A try with Matt Denis' song, well known for having been interpreted by Ella Fitzgerald

Angel Eyes (1st Draft)

All music written and recorded
© September 30 2018 by Lo-fi Galaxie

Scared Of The Sun

A song I recorded with my high school band way back in 76. Lead guitar and drums by my dear friends Michael and Frank, who both passed away at a young age. Bass by Tony.
For those that don't recognize the image, it's a 45.  LOL
We recorded this with our hard earned cash at a local RCA studio. We had a blast.

Got To Get Together

In my first tape loop experiment, I made it by a vintage cassette player.

Tape Loop - Head Cleaner

Buy at Bandcamp

Look at the Other End

I Can't Love You Anymore

You said "It's never quite enough"
You said I'd better "step it up"
I said "I love you to the core"
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more 

You said you could feel me holding back
You said "Part of me's still on the rack"
I said "If you only knew the score
I've got nothing left in store
I can't love you any more"

I've tried most everything I know
But you keep telling me it doesn't show
I've laid my heart and soul out at your door
My love's a crashing wave upon your shore
I can't love you any more

You said you're with somebody new
You said you're convinced his love is true
I said "I heard your wedding vows
Now I know it's not allowed
I can't love you anymore"

I Can't Love You Any More

If you ever feel free enough to fall, slipping into moon shadows
and the sweet abyss, then give it a kiss and jump inside!

Falling Into Moon Light Shadows : Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra, Drums, Percussion, Acoustic and Electric Bass, Electric Piano, Clavinet w/Fx, Strings and Vocal Fx. A Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra: Composed and Produced Production.

Recorded and Mixed @ Broken Glass Ranch, Colorado. © 2021

Falling Into Moonlight Shadows

A narrative song from a few years back that musical buddies, Ces Sile, PompeyJazz and TheFuneralCrasher helped me reinvent and revamp.

Our Town (with Ces Sile, PompeyJazz & The Funeral Crasher)

If you don’t do anything else today
Listen to what some pundits say
Is censorship no longer at bay?
Is our freedom of speech slipping away?

“We got a conspiracy theory here…take it down”

Is the great reset, the ultimate goal?
Are liberty and choice deserting their role?
Is Divoc 91(covid19), bleeding our souls?
While the new world order, takes control?

“Conspiracy theory…take it down”

Land of the Free; Home of the Brave
Land the imprisoned; Home of the Afraid

The Trump cards in the attic, and the joker’s in your head
The butter’s going rancid, and there’s maggot’s in the bread 
Nobody has a face; mouths as black as coal 
Apocalyptic hangover‘s, starting to take its toll  

Global surveillance in total disguise 
Subtle brainwashing and so many lies
Serums flood the market as the 'gates' open wide
Watch out cause you’re in for a big surprise
 
“Conspiracy theory…take it down”

We need to stand up for democracy 
Or we’ll loose all our rights to autocracy
Elite power hungry bureaucracy 
Oh my God the hypocrisy! 

These are unprecedented times
Isolation is key to our survival
We must keep muzzled and separate 
Our enemy may be small, but it is relentless
It feeds on fake news and conspiracy theories 
Fear is our friend now; we must never surrender

The Trump cards in the attic, and the joker’s in your head
The butter’s going rancid and there’s maggot’s in the bread 
Nobody has a face; mouths as black as coal
Apocalyptic hangover‘s, starting to take its toll

Conspiracy theory; who’s on the jury?

The Great Reset or Conspiracy Theory?

I made it out of Dublin
just before they locked it down
Caught the last flight out
and I slept until touchdown 
A place where men wear funny skirts
and nothing underneath
The heart of Mary's Scotland
became my new retreat 

One and twenty bottles
I bought in Inverness
And when the night is over
there'll be one and twenty less

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

MacLeod threw me a party
he was the perfect host
Men in kilts may scare some
What’s beneath them might scare more
But I was not so frightened
'cause of all the Finns I know
Who drink vodka in the Sauna
and then roll naked in the snow

They offered me a single malt
I thought, underwear or not
When in Rome do as the Romans do
I'll drink it like a Scot
Then I remembered words of wisdom 
when I saw water on the side
'The fish they f*** in water'
so I tossed the glass aside.

