Original Artist Releases

Having received a wonderful selection of inspired takes on two simple guitar pieces which I posted for open collaboration, I figured I should collect them like a little bouquet of musical flowers. Here they are for you to enjoy : ) The original pieces -- out there . . somewhere & writ in air -- are free to download and to tinker with and re-interpret, should you feel so inclined. 
(Please let me know if you do : )

out there . . somewhere ~ writ in air :

Your STRANGES AMBIENTS I like

Movements

MarchMadness

A-thrill, A-pril

Your Book Chapter II System Failure

Download / Listen: https://music.polyptychmusic.com/PLT187

Feel these dynamics, atmosphere, and emotions in the new EP "Spacefall" by Monoplate.

Release supported by
DJs / Producers:
Wally Lopez, Ziger, Sean & Dee, Soul Button, THe WHite SHadow (FR), Øostil, Juan Pablo Torrez, Clawz SG, Miss Nine, Integral Bread, Moonbeam, Cream (PL), Fractal Architect, Julian Rodriguez, Mario Puccio, DJ Matt Black, Neptun 505 and more.

Radio Hosts / Radio Stations:
Kurt Kjergaard (Data Transmission Radio), Andrew Best (Proton Radio), Kaiser Gayser (Proton Radio), Olga Misty (DI.FM), DJ Jon Hodgson (The Abyss Radio Show, UK), James Morreel (Beach-Radio), DJ Ant D (House Beats Radio Station), Groove Beat FM and more.

Spacefall EP

Buy Extended Versions

Monoplate - Alchemy (Short Edit)

Monoplate - Spacefall (Short Edit)

Follow Simon ++++ Link for collab https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay
Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/writ-in-air

This track has been publicly released under a Creative Commons License.

Perfectly Good J BeAt Remix Collab Simon Learning To Play Instrumental

Release date: July 23/21 

Brooklyn-based producer, Mike Isai, is a new name to grace the Meanwhile catalogues as the Australian imprint delivers its 18th release with 'Home / 87 North'.

@mikeisai
www.instagram.com/mikeisai
www.facebook.com/itsMikeIsai

Meanwhile
 @meanwhilerec
www.instagram.com/meanwhile_recordings
www.facebook.com/meanwhilerecordings

Getting Deeper
@getting-deeper
linktr.ee/gettingdeeper
www.instagram.com/gettingdeeper
www.facebook.com/gettingdeeper
bit.ly/GettingDeeper

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A relative newcomer to the progressive house scene, Mike Isai’s nascent production career has already seen a debut on the Nick Warren led, Hope Recordings, via September 2020’s “Pillars to Butterflies” EP. A March 2021 reworking of Shanil Alox’s “Algorithm” for Droid9 illustrated Isai’s remix capabilities, as the US star now debuts on Meanwhile with his twin-tracker.

Opening proceedings, “Home” is a dark and sultry piece that pulsates hypnotically through its near 9-minute voyage with a panoply of textured layers and white-noise effects. Quickly hitting its stride, a pounding kick is accompanied by an immaculately syncopated synth motif that provides the basis for a counterpoint phrase to sit elegantly on top in glittering repetitive pattern. Reaching a rousing filtered denouement at the mid-point, “Home” drops back into a familiar arrangement as all elements combine to impressive effect in the third movement.

Continuing the powerful rhythmic framework of its partner, “87 North” immediately impresses with its 16th note bassline and seismic kick. Another syncopated synth loop provides an imposing trademark production technique as haunting melodies drift over the mid-range, drenched in reverb and white-noise washes. Coruscating pads add further intrigue as the 7-minute piece evolves, coming fully to the fore in a ‘wall of sound’ breakdown, before the second half picks up the pace again with percussive intensity. The juxtaposition of meandering melodic threads and bassline urgency thus creates an impressively woven dynamism.

Another new artist to grace Meanwhile finds Arizona based Brenden LaBonte creating a potent wave of success with his Forerunners moniker. With over a double century of production credits to his name for some of the finest modern dance imprints, Sudbeat Music, Anjunadeep, and Black Hole have all played host to the US artist’s emotive soundscapes. Reworking “Home”, the Forerunners remix is chock full of the trademark soundscapes that characterise LaBonte’s work, with whispering melodies floating atop a powerful beat and ticking hi-hat groove. A relentless bassline sequence adds weight and poise over the 8-minute offering as subtle variations on Mike Isai’s original make their presence felt. Pausing for breath at a spine-tingling mid-point, cadenced bass groove and subtle melodic prowess hit the heights in the latter stages.

New music sees Mike Isai guided home by his north star, accompanied by a shining remix from Forerunners.

