QUE FONT NOS DIRIGEANTS

In 1970 the worm definitely turned for me..  I was too young for the Summer of Love and Woodstock but come Christmas but I had my Spirograph... Wheel inside a wheel , the journey began, my creative powers unleashed... Finally some psychedelia for us kiddos... my plastic so fantastic....
sound clips ...intro clip from the movie Platoon and the  end clip from The Simpsons...  acoustic guitar/ keys/ shaker track recorded from my phone from Loopz  app......                                                                                                                                    the beat goes on....

Spirographic Eye                              

This story brought me back about a half a century                                                          
Kenner took me on a trip to try their kiddie LSD                                                              
Hypnotic trance, we’d turn and spin a groovy design                                                     
How old does one have to be to blow their minds?                                                        
Even Mom and Grandma they were digging this                                                           
Hogging all the paper sister got real pissed                                                                   
My plastic so fantastic                                                                                                    
Super Spirograph                                                                                                          

Back in 67 there was Lucy in the Sky
A black and white TV set was how we kids got by
Those kaleidoscopic colours now, you never want to stop
Friends peering through my window to see just what I got
Living on a rainbow, escape the world once more
Woodstock in my kitchen, San Francisco on my door
My plastic so fantastic
Super Spirograph

AAHH feel the symmetry                                                                                             
Perfect geometry                                                                                                         
I wanna kiss the sky                                                                                                    
On my Christmas vacation                                                                                 
I got me this art fascination                                                                                                   
Got me a spirographic eye                                                                                                   

You can keep my Lite-Brite I’m not playing underground
I'll be on another planet, though I will not leave this town
Salvador and Pablo they soon will know my name
Or maybe not, no never mind, life still won't be the same
Wheel inside a wheel it spins, precision never lies
The truth is on the paper it’s so pleasing to the eye
My plastic so fantastic
Super spirograph

AAHH feel the symmetry
Such perfect geometry
I wanna kiss the sky
AAHH those Mandala flowers
My psychedelic powers
Got me a spirographic eye

Spiromania, Spiromania,  you'll go full circle, inside your brainiya…..             
Spiromania, Spiromania, tune in, turn on, it entertains ya…..……..

Spirographic Eye

Embrace Me

“I hope this song will guide you home.” 🎈 
Our take on the timeless Alt-Pop track by The Postal Service.
Out now on SoundCloud & YouTube! 
Music by Thomas Mierkiewicz @user-297959700
Vocals by Kate Stanton 
Written by Ben Gibbard & Jimmy Tamborello
#collab #CoverSong #IndieMusic

"Such Great Heights"
lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. 2003 

I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
And when I am missing you to death
And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending
And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
(Come down now)


Such Great Heights

A new song written and recorded in the same room while Nettamoon was here in Brisbane visiting from Norway..............cheers for having a listen

Love Is A Thief   written , played and recorded by Netta & Mcgill


heading down the eastern road
looking for another point of view
while i'm trying, to get my head around you

your love is a thief, with a heart like a clown
turns you inside out, throws you upside down
like it's been for the ages, some things are just meant to be
when we're apart, it breaks my heart
that's you and me

look across the country side
remember it in better days
nothing ever grows there now
they're still waiting for the rain

your love is a thief, with a heart like a clown
turns you inside out, throws you upside down
like it's been for the ages, some things are just meant to be
when we're apart, it still breaks my heart
that's you and me

Love Is A Thief

even at the risk of annoying you by constantly harping on about how incredibly stupid and uninhibitedly destructive we humans are towards our planet and all life around us, here is another piece of work. 

I wrote the original 12 years ago after a rainy walk around hamburg's alster lake (just google it and see how beautiful this place in the middle of the city is). me and carina, we enjoyed the unique atmosphere, gazed at the sky with its colossal cloud formations and 1000 shades of blue and grey, the diverse play of colours and textures created by the millions of raindrops, the rainfilled leafy branches of the trees, the bushes, the grasses...

while seeing and hearing and smelling and feeling all these unparalleled wonders, roy batty's iconic monologue from the film blade runner came to our mind: ‘I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhäuser gate. all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. time to die’.

we concluded that we also have some very nice motifs on earth.

at that time, there were still a few hopeful signs that humanity would manage to preserve all these magnificent phenomena on our planet and courageously commit to a future worth living.

and today?

©music and lyrics by Hans-Michael Albers, instrumental cover & vocal performance by suno 5

(just to explain: whenever the sky turned red in the evening, my mother used to tell us that the angels were baking bread. for me, that made sunset the first great mystery of life…)

We’ve seen the angels baking bread
We've seen the sky burst into red
We've seen the moonlight wax and wane
We've seen the stars carve out a name

We’ve seen a million clouds go by
We’ve seen the mountains kiss the sky
We’ve seen the starlings' sculpted swarms
We’ve seen the eyes of mighty storms

We’ve seen it all

We’ve seen the rivers twist and bend
We’ve seen blue streams that never end
We’ve seen the crystal sparks of rain
We've seen no day will bring the same

We’ve seen the trees dance in the breeze
We've seen the summer's busy bees
We’ve seen how winter worlds can freeze
We've seen all seasons full of ease

We've seen it all

We’ve seen so many things and more
We’ve seen we’ve never seen before
We’ve seen a world of wonderlands
We’ve seen what now forever ends

We’ve seen it coming all too well
We’ve seen our heaven turn to hell
We've seen it and we let it go
We've seen it. Cut. End of the show.

