MegaMix 10.08.2024

A tribute to those friends and famly members no longer with us.

'Tribute'

A song about holding on to not moving on
Some moving pictures (and words) here - https://youtu.be/yqiJaQpJBsM 

Lyrics Part 1
Don’t go holding on to all of your failure
Not if you wanna reach for success
And don’t bite down on regret too soon
Because you might never get to forget
All the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
And all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors

Meanwhile losers keep on losing their time 
Yet still always they’ll find it to waste
Stuck holding onto that hopeless hope
Just to give themselves a kick in the face
So for the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
To all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
Back then
We never thought about before
Wishing we could swap for before

We ran to choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war

We know we gotta make ourselves our own saviours
And go find new ways to believe
Yeah let’s stand up to always being stood up
By all of life’s cruel fate histories 
So bye to times when we were flailing
Au revoir to lives when we were floored
Ciao to Chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
We ran to
Choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war
The answers not to go on just live out our lives
We must forgive not forget about before
Let’s step up to the plate and feed on love
Not gonna let us die on this floor
Cos if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to fall
We’re gonna die on this floor
Yeah if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to crawl
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
Gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on
We’re gonna die on
Gonna die on
Not gonna die on

Lyrics Part 2
Let love be our law
Let love be our law 
We’ll never forget before
But we must let love be our law
From empty ashes we burn
All life’s lessons we learned
We’ll never heal that hole
Always part of our soul
Let love be our law (never forget) 
Let love be our law
Let love be our law (never forget)
Let love be our law

The Floor (holding on)

Till the Sun Grows Old

Vale of Tears (Original Mix)

Finally returning to Italy (Sardinia to be precise) post Covid in a couple of months to go on residency. In anticipation of this adventure I will upload a few Italy based works from festivals etc that i have made over the last few years. This work  premiered as part of the 2021 Helicotrema festival. Official arty wanky explanation below:
'Whilst my yearly travel to Italy from my hometown of Hobart in Australia is halted due to the pandemic I have been increasingly aware of other more subtle forms of travel. In particular, how sound itself travels has become an important aspect of my research with more sound files being sent across the globe and conversations with other artists via zoom and mobile phone replacing the face to face communication I have been used to. 

Sound travels at 1225kms an hour but ever since radio broadcasting was developed we can hear things from anywhere in the world instantly. Sound can ,in a way ,also time-travel - I can play recordings from the past and re-live the experience of being there. 

With these ideas in mind I wrote (the work  using a live stream audio stream from Venice that was mixed with a live local recording 13.5 hours (the time the sound would have taken to travel to Hobart) after it was broadcast. This combined audio recording of Venice and Hobart formed the raw material which was manipulated and arranged to evoke some of the many sensations of physical travel - movement, wonder, fear, enchantment, loneliness and adventure. 

Unedited field recordings from my archives are introduced at the 4 minute mark - one of the Grande Canal sent to me in 2019 and one of the main highway in my hometown which I sent to a colleague in Italy in 2020. These recordings capture the main routes of travel in their respective cities and bridge the past with the present creating a sound collage that travels through time.

In keeping with the theme of how sound travels the entire piece was written and mixed in 13.5hours, echoing the time it would take for sound to travel between Hobart and Venice.'

Viaggio di andata

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

PARFOIS LUNAIRE SOUVENT INTERSTELLAIRE 
FROM LONDON TO NANTUCKET INTERPLANÉTAIRE 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE A SHOOTING STAR 
FROM WHEREVER WE ARE YOU CAN BE SEEN BY FAR

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE VERY DARING PIPER TRAVELLING TO THE SOUTH POLE TO SERENADE THE PENGUINS?

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

FROM A BOOKISH MATRIARCHY A STELLA WAS BORN
A THEATER OPERATOR BACKSTAGE IN LONDON TOWN 
ENCORE
STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE SOLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR LIFE’S GOT PLENTY IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE SOLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

YOU CAN ASK FLORA, WOLFGANG, ALEX, PETER, THOMAS, SIMON AND YOU CAN ASK FLORA 2 AND EVERY ONE AROUND
AND WHO KNOW ONE DAY IN PARIS WE CAN HAVE A DRINK AT
L'AMI LOUIS

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE VERY DARING PIPER?

THE VERY DARING PIPER (Lyrics) Song for Stella

Flowing suite of several short guitar instrumental pieces, please be patient, everything does not happen in the first 30 secs...

'Milestones'

Recently I discovered the soundcloudpage of Paul, named Paploviante and friends.
who generously offers beautiful music. 
“Obfuscated / Paploviante Open Collaboration Offer
Paploviante: E-Bass, Composing, Arrangement, Mix and Mastering
BPM 80” 
I  can’t express how thankful I am I got this opportunity to throw my vocals and lyrics on his canvas, already a work of art.

