Wonderful track Jonathan! Love the lyrics and music :)

That break just pops so sweetly Jon, in the midst of this rather dreary canvas that you’ve painted so delicately with you guitar and voice. A little Crimson influence? Wonderful track. Durge

Love this.  Great songwriting and tasteful guitar.  Another killer track man :)

Awesome fx on your vocal! The slow steady movement in this creates deep feelings of sad romantic nostalgia...Beautiful vocal harmonies XOXOXO

@user-936947521: Thanks for visiting, Frans!

The whole song is mesmerising but this transition takes the cake

I also spotted another song I didn't know. This is like Christmas. Savouring this one, twice too! Thanks for sharing Jonathan

STAY CHEWING AND PUSHING IN PROCESSION

Fall

I have had the great pleasure to collaborate on this funky composition by The Furico Music Team.  
The Furico Music Team https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783

If you want to know more about the process:
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/ascending-stairs.html

Listen to the live version: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/sets/leaked-live-fmt1

https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/neither
This track was one of the first of theirs that I had heard.  Love to dance to it.

Original Version
User-596493783 – Ascending-stairs

The Windscale Blues Experiment https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues
This piece https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/apparition?in=suzanne-ledwith/sets/characters really makes me feel like a character in a Black n White movie.

Ascending Stairs ft. The Furico Music Team & The Windscale Blues Experiment

i reworked this song, I never really finished it when i posted it, i just kind of wanted to move on. This is a better song now.. I still can't get the vocals to sound right.. 
NOTE: I remixed this song, was able to get the pops and crackles out of the vocals

The evening fog had come, floating softly from the sea
and turned the world into a dream, where there is only you and me
when long ago we walked this shore,
and we had it all, but nothing more
not a memory you would keep
but it was everything to me

now time has burned away the fog, and we’ve come back to this place 
the silver sea and midnight sky underneath the milky way
but something’s lost along the way
where the water meets the sky so far away
it’s an illusion of the sea
they never really come to be

all I ever wanted, everything I thought I needed
I hoped to find in your heart     
If all of this meant nothing
then we’ve wasted all our time
We tried to be something we’re not
The same mistakes we’re making
The same bad road we’re taking 

It washes over me 
this is real, and not my dream
Let this be, go and find the one you need,
Who loves you for the things they see
Not what I want you to be
Not what you want me to be…

What I Wanted You To Be

As usual the volume level is not so good.
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Btw, that fine gentleman in the photo is a relative of mine who died in the 1930´s. A clairvoyant who used the classic technique of Scrying.
The called him "The Mirror Boy" aka "Peilipoika".

Salaisen Mahdin Pyörryttävät Peilikujat

As  I once heard "I'm not complaining, I'm just making an observation"

© Joe Liberty 2022. All rights reserved

Just Getting By

Now in the land of milk and honey 
In the home of the free and the brave  
It’s a time of feast or famine  and your worth equals your pay 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why
  Work hard all your life but still just getting by
Still just getting by

Well now, do you have or have you not 
Its the question of the day  
And your answer will determine
 If you’re out or got it made 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why
  Work hard all your life but still just getting by 
Still just getting by 
Yea

¯\_(ツ)_/¯  solo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

The bills they just keep coming  
The prices they all rise
 World you used to know before  crumbles by and by  
The same olds never ending
 But the dream keeps you alive  
Till you finely you realise 
That that dreams a lie

Oh, do what you can hope for the best  
Who knows you might win lotto yet  
Life a gamble and you know it’s true  
When one man wins the others lose 
Your lifes defined right from the start  
So get in line and do your part  
Buck the system if you dare 
But it’s dog-eat-dog so just beware 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why  
Work hard all your life but still just getting by
 Still just getting by 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why  
Work hard all your life and still just getting by
Still just getting by
Bye bye, still just getting by
Bye bye, still just getting by 
Yea

JustGettinBy3

I was experimenting with the Tenor Sax vst in NI Session Horns and came up with this. Helen said it reminded her of the frenetic ebb and flow in the final mating flight of mayflies as they battle against time to find a mate and complete their lifecycle within a few short hours of emerging from the water.

