A superb collab ... enjoying both the keys and the strings.  Nicely done, gents!!

Sweet vibes !! Early happy new year to you both !!

And still got the Blues😊..again a nice Jam, Jamie!😷👋

Here cones 2021

New fun little music video!!! 
https://www.facebook.com/marquis.zane/videos/vb.100000277086729/1592964177389470/?type=2&theater

It is spring! Time to have fun and party and dance! 

Big thanks to Adam story for reaching out to get this project started! Another big thanks to Styrmonix and Jaime for accepting my invitation to the party and bringing such great vibes! 

And of course, thanks to the wizard of shoes for another fine final mastering! 

Guitars, Bass, Keyboard: Adam Story
https://soundcloud.com/adam_story
Trumpet: Styrmonix 
https://soundcloud.com/styrmonix
Vocals and Lyrics: Jaime J Ross
https://soundcloud.com/jaime0223
Production, Vocals, Lyrics: The Couch King 

Lyrics:

This be the jam for your artisanal toast 
This be the butter from your host with the most
This here the first that makes your rump roast 
From Columbus Ohio down to the west coast 
This be the wings that make that shit fly
This here the joint that gets you all high
This be the fish sauce to make my eats Thai
Gonna get you all moving make them old bones spry 
I went down town and met a girl from uptown
Shaking her booty like treasure to be found
Doing the whop and that old Charlie brown
Gonna make that rain fall and raise the crops from the ground 

We gonna call that thunder
We gonna shake the night 
We gonna ride that lightning 
To the ground and make it strike
We gonna call that thunder 
We gonna make it rain tonight 

This be the one that goes straight to the top 
This be that bubbly that makes a song pop
This be what's hip to add spring to your hop
These here the moves that make them drawls drop
I went down town again the very next week
Looking for a honey so I guess I better seek
Cast my stones to the ground you could here the floor creek
She did the cabbage patch and then she did the freak

We gonna call that thunder
We gonna shake the night 
We gonna ride that lightning 
To the ground and make it strike
We gonna call that thunder
We gonna make ya'll clap
We gonna strike that lightning 
We gonna bring that 88 back
We gonna call that thunder 
We gonna make it rain tonight 

So you came downtown just to watch me dance
Hoping to meet me you may have a chance
My magic I'm working' and you can be sure
I'm more than a dancer…so much more
And if you be lucky and if you be true
Maybe I'll spend some minutes with you
Cause you found your way here
And here you shall be
Watching a dancer looking at me

This be that funk that shake the junk in your trunk
This here so phat it go gadunkadunkdunk
This track be so dope you'll be calling it skunk
Gonna get you to the party make a drunk monk crunk
I went downtown to the festival to play
Met a girl form uptown with a cowrie shell bouquet 
Dancing to the ana drums to make her sorrows go away
She put me in a trance and danced 'till the break-a-day

We gonna call that thunder
We gonna shake the night 
We gonna ride that lightning 
To the ground and make it strike
We gonna call that thunder 
We gonna make it rain tonight

Video

Adam Story and the Couch King with Styrmonix and Jaime J Ross - Thunder (extended  '88 party mix)

Needed a little blues to get me back in the swing of it.

Return Ticket Blues

Amy Winehouse & Manu Chao - Rehab   Bongo Bong Remix

LYRICS BELOW (click "Show more")
When I wrote this duet, I had Amanda Sanderson's distinctively beautiful voice in mind. The song itself is an outgrowth or continuation of a poetry collection I published a few years ago, "The Book of Arabella."
Both the song and the poems are about a mysterious, otherworldly woman, Arabella, who feels trapped in a marriage, trapped in fact in her human body.
Here's a link to that poetry collection for the curious:
https://www.library.wisc.edu/parallelpress/pp-catalog/poetry-series/2014-2/the-book-of-arabella/
(...and yes, that is actually our cat in the photo on the big clock above the piano)
Instruments used:
All three guitar tracks played on my Gretsch 5622T
plus Fender (Squier) Jaguar SS bass
Angel chorus sung by angels...well, actually Alchemy synth
Amanda's SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/phoebeelena
Recorded in Logic Pro using hardware tube preamps and compressors.

