Great song and exceptionnal work Beautiful. Bravo.

Great arrangements. Cool track, quite enjoyed this.

Good tune amigo , reminded me of an older Thomas Dolby track-which i mean as a compliment dude! Have a most excellent weekend dude! peace&zen

The vibe makes me think of FLC & Talk Talk amigo! peace&zen

Detail work on this song, great structure and performance too !!

this is awesome. so many little bits of brilliant wrapped into something even better than brilliant...uber brilliant :)

@masterigtruemusic: Cheers for the lovely comment! Much appreciated.

Full song here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XN0q3Dh4FLPEFZD9OjWcV?si=iwGGSigdRkWEgQOWMvN8rA

Liner notes:
A tune like Vagabonds that started life work on a plane either side of a holiday. The keyboard bit came first and then the wahwah guitar and it built up from there. 

Written, performed and recorded by John Your Mate and mixed and mastered by Gary Brady at Total Thrive.

Words:
You tie me up in knots
You tell me up is down
But to cap it all
I know you’re right
 
Hate all that I took
Hate myself for you
This is not ideal
But we’re through
 
How did we get so broken?
 
I’d love to bear the cross
and teach you how to fly
But it’s not my way
Just the highway
 
How did we get so broken?
 
You told me your love was free
Like 1973
C’mon, c’mon, those times are gone

There’s water under the bridge
Just getting drunk just to heal
C’mon, get up, time’s rolling on
 
Chasing our hearts breaks
It's the simple truth
You can count on this
Win or lose

Human in Progress

How did we get so broken? (Full song on Spotify)

Kelen Helvetia - You And I - Cover (Lady Gaga) 2015

Kelen Helvetia - You And I - Cover (Lady Gaga)

Stars in us 

Is there something more to you than meets the eye?
Is there something more to us than what we think we know?
All must lead onto glory 
They’ll say to you “In times things are better”
Though, we feel we’ll eventually fall down.. you could still know better

When you feel small and need a sign the world holds you lonely 
Brace yourself for the loving that you thought you would know 
The rest is a moment in time

Do the stars that sit above cry out there loneliness?
Lost in a chasm of eternal space with no way to reach the other 
Or do the shine from out the dark?
To assure all hurts are far apart
From way out where we do not know
Our little world that spins below that’s lost and found and lost again
That spins our dreams way out of sight, but we we supposed to know a gain? 
From a single rush too bright to end, our dreams that clash and bring the rain 
To allow our love to bloom past all pain and through the clouds we’ll see again
The found and lost and found again

Fruit

This is a free download if you want it.  Feel free to share.  Please.

Spoken samples taken from this historic video from 2016:

https://youtu.be/ka0446tibig
Raw Video - 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick explains why he is refusing to stand during the National Anthem.

Kapernick has guts. He sacrificed his career for the greater cause.  And he is right.

Not Right By Anyone - Kaepernick 2016

Thanks to Paul for sharing such great open collab instrumentals here on SoundCloud....I am addicted to your bass :-)
And yeh yeh...this was written on one of those training days when I should have been listening intently rather than songwriting intently!!

Lyrics & Vocal ~ Chris O
Instrumental & Instrumental Composition ~ Paploviante ~ "Back on the Road".
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Rap ~ Eti O

Corporate Training Day - June 2020

Everybody's spruikin' up the branding
Vision words tumbling down like hail.
Everybody's spruikin' up the branding,
Searching for the Holy Grail
The Holy Grail

That makes me want to slam dunk a poem that doesn't even rhyme!

Hell I'm trapped in here,
Rappin' like a fool.

Positivity, Inclusivity, no Negativity here.
Brilliance, Resilience aiming for Consilience 
No Negativity here.
Ah the Mission Statement makes it very clear.
They don't allow no Negativity here.

"We've got a 5 Year Plan around here.
Always looking forward."

Better just hang out a little longer.

You know there is no space,
Never no place for fear.

Well there is no space, never no place for fear.

Quality, Policy, all become Priority,
Teamwork, Collaboration rules,
It rules the day.
Learning and Development, the need for Flexibility
Personal Improvement is the latest Cool.
Is the latest Cool.