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

They did not take that very well
in fact, they went quite mad
Three or four Scots held me down
and I found myself unclad
Then they tried to throw me out 
naked and exposed
but the bastards had forgotten
that the front door was still closed!

No shirt, no shoes, no socks, no jocks
A doorframe round my neck 
I walked the streets of Inverness
A bruised and battered wreck
I don't mind being naked
I'm a child of 68
but the Scots still had me bottles
and I had to set that straight

One and twenty bottles
I bought in Inverness
And when the night is over
there'll be one and twenty less

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

Listen to me people
To this story’s tragic end
When I snuck back in the morning
not one bottle had they left
The bloody Scots had drunk them all
Yeah, that is what I said
And one was still there sleeping
with me Jocks upon his head!

A mass of beer, a sup of wine
O' whiskey, a wee dram
What you drink and when and where
No-one gives a damn.
But one thing that unites us all
underwear or not
The moment we begin to drink
we knock back all we've got!

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

One And Twenty Bottles

Walk in Wardrobe

Well their envy’s true guess they never knew
How much heartache someone could be going through
Could they misconstrue and look up to
The kind of man who’d end up doing this to you

Find a new way out of that walk in wardrobe
find a better way than the way that you came in 
You could lose yourself in that walk in wardrobe
or find yourself and quietly shed that skin

You're still put upon though the kids are gone
Can this ridiculous charade be fooling anyone
With the curtains drawn for the denouement
When it all adds up to less than you had counted on

Now you’re on your way to a brighter day
And all your pain and suffering just fades away
You don’t have to stay in this cabaret
Doesn’t even have to matter what the neighbours say


Find a new way out of that walk in wardrobe
find a better way than the way that you came in 
You could lose yourself in that walk in wardrobe
or find yourself and quietly shed that skin

For Mary, the girl next door.

Walk In Wardrobe

Swedish multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Johan Alm's solo project, Jambrains, is like a Kinder Surprise: you never know exactly what you are going to get but you know it's going to be tasty and expertly packaged. His music is a fusion of strong melodies and the power of guitars en masse with just a pinch of folk thrown in for good measure.

After paying his dues in numerous bands over the years, 2014 saw the birth of Jambrains as a vehicle for Johan to deliver what he calls "power with melody". "I had so many ideas and was writing so many songs but it was just too difficult to find the time to rehearse them with the band, let alone perform or record them. I had two choices - go solo or go insane", he explains.

At the beginning there was no well-defined Jambrains sound - guitars were always a key ingredient but doing lead vocals was new to Johan and style-wise, the songs were very diverse. Eventually a pattern emerged centred around the power and energy of classic rock with the melodies, harmonies and hooks of pop peppered with the ever-present undertow of folk.

The debut album '900 Days' was released in December 2016 and was well received. "It’s personal and fun, and always accompanied by amazing guitar", one review said.  "I wanted to sort of document the first 900 days of Jambrains, so I selected my 12 favorite songs and remixed/remastered them for the album", says Johan. '900 Days' is a perfect introduction to the evolution of the distinctive sound of Jambrains.

The follow up EP 'Life, Love & Lies' was released in September 2017. "This time I wanted more coherent material with regard to both songwriting and production", says Johan. Where the material for the first album was written and recorded over a period stretching over more than 2 years, 'Life, Love & Lies' was written and recorded over the course of 6 months and as a result, the second Jambrains release does sound tighter and more focused.

The third EP Faded Dreams was release in July 2018 and was well received. Johan is currently finalising the a fourth EP named Lost Horizons scheduled for the third quarter of 2019.