This song is about political predation I started to see, beginning in the US, around 2000. It got far worse, in my estimation, around 2010. It's a song I had bouncing around in my cluttered mind for years, but never actually sat down and flushed out until 2010. Or so? I dunno. The final lines "don't place blind faith in black snake politicians" is an overt reference to fossil fuel corporations, their corrupt relationships with politicians in the US and abroad, and corporate capture of the US government. I got the idea from the indigenous legend "Prophesy of the black snake." Pipelines and oil trains, the visible signs as literal power is amassed and America literally divided. Americans, literally divided. Political power isn't as easy to see, but t's just as destructive. More so.

at any cost

they will prey upon your sympathy
they will tear our bands apart
and they will break your back, your will, your brain
so they can take whatever they can gain

they'll see you dead to keep in power
you're just opposition to devour
why are you loyal to the cowards?
sweet liberty turned bitter, sour

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

it doesn't matter much what happened here today
cause if it don't make the cover page...
they want you to forget the things they did and said
so they can do it all again another day

when blood is spilled for their desire
and they have all that they require
they'll tell you "freedom's cost" is higher
take honest words back from the liars

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

don't place blind faith in black snake politicians
they'll make you so afraid, can't even pay, pay attention

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/at-any-cost

off the windscreen

At Any Cost

Buy at any cost

01 At Any Cost - Splat - Off The Windscreen

BURN IT!

Will It Be Fate | T-Bone Gregory

Don't Matter

Contemporary classical music for synphony orchestra, choir and piano (no electronic, no effects).

Not a sonata in the classical sense, rather a one-movement symphony in classical sonata form.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_form
www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonatensatzform
The tritone is considered a dissonant interval (3 whole tones or 6 semitones pitch spacing). But ultimately it is only our dualistic comparative intellect that judges this. In the absolute, in the divine, these distinctions should no longer exist. The natural beauty in the seemingly imperfect can be more beautiful than the artificially perfect.
In this piece there are countless of tritone intervals. Listen and feel...

Instruments
Strings: 1. Violins, 2. Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses
Brass: Trumpets, Horns, Trombones, Tubas
Woodwinds: Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon
Percussion: Xylophone, Timpani, Cymbals, Piatti, Wood Block, Vibraslap
Choir & Piano

Created and conducted by Kapellmeister Krause

Inspired by...
...a concert by the British composer Rebecca Saunders in the Philharmonie Berlin.
soundcloud.com/rebeccasaunders
www.rebeccasaunders.net
...the Wabi-sabi concept from Japan, which is closely related to Zen Buddhism. A big thank you to https://soundcloud.com/bigpapashonan for bringing this to my attention.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-Sabi

Painting by Stefanie Holtz (lovely thanks)

Tritonus Sonate

Red Robin And Two Lovers

Improvisation im Theater stageoflife.de mit Petra Köhler/Querflöte und Marvin/Djembe

Improtheater

Railway -  Petra Köhler/Flöte, Marvin/Djembe

This composition is an old traditional Finnish folksong. It is mostly known as a very popular christmas song.
I played it with my 8	-string Electric guitar. Middle section is pure improvisation. 

No Onkos Tullut Kesä.wav

I believe in father christmas (Greg lake)

Another Way Of Life

Bach To The Future 07

Written and produced by She's Excited!
Poetry and voice by Joana Brabo from her Extreme Poetry project
Music and field recordings by Anne Wichmann
Cover credits: Photo by Konstantin Onishchenko, Art by katiamess

Estoy rodeada DE GENTE pero dejo de escuchar, solo oigo el tren como en 2a línea, el crujir del tren, el silbido de los raíles y mi respiración a todo volumen, en un aire extrañamente ralentizado: UN FRENAZO, el vacío de la línea R y mi respiración flotando en el espacio, flotando en el tiempo, flotando en el universo, el sistema solar, el milky way y la galaxia, y en medio de la nebulosa infinita: TÚ.
Allí estás tú, al otro lado del vagón, de la calle, al otro lado de la vida, al otro lado de la noche, al otro lado. Leyendo ese pequeño librito que te han dejado.

Moments Of Sonder

AloneTogether (feat. Joana Brabo)

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