Name: Around the world by Francesco Cartocci
Duration: 3 min 58 s
Description: I wrote this piece a while ago, a kind of celebration after I overcome my fear of flying :)

Love it-brilliant work Francesco 👍👍👍

Hope your first flight wasn't in a tent... Great track, uplifting, appropriately!  :D

there's a Baroque sensibility inside this that likes the modern drum groove!

Voglio così volare da qualche parte... insieme a questi suoni

Good music here. I will be back. Thanks a lot.

Nice one great track good job.🎶👍😎

If all fears sounded so beautiful, maybe they do!

I wrote this piece a while ago, a kind of celebration after I overcome my fear of flying :)

Around the world

Big Daddy Rat

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, lyre, vocals
Ron Thomas: Autoharps, Drums

Production notes:
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Very early on we wanted to use autoharps on this song to create a sort of swirling backdrop, reminiscent of the harps in Indian/Bollywood soundtrack songs of the seventies.

Right away there were challenges because the song is in B flat and is not wholly diatonic to begin with, utilizing a chord built on the augmented lydian scale in the choruses. So rather than transpose the song to a more amenable key (since the chromatic bits weren't going to work no matter what key we used) we instead re-tuned the autoharp. Moving through the strings one by one we tuned them either up or down a half step where applicable to bring them into key. Where the augmented chord hit in the choruses, we excluded those notes so that the autoharp was filling the diatonic parts of the chords and omitting the accidentals. It took us several tries to get it right. In the end we arrived at a chord progression that could be strummed on the autoharp and the modified chords could be played with existing dampers.

We also tuned the lyre so that the top half of the strings included the chromatic augmented notes while the lower register of the lyre was tuned using the diatonic, so the lyre could play the melody all the way through both parts of the song.

The inspiration for this song was essentially fourfold:
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First, H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying necromancer Joseph Curwen (from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") who masked his true identity in order to thwart suspicion from his fellow townsfolk. He has many secrets lurking in his underground catacombs where he performs acts of necromancy most foul, extracting the "salts" of the dead in order to raise them at will and learn the secrets of ancient eldritch deities.

Second, a poem by Rudyard Kipling titled "En-Dor" which was a warning against the rise of spiritualism and the cost of communion with the dead in the early 20th century.

Third, the biblical Saul who traveled in disguise to visit a witch at the city of Endor in order to summon Samuel from the dead and garner advice on defeating the Philistines, but who only prophesies doom for Saul. Saul dies later the next day in the battle of Gilboa.

Lastly, the story of Odysseus communing with the underworld where he enlists the help of Tiresias to have a chat with the dead and secure for himself a safe journey home.

They all seek communion with the dead for one purpose: to gain knowledge which only those who have crossed over between realms might possess. 

Lyrics:
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A mask may reveal what it’s meant to conceal
From those who are standing beside us
Armor of pride, so we learn to abide
By the monsters which hide deep inside us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us
Oh, how they scratch and they bite us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us

Only to know what the professor knows

Eating black bread, wearing clothes of the dead
The soil soaked in honey around us
For fear if we failed, leave the ogre unveiled
And it’s back in the grave where they found us
Back in the grave where they found us
Freed from the ties which had bound us
Back in the grave where they found us

Only to know what the professor knows

In the catacomb vaults, we extracted the salts
From cadavers to lengthen our youth
Chanting the names at the edge of the flames
And a mirror to show us the truth
A mirror which speaks only truth
See how it seeks not to soothe
A mirror which speaks only truth

Only to know what the professor knows

In the underworld maze, in the night of no days
Concocting the plan we’re devising
Much to endure on the road to En-Dor
And to snatch from Elohim arising
To snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising

BARDS: Of the Shimmering Seraphs

The Professor

This is one of my first demo. I recorded it at home only with my laptop and guitar. I tried to convey the atmosphere of Britpop. Feel free to chat. Enjoy

Electric [DEMO]

Album track
 https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/5pQAxaACSh9s52l22uABN5?si=x4CfjxjGSIyZTfcvcLdCjA

ひらひらと崩れるコバルトの楽園
そして君は揺れて消えた

救いの無い朝に咲いた花の歌
揺れてる

もう戻れない日々に
さよならを告げれず泣く

光の無い街に今日も鐘が鳴る
幸福になりたかった彼女の夢は
血と汗と涙の海の泡と散って
涙が零れ落ちた世界に君を見つけた
もう戻れない過去と夢を抱きしめて
吊る、行く、逝く、空

死は汗 【fleeting life】

A Sequel to Janne Hennie's original song entitled "Trying To Leave You."
User-254573255 – Trying-to-leave-you

A special thank you to TexMex Shaman for final mixing and mastering! https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman

Artwork is a painting by Margaryta Yermolayeva entitled "I Am With You Day and Night"
please view her other works at margaryta-yermolayeva.pixels.com

Title: "Trying To Keep You"

I could tell my babe
by the look that was in your eyes
the cold distant heart
that kind of vibe

ooooh oooh

We’ll cherish those days
and those nights
girl, It’s OK
I’ll be alright

I want you to be happy
in your heart

ooooh I need you

ooooh I need you

I just cant take another dayyyy….wihtout you

The bird has flown away today

I will always hold dear
to my heart
your beauty, your soul
your inner light

Like a shooting star
in the night
all I need to know girl is why?

you say you need to find out who you are…
well let me tell you…
you’re the soulmate of my dreams

I love you
look at me!
How could you do this to me
I love you
my girl

Trying to Keep You (Piano Day 2024)

rumbustious 'demo' (with Falsestart)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Alto Saxophone solo. Hammond B3 Organ solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Organ Rhythm with Bass peddles. Acoustic stand-up Bass. Drums Full Drum set, full kit. Percussion Zildjan 22' Ride & Crash Cymbal. Ago go Bells.

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Hot Sauce

A mix of light and shade, Modulate Me is a Darkwave / Triphop soundtrack set to a steady mix of downtempo electronic / industrial beats. Droning wavy bass and rhythmic bass are married with dreamy guitars, celestial synths and abstracted samples. The track progresses to a final countdown, spoken by Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 Lunar mission in 1969.

Everything In Love

Modulate Me

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Nothing More

Feel the wind in your face
blowing across the bay
you stand up tall
with your back against the wall

watch the waves raging
and the seagulls chasing
you’re so done with seeing
what the world has become

All that is left
is here with me
nothing more nothing less
just me and my fear

through the eye of the storm
there comes a barque
it carries a load 
so precious but worn 

And when the day was done
and darkness had been gone 
you’re starring stunned at
heaven’s vault in the sun

All that is left
is here with me
nothing more nothing less
just me and my fear

Demo Songs 2024

Nothing More

🌳"Bewahre das Licht in dir
Keep the light inside of you"🦉

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Hi!
I am a bass, double bass and guitar player but I like composing on keyboards too. 
Thank you for listening. Peace!

Around the world

Francesco Cartocci

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