This works so well, who would have imagined? Thanks for sharing, Mark

Kat your getting fancy on me!!! Lah la LaH!!! :))))

Still wanna believe! (the 3 episode of new series is amazingly hilarious!)  ... not as good as "la-la--la-la--la-la!  :)

Gail and I are big fans of new series, love the tongue and cheek 3rd episode.

That was friggin' awesome! This "Kat Mash" was a genius of a feat! Bravo!

That’s what I think we should do time after time - come out of the waters to chill ..... 
The photo for this magnificent creature I made last summer, on Maui beach. Big Green Turtle (honu in Hawaiian) swims and feeds for a long time, also fully submerged. Time after time it comes out to rest for a night and part of a day. This guy (or gal) is probably 100+ kg and ~50 years old, was laying down, chilling,  not paying attention to anyone or anything. 

Chillout, will ya? :)  (Repost Art)

We All Rock For Meg Tilly

Been a minute since I composed a new piece—over 6 yrs in fact. Political activism and a continental move during a global pandemic intervened. Because I had sold all of my electronic equipment before my move to Finland, I was resigned to embark on no further recording. Then in September 2024, I was struck with an idea to create a novelty piece culled from a collection of my aphorisms and taglines. I had barely begun a stanza or two when I received a midnight visitation from The Muse, who generously gifted me with a memorable melody to match my title sentence. A solemn, minor key, however, so I shifted lyrics from my trademark wordplay toward a more somber composition. It soon evolved into a Latin rhythm but still sounded so melancholy, I decided to make a point of ending my sad lyrics on an upbeat note. I had no wish to lower anyone's spirits—including my own!—one solitary scintilla beyond wherever they landed at year's end. Plus after the election results for US, I was especially glad for a hopeful ending on I'm Friday's Child (IFC). 

Since I no longer owned synth gear, I presumed new music production, if ever I returned to it, must rely on a collaborator for additional instrumentation. After I had a rough guitar and voice part set for IFC, I immediately contacted my Nice friend, Damien Riba, for a piano habanera part. A bit later I discovered the library here in lovely Hämeenlinna—hometown of Sibelius after all!—contains a well-stocked music studio with decent microphones for vocal recording and at least two synth keyboards connected to a Mac with GarageBand software. I was back in business to create my own orchestration of IFC you hear here. [Meanwhile, Damien came through—brilliantly as ever!—with a delightful orchestration of his own. You can hear his arrangement of IFC under my vocal at https://soundcloud.com/kat330repost/ifc-orch-by-d-riba

The arrangement here features my classical guitar throughout—kat330's avatar as seen in its early days and now well into its 6th decade—along with a very basic piano part on an old Hellas upright piano gifted by my mother-in-law. Synth bits include cello, violin, organ, oboe, clarinet, accordion, trumpet and percussive accents. I could not use a capo to raise the key to a better vocal range for myself because of a chord slide-up several frets on my short-necked Guild. Rather than ditch the guitar riff I had latched onto, I dug deep to sing as an alto here. 

I have run out of free time for anything further here at SC. So for a purely instrumental version of IFC, please find it at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kathleen_Martin or "Kathleen Martin" at Bandcamp. Many thanks to JT Lindroos for his great partnership in using the library's Mac software—I’d only recorded vocals/synth parts in the past with a PC using Reaper software—and, as always, for his cover art (li'l Kat at 4 pic used). How appropriate then to release IFC to the world January 4, 2025 on our silver 25th wedding anniversary!

XXXOOO 🤗
😽 Kat (a Friday's Child)

LYRICS

I'm Friday's Child living in a Wednesday world,   
A world full of woe for me and any girl,
Who's loving and giving at the time of birth
And stays that way all her days on Earth.
I'm Friday's child living in a Wednesday world.

A Wednesday world can break a Friday heart.
This world of woe can tear that heart apart.
There was a time I seized the days,
They struggled free and slapped my face.
I'm Friday's child living in a Wednesday world.

A Wednesday world can crush a Friday's Child.
Can make her meek, and woe can drive her wild
With walls of pain built brick by brick,
A pincushion pierced prick after prick,
When a Friday's child living in a Wednesday world.

All Friday folk, let's forge a Friday world.
Each woman, man, all boys and every girl,
Who are loving and giving at the time of birth
And stay that way through their days on Earth,
Come Friday folk and make it a Friday world.
Yes, Friday folk can make this a Friday world!

—Kathleen Martin © 2024

I'm Friday's Child

Composed, played, recorded and mixed by Davor Dojchinovich 
recorder and mastered at Happy Cloud Studio in Seattle 7-4-2015
Davor; Piano, Keyboards, Bass guitar, Fretless bass guitar, percussions and programming.


Santa Ana Winds

My first ever recorded guitar instrumental, guys... well, some years ago :) Come as it was played originally, with some subtle 2016 remastering. One day I played this light piano back loop and then improvised the tune with my Cordoba Nylon String guitar. Added few lines of bass, flute, strings, and percs in the Logic Pro. All played on M-Audio Axiom Pro keyboard connected to Mac. Cordoba guitar (on the cover art) recorded through MBox2 interface, I think, or maybe embedded Macbook mic. Track comes from the older hard drive, with as-is guitar impromptu recording, meaning a vintage feeling. Meaning extra charm, right? 

