Beautiful riddle meshed together in an enigmatic flow of cool guitars. Zebra should drink the water....

cool composition and arrangement man .. enjoyed :)))

wow man, this is extraordinary and exquisite! what brilliant melodies you weave throughout. excellent performances on everything. bravo!!

The zebra peeking out of the window is so cute! And very sophisticated music!

Wonderfully written! Love the wide instrumentation everything works perfectly together!

Love all the organic, contrasting sounds, they mingle together so perfectly, so clear, its a beautiful track

REFLECTIONS OF VICTORY

A piece in collaboration with the truly amazing Nigel Manning @windscaleblues

Wind instruments: TWBE
Synths, Percussion, Strings: BP

Cover Art: Joan of Arc Hearing the Voices (1895)by Luc-Olivier Merson. Original from National Gallery of Art.

Lunati | The Windscale Blues Experiment & Belial Pelegrim

llustration: Jonathan Djob Nkondo https://absenteism.tumblr.com/ 
Drums: Gonzalo Serrano https://soundcloud.com/messages/486957645:834842971
Piano, Analog Stack Synth, Granular Magnetic Guitar, 
Studio Horns, Stinger Bass: Jan Schonander @thegats

The original Pyrrhic victory came courtesy of Pyrrhus of Epirus, a Greek king who was undone by his costly battles against the Romans. Pyrrhus first invaded Italy in 280 B.C. after allying himself with Tarentum, a Greek-speaking city that resented the Roman Republic’s increased domination over their homeland. He arrived with a force of some 25,000 men and 20 war elephants—the first the Roman legionaries had ever faced—and immediately scored a famous victory in his first battle at Heraclea. The following year, he bested the Romans a second time during a heated clash at Asculum.

Pyrrhus fancied himself a latter day Alexander the Great, and he’d hoped his invasion would give his empire a foothold in Italy. But while he’d routed the Romans at both Heraclea and Asculum, he had also lost more than 7,500 of his most elite fighters, including many officers. Pyrrhus had no way of replacing his casualties, and his failure to deal the enemy a deathblow sent morale plummeting within his ranks. According to the ancient historian Plutarch, the warrior king was quoted as muttering, “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.” Following a setback at the Battle of Beneventum in 275 B.C., he reluctantly called off his campaign and sailed back to Greece.

From the History Channel

PYRRHIC VICTORY

Caviar and cigarettes
Dances in pirouettes

Are you feeling good
It seems you should
Now the smoke has cleared
Now that you are feared

Your triumph is great
Are you ready for your fate
Cause for elation
A grand celebration

Oh, it doesn’t feel right
Oh, this dishonorable plight 

Caviar and cigarettes
Dances in pirouettes
Glitter, riches, fame and glam
Black tie Russian roulette

You lick your wounds
All your lovers are gone
Alone in your palace
Your light has shone

All your friends in flight
All your allies are foes
It’s not an end
The start of your woes

Caviar and cigarettes
Dances in pirouettes
Glitter, riches, fame and glam
Black tie Russian roulette

Pyrrhic Victory

I started writing this song sitting in a field in wales on a camping trip
its a song about getting out and about in the summertime and looking for adventure as the title suggests its a group of memories and reflections on the way i see the world at the moment,maybe the restrictions on life we have had to face has woken something up in some of us and there is a need and desire to get back out there again
written and produced by Jim manser june 2021

Reflections

Music to watch the leaves change, part of a much longer piece

The Turn Of Leaves

Scotty: guitar, lyrics, vocals
Tommy: bass

Why can't I get any peace of mind?
Something crushing happens each time
happiness comes my way.
It is never here to stay. 

Fuck the game that we've gotta play
just to live another day. 

I'm beat down, broken and terrified
yet I carry on somehow and take it in stride. 

Fuck the game that we've gotta play
just to live another day. 

Something crushing happens every time
That I think I've achieved peace of mind...

The Game

Written in December 2020.  This is how it feels to have a panic attack.  Listen with headphones.


Red Lightning


Like red lightning on a prairie
Could strike the unwary 
So I knew that it was coming 
When I saw the beasts all running 

Oh red lightning 
It is lighting up the sky 
I feel my stomach tightening 
With every second that goes by 

Watch the flames blazing high 
Hurts my eyes as they fill the sky 
The horizon’s turning red now 
And the thunder fills my head now 

Oh red lightning 
It is lighting up the sky 
I feel my stomach tightening 
With every second that goes by 

My mood is in the gathering clouds 
That press around me like a crowd 
Trying to hide will do no good 
For lightning strikes me where I’m stood 

Oh red lightning 
It is lighting up the sky 
I feel my stomach tightening 
With every second that goes by 

Sky is dark as my knuckles whiten
It’s time for flight or fighting 
Red flash and the grass is torched now 
I feel panic as the earth is scorched now 

Oh red lightning 
It is lighting up the sky 
I feel my stomach tightening 
With every second that goes by 


Image painted by TGW

Red Lightning

4 Star Commended Entry in the 2022 UK Songwriting Contest

Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes' Night takes place on November 5th each year in Great Britain with bonfires and firework displays. It recalls the Gunpowder Plot of 1605; an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Guy Fawkes was captured before he could light the fuse to 36 barrels of gunpowder. Back in the day, children would make a scarecrow-like effigy of Guy Fawkes to be thrown on the communal bonfire during the 'celebrations'. In the run up to the evening they would ask for "a penny for the guy" to spend on sparklers, sweets or other treats.

