Some of my Soundcloud Favourites #159

SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY FLYING AT NIGHT

A m b i e n t  |||  t r a x  ||| trax

Kit: Animoog Z, uKORG, Logic Pro X
Acknowledgements: Vocal: Modulated excerpts from “Where Are You Now Acapella” by WolfFly copyright 2010. Licensed (CC BY) under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Late Night See Long Zero (ft. WolfFly)

This a tribute to my much loved Dad. My god was he loved and I wish he could have heard it.

Liverpool Boy

Rise And Fall

The tragic tale of a foreign girl forced into prostitution in England during the First World War, and the terrible fate that awaited so many of the soldiers. Many, many thanks to Ale Destiny for her poignant and plaintive vocal. You can hear her latest song "Vincent", also produced by my producer Sergio Aguilar,  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfa7jjZoK0U&list=OLAK5uy_kwTdpzKWQbJ5Xm05Ok3ulGPmfAm_xv7s8

“Many home-front brothels served an increased number of clients following the war’s outset owing to the influx of men in arms preparing to go into the field.”
- Journey Steward (International Encyclopedia of the First World War)

Slang used in the song:
Dose: (in this case) a venereal infection
Dough: money
Slut: term for a person, usually a woman or girl, who is sexually promiscuous or considered to have loose sexual morals. It dates from the late 14th century in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, although ironically he was describing a man!
Squaddies: soldiers
The clap: gonorrhea (The narrator in this song gets gonorrhea, or the clap, which was rampant at the time because so many soldiers were catching it from the prostitutes operating near the front. Many of those soldiers, believe it or not, were still virgins and didn't want to die without experiencing sex)
Whore: prostitute

Lyrics
There’s many a squaddie comes visiting
From the barracks up the road
And they all, if they pay, get a welcome
And a rest from a soldier’s load
They’ll be fighting for King and country
And be paid with a grisly end
So, the least we can do is to hold them
To be, for a while, their friend
To be, for a while, to be, for a while
To be, for a while, their friend

Ah me, I was born in a Catholic land
I’ve no love for you Protestant lads!
But I got put in the family way
And reviled as sinful and bad
I’m in England now, a whore for sure
But I dance and I sing and I play
And the squaddies laugh so innocently
As night gives way to the day
As night gives way to
as night gives way to
As night gives way to the day

I fell in love with an Irish boy
No more tender a lad you could meet
He was set to ask me to marry
But was lost in some bloody retreat
I’m carrying his child in my belly
But it’s whoring that brings in the dough
I’m to visit some witch in an alley
To make sure that there’s nothing to show
Make sure that there’s nothing,
Make sure that there’s nothing
Make sure that there’s nothing to show

The doctor says that I got the clap
A soldier, I’ll bet, from the front
The sluts down there do a roaring trade
Death so close, that they bear the brunt
Of virgins wanting a taste of the flesh
‘fore their bodies are ripped to shreds
And if they survive, return with their dose
To pass on in the heat of our beds
Pass on in the heat, pass on in the heat
To pass on in the heat of our beds

Yes, many a squaddie comes visiting
And will do for some time to come
But will there be any lads left alive
To march to the military drum
Yes, soldiers are welcome, one and all
And will be for some time to come
But where are all of the marrying types
To save us from our whoredom
To save us from our, to save us from our …
To save us from our whoredom

From One Singer Left to Mourn; track released August 11, 2023
Music: Michael Sellers; Sergio Aguilar
Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Lead Vocal: Ale Destiny
Backing Vocals: Alejandro Hidalgo & Michael Sellers
Guitars & bass, piano, percussion; musical arrangement, & production: Sergio Aguilar
Cover photo: Photo by The British Library on Unsplash, combined with a photo provided by Loretta Sellers
Cover design: Michael Sellers; Loretta Sellers Fortuny

One Singer Left to Mourn

Soldiers Welcome!

