Phone recording added to by The Happy Somethings 

I uploaded Bitter before but in my opinion this Bitter is better.
I wrote and played it on the 1st January 2023.

I have loved The Happy Somethings since I first heard them when in Azerbaijan about 6 years ago.  We share the philosophy that if we try harder it sounds worse!  I am pleased and honoured that they spontaneously decided to colloborate and be my "ramshackle"  backing band on this song!  a bit like with Buddy Holly's apartment tapes, only I think Buddy's were better before...and Buddy was never bitter.    

link to their page: https://on.soundcloud.com/87eTU

...and in the words of The Happy Somethings:

"We have been fans of Cobbled Moth's musical output for some considerable time and when we came across this new song called 'Bitter' we just immediately loved it. One evening, bored with ourselves, and without him knowing, we decided to become his backing band... fortunately he embraced our audacity!"

credits
released January 9, 2023

Artwork by Joy.  Not meant to depict me, I'm still just a young lad...in his late 30s. 

Written by Cobbled Moth.
Copyright - all rights reserved - 
Cobbled Moth - Main vocals and acoustic guitar.
The Happy Somethings - other stuff

Lyrics:
I remember you sweeter
Now you're lost in the ether 
You were a spirit transmitter
But now you are bitter
And it's a shame
If you think no one cares
You went through pain
I know I was there
But you always had a wise word
And a kind word too
What happened to you?
I remember you taller
And now you are smaller
Over the land you would skitter
But now you're just bitter
Ooo oo now you are bitter
Ooo oo now we are bitter
And it's a shame
If we think no one cares
We went through pain
Yet always stayed fair
And we always had a wise word
And a kind word too
The disillusionment grew and grew and grew
I remember you fatter
And it didn't matter
Long before your ex twitter 
When you were not bitter
I remember you jolly
In the rain with no brolly
I remember you shiny
Your wit was perfectly briny
I remember you noble
Before the dragon went global
You were never a quitter
Hope you stop being bitter


Bitter - Cobbled Moth & The Happy Somethings

Psychomanteum

lazy morning coffee

Cara Mia

Shadow Face (Final Cut).wav

Today Patrick/DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007) and I present the last-but-one track 13 in our almost completed collaborative album "Galaxy Universe" (2024) - and the concluding track will appear here on SC together with the album as whole this coming weekend.

The track was created on 29 August 2024 (initial composition, recording, arrangements and mix by Alex M in Logic Pro using Akai MPKmini keyboard input) and 3 September 2024 (subsequent composition, further additions and arrangements and final mix by DjArtw2001 in MAGIX) and posted on SoundCloud on 26 September 2024 (by Alex M).

The artwork cover for the track zooms in on a fragment of an oil painting by Patrick/DjArtw2001 of 1 November 2023 that was cropped square from a photo and annotated using Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 20 September 2024 - in coordination and agreement with Patrick/DjArtw2001.

Duration: 7:59 minutes

Galaxy Universe 13 - Alex M & DjArtw2001

noxpox - dense air

method: subharmonicon, guitar (vintage lemon drop), ebow (infinity sustainer), pedals (ocean's 12, cloak, vt 4, vo O1), voice; recording and premix: r20; postproduction and overdubbing: samplitude 
narration: the moment holds the narrator captive - another expressionist poem I wrote in recent days
image: a section of the subharmonicon setup superimposed on colours from my soundcloud landing page,  copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

sprich mit dem abend
als zähmt' ihn nicht knebel
nicht rauschunterdrückung - schabend
knirscht kiesmond im nebel

und aus tatzen des lichts
wachsen neonkrallen -
des schnurrhaargesichts
tauträges wohlgefallen

von kamin zu kamin
gelichtet - aus dem napf
will ein geruch aufzieh'n
hin zum bartdenkmalkopf -

tief im großstadtkokon
wird die geisel befreit -
frag niemals, wovon
frag: wofür ist sie bereit

interlinear translation: stockholm syndrone // talk to the evening / as though it was not tamed / by gagging / by noise cancelling - the gravel moon / crunches in the fog // and from the light's paws / neon claws grow / the pleasing comfort of / a whiskered face // being flashed from chimney to / chimney - out of the pet dish / a smell happens to rise / up to the bearded monument's brow // the hostage being liberated / from the city's cocoon  - / never ask for origins / ask: what is being prepared

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Stockholm Syndrone

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