Impressed! A truly original interpretation and a great track in its own right. Congrats!

You strike a chord!!! This is my favorite Genesis album among all for its crazy creativity... successful test, not the same vibrations, but I greatly appreciated your fabulous work :-) Bravo the artist !

I think I said already that this is outstanding. Anyway I say it a second time: This is really outstandingly great!

Weird and cool instrumentals.. dope baritone vocal work 

Really impressed at your choice of instrumentation definitely keeping the spirit of the original but managing to take Rael to a future dimension... adding a new brightness, vividness and urgency; providing a decent and respectful vocal interpretation

Ive been working on this song for some time now. I was hoping to have it come out before thanksgiving. Its a little bit about the future and a little bit about the past.

Lyrics:


Someone told me long ago about a land so far away
 For fortune and for freedom we left out homes for better days.
No one thought that life would come to this though we counted out the cost
Now the simplest necessity is the thing that I miss most

What was lost, what was lost, I often think about the world we lost. What was lost what was lost, I often think about the world we lost

Bitter nights and winter days weigh heavy on my mind
Last time the ice had melted there weren’t many of us alive
Though a simple life and privation has always been my way
When the days grow short and the weeds are tall you got to get on your knees and pray.

Dornland

This song explores the good and bad in all of us.  We're all incredibly complex beings, and we all live with our internal demons.  The lyrics regarding a fly buzzing around an incandescent are a tongue-and-cheek reference to The Exorcist movie.  :)  There's a balance that we all try to maintain; some fail, some exceed,  but the vast majority of us live in the middle ground, the grey.

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LIVING WITH THE DEMONS 
(c) JunkHeap Apr 2022 / Remixed Sep 2023

I'm lying on my bed 
looking up at a fly buzzing around
an incandescent. 
The light reminds me - 
we're full of strong emotion; passionate.

...and here we are.
Living with the demons,      
but I'm not going to the fire.

I'm grey, not bad or good, 
somewhere in between.
I'm grey, not happy or sad,
if you know what I mean.

Heart keeps on beating,
while I'm eating my cereal in the morning.
Nothing special, 
no pre-emptive warning;
of some devil coming in to steal my soul.

later on you can drop by,
and we can see what you have mind.

Some days the rays of light
from above they touch me, 
but Light or dark, I'm mostly grey.

Living with the demons.
Got to get them out of my head.
Living with the demons.

Living With The Demons

15-year-old Andriy recounts to CNN's John Berman the moment his family was forced from their home at gunpoint in Chernihiv, Ukraine, and the attack that claimed his mother's life. 

V1
right
It ain't right
It ain't right
It ain't right

When fifteen year old ripped from his life
When his towns on fire and his mother just died
It ain't right
It ain't right

you see
It's strange
That just a week before
Andriy was playing guitar with family
dark night
Dark night
He just want play his guitar now
And get through this dark night

Ch
And he just wanna go home
And he just wanna go home
And rebuild a city

{post ch}

V3
He's the same age as my son
to see what he has been through.
it is just,
heart breaking
He said
I was supposed to be playing with my band at a concert…
instead I am here.
heart breaking
heart breaking
And I wanna go home
And I wanna go home

{instr}

Ch
And he just wanna go home
And he just wanna go home
And rebuild a city

Bridge
And want you to know that my mother was a beautiful woman
And want you to know that my mother was a beautiful friend

Ch
And I wanna go home
And I wanna go home
Heart breaking

Outro
And I wanna go home
And I wanna go home
Heart breaking
And I wanna go home
And I wanna go home


Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELX1Rf6t4cM

The situation in Ukraine is heartbreaking and incomprehensible……it ain't right.

I saw one specific example (of many) in a news article that really got to me about the effects of this senseless war on ordinary people.  People just trying to live their ordinary human lives in peace, coming from towns probably similar to the one you or I may have grown up in.  Instead, they are ripped from this existence because a psychopath decides he needs to acquire a new piece of dirt and a bigger crown.  He will level cities and mow down innocent people to get it.  

I recently watched a news feature covering a shell shocked 15 year old boy who had lost his mother in an awful attack.  He was still obviously stunned and coping.  Towards the end of the interview it became clear that one of his coping mechanisms was just wanting to play his guitar for awhile to get through the dark nights ahead….to hold on to a strand of something normal.  This hit me quite hard as it is probably a characteristic I too would have fallen back on as coping mechanism (a keyboard in my case)

 The other powerful thing that came through was his un-questioned determination to still go back and rebuild the city one day. This seemed to be just a given.  This was going to happen. This steadfast resolve and heroism in the Ukrainian people in general is moving and inspiring and probably has a lot to do with what they went through and achieved in the 2013/2014 timeframe when they ousted a Putin placed dictator the first time.  The Netflix documentary called Winter on Fire captures this struggle for independence very well.  They will not give up this hard won independence easily.

