A real pleasure to present to you perhaps the strangest song I have ever collaborated on. Gary simply sent me a line of prose to be used as an acrostic, where each word is the beginning of a line of lyrics. Nothing else. Blank canvas. The original words are "Show Those Ones You Love That They Are Adored Fully, Encompassed Within My Daily Thoughts Are Peaceful Intentions Towards Them All"

He asked me to make up some lyrics and a melody, any key, then to sing the tune to a click track and he would do the rest. To top it off the title of the song is acronymous - ACRONYM standing for the full title, which is "A collaborative record of nostalgia, yearning (&) memories"

Acronym

Show that I love you and hold all
Those memories close to my heart..those
Ones that we all made together. 
You mean all the world what we call
Love has been from the start..the thing
That will unite us forever. 
They make us gold
Are all we know
Adored until we're old
Fully complete

Encompassed by magic and fire
Within our safe house, desire, yeah 
My future is with you together 
Daily my prayer to our Maker, our
Thoughts mingle sweetly forever 
Are only of one and the other
Peaceful night
Intentions right
Toward the light, hold
Them tight
All complete

I did my usual trick of slapping something down, nipping to Bruges to check that the Trappist Monks were still making beer to my rigorous personal standards and leaving all the heavy lifting to him. Through an elaborate ritual of digital ceremonial magic, electronic alchemy, Job-like patience and wiffle dust he has produced this. Fascinating how he uses tonal and atonal harmony to create tension, power and release, matching it so well to the emotion of the words.

The lyrics are a paean to family and friends, his, mine, yours, ours.
If you've not experienced Gary and Jamie's work, please check them out
https://soundcloud.com/one-other where he has also uploaded this collaboration
https://soundcloud.com/one-other/acronym

As Thom, https://soundcloud.com/esyrup agrees, time is our only enemy. :)

Initial words, music, arrangement and production: Gary
Additional lyrics and Vocals: Nick

Be good, you little rascals

Nick

Pic: Nick (Barry Beach South Wales)

Acronym - ThePhaige and Nicholas Ridiculous

大橋 敏明 のアルバム

one's hidden troubles

Lust Interrupted

Strange Love Light

A revision of Chordal Mixtures a piece originally uploaded in June this year.

Chordal Mixtures

Chordal Mixtures Remix 5 Nov 2023

all instruments by me, real guitar & sax, brass via breath controller !
... I always find titles for pieces like this very arbitrary. Each image creates a different context - here I was inspired by "Ices" for the title :-) ... and if you look at it carefully, you can walk into it :-D
photo: Library of Congress on unsplash

Frozen moments

This is how I feel "The Sound of Silence", under the use of parts of "Sound of Silence" of the great Simon and Garfunkel.
Hallo darkness my old friend,
you lie over me like a warm velvet
blanket
I‘v come to talk to you again,
you lead me into the fifth dimension

This is the sound of silence,

it‘s so silent, that I can hear the angels singing,
In the candlelight I can see an angel standing in my Hallway

I have many questions, but the answer is

the sound of silence

Hallo Darkness

This Track is about a Funeral.
It represents all of the friends and family being gathered in one place. And  how they are all elements of them and their ancestors.

Artwork by Lydia Buckle

Elements Of Our Ancestors

Wonder Winterland

Because, I'm insane. The Ianuarius EP of 2023 Jamuaries has a second set of the exactly the same songs (except for a unique one on each) but handled by a different mastering engineer. This time, a straight digital master from our friend, RDT. All the clarity that I'd hoped for he achieved on the first shot.

RDT is available to master your track on Fiverr. While he gets rolling in this service, his rates are basically nil and the results sparkling. If you're interested in getting your track mastered beautifully for the price of a venti latte, here ya go :

https://www.fiverr.com/rdtmakesmusic/

The plan was to get one done from all corners of the mastering world. A brick n mortar pro, a DAW super-ninja, and AI services. Except for the AI ones, they aren't meant to be compared with each other. These are different approaches and both humans exceeded my expectations. I have been making new AI masters based on the two provided by humans, using one as the source file and the other as the reference to mimic the dynamics/color. The consensus appears to be that these are the best of them. But I can't post them because I already feel crazy for doing two masters. xD If you'd like to hear these, please reach out to me personally.

Maybe by now, some of you are as burnt on these tunes as I am but the idea here, and for all of these is just to learn, familiarize myself with the process and connect w ppl Thanks for putting up with it. :)

Discardi B (RDT Master)

https://soundcloud.com/event49 - backtrack /// joerxworx - EWI solo (Akai EWI USB with Vital (synth)
photo: Combined X-Ray and Optical Images of the Crab Nebula, Nasa* via pixabay
*Credits for X-ray Image: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.;
*Credits for Optical Image: NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.
Original source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/24/1248-Image.html

Pulsar by Event 49 / EWI Solo by joerxworx

This instrumental tune is called "Muse is going to be right here for you" with nice old 60’s dance / psychedelic flavor inspired by Edie Sedgwick.

Chordal Mixtures Remix 5 Nov 2023

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