Nice tune. Beautiful guitar sounding guitar solo!

@rockenfeller: Thanks, yea the vocals were fun.

@user-138663860: Thank you very much! And Happy New Year to you as well!

Paul Amlehn - Arrangement, Editing, Mixing, Production
T.S. Eliot - Text
Marlon Brando - Vocal Performance
John Cage - Prepared Piano Composition
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared Piano Performance
Francis Ford Coppola - Sound Design for Singing and Field Recordings
David Lynch - Visual Art

Dedicated to the memory of my father Mike Amlehn

The Hollow Men

Words and Music Antipodeans 2021. Recorded and mixed at Grovehill Studios. Mastered at the Hackey Sack by Dr Hackey

Two Minds

Mizero (2021)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udv1nQfNI_o
Lyrics:
leopards can't change their spots
errors will occur
i line em up, you take the shots
to me it's all a blur

all's fair in love and war

stolen fruit is the sweeter -
but be careful what you wish for
you always were a leader
but now you're ass is on the floor

all's fair in love and war

the nail that sticks up will be hammered down
if you don't pull your weight you'll get cut
he who has the riches wears the crown
if it's closed, will you just leave it shut?

all's fair in love and war

all's fair..

All's Fair In Love And War

All's Fair In Love And War | Video in description

The time is now. Well, mid-September anyway and nearly ten o’clock at night. The year is, ah, not now. In fact long enough ago that air-conditioning was not yet a common occurrence in a Greenwich Village cocktail lounge.
          The front door and a side door are both propped open. It was warm during the day but now a cool breeze carries in the softening sounds of the street and carries out snippets of conversation, music and some of the cigarette smoke.
          There is a quartet; drums, bass, guitar and a guy that splits time between a piano and vibes. This is the first time they’ve played this number. Dave (leader, vibes and piano) played the song for Roy, his boss, only a few days earlier. “Not bad Davey ya think you can shrink the melody to under a octave and a half and make it a little less busy in spots?” “Ah come on Roy. It’s just barely over and not that busy. Can I take it to Marty for some lyrics?” “Nah, I need him to finish the stuff on his desk already. Take it over to Sal. He might be able to sell it as an instrumental.”
          A young woman and her date are sitting quietly talking at a small table by the window. It’s not their first date but the end of a more casual relationship and the beginning of something else. She’s talking about a previous group outing or more specifically a girl who came named Mary. She thinks, in a subtle way. Although not particularly perceptive, he laughingly notes her obvious dislike of Mary and asks why. She admits to her flimsy subterfuge but defends herself by stating that Mary is chasing him. He laughs even harder “come on, Mary hardly knows me.” Of course he’s wrong and Mary is but his obliviousness makes her happy.
           After a few drinks he takes takes her for some coffee and pastries. He gets a napoleon and an expresso. She gets a coffee light and sweet and a cannoli. While he’s wondering whether or not she likes him enough to sleep with him. She’s dreaming of names for their children. She only nibbles an her cannoli. She’s killing time until it’s too late to catch her train. When it gets close she tells him a story. After her parents divorce she moved with her broke mother to a new town. Out school clothes shopping she saw a dress, too expensive for their means, that she fell in love with. Her mom, feeling sorry for her, decides to indulge her. She wears to to the first day of school and is teased so ruthlessly that she never wears it again but won’t tell to her mother why. Completely enraptured by the story he doesn’t notice the time until it’s to late to make the train. The next one is not due for hours so he invites her back to his apartment. She then wolfs down her dessert and they go. There is a moment after getting punched in the face, when that metallic taste of blood floods your mouth, that your senses are heightened and you are fully there in that moment. That night was the flip side of that same coin. The next day she worries that, swept up in passion, she might have driven him off to some other girl. But in his mind there are no other women and there wont be. Sometimes she will still hum the melody, the simpler parts, but she no longer remembers where she heard it. Long forgotten by everybody else it now only exists, in fragments, in her mind.