***Cat on a Clock***
(Words & music by Timothy Walsh)
Verse 1 (Him)
You come softly down the stairs into my waiting arms.
Hand you coffee, touch your hair…it seems that you’re not there.
I don’t say it but I know, on this special day,
your body’s here with me, but you’re a million miles away.
I don’t say it—I don’t want to tell no one—
You’re going nowhere but you’re always on the run.

Verse 2 (Arabella)
Morning comes, I stretch in bed, see the sun come through the blinds.
Hear you in the kitchen there, smell the coffee so divine.
I rub my eyes, decide if I can slide into this day,
or maybe spread my wings and softly fly away.
I don’t know why I’m so restless in this world.
It’s like I’m from some country where I can’t return.

CHORUS:
You’re like a cat upon a clock sleeping in the sun,
whiling away your time on earth until our day is done.
Just like a cat upon a clock dreaming through the day
while the world outside goes on and softly spins away.

Verse 3 (Him)
Twilight comes and I see you in the garden where
the cedars and the pines are your sisters in the sky.
You walk out among the herbs, barefoot on the bricks,
smell the chervil and the thyme that never ask you why.
You’re so lost to me I don’t know what I’ll do.
I’m so in love with every single thing you do.

Verse 4 (Arabella)
Some days I wish that I could go flying through the sky—
spread my wings just like a crow and take off with a sigh.
Somewhere beyond the moon, I think I’ll find my home,
far away from this earth and this house of flesh and bone.
I’m not angry, I just don’t know how to say
I’m a creature not like you in any way.

CHORUS (sung twice)

Cat on a Clock

Download

Cat On A Clock (early demo mix)

Windmill

The Fear Of Unacceptance

This is about being afraid to be yourself for the want to fit in.  It is in 5/4 time.


Lyrics;
I'm unprepared for change
But I can't stem the tide
There's a crack in my foundation
Waiting for the pain

My thoughts begin to slide
Can't avoid the situation
Tumble through the quake
I am feeling so unstable

With a future so uncertain
The old me takes a bow
At the finish of a fable
But not before they drop the curtain

And I can hear the audience
Stirring in their chairs
Hoping for applause
Feeling nothing but despair

And out the door I go
Nothing out here seems the same
A brand new world is there to greet me
But I've nothing new to show

Can I even play this game
I cannot fit if I just be me
And I can hear the audience
Stirring in their chairs

Hoping for applause
Feeling nothing but despair

The Fear Of Unacceptance

Kelen Helvetia -  Rain On Your Parade Cover (Duffy)

Tazu

I've written several songs on the theme of lost love. Some on this cloud are: 'Open Heart', 'The Space Between Us', and 'If Love...' 
Here are another couple of songs on that theme.

Night Room (Brian Peters) 

Oh the night has a room for me 
Between the dream and the memory 
I was in the sun 
But I lost someone 
Now the moon is my company 

Book of Books (Brian Peters) 

We walked together 
We became one 
Roses and heather
Flowers in the sun 
Flowing with no backward looks 
We wrote our first words 
In the Book of Books 

Looking for changes 
And opening doors 
Following strangers 
To some foreign shores 
Nesting in our northern nook
We were writing out lines 
In the Book of Books 

But God is righteous 
And God is just 
My spirit rises 
But yield I must 
With one hand He gave 
With the other He took 
We turned another page 
In the Book of Books 

Now I'm alone 
In the middle of the night 
We'll meet in heaven 
Where there is no man and wife 
Before the Living Brook
Writing our final chapter 
In the Book of Books

Night Room • Book Of Books

A privilege to work again with the supremely talented Gary Rees.
@gary-rees-since-87

