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Hoping this one brings a little sunshine to you !!

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and Happy holidays.
Thank you for all of your kind support of my music too!

(c) Vocalatti 2024

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lonely plant

“ Rustic Bell “  by Luke 

A fun piece.. this is similar to my “In The House” track
Minimal instruments with heavy mesmerizing drum and bass & hypnotic breathing 😊

Keys & Piano & Synthesizer & Guitar & Drums  by Luke
Created & Composed & Produced by Luke
Music & Track & Album Photos by Luke
Photography by Luke
I use Open A.i for Album art pictures 

                           Beats by Luke©️
                         S c h ü ß m a n n©️

“Rustic Bell”  by Luke

We're back.

Janine: voices, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix
David Levinson: image

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Nature has conspired to bring a basketful of obstacles 
Pesky interfering things, not the things she ought to bring 
They pile up in my way like spiky beaver dams 
They just accumulate like unbrushed tresses,

Well surprise surprise, they can be wonderful

An infantry of shoulds and bags of promises 
Have all transmogrified and curl like willow branches 
That crown around my head and vine around my feet 
And where the fire burned, they slurp the ashes

But surprise surprise, they're kinda beautiful
 it’s all so beautiful


Surprise surprise, it’s pretty beautiful
Nature is a wild thing with no philosophy 
And where the atoms turn is helter skelter 
So on the sides of trees forever lichen grows 
And mossy destiny is in their shelter

Surprise surprise, it’s all so beautiful


Surprise Surprise (with Janine Levinson)

We all experience at certain times in our lives challenges that call into question our benchmarks. It is then an occasion to find new opportunities to move forward. It is also an opportunity to open ourselves up better to others and to move towards new ones perspectives, like a passage that takes us to a new place.

Le Passage

A simple, rather loose, jazz ensemble, and a simple message.
It seems as though the social and political turbulence is much like trying to paddle your own canoe - it's going to get rough and it will feel as though hope is lost, but don't stop and don't despair. Hope Floats.

The song was originally intended as a relationship muse, where two people are supposed to be paddling, together, in the same direction, but the boat keeps turning 'round and 'round. It takes courage to realize you can only control your own paddle and how you use it. It can be overwhelming and daunting, at times, and you may be inclined to abandon ship: don't.

Uploaded one week into the Trump 2.0 Administration

Lyrics:

I got my paddle in the water, 
I'm paddling with all I've got
The bow is sinking slowly, 
Glanced off a rock.
And i'm startin' to sink down into the water
Losin' myself in the current,
Goin' down, down, goin' down,
Lord help me I'm goin', goin' ,goin',  down

(instrumental break)

I got a bucket in the water
I'm bailin' but it's not enough, no.
The water's slowly risin'
And I'm runnin' out of luck.
And I'm startin' to sink down into the water
Losin' myself in the current
Goin' down, down, goin' down,
Lord help me, I'm goin', goin' down,
I'm goin' down.

Jazz Collaborations

I've Got My Paddle in the Water

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Clogged-Mind-945020182

Failed Distractions

Bright Stars In The Haze

Rotten to the Core

Nora
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[piano]

Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

Every Sunday with my gran
I walk slowly past her house
Her mother waves at us
Nora's quiet as a mouse

Nora never smiles
Her eyes they dart away
Nora's far away by miles
Lost is how she'll stay

Nora, runs away and cries
Her mother looks at us
She starts to say goodbye
Nora stops, she says "Hi?"

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

I run and say hello
But Nora does not play
Nora has a place
It's where she spends her day

Nora, does not know me
She is always looking down
Anything I do 
She looks away and frowns

Nora's in her garden
Does not care about the world
Nora loves her flowers
She could be there for hours

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[outro]



Nora

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.

Surprise Surprise (with Janine Levinson)

Jonathan Beckenstein