(Song Terry Reeves, Lyrics Janice Slater)
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Gary Reeves: Vocals, Congas, Drums
Hans Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement & Production

Cover pic from Janice Slater's personal archive.
Arterial-flow – Rive-gauche
australianjazzrealbook.com/artists/janice-slater/
bentenlaughing.blogspot.com/
www.reverbnation.com/janiceslater

I arrived in London in early ‘71 and landed on the Holland Road, Shepherd’s Bush not long after.
My good pal Julie Lewis (from Durham) with whom I’d worked with in Sydney, had digs there and invited me to stay. Nonetheless I found it a challenging place to be after Sydney, Summer, beaches, family and gigs. Amongst Julie’s record collection was Nick Drake’s 'Bryter Later' which brought solace to me as I often felt very alone and completely at a loss as to how to navigate London town.

Years later I was to learn that Freddie Mercury was living just a few doors down from us on the Holland Road...no I never knew him...but when I wrote the lyric it seemed apt to pay homage to Freddie and our collective dreams. I’m so happy with Cripple Club’s interpretation of the lyrics, bringing to life a musical collage that depicts the highs and lows of living on the Holland Road through my first cold winter! From my heart; thank you Terry & Gary Reeves; you are two soulful & gifted brothers; I feel so indebted to you both and to Hans Albers for his powerful musical contributions. Thank you, everyone, for listening. (Janice Slater)

Having been such a good friend to us over the years, it has been such an honour to work with Janice on this song. It is dedicated to every one of the beautiful friends we have made here on the Cloud. Thank you all for the support you have given to our music. The last ten years have been filled with such wonderful memories. Much love to you all. (Gary & Terry Reeves)

I’m standing on the fraying edge
Of golden russet gown
Everything’s evolving
Spinning and turning my head around

A familiar voice insulted
And 'Bryter Later's so understated
There’s evidence of a circumstantial nature
But once again, I don’t feel the danger

(Spoken) But now I’m declining all invitations...

I hear the doorbell
But there’s just a stranger
Standing on the fraying edge of fear
Of a city without pity and you’re not near

Freddie he’s walking
Heading down the street
Just like me
The snow and sleet under his feet

Oh but we’ve yet to meet
Looking down the Holland Road
Nobody can see us
Standing on the fraying edge

(Spoken) I was just like you Freddie, looking for that song...

Or three or four
We are looking for salvation
On the Holland Road
And Shepherds Bush Station

Freddie he’s still walking, heading down the street
Just like him, singing music for trick or treat

(Spoken) Oh but we’ve yet to meet…

GUITAR BREAK

(Spoken) Just around the corner from…
Portobello Road
On the fraying edge (repeat x 8)
Of a fraying town

THE FRAYING EDGE - CRIPPLE CLUB, HANS ALBERS & JANICE SLATER

CLOUDS AND RIPPLES  from Echoes From A Distant Past

special thanks for their acapella to : Ashes and Dreams
Additional voice " On sight"  thanks to :  Deadbitctrosa.....

Lyrics : 
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you

You got jump-scared so bad in your waking hours
You thought you were seeing stars
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you

Gonna see it, gonna see it, gonna see it, gonna see it
Gonna hear it, hear it
Only when you’re not listening

Gonna hear it, gonna hear it, gonna hear it, gonna hear it
Gonna see it, see it
Only when you’re not looking

It’s the same from Winnipeg to California
Punishing your intuition in the corner
It’s the same from Winnipeg to California
Punishing our intuition in the corner

The clue stuck to the bottom of a shoe
The mud trail she tracked through the living room
Told you what you already knew

The truth
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you

THE TRUTH. 🎧. Feat  Ashes and Dreams

The Misfit

Endless Dreamer

Somewhere in the world, a Pixie Rabbit, the last of is species, is trying to escape from a forest lit by men…
Beat Battle BB101 by Celaeno
Rules: Make a song in any genre, key and BPM you wish using at least 1 sample or MIDI file from pack "Toki" (inspired from  DJ TOKiMONSTA's work). You may use your own sounds as well. Don’t be afraid to color outside the lines.
Lyrics:
Staring down the alley of a shattered dream 
Pixie rabbit, runs with a needle gleam 
Cracks in her fur, smoke in her breath
 Dancing on the edge of love and death

She whispers lullabies to the shadows
Skips through scars, like stepping stones
Painted wings torn up in battles
But she still won’t, go home

Pixie rabbit, don’t you cry
The sky’s on fire, but you still fly
Falling stars and bloodshot nights
You're the myth they tried to hide

Pixie rabbit, don’t you break 
The world’s a lie, but you're awake 
Ashes kiss your velvet skin 
Born to lose, but wired to win

She’s got dirt and rust on her chains 
Stole her soul in the pouring rain 
Wolves in the mirror, teeth like sin 
But she laughs, lets the darkness in

Her heart's is halfway burned
 Her love’s a lesson never learned 
She sings to ghosts in empty bars 
Chasing them in the night and hiding scars

Run, little rabbit, run through the flame
 No one ever asked for your name 
You wear the silence like a crown 
Burn it all and burn it down

Pixie rabbit, fade to black 
Leave no trail, don’t look back
 In the night, you're just a spark 
A twisted tale in the dark

Pixie Rabbit (ft. celaeno)

Recorded and produced  
by greyshoes#music-berlin  
05/2025.

