I'm immediately taken by the lyrics. So clean, sparse, and elusively meaningfully. The musical backing and the vocal do full justice to these words. Plenty of musical meaningfulness here.

Definitely want to check out your latest with Janine while I'm here. I wouldn't be surprised if I heard this on a recent Anything Goes. :)

Ooh, i like that more chill middle bit. A sit and await the next moment kinda feel.

Great track. That was a lot of fun, you two. :)

Great track Jonathan; fine vocals; a haunting quality to this excellent sound production!

An edge to this one, a brooding pulse, the dark theme of death's finality...But I detect a tone of resoluteness as well. Perfect combination between two great artists. Brilliant as always Jonathan.

HOBOCOP

I’m Going home

All the things that I have to tell her remain unspoken
The right words just don’t show up, within my mind
All I ask is How're you doing, are you happy?
Don’t dare to ask if she has a lover, or a child

So long I’ve waited to see her again
And now I don’t know what to do or when
I’m going home
Each night I feel that my lover’s heart is beating only for her
But I’m going home

At last we make a move, our chairs a bit closer
I smell her hair and touch her left knee with my hand
A warm pain runs through my heart as she says no lover
Has ever meant very much to her

So long I’ve waited to see her again
And now I don’t know what to do or when
I’m going home
Each night I feel that my lover’s heart is beating only for her
But I’m going home

After closing time I linger by her blue car
Until we finely kiss and she says goodbye
Then she starts her car and she leaves me standing
Alone with my shadow in an empty parkinglot

So long I’ve waited to see her again
And now I don’t know what to do or when
I’m going home
Each night I feel that my lover’s heart is beating only for her
But I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m going home

I'm Going Home

FromTheOtherSide

Lamentation

Recorded live in our studio back in the 70'
Music : Fin Valentin
Linie 18 is.
Drums : Niels Enevoldsen
Bass : Fin Valentin
Saxofon: Søren Blet
Rythm guitar : Hans Kvisgaard
Lead guitar : Per Jensen

Linie 18 W/ Linie 18

This was a collaboration with D. who produced the beats and pulled the mix together. Legend. 

Check out D. on Soundcloud:

https://on.soundcloud.com/bN1LZ

Lyrics:

What does it take to have somewhere to be
 
We wither and cower 
and give them every hour
What does it take
What does it take

In the heat of the moment 
Aim to the left, aim to the right
These people see me coming
They’re getting ready for the fight
Lay claim to what is day
and what is night
and what is yours 
and what is mine

Thank God we don't have to think
Thank God for AI

Thank God we don't have to think
Thank God for AI

In the heat of the moment 
Aim to the left, aim to the right
These people see me coming
They’re getting ready for the fight
Lay claim to what is day
and what is night
and what is yours 
and what is mine

Thank God we don't have to think
Thank God for AI

What does it take
What does it take

We wither, uncover
and comfort one another
While they make money from nothin
Make peace with me my brother

I don't have the right mind
But it's about time
I told you bout my one crime 
In my primetime
It was nothing like the blood call 
In the moonlight
Everywhere's a downtown
Where we’re all found out

Cower

I normally go for "light and melodic" in my music but here i've gone for "dark and percussive" for a change!! 

Music,composition,arrangment,mix and production ... Pablo
Retro-Tone Audio ©2023

The Dream Chaser

The Dream Chaser ................ Scary Mix ...............

An experiment in using a kick track with rhythmic percussion, Helen provided vocals  in a single take, after adding some vst based guitar, orchestral decoration and reverb this is what we finished up with.

Tripping The Light (holding on)

Dope Jam Band-TheSmokingTrout
This is my first time participating, but Smoking Trout's other songs are also great, 
so be sure to check out the album! 
Oh~~Yeah! 
Thank U 4 Listening!!!

* Uziel @user-455619833 -- Vocals, Lyrics, and Vocal Production

* TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman -- Lead & Rhythm Guitar funkiness

* Stonerjazz @user-911083679 -- Modulated Guitar & Vocaloid melodies

* Tot - @tot-beat -- Beat & Drums

* Tea R. Sea -- Synth, Sound Effects & Production

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Catch up with the first 5 tracks of our work-in-progress concept album, Quest for the Holy Dumpling: on.soundcloud.com/FR63a

Listen to the Smoking Trout's first album, The Land of Zed (2021-2022): on.soundcloud.com/WB34q
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Lyrics:

All those normal little things... pass us by, pass ussssssss
mirage of migrant, trucks full of food tiny boutiques nose up looking down
street dancers, performers, the arts little stalls selling fruit

and the bus tumbles through

HOWEVER GUS, You remember Gus? The driver of this bus...
Regretfully informs us that our engine food is at the edge of E, and the only thing we'll be running on soon is fumes

And as we approach, We can hear
A dusty massive heart beating city industry eldritch being and foreboding
Sitting atop his sky scrapers gloating
"Hungry enough yet?" It's beastly maw cries! "It's 10 for 5 and the price only went up 6.7%
Nothing to you, you're worker bees and you can make more honey, can't you?"

While yes that's true
We are the life blood that flow through
But people like me and you
Can't afford it

Fortune cookie flavor our journey
It's the last I got
I'm looking for the old woman
The gate keeper to the other side
Where we have the wholly divide
Away from this hellish relish
And Instead:
Dumpling soup, dumpling plump, fried in foie gras butter perhaps?
Holy condiment burns through fiery on your Thai chili adjusted tongue,

BUT THAT'S JUST ME! It tastes different for everyone

"OH, I can't help it!

