only by design
And now it's not so hard to find...

Chorus

Paradise

Helpless - Duncan Alex

no one really listens to understand
people just want likes
it’s a popularity contest

facebook
check it
hello
fake it

twitter
nonsense
re-tweet it
don’t check it

journalist
you want it
fact check
don’t wreck it

youtube
promotion
you faked it
just take it

i’m just saying it
what you knew
the obvious

i’m just calling it out
what you knew
the obvious
no one really listens to understand
it’s obvious, it’s obvious

you see it through the prism of our design
you see it through the prism of our design
you see it through the prism of our design

they never asked
they didn’t have to, we came willingly
easy to take whatever they want
everyone shares
(here, have a sandwich)

they’re using your face
they’re reading my book
the book of my life

some people share
some people shout
no one really listens

no one really listens
no one really listens to understand

you see it through the prism of our design
media: our hearts and minds are our hearts and minds
it’s obvious, it’s obvious
media: say no, no games
just pointing out the obvious

don’t shoot the messenger
don’t shoot the messenger
don’t shoot the messenger

i got a sandwich for you

our hearts and minds
(our hearts and minds are)
(our hearts and minds are)
just take your time
to decide

i’m not gonna let facebook tell me who to vote for
i’m gonna do my own research

CREDITS:
Guitar: Ian Davey
Additional vocal clips: consenting members of the public
Mastering: SafeandSound mastering http://www.masteringmastering.co.uk/
Cover photo: "call me back" by Amaryllis Liampoti, Angkor Wat, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Facebook

Facebook  - Duncan Alex

Taken from my second album 'Early Days', this is a dark, edgy and unnerving instrumental, building up in tension, climaxing and ultimately offering a gentle release. Just what you always wanted.

On a more serious note, it would be ideally suited to your next horror or dark thriller film.

It has featured in this excellent Czech republic Zombie movie ' Alone':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQRKorehdNc

It also features in a yet to be released short film 'Jimmy's List'.

Mastered by SafeandSound Mastering [http://soundcloud.com/safeandsound]

The Kill

The Kill - Duncan Alex

Featuring Ian Davey on guitar.

In 2017 I released "Facebook", a song expressing just some of many worries about Facebook and some reactions to its part in the US election.

In 2018 we saw the dark underbelly of Facebook being well and truly poked ;)

In 2019 not much has changed except lip-service. And now with their new proposed fake (i.e. not decentralised) crypto Libra with big £ on board it just comes across as a rather large money/power grab.

But enough doom and gloom. After all it's summer and it's a scorcher! Bring out the beach towels with the Facebook Carnival remix!

Facebook Carnival remix is yours to keep for 1 Stellar Lumen XLM: https://tinyurl.com/yc3lpmc4

I'll even give you 50 free XLM to spend - just use this code IHTBIWH50

Facebook [Carnival remix]

Facebook [Carnival remix] - Duncan Alex

The Bond-themed 'Devil May Care' features Duncan Alex on vocals and Ian Davey on guitar.

Mastered by SafeandSound Mastering [http://soundcloud.com/safeandsound]

Played on BBC Radio Devon and http://www.lovemusicfm.com/

Lyrics available on: http://www.duncanalex.com/paradise.htm

Devil May Care

Devil May Care - Duncan Alex

They came for me and this is all I could tell you...

Space Invaders

Space Invaders - Duncan Alex

Proud to share the new #duncanalex EP #SpaceInvaders!
Take your pick:
http://tinyurl.com/y7p7ak2s 
https://duncanalex.bandcamp.com/
The advance copy EP became available EXCLUSIVELY for #XLM #StellarLumens  (this may have been a first)

Space Invaders [EP]

Space Invaders [Hivemind remix]

Space Invaders [Hivemind remix] - Duncan Alex

Pre-master version free to download and keep!
An environmental protest prog-rock track.
SABOTACHI, the new band from Duncan Alex.

Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards & programming - Duncan Alex 
Guitar - Ian Davey 
Sitar and electronic Tanpura - Bobby (Kaiho) Lightfoot [copyright free samples]

Cassandra Cried [©D Wheeler 2014]

If you know the sound 
You can make a start 
Feel it deep inside 
Feel it in your heart 

Cos when the sky has died 
And the ocean's bled 
Maybe then we'll know 
All the things we did 

And we may feel this earth-shaking pain 
Buzzing through our bones and stinging our eyes 
Then we may feel her earth-breaking pain 
Bitter in our mouths like all our denials 

Can you taste it? 
Can you live it? 
Can you feel what she feels? 

You're at the tipping point 
Look in the abyss (feel it in your heart) 
But there is no return now 
You're thinking - what we miss? (we're fried) 

Cassandra cried, denied 'til the end 
She tried in her kingdom's defence 
On science we now can depend 
But our band will play 'til the end 

Can you feel it? 
Can you taste it? 

If you know the sound 
You can make a start 
Feel it deep inside 
Feel it in your heart 

Keep it in my face 
'Til the wires are fried 
Why don't you give it some space 
To let the rhythm satisfy 

Climate change denier satisfied? 
Let the rhythm satisfy

Sabotachi

Cassandra Cried [SABOTACHI]

new music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7hWzlZXfE

when it's all over will we be the same 
when it's all over will we see change 
can we be better, realigned paradigm 
look behind the curtain 

will we do all the things 
that we used to do to things 
and the creatures and the planet 
should it feel like they've had it? 

as we don cover and we peer through the gap 
and we put our lives on hold, on pause 
we got sent to our rooms to think about what we done 

will we do all the things 
that we used to do to things 
and the creatures and the planet 
should it feel like they've had it? 

and we do not believe 
in the air that we breath 
while they're risking their everything

When it's all over...

When it's all over - Duncan Alex

"Authentic & heartfelt" - Apple FM, a Lemonrock.com mp3 of the week, and now due to feature on a new Duncan Alex album to be released in 2013.

South by West - Duncan Alex

SABOTACHI, the new band from Duncan Alex.

In the Worlds before SABOTACHI, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. Magically upon a rock old as Creation, there was spawned an egg. Inside it, playing arpeggios on a miniature stratocaster was the newborn rock child Ian Davey. He did much wandering, water-walking, and doodling on the instrument. Then, many, many, many years later, there flew from Mountains of the Cradle, a sole raven, bearing a tiny funky monkey. Upon reaching the foothills, the bird relinquished upon the fair land this infant, named Duncan Alex, who was at the time busy listening to radio recordings on a miniature Aiwa walkman. The nature of this monkey was irrepressible! And since Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, “With our thoughts we make the world”, when a kindly priest brought together our two heroes for a common interest, their thoughts combined with the elemental forces of musical magic, created a new band. This band was like no other, and there would never be anything like it again. They had created SABOTACHI.

SABOTACHI

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