Home

Premiere: Mike Isai - Home  [Meanwhile]

Pisces - Dear One

Made this while playing GTA V, V's music is fun.

Miami Hustler

Once a dream did weave a shade
O’er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass methought I lay.

Troubled, 'wildered, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangled spray,
All heart-broke, I heard her say:

‘Oh my children! do they cry,
Do they hear their father sigh?
look abroad to see,
Now return and weep for me.’

Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, ‘What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?

‘I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round:
Follow now the beetle’s hum;
Little wanderer, hie thee home!’


A Dream (William Blake)

Cosmic Released on Aug 28, 2013

The disposable nature of the world Jumbl lives in drives her to seek a better existence somewhere out there.... But how and where? 
May 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtRi9jmTo3g&list=PLRQp4dsuoSvmr2okpuczL7fjubAVYDWr_&index=1

01 My Escape

Yeah, I Can Hold

AURI

thanks and blessings to the people of Malapoa, Port Vila & the beautiful islands of Vanuatu <3

In the water - In the air

leaving Vila

Very happy to have had the chance to collaborate with The Ghostfather, on his incredible instrumental tour de force - 'exhaustfumes'. It got into my head and wouldn't get out. Save our planet.

Listen to The Ghostfather's excellent sounds here: https://soundcloud.com/user-805491886

Lyrics and vocals -- learningtoplay

slow disolve

exhaustfumes -- The Ghostfather (+ ltp)

I had a lot of fun working with this amazing beat from EllE -- Cycle of Hands. Awesome, inspiring music which just lifts you and sets you afloat : ) 

Check her excellent songs here: https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands

Lyrics and vocals -- learningtoplay

azure - Cycle of Hands (+ltp)

Somebody Should Do Something

Big thanks to LOU for the custom logo! Check him out @level-one-up1

Easy Money

for you, bro : )

Invitation to an OPEN COLLAB:

out there . . somewhere
are you? 'f you feel like adding a bit of anything you like to this
please, be my guest : )
or put it in yr 
blender
: 0    Playlist of originals and subsequent collaborative interpretations is here:
https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/sets/out-there-somewhere-writ-in

out there . . somewhere

In Your Veins (Three Photons featuring The Gatsbys)
Thanks to Dirk Taubenheim for agreeing to help with this song. When I heard his Gretsch guitar play through the first chorus… I could not contain my smile….


Tim Griffis (Fender Strat and Les Paul Guitars, Vocals, Drums arranged using XLN Audio)
Dirk Taubenheim (Acoustic, Bass, and Gretsch Guitars, Backing Vocals)

This song was recorded using Pro Tools and summed through an old API 8200 and 7800 summing mixer with API Compressor and EQ on the mix bus....back into Pro Tools.  

Verse 1 
You’ve got lightning in your veins
You run your best race in the driving rain
Pick up the pace again
So much to see, my friend 

Chorus 1 
Feel the light and the heat in your veins
Pick up the pace again 
So much to see, my friend 

Verse 2
You’ve got a stranger living in your head
Sometimes it’s the voice of love
Sometimes it’s just another black hole
Pick up the pace again
So much to see, my friend 

Chorus 2 
Feel the light and the heat in your veins
Pick up the pace again 
So much to see, my friend 

Bridge 
Feel the light and the heat -  in your veins
I hear your voice
it’s in my veins
It’s in my veins, again

Verse 3
You’ve got lightening in your veins
You run your best race in the pouring rain
Pick up the pace again
There’s so much to see

Outro 
In the driving rain…. 
Pick up the pace again
There’s so much to see
There’s so much to feel
In the driving rain.

In your veins (ft. The Gatsbys)

words and music K. Gennery
image not my own

I was dancing on the sky, clouds beneath my feet,
lightening at me heels, I wished you could have seen.
All the beauty in my mind, Shinning through these visionary eyes,
this was no ordinary, ordinary dream.

Grey had hued to blue, black it bleed to red,
a kaleidoscope of colour, deep inside my head.
And the only thing that was missing, you were not there dancing by my side,
this was no ordinary, ordinary dream.

You ooh, I'll be waiting for you ooh, I'll keep waiting waiting for
You ooh, when are you coming, are you coming on.....through.

It was a wonderful concoction , something to behold,
not a touch of contradiction the stories that we are told.
All the beauty in my mind came shinning through these visionary eyes,
this was no ordinary, ordinary,ordinary, no ordinary, ordinary, no ordinary dream.

You ooh, I'll be waiting for you ooh,
I'll keep waiting waiting for, you ooh,
I'm still waiting for you ooh,
when are you coming, are you coming on.....through.

