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LISTENING POST: BATCH 546

Starting Terminus - RUIZZO's Point Of View (Piano by Fivos Valachis)

Dark (improvise)

NOTES
Conceptually the song works on two levels. 

The literal meaning involves two descriptions, one of escaping a bad place by boat only to be returned by bad weather, and then on returning, witnessing the imprisonment of friends. These descriptions signify the difficulty of escape.

The second level is metaphorical. The existentialist philosopher Albert Camus famously explained the absurdity of life’s existence by comparing it with the situation depicted in the Greek tragedy, The myth of Sisyphus. Sisyphus is condemned to the meaningless task – like that of repetitive work – of pushing a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down to the bottom, and for the process to start over again, ad infinitum. Sisyphus always ends up back where he was before. Camus speculates that even though, like all of human life, the predicament is crazy and horrifying, Sisyphus defies his situation and presses on. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy” says Camus.

I like Camus’s approach to absurdity: to confront it with sanguine, upbeat, defiance.

LYRICS
Suddenly life changes
Suddenly we’re gone
Lining up with strangers
To travel far away
We are uncertain (all of our lives)
Of what in hell we might find
Oh!
Suddenly life's dangers
Suddenly are here
Say goodbye to all of our friends
We sail.
We sail.
~
The wind, it blows
It was howling
The moon so full
It was rising, pointing
Towards a place of hope
~
There’s only so much we can take
Then suddenly the storm clouds break
Riding the waves to shore
Seems we’ve been here before
Back where we were before
~
Suddenly life changes
Suddenly we’re home
Lining up with neighbors
To do it all again
We’re very certain
Of what in hell we will find
Oh!
Suddenly life’s dangers
Suddenly so clear
Say hello to all of our friends
In jail
In jail
~
The walls
So high
They were
Scraping scraping
The sky
So grey
It was 
Falling, warning
‘gainst a taste of hope
There’s only so much we can take
Before we crash these walls and break
Out of the blue once more
Seems we’ve been here before
Back where we were before.

Sisyphus

Written by - Pete 
Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Pete 
Drums - Paul

Paul's Stuff

Gone

Yet another idea that I need to just wrap up.

Next Odyssey - Part 2

Written and Produced by Francesca Louise
Recorded, Produced and Mixed by James Wyatt @ Sloe Flower Studio
Mastered by Rogan Kelsey @ Kelsey Mastering

Vocal - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Backing Vocal - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Drums / Percussion - Josh Neale
Bass - Aaron Stout
Acoustic Guitar - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Piano - Francesca Louise Fairclough

Artwork - Francesca Louise

Waiting For You

Waiting For You - Single

2nd shower holder piece! Oh washer of earholes. I appreciate you. 

1000:1125:1250:1300:1500:1750:4000:5000:6400:6800:6960:7040:7064:7520:8000:10000:12000:16000:16240:16320:23600

Can we have a missing fundamental below the range of human hearing? 

Here the 🏛classic🏛 5-limit just intonation ratios are possibly hard to spot - both visibly in that list because the highest common factor is so high, and audibly because the shower holder has an inharmonic spectrum.

Also, very ¿fun? to do a post-hoc dissection as if this is some kind of mathematical exercise. In reality, I used a combination of imagination, intuition and ears to find something that feels ✨right✨ and then quickly moved on until it felt 🌜finished🌛. Similarly, I've been speedily splurging words into this, and now I'm done.

Shower Bath

Celui qui marche sait que le chemin est plus facile à deux. Célèbre celui ou celle qui  t’accompagne.

