adam

Midnight

PARAKAIDA

Recorded in 1993 when I was 24 years old...my first CD with Mike Longo - piano, Paul West - Bass and Ray Mosca - drums.  Mainstream jazz....Enjoy.  

My Funny Valentine

new/first song in new side project.


who are you
in the darkest hours of the night
when I’m not looking
and do I really wanna know?

do the city lights
bleed through the blinds
and bounce from your eyes
into the night
from your window 

where does your sorrow go
when you find yourself completely alone?

and it’s cyclical
you say of the way your day is spent
bed, train, work, and back again

but you talk of these streets
like the veins of your urban memories, manifest
and I’m thrown

where does your sorrow go
when you find yourself completely alone?

blocks and blocks
and swathes of roads
non-descript
and standard homes
dim streetlights
and endless freeway
beers outside convenience stores

incidental bodies
wrap our souls at points in time
your lips shut tight to guard
the depth of a kind and tortured mind

lacing digits, touching toes
tell me things that no one knows
where does all your sorrow go
where does all your sorrow go

early/late

empty
such a pity for a pretty heart
aching
for the kind of love that leaves you lost
i’m not
the cure or what you’re looking for
all i
want is to be taken as i am, i’m not a book to be read

be bold and tell me 
what you really want from me, 
if you really do want me, 
say so

wake me
from my circumstantial lack of dreams
write me
all your pretty words and leave me be
i could have
learned to love the way you look at me
but i won’t let you
be so close enough to hear me breathe

be bold and tell me 
what you really want from me, 
if you really do want me, 
say so

i’m my own lighthouse
i glow my own way
if you can’t take that
then keep on sailing

be bold and tell me 
what you really want from me, 
if you really do want me, 
say so

say so

Here is our EP Version of our track Dangerously Close!

We would appreciate it if you don't download this track illegally through downloading sites. You can instead, legally download it FOR  F R E E  on our bandcamp site! (If you do it'll include the tracks, lyrics and the wonderful artwork that comes with each song!)

https://milesandmot.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Mags Ocampo (BE.NET/MAGSOCAMPO)
Photograph by Karen de la Fuente:
https://facebook.com/karendelafuentephotography

Dangerously Close (EP Version)

my backspace button’s worn
from the things i never said
i never can afford
to be casual instead
but if you could be so kind
don’t remind me that i’m blindly hung up over you

do i seem to care too much
with how i pretend not to care
you’re too cool for me
but i guess you’re not aware
that i exist but it’s okay
i’ll be over it someday
you’ll look me in the eye
and i won’t melt right in my place
but i really hate your face
and how it it makes me wanna cry
there’s an ache in my dumb heart
that only passes when you smile
and it shines for miles
it reminds me that i’m blindly hung up over you

would you still be just as kind
if you knew what’s on my mind
i’m stifling a sigh
and i hope she treats you right
and the things i’ll never say
will cease to tear me up inside
the feelings bottled up within
will someday crystallize
into memories so nice
that remind me i was once so hung up over you

backspace me

ON AN ON’s new album 'And The Wave Has Two Sides' is out now.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Topzt1UZCz8GQlP7Zsu0M
iTunes: apple.co/1GrEGL9

And the Wave Has Two Sides

Drifting

ON AN ON - Drifting

Available on limited edition 7" w/ Giant Peach here: http://po.st/GiantPeach7

and as a free download here: http://po.st/PVr99s

I Saw You (In A Corridor)

Free Download

Wolf Alice - I Saw You (In A Corridor)

From the new CD "I Remember Michael - A Michael Jackson Solo Guitar Tribute" by guitarist Adam Rafferty.

The Way You Make Me Feel- (Michael Jackson) Solo Fingerstyle Guitar

"I'll Be There" from my new CD "I Remember Michael" - a solo guitar tribute to Michael Jackson.

I'll Be There - (Michael Jackson) Solo Acoustic Guitar

Human Nature - (Michael Jackson) Solo Fingerstyle Guitar

just a song cover of stevie wonders isnt she lovey rearranged by adam rafferty!

ISNT SHE LOVELY (Adam Rafferty Version)

You can purchase our debut EP, 'Stargazer' here:
https://thestrangecreatures.bandcamp.com/album/stargazer

Lyrics:

Do you have a story that you'd like to tell?
While waiting for a shooting star to fall from the sky
We'll close our eyes and make a wish
And spend the night counting constellations 

Oh my stargazer
Your eyes so bright, it's glimmering, spark-a-ling
Is that Cassiopeia?
Underneath the nebula
I promise I won't get tired
Of counting stars at night with you 

Let's close our eyes for a moment
Think of the darkness as the night sky
And fill it with stars that will form ourselves
Isn't that nice? Oh isn't that nice... 

Oh my stargazer
Your eyes so bright, it's glimmering, flick-e-ring
Is that Cassiopeia?
Underneath the nebula
I promise I won't get tired
Of counting stars at night with you

('Cause) You are my soul's counterpoint that heaven sent to me
The brightest constellation I can see

Song Credits:
Words/Music by Jon Tamayo

Arranged, Recorded and Performed by The Strange Creatures
Jon Tamayo - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Aleph - Keyboards/Vocals
Tobit Rubio - Electric Guitar/Weird Sounds/Jangle
Paul Santos - Bass Guitar
Jimbo Cuenco - Drums

Recorded at a Studio that we don't want to mention the name because we will never get back there again.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheStrangeCreatures
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/the-strange-creatures
Twitter: https://twitter.com/strangepopmusic
Contact us: the.strange.creatures.music@gmail.com

Stargazer (Single Version)

side-project

half-lit was made in an attempt to channel my post-midnight loneliness into something else ––– and it is something else altogether: a way to reach other people. a way to revel in collective sadness. suddenly i'm not as lonely. - b

http://soundcloud.com/bpvalenzuela
