Words

Pack your bag yeah
We're going away on a little trip
Don't be sad
Just make sure you pack every little bit
It won't take long
We gotta get away from all of this commotion
Get in the car babe
And let's drive away, get some motion
Got to get away got to get away from these bad bad days
Got to get away got to get away from these bad bad days
Oh oh honey
Oh we've got to get to it
Oh oh honey
We will get through it

Break

We're gonna go real far
We're not going to stop until we're out of the rat race yeah
And when we get to that place
We're going to lay down in our spiritual space
Oh oh honey I've got to have you
Oh oh honey only you will do
Let's get away let's get away yeah
Hmm let's get away let's get away yeah
Let's get away let's get away yeah
Hmm let's get away let's get away yeah

It won't take long
We gotta get away from all of this commotion
Get in the car babe
And lets drive away, get some motion
Got to get away got to get away from these bad bad days
Got to get away got to get away from these bad bad days

Bad Bad Days

Billboards (explicit)

A quick piano and vocal demo I wrote at the weekend! The vocal mixing isn't perfect at all but I still like it as a rough copy. 

The song's sad yet hopeful, with 'the winter's muse' referring to feeling down and blue through no fault of your own, and fighting through it. I swear I can never seem to write a non-depressing piano song no matter how hard I try 😂. A semi-hopeful song is as optimistic as it gets!

'The Winter's Muse' - Demo

Bryan Ciliberto: Drums
Ib Delight: Saxophone
Anna Houck: Backing Vocals
Joseph Houck: Vocals, piano, guitar, bass, synths

Mixed and Mastered by Bryan Ciliberto. 
New Album "Haunts & Wants" Out 10/6/23

My new single "I Will Never Forget" existed in its earliest form some fifteen years ago. While I've not changed some of those initial verses, I've written different versions of the song through the years. A few might remember an earlier incarnation I posted on SoundCloud about a decade ago. While the song has evolved, the central idea has never changed. It comes from the drive to cherish, extol the exploits of romantic love. 

 For the lyric video (below), I filmed short clips of scenes along the road where I live:
 https://youtu.be/TfXZTLraEVk?feature=shared

I Will Never Forget (2023 Version)

Jan. 12, 2024, will see the reissue, in a newly remastered edition, of New American Language, the 2001 album by acclaimed American songwriter, Dan Bern. Surprisingly, the occasion marks the first appearance of a Bern album on vinyl, during a career spanning more than 30 releases. 

“Dan’s epic ‘Thanksgiving Day Parade,’ literally took two years to record,” says the song’s producer, Wil Masisak in the liner notes of the upcoming reissue. “The sense that we’d made something worth hearing coupled with the knowledge that we couldn’t have done this alone or without difficulty was immensely rewarding.

“Unfortunately, the release date was set for Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, and so it is that this incredible collection of American songwriting seemingly meant for those who did their best to carry on after 9/11 finds itself a little lost to time.”

“With Dan Bern’s large and acclaimed catalog, I have no idea how he has never had a vinyl release,” says John Young of Grand Phony Records (Mike Viola, Trapper Schoepp), the label that will reissue Bern’s landmark album. New American Language is my favorite Dan Bern album, Young says. With “fresh and vibrant” remastered audio, it is literally clearer that Bern’s lyrics “have proven to be prescient, as if they were written yesterday,” according to Young.

“National treasure” is an overused phrase to denote somebody whom Americans acknowledge as important. Someone whose contributions to the American fabric are numerous, never in doubt, but rarely at risk.

Bern and his work is something more ingrained than what “national treasure” can measure. What Bern has offered throughout a 30-album and counting career speaks to something deeper in us than any two-word workaround for actual criticism could define. Bern’s work takes those risks, and New American Language is his career’s most precarious statement. In a world filled with plenty of “safer” controversial subjects to write about, Bern could do that if he felt like it. We are better for his decision not to. 

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In addition to being a Jeopardy clue, Bern has written thousands of songs, among such other notable career and personal highlights as writing songs for the Judd Apatow film “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” and Jonathan Demme’s film about Jimmy Carter (which Carter recognized Bern for when introducing Bern to his wife Roslyn, saying, “This is the fellow that wrote that song.”) Bern has opened for The Who (Daltrey has covered Bern’s songs), is a member of the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and taught tennis to Wilt Chamberlain.

The remastered, first-time-on-vinyl edition of New American Language will be followed by the launch of a six-week Dan Bern tour in Atlanta. See dates below. Starting Over, an all-new album of Bern songs is scheduled for release on March 1, 2024, via Grand Phony.

Dan Bern - God Said No (Remastered)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5SScFJLWRJxeZ7LFhhbgH1?si=f98b3fc26ecd497f

Nokturne

One of my most favorite acoustic tracks.

"On the darkest of days, may sunshine always find your face
May the deepest pain only last 'til the next gentle rain.
Let me be your friend forever....'

LET ME BE YOUR FRIEND FOREVER

Confidence avec Yann Kifer Piano

After a long break without writing songs, I finally come back with a motive that has always fascinated me: The interplay between humans and the surrounding landscapes. Being a gardener myself I am in close contact with nature all the time, and I see my work as an constant exchange with plants, rocks, trees and my feelings. Maybe you can hear the landscapes in between the lines as well...

Listening to landscapes

L'histoire continue ! 
The story goes on   - - - - - - - 
EN speakers  : see translated video here 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFW9QMzjkU
Thanks : - - - - ))

Histoire d'une invention - Chap. 5 : En ville

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Dan Bern - God Said No (Remastered)

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