“Ounce of Decency” written by Aaron Mahoney and Scot Kaeff. Performed by Simon’s Chalk. Aaron Mahoney-Vocals Guitar, Scot Kaeff-Bass, Brian Jester- Drums, Elton Clifton- Guitars. 
Recorded by Simon’s Chalk at The Village Studio at Mike’s Music Productions. Assistant Engineer Brandon Gray. 
Mixed by Elton Clifton at The Cliftone Cave 2.0.

Ounce Of Decency by Simon’s Chalk

This little tune was written using a drum machine and a synthesiser, a switch up from my usual sandbox of toys but I love this sound. It's a song about the creative process. Enjoy.

Midnight Ghost

Listen to the voices in the night
Transition from black into white
Radio lies just like a camera
Radio War

Short wave offensive begins
A conflict that no one can win
Born of the need to control
Radio War

Weapons of communication
Victim is always information
Fighting with lies is so clean

Radio War

Die Unbekannten - Radio War (Germany - 1981)

So there’s some moving parts here…

First, I’ve been revisiting a lot of my older material to post it to SoundCloud. I’ve been remastering it, and remixing what I can, if I have all of the original files or tapes to do so. The material from my Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow EP from 2006 has aged, I think, particularly well, and has had the most listens of any of the songs that I’ve posted.

At the same time I’ve been doing some voice-over work, and I’ve seen the replacement of human voices with AI, to varying degrees of success. As a creative person who does visual art, music, and voice-overs, I find the AI takeover to be particularly alarming. The line between human and machine performance is blurring. Some AI stuff makes me laugh at how bad it is, but some of it is becoming scary good. I encountered an AI voice-over recently that would have fooled me if I didn’t know, going in, that it was AI. 

AI visual art is taking over social media, and is becoming accepted as being “legitimate” art in a way that dramatically devalues human creativity. While it is often easy to tell what is AI and what isn’t, the lines are blurring.

So with these two things going on -- the revisiting of the Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow material, and the AI onslaught -- I decided that I wanted to re-record at least the title track from that EP. That song is one of my early experiments in making music using odd meters and polymeters. While AI may soon start being able to make “believable” pop music, there is no reason for it to make weird music in odd meters and polymeters. The market for such music isn’t large enough to focus on that. So I feel like that may be the only way in which my creative work isn’t going to be completely replaceable soon. 

This recording is a dramatically different take on the song than the one I had 18 years ago. It went in a way more pop punk direction than I was expecting, especially for a song that has large sections in 7/8 and 11/8. But when it started heading that direction I just leaned right in, and I really dig the end result.

Mrs O'Leary's Cow (2024)

TonSchrauba  -  No Fear !!!

TOMORROW’S SHADOWS
Lyrics		Kaeff
Music		Kaeff
© 2019		Published by Diabolical Kitten Publishing (ASCAP) 

Blankets of stars
Recede with the dawn				
And the heat of the day starts to rise		
Cutting the line
A circle of one					
And the gears of the world improvise		

We’re all a shadow of tomorrow				
As we slowly move across the lake of our days			
And as the currents move beneath us	between us on 2nd
We balance time, we balance love, we ride the waves	

Handling truth
And carrying guilt
Behind war paint and somber disguise
Walking away
And slicing the air
Into one more day and parts we despise

We’re all a shadow of tomorrow				
As we slowly move across the lake of our lives			
And as the waves ripple beneath us
We balance time, we balance love, we dance with flailing knives

		And we keep chasing the sun
		Driving for the light in a game that can’t be won
		And we keep chasing the sun
		Dying for the light and battling on and on and on

Then the dusk rolls
Comes with the fog
And the stars return to paint the night
Taking deep breaths
Removing the key
Gathering strength and moving to take flight

We’re all a shadow of tomorrow				
As we slowly move across the lake of our days			
And as the currents move between us
We balance time, we balance love, we ride the waves

                And we keep chasing the sun
		Driving for the light in a game that can’t be won
		And we keep chasing the sun
		Dying for the light and battling on and on and on

It's Not What You Think

Tomorrow's Shadows - Demo

Wanderlust

Fall Colours

Chemical Waves – To The Deep (feat. Pedro/IAMTHESHADOW)
taken from the new album "Lasting Forever" released on 5th June 2020 by ScentAir Records.
Available in CD, Digital and Limited Edtion Cassette (plus bonus tracks). https://www.scent-air.com/
https://chemicalwaves.bandcamp.com/

- music CHEMICAL WAVES, 
- lyrics and vocals by PEDRO/IAMTHESHADOW

It’s time, time time, to feed the fire
this slow dance burning inside my veins
Can’t stop, stop, stop
can’t break the silence
Can’t even taste your breath on my face
I craved for a touch to reach higher
but beliefs never seems to hold my hand
Can’t taste, taste, taste
can’t feel the fire
Give me an easy way out from this place
Maybe i could feel it
Ascending to the deep of my soul
someday i would fix it
killing my statue to feed the flame
I just feel like a slave
Like a fragile embrace
I just feel like a slave
like a fragile embrace
Take, Take….
I just feel like a slave
Like a fragile embrace
I just feel like a slave
like a fragile embrace
I craved for a touch to reach higher
but beliefs never seems to hold my hand
It’s time, time time, to feed the fire
this slow dance burning inside my veins
I just feel like a slave
I just feel like a slave
I just feel like a slave
Like a fragile embrace

Lasting Forever

To The Deep (feat. Pedro/IAMTHESHADOW)

During this nightmare of a pandemic, I decided to do what a lot of folk had been doing, record my own feelings about what was going on. I worked remotely but managed to wrangle a few of my friends to add their voices to the song. So here it is, my pandemic anthem! Enjoy.

Mixed by Jeff Knowler
Produced by Chris Mears
copyright Chris Mears 2020

All This Time

What happens when you teach a kid Suzuki violin, have him grow up in the home of a rock band, and then give him a guitar and get out of his way?

Throw in a love for Dave Brubeck and odd time signatures, some Phil Keaggy and open guitar tunings, a little Klayton and Trent Reznor, a touch of Adrian Belew, a dash of Danny Elfman and Alan Silvestri, and then stir in a heaping helping of big dumb guitar rock, and you’ve got a mishmash of influences that make up my sound. 

I like to make interesting music, and I get bored easily. I am equal parts composer and performer. I sing a little. I play a lot. And I really dig making absurd beats in weird time signatures that don’t make any sense until they do.

Mrs O'Leary's Cow (2024)

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