Relax

13 original songs and compositions, including two collaborations with Mark Dorricott,  designed to completely relax you in 44 minutes or less

With much aloha!

James

Copyright 2013 James Dean Claitor
all rights reserved

jamesdeanclaitor.com

Relax

Peaceful Piano

Jazz

"Fallen Angel"
"Repeat After Me"
Re-recorded vocals, sax and guitars at Studio Pros in Los Angeles
Sax instrumental by Saul Lubaroff / engineer James Edel, U of Iowa
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZR44jqNrCaOix19RQwjWT?si=r9jiYmXLSKCni524bKqj0w
Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor

Latest Tunes

Floating

New & hot: Folk & Singer-Songwriter

2019

Here's a collaboration with fellow soundclouder James Dean Claitor - you can find his cloud page here for more songs ( http://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor ) . It's James number and I've added brass and some keys, and mixed it up.

Big Brother - Collaboration with James Claitor

[now full track streaming]

Remix I did for Uruguayan producer Lechuga Zafiro. 

Isla de Flores is one of the streets of Montevideo (Uruguay Capital), where you can hear every week large drums ensembles (comparsas) playing CANDOMBE, the music from the slaves of Uruguay. It's a near cousin of brasilian samba. 
For that track, Lechuga Zafiro worked with Montevideo's most promising comparsa, CUAREIM 1080. 

My remix blends the rythm of candombe with 3ball guarachero patterns (electronic music from the north of Mexico)... here you go, Global Bass again !! ready for the club !! :) 



FREE EP !

Lechuga Zafiro - Isla de Flores (Rafael Aragon RMX)

Gaze

"Delirium"
Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
ASCAP member 
all rights reserved

Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/album/2o3z386lJDWcjsuNell6yC

Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/111156342

Tidal:
https://tidal.com/browse/album/117943088

Delirium

"Lovers Lament" (instrumental version)
Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
All rights reserved
ASCAP member

Recorded live  in Los Angeles, California USA
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ePbKVq8PijI22VnmLYb5n?si=MtQowdjfSWe6FEbHx1jYcA

Lovers Lament (Live Instrumental)

Lovers Lament (Instrumental Version)

“Lovers Lament”

When I said goodbye 
I didn’t mean to say goodbye
And now I don’t really know why 
Did we really mean to say 
goodbye?

There’s no reason
To leave everything undone 
When we might have just begun 
to feel what’s real 
what love’s lingering

Looking for a way to be in love again

Don’t give up
And turn away 
So far from me and what used to be
Remember what love could have been

Looking for a way to be in love again

Chorus:

A lovers lament
Was never meant 
To break us apart

It was just words spent carelessly 
Just when we started
To see what was going to be 

We quarreled about 
Who was right and wrong 
When we were both completely gone
Lost and afraid of losing our love
Afraid
Afraid of losing it all

Losing you 
Was never a plan
Losing love
Is something we can find again

Unless we try
And take some time
You and I might 
Mend our hearts
And live in love 
Be in love 
Be in love again 
again 

words that were spent 
Won’t be found or bought
bought back again

Chorus:

A lovers lament
Was never meant 
To break us apart

A lovers lament
Was never meant 
To break your heart
To break your heart

I hope you and I 
can forgive 
And forget

Remember 
how wonderful we once were
And not how it all came apart in the end
In the end
In the end

Chorus:

A lovers lament
Was never meant 
To break us apart

A lovers lament
Was never meant 
to break your heart
To break your heart

I always miss
Miss you my friend
I miss the touch 
of your skin

No I never meant to say
To say 
Goodbye

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
All rights reserved
October 1, 2019

Lovers Lament

“Floating” (formerly 3-6-9)

I’m wandering
Among the clouds
I hope that I 
Never come down

Because
When I’m resting 
In your arms
I feel like I’m floating
High In the sky

I’m wandering
Into your eyes
And wondering 
If I’ll ever touch ground

Because
I’m falling deeper and
Deeper in love
With every single moment that
You’re around

I’m wandering 
In thoughts 
Of you and I 

And wondering 
How our love 
Flys so high 

Way up
 in the blue
I’m breathless
When I’m with you

Like a bird
In the sky
Just us 
Together 
You and I 

Wandering
In the clouds
Floating
Up and up
Flying
To stars
Still going
Beyond the big blue sky

Wandering
Wondering 
Floating
Up so high

I’m wandering
Among the clouds
I hope that I 
Never, ever come down

Because
When I’m resting 
In your arms
I feel like I’m floating...

