All I hear is Spinel and it makes me flustered so much. Its so lovely-dovely and adorable too 💕

Horizontal Hike

written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher from the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds"
arranged by Gary Lucas 
GL--1941 Gibson J-45
recorded on Gary's iPhone 8/30/22
Chez Lucas West Village NYC

God Only Knows--Gary Lucas

This song is based on an excellent instrumental track by Akira Nakajima: https://soundcloud.com/akira_nakajima/sweetsoulbaby who has very kindly given me permission to work with it. There was something about Akira's track that felt very cinematic to me, and I was inspired to add quite a lot of strings and other sounds/textures to extend its cinematic-ness (I know that isn't a word) even further - and I ended up putting a lot of experimentation into this one before it sounded reasonably 'right' (to me at least). Not sure what anyone else is going to think of it though.

This is another track from my 2013 backlog, and I must thank Phil McWalter for his 'less is more' suggestion that I remove a bit of 'backwards' vocal from the end of an earlier mix of this track. He was absolutely right.

Lyrics:

Well down below the city burns
In this disco-insurrection
I won't deny I have concerns
And though I know it seems quite callous
To admit it, from up here
It all looks rather pretty
And they say

It's such a shame when charming people have to die, however
We will not hesitate to take whatever measures are
Proportionate in order to defend these
Perfect-lies, that keep us prosperous and healthy

But no one stays up here forever
Something really unexpected is
Going to bring you down
Like a levitating ice-cream truck
And though I couldn't recommend the movie
It has its moments


No One Stays Up Here For Ever (Akira Nakajima & Wheelwright)

from his acclaimed album "The Ordeal of Civility"
garylucas.com/www/civil

Produced by Jerry Harrison

Gary Lucas--guitars, lead vocal
Jerry Harrison--keyboards
Ernie Brooks--bass
Billy Ficca--drums
Alva Rogers--vocals
Jenni Muldaur--vocals
Jason Candler--alto sax
Joe Hendel--trombone

words and music by Gary Lucas

A track from our new album commemorating the pogrom in Jedwabne Poland July 10th 1941 in which the entire Jewish community (including my family on my mother's side) was rounded up and herded into a barn which was then torched
drawing by Cheyenne Schiavone 
http://garylucas.com/www/grfx/LETTER_FROM_JEDWABNE.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL_uyEcaM8

"Jedwabne"--Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters

from Kevin Coyne's album "Knocking On Your Brain"

Kevin Coyne--vocal
Gary Lucas--guitars

(Coyne/Lucas)

with Ali Neander, Tom Liwa, Willy Wagner and Ralf Gustke

recorded in Dusseldorf 1996



English Rose--Gary Lucas and Kevin Coyne

Live in Tokyo at the Volga Club, Roppongi 3/96

Gods and Monsters East:

Gary Lucas--electric guitar
Shu Yamaichi--drums
Lloyd Love--bass
Misako Kano--electric piano


(Trad. arr. Lucas/Freddy King)

from compilation "Operators Are Standing By--Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996"




"The Volga Boatman/The Stumble"--Gary Lucas Live in Tokyo

composed and performed by Gary Lucas 
recorded to iPhone on his 1941 Gibson J-45 acoustic 
6/12/24 NYC
watercolor and pen and ink drawing by David Scher

"That taut rope sound" was how my friend Paul Haines, the late Canadian poet and jazz lyricist ( Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hill" and Kip Hanrahan's "Darn It") once described my playing

"That Taut Rope Sound"--Gary Lucas

composed by Richard Wagner for his opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" 1843
arranged for solo electric guitar by Gary Lucas
recorded by Marc Urselli at Eastside Sound NYC

absolutely no overdubs

collage by 3XA

Fantasia on "The Flying Dutchman" Overture--Gary Lucas

"She's a Rainbow" Gary Lucas solo acoustic

Recorded live NYC by Gary Lucas, absolutely no overdubs

composed by Florian Fricke/Gary Lucas

"Höre, Der Du Wagst" (Listen, You Who Dare)
taken from the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), music by Popol Vuh

Gary Lucas--'64 Stratocaster, fx


from the Gary Lucas album "Improve the Shining Hour--Rare Lumiere 1980-2000" 
originally released 2000 on Knitting Factory
available now on iTunes on Rare Lumiere Records




Listen, You Who Dare/Improve The Shining Hour--Gary Lucas solo

written by Hoagy Carmichael

arr. by Gary Lucas

GL--1941 Gibson J-45

Recorded live at the Knitting Factory March 1991 by Bob Appel

from the album "Monsters from the Id (Rarities and Verities" (Rare Lumiere)

Comicosmics--Gary Lucas solo acoustic live

You Are Nature

Merci à Jean-Luc Barraud https://soundcloud.com/jlucb  pour le don de sa Mazurka originale

paroles:
Avec un doux bruissement, frissonnent mes souvenirs
Avec un doux bruissement, aux accents de ton rire
Souffle de vent dans la brume légère
Souffle de vent dans nos cheveux mêlés

Passer le seuil pieds nus dans la lumière
Passer le seuil mouillé de rosée
Qu'il faisait bon
Ce bel été

