Stunning. My comments on "40 Days" apply to this just the same.

top quality song writing, dig the theme of bonds undone, love the western american outlaw sound, this is top quality excellence!

Great sound and production! Luv it. Cheers, Tim

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5 words still ring in my ears:
“You’re now the state’s enemy!”
I feel like I am on trial
For crimes that I could not see

But I know that I’ll be strong 
But I can’t seem to get past
All the things that were said
Slipped my mind so fast 
But I know that I’ll be strong

Burn
Burn
I can’t burn
No burn

It’s like war has been declared
On those not wanting to fight
Because they’ve run out of blame
And they have failed to take flight

But I know that I’ll be strong 
But I can’t seem to get past
All the things that were said
Slipped my mind so fast 
But I know that I’ll be strong

Burn
Burn
I can’t burn
No burn

Burn
Burn
I can’t burn
No burn

Burn

bring me back

Another one from previous century cassette !
Hope you enjoy the song despite the lo-fi sound 

I wrote the song, sang and played it 
Nataly NGM made the ideal artwork 🧡🩵

Gotta Get Out Of It - Bruno C

I'm sorry y'all--this is another downer of a song with preachy lyrics but it's an idea that came up and demanded to be completed. 

The only side I take is the human one, but I couldn't have more contempt for the ostensible leaders of both Gaza and Israel who seek their own interests at the cost of so much suffering among innocents. Nothing good comes out of "Let's go kill some people."



You Let This Happen

have you understood that this is the final warning call
abandon hope all those that linger here

you lived the diamond life and could not lend your ears
and now the sand is wet with blood beyond our wildest fears 
how could you let this happen here

we plant the seeds of death beside the seeds of life 
so they can pay the price and have the will to fight

the bloodied face that no one could identify
now here's the news that was a mother's precious baby
how could you let this happen here

so how do you think this story ends
when it begins with the death of innocents
another thousand years of war is in the cards
another generation with daggers in their hearts

and you let it happen

You Let This Happen

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/5FsPCoQ2Y9Z0OuG5kWDxDs?si=c03ccc558021498a
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUxKzif8IKI
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/konrad-spittelberg/yearning

Yearning. The pain when you long for something and yet can't get it. When periods of depression and self-immersion are interrupted by outbursts of hearfelt desire and longing, only to collapse into themselves again. And yet, excruciating as this bittersweet state of mind is, the heart nevertheless seems to also derive pleasure from it.

Compositionwise: 
The track is of the form Intro (@0:00) - Main1 (@0:33) - Main2 (@1:29) - Diversion (@2:19) - Main3(@2:53) - Outro (@3:17)
Overall, the track lives from its sequence of low-energy parts and muffled outbursts. Over time, the track increases in intensity, in two ways: First, its speed increases from the Intro in the Mid 60s to the Low 70s lateron. Moreoever, the melodical intensity of the variations gets increasingly dense (see below) 

The track starts with a low-paced introspect Intro where the left melody line goes up and the right hand down. This contraction in the used space of tones resembles the seclusion of the proponent of our story. The desparation is underlined by sudden crescendos and abrupt falling back into pian(issim)o. This effect is held up throughout the remainder of the track. The left hand in the Intro follows a low-paced half note beat. The right hand first introduces the lead theme that is later varied in the parts (M, M', M'') but then modulates in a unique way that is not repeated throughout the track again.
@ 0:33, the Intro is over and the first of the main parts, Main1, starts. The left hand increases its intensity from here on throughout the track by switching to quarters instead of halfs. The lead theme is modulated with more energy (and will be ever more intense in the later variations of Main). After that, the track goes @0:57 into a series of outbursts and resignations. This series is repeated in Main2 @1:57 in more intensity and a chord inversion higher.
The Diversion is characterised by chord inversions that gently fall down, just like rain that pours down that window that our protagonist stares through. And then reaches the biggest outburst of the whole track.
Finally, after Main3, which includes the most intense version of the lead theme and harmonically altered variation, the piece finishes with a questioning yet pieceful end.

