just when you think you know where it's going... sir, you throw a mean curveball :-)

Some seriously killer dark ambient you have going on there! Well done!

A Drop Of Wisdom, A Sea Of Gold

Fornicatus

Hidden Paths

Mantra

Purport

self examination

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Everyone Gone/ Fireworks/ Darkness (naviarhaiku 502)

240127 - Mixed Company Mash-Up

Day 31! What a journey, thanks to everyone who's listened along the way. Every end is a new beginning.

The recording in this track was a strange beat that was coming from a wall, and some conversations that were going on in the background. Made a few years ago and finally put to use now :)

Jamuary 31st 2024 Endings & Beginnings

A gentle riposte to a guy who pulled one of my gigs after four songs in Dec 2022, because it wasn't "upbeat" enough. It was a town wide charity event he'd asked to be part of. It was unpaid. Cold. My first gig in 18 months.
Revenge is a dish best served cold and with relish and large flightless birds native to Australia.

Have you ever heard of charm, did no one teach you manners?
Does the weight of your ego strain your back
Do you have to get up early to practice being so surly?
Are you making up for something that you lack?

You're a strutting little minnow in the widest of oceans
I've met your kind a thousand times before 
A self appointed king in your grubby little kingdom
Just because your name's above the door

You didn't join the queue when they gave out grace
They didn't make good nature in your size 
And the corpse of your charisma lies rotting in your kitchen
Underneath a swirling cloud of flies

Downbeat's the new upbeat, chill out and listen in
Perhaps the words will move you or beguile
Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, you smile

Revenge is a dish best served cold and with relish
To turn the other cheek would just be wrong 
Public humiliation was the weapon that you chose
My weapon of choice is just this song

So may your barefoot road to hell be paved with drawing pins and lego 
May curdled milk forever grace your tea
May a herd of rampant emus peck your beady eyes out, 
Then I'll show you upbeat, wait and see 

Downbeat's the new upbeat, chill out and listen in
Perhaps the words will move you or beguile
Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, you smile

Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, 
Won't end if God forbid, 
Won't end if God forbid, you smile

copyright 2024 will riding

Downbeat's The New Upbeat

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

A Stone Aging (disquiet0643)

halF noE

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Apparently, the ‘hai’ in ‘haiku’ translates to ‘joke’, ‘fun’, or ‘unusual’, which is part of the inspiration for the odd name of this venture; an evolving project nurtured by Darren Bourne, in collaboration with countless others, past and present. The ongoing obsessions of halF unusuaL are improvisation, chance and the music / non-music boundary, with the aim of (impossibly) creating sound worlds never heard before ... Thank you so much for your support 🥰

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