Excellent fruity exploration - joyful sounds on a happy trek!

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To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
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haiku #602: scent of plum / in a flash of rising sun! / the mountain path

Hommage à Nick Hornby...Tribute To Nick Hornby's novel : "How to be good"
NICKY

How to be good /How to do right
We all know life’s hard to bear sometimes
Did you feel good /Did you feel right
Don’t you think we were in hell last night?

And so Nicky told me
Answers aren’t so easy
good is a spiderweb
for little men like me
Good fellows nice chaps
Feel ashamed  and sophists 
May be not the right activists

 2  How did you feel 
When you cheated on me
Were you sorry
 I  felt guilty
Take a deep breath
Try to move on
Life’s so easy to bear 
Let’s see what’s going on

 3 I’m not so callous
And you’re not mean of course
Our confessions
aren’t the only option
Selfish or kind
I really don’t mind
Strong and fair
That’s what I really care

How to be good /How to do right
We all know life’s hard to bear sometimes

Nicky

Subway

Second round of Instrumental Hump Day! Today we're releasing one of the two instrumental tracks from our Metal album (https://ffm.to/metal-edge), which came out in October and is also available on SoundCloud - except for the last instrumental track. One of the upcoming Wednesdays, we'll release the other instrumental track from the Metal album, and then we'll start dropping a completely new project - more on that next time! 😉
Released on major streaming platforms on October 10, 2024.
© 2024 Beating Edge | Released on SoundCloud in 2025

Metal Edge

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"Beyond Kashmir"

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A shadow in the moonlight. A ninja!
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NINJAMAN (Breakbeat edit version)

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yet another little livecoding experiment ... enjoy! 😁

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

This week's challenge features a poem by the greatest master of haiku, Matsuo Bashō.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/206
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
602
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

2025-07-17

scent of plum(Naviarhaiku 602)

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E minor chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  5 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

by: Matsuo Bashō

Created by DD in Paris  July  2025

Photo by Damian Denis.

naviarhaiku602  by @naviar-records

The Mountain - naviarhaiku602

17Jul25
My naviarhaiku602 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/789227947919900672/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum
😊

the mountain path [naviarhaiku602]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 17/18 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, pedals, effects.

This original version of "Can I Have A Camel Custard?” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 602: Scent Of Plum.

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

by: Matsuo Bashō

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Can I Have A Camel Custard? (naviarhaiku602)

This is a song about a love affair that sparked in Chattanooga, Tennessee, between a Canadian and an American.  Our countries are much the same.

Youtube video:
https://youtu.be/-9cIMDhwSVc

CHATTANOOGA
(c) JunkHeap Jul 15 2025

I'm going to Chattanooga, gonna get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to clear my brain.
I'm going to Chattanooga, I gotta get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to take a break.

Look by the river, I'll be waiting.
The Tennessee is patient.
Flowing and ancient.

She sat down beside me and kissed me so gently,
sittin' by the water.
Man you can't get better than this.

We knew I had to leave,
the distance between us would grow.
The usual life responsibilities,
but I so wanted to come back to your soul.
  
I know I'm empty, your love fills me up.
Standing on Lookout mountain,
holding hands and feeling the moment.
I don't want to go back north,
and it's tough.

When I don't have you beside me,
I can't take it anymore.
I pack my bags and tell those around me...

I'm going to Chattanooga, gonna get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to clear my brain.
I'm going to Chattanooga, I gotta get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to take a break.

I don't want to say that I Iove you, but I do.
in this short time it's true.
what can I say, I miss you when you go.
Maybe you feel the same way,
lets drop the game and tell the truth.

I'm going to Chattanooga, gonna get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to clear my brain.
I'm going to Chattanooga, I gotta get away.
I'm going to Chattanooga just to take a break.

Chattanooga

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