I was dancing on the sky, clouds beneath my feet,
Lightening at me heels, I wished you could have seen.

no ordinary dream

Para Lia - 'Romancero'
from the album 'Soap Bubble Dreams', out on March22
https://paralia.bandcamp.com/ 


words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2019
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

my inner is staring in the fireplace
come around and keep me from myself

i know you'll never let me down
and i don't know my way around here
because i wade through a surreal dream

and in my head
a band is playing a sweet melody
you are dancing like a fairy
to the sound of our destiny

can you spot me in my fairytale
let's walk the paths of our fate

don't realize what's going around
i have to reach higher ground
because i wade through a surreal dream

and in my head
a band is playing a sweet melody
you are dancing like a fairy
on the carousel of our destiny

Soap Bubble Dreams

Romancero

Para Lia - Romancero

TWO WORLDS - Re-Mastered Sept 2020
Written, Performed & Produced by Andrew Borderick
Copyright 2019/2020 AB Music
Mastered by Soundcloud Sept 2020

I'VE HIT THE MOON, LOOKING FOR YOU
IF YOU SEE ME SHINING IN YOUR LIFE,
PLEASE DON'T BE FOOLED

MAY'BE I'LL FALL, WAY BACK TO EARTH
BUT LIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE IS JUST A STEP AWAY

I THINK I'VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE
I GUESS THE WRITINGS ON THE WALL
I'M HEARING YOU, YOUR HEARING ME
BUT NOTHING TO SEE

MAY'BE WE WILL FALL, LIVING IN TWO WORLDS

I'M HYPNOTIZED, THE BEAUTIFUL LIES
THE BLINDING WORDS THAT I CAN'T HEAR
BECAUSE I FEEL ALIVE

I THINK I'VE HEARD THIS SONG BEFORE
I GUESS THE WRITINGS ON THE WALL
I'M HEARING YOU, YOUR HEARING ME
BUT I CAN'T BELIVE

MAY'BE WE WILL FALL
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS
MAY'BE WE WILL FALL... FALL
(break)
MAY'BE WE WILL FALL
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS
MAY'BE WE WILL FALL
(LIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE IS JUST A STEP AWAY)
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS
MAY'BE WE WILL FALL
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS
MAY'BE WE WILL FALL
(LIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE IS JUST A STEP AWAY)
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS

2019 PRO TOOLS

TWO WORLDS

Le Septième Continent de plastique
On YouTube : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QsLf3Cv-9w

Le Septième continent

Le Septième Continent

Hi everyone this is an original welly flat cap marks and spencer underpant wearing electro foot stomping humorous psychedelic hiphop rap poet styled journey and is inspired by my local area and alien encounters while fishing trying catch a big green rubbery tench at deep pit on other side of the woochie woods in wigan! No kissin on the lips here and that goes for aliens to! haha The adventure starts full of delight and the joys of spring and a shopping trip to the local supremarket to indulge in sumit eat leik meat paste butties cakes n pop and pies peas n gravey to take for munchie snaks while chillin fishin! Meat paste makes me puke now and i find mashed up dead things in jars just werid they always use the waste bits of the animal that no one wants leik beaks n butts it should be called sphincter muscle paste! Great fish bait aliens leik it to and smear it on there probes! lol Hope you enjoy this adventure! Celebrate life! Peace! :D

Lyrics:

Chicken lips in a mashed up meaty paste spread it on ya buttys rich a tasty full of fat clogging up me artiries giving me a heart attack
Frozen food appetizing cake selection plate pies with chips peas n gravey and off we go over woochie on left hand side on left hand side
Old man wears ma cap gone down deep pit fishing catch a tench and chuck it backJump the brook take a leap outside the box Jump high reach for the sky Space is only 62 miles away

Suddenly i was shocked as a ufo came down, intregued i went over and touched the hieroglyphics
Ufo Gone down deep pit fishin Ufo
Gone down deep pit fishin Ufo

The aliens came and they took me onboard Then i woke in a hole in another dimension and a man caught a tench and he chucked it back in sealing the spacial rift i was in Iam sure i was abducted by aliens but cant remember now, fancy a meat and potatoe pasty

Gone down deep pit fishin
Catch a tench and chuck it back
Ufo

Chicken lips in a mashed up meaty paste spread it on ya buttys rich a tasty full of fat clogging up me artiries giving me a heart attack
Frozen food appetizing cake selection plate pies with chips peas n gravey and off we go over woochie on left hand side on left hand side
Old man wears ma cap gone down deep pit fishing catch a tench and chuck it back Jump the brook take a leap outside the box Jump high reach for the sky 

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Trip 4 Sale

Gone Down Deep Pit Fishin

In asceticism

I'm very happy that Terry was inspired to lay down some improvised, free-style, clear-eyed observations on where the ? we're going : )to the tune of 'out there . . somewhere'. https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere

