Great stuff from June 2020

LOOK - Paploviante 2018
Bass Paploviante
Other instrument and voice Logic Pro

LOOK - Paploviante

A heartfelt vision of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin by Sar Araion, in which I had the opportunity to participate

Poem by Alexander Pushkin
Voice & music by Sar Araion https://soundcloud.com/sararaion
Musical arrangement by Guitarbeard https://soundcloud.com/coda2009

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/tempest

TEMPEST
by Alexander Pushkin

You saw a maiden on a cliff
Above the sea, all dressed in white
As, raging in the stormy mist,
The waves and shore were locked in fight;

As bolts of lightening flashed and poured
A crimson glow about her shape;
As round her head the tempest roared
And winds assailed her streaming cape.

O splendid sea and storm and mist!?
O gleaming heavens flashing free!
And yet that maiden on the cliff
Outshines that sky and storm and sea.

БУРЯ 
А. С. Пушкин

Ты видел деву на скале
В одежде белой над волнами
Когда, бушуя в бурной мгле,
Играло море с берегами,

Когда луч молний озарял
Ее всечасно блеском алым
И ветер бился и летал
С ее летучим покрывалом?

Прекрасно море в бурной мгле
И небо в блесках без лазури;
Но верь мне: дева на скале
Прекрасней волн, небес и бури.

А. С. Пушкин, 1825

Tempest (Sar Araion / Guitarbeard)

Darkest Evening

Ebullience - the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings

Ebullience

The follow up to our 2017 debut.

“This Hell” is a lament that’s accentuated by shrieking guitars and Joe Bradshaw’s doom-stricken drums. The song serves as a tribute to a young girl’s fight against cancer. Orem’s tone is resolute as he recounts her bravery despite the unfavorable odds: “You don’t own me, and I’m not scared.”~Buzzy Band

Lyrics to the song "This Hell:"
Going through the motions, try to find some strength
Try to put on makeup, try to beat this day
Heard these notes, she’s losing hope
She keeps screaming softly “please God no”

No one knows why, these things they happen
But she’ll keep fighting, this HELL, this CANCER
Know this, she will keep on trudging
The strength that fills her, it’s in the air

“You don’t own me, and I’m not scared”
In time, she’ll go down and she sees that they’re all frowning
And dreams it was all a dream, but we see that she’s already down for the count

Young girl fought nails and teeth, never gave it up
Understand that you’ll miss them when they are gone
It took it’s hold
Evil disruption when it comes too young
You’re finally home
No more pain at your heels, no more drugs that burn
No more aches, sick and drained
REST IN PEACE, YOUNG GIRL
This is a life of a young girl

This Hell

wow. WOW. It is released. It has been "finished".

This has been one of the most challenging and rewarding collaborations to date. Interesting as *thommo* (https://soundcloud.com/thommo_tunes) was the first person I ever collaborated with over soundcloud. Our first track "Alchemy" kind of just fell together within weeks.  4am not only took over a year but has 3 very different versions.   The first version was 6 minutes long, very fast and the lyrics were much darker.  The second had the same lyrics but the beat was much different. 
*thommo* and I started going in different directions and we both kind of threw our hands up. My communication dropped off due to life changes. *thommo* every now and then would send a message reflecting on wanting to revisiting the track but I was consumed with a far different life than I was living the first time we collaborated. 

However, *thommo* kept pushing on this track and eventually sent me the first draft of this newest version and all of the excitement and passion jumped alive. It was the best of what both of us saw the tracks potential as.  

So HERE WE ARE! Full circle with our completed collaboration ready for your listening enjoyment.  From EllE of Cycle of Hands and *thommo* we bring you: 

4 A.M.

lyrics:

There are some things that wait until the quiet
Time of night
To take over your mind before the day gets bright
When everyone’s still asleep I feel like I might
Be the only one alive so I look to the sky

I take comfort in the stars and the moon in despite
Of their distance from my room where I sit and write
Pieces of ideas from this muse deep inside
She’s the higher form I use to free my light

It’s 4 am and I am
In the deep end 
No sleep then
For me this night

It’s me and my mind
I can’t unwind 
I wonder 
I hunt for 
What is life

I Ignite a little fire to see where I am
In the A.M. I get tired but I still can’t land
Mayhem of creation doesn’t care about plans
I made when my intention was lights out by 9

But Inspiration beckons and I can’t reject the call
If it is passed to me it’s disrespect if I drop the ball
Of energy like electricity from the wall
It’s all I see and I know its me who needs to crack this vault

