"Build Me Up Buttercup" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. This is a cover by Robert Brogan. Check out https://robertbroganmusic.com for more information about this artist! Thanks for listening!

Buttercup

Build me up Buttercup (The Foundations ) Cover

Late hours (A nocturnal chant)

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This song started as a jam session between me and Nahlej creating a nu metal sound by mixing hip hop, alternative with metal. Simon added further guitar licks and a solo. Our working title "Heavy Jam" inspired StevieJ to rap lyrics about drug abuse due to low self esteem and mental health issues. All thoughts running through the narrator's mind mind created a sticky heavy jam. Instead of tackling the issues, he prefers to numb the pain with meds and weed. This doesn't solve any problems, so better not try! 
Starting with a guitar theme, I could never have guessed the heaviness of the instrumental and lyrics both. Thanks for your collab, I am very pleased with the result!

The artwork has been generated with DALL E 2, but I invested some work cleaning it up and adding details with a graphics tablet.

Nahlej: composition, guitar, bass, drum programming
Nadine de Macedo: composition, arrangement, drum programming, production
Simon Ashby: guitar, solo
StevieJ: lyrics, vocals

Where to find us:
https://soundcloud.com/nadinedemacedo
https://soundcloud.com/nahlejmusic
https://soundcloud.com/sdashby
https://soundcloud.com/user-586564289

==== LYRICS ====

I'm not ready for the world today
Already going through hell today
So anyone who tries to talk to me
They'll be hell to pay

I got a mental list of all the shit 
I'm dealing with
I know I'm not the only one 
who'll be feeling this nah

I don't need politics 
adding to the stress
Finished school time ago
so why another test

Trying to focus on me just being the best 
but I can't 
when there's so much
shit running through my head

Numbing meds so I don't feel the pain
Even little miss sunshine 
couldn't stop the rain

Ain’t lifting the finger, nah
Not today, so get away from me
seems you got a lot to say
and I forgot to say

I'm staying in one place 
all it takes 
is one look at my face

I'm not playing,
There’s nothing you can do
to change that
So just stay back

and accept that that's who I am
Staying in bed with a head like
Like heavy jam

Yeah, heavy jam
I’m in bed with a head like
Like heavy jam

The doctor's prescription 
just ain't enough for me
I need some king size Rizla
and some Godfather OG

Yeah, now I can say that my life
is so sweet
Just one thing missing,
that one thing's me

I'm existing 
but I'm not living
I'm resisting 
cause I'm not giving

Anything away 
about the state of my brain 
I'm just saying 
you can't take it away

Like all good artists
I'll just harness the pain
and create a set of lyrics
that make people say
Man, I feel the same way

I'm sure I'll smoke my way through this
Always the optimist, 
advice from the doctor is 
at some point you're gonna
have to put a stop to this

Will I listen? 
Nah that's not who I am
It's just another day in bed
with a head like heavy jam

Heavy Jam
Heavy Jam
I’m in bed with a head like
In bed with a head like
Heavy jam

I'm not ready for the world today
Already going through hell today
I'm not ready for the world today
Already going through hell today

So anyone who tries to talk to me
They'll be hell to pay

Heavy Jam

All Of Us. Here. Now

この曲の制作動機はoutput社のarcadeに含まれる素晴らしいサンプル達との出会いである。
なかでもヴォーカルサンプルは素晴らしく魅了される。
私はヴォーカルサンプルを一つの楽器音として扱っています。この為他のパートは伴奏ではなくなり、曲は自由な構造にすることができます。この素晴らしいサンプル達が私を曲の完成に導いたように
わたしはこれらの曲がリスナーを新しい音の世界に誘うと確信しています。


The motivation for making this song is the encounter with wonderful samples included in the output company's arcade.
Above all, the vocal samples are wonderfully mesmerizing.
I treat vocal samples as one instrument sound. For this reason, the other parts are no longer accompaniment, and the song can have a free structure. Just like these wonderful samples led me to complete the song
I am sure that these songs will also invite the listener to a new world of sound.

Zymology

Celtic Bop  -  Remastered

There is a world within me that defies logic, is beyond explanation…it creates and floats and soars, and it is not a part of my mortal physical self. And yet, energies found here on earth can set my inner world alight…where the heavens above are mirrored within.  To catch this energy, so much alignment in the real world is necessary, but it is not impossible.  What does this new energy sound like?  Who has pushed it out of me?  Where is it going next?  

My dear Ángel (my divine twin who passed away recently) said to me, ‘M, the wind doesn’t always blow the sails. There is a time for rest.’ My answer to him was, ‘When the wind disappears, I create it myself. I, and only I, am responsible for my own wind.’

I am the center of the energy, always have been, always will be…but I welcome and am always grateful for those who contribute and make it wild…a wild intense ride…

‘Philosophers teach us how to think. Composers teach us how to love. It is a love lesson.’ Paul Tortelier. 

A Love Lesson 




‘Without solitude, 
Love will not stay long by your side.

Because Love needs to rest, 
so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.

Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive, 
no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.

Solitude is not the absence of Love, 
but its complement.

Solitude is not the absence of company, 
but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Therefore, blessed are those 
who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

If you are never alone, 
you cannot know yourself.

And if you do not know yourself, 
you will begin to fear the void.’ 

~ Paulo Coelho

‘The art of creating is nothing without the vast ongoing participation and collaboration of the real world, nothing without the thousandfold harmonizing of things and beings; and the creator’s pleasure is thereby inexpressibly rich because it contains memories of the begetting and bearing of millions. In a single creative thought dwell a thousand forgotten nights of love, which infuse it with immensity. And those who come together in the night, locked in thrusting desire, are gathering nectar, generating power and sweetness for some future poetic utterance that will sing the rapture.’

-Rilke (from Letters to a Young Poet)

A Love Lesson

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2023
Feat. beats by FL Souto (Master of all beats... <3)

~~~

with bitter wings on broader shoulders,
here lies my sense and curiosity.
here lies their lies told, shaped and bolder,
until i don't recognise the me in me in me in me.

be kind, be kind...

some words
to please June
like we pleased December

(takes courage, too much courage, to hear all sides)

your glorious eyes see more than any others'
your gracious mouth curls around every light.
whose life is this, above, beyond all others?
whose is this body, this oversight?

rewind/be kind

some words to please June
like we pleased December

~~~

Please June

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