nice cool sound…!! good Fun Songs!!✨✨

big entertainment man, superb ideas and realization! Awesome!

Oh hell yeah! That beat makes me think of oldschool squarepusher

Drum and bass meets Shade Structure : ) Love how you just dive in and swim through everything! (Always with style : )

dig the jazz vibe to this and rhythmic elements/timing - catchy.

What a brilliantly realised fusion of sounds!  Who would have thought of mixing these sounds with a beat like this...You have pulled it off a treat...and all whilst retaining your own sound!  Superb!

Short Songs For Tall Minds

From the EP "Short Songs For Tall Minds" Soundcloud 2022
Lyrics:
She demands satisfaction
It's a chemical reaction
We are strangers on the dance floor
But she'll never take you home
The lady she likes to live alone
Lady likes to live alone
The Lady likes to live alone

She lives herself in the light
Yeah, in the zietgeist
She doesn't need anyone
Hogging the remote
Or overestimating their charm
Like little boys
That never ever say their prayers
Leaving their mess around
Both literary and figuratively
The Lady likes to live alone 
 Lady likes to live alone
She don't want to pick up your phone
The Lady likes to live alone

(oh yeah) that Lady she lives alone
She don't need you hanging around her throne
She says: you're an okay lover (all right)
But she tired of talking about it
She tired of waking up in the middle of the night
When your crying in your sleep
The Lady likes to live alone...

The Lady Likes To Live Alone

You're invited to jet set around the globe to the world's coolest night spot destinations with Shade Structure. 
From the new EP "Short Songs For Tall Minds" Soundcloud 2022

Lyrics:
I live for the fireworks of the night
Supersonic
Stereophonic
I'm taking all my meals in flight
I love the music
I love the night life
Gin & Tonic
It's euphonic
That's ironic
It's emotion that I ghostwrite

Chorus
I've got first world problems
And Second Life blues
Let the algorithm choose
I've got first world problems
I've got Second Life blues
Let the algorithm choose
With the algorithm
You know you can't lose
Let the algorithm choose

In The Future All Songs Will Be This Stupid

A relationship from beginning to end presented in impressionistic sketches. 
From the new EP "Short Songs For Tall Minds" on Soundcloud 2022
Lyrics:
You came uninvited
To my birthday party
That's how this unlikely romance got started
I'm the silence
In the spaces
In between the words
That I never said
I'm the ghost hovering around your bed
Competing with TV
For attention inside your head
In matters of the heart
I'm build on contradictory parts
Contradictory parts

You say: if the great creators
If they wanted to call you home
That you would just laugh
And say they don't exist
But not me
I'm willing to compromise
Because they must have much bigger
Bigger fish to fry
In matters of the heart
I'm built upon my contradictory parts
Contradictory parts

You left unexpected
 For the Airport bar
I'm unpacking your luggage from the trunk of my car
You say my problem
My one of many
Is that I think I'm right all the time
But I've never seen truth in the eyes
I always lie

You packed your suitcase with your blues
My love notes
My David Foster Wallace books
Counterfeit Jordan shoes
Mmmmmmmmmmm
In matters of the heart
I'm built upon contradictory parts
Contradictory parts

My Contradictory Parts

SlowStepping

Bandcamp: https://expansionoftheauralcognizance.bandcamp.com/track/reality-exists-within-your-mind
Youtube: https://youtu.be/MQFchD38uqM

Image generated with Midjourney AI.

Bandcamp

Reality Exists Within Your Mind

Another track from my EP "Short Songs For Tall People"
Lyrics:
You say your name is society and you think you’re sick?
Sit down, patient, and I’ll examine you!
Uh huh, just what I thought:
That complexion of yours--grey as a flophouse bed sheet.
Your breath--reeking of smog and sewer gas!
Headaches? What do you expect, with nothing but cash registers clanging inside your empty skull?

I'm a beatnik Daddy-O
I've got an electric bongo
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O
I howl, I scowl
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O

Of course your stomach hurts!
You’ve swallowed too many dreams, too many hopes, and turned them into one gigantic ulcer.
Look out—your hands are trembling—any minute now and you may drop a bomb!

I'm a beatnik Daddy-O
Steely Dan's a dildo
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O
I play pinball
I play Pachinko
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O

I’ve got news for you, society—you’re not sick, you’re dead!
Solid Baby!
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O
I've got an electric bongo
I'm a beatnik Daddy-O

And I’m going to bury you and dance the twist on your grave!
Solid Baby!
(Punctuated by finger snaps and applause.)
Audio clip from public domain movie "Big Kick"

Beatnik Daddy-O

A song that touches on the realm of mental health and how we need to help break down the defence of such a powerful illness. It’s not a box to tick or a problem to solve its far more complicated than that. 
If theirs someone we love or just someone we know or even a complete stranger just shine a little light into there corner. This will let them now they are not alone and we are here to talk and help. 
The song as been recorded with live instruments remotely and me and Sarge  we would like to thank the musicians who got involved.
Sarge as produced, played several instrumentals and liaised with the other musicians to make this happen. Enjoy

Darkest Corner ~ Under This Sun _

When the Morning Breaks.

