March 2025

AI vocals in an R&B style, jazzed up with saxophone.

I weigh more than I ought to do
This time I'm gonna see it through 
Cut down carbs and eat one meal a day.

Swimming, walking, lifting weights
Eat my food from smaller plates 
Go to the gym and steam my pounds away. (Steam room!)

In the steam room it's so steamy
Nothing goes on there that's seamy
No one ever makes a lewd advance.
 
Sitting there in towels and swimmers
While the air around us simmers
Just a bunch of men not wearing pants.(Steam room!)

Some folks there prefer the sauna,
Me, I don't, but I'm not gonna
Argue if you chance to disagree.

But I prefer perspiring gently
While I concentrate intensely
Composin' lyrics as they come to me. (Steam room!)

All alone there, hanging loose, ticks
Every box for good acoustics 
I can warble to my heart's delight.

Singing through the clouds of vapour 
I can't get it down on paper
Paper falls apart and pens won't write.

So I have to keep rehearsing
While the steam clouds are dispersing
Hoping it will be my best track yet.

Tell my fans when it appears
There wasn't any blood or tears,
But it sure required an awful lot of sweat.(Steam room!)

Steam room!
Steam room!

Steam Room

Some old lyrics dragged up from the past, inspired perhaps by The Basement Tapes. But I think it works.

Let The Bear In

My Girl (She Does My Crosswords)

A little digression in the key of C sharp minor

The Window Cleaner

I started with the Apricot synthesiser, and never left it -- it all meshed in very nicely

Apricot Pie

Nice saxophone with some Indian-style percussion, strings and vocals

Basket Case

Electric guitars and an organ with an electric piano

Sparkle Monster

Somewhat subverted classical track -- a trial run for the new Scaler 3 plugin.

Clearest Her

Introspective piano and synth track with some percussion contributions from Transfuser.

Opportunity Knox

Guitars and woodwind instruments playing around in no particular key. The whoosh sounds are due to sudden random changes in delay time.

Doppler Effect

Rumbly ambient track with a classic organ and tabla combination

A Fist Full Of Fingers

For A Few Fingers More

A funeral march for the late Pope. He could have been better, but he might have been much, much, worse.

Ad Francisco

I have never been a big fan of the native Bitwig synthesisers, but I thought it was time to give them a fair go. So this is four layers of Polysynth doing polysynth things, as played in by me with my own fair hands. The title comes from one of the presets, but it seemed appropriate.

Another Digi Day

Nobody seems to have written an AI song about Blaxland yet, so I thought it was time to rectify that. And I have spared no effort in trying to capture the heady ambience of Open Mike Tuesday at Blaxland Tavern.

Blaxland Blues

Throwing some techno at a wall to see what sticks...

Swampland

This is about as close to metal as I get.

Heartbreak Ridge

An AI pastiche based on Dylan's Desolation Row. Once I had the tagline, the lyrics more or less wrote themselves.

FAR AWAY FROM BUTTE

The memory shops are shuttered
Juanita's closed her stall,
Nobody's buying honey cakes
Or anything at all.

There's a wall down by the fortress
Where rebels stood their ground
But the man who does the guided tour
Is nowhere to be found.

They've cancelled all the guidebooks
The author's in dispute
He may be in Montana,
But he's far away from Butte.

The statue of a French girl
Beside the market square
Is pointing down a road that 
Doesn't take us anywhere.

They say that she saw visions
Of a city on a hill,
But no-one ever built the thing
And no-one ever will.

They've dressed her in a crinoline,
They say that she looks cute.
We're somewhere in Montana,
But we're far away from Butte.

The transatlantic flier
Has landed in a field
The troopers have their guns on him
Commanding him to yield.

Meanwhile, outside the courtroom
The bookie's taking bets
On what he will be charged with
And the sentence that he gets.

The navigator got away,
She had a parachute.
She's somewhere in Montana,
But far away from Butte.

I sat in at the poker school
Inside the old hotel.
When I drew the Jack of Hearts I thought
I was doing pretty well.

But I was beaten by a trump
Of an entirely different suit.
I'm somewhere in Montana,
But I'm miles away from Butte.

Far Away From Butte

Another Brian Eno tribute, because why not?

One Brain

Made with one sequencer and many channels attached to different instruments

Channel Surfing

The eighties are back and synth pop lives! An AI production.

Thinking About You

A kind of electronic folk thingy experimenting with the Freezr audio sequencer. The title is taken from my failing memories of the lyric to The Lark In The Morning, by Steeleye Span, which I can't now find any verification of online.

She Rises And She Sings

A beat track using the native Sweep plugin from Bitwig

Brassy Blue Alice

Complex mallet work from a glock, marimba and xylophone

Chasing Your Own Tail

A synthpop creation in tribute to those 90s bands.

Radio Tangerine

Matters of Emotion

Definitely experimental track with various kinds of programmed notes

Noble Gases

Trancey synth track using the versatile Massive plugin

Electron Shuffle

I'm back from holidays, and starting off with a bright track for piano and harp, plus some unorthodox backing

A Wider View

Multiple stutter effects applied to synth and drums, with a few woodwinds for good measure

Twenty-Five Words Or Less

Gentle ambient piano track with some trumpet overlay

Solo Dancer

For better or worse, this is me singing my own vocals after deleting the vocal stem from an AI track. I have a cold in the head, and I don't know where that accent came from, but technically, for a first attempt, I don't think it's too bad. Very astute listeners may be able to track down my inspiration from the first few words.

Walking to Juanita's

'Freshwater Fish' is an imaginary ballet suite inspired by the Rivers displays at Singapore Zoo. 'The Pike' is the first piece to be written. 

The Pike -- from 'Freshwater Fish'

A Long Lane

A wistful little AI ballad -- my lyrics -- that I didn't have the guts to sing on myself.

It Should Be Raining

Slow dark ambient track with some sinister FX.

The Air Gap

Three minutes of assorted weirdness, for those who like that sort of thing.

Absolute Zero

Slow ambient track with jangly guitars and a steady drum line. The title is a quote from TS Eliot

Where Is The Wisdom

Jazzy track with doctored percussion, guitar and electric piano

Ace In The Hole

Scandal Sheet

A warm bath of synthesisers with some intrusive conversation

On The Back Of A Postcard

Slow jazzy track using a new viola plugin and a bass from Decent Sampler

Sunday Bonnet

Guitar track over Asian percussion with a bit of flanging here and there and some weird echoes

The Great Circle

Distractions

Slow piano track with the customary weird noises. The title's not rude -- I was going to call it 'Excursus' but I think I've already used that.

Divagation

Jazzy guitar track with percussion and bells

The Daily News

If you want consistency, you've come to the wrong place. 
But seriously? Try my albums.
https://soundcloud.com/jon-jermey/albums

Jon Jermey

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