We are all starving, the bus is outta' gas, and spewing smoke, Gus is cussing up a storm, Roberta's lighting up her last swiff... I think Larry's getting water"
said Jimmy to Sally and Stu

All digging through our pockets to get the last crumb or two
Looking forward to what we share
But it looks like
It's not a lot

Dumpling Stew (Smoking Trout's HOLY DUMPLING #6)w/ Uziel, Stonerjazz, TexMex Shaman & Tea R.Sea

Janine: voice, words, vocal melody https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

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on a frozen berm
in a carriage house
with a veil of gauze
on a frosted hearth
 
on a ledge of iron
in a blinding storm
on the peat and earth
of the winded moor
   
in the ink and lead
in the skin of men
in the final beats
of a trembling heart
 
it is quiet, shhh
oh but it is quiet 
 
it is quiet
oh it is quiet
 
on the rolling sea
in the folds of sails
in between the planks
on the salty rail
 
in the thorny vines
in the rumpled flowers
in a nest of crows
on a crumbling tower
 
in the swirl of smoke
from a dying fire
it is grey and green
and it is quiet
shhh

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image: Boudewijn Huysmans via Unslpash

It Is Quiet (with Janine Levinson)

TheReign (Instrumental)

A Murmuration of Starlings

"The Egerton Manuscript listed a 'murmuracyon' back in 1468 & most subsequent lists from the 15th Cent include this entry. As with many terms describing flocks of birds this one is inspired by the sound the birds make when they flock together."
[Chloe Rhodes]

Bill Boethius: guitars.
Guitar used is a Fender Stratocaster hardtail.

Composed, performed & produced by Bill Boethius

A Murmuration of Starlings

See The Sun Arise

Road Maps is a blues-inspired song about a knight who did not go to the previous crusade and longed for the glory given to those who did and came back. The song follows his attempt to rendevous with a large military group he belongs to, but is late to the party; he meets interesting and colourful characters throughout his quest to take up arms, with each character symbolizing, codifying and exuding themes of honour, enchantment, potential, backstabbery, and cowardice. Once our character arrives at the battle scene he's been searching for, he sees his side has already lost and tries to slip away unharmed.

LYRICS:
The sky is blue
And the trees are green
Armour shining in the sun.
Headin' out east to Valence
No the battle has not begun.

Out on the road
Ran into Raymond of Tolosa,
His words are rogue
From his battles over Asia.
Who blusters by
But the defacto Margrave boy!
Only fools fly.
The same as the others employ
They are a king's toy.

Their swords are sharp,
But their minds are bare
Absolving absolution:
Been sent out here to conquer
Lord they can't save themselves.

The sky is red
And the land is rich
Signs of victory prevail.
Egressing to Durazzo 
Ohh what it might entail.

Through distant peaks
Met the Moneyman of Milan,
The Byz repeats
Underneath the consecration song.
As months go on
See the Wealthy Barvarian!
Their greed is strong.
He escaped a contrarian
But he was no barbarian.

Their swords are sharp,
But their minds are bare
Absolving absolution:
Been sent out here to conquer
Lord they can't save themselves.

The sky is grey
And the walls are high
Enemy of a lost cause.
Runnin' on past Nicea
No time to greet a pause.

The sky is black
And the trees are burnt
A force surrounds to assert.
Over the Isle of Cypress
How many more will revert.

A broken siege
Constable Conrad wants to win,
Thou doth beseech
The sounds and sights are feeling grim.
Down on the ground
Steven the Coward was redeemed!
His oath was bound.
The process fails at the seams
Must leave swiftly unseen.

No matter where you're from,
Or the suit you wear
If then presented a path:
Better not choose the wrong one
You could meet the devil's wrath!

Whatever one may want
Or the aim you take
Your target's in the distance:
Better deem your ambition
It's chosen by admission!

If you take up in arms 
And meet a dismal end
Outlived by a narrative:
Create a clear perspective
Tale tales so affected!

Their swords are sharp,
But their minds are bare
Absolving absolution:
Been sent out here to conquer
Lord they can't save themselves.

Road Maps

Having some fun again with the wonderful Andy McLean on saxes - such sweet lines, harmonies and sound 

Check out more of Andy's great playing here:  https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

Thanks for your generous time listening, for your comments and your shares

Wah Tz Up?   -   Andy McLean & Jamie Rhind

Music:  PJ Project & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & vocals:  Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix:  PJ Project

Lyrics:

Finally you has arrived
Its wonderful to feel your heat..
Enjoying the love you're giving me
You make it easier to breathe..

You, you are my inspiration
You, you make me smile and create..

I know you had some difficult days
You could disappear for a long time..
sometimes you were weak in so many ways
while I was waiting for you to shine..

You, you are my inspiration
You, you make me smile and create..

You, you are my inspiration
You, you make me smile and create..

Oh, sunshine I need you in my life
I depend of your glow
You make me feel so good when you decide to come
And the smile on my face will show you

That you, you are my inspiration
You, you make me smile and create..

The Sun, My Inspiration  W/PJ Project

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

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.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

It Is Quiet (with Janine Levinson)

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