Words and music by James Dean Claitor
Vocals by Filip / Harmonies by Evan
Recorded in Los Angeles with live musicians October 22, 2019
Piano rendition written by James Dean Claitor
Piano performance by Kinny Landrum
Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
All rights reserved

"Floating"

Studio version
Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
ASCAP member
All rights reserved

Floating studio version2

"Floating" instrumental version

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor

Floating Instrumental version

A quickly made little cover of Leonard Cohen

One of us cannot be wrong

Lyrics:
You look so nice in your new shirt
Never seen you in that colour before
And I never knew why I felt so safe to cry
You made me feel better in the sad times

Oh but you, did you read my letter?
Or did the rain blur out the letters?
Is that why you haven’t written back?
Oh because you, you made me feel like theres something that just might bloom into a flower with us

Painted my nails red and cut off my split ends
You said its nice to see me again, then asked me how I’ve been
But you look so nice in your new shirt
Never seen you in that colour, maybe its from her

Oh but you, did you read my letter?
Or did the rain blur out the letters?
Is that why you haven’t written back?
Oh because you, you made me feel like that our something that just might, bloom into a flower with us

Oh but you, did you read my letter?
Or did the rain blur out the letters?
Is that why you haven’t written back?
Oh because you, you made me realize that our something that ‘just might’ bloom into a flower withered.

new shirt (demo/the  3am version)

This song is an ode to love; those beautiful, magical moments of pure joy and elation that come along with it, as well as the heartbreak that often follows.  <3 It's a testament to how allowing yourself to feel from the depth of your heart can bring so much into your life.  

Thank you to Guillaume Oger for recording this song for me, and for adding so much more to it with your amazing voice, guitar, creative direction and energy.

Jessica O'Brien Falla:  Vocals, Ukulele
Guillaume Oger:  Back-up vocals, Guitar, Production
Love:  My inspiration!
Lago Atitlán: Las olas!✨

Falling Mangoes

This song is an ode to love; those beautiful, magical moments of pure joy and elation that come along with it, as well as the heartbreak that often follows.  <3 It's a testament to how allowing yourself to feel from the depth of your heart can bring so much into your life.

Thank you to Guillaume Oger for recording this song for me, and for adding so much more to it with your amazing voice, guitar, creative direction and energy.

Jessica O'Brien Falla: Vocals, Ukulele
Guillaume Oger: Back-up vocals, Production
Love: My inspiration!
Lake Atitlán: Las olas!✨

Falling Mangoes Acoustic

Inspired by this booklet: https://maranathamedia.com/book/view/original-love

Aso-Dreamer

I been thinking where we been
Adam what were you thinking
What kind of love were you feeling
In that moment you saw Eve

Adam I see you there
You were taking care of the garden 
Sweet communion with our maker
He knew you and said
“it’s not good that man should be alone, I will make him a help meet for him”
You first named all the animals
And what you think

Some run fast and some sing songs
Some wake at night some want to roam
We all here sharing a home
But what animal understands me?
Is there somebody here for me?

You feel asleep 
and God took your rib
Made the women
You saw her and and what did you say:

this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, therefore man shall cleave to his wife and become one flesh

You were happy there
The angels sang of joy
Praise all day
But one day your wife wandered away
Eve, mother, where were you going? Why hang around there?

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, 

Now Eve comes back to her husband
Something’s changed
(love at first sight)
Now has becoming something not right

and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat

When Adam Saw Eve (Feat Sannah)

"Mercedes Man"

Mercedes Man
Reads the Wall Street Journal
See his sandals
He looks eternal
Mercedes Man's got three fast friends 
Money
Love and
Mercedes Benz

High class girls
Always count the cost 
Moving fast

But they all get lost
In his exhaust
And never last

Hey, take a number
For your personal chance 
To be the Queen
Of his true romance

Mercedes Man's got three fast friends 
Money
Love and
Mercedes Benz

Mercedes Man's got artistic ways 
But it's all just a game he plays 
Say you're in the market
Ready to ride
Operate the handle and 
Spin inside

That three point star in front of his car
can lift you up
He can free your mind 
From the daily grind and pick you up
His bottom line defines 
Life on Earth
Your new self worth will be 
His universe

Mercedes Man's got three fast friends 
Money
Love and
Mercedes Benz

Mercedes Man
Deals in risky stocks
See the bankers
Shaking in their socks 
Mercedes Man
Always in the news 
Mercedes Man
And he never gets the blues

People on the street
See the world at his feet
And they want inside
But no one seems to care 
How they make it up there 
They'll steal and lie
God you don't have to wonder 
What money can do
Or when it's time
Who will rescue you

Mercedes Man 
Mercedes Man

solo

Mercedes Man's got three fast friends 
Money
Love and
Mercedes Benz
Money Love and it
Never ends 
Money Love and it 
Never ends

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor and Burton Milward, Jr. 
Recorded at Studio Pros, Los Angeles
Vocals by Alice
Harmonica solo by Marty Howe

Mercedes Man 2019 MIX 1

RAIN

￼I was looking for a needle in a haystack 
I might still find it or not
Maybe not 
Hold on
Wait a minute
Let me think this over 
Maybe I’ll try loving you a lot

When we’re looking for love
That will last forever 
Searching long and hard
Maybe now is the time to love
The moment right now

When we’re looking for a rainbow of perfection
And only find a tiny drop
Why not love what’s falling to you 
Falling from above 