In mastering the piece, after MIDI editing, one of the challenges was to find the right balance between the plaintive metallic overtone-rich outbursts versus a rich and full sound for the resignative parts. I chose the Pianoteq Warm Peterov Mistral (with some minor tweaks) as the piano. On this, I used three basic Cubase-inate effects: (1) some light-touch EQ (a scaled-downversion of Basic Piano), (2) compression (Ratio of 1.8) and (3) Reverb (the Cubase-equivalent of the Goldener Musikvereinssaal in Vienna of course :-)). The mix has been balanced at -1db to allow enough headroom for the streaming services' normalization magic to happen ;-).

Yearning (Piano Miniature)

breathe to some ambient, ethereal jazz from the jh0st archives. (originally released 1986)

more info:
www.jh0st.com/animus/

Animus

Dance of the Nymphs

Dance Of The Nymphs (Animus 1986)

Don't Buy Anything Today

23 7 12

12 string drones and soprano saxophone narrate a story of a friend that was once was a brother... but the bonds have come undone.
http://www.jh0st.com/stones-throw-bromance-vs-blood-brother/
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did you know? my sleep is blind 
six years have mocked my only visions. 
i will keep your wounded voices with me 
instead of keeping your beliefs like a thousand lies. 

(i can't believe that you love this blood) 

i will keep your blindness here with me 
visions come to fill the room until i sleep 
now you know: it's only a stone's throw 
for a blood brother who's gone blind... 

did you weep? when your mother kept you away, 
instead of smashing your beliefs with a single kiss 
so will you keep her always blind? 
sliver gift for you to lose. 

(carry this vessel and love this blood) 

so will you keep her always blind? 
instead of smashing your beliefs with a single word 
now you know: it's only a stone's throw 
for a blood brother who's gone blind.

Buy on Bandcamp

stone's throw (1993)

indie bossa-nova: light on your feet, heavy on your heart

more info: http://www.jh0st.com/aerochute/
music video: https://youtu.be/xZASRIKmpNo
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AEROCHUTE 

faster than faster her, 
flyer than higher, you can shake down an airplane fly girl... 
when you move i don’t even have eyes just to know i see you. 

harder and further her, 
no parachute can prove it 
take a leap of faith love. 
all i know, it's you who's brave enough to be afraid now. 

will catch you when you fall after all 
mended wings bring your heart to mine. 
(faster, higher, further faster) 

lighter than arrows her, 
shall we keep flying over faces and places we know? 
or strip bare unclothe those words that sting even when not spoken. 

falling forever friend, 
The clouds’ll catch us 
not a broken bone will scratch us! 
cheating death for now hold hands while i take the fall when we land. 

will catch you when you fly suicide 
mended wings bring your heart to mine. 

-- 
album artwork: jin-suk.com

aerochute [video in description]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM_i_HijPWQ
an innocent song about one's pet usually is about something much more... bossanova electro for your breaking heart...
read more at: http://www.jh0st.com/mussi/

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MUSSI

a stone and a stick
stone wind on a plane
i know you want to:
change your fate as black as slate to want to go

to play and to pray
and go fly away
catch a leg inside a claw a yawn to beg

what if I turn grey?
you ask of the day
sailing on a pin:
fortune and a fly distract a scratch and as for me

and when your soft palms
come down on the rain
nails pulling a:
part the bark the tree the ghost the half moon

"all too true I sleep half the day
come full moon I'll watch over your breaking heart and wait...
even as you fall into snores
chasing dreams on the edge of your haunted love contours”

...a stone and a stick
a rib and a bone
whisker whisper

“even though i sleep half the day,
come full moon I'll watch over the way to wake you soon
even as I fall into purrs,
keeping one ear in tune to the wondering of you”

a rib and a bone
like water and stone
you can't deceive:
kiss me then to calm the sad unsaid

whisker whisper
crowding the bed
kick to the head:
find me when i count to ten!

