Immersive and unsettling ……… a fine soundscape full of mystery and foreboding - excellent work !

I:1'58" / II:2'02" / III:2'14" / IV:2'25"
Kit: Hammerhead, Fugue, volca fm, Minimoog D, Audiokit Synth One, OMG Guitar, Teraverse, microKorg, Sector, beatwave, Hilda, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements:
Audio Samples: Emergency vehicles, police and car horns. Pedestrian crossings, conversations in cafes, on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Chelsea district and streets of Manhattan. Busker music from Union Square and MTA platform. All field recordings captured in New York, Christmas 2023.
Music: Thanks for the classic intro (5 seconds) from "Good Morning USA" by Walter Murphy, Seth Macfarlane, Mike Barker, (c) Fox Film Music Corp. et al.

Little Island [I - IV] (XL3)

Moonlight (slowed & reverb)

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Guitars used:
Electric Guitar - Yamaha Revstar Standard (P90 pickups)
Bass Guitar - Fender Precision Bass

All guitar sounds created and played through my Line 6 HX Stomp.

Drums programmed using EZ Drummer 3.

Plugins used:
Spitfire Audio Labs - Frozen Strings
Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra 

Freezing The Inferno

"Tears" Subway-Remix https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/tears
Featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: Glasswork - Improvisation for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table (excerpt): https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-2
Music VSS & SnowOmen; Remix VSS; Lyrics VSS; Field Recordings VSS: On the escalators/ In the shower; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor Subway-Station, Berlin

There are these mornings
I open my eyes 
just to cry

There are these moments
right before dawn
when I die

There are the days
all I can say is
let it rain

There are the nights
I pray to sleep
not to wake
not again

But then there's you
there's only you
who makes me feel

Yes there is you
there's only you
makes me wonder

An I'm not
going under...

Morning

Just For Today

Performance for invoked spirits.  Recorded straight into two tracks. It’s a Sunday Jam.

A Counterworlds Match

March of the Sunshower

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Recorded and produced 
 by greyshoes#music-berlin
between 06/2023 // 03/2024

Opening track on "Play Dust #1 I Work In Progress" 
by Grey Shoes. Released on Bandcamp 04/2024.
https://grey-shoes.bandcamp.com/album/play-dust-1-i-work-in-progress

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Artwork by P. Werzlau ,
using the image, 
"The Black Pennant", (detail) 
watercolour, 2018

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Plateau II

It looks so good from far away
but when you’re up close you can smell the decay
The skyscrapers stand tall and proud 
but down below there’s a beaten crowd

But you can’t smell the stench the stench that hovers around you
you can’t smell the stench cause you’re living in an ivory tower
and the con men stalk their human prey 
as the junkies shoot their problems away
cause it’s just another sunny day in the bright shiny city

A testament to the progress of man
total domination of the land
concrete and asphalt spread like a disease
obliterating plants, animals and trees

But you can’t smell the stench
the stench that hovers around you
you can’t smell the stench 
cause you’re living in an ivory tower

We built a shining city up on a hill
But we caught a bug and now we're ill
and the only cure is a bitter pill
They say it takes a village but the corporations steal
Smells like we got the wrong end of the deal

But you can’t smell the stench the stench that hovers around you
you can’t smell the stench cause you’re living in an ivory tower

We build our walls to hide behind
We install our locks and close our minds
Anarchy and chaos throughout the land
Things are not going according to plan
Forces unleashed beyond our control
We’re falling into a bottomless hole

You can’t smell the stench the stench that hovers around you
you can’t smell the stench cause you’re living in an ivory tower
And the con men stalk their human prey 
as the junkies shoot their problems away
Cause it’s just another sunny day in the bright shiny city
Cause it’s just another sunny day in the bright shiny city

Stench

Insecure Beauty

Mediation

Grey Shoes is 
 Peter Werzlau & Friends. 
Artist/musician,
 living and working 
 in Berlin.
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Thank you for listening.

Plateau II

Grey Shoes

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