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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 421

Best Selection - 2016-2022

A song about freedom, dedicated to "Eva".
This song was co-written with my brother, Sion.
Check out our duo, Lo-fi Jones.

Eva Forever Demo

Eva Forever (Demo)

Music. tHE bLUE rOOM
Copyright tHEbLUErOOM © 2021
Photo. Pixabay

Old Rusty

Stream my new single Undone everywhere - https://ffm.to/g1ooxbo.OIS

Undone

Pos Virú - Pos Virú (1996) Remasterizado
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Entre fines de los 80 y cominezo de los 90 atravesamos como nación nuestra peor crisis de violencia, pobreza y descomposición social.

Es durante estos años que la música se convirtió en nuestro refugio más seguro y el medio que nos permitió plasmar las reflexiones que nos planteábamos. Estas estaban dirigidas a la búsqueda de respuestas a los orígenes de los problemas que atravesávamos. Uno de los problemas que ha influenciado mucho este trabajo y que nos persigue desde la época de la Conquista, radica que nunca nos hemos sobrepuesto a este choque de culturas que está latente dentro de nosotros.

Pos Virú se forma a cominezos de 1990 cuando la crisis llega a su puntomás crítico. El albúm contiene 11 temas compuestos entre los años 1990 y 1995 que contienen elementos musicales que no sólo expresan este conflicto cultural, sino también aspectos puntuales de conyuntura, como violencia, frustración, odio, paz, miedo y esperanza.
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Música y Letras: Pablo
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Arreglos: Pos Virú
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Charango, Guitarra, Sintetizadores, Zampoña, Chaccas, Caja de Ritmos y Voz: Pablo

Guitarra Eléctrica, Charango y Coros: Augusto Vidal
Bajo: Guillermo Guerrero
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Cajón, Cajita y Voz: Rafael Santa-Cruz

Batería y Percusión: Santiago de la Rivaguero

Zamapoña: Hernan Quiñones
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Grabación y mezcla: Audio Estudio S6(1996)
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Remasterización: Isaac Grados García(2021)
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Imagen: Pos Virú

Diseño: Isaac Grados García

9. Huyendo del Origen

Purple drops prod by FlingyShem is the lead single on a project made by Trap Friendz' The song was on MM by DJ Sabza Yinjah on summer 20  Trap Friendz will be dropping their project called  Trap Skul on earlly summer 22

Trap Skul

Purple drops

Trap Friendz ; Purple drops

Cancion por nuestra tiempo.
Letras:

El mundo está como una cabra
El mundo está muy loco
El mundo tiene mucha tristeza
Aún asi,
Todos vivimos la fiesta

Muchos de nosotros no entendemos qué es la verdad
¿estamos siendo manipulados?
¿dónde está nuestro amor por la vida y la humanidad?

El mundo está como una cabra...

¿cuándo comprenderemos la realidad?
No podemos continuar así
¿donde está nuestro amor por la madre tierra?

El mundo está como una cabra,
El mundo esta muy loco
El mundo tiene mucha tristeza,
El mudo tiene, muchas problemas.
Our lives are sometimes so sad and tragic
So many days wasted and pointless
I often feel like I should do something
Trapped in hedonism
The end of civilization

El Mundo Está Como Una Cabra

I wish I was a goldfish so I could forget yesterday
I wish I was a goldfish so I could swim my troubles away
How I wish I was a flower, so you could look at me for hours, and maybe put me in your hair
How I wish I was a shower, baby, so I could wash away your sorrows and your cares
I wish I was a goldfish so I could forget yesterday
How I wish I was the rain so I could dance upon your skin
How I wish I was a masterpiece that coes from deep within
how I wish I was a table but not at your family dinner 
'cause people shouting and throwing soup at each other is not my idea of fun

Credits: 
Composed in Gent by Liam Stuart Rickard and Jilly Lukkesen ©L.S.Rickard & J.Lukkesen, 2019