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from n0va, released February 11, 2016
artwork by Jin Suk
jin-suk.com

aerochute

11 Feb 2016

mussi [video in description]

at the intersection of melancholy and cute... a song about tentative beginnings.

music video: https://youtu.be/e0STrjdTpO8
more info at: http://www.jh0st.com/starfish-lips/
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Starfish Lips (translated from Korean) 

Looking at the sea 
to see the sky 
Our hands, like two starfish 
How cute they are, you said 
That these pink stars try so hard to live 
"Starfish Lips" 

My lips are also clumsy 
But in a different way than a child 
The same things we understand… 
The things that we teach, we also learn 
"Starfish Lips" 

The reason I'm so quiet 
Is not because I have no words 
It's like English to a fish… 
My heart is too full 

You said they looked 
Like little pink children 
and you too are a star... 
"Starfish Lips" 

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Starfish Lips (Korean lyrics) 

하늘별보고 바다 보면서 
두마리 불가사리 우리손 
열심히 살려고 하니까 
분홍색 별 귀엽다고 
"Starfish lips" 

내입술도 서툴러 
어린애완 다르지만 
이해하는 똑같은 
가르침 배운다 
"Starfish lips" 

조용한 이유 말없다아니라 
영어 붕어 가슴 가득차니까 
분홍색 아이 것 같다고 
너도 별이다 
"Starfish lips"

n0va

starfish lips

starfish lips [video in description]

Here's my original track I made after a long long time...
dedicated to the loners who had envisioned a design for his/her ideal city during late modern times, which has never been realized because of its radical idealism and criticism against the reality of materialistic world.

It's an instrumental blues rock, but actually, I wrote the draft at first as a song with lyrics a couple of years ago, but I couldn't finish the lines, and let it alone... then almost have forgotten... but I found it on my HD a few months ago, then have revised it as a completely instrumental version...
I hope you enjoy. Any feedback will be appreciated...Thank you in advance.

[Ain't the one - Music info]
- Music Composition, Instrumentation (Guitars, Bass Guitar and Drums) and Production: Hiroshi Kohno
 - All were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic-rec)

This time, I didn't use any distortion effector...instead, done with minimal overdrive of amps to avoid the undesired turbidity of sounds while picking the several strings at once, since I found that my strat had the problem with intonation tuning on the high position, which I couldn't adjust myself...

- Guitar: Fender USA Stratocaster '58 extra re-issued(tuned to one semitone dropped down)
 w/ Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Amp.
>> Lead(on the right) & Some other small fills (various position): 
 Front-PU, w/Boss CS-2, Vintage CE-1 & Maxon AD-9. 
 Additionally, Boss BF-2 for Choir-like fills.
 >> Rhythms (on the left): 
 Half-tone(front-middle PU), w/Maxon RTC600, MXR Phase90 & Maxon AD-9.
- Bass: Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass 
 w/ Fender Bassman Amps, plus Boss CS-2.
*All effectors were anterior use to amps. 
- Drums: Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec).
- Mixing and a few minor edit (revision) of drums : DAW.

© 2017 Hiroshi Kohno

Ain't the one

Ain't The One - aerogene070

Instrumental version of “I shot the sheriff”, the song written by Bob Marley (The Wailers).

Some days ago, Alphio (@alpha-roots) sent me the rhythm track of this song, and kindly asked me if I would jam with it. I said Yes... It's one of my all time favorite songs again.

His initial version sounded great to my ears as I instantly loved it, but when I started jamming along, I personally felt that it was a bit too slow for me to add the lead melody so on... and bass sounded a bit too low (despite that original key is Gm, it had -1 octave + 1 tone= Am) and worried that bass would sound less prominent and not audible through the speakers as compared with the other parts I’d first planned to add.
I also wanted to have a little more up-down accent patterns and accessory notes so on for the bass line (especially for the verse A) in this regard and chordal variations as well on the rhythm guitar as the original has more and a little more for own arrangement.  

So, I revised almost all parts on his initial track except the hand percussion by him [>> Details below ].

The initial track can be heard here, please check it out：
https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots/i-drummed-the-sheriff

I apologize for I've destroyed Alphio’s minimalism...but I had much fun working with it and I would like to thank him again for his kind offer and for allowing me to arrange it freely. 

