Francois! such a heartful song..momentaly wonderful vibes🙇

you're articulating recurring thoughts & recriminations...oh dear are we out of Kiwi fruit?

Thoughtful and lovely, with no more nor less than exactly what it needs. Good to hear you again!

Such great lyrics and wonderfully tender vocals!

I Love Your voice and insightful wordplay over an acoustic vibe. The geographical context here is palpable, the paradisinal beauty of Siesta Key juxtaposed with the tense political and cultural backdrop, and the connection to historical and current disastrously destructive events on an international scale.. I like how You've tied it all together with these religious themes here too - 'mess-eye-ache release' got me. Thanks for sharing this raw diamond! Must listen several more times 🔂

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Bird's Eye View at Level One Up

Sample of what my song 'Run to me' will eventually sound like. Recorded with a computer mike... And Ableton live.  Mix, vocals, songwriting, lyrics by ME :) 

Cover generated using Dall-e 2 AI

Run to me  (2013)

Instrumental, Production & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal Melody, Lyrics by Nadia Selvaggi

The Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr

A dormant fire inside him did catch wind
with the loss of his land and honor
decreed by the English King

Students, archers, soldiers and even nobility,
saw the raised banner
and joined the uprising

Armed with a vision only few will see,
the last Prince of Wales vowed to
set his country free


Barefoot rascals --
or heroes who won't bend the knee?
That all depends on the victors who write your history

Castles, castles --
internal enemy!
Signs of England's Imperial conquest over thee!

England, England --
your sovereign, our public enemy!

Possunt quia posse videntur
Hear Owain Glyndŵr's four gold and red lion's roar

Mist-cloaked hills and forests, artful strategy
won Owain's men countless battles,
gold, livestock and weaponry

Now, those triumphs, or fleeting fleeting victories,
light the desire inside us
that longs to be free

Castles, castles, centuries old enemy
signs of England's Imperial conquest over thee

Castles, castles, looming over the Irish sea
Eternal reminder of who rules over you and me

England, England --
wickedness with impunity!

England, England --
enemy of liberty!

Owain, Owain, Owain Glyndŵr
The man, the myth, the legend --
they never did capture thee!

The Revolt Of Owain Glyndŵr by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Well it's 2024 , let's hope it's a good year for all of us . This is a song of hope , all the people who have gone are up there looking down on us , just keeping an eye on things , that's my belief anyway ! On the 10th is a release by Fox and Brownie , Gaz had written a great song and I did the instruments , it really works , see what you think ! Happy New Year to all you Guys and Gals !

No Fear

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

Impulse

What's the point of Peace-preaching if all we're leaving are pieces?

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LYRICS

If you had to put a price on Paradise
Well, just a slice
How do you tally the bill?
Is an acre too much?
How much crypto for a human's touch?
What would it take just to...
What would it take just to chill?

In-turned nights, tossed brain-throw fights
The cool side can't win
Hot heads they churn heavy through thought-cycle's wince and spin
Even dreams' textured psy-naps are brute relief with no peace
But pieces, de-fragments, mess-eye-ache release

***

If you had to put a price on Paradise
What would suffice
Who would I have to kill?
Is a country too much?
What appropriation for a Culture's clutch?
How much wine should I...
How much blood should I spill?

Even dreams' textured psy-naps are brute relief with no peace
But pieces, de-fragments, mess-eye-ache release

***

If you had to put a price on Paradise
Just roll them dice
Would it be your god's will?
Is a being of light getting off sleight-
Outta-hand with his peoples' plight?
How many holes must we...
How many graves must we fill?


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[again, created/recorded while down in Siesta Key in May 2024, using only my crappy lappy mic, so pretty raw... but maybe that's part of the point?]

The Paradise Price (acoustic / lo-fi)

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