yer great metal tune and rocking tune dirk

You've nailed this dark story so well. Giacomo is a great collaborator in this. Good luck with the album

@user-138663860: Hi Sandy and thank you, I hope all is well on your side of the Atlantic.

Killar! Not for wimps indeed Dirk! Liking some "transparency" of the mix while it is thiiiick! Not progressive.... but adding signature drum-bass rolls would make it perfect PsyTrance track... popular nowadays, but usually sits on drum/bass and fx. Not to downgrade your work to PsyTrance for other wimps, just hearing how it would be blasting. And it does blast as it is of course!!!! awesome vid too!

this rocks. guitars and vocals, got me head banging

Impressive vocals !! Sounds really cool! Congrats

Hug the Cynic: 25 Splendid new songs from the SoundCloud community

An Easter message? Music against war?All wars are wrought with inhuman threads of unwarranted violence and destruction whether in Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Congo or... (place any name of any war at any time in history).
In this one, a special military pox upon Putin and his house and all those who abuse and terrorize innocents and rain destruction upon all those who simply want to live and to exist. Justice? Where? ICC - we hope you're leading the charge for justice, and NATO, EU, UN - don't look away!

 (Don't)Look Away

1)Another day, another day in this war. 
A family man asks - What’s it all for?
Have we forgotten what we came here for? Don’t run away.   

To kill a man, a woman or a child. 
There’s something wrong, wrong in their minds.   
They look to God, but he does what He does best. He looks away. Hey?   

There’s always war in a far distant land
and civilised man goes out to lend a hand.
Holy Lands? Are you having a laugh? 
Laugh away, hey…  laugh away….hey…

(CHORUS)
I CAN SEE THEM ALL - LAGGING BEHIND. 
THEY’RE NOT PART OF THIS - HUMAN KIND
THINGS GOT SLOW, SLOW IN THE HEAD. 
WHY DON’T YOU GO SHOOT YOURSELF INSTEAD?
WE’D LOOK AWAY…HEY…WE’D LOOK AWAY…HEY…YAAH

2) Armies are led by those who think they’re right. 
Tell us they want peace.    
To get it they must fight for… the love of God pray how is this right? 
Pray away. 
They say destruction is their means to an end. 
Aim their gun at what once was their friend.
Turn their back on humanitarian trends. Then look away, 
hey… they look away…

(CHORUS)     

(MID BREAK)   
Lay down on your pillow…sleep tight with your greed 
because your safe… you’ll dream… while others bleed…
and you tell me…that God is on your side…you don’t believe it…
and that’s what I despise….
then you look away…
nd then you look away…

3) They shake a fist with a gun in their hand. 
It’s an action only they understand. 
One step away… from a hellish end. 
Shake away… shake - away…  

If there’s a place I could send them all. 
Be deep space, on a hot fiery ball  
Where you can all…Happily annihilate yourselves!                                                                        Then fire away…fire away, fire away…hey…

(CHORUS)

4) One more day is too much in this war. 
The family man asks - What’s it all been for? 
His loved one’s buried with his heart in the floor. 
Please look away…

Wigmore - drums, synths, mixing, production, additional vocals
Allen - music, guitars, bass, vocals, lyrics
Gibbons - middle vocals and lyrics
* additional fem voc. from Anna Brag https://soundcloud.com/annabrag

Capo  2nd….G/C/Em/D     Chorus….Em/D     Break….G/E/G/E …Am/G/F/G/Am/G/F/G

Look Away

Don't miss the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRPf8n5qTo

Vocals: Giacomo Rossi @giacomo-rossi-5
Instruments, production: Dirk Radloff

This is the first track of the upcoming Heartscore-album, which will hopefully be released at the end of 2022. The song is about an American female serial-killer called Jane Toppan or "Jolly Jane", who killed around 30 persons during her work as a nurse. She was fascinated by the moment of death, so the legend says, that she hugged her victims right before they died and looked into their eyes. 
Musically I follow the route, which I have set with "Medusa's head": Simple, but powerful Metal-songs in the tradition of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Manowar. I plan to be even more consistent on the upcoming album. Therefore I will try to avoid all sidesteps towards ballads, prog rock and other styles for wimps :-) Expect only face-melting, true Metal!
lyrics
The final hug

Hear my name is Jolly Jane
And I was born into the madness
My father "Kelley the crack" was known
To sew his eyelids closed in sadness
My mother died so fast
My childhood would not last

My father put me in an asylum
My sister went to be a bitch
Ann C. Toppan finally took me home
She did not know I was a witch

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you

When I worked so hard in hospitals
My curiosity arose
What would happen, if I ram a shot
Of Morphine right into your nose?

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you

Trained with poison, merciless
I know how I will get my will
I drug you first and before the kiss
Comes Strychnine, which will slowly kill
I look into your eyes
While you will miserable die!

Thirtyone I killed with so much joy
I touched them alive, I touched them dead
Don't believe, that I am just insane
It's me, your trusty Jolly Jane!

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you
credits
released May 2, 2022 
Giacomo Rossi: Lead Vocals
Dirk Radloff: All instruments, mix mastering, artwork, lyrics, music
license
all rights reserved

The Final Hug

Underground Maze

Hello partner, your ride is here.
Just slide the empties off the seat and climb in.
Don’t sit on that spring, it’ll cut you.
No, the seatbelt’s broken, wipers, too.

Little man
On the lamb
Blues

Where’d you say you were going?
This car doesn’t go that way.
This is a ride to the Last Star.
Don’t hold on too tight, you’ll get yourself hurt.
Trust me, you are going to a better place.

