Time stopped in Santa Cruz.

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I created this composition, like others, between 2014 and 2016.

I finished work and went with my iPad to create music.

The center of all this time was the neighborhood of Santa Cruz, in the center of Seville, my city.

Anyone who visits my city will inevitably pass by there.

Some of my favorite tapas places are there.

The terraces of some hotels have spectacular views from which you can enjoy the city while having a drink, a coffee, a wine, or whatever you prefer. I know them all.

The small squares full of tranquility, the murmur of water from some fountains, the sensation of feeling history as a pure essence! or the smell of orange blossom, which permeates everything around this time of year, make me enjoy something special that, in some way, I need. It's hard to explain, but that's how it is.

And there it seems that time stops.



12 tracks from Music Studio 2 with original instruments and from the Xewton forum.

1 Track with Sunrizer synthesizer
1 Track with Kv331 Synthmaster 
1 Track with X pad.


DAW. MS2
Hardware. ipad

Mix. My car. 🚘

Thank you for your listening and comments

Paco.

Time Stopped In Santa Cruz ( Nv 2024)

This song will go private shortly. Exclululusive From a section of songs that will apear in 2024.
I will comment back to anyone who post feedback.
xx Ray xx

TRUTH RAY - ASTRAL YOUTH

From the album "Röckers" (2024)

Lyrics:
Strangers are the most interesting people that you'll meet
Yeah, it's not the closeness
But the distance
That make people reveal themselves to you
Strangers are the most interesting people that you'll meet

Sitting in an airplane seat
Next to my ticketed passengers
Maybe it was the tight seating that created a false sense of intimacy
Maybe she was just covering up the silence
She told how she had been sick as a child
And how she always secretly blamed her mother.
Maybe she had taken comfort in an anonymous and friendly face
I've always been told I have an anonymous and friendly face

Primordial ooze climbed from the sea
Marauding villagers freak
A curated killing spree
Birds of prey stick together 
And so should we

Strangers are the most interesting people that you'll meet
They will unburden themselves to a total stranger
All their lovers
The family secrets
Anthropologists say that human beings by nature  are a trusting species
It's our shared sense of community survival
Well, I've seen a change recently
Everybody suspicious of everybody else
What have we done?
To reverse thousand of years of human evolutionary behavior?

Primordial ooze climbed from the sea
Marauding villagers freak
A curated killing spree
Birds of prey stick together 
And so should we

Strangers are the most interesting people that you'll meet.

Strangers Are The Most Interesting People That You'll Meet

you (tnx to my special friend Sidartha)

A song recorded in 2023 inspired by a documentary I watched based on the child care system in Great Britain.
So as we all get ready to enjoy Christmas with our family and friends spare a thought for this. 
There’re was a little boy who shared a memory that all he as left of his life with his real mother  was a few toy soldiers and a snow globe.
They sat on a shelve for him to think & remember that for whatever reason his mother gave him up. 
He was one of the lucky children who managed to get adopted and find a new loving family to take care of him. 
Others not so and stay In children’s homes until they were 18.
And here is the problem once they became 18 they became no longer a problem for the system. 
With  little or no help they  are expected to leave & fend for themselves without the love or security like a normal young person would expect from his family. 
The system is so floored & totally under funded hence kick the can down the street & watch it land at another’s feet.
Not the government’s problem anymore.
The adoption system is such a long draw out process that it puts future potential step parents off. 
So many children just stay in the system until they are 18 and then are classed as adults.
They may be adults but not ready for the world alone, outside the door.
We still guide our own adult children through their journey into further education, work, relationships, home buying & beyond.
It scares me that we have youths carrying knives & even guns for protection and in other cases just to conform to gang culture and be the big man. 
Im sure that a lot of these youths have a loving family, warm house, food in their belly & wear designer clothes. Yet still find the urge to harm someone because it makes them feel good and show off.
I’m sure we could write a fluffy Christmas song with all the cliches  but we choose not to. 
Hope you enjoy and pause for thought.
So we bring you Tiny Soldiers & Snow Globes…….. 



Intro Chorus 
Just kick the can down the street 
And when it lands at another’s feet
they can kick it on to the next 
That how they make out they are doing their best


V1
And the only thing on the upswing 
And what’s needed more & more 
(Are Tiny soldiers and snow globes
Just symbols of a life that he hardly knows x2)

Chorus 
Just kick the can down the street 
And when it lands at another’s feet
they can kick it on to the next 
That how they make out they  are doing their best
…………….
Tiny Soldiers & Snow globes x2
It’s an absolute mess 


V2 
And now it’s the end of care and totally unfair 
To defend  for yourself and to be thrown out
(Tiny soldiers & snow globes 
Are not something he can talk about x2)

Chorus 
Just kick the can down the street 
And when it lands at another’s feet
they can kick it on to the next 
That how they make out 
they are doing there best
……………….
Tiny Soldiers & Snow globes x2
Its an absolute mess 

 Middle 8  ending

And to all of you 
if only we really new
Just how lucky you really are
To be loved and treated 5star 
We all can’t have it all 
it’s really not fair 
Surely there’s enough love 
to go around and share
Unconditional love
for everyone 
but someone lost the will to care
And moved his chair x4
Tiny soldiers & Snow globes 
We all can’t have it all 



Tiny Soldiers & Snow Globes - Conscience Of Kings

Rising For Air (G. Di Nunno)

It's now to throw aside and bleed
Out the poisons I've collected
That span that took more than gave
Open arms to leave rejected

All that pressure building
Attempts at fitting in
Followed scripts as written
Left stricken from the spin
That rise for air
Rising.

