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A song about freedom, dedicated to "Eva".
This song was co-written with my brother, Sion.
Check out our duo, Lo-fi Jones.

Eva Forever Demo

Eva Forever (Demo)

Music. tHE bLUE rOOM
Copyright tHEbLUErOOM © 2021
Photo. Pixabay

Old Rusty

Stream my new single Undone everywhere - https://ffm.to/g1ooxbo.OIS

Undone

Pos Virú - Pos Virú (1996) Remasterizado
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Entre fines de los 80 y cominezo de los 90 atravesamos como nación nuestra peor crisis de violencia, pobreza y descomposición social.

Es durante estos años que la música se convirtió en nuestro refugio más seguro y el medio que nos permitió plasmar las reflexiones que nos planteábamos. Estas estaban dirigidas a la búsqueda de respuestas a los orígenes de los problemas que atravesávamos. Uno de los problemas que ha influenciado mucho este trabajo y que nos persigue desde la época de la Conquista, radica que nunca nos hemos sobrepuesto a este choque de culturas que está latente dentro de nosotros.

Pos Virú se forma a cominezos de 1990 cuando la crisis llega a su puntomás crítico. El albúm contiene 11 temas compuestos entre los años 1990 y 1995 que contienen elementos musicales que no sólo expresan este conflicto cultural, sino también aspectos puntuales de conyuntura, como violencia, frustración, odio, paz, miedo y esperanza.
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Música y Letras: Pablo
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Arreglos: Pos Virú
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Charango, Guitarra, Sintetizadores, Zampoña, Chaccas, Caja de Ritmos y Voz: Pablo

Guitarra Eléctrica, Charango y Coros: Augusto Vidal
Bajo: Guillermo Guerrero
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Cajón, Cajita y Voz: Rafael Santa-Cruz

Batería y Percusión: Santiago de la Rivaguero

Zamapoña: Hernan Quiñones
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Grabación y mezcla: Audio Estudio S6(1996)
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Remasterización: Isaac Grados García(2021)
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Imagen: Pos Virú

Diseño: Isaac Grados García

9. Huyendo del Origen

Purple drops prod by FlingyShem is the lead single on a project made by Trap Friendz' The song was on MM by DJ Sabza Yinjah on summer 20  Trap Friendz will be dropping their project called  Trap Skul on earlly summer 22

Trap Skul

Purple drops

Trap Friendz ; Purple drops

Aphelion

Echoes Of Aphelion - The Sweetest Thing

Once, in a fit of pique after I'd had enough of the usual rounds of social media self-promotion in all its forms, I posted a poll asking if being amazingly vainglorious was a necessary quality for being successful as a creative. The poll results came back as a resounding "yes".

From the Electric She EP, currently rolling out to streaming platforms. This is essentially a radio edit, the Bandcamp version of the EP also includes the full album version (from Ballyhoodunnit, coming in 2026) and bonus instrumental versions of all tracks.

lyrics:

Never face reality
If you hope to keep your sanity
Dream with fierce ambition
And let nobody say it's wrong
Shine your light out brightly
Though it's not the only one
In a firmament of billions
Burning out but never gone
Ahh...

Sell yourself up and out
Commodify what you're about
Sacrifice integrity
To the chimera of celebrity
Fear to be irrelevant
Don't look at the elephant
Do we really have to discuss
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

The total perspective vortex
Claims another victim
As round the edges merchant ships
Maintain safe orbit
Confidence is influence
And influence is product
And product is to be bought and sold
So don't get high on your own supply
Ahh...

Do your best and do your worst
Before somebody does it first
Build a high and mighty pyre
And feed the haters to the fire
Fear to be irrelevant
Don't look at the elephant
Do we really have to discuss
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

Sell yourself up and out
Commodify what you're about
Sacrifice integrity
To the chimera of celebrity
Build a high and mighty pyre
And feed the haters to the fire
Do your best and do your worst
Be amazingly vainglorious

The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

The Need to be Amazingly Vainglorious

An update of the first song on my first album as Kerry JK, released ten years ago. The title phase was coined pergogatively by Florence King in 1989, my reaction was that the Age of Human Error is way more preferable than an age where everyone pretends human error is no more, or, worse, transposes it into an age of unchecked technological error.

