2018_07_11

Hi there,
UNCHAINED is a piece of my recent album Free Polarity
I wish you a good listening
Video: https://youtu.be/bJ7R31QqHZY
All original by C.J.ROGERS | Free or high quality download here: https://www.cjrogersmusic.com/single.php

Free Polarity

Unchained

UNCHAINED

Classic Slim Harpo track that I'm sure I heard for the first time as a cover on the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" album. I love this song and my version is made so much better by @keitonie playing the lead. Love that guy's playing. Check him out if you haven't already. Thanks Keit!

Shake Your Hip (collab w/Keitonie)

Wooden Legs


I’ve got arms of broomsticks and straw 
they can’t do anything much at all and all I have to walk on are these crooked wooden legs but I'll stand tall though I know l fall again

I'm always a stumbling-ing
I’m a wobbling shuffling thing
I know it must look like I’m always out at sea...

I’ve got rubber bands instead of hands
I throw away my habits but they come right back again 

But though I’m made of lost and found, 
bird songs nest in my pumpkin crown;
and in my barrel chest there’s an garden
prides of dandy lions rooting for my heart;
and in my belly a queen and her lovers
a hive of bees that buzz me off my knotted knees.

My two eyes are holes gouged with a knife. 
I can’t see where I’m going, but I still feel the light.
and all I have to walk on are these crooked wooden legs
but I’ll stand tall though I’ll just fall down again

Wooden Legs

WhereTheWeatherGoes, are...
calebass, https://soundcloud.com/calebass
openingneedleprogress, https://soundcloud.com/openingneedleprogress
numbers in the dream, https://soundcloud.com/numbersinthedream
we're making more too

DreamPlantSleepDance

WhereTheWeatherGoes - Dream Plant Sleep Dance

Annie Smart

Closer Than You Know (Classical Glass and Annie Smart)

Seeing Who(& why are they sleeping in my kit bag?)

I almost made it to the portal, the one that would take me home, but then the sky suddenly darkened, the wind picked up, and  I could feel an ice cold chill in the air.  The sand beneath my feet began to shift, and before I knew it I was being taken away by a massive ghost ship.  There are clearly forces that don't want me to leave this place.  

It took me through a violent sand storm.  It was full of flashing lights, and images of people and places I once knew played like a movie on a screen made of clouds.  I must have passed out because once the dust settled I could see that I had traveled all the way to the edge of the desert.  Trees.  Lots of trees up ahead....

The Phantom Sandship

Yo! Last one from the Highly Questionable Strings EP - please feel free to go snag it if you haven't already: https://mayorofdonutville.bandcamp.com/album/highly-questionable-strings

Finger picking. I wrote this one on uke, wearing a baby in a baby sling underneath, pacing the apartment for hours while he refused to sleep every night for a month or two. It's conceivable that the melody belongs to someone else? It seems really familiar, in that familiar accidental-purloinery way (like the time I "wrote" a song that was already a Beach Boys song, and it just sounded soooo familiar!) Oh well. At very least, it borrows heavily from elements that have existed for a long time. 

What else? Glad you asked! Micah and I have released our first EP as Letterpress Mighty. I'll tell you more about that later, because we're still in the process of releasing tracks here:
https://soundcloud.com/letterpressmighty

And the EP is here:
https://letterpressmighty.bandcamp.com/

That EP is hard-won, and represents about two years of writing and recording work, through an irreparable computer crash, some broken equipment, a replacement computer and new software, three grueling semesters of school, a new house - I could keep going, but you get it. It's been hard, and it took longer than I wanted. That's partially why I'm soo excited that it's released. I'll be sharing each of those tracks to my page here as well, and I sincerely think you will enjoy it. 

That's all! Happy weekend!

Tumbleweed

The River

The music was written for a chapter in my upcoming book "Inside The Forbidden Outside".  There is music written for every chapter. Music videos are also being made and can be seen at my:
YouTube channel - Sonni Quick Piano Improv
Website - http://sonniquick.net

The story is about the life of a prison inmate - Jamie Cummings - as he has lived his life in the school to prison pipeline. Losing almost all connection with his family, the woman he loved and the son he has never touched. Currently in year 12 of a 17 year sentence.

Inside The Forbidden Outside

Unintended Consequences

One Horse Town (Live at UNO Fest)

Pinner's added some sweet acoustic comping to his signature modern sound as we smooth things down a little.  But check out Stephan's guitar playing towards the end.....well worth waiting for some superb guitar playing on the outro.  Stephen and I have recorded almost 40 tunes together.  So proud of this music! https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan
Follow his wonderful sound:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Dawn Breeze - Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

A deeply enjoyable collaboration with Poland's supremely talented Annie Driedflower. 
@anulasuszek

Vocals and melody: Annie Driedflower
String arrangements, felt piano, toy piano, treated guitar: BP
Lyrics: Andras Tornay

Produced by Belial Pelegrim


In order to know The Something
You have to touch The Nothing
In order to dance Life
You have to know pain first
In order to feel loved
You need to experience rejection
In order to be special
You need to be left alone first
You need to be left alone first
You need to be left alone first
In order to be reached out to
You need to be abandoned
In order to be found
You have to be lost first
In order to win
You have to be in the battle
In order to arrive
You need to escape first

2018_07_11

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