My arrangement basically followed Hiram Bullock’s cover version (Jazz Rock version with ‘Guitar vocals’) except the rhythm guitars and the ending solo sections adding some improvised phrases of mine.
Well, I could play other versions as well - original studio version, Clapton’s cover version etc -  but, since I’m not a good singer, I decided to do like this anyway. 
Hope you enjoy. Any feedback would be appreciated.

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The original music was written by Bob Marley (The Wailers) for their album “Burnin” (1973)
Hiram Bullock’s version can be heard in their album “Manny's Car Wash” (1995) and in some albums of Jaco Pastorius. 
Cover picture source : http://www.pageresource.com/wallpapers/78319/bob-marley-free-music-reggae-hd-wallpaper.html
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Cover :

[Initial rhythm track by Alpha-roots]
- Drums-1 / Bass Guitar-1 / Percussion / Rhythm Guitar-1

[Revision of Initial rhythm track]
- Changed the tempo (about 11% faster than the initial one).
- Shifted up the key of whole track an octave(keeping Am) and mixed it with the initial track to have a bit more treble tone of bass (it was not able to do re EQ-ing of the bass separably as I received the single mp3 mix)
- Extended each section of main theme (intro and interludes) and altered the rhythm parts of them
- Changed some rhythm patterns (altered Hi-hat patterns, etc.) especially on verse B sections.

[Addition by me]
- Drums-2 (All fills, Addition of other Cymbals, Toms, Kicks and of Snares; the later two are mainly only for the theme and for 3rd & 4th verses solo sections)
- Bass Guitar-2(Additional phrases and high notes incl. some slaps & ghost notes overdubbed onto Bass-1)
- Lead Guitar-1 (Distortion guitar with or without pedal-wah for “guitar vocals” & solos )
- Lead Guitars-2&3( Two Clean ones for the fills and for the ending solo)
- Rhythm Guitars-2&3(Chordal brushing & wah fills overdubbed onto Rhythm Guitar-1, and some phased unison phrases onto Bass Guitars)
- Piano

All of my parts were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic rec) except Piano.
- Guitars:  Distortion Lead >> Fender Japan Strat (w/Dimargio DP182 ), Boss CS-2, CE-1 & Jen Crybaby Wah, Marshall-JVM (Tube Distortion, Channel Delay & Reverb) ; Clean Lead, Fills & Rhythms >> Fender USA Strat ‘58 & CS Telecaster, Maxon RTC600, MXR Phase90, AD-9 & Crybaby Wah, '65 Deluxe Reverb Amp.
- Basses:  Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass , Boss CS-2, Bassman Amps .
- Drums:  Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec).
- Piano & Mixing: DAW

I Shot The Sheriff  (Guitar-Vocal Version) - aerogene070 w/ Alpha-roots

music: CRPT @crptofficial × TRNAH @trnahtechnostate
vocals, lyrics, and guitar: @jh0st
http://www.jh0st.com/march-13/
______________________
March 13th

razor blades and xray fates
painting gravity
drag the weight of generations past
blackened water, madness daughter
feeding off dead leaves of autumn
 
cross the bridge wield our fists of cash
find the final fix
inhale the trail and vaporize
lords of our own demise
 
now double down for March 13!
they say the sun will swallow the moon
global quakes disaster soon
but in this town, the end is every day…
 
this is a secret message to you:
pass it on and you risk losing all
don't pass it on you surely will fall
'cause our leaders imprison your freedom's lie…
 
now double down for Marches 13!
they say the sun will swallow the moon
global quakes disaster soon
but in this town the end is every day…
 
countrysides ravaged by unknown wars
keep the coal mine burning
held her down by cowardly clowns
sandpaper young skin…
unmask the death row fools
family of the sickly ghouls
 
so you say you'll rescue me?
from famine and poverty…
i'll only say this once and for all:
it's you and your klan that's corrupt
divide and conquer, punish with power
then blame us all when it's all over
 
now double down for March 13!
they say the sun will swallow the moon
global quakes disaster soon
but in this town the end is every day…

march 13th [ CRPT × TRNAH × jh0st ]

The cover of the song “(I Know) I’m losing you” 
(mostly following Richie Kotzen's version  [>>more info below ]).
 [Big Speakers Recommended] 

Vocals & Arrangement of Lyrics: Jimmy Rivas ( @j-rivas )
Backing Music & Production: Hiroshi Kohno

This is the second collaboration with Jimmy.
I’d like to thank him again for his wonderful contribution to this song.
I had much fun working with him.
Please visit his page for more amazing works by him!