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Lyrics:  Obfuscated
Obfuscated, obfuscated
You make things unclear, You make things obscure,
Obfuscated, You confuse me
Obfuscated,  i’m perplexed how You make things complex, 
when you hide the truth when you bend the truth

obfuscated
web of lies, in disguise
it’s no surprise there are so many words
for all sorts of lies

Obfuscated,
What you hide from the light is concealing
Deliberate misleading is deceiving
beguile Deceit, mislead, cheat, make  believe

Obfuscated,
web of lies, in disguise
it’s no surprise there are so many words
for all sorts of lies

Put in the shadows out of the light
In the fog, there’s no clear sight
In dirty water, it’s dark, you don’t see me
The answer is foggy, the message is misty

Obfuscated     
web of lies, in disguise - web of lies, in disguise
it’s no surprise there are so many words
for all sorts of lies
Obfuscated     
duplicity
double identity,  who do I trust
one or  none

Let’s face it, you know it
With a good sauce, you will eat it
Let’s face it, you know it
With the right words, you’ll believe it
Let’s face it, you know it
With a nice story you’ll  Buy it
If you want to believe it 
you won’t fight it

Obfuscated (collab Paploviante)

Instrumental generously offered in an open collab by Paploviante.
Thanks Paul for this wonderful music. I hope my lyrics and voice do it honour!

Lyrics: Why? 

ieieieiei

The voyeur in me, Stares secretly
What’s meant to hide, Belongs to me
Nothing escapes, That gaze of me
It penetrates your fantasy
The shame you feel, Feel secretly
The joy you feel, Belongs to me

You can ask yourself why
What did you hope to find
When you digged into my mind
What did you expect 

You changed my smile into a cry
You don’t give a fuck, As long as you smile 
As long as you laugh, As long as you smile 
As long as you laugh, You don’t give a shit
About my cry
								
Ieieiei
My brain, a maze, you entered it, My thoughts wild jumping,
I asked for it, You like to touch
I was aware, Still feel the squeezes
Feel them there
Your kitchen table
A mess was it
You cleaned it, but I won’t forget
The voyeur and toucher
How they met

You can ask yourself why
It’s your road and yours alone
I just may walk it with you
But no one can walk it for  you 
It’s your own road and yours alone

Why? ( collab Paploviante Instrumental//Saskia: lyrics+vocals)

Special thanks to Cabilo  for his a cappella.....

SMOOTH GLIDE.   Feat Cabilo

Rehearsals for my debut album, with the Italian singer and actor Nicola Palladini. Words and Music by Adam Majdecki-Janicki. Rehearsal 2012.

"White Lady" (feat. Nicola Palladini) 2012.

I read somewhere that we are made of the same basic matter as the universe and the stars, we are a lot more that Flesh & Blood we are made from pure light. I tried to get a feeling from this song hope it came across. 

Johnny

We Are Pure Light From The Stars

Passing The Baton To The Future

This piece changes and morphs as it flows along the line.

'Shapes in Space'

#melodic #techno #melodictechno #house #edm

Screaming out softly

Discoloration

The third song in our summer series "We Solve Most Things If We Talk" examines the so-called progress of modern man. Are humanity's societies and social structures built over centuries really for everyone? Or only for groups of self-selected members?
Unfortunately, it is clear that large parts of humanity, during the course of our collective journey, again and again, ended up by the side of the road.  And what is the difference between the man in the stone cave and the modern man in his cardboard box or concrete conduit/cave?  We can't help but get the feeling that the man in the stone cave was somehow happier and more satisfied with his situation; it is all he knew.  The homeless (for whatever reason) know better...and hope for better.

Music & Lyric; Our dear poet Peter, soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Compilation, Mix and Production; Seagull, @farout-music-studio
With his high-string guitar; David Dunham, @david-dunhamuser589535203 
Thank you Seagull and Peter for letting me share this painful and poignant vision with you.

Modern Man:

I shuffle to, in my dripping cardboard palace,
Introspect on what the mental mind of evening brings.
The muffled dealer with his clingfilm-wrapped tripping malice
Prospects his kindly rental of the used syringe.

My box of brokenness shadowed by a higher human soul where lumens dare not tread
Detox wrapped in hollow stories still untold that crucify the thoughts within my head.
Needle patterns deathly blue upon my inner arm profess of no tattoo,
But of the crystal meth, whose harm, distressed, for me a living lie holds true.

Woven flaws, tangled webs of sins and hopes, regret a past mis-spent of futures told
Proven cause reflected in the ancients, whose tropes my nights now represent from days of old
Nothing that all of history built can yet detect the progress dial shifted
Nor the deeds nor the strength nor the intellect with which this vile human head was gifted

And within our minor symphonic demise, against which burning cold I close my eyes
All sin and crass politic lies now clear unfold, presenting no surprise that’s evident
I clock the days with callow patience as light defrays and my hopes relent
Futility and contradiction, sallowed latent time displays my childhood benediction rent asunder

Amid the sweet fair calling thunder of the ghosts of every child as yet unborn
There to meet me, falling at the hanging post, tempered mild, await my passing, so to mourn.

Modern Man (Peter; guitar, vocal, Seagull; synths, David; guitar

Empty World by Jim Manser
mixed and produced by Russ sinfield 
taken from the forth-coming album Tales of generation x
2024
watch the music video on youtube
https://youtu.be/OeSaLV4wVV0?si=K_dXQc2Jhe2sBY3F

empty world

youtube

Indivisible by two

Indivisible by Two

Moon Mood / Paploviante Open Collaboration Offer 
Paploviante: E-Bass, Composing, Arrangement, Mix and Mastering 
BPM 110
Free Download
Feel free to adding something !
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!

Moon Mood - Open Collaboration Offer

Please enjoy the wonderful music video celebrating summer with beautiful photography by Heidi Schnicker and music by Bruce Klepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP7oCoMgQBE
Many thanks to John- Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the birds sound library that was used to compose this piece 
For dudek, bansuri, harp, piano, violin, xylophone, bird sound library and percussion

MegaMix 10.08.2024

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