Love the positive mantra / you're not alone in dark ways of thinking...and some gorgeous musical touches in there from instruments popping in and out. Really top tune. 

Very good and clear vocal! (I feel the emotion) Superb production and song too! Well done!! I love it!

Beautiful energy on this one, John. Nice lyrics. :)

Really nice one!! I love the lyrics, and the melody is really stuck in my mind, now :-D

forgotten how much I like this one...felt like a hot cup of coffee to my sense whilst drinking a hot cup of coffee :). 

NOTHING IS THE SAME ANYMORE

Electronic Human Face

Best Enemy

ps03_tinny

¡¡ Warning: very old track with very LO-FI sound !!

4th track, november'93. Time passes, life changes ourselves. I play clean guitars, focusing my work on changing rhythmics, from the smoothest to the most passioned. 

El 4º tema, noviembre de 1993. El tiempo pasa, la vida nos cambia. Toco la guitarra sin distorsión y trabajo especialmente la base rítmica en las distintas partes, pasando de lo más sutil a lo más rítmico y apasionado.

Lyrics/Letra:

Cuando me comporto de un modo raro 
me cierras las puertas;
mi sueño termina, estoy acabado,
donde ya nada es igual, ya nada es igual.

Todo en lo que confiaba, ahora se derrumba...
Aquello que despreciaba, es lo que me gusta...
y es que ya nada es igual, ya nada es igual.

Creo sentir un empujón que me invita a seguir.
Creo llegar a un tiempo más lejano que tus ojos...
donde ya nada es igual, ya nada es igual.

El aire canta frío entre los tejados...
me veo aquí dormido, a mi lado...
y me levanto en la sombra para tocar el cielo...
donde ya nada es igual, ya nada es igual.

La luz se aleja, la luz se acerca,
las luces juegan con mi cabeza,
me siento raro, me siento raro, me siento raro,
y es que ya nada es igual, ya nada es igual.

Me siento raro (Nada es igual)

Un grand Merci à Cyril Mendez, artiste passionné et talentueux, pour nous avoir proposé cette Magnifique composition. 
Ce fut un plaisir de partager ce moment musical tous les trois. 
Dès la première écoute, Steph OUNA a tout de suite entendu une mélodie de chant et s'est mis à l'écriture du texte dans la foulée :))

Musique: Cyril MENDEZ avec la participation de Steph OUNA
Paroles: Steph OUNA
Arrangements: Cyril MENDEZ / Steph OUNA / Lena
Chants: Steph OUNA & Lena 
Coeurs : Lena
Guitares + basse: Steph OUNA
Claviers: Cyril MENDEZ
Mixage: Cyril MENDEZ
Mastering: Jean Pierre FRANCHI
Conception vignette: Lena

Pour les écouter:

Cyril Mendez : @canm
Steph OUNA: @user-70495223
Jean Pierre FRANCHI: @user-656242881 & www.bluedjinns.com

Volcan
L'energie du soleil
la vie dans ses doigts
aux entrailles de la terre
la puissance du magma
doucement se réveille ...

Je sens comme un appel
la lumière d'un phare
un cri bien au delà
a  l'abri des regards
un chant millénaire ...

Volcano
The energy of the sun
life in his fingers
in the bowels of the earth
the power of magma
wake up slowly ...

I feel like a call
the light of a lighthouse
a cry far beyond
isolated
an old song ...

Volcan - Collaboration Steph OUNA & Lena & Cyril MENDEZ

Full song here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jA5ujYoxiQcZbvpTNBmJk?si=fa2OZTKiRNOeGLFKUEuREA

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

Words:
I was lost for 24 years
And all of these pastures were new
Keys and the locks like hearts torn in two
The promises slipped from my view

I can’t be that strong
At five on the morning
I hear that breathe
I know that you’re thinking
Of all the shitstorms
At five in the morning
When your heart is racing
I know what you’re thinking

Paid the cost and shed all the tears
Cos time has its tolls to go through
Down below the cities are queued
The world now burns brighter for you

You only live once
So get the f*** up
And let's get unstuck
You only die once
So shut the f*** up
And make your own luck

Shitstorms, shenanigans and slapdowns

I know what you're thinking (Full song on Spotify)

Wander in the middle of the night

Get Up Get Down

track 4 from the album "B Sides, Alternates and Other Songs" ......... a collection of 10 songs written or recorded during the making of my "For the Stars" album in 2019 but didn't make the album.......releasing one song monthly thru October 2020!

"What Would Jesus Say" is a true "B Side". It was complete and ready to go during the making of my "For the Stars" album but just didn't make the cut. I think I felt I already had a couple of songs that I would call "about our current times" and just didn't want another. This song is about all the "bad behavior" of people in the world today and asks the question, would they act differently if they thought Jesus or someone important in their lives was watching them.

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B Sides, Alternates and Other Songs

What Would Jesus Say

Please, the artwork i made for this track is not an apology of drugs! 

Be safe, love life!

Bleep

Don't smell my sister mortfine

Search Ferensick Recs on YouTube & check out this video if you're curious! 🎶 😎

Don't Say

Will (September 2020)

This is a brief, basic experiment track to learn more about the compression function on vocals with our new recording equipment. Always loved this Zevon song so thought I would post what I was tinkering with... Happy to say that Morry and I are working on new originals lately, using our new DP-24 Tascam. The songs will have full instrumentation and not just my crappy acoustic playing. Hope to post them in the next few months.

Don't let us get sick - Zevon Cover

Inspired by an off hand comment from Jamie Rhind. I'm a musical dog, easily distracted by shiny objects.

Light My Fire

This is possibly my fourth or fifth recording of this song. I wrote it 10 or 12 years ago after a line in a book about Neil Young made me laugh out loud. Neil was planning on returning to country music for an album or two and his bass player was frustrated because he felt this meant he'd be relegated to playing eat-shit boom boom bass lines. Impatience with this kind of music was the reason he had left Nashville, he said. Well, this song isn't really about bass lines or about dissing country music, which I love dearly. But it did seem to me there should be a song called The Reason I Left Nashville. This is the latest - and in all likelihood not the last - attempt to do the title justice ...


The Reason I Left Nashville

They made me play that eat-shit ‘boom’ bass
Flicked their peanuts into my face
I thought the music was kinda thin
But some of them  people had paid to get in
I think the audience is probably drinking still
That's the reason I left Nashville

Yeah and they wear those alligator boots
Diamonds sewn into their suits
Every other store is selling steel guitars
Why does everybody got to be a country star?
Yeah but they don't want to foot the bill
That's the reason I left Nashville

It's rock n roll from here on in
That's the way it’ll have to be
I never played my own country song
I blew right out of Tennessee

Truth is I guess I've lost my hunger
Should've been there 10 years younger
I was kinda busy, up to no good
To give my song verisimilitude
They wouldn't give me 10 lousy minutes to fill
That's the reason I left Nashville

The Reason I Left Nashville

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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.

I know what you're thinking (Full song on Spotify)

John Your Mate

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