Montent alors doucement, ces parfums qui m'inspirent
Montent alors doucement, nourrissent mon sourire
Les foins coupés et l'odeur de la terre
Les foins coupés et les fleurs de pommiers

Passer le seuil pieds nus dans la poussière
Passer le seuil de soleil baigné
Qu'il faisait bon
Ce bel été

Par delà tout ce temps, mon cœur enfle et soupire
Par delà tout ce temps, pour ce qui va mourir
L'amour immense, les jolis rêves de bergère
L'amour immense, le bonheur partagé

Passer le seuil sans regard en arrière
Passer le seuil les yeux mouillés
Qu'elle fut triste
Cette fin d'été

Adieu veaux vaches cochons couvée
Envolé tout ça c'est du passé

frenglish translation:
With a gentle rustle, my memories shiver
With a soft rustle, to the accents of your laughter
Wind blast in the light mist
Breath of wind through our tangled hair

Cross the threshold barefoot in the light
Pass the dewy threshold
How good it was
This beautiful summer

So slowly rise, these scents that inspire me
So slowly rise, feed my smile
Cut hay and the smell of earth
Cut hay and apple blossoms

Cross the threshold barefoot in the dust
Cross the threshold of bathed sun
How good it was
This beautiful summer

Beyond all this time my heart swells and sighs
Beyond all this time, for what will die
The immense love, the pretty dreams of a shepherdess
Immense love, shared happiness

Pass the threshold without looking back
Cross the threshold with wet eyes
How sad it was
This end of summer

Farewell calves cows pigs brood
All of this is gone

Mazurka Mouillée - musique J-Luc

Another classic of my youth. I got to see Dave Van Ronk several times in the early 1990s, and this was always my favorite song of his. I think he played it straight up but I was no way capable of doing that, so started noodling it in open D as I was obviously doing a lot at that point in time. Over time it go faster and noodlier - this is actually somewhat abbreviated. At one point I even played it with a friend who brought back a didgeridoo from his junior year in Australia (but who couldn't circular breathe yet. It was interesting.)

Anyhow. Go look up Van Ronk's version and I think there are a few teaching videos of him doing this one available online. And read that durn book that Dave wrote with Elijah Wald, it's a terrific glimpse of the Village folk scene from a unique perspective.

Pic: Presumably the remains of the eponymous mill on the banks of Mill Brook, Paupack PA

Green Green Rocky Road

from their new album "Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons" 
(Cuneiform Records)

originally recorded by Mae Questel

written by Boyd Bunch, Charles Tobias, and Cliff Friend

Lyrics:
My sweetheart
you're gorgeous! you're gorgeous! you're gorgeous! you're gorgeous! 
you're gorgeous! you're gorgeous
Tonight

That the song I heard on the phonograph
The needle caught on the broken half
and kept playing, 
and saying

My sweetheart
I kiss you! I kiss you! I kiss you! I kiss you!
I kiss you! I kiss you
Tonight

All at once I started to think of you
the things I wanted to say and do
when we're dancing
romancing

The Broken Record
played on and then
The Broken Record
started again

My sweetheart
I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you!
I love you! I love you
I do

Oh the tune sounds silly I will agree
The words are daffy but not to me
for there's no doubt
it's the way I feel about you
mmmmmmmmmm

My sweetheart
I'm crazy! I'm crazy! I'm crazy! I'm crazy!
I'm crazy! I'm crazy
about you

That the song I heard on the phonograph
The needle caught on the broken half
and kept playing, 
and saying

My sweetheart
without ya! without ya! without ya! without ya!
without ya! without ya
I'm blue

All at once I thought of the night last week
You popped the question but couldn't speak
and just st-st-st-st-stuttered
and b-b-b-b-b--stuttered

You you you you
started to shout
Ah wooh wooh woooo
but nothing came out

My sweetheart
I'm sending this token
the record that's broken
I'm really not jokin'
you'll see

Oh the tune sounds silly
I will agree
the words are daffy
but not to me
for there's no doubt
it's the way I feel about you
aboutcha! aboutcha! aboutcha! aboutcha!
ooh ooh ooh 
ah-choooooo!

GL--acoustic guitar
Sarah Stiles--voice
Joe Fiedler--trombone, ensemble arrangements
Jeff Lederer--woodwinds
Michael Bates--acoustic bass
Rob Garcia--drums

Produced by Gary Lucas
Executive Producer Robert Melvin Rubin

http://garylucas.com/www/fleischerei/fleischerei.shtml

"The Broken Record"--Gary Lucas' FLEISCHEREI featuring Sarah Stiles

original composition by Gary Lucas

recorded on his 1942 Gibson J-45

from the album "Street of Lost Brothers" (Tzadik)

"Level The Playing Field"--Gary Lucas solo acoustic

Dil La Liya is a track from Outersect's Caldera CD released in 2007.
outersect.bandcamp.com/

Dil La Liya

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

"The Broken Record"--Gary Lucas' FLEISCHEREI featuring Sarah Stiles

gary@garylucas.com

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