Pop Tart

If anyone wants I can make this available without the lead guitar as an open collab : ) Just let me know

Dit Dit (Instrumental)

While our family was binge-watching the 1990’s sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun” I was inspired by Ben Vaughn’s (also from Southern New Jersey) rockabilly/retro-rock theme song. So I decided to step back in time (Keepsakes was mostly about time travel)to the 60’s and write a surf rock guitar tune (aka The Ventures - I played the LP "Golden Greats" so much I wore it out). I wanted to add a little more texture and I thought it would be fun to sing Doo Wop so I added 4-part vocals.

A Simple Life

Me every night
I go out to party
Me every night
They call me

I take my car
With friends
What a waste
Always the same

I am a witness to (Lalalalala)
I am a witness to the night
I am a witness to (Lalalalala)
I am a witness to the night
(Lalalalala) x2

Do not look for me when there is sun
I'm sure I'm not
I am a witness to the night
I don't have to tell you
What are you looking to find me
It's a lifestyle
I wear a brooch moon


I take my car
With friends
What a waste
Always the same

I am a witness to (Lalalalala)
I am a witness to the night
I am a witness to (Lalalalala)
I am a witness to the night
(Lalalalala) x4

Testigo De La Noche

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

El Puente De Los Suspiros

Night Critters

This song is dedicated to brave Sam.  Much more brave than the Stinger!  And a much more beautiful person than Aphrodite xx

THE STINGER VS APHRODITE
The Stinger was a hero renowned
A poster boy that stings like a bee
Defeating evil wherever it stands
Crippling the criminal fraternity
No villain could cope with his power
No hoodlum could cope with his sting
But whatever super powers you have
You cannot counter everything

Aphrodite was a beauty to behold
With powers for world domination
She challenged Stinger - Good vs bad
A face-off to grip the nation
When the day arrived they stood face to face
He tried to thwart her with his sting
But with a single gaze from her eyes
Stinger's body started tingling

CHORUS
And Stinger knew he was letting the world down
As he felt a gradual loosening of his gown
The beauty of Aphrodite
Turned the good of day to the dark of night
And he knew that he was in love

She needed no punch or super strike
She just maintained her sexual stance
She was defeating Stinger with just a simple smile
She could tell from the bulge forming in his pants
He fell to the floor - the nation gasped
The Stinger defeated and for once tamed
She held him tight and he felt her breath
A fiery passion inside inflamed

CHORUS

We have no hero to save us
We have no hope in the world
Love can win but so often destroys
As with this story that I have told
Villainy has won the day
As for the Stinger and Aphrodite
Men are often undone by lust
When she won his heart and she won the fight

CHORUS

The Stinger Vs Aphrodite

Made for Naviar Records' 412th Haiku Challenge. Details and other illuminations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/11/24/naviarhaiku412-even-the-fields/

Territory [naviarhaiku412]

A warm, quiet escape into the soul of sound.
The gentlest touch of rhythm to calm your senses.
Find comfort, find peace, find warmth.

Come Hold Me

“There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus.

The music industry (like many things) has changed greatly since I bought my first 45 record (Green Eyed Lady) at my hometown record shop in 1970. It would be very easy to lament over these changes (and I have.) However, with change comes new opportunities, and thanks to websites/apps like Soundcloud we musicians and composers have the opportunity to to be heard as never before. So thank you Soundcloud and thank you for visiting my page. - Jim Combs

Bio
* Born 1959
* From Southern New Jersey, USA
* Instruments: Guitar (jazz & classical), Bass, Piano, Voice 
* Influential LPs/music (not all and in no specific order): Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Miles Davis - Nefertiti & Sketches of Spain, Larry Coryell – Spaces, Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Pat Martino – Consciousness, Return to Forever  - Romantic Warrior,  Chick Corea - The Leprechaun, Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow,  Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures, Santana & McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender, ELP – Trilogy, Genesis - Wind and Wuthering, Yes - Close to the Edge, David Sancious - The Bridge, Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish, Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Traveled, Journey – Journey,  Rite of Spring & Petrushka – Stravinsky, Don Quixote - Richard Strauss, La Mer - Claude Debussy, Pavane pour une infante défunte & Daphnis et Chloé – Ravel, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta - Bartok ,  Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar, Jerry Goldsmith - MacArthur, The Omen, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing & The Bermuda Triangle.

A Simple Life

Jim Combs - Composer, Keyboardist and Guitarist

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