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Using the image, 
Summer Landscape (detail), 
edited , 2018

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Coloured Rooms #2 I Dark Violet

This is an homage to all the cultures that have contributed to my musical journey so far. It is also a bass solo sandwich. Most of the track is a soup of different loops I found on loopcloud. I take credit for the production and the playing of the double bass. The composition is original. All rights reserved. I have a license to use the loops in the composition.

The bass you are hearing is a Shen SB 80 Fully Laminate with 39.5" scale length. It's a 5/8 size. The strings are all Savarez Corelli Medium long scale. The G string is a nickel wound unlike the others which are steel. I recorded the bass with a RODE NT1 Signature Series condenser facing the center of the top approximately 2 feet from the bridge tip. The mic is fed into an SSL2 audio interface with the 4K emulation engaged. There is some subtle eq and a little reverb on the bass track. No compression or limiting on the bass track. There is light compression on the overall mix.

All is One

NIN

Thanks lads
You're still the bar
Trent at 60
Many more years fill stages far
A forever reference in my head
From heavy to light
Lyrical love brain bed
Some friends don't dig your music but love your words
Proper heresy
Transcendence of blur

Keep it together
We want more Hurt
Yeah Cash took it,
But it's always your worth
This is something I can have
I will find that stage
I got Reznor rasp
You gave me growl and finesse
Closer to God within my chest

Ruiner of my negative side
Head was a hole
Ego tamed from pride
A Warm Place
You fill these moments
Like Buckley Grace
I'm music moulded
Into the Void for all our sakes
Lyrical real washes away the fakes

I bite the hand that feeds us lies
I almost Gave Up
But, still Wish for prize
It's you man
You kept me going
You're amazing music
Keeps BD flowing
Never say never
Churned love from rage
Maybe someday we'll share a stage


Music notes
-Drive in frets 0-6 and get 6 power in there

-Drop D to deliver the heavy

-Chromatic chords movements for a Rage Against the Machine like energy


Instrumentation
-Guitar & Bass heavy for main parts of song

-Piano part, maybe a softer ending and or intro to honour that contrast NIN give us so amazingly

-Eerie synth pads especially at the start bringing in a cool wind filled start making it linked to nature / season

-Set tuning to 444Hz and consider Capo on 2 to get that E 333Hz root which can represent harmony with the Suns average frequency. Also consider finding a drone like deep bass sound with octaves lower of this so we should find that at 166.5Hz @ see if 83.25Hz is usable at all

-consider setting up a synth to create a spiral effect with panning and pitch shifting to honour the Downward Spiral

-Use breaking glass effect to honour The Fragile. Maybe make this a positive flip by using a reversed breaking of glass effect making something that's impossible at least possible in sound. That can be a powerful metaphor

- Add a Machine sound of some kind to honour Pretty hate Machine. Tie this machine sound to the reverse effected glass breaking effect and tie that positivity to the hope we keep machines & technology under a better control collectively

- Maybe consider actually saying Nine Inch Nails in a chorus of some kind. They're amazing influence should be clear and celebrated and help transcend the assumption that NIN music is just noise and negative when the complete opposite is actually true

NIN (Poem ~ Song = Nailed)

Lyrics

It's a cushty life
Making songs
Where I landed
Most lucky charms
Love is affluent
No foreign bombs
Thanks clear skies
Thanks food filled farms

Let's appreciate what good we can
Let's spread our love and light for Iran
Let's hope and pray now finds better day
Let peace prevail
Make freedom the way

We love you
We are here
We feel some of your fear
We can't understand
Our light can hold your hand
Observational control
May light fill your land

This is Our land
With the light we stand
No sabres sounded on this sand
Just Jedi together
Hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand....


Thanks for your good people
We see your pain
If tears could drown deceiptors
Hear an ocean insane
They bomb my chest
Your forever youth
Please Dear Universe heal them with truth

It's for the 1 two three four
It's for do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti more!
It's for more best singing Earth will ever see
It's for today so we hear more of that free

We love you
We are here
Solidarity feels some of your fear
Light holds your hand
Fill your land
Light holds your hand
Fill Iran

This is Our land
With Our light we stand
No sabres sounded on this sand
Just Jedi together
Hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand...


🙏🏽

The Light holds your Hand

My Key

Step into my musical world, where I blend alternative rock, indie tunes, electrifying beats, and catchy hip-hop rhythms. Explore the variety of sounds I create and join me on a journey through different musical vibes!

Pixie Rabbit (ft. celaeno)

Geoffrey SmartPunk