And now to the other page. You are quite prolific, Janine (and beSRK). This is cool. :D

Love the clever switch back and forth from spoken to singing. And those lyrics are on point. :)

Such a cool song. May be over two years behind us now... but I clearly need to visit this page... a lot more. Haha.

Nothing short of epic!  Love the spoken word weaving through the beat!   Very cool collab!

i keep finding you in neat and strange places.  this is cool.

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Greetings and happy Monday to all of you. Today I’m excited to share my first collaboration with our very charming friend, Janine Levinson (https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson). For those who have not yet discovered her SC page, be prepared for a wonderful world of evocative and poetic lyrical storytelling. Her words are thoughtful and insightful; and her ideas often inescapably honest. Plus, she has a great comedic edge that I find refreshing. You’re really going to love her stuff. :)

Janine and I also met in Eddie Shook’s ‘Anything Goes’ chat room (it’s quite the fun group, and you’ll find me there every other Thursday, enjoying a great variety of music from SC artists and professionals alike). There is something about this group of musicians that is phenomenally friendly, and helpful, and supportive… and we just naturally gravitate to working together. Janine and I finally had the opportunity to add our first collaborative musical creation to that growing pool of songs inspired by ‘Anything Goes’ (here’s the playlist link: https://soundcloud.com/justin_mackay/sets/the-songs-for-which-eddie-is); and it’s a wildly ethereal joyride of a song. We sincerely hope you enjoy ‘Train To Tomorrow’. We certainly enjoyed making it. :)

Lyrics:
If I’m here today
And you’re here tomorrow
Will we still see the same stars in the sky?

Can I leave a trace
For your heart to follow?
Will you find the little pieces that I stop to hide?

Will you know I was here?
Will the stars fade away?
I have to know

I’ll take the train to tomorrow

Star of today
Will you shine tomorrow?
Or shine yesterday?

I’ll take the train to tomorrow
ooo  ooo !

If I’m here today
And you’re here tomorrow
Will we still see the same stars in the sky?

Can I leave a trace
For your heart to follow?
Will you find the little pieces that I stop to hide?

Take the train tomorrow

Star of today
Will you shine tomorrow?
Or shine yesterday?

‘cause I don’t know

Credits:
Janine Levinson - vocals, vocal melody, and lyrics
GrevusAnjl - music, mix and master

(Oh, and because he deserves it… big thanks also to a certain SC artist many of us know and love, for revealing the secrets of his latest cover art technique. It’s very cool. And I promise not to abuse it too much. Haha).

PWWO06

Train To Tomorrow | Janine Levinson & GrevusAnjl

Janine Levinson: voice, lyrics, vocal melody, photograph https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mix

You and me on the beach when you found the purple rock and gave it away
You and me and she on the streets of Tokyo with the drunks in the rain
We were lost in wonder on the river eating cake with our hands
Running into the same guy everywhere we went

These are pictures of love that I have
Keep them forever in inside me
Pictures of love that I have
And I’ll keep them forever

You and me on the day we decided to run off and get married in Vegas
Missed each other and we ended up at different airports
You and me and she when we tried so hard not to laugh at the preacher when we
Gave him our vows that he just went and ignored

These are pictures of love that I have
And I’ll keep them forever

Pictures of love
Pictures of love

It was we when I dressed like Cindy Crawford and took pictures with you
So long with my makeup and that creep online said I looked like a dude
You and me and she when we’d listen to grandpa read his books to the crowd
And the day that we drove so far just to find matching cowboy boots

Pictures of love that I have
Keep them forever in inside me (pictures of love)
The pictures of love that I have
And I’ll keep them forever

You and me on the beach when you found the purple rock and gave it away
You and me and she on the streets of Tokyo with the drunks in the rain
Coming up from the subway to the smell of fish and shoemaker’s glue
Thought they were robbers but they made fun of you

Pictures of love that I have
Pictures of love that I have
Pictures of love that I have

Pictures Of Love (with Janine Levinson)

Janine: voice, lyrics, vocal melody, artwork https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

This is humankind
This is humankind

You hear the word god
You hear the word profit
you hear the word bullet
and you find yourself exploding

And although it should be clear
You will make yourself a witness
And the dais is a pulpit
Oh! your reverence is showing

This is humankind
This is humankind

you hear the word them
you hear it from your prophets
you hear the word trigger
and you find yourself imploding

And although it’s antithetic
You will worship disagreement
At your church of unforgiveness
Oh! your reverence is showing

Do not fret your thumping heart
We are humankind
This is just the way things are
This is humankind

This is humankind

To know your opposition
Feels like a new narcotic
You rely on distribution
Your opinion is the tonic

And although it should be clear
You’ll forget that you were something
And the answers will be soothing
Aw your reverence is showing

This is humankind
This is humankind

You hear the word god
You hear the word profit
you hear the word bullet
and you find yourself exploding

And although it should be clear
You will make yourself a witness
And the dais is a pulpit
Oh! your reverence is showing

This is humankind
This is humankind

This is humankind
This is humankind
This is humankind
This is humankind

Humankind (with Janine Levinson)

Some of Us is Me

2022 Janine Levinson
Guitar: Jonathan Beckenstein  @jonathan_beckenstein
   
I’m sorry that I’m not somebody else    
I’m sorry if I let my people down
I didn’t ask for anybody’s help        
I’m sorry that I waited for this long

