Heck yes. Fascinating lyrics, lovely psych production - charming beauty.

Yes I agree Janine, Phil is awesome. Lovely spending time on your cloud today. Thanks for the music :) 

nothing dull about this, Janine. Your bright vocal and piano ( tonally, emotionally & intellectually ) deliver a brilliant prism of imagery, a wonder to behold from any angle.

Recent Collaborations

March 19, 2021
https://thomassander1.bandcamp.com/

HALF AND HALF

The Illusion "My North Star" - Summit Saratoga 9.23.25 Drew.wav

Quickly written &  recorded - to celebrate my cubase is up and running* again after three weeks of errors. Thanks to all the kind help of microsoft support (Michael, Steve, and a few others) who were patient enough to help me check all possibilities,

Catroot reboot
system misunderstood.
Registry complexity, 
services, how can it be?

Trojan caught me, 
don't know where it was lurking
Security essentials,
Knowledgebase referentials.

Update, too late
Blue screen, bad dream
Forum admin, can't loose, can't win.

Endless circle, legacy expectancy
system in system
Catroot reboot

* keeping my fingers crossed, never know what hits you
Picture from Czech film 1963 -  Až přijde kocour - The Cassandra Cat - starring Emilie Vasáryová

Catroot reboot

Lyrics


Oh I need ya baby
Like the corn need the sun
I need you and you know
It’s true

Without you sunshine
I’d be so glum
It’d be all misery and heartbreak
Without you

And that smile
It lifts me up
It satisfies 
My restless soul

Oh God help me
When you prance and saunter
My poor heart beats so fast
I’m afraid it might falter 

When the good lord in heaven
Sat down to create you
The angles must have gathered around

To gaze in stunned wonder
At the beauty he sundered 
From this medium of flesh and bone

I can’t leave you alone
I’ve got no choice
There ain’t anything else
In this world that would do

I love you woman
And I ain’t no fool
I will not be parted
From this precious jewel

Oh I need ya baby
Like the corn need the sun
I need you and you know
It’s true

Without you sunshine
I’d be so glum
It’d be all misery and heartbreak
About you

And that smile
It lifts me up
It satisfies 
My restless soul

Oh God help me
When you prance and saunter
My poor heart beats so fast
I’m afraid it might stop

Free on Bandcamp

Sunshine

Huge thanks to these Valuable Friends:

Mrs J Levinson - Chorus Backing Vocals Choirmaster @janinelevinson
Mr R Medlock - Drums & Master of Rhythm Design @rick-4-1
Mr J Beckenstein - Guitar Solo Past Master @jonathan_beckenstein
Mr P McWalter - The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

The home-made shaker: Thanks to Meena Pathak for the glass jar and lentils.

KEEP SAFE

So you point out the sky
The beauty
The money
The jobs
Your dreams may have gone
But you show them the pictures
Painted
In the clouds
It’s hard to tell them
How much you love them
So you just ask them 
To keep safe

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

And loving them
Is loving yourself
Harder than expected
And hard to show
But sort of expected
And not easy
You want them to outrun you 
But you don’t want them to run too fast

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

Don’t miss the last bus
Don’t walk home alone
Saturdays we’d watch the football
We never really watched the football
I’m just imagining we had a better time
Than we did
I’m walking home alone now…

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

But they don’t see it at the time
You build a home
You build a hope
But something’s always going wrong
Going wrong
They don’t see it at the time
They don’t see it at the time


© April 2020 Phil McWalter

Keep Safe

Spotify

At the very beginning, there was nothing.
And then! You will hear life blossom in this immensity, these heartbeats that launch the cycle of possible life in the universe.
And then the big bang. that resonates again and again...

Made with MOOG Modular / Multi-tracks
 It's a hell of a piece and doing it on a MOOG Modular V (even in software version and without a "ready-made" sample) is a fantastic adventure and a hell of a job (first draft in 2007 and release in 2019), but I'm happy about it and if it pleases others... it's even better.

Creation Of The Universe

This shiny thing is what happens when you give a dull piano and vocal track to the very talented Phil McWalter.  I am a lucky person indeed!  

Everything But You Turns to Vapor
℗ Janine Levinson May 2020
with Phil McWalter @phil-mcwalter


first there's a dot      
and then there's a line 
that turns in to a piece of paper

next there's a box      
and then there's a moment
and what we know turns to vapor
it turns to  vapor

first there's a smile
and conversation
and every moment you savor

next there's a kiss
and then there's a baby
          
and what you know turns to vapor
it turns to vapor

nature turned a kiss to time
and 3D turned itself to four
time's got transformation power
and time couldn't make me love you more

yeah, there was a dot
then there was a line
and it turned into a little wager

a neat little box
a soldier of time 
and what we knew turned to vapor  
we turned to vapor

Everything  But You Turns To Vapor  (with Phil McWalter)

Featuring my Valuable Friends who kindly gave their hearts and remarkable skills to this project: Thank you!