Tribrid Vamp  -  WBE | Gary Rees

Original composition, mix and mastering by Teth Sin @teth-sin : guitars,
bass, bağlama, samplers, lyrics, vocals, final vocal arrangement/mix

Mariam Zohra D / Myrh : Lyrics, vocals & their pre-mix, cover design

Photo by My Ti

On the musical side, this is basically the summary of a funky nightmare.
Teth Sin's lyrics represent an attempt of applying
electronic poetry to digitally crafted music: its starting point
consisted in extrapolating a few random sentences from an English
translation of the novel "Morel's Invention" by the Argentinian novelist
Adolfo Bioy Casares, subsequently randomizing the words order with an
old, discontinued software for Mac OS9. The resulting untidy text has
been eventually reorganized in sentences and verses, partially
influenced by a rational effort. This ostensible delirium possibly
conceals some hazy remarks on contemporary lifetime and/or today's
so-called "music industry". Of course, multiple interpretations are
allowed and encouraged.

As Teth's process of producing lyrics 'cuts through it all' you might say, 
Myrh highlights that strategy, singing "I'm just gonna walk right through"
coupled with attitudinal lines of "well, well now, ooooo well now!" :D

LYRICS:

walk right through
hey
walk right through
i’m just gonna walk right through
oh well
hey

In this hole of suffering our crushed flowers (to the left)
sound like sleeping deserts made out of steel. (to the right)
Your round, intense phonograph (- let me just walk - of me)
cannot believe in my constant insomnia. (oh well)

We control the resounding island from our blatant spot,
until the ground will open its greedy mouth.

Why does time speak louder than my nerves? (oh well)
An intruder sun kneels on the mud of repetition. (oh)
Pain parties continue as my monologue flows, (oh)
sparkling inside your amazing asylum.

A hard travel we had in our dead dream,
listening to your infernal gong.

Partly insane peers, polluted with lethargy,
chose to be heard in their childish garden.
Recalling a chance of immortality, I slowly noticed
an improper capacity of perceiving the last trembling sunrise. (easy, easy!)

well well well
oh! hey!
mm hmm, well now!
well, well

Is my unjustified air replying already? (well well now)
My second sky is constantly scared.

Strange trampled waters repeat their swaying escape (oh, to the left)
and speak of things happening in my mutilated nightmare. (to the right)
An invisible madness kept vocalizing (oh oh oh well)
and made our distress larger than reality.

iamma just walk right through
well well now!
walk right through
now!
i’m just gonna walk right through
well well now!
ooo well!

Larger Than Reality

Teth Sin f. Myrh | Larger Than Reality

Nuthin' but nylon on this one; a Kala bari uke joined by a Cordoba six-string

Flick Of The Wrist

Wherever you are, this one's for you.
Thanks for the inspiration 🖤

For Her

Mark DeVries - Bass, Rhythm, Lead Guitars
Dr. Luka Janszen - Lead Guitar & Rhythm Guitar 
Mike Walker - Words 
Paul Janszen - Drums, Backing Vocals & All Mixing & Mastering

That's what I know so far....
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@pau-14
@user-102126447

Ten Years  After - Half Blind Lucy

Tom Adams is back with some screaming blues on our original, It's Almost The New Year!  We've all got a lot of reasons to look forward to 2021, though we know it will continue to be extremely challenging.  Tom fits in like a fine glove here, adding his always great blues guitar work.  Follow his extensive gallery of originals and check out too our playlist of recordings together:
https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

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

It's Almost The New Year! - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

again a fabulous open collab by Paul Racle: https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/funky-space-paploviante-open-collab & a big fun to jam this ! I had 3 sax improvisations, and could not decide, which to release - so, here's the first one :-)) ... Paul is amazing ! So I hope, I did not spoil his track too much ;-) ... improvisation in one go with all dents and scratches - that's life .......

funky space / open collab by Paploviante / sax remix

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

It's Almost The New Year! - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

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