Dreamscape atmosphere and the fascinating vocal!

drums are great - really like the reverb treatment

Wow! thrilled to have made Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show and Fresh Faves 14.2.22!! This is from my 2nd album The Awakening. Made using loops/samples with love, by Helen Meissner.
How often do we ask ourselves ‘who do we want to be?’ It’s something that gets asked a lot of us when we’re younger isn’t it? But with a twist, everyone wants to know WHAT we want to be.
As an adult, after years of conditioning, we might need to go back to that question, and look behind the masks. It’s difficult because for many we have become the persona we felt society demanded of us. So in a way it’s clean slate time, time to ‘play’ in a way. To really fantasise. And it’s not easy. We’re conditioned to conform and fit into society, seamlessly and obediently.

New roles emerge and old roles change throughout our life. Masks are worn. Pretty much all the time. What’s appropriate in one setting most certainly is not in another. We often learn the hard way. And it’s sometimes toe curlingly embarrassing. And we struggle to forgive ourselves. It’s a real problem. It stops us getting out of the boxes we’ve allowed ourselves to be put in. And gradually saps our energy and joy til we might feel like a 2D version of ourselves.
Am I being too dramatic here? Sorry if this does not resonate. I know it will for a number of people reading. Our fear of doing something which is ‘wrong’ or which makes people think we are a loser, or which makes people talk about us in a way we feel to be disrespectful or unkind is palpable. Which is a million times worse if we find we actually agree with some of it at some level (or would if we’re being honest with ourselves). Being ‘found out’, being called a fraud, a fake... does that strike fear into the heart of you? Make you feel sick? If so we have to go there.  It’s also sometimes called Imposter Syndrome. What if someone realises that I am actually winging it and making it up as I go along? Join the club!
Perhaps we’ve striven to be the child our parents always wanted? The pupil the teachers were proud of? The friend that never let anyone down? The lover who always excited? The star at work? The parent who loved unconditionally and didn’t ‘fuck their children up’? (thanks for that ironic cross to bear, Philip Larkin). And perhaps we’ve not been 100% successful in those quests?
The reality is we cannot please all the people all of the time. And anyway, how people react really does say more about them than about us. We might have inadvertently touched upon one of their red flags, one of their insecurities about themselves and they then overreact to something that really, is NOT a big deal to other people. Ever noticed this?

Well we all have a choice about how we react to someone else’s behaviour towards us. And I have learnt to, in the most part, notice it, assess it and then move on. 
As we can’t guarantee to please others, we might as well please the most important person in your life. You. And as a bonus, if you are comfortable and accepting of yourself, kind and perhaps loving and tolerant(like you would be to a friend?), you will draw people into your life who recognise those qualities. And do yourself a favour. Others, manipulators or narcissists, will be attracted too as they will see that they can have a very nice life with you, thinking you are a pushover. Please always notice your interchanges and exchanges with them. And as soon as something happens which presents a red flag for you, investigate it, discuss it and act on your instinct if you realise this person is not as good for you as they might have appeared early on. People CAN change and you might be the first person to have pointed this unacceptable behaviour out to them. So give them a chance to redeem if that’s what you both want. But just keep an eye out for your own red flags and don’t ignore them. It’s better to be in a good relationship with yourself than a bad relationship with someone else.

So WHO do you wanna be – NOW?

Who Do You Wanna Be

Fist Bump is driven along by a bassline that sits somewhere between Post-Punk and Rockabilly. While the guitars snarl and seethe, emphasising the drone effect of the bass, the drum track is loud, syncopated and treated with dramatic resonant effects. The vocal reminds me of Franz Ferdinand jamming with Kurt Vile. Kind of electronic Alt Rock that makes highly impactful use of dynamic contrasts and grows in intensity before signing off more gently with a chord-based piano-only figure at the end. One you will surely want to listen to again if only to answer the question: What just happened?  (Neil March, Fresh On The Net Review, Jan 17th 2022)

Fist Bump

Ar y Mor

Fresh On The Net Fresh Fave 

Included in Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape  

"Killer groove" Tom Robinson - via Twitter 8th April 2022

"It's so rare for UK musicians to convincingly reproduce those loose, effortless kind of grooves pioneered in New Orleans, but I have to say this irresistible jam - Parasite Lost - pulls it off without breaking a sweat."  Tom Robinson on air BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape, 18th April 2022

"The latest offering from the amazing Junkyard of Silenced Poets is the wonderfully titled Parasite Lost. It is essentially a piece of mind-spinning but also highly satisfying Dub mixing it with chords that are partly derived from Jazz and partly from the kind of harmonic language I would often associate with contemporary classical (elements of whole tone and similarly configured chords) although the feel is nothing like either. I hear distant echoes of early Gang of Four and pre-Sweetest Girl Scritti going on, perhaps alongside some of the experimental Ruts B-sides [and subsequent Ruts DC moments] but the sounds here are much more contemporary, much less scratchy and have an irresistible resonance. Captivating, cool and confidently individual." -- Neil March - Trust The Doc No. 66

"Parasite Lost is a kooky rock dub reggae jam like the soundtrack to a suspense scene in a 70s cop show" -- Kerry JK - FOTN Fresh Fave review

music composed & performed by Junkyard of Silenced Poets - copyright & all rights reserved

Parasite Lost

The latest bassy groover from Bristol's weirdest woman rapper B of Briz, featuring a stunning sung vocal by Rachel Maxann, 'Nineties Girl' is about the amazing and kick-ass women making music in the nineties, and what it meant to a teenage girl with a big horizon in a small town.

Nineties Girl - Feat. Rachel Maxann

Written by Cara Doc.
Produced by Michael Mormecha and Cara Doc.
Engineered by Michael Mormecha at Tree Song Studios

Cara Doc - Lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
John (Doc) Doherty - Lead guitar
Michael Mormecha - Drums, bass, keyboards

Parole

Words and Music - A. Hubbard
Music, Production and Mix - M. Smyth
Bass - D. Wimbish

Normal

When Kevin and I started dating he used to pick me up in his car that had a big dent in the side where he'd driven it into his parents garden wall 🙂 This song is called Green Toyota and it comes out October 7th.

Green Toyota

Spoken word written and performed by Uncle Kid
Guitar Mark "Boweevil" Howes

As Above, So Below (with Uncle Kid)

Ghost

Nottingham based Art Pop Indie BBC Introducing artist. Sidekick to Minus Cube. JJ's debut album 'The Lines We Leave Behind' is released on the 18th August 2023. She is currently on a 2 year scholarship with the prestigious Ivors Academy. Previous supports include Another Sky, Natalie McCool, Deco, Leif Erikson & Charm Of Finches

Ghost

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