It’s 4 am and I am
In the deep end 
No sleep then
For me this night

It’s me and my mind
I can’t unwind 
I wonder 
I hunt for 
What is life

It’s 4 am and 
The world is small
This screen the window 
And my wall

No sounds are heard
Except my own thoughts
They go Back and forth 
And it ticks me off

My eyes are glued to this new creation 
I can’t stop, drop or leave this inspiration 
Inside me theres a key to the ignition 
When its turned There is no chance of intermission 
I’ve been hitting on something much bigger than fiction 
I know Because it comes straight from my deepest intuition 
It can’t wait to escape from everything I’ve written 
Leaping from the words the moment you see em

So tonightt I am defying my sleep cycle 
Gonna try to give life to these dreams that I pull
From the hat on my skull That been getting too full 
With ideas and scenarios playing like a film roll 
On repeat so I need to hit focus and record
Can’t miss a thing double checking every cord
I know that the final piece is my only reward 
I blow through minutes and hours with every step taken towards
My gold

4am (*thommo* and EllE)

Musikalische Weltreise

19. Mai 2019

Fahrt mit dem Wikingerschiff

Really great to finally release this track which evolved into a complicated prog rock beast as we wanted to create a Tool vibe… we hope we achieved it. Lyrics are based on my own battles with inner demons linked with Jungian psychology exploring the id or shadow. Please check out my friend From Sands other fantastic work here @from-sands he is incredibly talented!
Lyrics
I must descend, for me to ascend 
regress to redress, the balance of my broken mind 
the shadow is suspending me from all that I intend to be
diving deep into the well to save the ghosts who dwell, 
I must descend, to bring me back to life
to bring me back to life
I must descend, for me to ascend
now the shadow is suspending me from 
all that I intend to be
sink back down to images of agony 
terror is my mirror 
of fear
suppressing time inside my mind
layers of repression 
testing the possession of the demons I keep inside
intent on override
shadow, my shadow lies over me (rep)
I despise the incubus deep inside, poisoning my soul, crawling inside me
deep down the well

Shadow - From Sands & Skyline Tigers

A conspiracy song...

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Walking into the abyss
It's the worst thing I can see
Thought it'd be better than this
Is this how it'll always be?

Something isn't right now
There's got to be some light now
I've got some questions too
Cause this isn't like you

Just leave my mind on default
It's the worst thing I could be
My generation is fake
Is this how it always seemed?
Is this how it'll always be?

The Abyss

Well I know this is a cover and not my usual style but lockdown makes you do weird things. Normal service will be resumed. When? Dunno, but I suspect BoJo knows.  Big greetings and musical hugs to you from a slightly 'stir crazy' burn.it.smith (a.k.a. Antony x)

Oh Susanna (Stephen Foster)

I always got my blues second hand. By that I mean by artists that studied the old blues guys and developed their own blues. So I went back and looked at Robert Johnson and picked "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" and wrote my own lyrics to it. This turned out to be a lot harder than I had imagined. Not a good finger picker made this a big challenge and took me some time to be proficient enough (just enough) to record.
It's somewhat raw, but I tried to honor Mr. Johnson as best I could. Hope you enjoy.
My version relates to homelessness.
The picture is from Newsweek.

Lyrics:
Never met dad, wasn’t there, he wasn’t there when I was born.
	Never met him.
Heard he left my mom, when she needed him most.	That’s when he left her
Momma worked three jobs 
Just to make ends meet.	Yes she did.

Have a little sister, a little sister, haven’t seen her in 15 years.
	And that’s a long time.
Always think about her, but she lives too far to visit. Oh I miss her so.
Heard she’s married with two kids.
Hope her husband treats her well.  Yes I do.

<Chorus>
Been down on my luck, since the day I was born. I’ve had it tough.
I’ve been down on my luck, since the day I was born. The very first day
Chicken soup to warm my heart,
A shot of whiskey soothes my mind.  Yes it does.

Work the streets all day, for some change to get me by. Work all day.
People walk right by, never even bother with me, like I’m an invisible man.
Make due with what I have,
Every day is just another day.  Same old thing.

Life in the streets, mostly by myself, can be a lonley and scary place.	Oh yes it can.
I do what I want, noone to order me around, telling me what to do.
Good days and bad days,
Wouldn’t have it any other way.  No sir no.