@janinelevinson - The Mistral Vocals
@burn-it-smith - The Scirocco Piano and Aeolian Double Bass
@rick-4-1 - The Beaufort Scale Drums 
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Wuthering Stuff

Janine has recorded a wonderful stripped-down version too:
 www.soundcloud.com/janinelevinson/mr-Ps-bag-of-sunshine-mcwalter-cover-with-phil-mcwalter

Vodka and Caviar

I once flew across America
Just holding a balloon
Discovered a buried treasure chest
Full of gold doubloon 
I walked into a hurricane
And found myself back home
On a wild white stallion
Galloping through foam

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
Of vodka and caviar

I sold my soul to a friendly gecko
Who left it on the bar
I ate a bag of sunshine
That exploded in my car
I flew with the Egyptian gods
And travelled to the stars
And I dressed up like a carnival king
With glitter in glass jars

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
On vodka and caviar

Some days
Are better than others
Some nights I
Don’t bother…

It’s not the truth
Sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train

The walled-up dust on a jester’s laugh
For a cask of sherry wine
The smell of sugar cane in the heat
And a woman’s gaze divine
Float around my spinning head
A trail of petalled steps I said
Take me from the tower and sing
My songs around my bed
(Is he dead?)

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
On vodka and caviar
Vodka and caviar
On vodka and caviar

June 2020 Phil McWalter

Vodka and Caviar

Vodka And Caviar

@rick-4-1 The Perfect Drums
@janinelevinson The Dreamy Vocal Choir
@phil-mcwalter The Other Stuff

I was blown away by the beautiful contributions of these two Valuable Friends; Janine and Rick. How do they do it? Don't ask me...

Drift to this...



DON'T ASK ME

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Said don't ask me
'Cos I don't know

On my Roberts radio
On my Roberts radio

It never gets better alone
Oh no
It never gets better alone

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Why ask me
'Cos I don't know

Come in.. Come in... Come in...

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Said don't ask me
'Cos I don't know

On my Roberts radio
On my Roberts radio

It never gets better alone
Oh no
It never gets better alone
Never gets better

Don't ask me...
'Cos I don't know
Why ask me
'Cos I don't know

Don't ask me baby
I don't know I don't know I don't know

©Phil McWalter July 2020

Don't Ask Me Baby

Don't Ask Me

Garddwr Rhuddgoch (Instrumental)

The bare bones solo section from Natt Brus' Chemtrail Heaven....though it's a bit repetitive and boring without the stellar guitars of Admiral Krank and Vice Commandant Dubois. Inspired by Nic's original song parts that bookend this in the NB track. This is unmastered in every sense of the word.  https://soundcloud.com/natt_brus/chemtrail-heaven

Chemtrail Middlin

Lila 2

!!!PLAY IT LOUDER!!!

@janinelevinson on Soaring Vocals
@rick-4-1 on Pineapple Stealing Drums
@phil-mcwalter on The Other Stuff

SPREAD YOUR WINGS

I’ll give you a minute
Then maybe an hour
But I don’t like the look of you
Or your ivory tower
Are you a candidate?
You don’t smell of the street
The pavement don’t suit you
Trips up your feet

Spread your wings
If you don’t like the darkness
Spread your wings
And you’re afraid of the lights
You’re not safe in your nest
Take the plunge
It won’t hurt for long
Spread your wings

There’s rain in the forecast
There’s time in your eyes
Flags in the furlough
Waived by the wise
The church door was open
Granite and still
The boys went in
And the pigeon came out

I'll give you a minute
It won't hurt for long, oh no
I'll give you a minute

Spread your wings
If you don’t like the darkness
Spread your wings
And you’re afraid of the lights
You’re not safe in your nest
Take the plunge
It won’t hurt for long
Spread your wings

I’ll give you a minute
I’ll give you a minute
I’ll give you a minute
The pavement don’t suit you
The pavement don’t suit you
The pavement don’t suit you

© Phil McWalter Sept 2020

Spread Your Wings

A soundtrack I created to a youtube photo presentation by my Dad:
'Hamburg Altona 1999-2020' 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefxuTv3K10&t=357s
Mainly Prophet Rev 2 Synthesizer + some Korg Minilogue & MB 33 towards the end.

Altona

Huge thanks to my Valuable Friends who partied hard!

@janinelevinson - Dance invites and vocals
@rick-4-1 - Funkin' it up for the dance floor
@phil-mcwalter - Sausage rolls and other stuff


PARTY BACK AT MY HOUSE

Party back at my house
Party back at my house
Party back at my house
Everybody's gotta come!
'Cos you're wonderful
Ooh Lord, we think you're beautiful
And we wanna hear you talk
We wanna see you walk
We wanna hear you shout
Have fun
Back at my house

Party back at my house
There's a party!
Party back at my house
There's a party!
Party back at my house
Everybody's gotta come!
'Cos you're wonderful
Oh Lord, so beautiful
We wanna hear you talk
See you walk
Hear you shout
Have fun
Back at my house

"BE the party" (Theresa May)

"Let's just get wastey-pants" (Nicole 'Snooki')
"Wow! What a ride!" (Hunter S. Thompson)
"I wanna see you dance" (Janine Levinson)
"Party Sleep Repeat" (Rick Medlock)
"Remember when we could?" (Jack Nicholson)
"Is this a cocktail party?" (Jimi Hendrix)
"Is this my party?" (Phil McWalter)
"Hell yeah!" (Clarence Clemons)

© Phil McWalter Oct 2020
[Photo by Emma McWalter @emmam-7]

Party Back At My House

February 19. 2021
https://thomassander1.bandcamp.com/

WISPS

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

Everything But You Turns To Vapor (with Phil McWalter)

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