Great song, Francois, and a work of art. For me, a very strong, resonant and appealing lyric. And you have supported it so creatively with this composotion/arrangement, and with your voice. Good to hear you again!

Loved the chilled out vibe on this! Great lyrics and sonic keyboard texture. Glad you're here!

Great one, man. Must be part Texan, also, to utilize 'fixin''

Love this reflective extended instrumental break. Another clever, unique song Francois!

This section is so thematic and makes the song feel like a microcosm of the exact thing the song itself is describing. The gone(?)ing away and coming back but feeling different than before with this starting effected melodic motif and vocals

This parts my favourite, punctuated by this KNOW HOW IT IIIISSS"

you have an extremely original song creation style.  i adore the adventure i go on when i press play :)

Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was channeling more of a Neil Young, Bob Dylan and THE BAND pre Americana country rock thing. But jump ahead 40 years and here we were just this last Saturday night churning out JOSIE from AJA in a set of originals and covers full of Jazz Chords and RnB beats. So this new song absorbs a lot of that stuff. 

HR Kiosk

Next to you, I feel a hero
The maintenance of normal, while you’re a trip to Cairo
Circa 2023 I’d like to paraphrase
Cause cities like that and Khartoum
Once set a soul ablaze

So book yourself into an HR Kiosk tonight
There’s gotta be an on-line guru who could shine a light
Infiltate you with guile
Make you think there’s actually an I in why 
Yeah yeah yeah

Time spent in Aja did it make me cynical?
Made me feel ok to rave 
And pull you off your pinnacle
Of course it’s arrogant to judge, someone on culture
But I see you circling thru the sky, with the eye of a vulture

Know you kinda inside out
So I’d try it with a hundred grand
I bet you on your virtual couch 
You’re lying on a slippery Sam

Course you’re going even lower - way below zero
Sayin’ hey let’s all be friends
Like Ghandi and Nehru
Your time at the Taj Mahal, did us no favours
After breathing in the rarified shrine
Where’s your reconciliation pavers

HR KIOSK

This is a song that Tez (Llanpsych) came up with by creating a dope beat and laying some killer guitar over it. He then sent it to me, and I added some 5 string fretless bass and some electrified mandolin. I had a lot of fun making this one with Tez. He also produced and mixed the whole thing, expertly, as always. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it.

We Have Ways of Making You Dance (with Llanpsych)

Written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley. Chris and I on guitar and vocals.

I'll Fly Away

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix and mastering. @rplanes
Mark J. Bennett - Vocals and lyrics @markjbennett
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - @cemastro
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - @georg-boehme

Career Liars (by Rodolfo Planes & Mark J Bennett)

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out.

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
Show them the door.

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure. We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars

Total Destruction Sonic Comic Episode # 11

Electrogrinder

Hey, wait... was I gone and/or am I here again? Does a France-wah fart in the forest?

***
LYRICS

Been away, but I'm fixin' to amble over
Promise I won't stay too long
C'mon -- what do you say? 
S'been a while since i trampled your clover
I swear -- this time there'll be
No gamble by shamble-ramblin' 

Why today? well, that's a very good question 
Perhaps to gloss over
Truly didn't mean to stray, 
Wasn't up to anything wrong
But you know how it is -- 
Things crop up that are hard 
When it gets pitch dark and colder
I surely hope that i am not being too forward 
Or laying it a little too
Laying it a little too
Laying it a little too 
Strong?

***

not like the nights when it               felt
                                       easy; 
nowadays, i feel much 
                                                                    older
so please -- 
won't you                                just 
play along

Away But Fixin to Amble Over

Worst poet wanna-being worster singsong-person. 

Lost to learning. Living the attempt.

Away But Fixin to Amble Over

Francois Cormier

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