Songwriter/Composer


Songs of Land and Sea
This is an album of my songs with other singers performing them, it will hopefully be released sometime in August 2025

Latest release:

Modern Traveller 
Released on the Factual label by Lift Music, published by Boost Music for use in TV and film.
My titles include:
1. Sitar Sunrise 

Beneath the Western Sky (21/06/2025)

Gone Fishing 
Released on the POKE music label by Lift Music and Boost Music library, for use in TV and film.
My titles include:
1. The Brook
2. Backwaters
3.  Castin' a Line
4. The Fishermen
5. Still Waters
6. Tales of the River Bank
7. Gone Fishing
8. Off the Beaten Track
9. Ripples

Whispers From A Pink Moon,
Released on The Box label at Bibliotheque Music, Published by Cavendish Music.
Tracks include:
1. Rolling Along 
6. Maybe Today 
9. Summer Skies 
link below (aka JGKT)

By The Wind Sailor, released by Will Keating on his album A Remembered Walk

Discography: 
(All available on Spotify and all the others)

Albums:

Beneath the Western Sky (2025) downloadable on Bandcamp see links

Into The Waves (2023)

Dystopian Landscapes (2020)

Little Hollow Farm, Instrumentals (2020) 

Full Circle (2020)

Dangling (2019)

The Rook (2012)

Country Roads (2008) 

Into the Wildness (2006) 

Dance To I love You (1990 -2005, very early rough demos from another lifetime J T).

After meeting in June of 2012, Cole Tyler and Anthony Graziano starting writing and playing together and immediately clicked. In the beginning, the idea was based on becoming more of a garage rock band but their sound would quickly become their own. Once they brought in drummer Ryan Hottenrott, and bassist Dave Gambon, the band came together and things took off. With the line up solidified, the band would go on to record a self titled full length album followed by the Running From the Past record. 
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Before disbanding on January 1, 2017, The FORZ played gigs like the Forbes Under 30 Summit, and were on the ballot for the 59th Annual GRAMMY awards for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Group or Duo for “Words For Me” and “Separate Ways.” They were a top 5 pick on WEMF's Boston Emissions twice in 2013, had their first album released by Wiener Records
and worked with Al Gomes of Big Noise. 
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With influences that swing as far off as The Zombies, Todd Rundgren, and The Raspberries and all the way back to their peers such as Foxygen, Ty Segall, Mac Demarco, and Tame Impala, Melody Motel bring a new feel to a classic genre. Lush with addicting progressions, vocal hooks, and alt rock edge, the record boasts the aesthetic of classic rock anthems.

L'Homme jasmin ("The Man of Jasmine" ) , named after the novel of Unica Zurn, partener of Hans Bellemer is a big band consisting of a Japanese songwriter and her alter-egos currently living in France.  

Homme Jasmin（ジャスミン男）というバンド名は、ハンス・ベルメールの伴侶ウニカ・ツュルンの小説にちなんでつけました。

My songs and covers were already presented on
-Radio grenouille , "Tease-O-rama" (France,  airplay)
-Fresh on the Net (site derived from a former BBC program directed by Tom Robinson, UK)
-Radio Japan (Japan)  (Oct 2013 AM1:00-2:30 AM1422 Radio Japan  "Rock Rush Radio" , airplay)
-CBC Radio (Japan) in "Denji-mashimashi" (16. nov. 2013 and 11 jan. 2014  air & ustream) 

今までに取り上げてくれたところ。
Radio Grenouille（フランス、ラジオ局）　"Goo Goo Muck"
Fresh on the Net （イギリス、TRBのトム・ロビンソンが主催するBBCの番組から派生したインディーズ紹介サイト） "Playing Doctor", "Hello Kitty"
ラジオ日本（日本） 今週2013年10月17日木曜日深夜25:00-26:30 AM1422 ラジオ日本「ROCK RUSH RADIO」　"Playing Doctor"
CBCラジオ（日本）　2013年11月16日『電磁マシマシ』　「今日のKORG M01D楽曲」コーナー "Singing in the Radiator"

Hi, I'm Chris and I am a research scientist by day and a songwriter in my spare time. I joined SC in 2013 and I mainly record acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies, but also like playing electric guitar, bass, keyboards and using drum loops.

My musical influences include Syd Barrett, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon, and increasingly fellow SoundClouders; My favourite bands include Yes, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Rush and Steely Dan, and I also listen a lot to The Beatles, Elton John, The Who, Van Morrison, Genesis, King Crimson,  Jethro Tull, Sparks, Stevie Wonder, The Grateful Dead to name but a few...

Anyway, please feel free to get in touch - I can make any tracks (in whole or in part) available if you want them for collaborative reasons, or if you just want them for your mp3 collection :)


Folk/rock songs in singer/songwriter style and diy/punk spirit. 
Personas and parodies, rants and ramblings, fables and fantasy, sleaze and silliness.

I've been playing/writing music as a hobby for years, and sometime ago I arranged my songs into 4 thematic (semi-finished) albums. After persistent nagging and unreasonable flattery from biased friends, I've been coaxed into spending some free time working on selected songs (from those 4 albums) and making them public. Hope you like them.

About me, I'm in my 30s, of mixed background, and I live (mostly) in England and Scotland. Jon Deferdyn is an alteration of my name and the Vortex is a small, loose group of friends with whom I've played music.

Some of the compliments I've got so far are on the lyrics, so I've included them (on each song page here).

Many of my favorite artists are (for lack of a better description) in the literary singer-songwriter/chansonnier/bard tradition:
Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray, Fabrizio De Andre, Nick Cave, Vladimir Vysotsky, Shane McGowan, Ewan MacColl, Dubliners, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Wolf Biermann, Jacek Kaczmarski, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Linton Kwesi Johnson; in bands, Clash, Mano Negra, Cramps, and others.

If you like the music please Share!
Guitarist looking for others to collaborate with...if u like something and want to add to it let me know.  Let's see how we can work together. :)
Lately into Acoustic (steel string, 12 string, and classical guitars)...but have electric also.

Raised in the suburbs of St. Louis County. Life lessons in Los Angeles. Residing in the Bay Area of California. Paul sings, writes, plays things with strings, and teaches stuff. The Mockingbirds is an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of musicianly characters trying their damnedest to make some nice art. Here's hoping that a heartstring is tugged, a toe is tapped, or a melody sings itself in your head.

Jon Deferdyn &amp; the Vortex is following

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