Recorded in Cardiff, Gent, London & Mannheim

Mixed and mastered in Mannheim by Max Christensen

Liam Stuart Rickard - electric guitar, co-lead vocals
Jilly Lukkesen - lead vocals
Tegid Roberts - gypsy-jazz guitar
Tom Parkinson - double bass
Antoon Kindekens - drum kit
Siôn Rickard - harmonica, choir
Berhard Vanecek - trombone
Ana Maria Ramírez Bautista - clarient, choir
Ray Rivieros - trumpet
Tine Allegeart - trumpet, choir

Choir - Blanche Marguerite, Cedric Avelon, Gabriël Harmsen, Hannah Boer, Joachim Thys, Lahyona Ajuin, Linde Janssens, Marek Matas, Michael Ekeghasi, Mira Heller (ZaHiRa), Yolanda Bautista Daza (Yoli)

Choir & horn section recorded by Joachim Gys in Gys & Allegeart's house, Gent.
Guitars, bass & Liam's vocal recorded by LSR in the Rickard's (former) unit at The Bridge Studios, Cardiff.
Clarinet solo recorded by LSR in Ana's room, London.
Trombone recorded by Max Christensen in his home studio in Mannheim.
Harmonica recorded by Siôn in his room in Cardiff.

Goldfish (feat. Jilly Lukkesen)

I updated the lyrics to one of my songs for the lockdown, and called up some friends, and we made a video...

https://youtu.be/qpqpy_i39GU?si=89C5Pu2zRj3zt_fy

Liam S Rickard - vocals & acoustic guitar (N.Wales)
Luke Fabia - trumpet (London)
David Matthew Gray - trombone (Newcastle)
Ernie Martin - electric guitar (London)
Michael Mather - drums (Newcastle)
Adam Sams - bass (Newcastle)
Hannah Boer - backing vocals (Amsterdam)
Alice Morita - backing vocals (London)
Sam Pascall - backing vocals (London)
Ciara Rickard - backing vocals (N.Wales)

Music & lyrics by Liam S Rickard, addtional parts by the band
mixed in Llanfairfechan by Tom Williams
mastered by CloudBounce

Community Garden (lockdown Version)

Do exercise eat healthy food and maybe take up mindfulness or yoga
Stop wallowing in self defeat and look up pleasing pictures of pagodas
Sometimes you feel really grim like an old crumbly wall you need a plaster
Well drink a cup of herbal tea and hopefully feel less defeated after

Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder

Inside you feel broken like a plate on the cold stone floor of your dungeon
Your heart is beating like a drug fueled rave inside a cave into which you're plunging
Beside a lake you see the shapes of all the people that at some point you insulted, accidentally!
and out from the darkness come all your past mistakes and back in time you're catapulted, ONE TWO THREE FOUR...

Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder

Mae'n hawdd I bod yn hapus pan ti'n hapus ond pan ti'n drist mae'n anoddach

Tis makkelijk com blij te zijn als te blij bent, maar als je triest bent is't lastig

On helppoo olla iloinen kun oot iloinen, mut kun et oo sen on vaikeampaa

Lahko je biti srecen ko si srecen žalostnim je tezje

خیلی راحته بخندی وقتی شادی، ولی وقتی غم داری سخته

Froh zu sein ist einfach wenn du froh bist, doch traurig ist es schwerer

Khushi hai kaafi aasaan, jab tum ho khush, par jab udaas hai vo mushkil

É fácil ser feliz quando está feliz, mais difícil quando está triste

Akassoneyaalé ning kontani kouwo laata kontaano kang, Bari aka diming né ning akolyata

Ch‘hal sahla tkoun khelwi ki tkoun khelwi, ki tez‘af chwiya s3iba

C'est facile d'être content quand t’es content, mais quand t’es triste c'est plus dur

Credits:
Liam Rickard - songwriter, producer, guitar, vocals (English, Welsh & French)
Luke Fabia - trumpet, brass arrangement
Ben Zoll - composer of chorus brass melody

Michael Mather - electric drum kit
Adam Sams - bass
David Matthew Gray - trombone & shaker
Ernie Martin - electric guitar, backing vocals
Mira Heller - English vocals, ahhs, Flute
Cristóbal Araya Altamirano - sax
Hannah Boer - shaker

