Time flies and its important to seize the day. My second son has a tattoo .It says  CARPE DIEM!

Tempus Fugit.WAV remix 2023

Pollen Count

Produced for the wonderful https://citiesandmemory.com/ as part of their SOUNDS of Italy project. Original field recording by Giuseppe Calisti. I just turned it into the mess you are now hearing : ) Official arty blurb below

Leaving Sicily is a poetic remembrance, expressed through sound, of my travels across the Island in 2017. For me the Island was a constant  barrage of wonder; both beautiful and terrifying, welcoming and isolating, modern and ancient and familiar yet alien. The piece heavily manipulates samples from the field recording captured at The Falcone Borsellino Aiport to express some of the dichotomies above. Leaving Sicily finishes with the ‘raw’ sound of the crowd of the airport terminal representing the transition from my surreal and personal travel back into the world of normality - just another tourist in the crowd about to return to his normal life.

Leaving Sicily

Hey Happy new year 🥳 

Ive done a bootleg mix with my partner in vibes @specialececilia. using  Still In Love
The Late Night Affair and Salah Ananse   https://www.traxsource.com/title/779632/still-in-love

Enjoy 😊 
Dx

Start Up** 2023 BOOTLEG MASH UP **Cecilia & Rico**

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TO BE AND NOT TO BE
THAT IS THE QUESTION     
I ASK MYSELF A LOT  
                              
I SHOULD BE CLIMBING THE HIMALAYAS
INSTEAD I LAYING IN MY PAJAMAS
WATCHING THE NEWS IN SILENT MODE
DRAGGIN MY SHOES ALONG THE ROAD
FATIGUE

I FEEL I SHOULD MAYBE I COULD
AND ALL I WOULD DO IS TO TRY
BUT FATIGUE

I FEEL I SHOULD MAYBE I COULD
AND ALL I WOULD DO IS TO TRY
BUT FATIGUE

FATIGUE (Lyrics)

Firstly a big thanks to Shane of Harmful If Swallowed for agreeing to do do this male duet. It’s a first for me and probably for him, so a very interesting concept. It’s been a song that’s been hanging around a while just waiting for the right type of vocalist to agree. I am a great admirer of Shane’s work because of his fine lyrics and interpretations of real life. 
The song Elephant In The Room was wrote over five years ago with my son Owen  who would of been around 18 at the time. He had got into playing guitar and dabbling in song writing so my role was helping him with melody and lyrics. 
It’s a song I always thought had great potential and as I wasn’t that active in music myself at the time only a raw acoustic version existed.
This version is what we used as a sketch and Noobly transformed it into a full blown production. Seriously Noobly is a real talent and absolute pleasure to work with so respect to him.
There as been slight lyric changes but the melody is the same.
The song is about to close friends sitting in one of their living rooms in silence. There is an elephant in the room for both of them because a serious matter is not being discussed and neither of them are opening the conversation. The one  as done something really bad to the other so use your imagination.
The conversation is only happening inside their heads so hence a male duet of thoughts.
Hope you enjoy the song as much as we did creating it.

Elephant In The Room  -  Conscience of Kings feat Harmful If Swallowed

The second dose in a series of antique recordings from my old 4-track days , full of hope and spunk for my future musical career , ha ha little did i know i had to sell my soul to the devil to get there ! That kind of degradation was never on my timeline or in my heart , I knew i was good .

FATIGUE (Lyrics)

IMRE LODBROG