We must remember every November, we must remember the fifth of November,
For the gunpowder, treason and plot, the gunpowder, treason and plot,
With Mr Guy Fawkes evil intentions, he certainly got all of our attention,
For the gunpowder, treason and plot, but did it succeed, it did not.

Penny for the guy, build your bonfire high,
Let the old boy fry, with fireworks in the sky,

Look at the fireworks lighting the night sky, building the bonfires, building them so high,
Flames burning golden and hot, for the gunpowder, treason and plot,

Penny for the guy, build your bonfire high,
Let the old boy fry, with fireworks in the sky,

Poor Mr Guy Fawkes, remembered to this day,
With burning bonfires and a firework display,

Penny for the guy, build your bonfire high,
Let the old boy fry, with fireworks in the sky,

We must remember every November, we must remember the fifth of November,
For the gunpowder, treason and plot, the gunpowder, treason and plot,

Penny For The Guy

Penny For The Guy (Graham Williams)

lyrics to sixteen worlds away


Let us glve you what we've got
there's no reason for the things that broke your heart
that was the last thing that he sa!d 

l'm feeling pretty good
considering the circumstance
he sald with a sigh

he got a little Jaded
he decided joy and pa!n
both were slightly somewhat overrated
Simply incidental to existence ln the Ether

she was standing on the road ln the Rags of her remorse
eyes so Bright
and on her golden platform ln the 
mud of what was Lost

l'm sixteen worlds away from you
she sa!d
l know lt's hard to get lt through your head

l'm here and there
and lt's getting difficult 
to keep my continuity-
(for reasons that are not exactly clear to me)

Sixteen Worlds Away

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Rocks Sing
May 2023
Duration: 3:00
Photo by Bruce Klepper 
Listen to the Anthropomorphic Expressions Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/anthropomorphic-expressions
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for his highly valued musical input and for creating the rocks sound library used to compose this piece.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, or emotions to non-human entities or objects. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Anthropomorphism is a common way humans perceive and interact with the world around them.

The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks and minerals have been found on Earth. Most rocks at the Earth's surface are formed from only eight elements (oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium), but these elements are combined in a number of ways to make rocks that are very different.  Rocks are continually changing. Wind and water wear them down and carry bits of rock away; the tiny particles accumulate in a lake or ocean and harden into rock again. The oldest rock that has ever been found is more than 3.9 billion years old.

Humanity has made use of rocks since the earliest humans. This early period, called the Stone Age, saw the development of many stone tools. Stone was then used as a major component in the construction of buildings and early infrastructure. 

Rocks are commonly divided into three major classes according to the processes that resulted in their formation. These classes are (1) igneous rocks, which have solidified from molten material called magma; (2) sedimentary rocks, those consisting of fragments derived from preexisting rocks or of materials precipitated from solutions; and (3) metamorphic rocks, which have been derived from either igneous or sedimentary rocks under conditions that caused changes in mineralogical composition, texture, and internal structure.  

For alpine flugelhorn, alphorn, alpine trombone, violin, viola, harp, piano, tuba, timpani, rock samples, virtual instruments and percussion

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Rocks Sing

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Steve Roy (Canada) Electric Bass. Fender Rhodes Rhythm. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Godin Nylon acoustic Guitar Rhythm. Gibson SG Electric Guitar Rhythm. String Quartet, 1st & 2nd Violins, Cello, Bowed Acoustic Bass. Tenor Saxophone solo. Vibraphone solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Flute solo. Trap Drum set Full kit. Percussion Tambourine, Ago go bells. 22" Zildjan Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Release Me

Rain Flower 2

Homage to Relativity Theory's Centenary & Mr. Albert Einstein.
Based on a delightful 6/4 main theme by https://soundcloud.com/exploderamera, we offer to the listener some variations on 5/4, 4/4 & 2/4 signatures, relatively round composition, lotta love, and two questions...
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Music: ExploderaMera and E-Ruizzo
Lyrics: Albert Einstein
Vocals & Artwork: ExploderaMera
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There are five houses.
The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Spaniard owns the dog.
Coffee is drunk in the green house.
The Ukrainian drinks tea.
The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
Milk is drunk in the middle house.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house"

Now, who drinks water?
Who owns the zebra?

ER00EC12

Einsteins's Riddle (with ExploderaMera)

Bolder (instrumental demo)

Chill EP with a sound for doing your own thing.  This is the soundtrack of your day and this is the best wake and bake for your money. 

Turning round

We hope you enjoy this instrumental version of our song Rise.  It may surprise you to know that, other than the computer-generated drum sounds,  there are no keyboards or synthesisers: all of the sounds were created with electric and bass guitars!

*** VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE ***
https://youtu.be/9hQ8DbjOXzw

Rise  (Instrumental)

Rise - (INSTRUMENTAL)

Come see what's new: https://soundcloud.com/ruizzoidman21centurions

Amateur composer, home musician, sharing music, feedback and support thru the cloud. Previously poet and songwriter, now exploring the edges of modern music.

These demos (click on titles for lyrics & +info) are intended to be played with/by a super group, someday...

(Don't follow me here, best on my main page ;)

Einsteins's Riddle (with ExploderaMera)

E-Ruizzo

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