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Love Someone (9 Theory Magical Mystery Mix)

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Love Someone

Love Someone (9 Theory Magical Mystery Mix)

We know this one may provoke strong reactions, and that’s exactly why we’d love to hear yours. Does it resonate, frustrate, challenge, or unsettle you? Please leave a comment and share your thoughts - conversation is part of what this song is here to start.

This song is born out of that familiar, gut-twisting feeling of absorbing too much bad news - when statistics lose their meaning, empathy gets overwhelmed, and the human cost becomes impossible to process. It wrestles openly with contradiction: compassion alongside cruelty, love for animals beside violence toward them, the desire to be good in a world that often rewards indifference. Angry, uneasy, and uncomfortably self-aware, this track doesn’t offer easy answers - it holds up a mirror and asks us to sit with what we see.

Lately,
.....hearing the news
..........makes me feel like
I'm chewing a wasp.
I try to calculate
.....the human cost,
..........how many lives have been lost.
But the non-stop numbers
go beyond all human understanding.
I find I'm landing on
.....impossible squares.
There seems to be nowhere
.....on this cruel planet
where there isn't a human gannet
being rude, stealing your food.
The wars of survival
.....are relentless.
And I'm trying to be good.
I'm trying to be a good person.
But it seems I make matters worse.
I get cursed when I protest
.....about the bad things we do.
Nobody wants to be reminded
.....how horribly unkind they are.

*

They love cats.
.....They love dogs.
..........They love eating cows,
love spit-roasting hogs.
The contradictions
.....make fictions of their loves.
.....Our horses
are seldom made main courses.
Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

*

Lately,
.....hearing the news
..........makes me feel like
I'm chewing a wasp.
I try to calculate
.....the human cost,
..........how many lives have been lost.
But the non-stop numbers
go beyond all human understanding.
I find I'm landing on
.....impossible squares.
There seems to be nowhere
.....on this cruel planet
where there isn't a human gannet
being rude, stealing your food.
The wars of survival
.....are relentless.
And I'm trying to be good.
I'm trying to be a good person.
But it seems I make matters worse.
I get cursed when I protest
.....about the bad things we do.
Nobody wants to be reminded
.....how horribly unkind they are.

*

They love cats.
.....They love dogs.
..........They love eating cows,
love spit-roasting hogs.
The contradictions
.....make fictions of their loves.
.....Our horses
are seldom made main courses.
Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

*

Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

It's a fat fact.
.....It's a factual fact.
..........It's a fat factual fact.

Most of us are hawks.
We could never ever be doves.
We cover things up.
We bury the inconvenient facts.

NON-STOP NUMBERS

Set over the course of a single wedding in the English countryside, this album isn’t about the couple getting married — it’s about everyone else.

Through arrivals, reunions, rituals, speeches, dances, late nights and quiet departures, the songs trace what happens around a wedding: old friendships resurfacing, new ones forming by accident, belief briefly working even for the unconvinced, and the subtle realisation that some relationships change simply because time has passed.

Nothing dramatic happens.
Nobody’s life is overturned.
But by the time the last song fades, something has shifted.

This is an album about thresholds — the ones we cross deliberately, and the ones we notice only after we’ve crossed them.

You might also like:
The city shrinks (Indie-ska break up album): 
https://soundcloud.com/quantumme/sets/the-city-shrinks
What if I won't? (album about the moment of almost making a big change)
https://soundcloud.com/quantumme/sets/what-if-i-wont
Sofa, Kids, Alan Watts
https://soundcloud.com/quantumme/sets/sofa-kids-alan-watts
Is it love songs (mainly chill)
https://soundcloud.com/quantumme/sets/love-songs

first dance, on second thoughts

This tracks celebrates the festive season around the world from many nationalities, customs and beliefs.  Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea,  US, Egypt, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Japan, German.

I'm on the G Major scale, 100 to 160 bpm.  I went heavy with a fusion of eastern traditional instruments -I focused Japanese, Korean and Chinese instruments.  I'm hoping to get traditional Filipino instruments, Vietnamese and Indonesian into the mix one day.  Vietnam, Indonesia - amazing music, people, instruments - it really is an amazing world with so many talented people and wonderful beats.

The instrument mix I was playing with (.. and which I've used in various experimental tracks recently) included:

- guzheng (Chinese zither) with koto (Japanese zither) for cascading melodic layers; 
- erhu (Chinese fiddle) with haegeum (Korean fiddle) for expressive string harmonies; 
- dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) with shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) for breathy, ethereal winds; 
- pipa (Chinese lute) with gayageum (Korean zither) for rhythmic plucking accents; 
- sheng (Chinese mouth organ) with piri (Korean oboe) for reedy, celebratory sustains;
- suona (Chinese horn) with taiko (Japanese drum) for bold, percussive fanfares.), 

With a smaller mix of western instruments such as: 
- tuba, bass-cello, alto-flute harp, jingle-bells.

I'll get more into western mixes at some point - maybe looking at groups of instruments like the wind instruments - the alto-flute, flute, piccolo or perhaps strings such as bass-cello, cello, and violin and the harp.

In fusion mixes they actually work great with eastern, traditional instruments.

Happy holiday's everyone!, thank-you so much for your support (likes, shares, comments, follows..).

Everywhere

Jason Mraz

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