This all influenced my latest song creation.  

Thank You for your courage Andriy and I wish you strength, resilience and resolve to keep moving forward.  This song is dedicated to you and your family.

V/r
Dave

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Andriy

Safe Corridor

...and I Am He 

Would it be wrong to not do things I’m supposed to do?
Would it be wrong to not choose what I’m supposed to choose?
To make a bad decision most deliberately?
To make a bad decision with a little slice of pleasure
With a little spark of glee, give my heart up to the devil
Temporarily?

Or permanently?
Or permanently?
Not what I’m supposed to be
But the permanent me

Would it be wrong to tell the truth knowing you’d prefer a lie?
Would it be wrong to choose to share the secrets we agreed to censor
With a smile and a snicker and a little slice of pleasure
Like the little bump of speed from a quickie in a closet
An adrenaline adventure a betrayal I can savor
temporarily

Or permanently?
Permanenty
Not what I’m supposed to be
But the Permanent me

Right as the river
I’m floating so gently on
Which side of things
Will the croupier land me on
I’m obligated
The dice man has cometh
And I am he, and I am he
The dice man has cometh
And I am he, and I am he
The dice man has cometh
And I am he, and I am he

Permanently
Permanently
Permanently

Janine Levinson @janinelevinson : lyrics & vocals 
Mahan Mahan @mahan-mahan : instrumental track 
Lenny Bruce appears courtesy of himself and to add legitimacy to the otherwise obscure and mildly controversial "poly-bipolar women and masochistic men who.love them" phenomenon.

...and I Am He ~ Janine Levinson | Mahan²

Where are the missing people allegedly abducted by aliens? Fiction or truth? No one really knows for sure. We have musically dealt with this question.
Peter Pasch > Drums & Percussion / Reworked and Production @docfritz 
joerxworx > Flute @joerxworx 
Ralf Wadephul > Keyboards & Synthesizers
Composed, Arranged & Performed by  OESJ | ORCHESTRA OF ELECTRIC SPACEJAZZ  Artwork and Graphic-Design by Peter Pasch  © 2022 OESJ | All Rights Reserved | www.oesj.eu

MISSING PERSONS

Outside with yours truly.  💜💜💜
with love, 
LP

Headphones On 01 - Outside with LP 01

Vocals & lyrics by FRAWSTAKWA
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa/one-chance-148bpm?in=frawstakwa/sets/open-for-collab

Mix, production & art - Cosmic Keanu

One Chance - FRAWSTAKWA & Cosmic Keanu

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/blanket-of-moss.html

Gate Of Moss

Playing this again, I realised I'd mastered a lot of detail out of this so, here is my attempt at a remaster. Hope you like it! December 2023. 

As a child, the night was full of mystery. My twin sister was a somnambulist, and I too was known to walk if I had a fever. Looking into the face of a sleepwalker is quite disturbing - it's the open but dead eyes, no hint of recognition; it used to make the hair stand up on my neck. 
The cover is a detail from a painting by the innovative French painter, Gustave Courbet. I think it's fair to say he nailed that look.

The Somnambulist (Remaster)

M-Blue Cobra

© 1974 Genesis

Another cover from the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the 1974 double album by Genesis.  Previously I posted my cover of Back in N.Y.C. (https://soundcloud.com/gary-rees-since-87/back-in-nyc-a-semi-experimental-cover-for-my-fellow-fans-of-old-genesis).  I'd love to cover the whole album eventually.

Thanks to my man Junez @pannican-flyswatter for listening to a couple of earlier versions and for his encouragement.  Credit to freemidi.org. 

Those who know Fly on a Windshield and its lyrics will understand why I only covered the latter part of the song at this time.
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And I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway.

Echoes of the Broadway Everglades,
With her mythical madonnas still walking in their shades:
Lenny Bruce, declares a truce and plays his other hand.
Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand.
Sirens on the rooftops wailing, but there's no ship sailing.
Groucho, with his movies trailing, stands alone with his punchline failing.
Klu Klux Klan serve hot soul food and the band plays 'In the Mood'
The cheerleader waves her cyanide wand, there's a smell of
Peach blossom and bitter almonde.
Caryl Chessman sniffs the air and leads the parade, he know in a scent,
You can bottle all you made.
There's Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes, smiling at the majorettes
Smoking Winston Cigarettes.
And as the song and dance begins, the children play at home
With needles; needles and pins.

Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974 (Genesis cover, 1974)

Gary Rees

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