English translation: 

Often you don't see
all the love hidden behind my words
You say my lyrics are too twisted
You don't like my singing voice either
So you advised me to do slam
Like in this album by kyan
That we like

I don't know if I know how to do slam or rap
If I'm really an urban artist
But I try to make square grooves
and fit poetry to the beat
to extract a little beauty from it
like a pulse of life
that doesn't need to go fast
to show our finest moments

call it modesty
but I hide and I conceal
In images and formulas
What is beautiful
and belongs only to us
because I am one of those who believe
That there is a real elegance
To say without saying, and to be able
to speak to one person in front of everyone

But if creating was forbidden
That our lives were just samples
If books burned again
I'd say it with simple words

Anyway you're my last conversation
I can't find more inspiration anywhere else
You've erased the makeup so much
That you've made the other women faceless
Ghosts without substance that wander
Revealed to the light with sandpaper

Crystal cuts the truth hurts
Frankness is your nobility
No more secrets, we talk to each other frankly No more playing hide and seek
Of sawing off your branch with the axe blows of cowardice in the breaches
I let go of the bitches I said I'm going to get on with hashtags

sometimes it clashes we take out the kalashnikov we trash each other
but every day I bring my ganache
at H hour to the house
our paradise our base far from the hustle and bustle

if around us everything is destroyed
that the forests are nothing but ashes
with the child we built
and our love
we would recreate the world

you put so much light in my life
that you swept away the shades of gray
revealed the colors to my eyes
and damn it changes
now I can see the future in orange
and repaint walls in blue happiness
no more black no more coldness

tenderness you gave me rage
the rage to live a form of courage
to fight for what matters
to see my chains to be able to break them
to no longer be a slave
to no longer be afraid
to burn with my shackles
and rise from my ashes as a winner

all our magical moments
have changed me into a phoenix
I have flames all around me
But I burn with you in pure love

it is in the fire that we built ourselves
no one can take that from us
and every minute of our lives
I would spend them just defending ourselves

Les Mots Simples

Cover Art by Yuko Weiner (www.yukoweiner.com/ )

Signs 22  (English translation)

That wasn’t even funny, no way
Abe-surd-nomics, fabricated ceremony
Disgusting
Nonstop majority paradise
Diversity, you say?
You don’t actually see it, you don’t want to see

We stand at the PM’s residence with signs in our hands
We don’t shut up, won’t shut up
We will make noise, we don’t know our place

Unable to change, this big country, watch people suffer
Help the strong and hurt the weak
Only wasteland remains here

Holding our signs, sitting in at the capital
We don’t shut up, won’t shut up
On each channel
We won’t shut up, won’t shut up
Untucked our shirts, wear no ties

　　　　　　　Translation by Yuko Weiner

Signs 22

笑えない、ありえない事態だ
虚言ノミクス、虚構の儀式
気持ち悪すぎる
とめどないマジョリティ天国
多様性とか口じゃ言うけど
見ない、見たくない

プラカード掲げて官邸前に立とう
僕らは黙らない、黙らない
声に出してわきまえはしない

変われない見殺し大国
強き助けて弱きを挫く
荒地だけ残る

プラカード掲げて議事堂前に座る
僕らは黙らない、黙らない
それぞれのチャンネルで
黙らない、黙らない
シャツは出してネクタイもしない

Hodges - Signs 22

02 Comfort In Grey

Dave Carter with the sensational drumming;
Charlie Villiers, Dave Toolan and Leon Carter with all the phenomenal guitar textures;
I’m on the bass and vocals.
~

Heartlands of unearthly cages
Bloodstains and hypocrisy 
Plastic wrappers and scrawny teenagers
sell their bodies in the cemetery

Estates built on sand
Symptomatic of a truant’s hand
Alchemy of an insolvency circus
Played and repaid with contraband 

Shoplifting and battery housing
Broken lifts and just scraping by
Parking meters and wife beaters
A stench of piss where the vagrants lie

You witness the scars and the torture
Mind your business and keep your head down
The slurry that sullies the water
runs through the cracks of this concrete pound

I sold my amp and I bought a van
Budget clearance and it’s cash in hand
Ain’t no refund, ain’t no freebies
But I do discounts for the down and out