Mayfly

Red Carpet Procession - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] |  Live V-Synth Jam | Electro Space Pop

The King and Queen are now finally walking down the elegant-extravagant Red Carpet to officialize the vital ties, the surrounding connections, the obligatory motions here-on from this day forward...and all eyes indeed are on them...a splendid celebrity high-fine, status-star-procession...it carries on, as today is the day of all days, it's the marriage day, the match of all astral matches...sacred vows fully embraced, a majestic unforgetable soul to soul, now about to be etched in stone, for all near and far to realize...yes, this couple destined to be, from the very start, will rule like good royal nobles do...only to execute their eminent duties for the good of their people. Hope you all enjoy this heart to heart Red Carpet Procession my lovely distinguished guests of honour XOXOXO-REKHA

Music Performed & Recorded, Composed & Produced, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA


M: RCP Procession BU 2

Trailokya

RED CARPET PROCESSION

Red Carpet Procession - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] |  Live V-Synth Jam | Electro Space Pop

Half Blind Lucy - Morning Face

I have been invited by Combstead @markcombs-928282858
to play some lead guitar on a piece of him. The piece he provided to me was such a wonderful ballad, that I immediately got the ideas for the clean guitars. The solos were flowing due to Marks great and inspiring composition! 
So I feel very honored by that and I am looking forward to further collaborations with him.
I hope you will enjoy this as well as we do!
Have fun, it’s rock!

Pushing Daisies

Combstead & N.o.b.S.  - Pushing Daisies

This is my first collaboration with Clive / @winkandwoo 
We decided to make a song after he commented on the artwork for another one of my tracks (Metaplasticity) where he said it looked like a 'chewing gum sea'. I suggested it was a great song name so went for it. I am super happy with the results, hope you'll enjoy it too!

Lyrics :-
What is reality?
With these marshmallow clouds
Lollypops are all around
The trees are candy canes
There is sherbet on the ground
We swim so far
In the chewing gum sea
We swim so far

Chewing Gum Sea - Winkandwoo & tea are sea

Thank you Laar for being so easy to work with and having accepted vocals recorded with a nasty cold! Say goodbye to those fairweather friends please.

Fairweather Friend

My Fairweather Friend ( collab LAAR)

AROUND IT COMES
IT COMES AGAIN
VICIOUS NIGHT
AND HURRICANE

YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
YOU COULDN’T SEE
PRE-DESIGNED
THIS DESTINY

MY INSTAGRAM
AND TWITTER FEED
WILL NOT BLOCK
ATROCITY

A STROLL TO YESTERDAY
AND DON’T FORGET YOUR RAINCOAT

RECALL WHEN WE WERE SAFE
AND HISTORY WAS A GHOST

IT’S NOT TOO LATE
UNLEASH THE LIGHT
ONE MORE TIME
BEFORE THE NIGHT

Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright, Fady and Cheesemont for early listening, consultation, and support.

History

Stay True To Me

IN A DOORWAY
IN THE SHADOWS
AS THE RAIN MUTES
THE NEON SIGNS


HANDS IN POCKETS
OF A SLICKER
MIDNIGHT STRAGGLERS
MEANDER BY

HOLLOW PROMISE
REMINISENCE
LIKE AN ARCING
ELECTRIC LINE

4:00 IN THE MORNIN’
SHE’S AT THE AFTERPARTY
NO ONE IS WARNIN’
SHE SHOULDN’T LEAVE ALONE, NO…

EVERLASTING
I DON’T THINK SO
EVERY BARGAIN
WILL BE BETRAYED

JESUS TOLD ME
I AM SPECIAL
CLOCK IS TICKING
IT’S JUDGEMENT DAY

FADE TO BLACK
SHE’S NOT COMING BACK

FADE TO BLACK
A FRESH MANIAC

Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, and Wheelwright for consultations various.

Amour Noir

THEY NEVER LISTEN

Track shows a very delicate theme and a quite hard-riffed part, both alternating and finally flowing up to an endless symphonic dream (words are half a poem I wrote previously (not these, but lyrics below)).

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)  /  Don’t you wake up (Only a dream)

No... despierta... no... no despiertes  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up
no, cuidado... no despiertes, na na na na na...  /  no, take care ... don’t you wake up, na na na na na…
... despierta al fin y date cuenta  /  ... wake up at last and realize
de que todo ha sido un sueño, na na na na na...  /  everything has been a dream, na na na na na...

Una vez más, nervios y resentimiento,  /  Once again, nerves and resentment,
todo en mi vida es sueño, sólo ha sido eso.  /  everything in my life is a dream, it has only been so.

Y de nuevo, con el tiempo,  /  And again, with time,
incubando un nuevo sueño,  /  incubating a new dream,
me voy hundiendo en mis propios brazos,  /  I am sinking in my own arms,
me acuno, me canto y me voy acostumbrando...  /  cradle myself, sing to myself and get used...

Otro escenario, otros personajes,  /  Another stage, other characters,
la misma historia, na na na na na...  /  the same story, na na na na na...
que durará un día, un milenio,  /  which will last one day, a millenium,
toda mi vida, na na na na na...  /  all my life, na na na na na...

Pero sin duda vendrán a despertarme  /  But undoubtedly the laughs of people
las risas de la gente, alguna tarde.  /  will come to wake me up, any evening.

Y entonces, con miedo...  /  And then, fearfully...

No... despierta… no… no despiertes (…)  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up (…)

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)

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A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

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