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This is the third collaboration between Mono-lux and the poet Jo Richter @sonic-textures… enjoy

Poetry is Vital
sound space and time
structuring impulse
carving chiselling kneading morphing
large and small gifts

Poem and conception by Jo Richter
Narration and sounds by Mono-Lux

Vital

This is a newbie, I'm playing my epiphone Dove on this one, but a lot of the guitar parts originally started out on my Yamaha classical. I'm writing a lot of music on the classical at the min, but lyrics generally come when I change to a steel string, mostly the Dove these days. 

take it easy folks, thanks for stopping by!

Lyrics

When I let you stay the night
boy I don't appreciate the morning call
gonna turn your foghorn right down
just so as I don't have to hear it anymore

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outta my book
and nail it onto your door

I don't understand why your tiny cloth ears
they don't listen
yeah you'd rather tune in to some
pastiche cheap country honk musician

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outa' my book
and nail it onto your door

I don't understand why for me 
your crying eyes do not see
and I can't quite comprehend
why it is that you picked her over me

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outa' my book
and nail it onto your door

it's getting harder now
than it ever was before
that little voice inside of your head
is screaming out
and he'll shout 

forevermore
forevermore
forevermore 
forevermore
forevermore........ and maybe some more


thanks for listening, and inspiring, always greatly appreciated. 

recorded at home on my Tascam 8 track.







1994

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 7 6

A hip-hop style arrangement of "Dream" composed by Claude Debussy. The rhythm is hip-hop style and gives the whole atmosphere. It is a short version only in the music part of the first half.

Debussy Reverie Cover HipHop

This is a honky Tonk bar Dance version of my song Standard Issue Average Joe. Hope you like it and feel a dance coming on...yeee haaa partner. 
Enjoy

Standard Issue Average Joe Honky Tonk version

Soundscape resetting of Procession of Fools and Dunces lyrics by @mono-ha-music
“Fools and dunces proceed without control or caution
Decency is absent as they blunder on their way.
Who governs those who govern? Who flicks off the last light switch?
Who speaks up for the speechless? No one gives them a say.
It’s no illusion, it’s true confusion, a multitude of problems
Woe, bluster and clutter are the disorder of the day.
Decisions un-reviewed, all logic discontinued
All roadmaps cast aside now
Fools and Dunces run and hide now…”
soundcloud.com/mono-ha-music/procession-of-fools-dunces

Doomscrolling

The Winner of Thieves

A little psycho funk trip with accordion and more...

Funk This!

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Sweet Hard

Music & Piano: Debra Buesking
Jan Schonander invited me to participate in his Four Seasons for Piano project with "summer" as my assigned season.  Since I am no Vivaldi I reached back to the Tin-Pan Alley "Good Old-Summertime" (1902) for inspiration.  Not really an arrangement per se, but rather a quote.

Summer Interrupted

4. Get On The Red Bus sung by Pete Dymond(3)

Hi, My name is Johnny Mc Farlane, I am an Indie songwriter from Ireland. I write, play, produce and distribute my own music. I try to write songs that will mean something to whoever may be listening. I try to express feeling and emotions through my music, I try to hit the heart and soul of whoever may be listening and to pass on my feelings through my lyrics and my music. A lot of the songs I write come from Personal experiences, some are pure imagination, but all try to carry a message of Hope, Fait, understanding and a spiritual message of love. I am just one voice in the wilderness but together we are stronger. Thank you so much for listening to my music. It’s a real honour.

Standard Issue Average Joe Honky Tonk version

No killie fish