I posted the track celebration celebrating 5,000 SC plays. Way beyond 3 Million by now somehow, woah! Thank you!

In My Mind (Original Cordoba Mix)

Sometimes things in your daily life just collide together.  You feel an early Halloween atmosphere around you; you listen to a novel “The Book of Strange New Things” that you think is going to uplift you and reaffirm your belief system but suddenly goes off the rails as you near its conclusion; followed by a real life event with a friend getting mugged in his “good neighborhood” resulting in a broken eye socket and a missing cat.  These things swirl in your head.  Then you hear an ominous track by the musician Clouders For: called “And After All the Wind Is Humming” that just grips you.  It feels like cold winds are on their way my friends… Bills are coming due.  Welcome the Freaks. Oh, and Happy Halloween to you.  ;)
 
“cold winds” by clouders for & wild christopher

Premonition speaks
No one skips a beat
No bills to pay so far

Promises to keep
Drift on to sleep
Intuition misses his mark

Lean over the peaks
Welcome the freaks
Balance comes undone

It’s time, time 

This is not the time for this
You got no more time for this
Yet you hear the sound of cold winds humming

This is not the time for this
Evidence is plainly missed
Signs of the darks days coming

This is not the time for this
You got no time for this
The cold wind keeps on humming

This is the time for this

Hear the horses
Release the seals
Soon it is all revealed

Under the cast of night
You put up a good fight
But the time to resist is nil

This is not the time for this
You got no time for this
Yet you hear the cold winds humming

This is not the time for this
You got no more time for this
Yet you hear the sound of cold winds humming

This is not the time for this
Evidence is plainly missed
Signs of the darks days coming

Cold winds keep humming...

Links:
From the Clouders For: Collabs track “And After All the Wind Is Humming”
Clouders For: Collabs https://soundcloud.com/clouders-for-collabs
Clouders For: https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for
Wild Christopher: https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics/sets/my-collaborations-by-wild

Original Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/ojimbo/
(Started to creep me out, LOL!)

New Photo by New Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/louish/

cold winds

While most of US tuned into that ball-maul Bowl Sunday eve, JT and I caught up with Scully & Mulder's latest reincarnation followed by the newest Abbey episode. If not for this viewing serendipity, quite possibly my keen ear would never have connected the dots—dots as ♪♪ in this case—to produce this brand new Kat Mash. And yes, those are my own "la-la-las" at the end. It's a seamless quickie both in length and in time taken to turn it out. I encourage you to visit my other similarly seamless mashup involving serendipity here: https://soundcloud.com/kat330/rogue-world

Also inspired to produce quickly, JT Lindroos provided me the track artwork. Kiitos, Sweetos! ♥  And speaking still of speed, we also watched on Superbowl Sunday a Harold Lloyd 1928 classic entitled "Speedy," allowing me a good excuse to include a delightful quote from this silent film's captions: "Outside the sun almost refused to come out because it could still see stars."  ☼

Credits: Mark Snow is the composer of the X-Files theme, and John Lunn is composer of the Downton Abbey Theme.

Downton Files [kat330 Mash-up]

22 minutes ??? Yes, I know :-) So for the brave only, here's an  attempt to distill a life-story which took quite a few weeks to put into words and music, and almost as long before I finally decided to publish it here today.

Lyrics :

You caught my eye
As sirens should
Your gaze I understand
Was locked in a sea of emerald green
And in mine an angel stood

(Shipping forecast)

...
German Bight
South West 6 to Gale 8 
Becoming cyclonic storm 10
To hurricane force 12 for a time
Rough or very rough
Becoming high, occasionally very high
...

I've a shoulder you can lean on
And another you can claw
Depending on your changing moods
The time of day, the floor
And in between there's a blade too many
That I can't withdraw

The knife's there to remind me
Of the promise of Murphy's Law
A once upon a time-bomb
The wicked wolf at my door
The twistiest tale of a ton of bricks
On a house of straw

My thoughts are with you always
Like a thread of light
The soothing sound of whistling
In the dead of night

Where do we go from here ?
Tell me what shall we do
Finding an anagram always lies in the clue

Answer me loud and clear
Tell me when, tell me who
Solving the anagram always leads me to you

(Adapted from "Sous le ciel de Paris", by Jean Dréjac / Hubert Giraud)

...
Sous le ciel de Paris s'envole une chanson
Elle est née d'aujourd'hui dans le coeur d'un garçon
Sous le ciel de Paris marchent les amoureux
Leur bonheur se construit sur un air fait pour eux

Près de Notre-Dame
Parfois couve un drame
Oui mais à Paname
Tout peut s'arranger

Sous le ciel de Paris coule un fleuve joyeux
Il endort dans la nuit les clochards et les gueux
Sous le ciel de Paris les oiseaux du Bon Dieu
Viennent du monde entier pour bavarder un peu
...