She’s the key to my only redemption
She’s waiting and calling and calling
Will it last now is anybody’s guess but
I’m in love with the girl in the dress

Is it wrong she’s my cherry blossom?
In the midsts of a soulless slum
When she comes up at early morning
She’s my light, my remarkable robin

I’ve been working
She’s been waiting
Is it easy?
Who we fooling?
But nobody knows
Nobody knows

Heartlands of unearthly cages…

The collaborative single "Whatever It Is" brings together Tony Bones, UK lyricist AKS, and saxophonist Jackson B in a dynamic tribute to 90s Hip-Hop, blending nostalgic boom bap beats with modern jazz influences. Tony Bones’ soul-infused production lays the foundation, while AKS delivers introspective, feel-good lyrics, and Jackson B’s sax adds an organic, jazzy layer. Together, they create a track that nods to the golden era of Hip-Hop while keeping it fresh and relevant for today’s audience.

Whatever It Is

The Land of Frowns

I told the man he'd have to go
You are not welcome here you know
You do not speak as others do
Our people are afraid of you

So would you help a man when he's really down
and lost within this land of frowns

Land of Frowns

So I wrapped myself in things I'd found
and laid myself out on the ground
and the devil comes in many ways
he came to me that day

Far away I was a young man

Oh, my home, I had to go

I'm a stranger in this foreign town
Stranger in this land of frowns
Oh, land of frowns

So I told the man he'd have to go
You are not welcome here you know

Land of frowns......

The Land Of Frowns

& Blackford - Diluted

ATTENTION Disclaimer:  The music track that I’m playing lead & improvising over is not mine and I do not own it. The track is created by YT Jam Tracks and all credit goes to him for the music track creation which I have listed below. Check out YT Jam Tracks on YouTube and Bandcamp. The links below are to the original material by the artist.  

Obtained from: YT Jam Tracks
YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMqonsla0BK21Fnf9Qx5Wg
Backing Track Title: Sweet Melodic Rock Backing Track in G Major
YouTube Track channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZtool2-BE
Bandcamp website: https://ytjamtracks.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-melodic-rock-backing-track-in-g-major-3

Date: 2/14/25
Song Title: I Do For You V10
The lead, improvising over the track was done with the following;
Picture with Track: Is the Gear I used to play through
Guitar Used: Ibanez Premium RG921QMF with HH configuration
Color:  Blue Quilt
Strings: Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9-42 and Hybrid 9-46
DAW: Reaper
AmpSim: JST ToneForge Jeff Lomis
Preset: Loomy Song_Low Gain Lead
Interface: Focusrite 2i2 2nd Gen

Raw: What does RAW mean to me, not having undergone processes of preparing, finishing, refining, or mastering: It is what was recorded at that time in its current state.
Comments: Please follow if you like, comment if you like and I’m opened to feedback to improve my playing, recording, mixing etc.  Thanks for listening \m/.


I Do For You V10

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Lyrics:

started rainin today
and outside is blowin wind
got me sing “ayo”
when the sun comin in

giving a try is getting old
imagine a life thats full of hope 
praying for days we still don’t know
dream about castle covers in gold
don’t you feel me, don’t you see me fall
when the sun is out i need your call 

started rainin today
and outside is blowin wind
got me sing “ayo”
when the sun is comin in

ayo ayo

when the sun is up I need you
when the rain comes I need you there
birds are in the air
we’re going everywhere
after all the things we’ve been through
back to where we’re fine
have you seen the sign
that both of us will shine

rainin today
when the sun is comin in
started rainin today
and outside is blowin wind
got me sing “ayo”
when the sun is comin in

ayo ayo

she belong to nights full of dancing
imma ghost like danny phantom
i belong to the forest
no matter we go they wrong and i told them 
you left and the sun too 
your life is a fake show
clouds grey wind blow 
when i look out my window
don’t you feel don’t you see me fall 

stormy weathers are gonna take us

when the sun is comin in

jeson masters 3

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