Un Temps D'Adieux

Live My Life

REACH FOR THE TOY WHEN THE SUN IS GONE

VILKORN Back Side

Extrait de mon nouvel EP Nouvel : « Juste avant d’avoir quarante ans »
15 mai 2022 - 25 mai 2022
23 minutes 30

Première partie (1 à 3), à domicile, en Alsace.
Deuxième partie (4 à 6), à Madrid jusqu’au jour de mes quarante ans. 

Jamais auparavant je n’avais fêté mon anniversaire à l’étranger. Jamais auparavant je n’avais fait de la musique en nomade — avec pour seuls outils mon MacBook et le micro de mon téléphone portable. « Juste avant d’avoir quarante ans », comme la plupart de mes enregistrements, est une sorte de journal intime sonore, en forme d’hymne d’adieu à la trentaine, à ce que cette décennie représentait pour moi, en termes d’identité, d’enjeux et de positionnements relationnels. 

EP disponible dès maintenant sur mon Bandcamp : https://jordaneprestrot.bandcamp.com/album/juste-avant-davoir-quarante-ans

Ceux qui partagent les mêmes références musicales que moi, entendront peut-être ici ou là l’influence de Gavin Bryars, de Warren Ellis, de Terry Riley, de Sigur Rós et de Brian Eno. 

En couverture : Autoportrait dans le verre de ma propre photo de Notre-Dame de Paris, dans laquelle se reflète également ma reproduction du Grand Bouc de Goya. Photographie prise le 22 mai 2022, au matin de mon départ pour Madrid — où je m’étais justement donné rendez-vous, à la date fatidique, avec ce tableau. ¹

Tracklist : 
1. La Gueule de bois du dimanche matin
2. Entre les creux et les crêtes
3. Sans les moyens d’être héroïque (Version “Computer Hero” 2022) ² 
4. Dans l’Autobús Exprés depuis l’aéroport de Madrid
5. Toutes les choses pour lesquelles il est désormais trop tard
6. Franchir le cap

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¹ Pour rappel, je parle en détail du Grand Bouc de Goya dans le premier texte de « Faire avouer Mercure », inclus dans l'extrait gratuit sur Amazon : https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0979DZPMD ; on le voit par ailleurs apparaître régulièrement dans mes photos prises à domicile, notamment dans ma série « Le Confinement » : http://prestrot.com/confinement.php
² Vous retrouverez la version originale (100% stylophone) sur l'album « Éclats d'un verre jeté par terre » : https://jordaneprestrot.bandcamp.com/track/sans-les-moyens-d-tre-h-ro-que

Juste avant d'avoir quarante ans

Toutes les choses pour lesquelles il est désormais trop tard

Toutes les choses pour lesquelles il est désormais trop tard

Culture

MIX/MASTER: Woods Studio

Dreams are pretty things
What pretty things are dreams
Hide them from the sun
Admire in moonbeams
And watch them waft away
On the slightest breeze
They do as they please
Each pretty as it comes
Pretty as it leaves

Wishes unfulfilled
Hopes that failed to soar
Blood unfairly spilled
You need then all the more
Dreams
Pretty to the eye
Dreams
Not true and not a lie
yes dreams
They’re a private joy
Like the busted toy
To which a child clings
Dreams are pretty things

If it’s plain as can be 
That reality
knocks you all about
Tuck yourself in
And let your dreams out

Working toward a goal
Other people set
Telling heart and soul
It’s not your time yet
With your eyes on the clock
Till the work day ends
When the night descends
You won’t be alone
Dreams will be your friends 

Yes dreams
Know what you desire
Dreams
Provide what you require
The freedom that flight brings
Wings if you need wings

Where skies are always blue
Your loved one loves you
And the whole world sings
DREAMS ARE PRETTY THINGS!

