A song of disillusionment and heartache with Celtic Reel rhythm. Bodhran drum, Fiddle, Acoustic guitars, Saxophone (solo), Electric Bass, Synth pads, Electric keyboard, Vocals.   

The Best Days Of My Life

singer/songwriter
Santa Barbara, CA

projects:
@birdbathsounds - indie electronica
@earlandthelovedove - Indie Rock

http://driverlessbus.bandcamp.com/music

'Driverless Bus.'

A 'Bus', No driver!
You, looking out the window?  

you see something nice, maybe beautiful flowers, blue sky and you shout up the bus... "Hay Driver" "Lets stop here and have a picnic" but the bus doesn't stop. Then the journey takes you to a smelly dark place. Burning rubbish, shopping trolley in the river, maybe an atomic waste ground? you shout up the bus..."Hay Driver" "Hurry up! don't like it here, go fast" the bus neither goes fast to get by nasty things or slows down for nice things. There isn't a driver, life is a driverless bus   ...maybe?

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita........
Je meurs de soif aupres de la fontaine......

Songwriter. Kitchen guitarist with inclination for orchestration and arrangement. Poet in the past.

I occasionally post solo works of "the other manager", my friend, drummer and self-taught keyboard player Maxim K.

My spotlight :-)
https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/when-i-come-home-to-you

All my tracks may be downloaded. You're also invited to my website, my new soundcloud site "Poetry Project", or my YouTube site (see links below). Thanks!

I am of French Huguenot descent, born in Africa, a kind of African Cajun, and my love of music has always encompassed the rather wide range of Blues, Bluesrock, Rock, Rock ‘n Roll, Country and Metal, but also Jazz, Mexican and other Latin forms of music. In spite of the fact that my family have lived in Africa since 1688, there is very little contemporary African influence in my music. So what! I play what I love to play, and that’s that. I have several bands, Erongo Conspiracy and  BluesRock & Country Inc., but they consist only of me.  Here on the wild Atlantic coast in one of the remotest spots and the oldest desert on earth, the Namib, with not a blues/country/rock musician in sight, I do it on my own: with the help of my seven trusty old guitars, plus all of my Production Software and studio equipment. I compose the music, write the lyrics,  do the vocals, the mixing and the tweaking. I am a kind of one-man-band. ﻿I’m in love with rocking rhythms, hot guitars, my lyrical Strat, wild fiddles, funky Saxophones, rocking harps, honest resophonic guitars, growling organs. I love to experiment with the unbelievable potential of electronics. My approach is often eclectic: I refuse to be restricted to one style or category of music, and I use whatever I feel is right for a specific song. But most of my songs have an unmistakably bluesy and rock touch. If any band or singer out there would like to honour me by using any of my songs, you'd be most welcome to do so. I'll give you a special permission to do so, obviously without any charge.

I am a Home recording artist, born in 1946, Songs on here can be purchased from, www.amazingtunes.com/oldroboman.  I started to write after I retired in 2006 and record on my computer. I write all the music and play all the instruments you can hear (some badly!)  I use a Miditech Audiolink II, interface to connect the instruments and Mics to the PC. to date I have written over 400 songs. I also post stuff on the Amazing Tunes website, but that isn't very fruitful lately as they seem to promote only people with labels these days. I did manage to get into their chart when they started at No8, for a week, and also they played my Christmas song on the Digital Radio in the UK. last year, but nothing since. I seem to get a lot more plays on here, so I hope those who do play my stuff at least like it, but then we all have different tastes and I am not expecting to be a millionaire any time soon. but Thank you all for listening its all I ask. I started in music when I was 18 in Sunny Aden, in 1964  in a group with some Army guys called 'The Shameless Five' that lasted the 2 years of my tour then, on returning to the UK I picked up another group, 'The Purple Faize' yeah, famous, I know! I then had  break from groups for about 40 years until now.

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

The Best Days Of My Life

Jos Slabbert