We've seen it all
We've seen it all too good
We've seen it all
We've seen it all too good

We've seen it all

Reverie

1st song on the album, Wheels in an Elsewhere, released 28/8/25
This song sprung from the idea that I/we may have ended up here by some accident whilst on our way somewhere else.... because at times it all does seem extremely strange, misaligned and as though we're trying to make the best of living in throw-together soup without drowning.

Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go

Don't you wonder what on Earth you're doing here in the first place
Did you chance to lose your way
While heading to the other side
Where your home was
Waiting quietly among the stars
A million years or so
Not too late
But you got waylaid
Now you're here with the rest of us
What are we to do

Treading water
Round and round
Tracks don't lead you anywhere but back
Another day it's just the same oh
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again


Oh you asked and asked again
But never got any answer
Although the timing wasn't clear
You knew there had to be a place where you rested
Waiting quitety among the stars
It should have been right there where you left it.
Oh you were waylaid
Now you're here with the rest of us
What are we to do

Treading water
Round and round
Tracks don't lead you anywhere but back
Another day it's just the same oh
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again

Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again
I just try to have fun
Don't hurt anyone
We just try to have fun
Don't hurt anyone
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Here we go again
Here we go
Don't you ever wonder
What on earth we're doing here

What on Earth

Recorded in Modesto, Ca  Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Flute solo. Steel Drum solo. Alto Selmer Saxophone solo. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Marimba Rhythm. Steinway & Sons Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond Organ Rhythm. Drums full kit set. Percussion Tambourine, Timbales, Steel Drums, Tree Chimes.

Isla del Reggae Island

Isla del Reggae

Dune Pilot

One of those back burner incomplete songs that I started writing back in 2018 timeframe. Pulled it out awhile back and things started to flow, crazy how that happens. Made some changes with the melody, and added a few new lyrics, which were inspired from events of this past year. Trials make us stronger. I hope you enjoy this live recording on my trusty little Baldwin.  Never stop believing in yourself:) Keep fighting! We are overcomers! Blessings to ya'll. Thank you for listening!:)

Stronger 

I've learned
To put a fight in my spine
From all the climbs
Without your hand in mine
Stronger now
Doing better than just fine
In the valley I'm still on cloud nine

Just like the sun whenever I go down
I'll rise in the morning
Just like the stars surrounded by the dark
My soul keeps on shining 
Just like the moon when I'm invisible
I'll never stop believing Oh Oh 
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh 

And I've learned
To breathe when under the gun
Every battle I face
And never run
Pressing on 
From a past that is done
Wherever I go I will be someone 

Just like the sun whenever I go down
I'll rise in the morning
Just like the stars surrounded by the dark
My soul keeps on shining 
Just like the moon when I'm invisible
I'll never stop believing Oh Oh 
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh

Instrumental 

Ohhh Ohhhhhhh

Just like the sun whenever I go down
I'll rise in the morning
Just like the stars surrounded by the dark
My soul keeps on shining 
Just like the moon when I'm invisible
I'll never 
I'll never
I'll never
I'll never 
Stop believing Oh Oh 
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh


All music written and recorded by © Daniel Colter Valentine All rights reserved.

Stronger (Orginal Song Live)

welcome to my english stuff written over the past 40 years as well as recently. so far I let my guitar "sing" (to be listened/watched on my yt page/link below) but thanks to my AI persona, which I challenged in endless programming sessions, I now have the opportunity to bring these songs to life with emulated vocals templated via my melody/arrangement backing tracks, my lyrics, and a lot of prompts to suno 4.5+ and suno 5. 

SO, THE SONGS REMAIN SKETCHES – but at least now they are complete. hugs for listening!

speaking of AI: while spotify finally wants to introduce mandatory labeling for AI, here on sc, deception is still rampant and increasing. those who publish AI-generated music and lyrics without disclosing it seem completely unconcerned that they are cheating their listeners, the community, and musicians with authentic works.

some even explicitly state in their bios that they do not use AI, even though their music, and often their lyrics too, have clear AI signatures that any good online detector can identify in seconds and even assign to specific programs. 

this suggests: zero ideas, zero musical talent or feeling, zero effort, zero work. just pressing a button and out with the stuff! 

sure, everyone has the right to hold the attitude behind such behavior. but it not only makes a mockery of all genuine musicians and their craftsmanship, but also of all musicians who take AI seriously and use it musically, not as a machine for cheating, but as a new way of implementing ideas.

so please stand by what you do, and how you do it! the world is full of fakes. don't become one of them. of course, you can adorn yourself with borrowed feathers, but that doesn't mean you can fly;-)

We've seen it all

hans-michael albers