Added to my album "Short Songs For Tall Minds"

Lyrics:
Don't get caught between the silence
And her deepest thoughts
Don't be walking those streets of her mind
Especially after dark
You'll get lost
Because she dabbles in my darkest arts
I'm crushing it
Just like a diamond
Her garden of vegetables and psilocybin
I couldn't help notice
From her full lotus
Whisper a mantra
That opens my brain
(never be the same)
She's having a last laugh on the universe
Breaking away
From the mainframe
You'll get lost
She a dabbler in my darkest arts
A breath of fresh air
You know it's everywhere
It's like walking out
Into unexpected rain
(Walks out of club into the rainy city)
Unexpected rain
(Exit: walking through the rainy city)
Like stepping out
Into unexpected rain
(Fade Out)

Unexpected Rain (Jazz Sadist Mix)

A playful piece of music around a cat dreaming about its nine lives – and so the song has nine sections. An electric guitar piece – if you like a bit of overdrive on the axe, then this one’s for you!

Kat Dreams

This song is a tribute to beautiful lives cut short. Back in November 2022 last year three University of Virginia football players were shot and killed by a former teammate as they returned from a trip to see a play in Washington DC. It happens all too often in this country. These three were outstanding young men much loved and mourned by the community.

The amazing Ceci Wynans paid tribute in song at their memorial service:  https://youtu.be/VLA6biZDTx0

The art is a painting by D'Sean Perry, one of the three young men lost. 

This is song is sung from the imagined perspective of their parents.

Brother Gone

I still see a little boy running hiding from me and laughing then
I'd like to think that losing you had some higher reason in the end
but how can anyone know how hard it is to let you go

you were the one who always knew everything is in God's hands
but you're not here and it's so hard to understand

just look at all these people standing here
calling out your name
this would be the happiest day of my life if you were here by my side
instead all I've got is this heartbreak and pain

how was I to know it'd be the last time
that I'd see your shining face next to mine
they can take away the good years that should've been yours to claim
but they'll never take away the good man you became

I'll always see a little boy running hiding away from me
but this time you're not coming back
and I'm not sure how I'm ever gonna live with that

God I need some peace of mind
I hope that it isn't far away

Brother Gone

Here's a Solo Improvisation i created on the 'Roland LX708 Hybrid Piano', and  recorded on a USB Thumb Drive whilst shopping for my next level keyboard.  😊

I love the sound of it's 'Rhodes Suitcase Piano' setting, which i know from owning and playing the original during the mid 70's and 80's.

More to come.  😊

May you enJOY.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023

Rhodes To Fulfillment

From the Album "Short Songs For Tall Minds"
A song dedicated to everyone's favorite outdoor chair, the monobloc. So many good times and memories sitting in these things. Functional design meets a simple manufacturing process. Unfortunately, they are made with polypropylene plastic, which will be around for thousands of years. These are like ecological disaster zombies that will never die.  Just look around, they're everywhere. But hey, this is a good time song about them. Thanks for listening!
 Lyrics:
When I come home
When the work is through
I just want to get in my backyard
In the neighborhood
I need some backyard sky
I need some friends of mine
Put out all the drinks
And give it a little time
Get the cable
Run it out from the living room
Out to the backyard
And over by the pool
Plug in the boom box
Over by the slide
Get ready
For the rising tide
Sitting in my Monobloc
My favorite outdoor chair
I am impressionistic for functional design

You know, these chairs
When it comes to history
They'll be around much longer
Than you and me
Alex says you need to go outside
If you want to drink liquor and smoke
Sit in my rich man's plastic throne
Even though I'm broke
(Broke, broke, broke)
Hollow in my Monobloc
My favorite outdoor chair
 Monobloc (Yeah!)
It's lightweight, like this song
And the music in the air
Sitting in my Monobloc
Ubiquitous
And everywhere
In my Monobloc
Monobloc...

MonoBloc

Electronic Ambient House Reggae Dub. (Vocals) . Lioness Pinky🇯🇲

Chroma Dub (free download) Ft. Lioness Pinky🇯🇲

Recording sessions from 03/02/2023.
5 tracks MOOG Modular (vst Arturia),
1 track Spark (vst Arturia),
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
________________________________________________________________________
🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space
________________________________________________________________________
❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

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Heartbreak hotel - Elvis.. of course - cover

Heartbreak hotel - Elvis - Cover

I try to write with rich lyrical details and self-deprecating humor about the human condition. Plus, that unique Shade Structure sound!  It sounds best with headphones. Thanks for any comments, reposts or likes.

Discography: Available under Album tag on my Soundcloud main page. Free Downloads/ Always Free
* The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost (2024)
* Low Profile (2024)
* Smilers (EP 2023)
•Short Songs For Tall Minds"  (2022)
•Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong (2021)
•A Suburban Dadaist With Some Store Bought Beats (2021)
•All Feel and No Technique (2020)
•This Is How I Spend My Nights (2019)
•California Songs (2018-2019)
All sounds contained within are home-made/DIY recordings. Most songs are short stories, as I am influenced by Musicians & Writers like Raymond Carver, Warren Zevon, Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Mark Eitzel,  Randy Newman, Destroyer, Steely Dan, Captain Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen & The National. Most songs have the lyrics on the song page. Thank you for listening!

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