Walk in my shoes

it takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

it takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry (Bob Dylan)

Walk with you

Morning Land : Selena & Gordon's Factory June 2015
Special Guest : https://soundcloud.com/perpetually-pessimistic
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Our recent posting : "The Song", https://soundcloud.com/selena-factory/the-song
was a heady, overwhelming trip inspired by classics of visionary literature. At the time we felt there was room for a return to similar subject matter but with very different musical stylings.

Returning to  Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" & "Journey to the East" we started to write a gentler, more introspective song reliant on subtle acoustic textures.
At this point we asked our good friend & multi-instrumentalist PP : https://soundcloud.com/perpetually-pessimistic  
to help us out with some authentic Indian sounds. Fortunately he was really sold on the sketches and supplied some breathtaking sarod melodies - completely transforming Morning Land into something very special indeed.

Thanks from us both PP.

"Happiness is a talent not an object"
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When the present feels devoid of meaning, and we spend our days looking back, hiding in memories
We relive our past excitement only now a degree removed
Can we ever hope to find all that we have lost?

Living, Being, Doing, Seeking, Learning
Wanting Love

Living, Being, Doing, Seeking, Growing
Becoming Love

But where do we go in our search for The One?
Our journey to the motherlode and what it means to be human
To satisfy our need for completeness, We search for the Ultimate Truth
Is Reality Within Us?

Morning Land, We seek the Light
We seek the Home, Home of the Soul

We Journey East, to end the night
We're going home, We're going home


Morning Land : w. Perpetually Pessimistic - PP

Listen at the convenience of YouTube: https://youtu.be/FS2hy5OD_tY

Something "Slow" for a change. Enjoy the remix for the first song from the latest Leonard Cohen album "Popular Problems", 2014. Canadian musician, poet and writer is 80 now (yes, the "Hallelujah" dude, the original author and singer). The new album is awesome! If you get lucky to see Cohen in your town, go to his concert. His golden voice is brilliant! My tribute to the Maestro.

Interesting facts on how Leonard Cohen and his producer Patrick Leonard collaborated on this song! which they co-wrote. Leonard sent a lyric via e-mail; Patrick sat down at the piano, and took half an hour to write the song. He recorded it in Logic and sent to Leonard a demo, on which he replied "Great!. Patrick played Fender Rhoders and even mixed sampled horns into the song! Same as how it happens here on the SoundCloud, right? :)

I love the song and liked the story so much, so decided to allow myself to butt-in into their collab. In my take I wanted to keep/make minimalistic and sorta dark-wave-ambient sound. I made shorter notes on my synths basslines, used a straight beat. The mix is done on Korg Gadget and also has a few strums I humbly recorded with my Fender Stratocaster.  

Enjoy the tune! And thanks for your thoughts and feedback!

Made with love and a heart. I’m serious regarding author rights. Support the artist legacy, buy the original on iTunes. 

Send me your Cohen's tribute, remix, cover. Lets give our man yet another concert:  https://soundcloud.com/art-of-nonsense/sets/leonard-cohen

Slow (Sam PROCK Remix)

PP's original:  https://soundcloud.com/perpetually-pessimistic/poppas-drone

Perpetually Pessimistic's Poppa's Drone (open collaboration with PP)

I do not own the rights to the backtrack.
Peace, Love & Music :)

''Dark Desire''

Tree of Life

Music written, performed and produced by @little-lone-waltz, @sarahshamash and Wou-Wou & The Wormling.

Lyrics written by Bill Withers.

More info: http://bit.ly/1RYYlDr

Lean (feat. Sarah Shamash & Little Lone Waltz)

Heres a track of mine I've had for a wee while but  I had a jam with a friend that we recorded, hope yous enjoy it. A special thanks to Ros for having a session was great to play along with the fiddle. I then took the tracks into college to do the mix.

Danny Paterson- acoustic, production
Ros- fiddle

Down In The Gutter(Fiddle Jam)

 “I SAW YOU “

The man in red
With that pill box head
Chewing the ear off the woman 
In the corner called Fred

 jockey’s on the chair
With the bleached green hair
Wiping  upholstery
Like a horses dairy air 

Marvel Holden
With his chiselled edges
Rolling hairline spliffs
Of Tijuana Hay

It wont leave here 
Thats as it may

As night crushes in
Formed this ashtray bin
I know your face
You remind me of him/
Yeah you remind me of him


I saw you john
In the forgotten sky
Above memories house
With a busted eye

I saw you John
At the foot of my bed
Wading through reeds
Your hands on your head

I saw you John
Inside Folsom’s wire
Your rage contained 
Your heart on fire

I saw you John
Under Mississippi dirt
Blood whipped skin
Cotton burrs through your shirt


Found Dafnys hat 
on the couch where
Marvin sat
With a pickle stuck in it
Underneath the cat

And the car key bowl
Contained everyones soul
And a lipstick note
To Billy Joel

And Ezra Pound
Had it upside down
With visions of Faust
In his dressing gown

The Andrew sisters
On Enola Gay
Sang we’ll meet again
For the last hooray



I heard you John
Under the boxcar rail
Preaching hobo blues
And other bankrupt tales

I heard you John
From the floating bridge
When I washed up dead
On the waters edge

I heard you John
From the Dakota Hotel
Crying “imagine” if only
The world got well

I heard you John
In the reeds under rain
Baptising sheep
Cleansing them of blame


Trombone Jim
Out to imitate thin
Hiding in the corner
Tending ,not to be  him

Drinks  come round
He  was nailing them down
When he did leave  his corner
He went all the way to town

Irene goodnight 
Caused a fight
When Dimitri on piano
He set the thing alight

T he conga line
was running out of wine
Puffing through the kitchen 
Just  one more time



I knew you John 
Against a lizarine sky
Throwing gold silk thread
Over clouds passing by

I knew you John 
When you had broken bail
By jumping a ship
From a Saigon jail

I heard you thinking
On the Dead sea shore
Did war cause religion
Or religion cause war

I heard your voice
In the silent ground
Whispering life is all
Thats going down   

Oh yeah thanks but the crackers and cheese
Were all down to Louise
and most Monday mornings Im down on my knees

 Look, thanks again for coming round
Call in any time your in town
Sorry about Bob he wasn't putting you down
When he’s three quarters gone
He likes working the crowd

I saw you john
In the forgotten sky
Above memories house
With a busted eye

I saw you John
At the foot of my bed
Wading through reeds
Your hands on your head

I saw you John
Inside Folsom’s wire
Your rage contained 
Your heart on fire

I saw you John
Under Mississippi dirt
Blood whipped skin
Cotton burrs through your shirt


"SAW YOU JOHN"  + ( Lyrics)

I knew a girl once
she atomized
her love a lie
her love a lie

I knew another one
who lingered on
and dreamt a song
the longest song

Time is only just
a thing we made
a trick we played
a trick we played
with the night and day

No different
Than Today
Come what might’
Forever night

A map that fades away
Medieval pattern play
No different than today
No matter what we say

Time is only just
a thing we made
a trick we played
a trick we played
with the night and day

I knew a girl once
she atomized
her love a lie
her love a lie

I knew another one
who lingered on
and dreamt a song



Eighty-Eight and Ninety-Nine

https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree/dastern-the-weighty-tree-madras
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Composition, Lyrics, Vocals & Instruments https://soundcloud.com/weakheart-drop
Guitars & Alt. Mix https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree

Further collabs with Weakheart Drop and SC friends can be heard here:
soundcloud.com/theweightytree/sets/collaborations

Finding Out - Weakheart Drop w/The Weighty Tree

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

Walk in my shoes

Julie Elphick