I like it!  Good vocals (again big Elvis Costello vibe) and somewhat unique.

Nice melody and arrangement! Keep up the good work!

That piano sounds amazing!  Another beauty👏🏻

The melody of this one is really growing on me. Nice writing!

I really like the clarity in your production quality. Great job!

Fresh and fine song, nice arrangement and production

Talk about storytelling — yeah, this is a real storyteller. Very catchy. Memorable. ⁓Rebecca

The keys and lyrics are great 💯👍 I like it 👍

This one got a touch of Dylan mixed with the Small Faces and something else...great!

When it comes to you and you find the right stuff to make the right track with the right melody - magical.

Magical Melody

Ordinary Feelings

Country life in Ojai Ca. at home all that came in on radio was a country radio station, slowly I fell in love with country music. Enjoying the CA based band Highway 101 .. and many others inspired my country twang for a few country songs produced with my friend Randy. 🌼

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Taste the Passion (C) Linda Roland Vintage  * Lydialight

crosswinds, when they blow
gonna blow too hard
catch you off-guard
some friends just say no
when you lean too hard
when it gets too dark

running around this playground town
i seen things that never were meant to be
pull it inside you, suck it up
and shut the door

baby, look at you
you grown so tall
now you wanna see it all
maybe, right on cue
time for a big fall
then you gonna blow it all

heading on down this playground down
so much potential, how far you gonna go?
savour this moment just before
the crosswind blow

well i've seen them blow before
three times or maybe more
baby i ain't joking, listen to my voice
when crosswind blow for you
the only thing to do is hunker down
there's no other choice

crosswinds, they have blown
air gone calm now
open this door now
things ain't quite the same
different space now
gotta find somehow

in and around this playground town
some way to hustle, the things you gonna need
if you can read how crosswind blow
you won't grieve

Crosswinds

when the leaves on the trees turned white
it was the most instagrammable blight
and when a virus jumped across from bats
so many died the most tweetable deaths

now somewhere along the road to decimation
we got so tired of the all-bad news (bad-on-bad news!)
we must be free to bite it if we choose
must be free to headlong into annihilation

we might be going extinct (tinc-tinc-tinct)
but it’s still hard to care about every single reason
it could be something we did
but it’d be so much nicer if it isn’t...

baby, let’s go extinct!
or at least take a selfie from the brink

we’ll never level up, we’ll never not give up
so many of us racing hot to meet their maker
look in my rational eyes, you’ll see me rationalize
it’s not my fault, I vaguely tried then I tried vaguer, and vaguer!
 
now we all, we all long for a simpler explanation
my gut tells me things will sort themselves out (or not)
we must be free to run amuck about
it’s the economy, stupid—our sexiest creation

we’re going extinct (tinc-tinc-tinct)
but it’s still hard to agree with the secular reasons
it could be something we did
but it’d be so much nicer if, be so much nicer if it isn’t...

yeah, we should go extinct (tinct-tinct-tinct)
cause then we won’t have to hear about every little impact
we’re all interlinked
but there is money to be made while saying that we think that

baby let’s go, baby, let’s go extinct!
or at least let’s take a selfie from the brink-brink-brink

[instrumental break]

let's go extinct—
we'll make sure we only do it for reasons we believe in
if it's not at all what we think—
well, at least the final score is kind of even

when the ice caps swelled up the seas
we were psyched to stream it live on our feeds
and when the skies caught on fire, for kicks
we took a lot of really meme-able pics

subscribe and follow, react, comment below, tell us what you think
and let’s go, let us just go extinct!

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"Dinner Chats: Together" 
Music composed by Dika Chartoff. 
Performed by Clare Longendyke and Amir Farid. 
Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs at the Arthur Zankel Hall, Summer 2022
Video of Dinner Chats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol1xFzLd-3I
Copyright 2022 ASCAP

Together

Rise

LYRICS

Phone on the sofa, 
oh you're taking in nothing,
vaguely listening to the scene.
I would kinda love it if you'd give me something, 
something to work with, 
something to grow.
I would kinda like it if you showed some feeling,
or if there's nothing you would let us know. 