Sexagenarian Vol III

Dreams Are Pretty Things

TWIG
#Rock #hardrock #indie #jam #amp #scottburton #pauldesousa #cameronmcgowan #mikewilley #mood #Funk #guitar #bass #drums #vocals #energy #oldschool #hook  #boston #extreme energy #progressive #twig #sweetaswine #alluneed #farewell #still #liquified #clown #moon #juice #jackson #peavey #genzbenz #mackie #tama #ibanez #5150 #xcvi #classic #seven #songs #sanity #sound #02149. #slapping #firepower #fun 

Music By:
Mike Willey (Bass Guitar)
Cameron McGowan (vocals)
Paul DeSousa (Drums & Percussion)
Scott Burton (Guitar)

Contact Info :
          Email: MOONJUICEXCVI@GMX.COM

TWIG

Quick Freestyle LMK 🔥🔥🔥 or 🗑🗑🗑

There For Me (Freestyle)

In the memory to my great friend Didier, I would like to reshare this project I made with him from around 2009.
Didier was a clarinet bass player, saxophone baryton player, painter and a kind respectuous man with humor and intelligence.
He told me not a long time ago that he would like to begin a new project with me but unfortunatly he leaved us before anything was done.
If you want to donate everything will go to his wife Marie-France.
I hope you will like this Trip-Hop Jazzy project we made with our heart.

Marc OFX & Didier Greiner - Step By Step

Melomania

Myrddin Wyllt

Schema - Reason ft Hegendaan

"I have wanted to write a Christmas song for many years and I am so happy that I have finally got one together. Inspired by all of the great things I love about songs for Christmas; it has to be a bit cheesy, lots of fun, emotional, nostalgic and a total ear worm. I have wrapped the chorus around a simple narrative of love and family and friends enjoying a good time. I wanted this to be something you can easily pick up and sing along to with friends. I hope you enjoy this and Merry Christmas!"

A song for Christmas - "It's Christmas Time"

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

December 24th I came knocking on your door
With presents in my hand for you and your family
You greet me with your tinsel eyes and wrap me up in your white smile
You invite me through the door to see your friends and your family

I have never felt like that before
You know it takes me back to when I was a kid at home at Christmas time with my family

Your friends all help me fit right in and I was drinking and grinning my grin 
Yeah, the party was about to begin as we got round the fire to sing

Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Hear the choir sing outside
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Like McCartney have a wonderful time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

© Heart House Records 2022

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

This track was rated a Commended Entry with 5/5 stars as part of the 2022 Official UK Songwriting Contest.

Inspired by:
#PaulMcCartney #EdSheeran

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist: https://open.spotify.com/track/3cwW96jgHHEG5Le8qImSu4?si=2ba01e61b9ad4a48

YouTube: https://youtu.be/i5uWi8hjwPg
YouTube Visualiser:https://youtu.be/Otix7Kr-Yfo

It's Christmas Time

Live My Life (2017 DEMO)

"Mélancolisa" de Jerry Bony 
Détendez-vous avec ce morceau, qui transmet une sensation douce et moelleuse.
Avec des mélodies apaisantes et des percussions légères, c'est la toile de fond parfaite pour votre prochaine frénésie de visionnage.
Si vous aimez la musique instrumentale, ce morceau est fait pour vous.
Les mélodies créées par le violon s'entremêlent .
C'est une belle pièce folk électro rêveuse qui explore la sensation d'une douce boucle méditative et détendue.
La musique est légèrement mélancolique dans sa nature.

Jerry Bony - Mélancolisa

Flow Mechanism

The Vociferous Mapping Of Your Unlikely Future
https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-vociferous-mapping-of-your-unlikely-future