Remembered how you laughed me down
Once the aura lost its luster
And joined the band of lonely ghosts
Isolated, cold, to shudder.

Friends fled through the back door
As scissors cut the ties
Got the hand-down remnants
With footprints left by spies
That rise for air
Rising.

It all depended on a former vision
The effort given rewarded with tension
A lightened hatred as the months were flying
Became a new scene; tell me how that happened?

Where stares were hard
A lightened mood
Has entered here
And washed away.
What led to this
Is memory
To part and go
Not looking back.
Rising
Rise for air
Rising
Rise for air.

All lyrics and musical performance by Gino Di Nunno
Copyright 2024.

#8. Rise For Air

Liars and killers
Are not a good mix
Liar is a man who’s  never done shit
A killer stares through a man like the holes already exist.

Liars and killers
Killers and liars
The who should never co exist

Liar$ and Killer$

Little bit of this thrown together and it made some noise I guess.

No AI was used to make this track, just the cover art, you listening SoundCloud!

Dont Break That

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Cosmic Rain

Funk Attack

Africana Brass

Intro – whisper and wind]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
جئنا من البُعدِ، نحملُ الحكاياتْ  
(“O Oasis of Heaven... we came from afar, carrying stories.”)

[Verse 1 – male lead vocal]
الرملُ صارَ ذهباً، حينَ لمسْناهْ  
والريحُ صارت نغماً، حينَ سمعْناها  
في عيونِنا ضوءُ المدى  
وفي قلوبِنا ظلُّ الدعاءْ  

[Chorus – male & female choir, rhythmic, joyful]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
نَحنُ الّذينَ عَبَروا الظِّلالْ  
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
في مائِكِ نَغسِلُ أرواحَنا  

[Instrumental – qanun & oud duet over daf rhythm]
(qanun plays cascading melody, oud responds; daf builds festive tribal groove)

[Verse 2 – female voice, soft, spiritual]
نَسيمُكِ طيبٌ كالحُلمْ  
يُعيدُ للقلوبِ السكونْ  
يا واحةَ النُّورِ، يا بيتَ السلامْ  
فيكِ نولدُ من جديدْ  

[Refrain – male chorus + handclaps]
واحةُ السماءْ... بيتُ النُّورْ  
واحةُ السماءْ... بيتُ النُّورْ  
(“Oasis of heaven… house of light.”)

[Bridge – ney solo + rhythmic chants]
يا... يا... يا سلامْ  
(chant repeats 3x with crescendo percussion – daf, udu, darbuka)

[Final chorus – full tribal celebration]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
فيكِ نَحيا... فيكِ نَحلمْ  
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
صوتُ الرّوحِ عادَ إلى البيتْ  

[Outro – fading wind and distant choir]
[Intro – whisper and wind]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
جئنا من البُعدِ، نحملُ الحكاياتْ  
(“O Oasis of Heaven... we came from afar, carrying stories.”)

[Verse 1 – male lead vocal]
الرملُ صارَ ذهباً، حينَ لمسْناهْ  
والريحُ صارت نغماً، حينَ سمعْناها  
في عيونِنا ضوءُ المدى  
وفي قلوبِنا ظلُّ الدعاءْ  

[Chorus – male & female choir, rhythmic, joyful]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
نَحنُ الّذينَ عَبَروا الظِّلالْ  
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
في مائِكِ نَغسِلُ أرواحَنا  

[Instrumental – qanun & oud duet over daf rhythm]
(qanun plays cascading melody, oud responds; daf builds festive tribal groove)

[Verse 2 – female voice, soft, spiritual]
نَسيمُكِ طيبٌ كالحُلمْ  
يُعيدُ للقلوبِ السكونْ  
يا واحةَ النُّورِ، يا بيتَ السلامْ  
فيكِ نولدُ من جديدْ  

[Refrain – male chorus + handclaps]
واحةُ السماءْ... بيتُ النُّورْ  
واحةُ السماءْ... بيتُ النُّورْ  
(“Oasis of heaven… house of light.”)

[Bridge – ney solo + rhythmic chants]
يا... يا... يا سلامْ  
(chant repeats 3x with crescendo percussion – daf, udu, darbuka)

[Final chorus – full tribal celebration]
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
فيكِ نَحيا... فيكِ نَحلمْ  
يا واحةَ السماءْ... يا واحةَ السماءْ  
صوتُ الرّوحِ عادَ إلى البيتْ  

[Outro – fading wind and distant choir]
واحةُ السماءْ... واحةُ السماءْ...واحةُ السماءْ... واحةُ السماءْ...

Dont Break That

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