Jilly Lukkesen - English & Dutch vocals
Sreekanth Hariharan - English & Hindi vocals
Sukoon Bablani - English & Hindi vocals
Vilma Talvitie & Sam Kar - vocals
Linde Janssens - ahh & Dutch vocals
Sophie Gillitzer, Blanche Marguerite, Judith Fürstenbert - backing ahhs & German vocals
Cédric Avelon - English & French gang vocals
Siôn Rickard - Welsh vocals
Nasim Ramezani - Persian vocals
Jaleh Hz - Persian vocals
Meena (with Sukoon) - Hindi vocals
Jacinta & Sam Pereira - Portuguese vocals
Alice Morita & Sam Pascall - Brazilian vocals
Fabouly Diebate - Mandingue vocals
Islem Boulile - Algerian vocals
Yousra Chatila - Algerian vocals
Worldwide Welshman's Truške Performance, Floating Castle On The Road 2019 (Slovenian vocals sample)

Tom Williams - mix & master

Easy To Be Happy (lockdown version)

This song was written in Brussels 15th March 2020. Belgium had just gone into lockdown; my bus to back to London was booked for that evening and Lore would fly back to Estonia the following morning.

I returned to Belgium in September to play a concert, and spent a month living in Ghent. The band and I recorded this song on the 23rd of October, with a second lockdown looming, and just two days before my train back to the UK. Hannelore recorded her part in Estonia and sent it to us over WIFI and fibreoptic cables.

Lyrics:

Empty bars and empty cafes
Cinemas without a soul
Schools are closed, kids are delighted
I guess it's time to go back home

So see you after quarantine
I'll be back I promise
assuming that I don't die
see you after quarantine
when the world goes back to normal once again

Chinese restaurants are closing
I guess it's worse than I first thought
Climate change was bad enough
now a pandemic steals our jobs!

So see you after quarantine
I'll be back I promise, assuming that I don't die
So see you after quarantine
unless my bus is cancelled, and I get stuck in Belgium!

Stuck in Belgium, stuck in Belgium, that's where I wanna be
Stuck in Belgium, stuck in Belgium living at my friend's place, for free
Stuck in Belgium, stuck in Belgium, that's where I wanna be
Stuck in Belgium, stuck in Belgium, wouldn't be so bad, for me

See you after quarantine
I'll be back I promise, assuming that I don't die
see you after quarantine
when the world goes back to normal...

Stuck in Belgium, stuck in Belgium!

Written by Liam S Rickard (vocal & guitar) & Hannelore Karmel (vocal), arranged by the band:
Alex Dardenne - bass, backing vocal
Antoon Kindekens - drums, gang vocal
Jonas Malfliet - piano, gang vocal
Lotte Remmen - violin, backing vocal
Joachim Thys - sax, backing vocal

Engineered by Jonas Malfliet
Mixed by Alex Dardenne (additional vocal mixing in verse 2 by Sion Rickard)
Mastered by Pieter De Wagter (EQuuS)

See You After Quarantine

See You After Quarantine (feat. Hannelore Karmel)

Cerddor, cyfansoddwr, arlunydd, a digrifwr (ar adegau) o Fetws-y-coed, sydd bellach yn byw ym Machynlleth yw Liam Rickard a.k.a. Worldwide Welshman.
Mae'r WWW yn perfformio gyda band dychmygol neu gyda band go iawn. Gyda'i chymysgedd amlieithog o tragi-comic parti-bangars ac eiliadau o melancoli, mae WWW a'i griw (o dan nifer i enwau gwahanol) wedi bod yn difyrru gynulleidfaoedd ar draws Ewrop a thu hwnt ers tua 2007

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Liam Rickard (Worldwide Welshman) is a singer-songwriter, folk-singer, artist and occasional comedian from Betws-y-Coed, now based in Machynlleth. WWW often performs with a band. When they're not available, he performs with an imaginary band. WWW and his friends (under various guises) have been performing their multi-lingual mix of tragic-comic party anthems and folk-pop ballads across Europe and beyond since about 2007.