<Chorus>

Outro:
Sometimes I wish I’d done better, and made a different life.
	Maybe done better.
But then I realize, this is where I belong. This is my place.
Should you pass me by.
Help out and stay to chat, or at least say hello.  Please do.

Chick Soup and a Shot of Whiskey

Chicken Soup and a Shot of Whiskey

Arpeggio composition in D; played here on a Jazzmaster and a Stratocaster, joined on the second pass by a dreadnought and nylon strings

Snowfall

Facing Skyscrapers

I went camping for a few days to hang out with the trees, but I have returned with a new tune.

I've been trying to improve my guitar skills as i feel ive been plateaued for a while now, and so i have been learning new songs including a lot of Hendrix which gave me the idea to incorporate bass notes with my thumb into the riff (Little Wing etc). 

Lots of people wander this earth struggling with depression, sadness and a lack of purpose in their life. This song is a story about nature encouraging the people of earth to live out their dreams and reassuring them that there is no reason to frown and no reason not to shoot for their goals right now.
Because after all, the only real time is now.

 <3 <3


Tears fall from the sky
All the people they run and hide
All the people they run inside
They should smile, but they cry

Tears fall from the clouds
All the people they run around
All the people they fall and drown
They should smile, but they frown

Only if they knew just above the clouds
There were bright blue skies shinin all around
Calling to the people theyre smiling down
Callin out theres no need to frown

The birds they sing to the people too
Hey you fools its time to do
All the things you ever dreamed of
Write that book that you always speak of

I see
Angels
Weeping
All around me

If only 
They knew
How much
They can do

Angels

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.
https://youtu.be/fkLVteZCh68

Time for sum Teleportation - INC VIDEO

He Only Delivers the Box is about the invisible people who do things for us and our ability to de-humanise them which has a depressingly long history and it is not o.k !!!! Dedicated to Taki, a food delivery driver who is sadly no longer with us. 

Big thank you to Natalie Luxton for her fabulous vocals & Yaron Engler whose drum programming is legendary. Hope ya like it.

https://youtu.be/KkMYZyo3KNw (featuring Peacehaven at an ungodly hour)

He sits on his scooter
Connects to the router       
Stares at the android and waits 

A radial line throbber
Gives a job to another
Stealing the food from his plate

He’s tired, deflated
Under-rated
Feeling a bit of a bot

Who gives a fig
About his next gig
He only delivers the box

Box on the back
Tied to the  rack
Wait for that thing to go ping
Eat a banana
Sing ta na na na na
Ignore that nagging chest pain

Engage the clutch
To deliver that lunch
Repeat and do it again

Dweet  dat doot…

Box on the back
Tied to the rack
Wait for that thing to go ping
Eat a banana
Sing ta na na na na 
Ignore that nagging chest pain

Engage that  clutch
To deliver that lunch
Watch out for the driver’s blind spot!
 
The guy will go nuts if it isn’t hot  
Why tie people up in such knots!

He Only Delivers The Box

He Only Delivers The Box (ft. Natalie Luxton)

A little bit of conceptual adrenaline for all my friends). Music Composed/Produced by Guitarbeard © 2020

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/dialectica

Dialectica

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Aves Nocturnas

Nighthawk

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 06/2020.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

Memories are always stronger

When we remember all these moments,
we can see up to the firmament,
When we walked to the end of the road,
and we stayed up until the early hours,
Memories are stronger than love,
they are eternal, and pierce the days,
and for a long time,
in my mind,
what I feel,
the memory are engraved images,
my heart is no longer beating now,
my heart is no longer beating now,

Memories are always stronger

This is the title track from my recent Bandcamp album to benefit the Myrna Brind Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. They continue to do amazing work, and they have my complete support.

Appreciation

I've been busy working with a band. But I will post something really soon. 
This is a great music community that supports  and encourages others. I urge you to do the same for your fellow artists.
I thank everybody for your precious time.  It means a lot to me.
If you have a moment or two, listen to some tracks, leave a message  and please repost if you like. After all, music is meant to be heard.  Thank you for dropping in.

All the nickels and dimes I make on my songs will go to children charities (tbd).  Thank you for your support.

I love listening to tracks on SC and will certainly repost, but I only repost what I actually listen to.
Influences or artists I simply really like.
Jeff Beck, David Gilmore, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Adrian Belew, Mark Farner, SRV, Hendrix, Steve Vai, and the list goes on.

Great stuff from June 2020

John Carusone