So after 18 months, 50 musicians, artists and poets, 100’s of files, several innocent bystanders and of course some beautiful dogs and cats and I am proud to announce the debut album from Then She Reaches For The Gun. 
It’s been an immense pleasure to work with all this amazing talent! 
The album is titled The Vociferous Mapping Of Your Unlikely Future and features 10 tracks with the final track featuring every single one of the contributors somewhere in its 21 minutes : ) 
Here is the full credit list:
Adam Meredith - Voice
Anita Hustas - Double Bass
Agnostura Elwar - Electronica/Guitar/Piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Voice 
Ariad Music- Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß- Guitar 
Bellai Pelegrim - Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Guitar
Carolyn Wigston -Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Synth/Noise/Poetry/Voice/Voice Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Dani Kirby - Piano/Voice
Dough Factory - Electronica
ElectroTrek - Vibes Synth/Voice
Fake Stereo Machine - Field Recordings
Frank Wilke - Trombone/Trumpet/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Guitar/Pixies Tribute
Gary Rees - Voice
Glenn Ward - Beats/Guitar/Voice
Gonzalo Serrano - Acoustic/Electronic Drums
Holy Shitshow - Digital Strings
Hverheij - Electronica/Guitar/Nursery Rhyme Glockenspiel/Voice
Ilaria Boffa - Poetry/Voice
Juan A Miñana - Electronics/Noise
Life in The Movies - Electronic Percussion/Synths
MatVee - Beats
Martin Pozdrowicz - Organ/Pad
Muterial -Electronica
My Nocturnal Twin - Guitar
Nosensend - Synths
Paolo D’Emilio - Poetry/Voice
Paul Miller - Beats/Keyboards/Synth Bass/Voice
Phil Bywater - Tenor Saxophone
Primaloop -Drums
PuppetXeno- Guitar/Synths
Raöulfr Maganhar - Field Recordings/Voice
TexMex Shaman - Guitar/Talkbox
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Saxophones
Thomas Bergheim - Bass/Guitar/Keyboard
Timothy Korstad - Electronica/Poetry/Voice
Tuonela - Drones/Electronica
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Percussion
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Double Bass/Guitar/Keyboards
Wüst - Electronica
Vartch - Disco/Noise/Synths/Voice
Yui Nikaido- Voice

Hacho, Lola, Neska, Senna, and Yoda - Barks/Hisses/Meows/Purrs/Howls and Heavy Breathing

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Beats/Bass/Digital Orchestration//Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Noise/Percussion/Piano/Voice

Mark Rothko Sex Toys Pt 2(Current Tasmanian Business Speak Mix)

Another composition recorded before the war. I hope one day I will return to my home studio. Any support from you is much appreciated on these extremely hard times for our country, our family. 
I could have recorded much new music for the last 9 months... unless russians came to our yard to "save" us with their tanks, missiles, bombs and war planes at 4 a.m. on Feb 24th. And yes, they saved us from our house, from our normal life, from our dreams and plans. They saved my elderly parents from their home and peaceful life in retiring, saved my daughter from happy childhood, from school, from her friends and vacation by the sea. We'll never forget and never forgive it! I'm sure that russia will get what it deserves - each rocket they launch on Ukraine will turn to another 10 years of disaster for their cowardly people.
 Special thanks to Houman (@houmans) for mastering the track! Please check out his wonderful soundtracks.
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Gone

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Greetings my friends. I admit up front, this is a strange write-up… culminating from years of trying to navigate a world that no longer makes sense to me. And maybe that’s a good thing. We all needed a wake up call to just how ineffective and unsustainable it all is? And the last few years have provided examples of that… in abundance. 

Speaking of abundance (or in this case, lack thereof), Cheer and I have been discussing this one a lot lately; specifically in regards to the shops and restaurants we frequent. I finally gave up on building a DIY, music-centric desk I designed, because none of the local hardware stores had enough of the pieces in stock. We’ve watched our favorite Romaine lettuce disappear from the shelves, to be replaced by something half the size and twice the cost. Several of our favorite restaurants have closed permanently, and the wait times at others is painfully long now. 

Apparently, shop and restaurant owners can’t get anybody to work for $15/hr when it costs $30/hr to afford rent and groceries now. (How could we have ever predicted or prevented that? One might speculate.)

It’s enough to make the average mind go a little panicky. “Why don’t you have that in stock?”, ‘Why did the price on this just double overnight?”, “Why have we been waiting for 20 minutes just for the menus?”. All of these are very real, and very concerning… specifically if we never stop to question how much of that thinking is the result of being programmed to think like consumers our whole lives.

How often have you heard a commercial say something along the lines of “You deserve this because you are worth it.” Or “You should fear this. And our product/service can protect you.” Or “You should take this prescription, despite the list of side effects being longer than the list of benefits.”

I suggest we ask ourselves ‘Am I thinking with the mind of a consumer right now?’, and then be very willing to let those developing thoughts roll around in our heads for a while. 

Cheer and I concluded (with minor alarm) that we are both profoundly brainwashed by ‘consumer’ thinking; and it shows every time we feel a sense of panic in the store. Sure, things are a bit more scarce than they were 5 years ago… but does anyone (old enough) remember 30 years ago, when the stores contained half of what they offer now? (And none of us were freaking out over a lack of choices then). How about a time when you couldn’t have something shipped to your door overnight (many of us can still remember a time when 6-8 weeks was a decent shipping window).