But it’s like trying to move your life ahead with a stranger at the wheel 
While trying very hard to get along

I’m sorry that I wrecked my lover’s heart
I hope he knows I wrecked my own heart too
I should have looked somewhere outside myself
I hope there’s room for me inside of you

Cause I’ve been trying to stand up straight when I am broken past repair
And still trying very hard to fix what’s wrong 

Some folks have got it made 
Frolicking in the shade of live oak tree
But some of us we don’t sing so loud, 
And we’re looking down
Some of us is me

I sometimes wish tomorrow wouldn’t come
But yesterday has problems of his own 
Next to you’s the only thing I’ve got
I wish I knew someplace where I belonged   

And I’ve been trying to stand up straight 
‘Cause I was thinking you might share--
And make my little world not feel so wrong

Some folks have got it made 
Frolicking in the shade of live oak tree
But some of us we don’t sing so loud, 
And we’re looking down
Some of us is me

Some Of Us Is Me - with Jonathan Beckenstein

"Another Friend"

Janine Levinson @janinelevinson : vocals & lyrics 
Mahan Mahan : instrumental track https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/yesterdaze-in-vivid-colors-fading-sounds?si=87bbc005572a4e87907332f2d62f31e0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
 
Mixed & Mastered by Janine Levinson in Burbank, California, USA 01/21/2023

Another Friend ~ Janine Levinson | Mahan²

Janine: voice, vocal melody, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

image: Janine Levinson

Let me be your remedy
I promise not to fail you
Let me be the remedy
For everything that ails you
 
I promise I will be as good
As any other remedy would
With the added benefit of being me
 
Let me be the antidote
To all your poison apples
Take a bite it don’t taste right  
I promise I’ll be able 
To save you from yourself
Spit out the seeds!
 
And if you say that you wanna
I can give you something other
I can be your lover
Open up and tip it over
 
If you come with me  
We can be carefree
Open up and tip it over
Open up and tip over
 
If you say that you wanna
I can give you something other
I can be your lover
Open up and tip it over
 
If you come with me  
We can be carefree
Open up and tip it over
Open up and tip over
 
Let me be your remedy
I promise not to fail you
Let me be the remedy
For everything that ails you
 
I promise I will be as good
As any other remedy would
With the added benefit of being 
 
I promise I will be as good
As any other remedy would 
With the benefit of being 
 
I promise I will be as good
I promise I will be good
I will

With the Benefit of Being Me (with Janine Levinson)

The Water © Chris Wiggs 20.06.18
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 20.06.18
Remixed and remastered 08.03.19
The Water
V1
Waiting in the water, Waiting at half tide
Waiting for the half light, The morning sun to rise
The morning mist to rise
V2
Sunshine on the water, Nowhere left to hide
Water all around us, The water starts to rise
The water starts to rise

Chorus
No one had thought that a place could exist
Covered in seas and waves such as this
That roll over all that they find in their way
All through the night and all through the day

The search for a lifeline to tether our race
Ends underseas and an end we must face
When the water we wanted we found in this place
The end of our search and the end of our days

V3
Sunshine brings the water, it’s nothing like we know
The wind will bring the breakers We will fall below
All will fall below

Chorus
No one had thought that a place could exist
Covered in seas and waves such as this
That roll over all that they find in their way
All through the night and all through the day

The search for a lifeline to tether our race
Ends underseas and an end we must face
When the water we wanted we found in this place
The end of our search and the end of our days

V4
Waiting in the water, Waiting at half tide
Waiting for the half light, The morning sun to rise
The morning mist to rise

The Water

A Secret Garden

Vocals, melody, words:  Janine Levinson @janinelevinson
Everything else: beSRK @besrk

art 
art
art and music

art and music are attempts to communicate things that are not easily explained in words

the artist works in a state of surrender 

the artist buries deep into their brain to a place where words do not exist, and they attempt to convey what it's like in that brain

they have a secret garden, and they burn to convey the beauty of that garden, however painful

they bury deep into a place
a place inside their brains
where words do not exist
and yet they will communicate
give you all their pain
share their secret things
give you all their pain

they have a secret garden

A Secret Garden

Sometimes that storm creeps up...

The photo is of Buzios, Brazil

Summer Storm

Ain't No Sunshine 

Originally written & recorded by Bill Withers in 1975

Janine Levinson @janinelevinson : vocals 
Mahan Mahan : instrumental track, production & final mix
Recorded at Pahlavi Sound Studios, Mama Shadi's basement, next to the Washer & Dryer, Los Angeles, CA, USA 01/2021
Mastered by SoundCloud Mastering Wizardry or a close facsimile. 

Ain't No Sunshine ~ Janine Levinson | Mahan²

Life's Dance

Who are you? You said:
'I don't know, there's no time to think about those words...'.
I just want to dance, sing and fly,
we should breathe before it's time to go!
Life is a gift for all...
Take it and light the world!

Chasing days are waiting just for you.
The paradise you own is in your eyes...
Your sons and daughters
just wait to see your soul!
They say: 'Let it shine this little light,
shine this little light...'.

...but then, when it's time to go,
our life is not fair enough.
There's no time to say goodbye,
you're allowed just to close your eyes...
All your days are going now forever,
only live in those who love you all!

Life's Dance

J9 & beSRK are Janine Levinson (@janinelevinson, @janineandtheproblem) and beSRK, a mysterious stranger from the north @beSRK

A Secret Garden

Janine and beSRK

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