Bryan (aka Pall of a Past World) aproached me and asked me to cover one of his songs. He asked me to pick one and I'd always liked this one so I picked this one! He plays it really nice - fast and cool and so, as much as I liked that, I thought I'd try something new.

Well a big thanks to him for setting the seed in my head and also a big thanks to Christina for helping out with the backing vocals which, for me, make it!

Christina Kelly : https://soundcloud.com/christinakelly
Bryan Ciliberto : https://soundcloud.com/bryanciliberto

Who'll Save The Working Class (Pall of a Past World song)

This is another great Collaboration with Justin Valente. As always, Justin is doing all of the heavy lifting and he does such a great job that singing it is the easy part!

I Believe To My Soul- Collaboration with Justin Valente

The Queen of this show is here : https://soundcloud.com/chris-okunbor

The true story of CHRIS O & MOAG

[MOAG]
I’m on my own again 
Tired of pretending it’s ok, that 
you’re most likely on your way 

[CHRIS]
Babe you know I love you true 
It’s been one helluva a long day so
won’t you just say you love me too

You buy me bangles, diamond rings but
I just want the simple things under the moon 
like there’s no tomorrow

[MOAG]
Get off that blue trail to the stars 
I don’t like your friends nor their lalalalas 
You moving further makes me hollow 

You know I have waited 
Wasted time that you never updated 
Falling apart for the Queen of my heart

[CHRIS]
I don’t want no crown, don’t string me down 
Don’t need no fancy blings
Just gotta get out and do my thing 

This ain’t no tale about fame and glory
Much more like my whole life’s story
Oh how can you want me to let go ?

[MOAG]
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve known 
all along that I could never tame you
But who’s that guy in your latest song ?

Those tender words of love, they burn 
right through my soul, they grip tight to that guy 
won’t bring me anything but sorrow

[CHRIS]
The guys in my songs are always you
No matter what I try 
So get a grip and quit this wallow

CHRIS & [MOAG]
Don’t push Babe 
Don’t do me wrong 
[I don’t intend to do you wrong]
Don’t push Babe 
Are you that strong ?
[and I‘m as strong as the day is long]
Though I may not like you much today 
I keep crawlin’ back here anyway 
[I will be waiting for you here anyway]
Don’t ever say you know what’s true 
[one thing I know is true]
when you don’t even know that I love you 
[is that I love you]

Chris O & mOag - dOn't push babe

First release from Yorkshire based label ATA Records 
DJ support Mr Scruff, Nightmares On Wax, Coldcut, Gilles Peterson, Rob Da Bank, Lack Of Afro, Rob Luis (Tru Thoughts), Kon (& Amir), Quinton Scott (Strut Records), Hugo Mendez (Sofrito)

Very Limited Edition LP, CD and Digital Download
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Matt Black - Coldcut / Ninja Tune "I love the funk u sent over"

Lack Of Afro - Freestyle Records "YES! Just what the scene needed - this is a killer comp with no filler whatsoever. Top class musicianship, engineering and arrangements all the way. I can't recommend it highly enough. Buy it!"

Mr Scruff - Ninja Tune "A really good, sleazy collection. The Reverend Barrington is a particular favourite, a slinky & sleazy monster, like a slightly wrigglier JBs"

Nightmares On Wax - Warp Records "Love this ! this is awesome ! :-)"

Jonathan More - Coldcut / Ninja Tune "Digesting at the mo, some great tunes flagged already"

Quinton Scott - Strut Records "Sounds great. Love the Sorcerers Ethio vibes !"

Hugo Mendez - Sofrito Records "Enjoying this release - some tight funk and good sound!"

Kon - BBE "Sounding like Mulatu meets David axelrod... heavy !"

Gilles Peterson "Fresh !"

Rob Da Bank - Bestival "The Lamplighters : yup lovin both !"

Reviews in Mojo Magazine and Record Collector

Mr Scruff and both Ninja Tune bosses Jon More and Matt Black aka Coldcut loving this compilation

Nightmares On Wax from Warp Records loves it

Rob Da Bank loves The Lamplighters

The Flip - Cleveland Freckleton

Here's track two from my E.P., "Shades", recorded with Alex Pilkington at Real World Studios. Hope you all enjoy!