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The song was originally performed and recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label (released in 1967)- written by Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland Jr. and by Cornelius Grant in 1966 / produced by Norman Whitfield. And many cover versions have been recorded since then (by Rare Earth, The Undisputed Truth, The Faces/ Rod Stewart...and by Richie Kotzen).

As a guitarist, I've loved the Richie Kotzen's blues rock version the most among those covers(as well as the Faces' live version for BBC, as a drummer) and that's one of what I've most often played with my band during past two decades. While, there are so many different live versions of Richie's with his different improvised phrases and I've played own improvisation, too. This time, I made the backing music basically following Richie’s studio version (released in 1998 on his album “What Is...”) while adding some minor arrangements by me, and Jimmy sang his own version of the vocals onto it, which I appreciated very much. 

I hope you enjoy. Any feedback would be appreciated.

A different version (Lo-fi instrumental / Excerpt)- improvisation by me: https://soundcloud.com/aerogene/im-losing-you

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[Recording Data]
- Guitars: Fender CS Telecaster customized w/DiMarzio Hum-bucker on rear PU (for Riffs & Backing Chords) &‘58 Stratocaster (for Lead Fills & Solos) w/ Sobbat DB-3 or The Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi, Jen Crybaby Wah, Maxon RTC600 & AD-9, Boss CE-1 (only for splitter use), partially BF-2 & OC-2, MXR Phase90, and w/Fender Vibro-King Custom Amp (60W) &‘59 Bassman LTD Amp (Reissued, 50W). Drop-D tuning / No any additional reverb (only with amps' resonance).
- Electric Piano and Organ: Korg Software Synth (Wurlitzer 200A Emulator & Hammond B3 Emulator) w/ Kurzweil PC88 & Pedal Boards (incl. MXR Phase90, Boss BF-2).
- Other Keys (w/wah effect): Mini Moog Software Synth.
- Bass Guitar: Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass , w/Boss CS-2, ‘59 Bassman LTD Amp.
- Drums: Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec). 
Except the Keys, all instruments were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic rec). 
- Mixing: DAW

(I Know) I'm Losing You - Jimmy Rivas & Hiroshi Kohno

Thank you for listening!
This is my second collaboration with the great musician jh0st.
Lyrics, Vocals and Sax: jh0st.
Check out the great work of jh0st; @jh0st

Lyrics:
Like Lazarus
Awake from sleep
…Your face turns white just like
you just saw a ghost (but it's)
just the sun
…through memories turned dust
The street's they've all changed (but the) 
light remains the same
C
Strike lines
Erase the past when you can
Try and find!
the lines in the
sand
The lines you wrote the 
letters in stone
…a ring of flowers immortal
Walls remain (but the)
Faces changed
…welcoming turned cold
The street's they've all changed but the 
light remains the same
Decades turn to dust but
Memories turn today
C
Strike lines!
Blot out the view from your…
Brittle as a bone in
driving hail
Who cast the first stone?
Now the secrets out…
Shadow to light
Without a doubt
You never were
Now or never…
Strike lines!
Erase the past 
you know you can
Closed Doors!
And keep the rain from 
Flooding more
More…

More (Feat. Jh0st)

/ ...music from an empty auditorium before the performance begins... /
exploring the boundary between the avant-garde and the radio-ready.

Collaborators:
Please check out these great artists!

Anu @anu
COtu @churchoftheundecided
CRPT @crptofficial × TRNAH @trnahtechnostate
deltadada @deltadada
Emilio GS @emilio-gs
Frank Baker @frankbaker
Gryflet @gryflet7
Heelees @ken-mizuhashi
KidOfEarth @kidofearth
Luscious-235 @luscious-235
Oorlab @oorlab

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