With the Earth below you
And the sky high above
Why not love what’s all around you
You know it all so well

Send down your love
Like the falling rain

Send down your love
Like the falling rain

(Musical interlude)

Send down your love 
Like the falling rain

Send down your love
Like the falling rain

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor 
Words and music by James Dean Claitor
ASCAP member

Keys: Mark
Electric Piano and Bass: Jim
Vocal: Filip
Harmonies: Evan

Rain

Rain (Instrumental version)
Music by James Dean Claitor and Robert K. Landrum

Keyboards and bass by Kinny Landrum
Flute by Marty Howe 

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor and Robert K. Landrum

Rain (Instrumental Version)

TU CHE SEI LA NOSTRA STORIA

"Little Bit of Love"
Words and music by james dean claitor

I remember somebody asking where
Where he’s gone to
But I didn’t want to answer them that I didn’t know 
But the question still remains in my mind though 
Where did our love go
Where did it go?
Everybody’s got their own ideas, their own answers 
What you you want to believe is yours
There ain’t no right or wrong
But what you do is going to come back on you 
Sometime
What you say
What you do
Is going to come back on you 
Before long
Give a little bit of love 
Get a little bit
Give a little bit
of love
Give a little bit 
Get a little bit Every day
hey hey, you’re going to need some love 
Sooner or later
why not give a little bit now
A little smile
you know It’s not that hard, no 
To give a little
To get a little love
Got to love a little bit every day
Even though sometimes you might not feel that way 
Give a little
Get a little bit of love
Every day every day every day
Give a little love 
Get a little love 
Every day
Give a little love 
Get a bit

 Give a little bit 
Get a little bit 
Every day
Give a little love and
Get a little love
Try to brighten up somebody’s day
Give a little love and 
Get a little love 
Every day
—— start fade ——
Give a little love 
Get a little love
in return 
Every day
Give a little love 
Get a little love 
Every day
(repeat to fade)

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
ASCAP member
Vocals: Alice
Background vocals: Alice

Little Bit of Love MIX 1

Little Bit Of Love MIX 1

"Figment 4"
music by JDC
saxophone: Saul Lubaroff 

Copyright 2020 James Dean Claitor

Figment 4

"Little Bit of Love"
by James Dean Claitor

I remember somebody asking where
Where she’s gone to
But I didn’t want to answer them that I didn’t know 
But the question still remains in my mind though 
Where did our love go
Where did it go?
Everybody’s got their own ideas, their own answers 
What you you want to believe is yours
There ain’t no right or wrong
But what you do is going to come back on you 
Sometime
What you say
What you do
Is going to come back on you 
Before long
Give a little bit of love 
Get a little bit
Give a little bit
of love
Give a little bit 
Get a little bit Every day
hey hey, you’re going to need some love 
Sooner or later
why not give a little bit now
A little smile
you know It’s not that hard, no 
To give a little
To get a little love
Got to love a little bit every day
Even though sometimes you might not feel that way 
Give a little
Get a little bit of love
Every day every day every day
Give a little love 
Get a little love 
Every day
Give a little love 
Get a bit

 Give a little bit 
Get a little bit 
Every day
Give a little love and
Get a little love
Try to brighten up somebody’s day
Give a little love and 
Get a little love 
Every day
—— start fade ——
Give a little love 
Get a little love
in return 
Every day
Give a little love 
Get a little love 
Every day
(repeat to fade)

Copyright 2019 James Dean Claitor
Vocals: Filip
Backing vocals: Alice

Little Bit of Love MIX 2

Little Bit Of Love MIX 2

"Little Bit of Love"
Words and music by James Dean Claitor
Instrumental version
Saxophone: Saul Lubaroff 
Copyright 2020 James Dean Claitor

Little Bit of Love MIX 3

Little Bit Of Love MIX 3

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Theatrical Choices

Traces

Onthou

Sea Change

singer / songwriter / screenwriter
From Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lives in Sharon, Connecticut
SoundCloud is wonderful!
Thank all of you :)
Love,
James

Spotify:

https://artists.spotify.com/c/artist/4bQxFXtXVxKZ9vrPWshUpJ/profile

Collaborations:

"Gustavo"
Featuring Michel Martineau on clarinet
https://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor/gustavo-feat-michel-martineau

"Buongiorno Baby"
Featuring Dave Panico on saxophone and Grant Jolly on drums
https://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor/buongiorno-baby-feat-dave?in=james-dean-claitor/sets/pseudonyms

"Second Chance" with Michel Martineau
https://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor/second-chance-collaboration

"Big Brother" with Mark Dorricott

https://soundcloud.com/markd54321/big-brother-collaboration-with
Original version:
https://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor/big-brother

"Star Fleet" with Mark Dorricott

Collaboration version:
https://soundcloud.com/james-dean-claitor/sf-mix-for-james
Original version:
https://soundcloud.com/markd54321/416-star-fleet