Little man
Takes a stand
Blues

THE PILGRIM ACCEPTS THE BOWL
THE SHAMAN SAYS SWALLOW WHOLE

INDIGO
AFTERGLOW
ALL YOU KNOW
GONE…

You again. You sure?
OK, I’ll take you home.
Crack the window, it’ll help some.
And there’s a paper bag in the back somewhere.
Use it if you have to.

Superman
Wonderland
Blues

Superman 
Wonderland
Blues

Indigo
Afterglow
All you know
Gone...


Thanks to Fady, Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley and Wheelwright for their most helpful and useful consultation.

Superman Wonderland Blues

The Askesis of Diogenes.
Yeah, we're literally writing songs about ancient Greek philosophers now.

https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/

Drums, percussion, mixing: R Thomas
Guitars, Melodica, Bass, Vocal, MIDI, mixing: PS Perkins

The Poem: https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-cynic/

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LYRICS
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Adrift In a world that you can't comprehend
As you shuffle down sidewalks you used to defend
And pick through the garbage from parties you no longer attend

You know you're a stranger in still stranger lands
Where the crumbling monuments once used to stand
And they look at you funny when you ask them where to find an honest man

When you're gone, long, long gone

When they try to dismiss you, you piss on their shoes
As they fondle their falsehoods and call them the truth
If only the hunger in our bellies were so easily soothed

But you are not like them and you don't even try
No matter how rotten, you can't make them cry
You're as real as their shadows but they'll never understand why

Until you're gone, long, long gone

So you eat in the market and sleep in a hole
You drink from your hands now instead of a bowl
Stand naked before them to show how the years take their toll

And when the wild dogs come to nip at your legs
And the passing onlookers who expect you to beg
But your life was a promise and it's far too late now to renege

And then you're gone, long, long gone

The Cynic

This is another 1 mic recording, just me and guitar, recorded on my 8 track in the living room, no effects or overdubs. I'm having a bit of decorating done in the house, so it's bare bones on the music front at the minute, a lot of gear packed away. So this  Is my song Push It Down The River, but I decided to try singing using my natural Geordie dialect/accent , oddly though it doesn't feel too normal  singing like this, but I've given it a go. Maybe just a one off, I'll see!

Thanks as always for listening and inspiring!

Push It Doon The River For Ye

Lyrics and vocals written and performed by RS Frawstakwa https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa
Backing vocals and instrumental composed and mixed by Neli CoKo, 2022, all rights reserved by Neli CoKo and RS Frawstakwa

Neli CoKo feat. RS Frawstakwa - Peace

"We Got The Power"

Lyrics & Vocals : Special Cecilia
Music & Mix : EMmy

To listen to Cecilia's music on SC :
@specialececilia
@spacialcecilia

On Bandcamp : specialcecilia.bandcamp.com/

We Got The Power - Special Cecilia & EMmy

Video available: https://youtu.be/2Ti0qVV_04Q 
Uru-anna  in Akkadian: Light from the sky, one of the many names of the constellation. 
Uru-anna  en Akkadien : Lumière du ciel, un des nombreux nom de la constellation.

African Choir (Malawi) samples : Ethno World 6 « There is a  lot of old song material and mantra wich refer to the love of God... »

Orionis – (Coda) Uru-anna

Fake

Time Goes By

Instrumental 

I’m just a balloon. Nothing to see here

Eden

Just Balloons

Sometimes the only way to get frustration out for me is to make a song about it. 
Maybe you will, maybe you won't understand my lyrics and gel with them, but ya gotta consider that nobody else does what I do LOL

Happening Again

The banjo is a musical instrument with African origins, believed to have been developed by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and later brought to North America. The exact origins of the banjo are unclear, but it is thought to have evolved from similar stringed instruments in West Africa, such as the akonting or ngoni

The banjo first gained popularity in the United States during the 19th century, particularly in the American South, where it became associated with African American music and culture. Early banjos were typically made with gourds for resonators and animal skin for the drumhead, and were played using a technique called frailing or clawhammer, in which the player's fingernail or a piece of bone is used to strike the strings

In the late 19th century, the banjo underwent a period of rapid evolution, with improvements in materials and construction leading to the development of more sophisticated and versatile instruments. One important development was the introduction of the resonator, a wood plate behind the open drum that increased the volume and projection of the banjo's sound. Another was the development of the five-string banjo, which added a shorter fifth string that allowed for more complex playing techniques

The origins of the 5-string banjo are unclear, but it is believed to have been developed by African American musicians in the mid-19th century. The addition of the fifth string, which is shorter than the other four strings and is tuned to a higher pitch, allowed for a wider range of notes and made it easier to play certain melodies and chord progressions

One of the early pioneers of the 5-string banjo was Joel Sweeney, a white musician from Virginia who popularized the instrument in the mid-1800s. Sweeney is often credited with introducing the shorter fifth string, as well as other improvements to the banjo, such as the addition of frets and the use of metal strings

However, it's important to note that the development of the 5-string banjo was likely a collaborative effort among many musicians, both black and white, and its exact origins are difficult to trace. Nonetheless, Sweeney's contributions were significant and helped to establish the modern form of the instrument that is still popular today

During the early 20th century, the banjo became a popular instrument in a variety of musical styles, including jazz, blues, and country music. The instrument was played by a number of famous musicians, including Earl Scruggs, who popularized a three-finger picking style that became known as the Scruggs style

In recent years, the banjo has experienced a resurgence of popularity, particularly in the realm of folk and Americana music. Today, the banjo is played in a wide range of styles and genres, and is appreciated for its unique sound and cultural significance in musical storytelling 

JTS

Jump Blues

Banjo Blues

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