Yo Yo...you, know...like the New Black.

Well everybody's talking up the logos 
Vision words are tumbling down like hail.
Everybody's spruikin' out the branding
Searching for the Holy Grail
That Holy Grail,
The Holy Grail.
Where's the Holy Grail?

Yo...better just hang out a little longer,
retreat back to the comfort of an uncertain World.

Follow the money folks.
Follow the money!

Corporate Training Day ~ Chris O & Paploviante (ft. Eti O)

Born Of Stars by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Winter 2008-09.

The audio file for this song was plagued with hundreds, maybe thousands, of corrupted waves. These ranged in sound from a very big click at the small end of the scale, to something akin to trousers being ripped when bending over in a Carry On movie at the large end of the scale.

The audio file is now massively better than it was. A few blemishes and some sounds not unlike that of a scratchy old vinyl record still exist in places.

Repairing the damaged audio file for this song was an incredibly time-consuming and tedious task. It required massive amounts of the wave forms to be redrawn by hand in tiny, tiny detail.

The first time we attempted to repair it, the work was almost finished when the main hard drive on the mastering machine lost the will to live and mangled itself beyond all recognition. We had to buy a new one and completely reinstall the entire system.

All the repair work already done to Born of Stars was therefore utterly destroyed. It had to be done again from the start. Fortunately, as we are reasonably diligent with regard to backing up our work, no other files were lost.

This is why the Winter version of Born of Stars appeared two years after the rest of the album was released!

* Born of Stars is a highly rifftastic space rock song in the key of E.
* Several sections are deliberately left quite loose to allow for improvisation.
* The lyrics also tend to vary from one version to another.
* Born of Stars was performed by the Spacegoats, including in their brief “Electric Elves” manifestation. 

BORN OF STARS
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
We are seeds of time

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
We are a brighter future
Create a brighter future

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Earth
Planet Earth
Planet Earth
Our planet
Terra Firma
Has made a conscious decision
A conscious, conscious decision
To become whole
To become one.

Entombed, cocooned
In concrete, metal,  plastic, tarmac
Effluence of all kinds
Chemicals, radiation and  nuclear waste

Yet she shall break free
She shall break free from this prison
Free from these chains

Planet Earth is undergoing
An evolutionary, interpersonal, galactical
REBIRTH!!!

We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya

We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
We are seeds of… time!

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
You are a brighter future
Create a brighter future

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Words and music by Simon Miller/Pete Phoenix/Chrissie Ortner.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Depot X, Exeter, 17th December 2008.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released 27th July 2020
Original release date: 15th January 2009

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/born-of-stars
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Live In Session Winter 2008-09

Born Of Stars

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Alchemeon: Born Of Stars

What if ? What a beautiful question !! ...if something can be foreseen, it might be worth trials and experiments  ... ..so let's try some some new ideas ... at least some of them :)  !!
Here, this is an attempt to experiment some combinations  of different musical genres mixing old and  new instruments...Hope you enjoy !!
Have a great summer
Steph

What If ?

Summer Pot

Tak Slap

For all those loved ones we have lost in 2020.

Prayer For The Departed

C90 - https://open.spotify.com/album/7fIJH6a5tnO2AIknnUZfPz?si=78XYfJy0Sta_vKGhuAtM0Q
Shitstorms, shenanigans and slapdowns - https://open.spotify.com/album/2zTiugXHAvLCa34cq7iCKk?si=gTNmvhySRrSl6v7oTxQyIQ

John Your Mate is an east London based musician, songwriter and full-time human being. I am here on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/artist/2BxIIE7Gd2caZT0r1MX0eG?si=xG4ZVXRcQHqz7e6UubK3mg

Inspired by the early nineties music of Brad, Satchel, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, Slint and Stone Temple Pilots - to name a few - plus the soulful voice of the massively underrated, and much missed, Shawn Smith. 

Rocking and rolling with an independent spirit. Keep on keeping on.

How did we get so broken? (Full song on Spotify)

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