If you haven't discovered Terry's wonderful music, writing, performance yet, do yourself a favour and go directly to: https://soundcloud.com/user-536194718

guitar by learningtoplay // beats, bass, free-style poetry & vocals by Terry Wigmore (improv transcript below)

I have half a mind to write something profound: something that would not easily be forgotten.
And then my thoughts run away with my logic 
Running to the extremes of existence, thoughts of the cosmological meaning of
a grain of sand, on a polluted beach, soon to be underwater, from global warming.
Temperatures rise, people's feeling's rise, dough rises, yeast...
Flat bread, Flat earth... how can we connect all these tings?
Line ups on the top of Mount Everest! Who would have thought that this would be a thing that you could see in a movie clip on the evening news? Breaking News! Mountaineers fall to their deaths waiting in line, through lack of oxygen. Maybe we should give a few politicians some lack of oxygen and see how they fall?! Too much air on the airwaves, not enough content. A million channels, high -speed delivery system...no one listening...no one cares.
Shoe-box size satellites, 60 of them released. Supposed to be putting the internet to every space available on the surface of the earth. Internet? How about food? How about clean water? How about a place to feel safe? How about a place of refuge for a refugee? A place of comfort for those who traveled and struggled all their lives, escaping one form of persecution only to fall to a legal entanglement that keeps them dying in cages. So much to ponder, so little time.
Life is full of these enigmas. Or is it that life is full of mystery wrapped in an enema?
A whole lot of house cleaning to be done.
What does it take? What would it take for us to to work together for once, just once? Solve the problem of , “I don't like you, but I'm willing to work with you?” “ I don't like your...thoughts, your clothes, the colour of your skin, the books you read, the celebrations you have,...but I'm willing to work with you...”
Because I don't need to be right, I just need to be free...free from HATE.

We all came from somewhere. We're all migrants from a place that we called home. Whatever that place looks like now, home is where the heart IS...where you feel connected! You might have been unplugged, perhaps forcefully unplugged, but you're here NOW. THIS is home! This is where we have to work together, to love, to live, and to build together, to Be Free...

(T Wigmore, in the flow with learningtoplay's 'Out There . . Somewhere')

out there . . somewhere (ltp + Terry Wigmore)

I stumbled upon this track yesterday, an open collab: https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere and produced this remix - flute addition in a very spontanously first go. Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/ ... hope he will like my idea, and of course all inclined listeners too ! enJoy !

out there ... somewhere // by learning to play - remix = flute added

I was really stoked to hear from letterfounder that he'd finished his song 'back at the cave', based around my instrumental 'writ in air'. 
I love his fascinating, exploratory music, great lyrics and vocals. For more of his excellent work visit: https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
letterfounder - lyrics and vocals
learningtoplay - guitar melody

in progress 2019/20

back at the cave -- letterfounder (ft. learningtoplay)

Much of my music is FREE TO DOWNLOAD.
Love this space, wherever it is, and the amazing sounds of humanity. Happy to mix my music with yours, if you have an idea or no idea : ) -- if you would like to remix, remake, redeem any part of anything here, let me know.   ~ 

These are the wonderful musicians I've been lucky enough to work with so far on SC:

MOON DUST - https://soundcloud.com/petri-kiviniemi
Oorlab - https://soundcloud.com/oorlab
Kamikami - https://soundcloud.com/kamikami-sc
Spökpappa (The Ghostfather)- @user-805491886
Cycle of Hands - https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands
Wane of Summer - https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer/tracks
Ami Dreamer - https://soundcloud.com/ami_dreamer
Bonetender - https://soundcloud.com/bonetender
Shrowd ($ad)- https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee
Terry Wigmore - https://soundcloud.com/user-536194718
JBeAt {to my own drum} - https://soundcloud.com/jbeattomyowndrumindiepop
joerxworx - https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Koma Gaeshi - https://soundcloud.com/koma-gaeshi
letterfounder - https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
Dean Massicotte - https://soundcloud.com/deanmassicotte
..dusboblaze.. - https://soundcloud.com/user-430072946
Don't kill butterflies - https://soundcloud.com/dontkillbutterflies
Arma Ignifera - https://soundcloud.com/herronsound
Nicholas Ridiculous - https://soundcloud.com/nickrdavies
Rhiannon's Liquid Soul - https://soundcloud.com/bre-cabin
MingMonk - https://soundcloud.com/mingmonk
ŞöļäçėŠțřëęț - @solacestreet
arse-myth - https://soundcloud.com/arse-myth
mannu - https://soundcloud.com/the-mannu