Buy: Bandcamp

Soldiers Welcome! FT Ale Destiny (UK Songwriting Contest: Star Rating: 5 Commended Entry 2023)

FLYING TURTLE

Music by Ultrasonic Pest Repellent
https://soundcloud.com/ultrasonic_pest_repellent

Vocals, Lyrics: & art by Cosmic Keanu

Mixing, Production, Mastering by Hobocop (OfficerMurphy): https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Everything Will Be Revealed

We find ourselves washed up and bleeding
Upon the shore

In the chase for nothing much,
We’ve lost our way back home

While pursuing eternity
We’ve carved our names in stone

For illusions of security
We’ve worked ourselves to the bone

Everything will be revealed
when the waters become still

What was hidden beneath is seen
When all is settled and all is clean

Wings made of mind can’t fly
Try and you will fall

All that we think we know
Isn’t worth much at all

Dreams form in mind’s eye
What is shown could be a lie

Ascending one rung at a time
Don’t split your head up on the sky

I’ve tried so hard to find
a reason why we’re so blind

Hypnotized by the feed
In the mirror they deceive

Not sure what to believe,
With your face cracked in duper’s glee

Doomsday clock is ticking down,
No one hears the warning sound

Didn’t hear the sirens wail,
Playing games as we tip the scale

How have we come to this,
A slippery slope down a bottomless pit

Everything will be revealed
when the waters become still

What was hidden beneath is seen
When all is settled and all is clean,
all is settled and all is clean…

Everything Will Be Revealed (Ultrasonic Pest Repellent & Cosmic Keanu) An OfficerMurphy Mix

Changes

Something a little calmer for a hopefully peaceful, relaxing weekend 😊

Free download if you like it.

Vocals are from various royalty-free sources
Artwork by Shivalay

Thank you for listening 💛

Maya

Opus79

Listen w Headphones!

Stranger Things and Kate Bush + SC Peeps
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Samples used

IPG1 - Play on
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/play-on-vox-140-bpm

FRAWSTAKWA - Are y'all on board
https://soundcloud.com/tobedetermined-frawstakwa/are-yall-on-board-90bpm

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM

Stranger Things - Main Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcPZdihrp4

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Other Samples

(Drum Samples)
Evans Hybrid Sensory Percussion System: New Creative Horizons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmKRa75mGLA

Omar Hakim feat Ozmosys (used in outro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfDLZSlKJZ8
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Remixed by LS / 2023.

Vibing Down That Hill feat Kate Bush / IPG1 & FRAWSTAKWA

Bright New Dawn

Leaving Earth

Darkness

Midnight

Secret Garden

Second collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1 *, consisting on my immersion into one of his complex proposals for several weeks, and successful? survival by means of inspiration, my guitar & one of my few old sonnets. 

* https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/ella-huyo-she-fled

LETRA/LYRICS:

Sonidos de ayer  /  Yesterday sounds

Este cielo negro de suaves alas,  /  This black sky with soft wings,
que hoy de mi frugal sueño es techumbre,  /  which today for my frugal dream is a roof,
en este vasto mar, allá en su cumbre,  /  in this vast sea, there up its top,
hallo para mi anhelo puerto y calas.  /  I find for my longing port and coves.
 
Este oscuro manto que se ilumina  /  This dark mantle that is illuminated
con titileos de almas de cristal,  /  by clinkings of crystal souls,
trae a mi mente recuerdos sin mal  /  brings to my mind memories without evil
y otros tristes vientos de dura espina.  /  and other sad winds of hard thorn.
 
Mas es la pálida luz de la luna,  /  However is the pale moonlight,
corazón sin latido en este cielo,  /  heart without beat in this sky,
quien con sus mudos cánticos me acuna.  /  who with its mute chants cradles me.
 
Ella, álgida burbuja de hielo,  /  It, culminating bubble of ice,
me trae sonidos de ayer; la luna  /  brings me sounds of yesterday; the moon
me amanece. Y sonrío. Y vuelo.  /  dawns me. And I smile. And I fly.

ER00EC13

Sonidos de ayer (with ProgRockDan1)

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