Trouble always comes in threes
Shadows cast by lethal trees
Dirty hands and tainted seas
Decisions on a major scale
Songs ... So many songs
In a minor key

You pulled me in
I knew you would
Laid bare the naked truth
That rocked an ephemeral dream
Your boat of troubled youth

Where do we go from here ?
Where do we go from here ?

You'll be the O of Odyssey
My journey home
The wiles of an open sea
Where sirens roam

I'll be the I of Iron in
Your Eiffel Tower
Watching over the blackest forest
For my only flower

I'll be the I of Ivory
To fill your dusk
With the spirals of reverie
Like a narwhal tusk

You'll be an ode to life, eau de vie
My open bar

I'll be the I of Irony
The voice you trust
However vile the path has been
Through love and lust

You'll be my opus symphony
On the ocean bed 
The finger to my parting lips
When all is said

You'll be my opal stone, Eau de Cologne
My Polar Star

Spirals of Reverie

Love and anger fight it out over and over throughout time, sometimes its good to look to the sky's and remember your place in the stars, chill and be inspired, celebrate life and our wondrous planet and your own existence amongst its beauty and awe in this original mysterious thought provoking electronic tripHop dub dance reggae psychedelic house jazz ska R&B soundtrack styled progression featuring the amazing vocals of Stephanie Kay! Now with new pop art styled video on youtube check the link above! Freedom! Enjoy Peace! 

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"If music be the food of love, play on ... and on" - William Shakespeare (Sam PROCK Remix)

SoundCloud Premier Partner. Published at Silent Zen label with Ditto. Making art with the sound is what I'm after. Curving genre boundaries is a must.

"It is something between discovering and witnessing" - Robert Moog

Hardware: Moog Subsequent 37CV, MiniMoog Model D '22, Buchla Easel 208C, APR 2600m, Córdoba Koa edition nylon guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha Bass, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, UAD Apollo Twin X, Presonus 1824C, Line6 PodXT, B-52 LS100 & B-52 4x12, Arturia Keystep, XKeys Air, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPhone. 

Software: Ableton Live 11, Moog, Arturia, UAD, FabFilter, IK, NI, Omnisphere. Mobile music fan: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, ZenBeats, Arturia, Moog, FabFilters.

"Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my life" - rephrasing Dave Gahan said alike of David Bowie. 

Influences: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise, Daft Punk, Telex, Trans-X, Yello, a-ha, Arcade Fire, Panic! At the Disco, She Wants Revenge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Offspring, Madness, Che Sudaka, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Strangles, Elastica, PJ Harvey, The Cars, Foreigner, Therapy?, Muse, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Telex, Zodiak, INXS, Hey Rosetta!, Cause and Effect, And One, Banco De Gaia, B-Tribe, Air, S.P.O.C.K.

Personas: Ottmar Liebert, Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Jean-Michel Jarre, Georgio Moroder, SuperMax, Boris Blank, Leonard Cohen, Curt Cobain, John Frusciante, Flea, Tim Artstrong, Johny Lydon, Dexter Holland, Falco, Midge Ure, M. Harket, Regina Spektor, D. Marouani, Nick Cave, V. Clarke, A. Wilder, Robert Moog,  Don Buchla, Moby, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vysotsky, G. Nannini, R. Fogli, Hank Marvin, Aeoliah, A. Vollenweider, M. Knopfler, A. Parsons.

"I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - "Daniil Kharms.

Styles: Funtronica (invented), Electronic, Deep, Alternative, Disco, Deep House, New Wave, Synthpop, Synthwave, Ska, Punk, Reggae, Cumbia, Indie, New Age, Chillout, GOA, Downtempo, Instrumental, Ethnic, Neo Classic, Psytrance, Psybient.

My mobile uploads account is @prockjet. More remixes @art-of-nonsense. Silent Zen is a support group I conduct @silent-zen.

FMA Blog features Kat tracks: https://freemusicarchive.org/blog/kathleen-martins-new-tracks  This site is for music fans who think outside the boxy confines of genre labels. Find here and soundcloud.com/kat330/tracks my originals and covers on anything from felons to lovers, arranged for and performed on a variety of instruments, for sounds ranging from sweet to sassy and reedy to brassy; from lofty to lowdown and soulful to hoedown; from serious to silly and urban to hillbilly.

I am so grateful you are taking the time to listen to these self-recordings, many of which required an enormous amount of my time and effort to produce. If I also introduce you to a singer-songwriter you never knew, or if something I wrote or recorded brings a smile to your day, well, that's just the sweet icing on my aim-cake!

Hope you will seek out the original artists' versions of cover tunes unfamiliar to you and, please, share my sounds with any like-minded listeners. I also urge you to click on individual track titles to read my production notes and lyrics before or as you push play. Some notes are informative, some are entertaining and some may be neither or both.  ☼:) Kathleen xxxooo

Downton Files [kat330 Mash-up]

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