Restless

happy halloween! 

here's a song about a vampire and stuff

cuz everyone needs a song about a vampire and stuff

instruments used: guitar, copper slide, salt shaker, oatmeal box, coffee can, foot for tapping, mouth for hissing and other sounds

thanks for listening and all your support

....

lyrics (-ish)

i go out at night
cuz the night is my time
take a walk around this
fine neighborhood
people like you and me
we're like driftwood
going down a stream we know
there's no turning back now

i got scars
from every century
i been to all your wars
its complimentary
know i'd die for you honey
if i only could
but this blood coursing through my veins
is thicker than mud

dark like the night
and the night is for dancing
so shuffle your feet
or be the one for the tasting
show a little skin baby
right there by the neck
hold real still now
i just want to check

if you got the devil within
don't you want to live forever?
just have a taste of sin
don't be so clever
people people
safe behind your closed windows
better watch better watch out
for your sons and your daughters

we're coming for you
the threat from within
have a little taste of sin
dont you want to live forever?
don't you want to feel something?

this blood coursing through my veins
thicker than mud
people like you and me
we're like driftwood
driftwood
driftwood


Driftwood

None of Us Are Free is a rhythm and blues song written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell. It was first recorded by Ray Charles on his 1993 album My World, but received relatively little attention at that time. In 2002, a version was recorded by soul singer Solomon Burke on his album Don't Give Up On Me. The track featured The Blind Boys of Alabama on backing vocals, and the album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album, bringing Burke back into the public eye.
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None of us are free - Ray Charles/Solomon Burke Acoustic Cover

Teemu Kurki - Guitars
Santeri Vauramo - Bass
Jussi Ruokolainen - Drums

Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppIuzE8bdyg

Steppin' Out (w/ S. Vauramo & J. Ruokolainen)

Louisiana Red live in 2003 in Germany, Rostock with the Band "Blues Transfer"
The full title you can hear and watch on youtube...www.youtube.com/user/bluestransfer?feature=watch

Slow Blues with Louisiana Red

"There is a lot in Idris' music that is highly original even though he's treading a well-worn path. His delivery is so personal and intimate. An instant classic" - Mark J Bennet, Soundcloud

GREETINGS and welcome to my page! So at the minute I'm compiling all of my recent work into a new album which will hopefully be recorded this Autumn..! In the meantime however I'm very excited to announce that my first music video is soon to be published by WheelBellow! I've seen a first draft and I'm really pleased with it! Can't wait!

I draw from traditional songs, ideas and phrases and weave them into my songs and to add to the rich tapestry of folk music. But I've not always been a musician, I trained in architecture and as a child I never really engaged with music. It was only later when I discovered one of my mothers Lightning Hopkins records gathering dust and put it on. Boy! Well that started it for me and I've not looked back since. I now live in Peckham, South London where I work behind a local bar and play the other side of it too, often (and happily) through the night.

I started recording when I started writing as this was the best way, I felt, to keep a record of the music. Upon joining SC I've arranged most of my recordings into 6 albums and an EP. The first 3 albums, from the early days, I call Bootlegs (the last of these being Testerest, The Best of The Rest). These 3 albums really illustrate my learning process. Imitations - you can hear me trying to sound like Dylan I'm sure on a couple of tracks. And there are also the first songs I wrote there - love songs of course! The last 3 albums I've compiled under the sub-title Sketch Songs as they're all just sketches. But, ranging from 2008 - 2011 they represent the more recent work from me. The last, The Dental Demos EP is just the result of a recording oppotunity I had earlier this year. Foolishly I just recorded the songs off the top of my head and none of the new songs I'd been writing at the time. So I've saved these up and now have loads of material for my next album. I really want to put everything into this one. I have a couple of collaborations lined up, duets and such, as well as other experimentation's but I really want to do it right - and that means preparation! So I'm not rushing anything but hope to have things ready to go into the studio in a month or so - about the time my music video will be released!

Well, anyway, I'm rambling - sorry!

All that left to say really is thanks for visiting my page and I hope you enjoy what you hear!

"The first time I listened to [Idris], I thought just maybe, Nick Drake was alive and well and hiding out in the UK" - Mimi Cross sirenstories.com

To hear the Bootlegs simply click on the soundcloud link way up above.

Discography:

~The Bootlegification Vol 1
~The Bootlegification Vol 2
~Testerest - The Best Of The Rest
~SKETCH SONGS - In The Trees
~SKETCH SONGS - The Sternhall Sessions
~SKETCH SONGS - Peckham Melodies
~The Dental Demos EP

Who'll Save The Working Class (Pall of a Past World song)

Idris Davies