lyrics
If having all the answers means no longer asking questions
Wisdom's not all it's cracked up to be
Smelting down the infinite for a sword and shield of Truth
In a citadel of desperate certainty
Never let fear of being wrong confine you in any way
What's a little confusion amongst friends?
I hope the age of human error never ends

Self consciously defending a guilt-edged silver throne
No empire ever rose that never fell
But the path of human progress is no game of zero sum
And superiority suits no-one well
Never let position of privilege confine you in any way
Pride loses more than it defends
I hope the age of human error never ends

Fantasise of what we might be
Realise it's not wrong to dream
Life doesn't always go as we intend
But I hope the age of human error never ends

If you've lived your life according to the rules you're told are right
And you've always done your best to play the ball
You can feel under attack when new perspectives come to light
And you're painted as the bad guy after all
Never let habits of the past confine you in any way
This is now and that was then
I hope the age of human error never ends

If you dream about tomorrow you must pay for it today
And those dreams about tomorrow may just up and fly away
While the cost of never living is to simply never try
Until you die
Better to have failed and tried again
I hope the age of human error never ends

Never let fear of anything confine you in any way
It never is too late to make amends
I hope the age of human error never ends

Never let fear of anything confine you (repeat)

The Age of Human Error 25

A life, in fantasy and actualisation.

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My home is but a fairytale
A place where fantasy prevails
A place I've lost to grown-up schemes
A place now locked away in dreams

My home is not as I recall
It seemed so big when I was small
Imagination filled my eyes
And painted dragons in the skies

My world was terrifying at times
With nightmares dressed up in nursery rhymes
Warnings of grim fates if I should stray
And dreadful monsters barely kept at bay

As more knowledge was revealed
I saw what I was told was real
Education filled my eyes
There were no dragons in the skies

So I turned to other plans
To follow the set path as best I can
From far away I heard a call
Now I was big, my home seemed awfully small

In search of stories yet to tell
I went to where the monsters dwell
Hunting for the great white whale
A real life, not just a fairytale

Then one day, much to my surprise
I looked upon the monsters with new eyes
With urges needing to be fed
I found dragons in my bed

Now every night I put away
The masks that I must wear throughout the day
I search the corners of my mind
For a fairytale I can no longer find

And now that I am fully grown
I see children with fairytales of their own
I see the wonder in their eyes
And I know that there are dragons in the skies

My home is but a fairytale
A place where fantasy prevails
A place I've lost to grown-up schemes
A place now locked away in dreams

But one day you can be sure
I will unlock that hidden door
And find my fairytale once more
And find my fairytale once more

But A Fairytale

Tech Bro Go-Go.

I see the creep of generative AI as the logical conclusion of two long-term internet trends: SEO-driven pressure for copywriting to please search engines more than people, and the hustle-first marketing culture which now resembles religion more than actual religion, complete with demands for human sacrifice.
This is a single figure salute from we, the sacrificed.

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The Gods of The Hustle have the toys, sass and muscle
Tip to pick crypto while you pump on your own
Success is for bruisers
Caring's for losers
Rent a supercar that runs on testosterone
Find a new way to go to town
The biggest sucker is the next guy down
Move fast and break stuff
And never say enough's enough

Get rich in your hovels selling rug pulls and shovels
Take all you can get and don't leave anything back
Use all the fake tricks
You've all seen The Matrix
Truth's whatever you want if you use the right hack
The manna of technology is falling your way
It's going to take us all to Mars one day
Move fast and break stuff
And never say enough's enough

Might is right
Go do your own research
Don't confuse your degree
With my Google search

What kind of asshole believes in a soul?
Art's algorhythmic and culture is slop
Once more without feeling
Scraping and stealing
Creators get cancelled but the machine never stops
The dead are rising from their digital crypts
Bring on the A.I. apocalypse!
Move fast and break stuff
And never say enough's enough

Move fast and break stuff and never say enough's enough (repeat)

Move Fast and Break Stuff

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Ambient gothic synthesthaesia from York/Madrid. New album, Aphelion, out *5th May!*

Echoes Of Aphelion - The Sweetest Thing

Echoes of Aphelion

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