Maybe the path to changing this paradigm is for us to get out of that ‘consumer’ thinking, and focus more on a ‘grateful for all the amazing things we have’ kind of thinking. I can still go to the store and choose from an abundance of fruits and vegetables, a teetering display of chips and dips, a bevy of beers from around the world. There are still more choices than my simple brain truly wants to think through, even if they are sold out of the Smoked Salmon and Ketchup flavored Cheetos I was specifically looking for.

So my plan going forward is to TASER myself (at least psychologically) every time I catch my brain being consumery. And the goal is to reach a point where I’m not thinking “It’s not fair my favorite restaurant closed.”, but instead thinking “How cool is it that I had that experience; and got to support the family that owned and worked that restaurant.” 

We’ve reached some critical tipping points that are well on their way to determining our future; and I believe a healthy attitude (dipped in gratitude) is the thing that’s going to keep us from gnawing each other’s faces off over the long haul. Them’s my weird thoughts for the day. Take em with a grain of salt (assuming the store carries the brand you like). I hope you enjoy my latest musical offering, ‘I’ll See It When I Believe It”. :)

WTF! The Musical

I'll See It When I Believe It

Piece inspired by romanticism in the city: love within concrete walls, poetry beneath artificial light...

Three vocal parts (translated lyrics below) became in very different moods in the songwriter phase, so I couldn't fit them in the same tempo. Working hard on transitions, I got the following solution:

Intro: ad libitum
A: 6/4 & 5/4 at 147bpm
B: 4/4 at 220bpm
C: 4/4 at 293bpm

Such ABC pattern is repeated twice, structured with some city scenes, and 2nd 'C' part includes a guitar soloing lesson by https://soundcloud.com/paco-ray, old friend of mine, technical consultor and personal luthier ;)

Pic: edited photo taken from home studio window where I recorded some city sounds for the track.

LETRA / LYRICS:

DAS VIDA A MI CIUDAD      /      YOU GIVE LIFE TO MY CITY

En la ciudad donde vivo,     /   In the city where I live,
llena de romanticismo,       /   full of romanticism,
el cariño que has perdido    /   the affection you have lost,
ven a buscarlo conmigo.      /   come to look for it with me.

Las farolas en la acera,    /    The lamps along the sidewalk,
con su fija alternativa,    /    with their constant alternation,
iluminan, no iluminan,      /    illuminate, do not illuminate,
el escenario de mi vida.     /   the stage of my life.

Entre bloques de hormigón,   /   Among blocks of concrete,
somos capaces de pedir perdón. / we are able to apologize.
Entre bloques de hormigón,   /   Among blocks of concrete,
somos capaces de sentir amor. /  we are able to feel love.

Caminando sobre asfalto,   /     Walking on asphalt,
abrazado a tu cadera,     /      held on your hip,
entre coches aparcados,     /    amid parked cars,
duerme la ciudad entera.    /    the entire city sleeps.

Eres tú toda la vida      /      You are all the life
que esta ciudad necesita,   /    that this city needs,
compartiendo cada esquina,   /   sharing every corner,
calles de melancolía...     /    streets of melancholy...

Entre bloques de hormigón,   /   Among blocks of concrete,
somos capaces de pedir perdón. / we are able to apologize.
Entre bloques de hormigón,   /   Among blocks of concrete,
somos capaces de sentir amor.  / we are able to feel love.

ER21HC01 - (C) Ruizzo 1995 - (R) Francés Records;) 2014

Das vida a mi ciudad (2nd solo by Paco Ray)

Fading In C# Minor

desolator

Track 03 from Mr. Meeble's Never Trust the Chinese (Limited)

Cultivation of the Imagination

From "Escape" album, track 03
https://yaul.biglink.to/myWork​
Free download :
https://yaul.bandcamp.com/album/escape

Home produced, home mixed, home mastered
Cover by Barbu at Hangar Créalab, Le Mans
https://hangar-crealab.fr/

Schema - Reason ft Hegendaan

Gath Studio