We're heading out to see the queen.
We're here to see what's going wrong.
We're all relaxed and so serene.
We're heading out to see the queen. 

The beer bottles pile up by your feet, 
your grieving; isn't aimed above but rather just below.
Any excuse to feel collective meaning, 
just laying back to enjoy the show. 

We're heading out to see the queen.
We're oh so worried what's gone wrong.
We're all relaxed and so serene.
We're heading out to see the queen. 

We're heading out to see the queen.
We're here to see what's going wrong.
We're all relaxed and so serene.
We're heading out to see the queen. 

Your eyes barely flicker as you light up your cigarette,
take a drag and survey the scene.
I was kinda hoping that you'd be my princess.
kinda hoping that you'd be my queen.

The Queen [with The Fall of Saigon]

This is the orchestral version of the original piano track "Ode To memory". Piano, melody and mastering by EALE productions and orchestration by @cody_sell. Thank you once again for an awesome collaboration. Please like/comment/repost if you enjoy the track.

Ode To Memory - Orchestra Version (feat. Cody Sell)

An evocative composition for brass, strings and woodwind, Citadel is about strength and protection, friendship and faith.

CITADEL

I taught myself guitar with the Beatles and Elvis music books when I was 16 but when it came to the piano many years later, after learning the basic major/minor chord shapes, I just began trying to busk/write songs to practice (I haven't improved much btw!!!!) and this song stemmed from that time trying to join chords together. The idea about "closing the door and never coming home" reminded me of the Beatles 'She's Leaving Home' and I just went with it: Imagining contrasts of George Michael or Morrissey singing the 'big' chorus I could hear in my head in their own unique ways. It's another story song and is about no one in particular. I don't expect this song to be an 'in-context' hit on Soundcloud but it is a personal favourite of mine.

Charles Hardin

Nobody Else

I am a singer-songwriter originally from Liverpool (yes, that one; home to Cilla, Everton FC and a few other cultural icons) and now living in Kent, near London, UK. I play in a ‘punk n’roll' covers band called the The Oddball 3 and my own songs solo at open mics. I’m a music nerd/geek obsessed with The Beatles and Bowie and like lots more: Costello (btw my ‘Elvis’ moniker is a nickname I picked playing rugby football – I think I started one season with a decent set of sideburns!), Squeeze, R.E.M., Smiths, Roxy, Bolan, Springsteen, Neil Finn etc. Partial to a bit of synth / electronica/ country/ SKA/ reggae/ Motown/Stax soul too – a very eclectic mix of inspirations and influences. I’m a vinyl and CD junkie and overall,  listening to, playing and writing music is my life's passion...... However, I try ,nonetheless, not to take myself too seriously and I do this 100% for fun and while I dream of writing a classic song(s) from which the publishing could allow me to quit the day job (I'm a school teacher) realistically, I have no ambition other than for friends and strangers to give me the privilege of their valuable time to listen to my songs; and, as a bonus, if they like it; maybe click and comment. I record all my stuff on my iPad using Garageband for iOS. Yeah; for sure I could get a better sound if I used X,Y and Z or mixed this up and that down etc. but I'm honestly not really bothered. Generally, I’m lo-fi, vintage, retro, 20th century kind of guy and everything I present here is purely a demo. It is all about the songs and the sound ‘idea’ for me and not the performance. Although I believe that I’m a very competent/experienced, (albeit technically ‘unadventurous’) guitar player; I’ll hold my hands up to a limited singing range and looping and pre-sets save my life given my keyboard skills extend barely beyond being able to flange out chords with one or two not accompanying bass notes. If you want to talk about my (or your) songs that's cool; as is anything geeky/nerdy about any of the artists above or similar. However, please don't get in touch with production tips and suggestions, because in the nicest possible way, I’m not that interested in such things - But I won't be rude if you don't read this first :) More than anything, think it’s really important that artists respect each other’s’ work even if they don’t like or rate it highly. Anyway, Love and Peace, ElvisOddball AKA Michael Murray

Nobody Else

ElvisOddball AKA

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