Sometimes I wonder am I a clone
A pale facsimile of a better one
But I don't ponder until the day's done
Sometimes I wonder if I am one
Sometimes I wonder am I just goo
Waiting for a robot to tell me what to do
My moves are jagged, my gait is choppy
Am I just a sloppy copy of you

Am I a clone
What if I got no Mamma to take me home

Sometimes I wonder am I a drone
Waiting for the next gig to glow on my phone
With instructions on where I gotta go
Sometimes I wonder am I a drone
But there's a boy inside who sings
Nobody is pulling his strings
Rides his bike over fields of green
Parks it on the bank of a crystal stream 

Is he a clone, he doesn't know
What if he got no Mamma to take him home

I'll forgive my dreams for betraying me
'Cause they live in places nobody can see
Am I a clone, am I a clone
What if I got no mamma to take me home
Am I a clone, am I a clone
What if I got no Mamma to take me home
What if I got no Mamma?

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"Am I A Clone" - words and music (c) July 2023, John David Lawson 
Vocals, acoustic guitar, flute, bass, production - John David Lawson
(no VST's or pitch correction used on this one!)

Am I a clone?

Sound Fantasy on

Lazing in shadows,
Conceding the drawing room
to moonrays

by Natsume Seibi
Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 504

Lazy Moon

Lazy Moon_Naviarhaiku504

With a little attitude this song throws out a couple of suggestions for how things might be improved in this world.

My Perfect World

https://christineott.bandcamp.com/album/eclats-piano-works

Two years after Time to Die, French composer Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records with her fifth album, Éclats (Piano Works), a collection of twelve pieces for solo piano, twelve impressionistic miniatures, instrumental and cinematic fractals celebrating the beauty of life.

Éclats (Piano Works) is a kind of mirror image to Chimères (for Ondes Martenot) (2020, Nahal Recordings), which showcased her other favourite instrument, and for which Christine Ott is particularly renowned - as she is through her past collaborations with Yann Tiersen, Tindersticks, and this year with Chilly Gonzales. But here, there's no vintage electronics: the musician unfurls acoustic landscapes in black and white, alone at the piano, behind a Steinway, a Fazioli or her father's old Prestel. The album opens with Pluie d'arbres, a powerful yet delicate allegory of deforestation. This duality runs through the album, whose energy is sometimes melancholy, sometimes hopeful, but always generous and full of empathy.

Sometimes nourished by revealing improvised gestures and crystallised during live performances, these new pieces by Christine Ott also make the link with various projects by the artist, both on stage and in film. Die Jagd nach dem Glück (The Pursuit of Happiness) is an extract from her original composition for Lotte, mon amour, a film-concert created in 2014 based on 4 short films by Lotte Reiniger, a German director from the first half of the 20th century. Lotte Reiniger was a true pioneer of animated film, and her films are still incredibly modern and human. Originally composed for piano, Martenot ondes and viola, this highly romantic piece is presented here in its simplest orchestration. Éruption Volcanique also foreshadows another film-concert work by Christine Ott, to come in 2024, for Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran. Set on a storm-swept island off the coast of Ireland, the film depicts the daily life of a fishing family in the 1930s. In a film-concert with an ambitious, physical and immersive score, the musician pays tribute to the courage of these inhabitants, united by a strong sense of solidarity, in constant battle with the elements.

Éclats (Piano Works) presents works recorded over a long period of time; a clear homage to Hitchcock, the writing of Vertigo undoubtedly has its origins in the composer's youth. Some pieces, such as Étreintes and Amours étoilés, were recorded during the sessions for Only Silence Remains (2016), and Christine Ott has regularly performed Golden Valley on stage since its creation in 2018 - whether as solo piano or rearranged in groups as part of her parallel projects (Snowdrops, Theodore Wild Ride...). Other compositions, such as Clouds of Dreams, are much more recent. So it's a real gift to finally discover on record the variety and richness of these twelve original compositions, which have long remained in the shadows.

And to bring these melodic bursts to life, Christine Ott called on the services of visual artist Léa Barbazanges, who creates sculptures and installations using assemblages of plant, mineral and animal materials. The works that adorn the album cover come from her Optiques series; 12 photographs of crystals seen through a lens, like a poetic prism that brings us closer to living things, their textures and ramifications, as obvious as they are complex, and that give a formidable visual echo to the 12 compositions on the album.

Étreintes

temple on the water

Tonight

contains elements of Funky to the bone & fair child

3 hours challenge cooked in 2h30
lots of fun 
Loop Diggers rocks!

LDSR1431

Sample used: Esengul - Kahretmisim Hayatima

Grey Hour - TPC 328

Submission to Naviar Haiku challenge 529. Details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku529-a-distant-mountain

The haiku suggested end points and a journey but you decide if you start or finish in the desolate field.

Everything was created as one patch using the VCV Rack virtual modular environment, including the wind. Physical controls were mapped and the piece was recorded in one live take.

Distant Mountain - (NaviarHaiku - 529)

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

first flight out - 5:15:24, 5.18 PM

Celebrate

I love to make new songs with smooth organic sounds and vocal harmonies that remind me of favourite bands from the 1970's. If you like Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, America, Neil Young, and Nilsson, you might enjoy this music too.

These songs are fictional vignettes and stories. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

I facilitated worship in congregations for many years, and some songs here were written for that purpose. If you find a one you'd like to use, I would be happy to provide a chart.