Mixed for Lillithe

This is a vocal group that moved me enough to use on my father-in-law's eulogy at his funeral.. I thought now would be a good time to share it with people from all countries, this is not me singing, although you know, it would be a good vocal exercise at some point.
We're all losing those people from the great generation, and this is a tribute to them.

America

original instrumental:
Overthrowing D Old Dogs
CAPSAICIN QUEEN
https://soundcloud.com/user-523875798/sanjajnag-overthrowing-d-old-dogs?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

MAAT is Myrh Astarte Agitation Trinity
Music by SanjanG @anubranchovlightning
Artwork by Astarte 23 @astarte23
Added lyrics, vocals, & cover design by Myrh @myrhyum

FLICKERING ON ICE
____________________
Why do you think you brought us here, to this cross street?

And the lights are flickering
On ice
And the lights are flickering
On ice

Haider is my brother's last name,
your father's name was written, written as...

You can love if you can, love if you can

And the lights are flickering
On ice
And the lights are flickering
On ice

You can love if you can, love if you can

On Ice - wanting, ask for word - Lie to me, well i say, lie to me!

Sit down like a want - sipping on a glass
Say to me
Poison
Say to me
sipping on a glass of poison
Say to me

My eyes slowly tear
My tears miss the ground

Oo exquisite
Oo exquisite

My eyes slowly tear
Tears miss the ground

Oo exquisite
Oo exquisite

So don’t shed no tears
Don’t shed!
Don’t shed no tears
Don’t shed!
So don’t shed no tears
These’ll be my Last!

The lights flickering on ice
On Ice

Flickering on Ice | MAAT >  Overthrowing D Old Dogs by CAPSAICIN QUEEN

Full Moon Night (V0) - Piano Works

Words and Music Antipodeans 2022. Recorded and Engineered at Grovehill Studio, and mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack. Blue Auckland photo by Patrick Pellegrini on Unsplash

Last Bus

Tea plantations on the planet Athoek, the location of some intrigue in Ann Leckie's book, Ancillary Sword.
I took inspiration from the early work of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Vangelis)RIP. I loved how he combined traditional Greek instruments with electronics on "Earth".  "Heaven and Hell"  remains a personal favourite. 



All rights reserved 2022

Plantation On Athoek

We're going under
This is not our lucky day
My mind's asunder
Oh, let's save those thoughts away
Yeah I heard the thunder
There are still so many things to say
You disturbed our slumber
Oh, this is not your lucky day

We're going out there
We're going all the way, the wrong way
You may think it's unfair
But it was you who chose to play
And now we don't care
No, we can keep this up all day
Yeah, you better beware
'Cause this seems not you lucky day

Oh this is where you drown, you drown
It's all the same so let's, get out of town
Love will end and now, you're down, you're down
Thoughts may blend, and you, will drown, will drown

Oh this is where you drown, you drown
It's all the same so let's, get out of town
Love will end and now, you're down, you're down
Thoughts may blend, and you, will chase yourself around

Lucky Day

Here is a little ditty I wrote. Hope you all dig it!

The Old Oak Tree

You Could Never Take Away

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

Let’s steal away on a midnight train tonight
And don’t look back ever again tonight

Chorus

Let me hold you in my dreams 
Make everything seem right
Now’s there’s no more time for tears
Tonight, Tonight

Let me see what I want to see tonight
Let me be who I want to be tonight

Chorus

Bridge

Let me hold you
Let me see the illusion that is free

Let’s find a way to get away tonight
And find ourselves some stolen time tonight

Chorus

Tonight x 3

Tonight

Together

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was unless if someone figures it out on their own.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US.

Prohibited Topics

21 12 23

Schweres Gepäck

Back at my acoustic piano for my new song here! 😊🎹
Thank you so much to my lovely Sander for another gorgeous mastering job. @wane-of-summer 😊🎶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

PERFECT SENSE (acoustic piano & vocals)

Jo Richter @sonic-textures a.k.a. Sonic Textures and Silent Stretches produced a really fascinating soundscape with poetry that he offered as an open collaboration. Here is the link to the original:
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/concatenandus?in=sonic-textures/sets/open-for-collaboration
Here is a link to a version which Stonerjazz @user-911083679 added to. My remix is working from this one:
https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/song-0049wav
And if you'd like to hear one more iteration of this open collab, here is a great one from Nic: https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic/concatenandus-nic-version 

I was quite fascinated by Jo's poem. See below for the lyrics.  I added the full text back in after chopping up some elements of it to create this soundscape, and when it the words sit on top they line up in some very interesting serendipitous ways.

I also have just released a version with soundscape only and just snippets of words left in the background, in case you'd like to hear without the poem overlaid:
http://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/photographs

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Lyrics / copyright jo richter:
concatenandus - (on the meaning of wind generators in fashion photography)

she kept wondering about all those photographs
that show flowing hair and wide, wind-swept robes
until she understood: those ropes connect halves
of a self that's caught and its dasein-based scopes

what is my real size if it's not epidermical skin?
the reach of my voice? my status, hierarchical clout?
my environmental footprints, global, within?
my life's agenda? some will being lived out?

what is my true reach into psyche, space, time?
which pasts do shape my tribulations and loves?
she thought of herself as a poor poet's rhyme,
as a reflection of life in a stock photograph.

a stranger wave of understanding hit her
when she unfolded into the moment -
she was not singled out, her whole world was with her
she was connected in a well-worn arrangement

of events manifest: she yelled out with joy:
birds nest in my hair, my feet walk the ground
this self tried to bind me, this gravitational ploy
but beyond all that hassle, spins a world that is round

Words & Photographs: Concatenandus Remix with Jo Richter's full poem

This song is a result of trans-Pacific cooperation at it's best. my his friend Mikey McFaffington, of Geelong, Australia, sent me some guitar chords and a smoking sax riff. I took them both, added an arrangement, bass, organ, guitar, and a beat. This is the result. We hope you like it. You can find Mikey on here, too, under his name. 

Far and Wide (with Mikey McFaffington)

Thank you Laar for being so easy to work with and having accepted vocals recorded with a nasty cold! Say goodbye to those fairweather friends please.

Fairweather Friend

My Fairweather Friend ( collab LAAR)

Music by River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/river_dolphins/pole-shift-river-dolphins-cosmic-keanu

Vocals, Lyrics & Art by Cosmic Keanu

Pole Shift

The earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds are broken
Poison all around

Nowhere else to go
Everywhere the same
There’s no time at all
where we find ourselves

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Swallowing the hook
we consume the bait
Can’t agree at all
Save the need for change

Divided in our minds
Can’t tell love from hate
Then before we know
It may be too late

Blind with mental plays
walk into the blaze
Cannot see what’s here
in front of our face

Earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Earth shakes below
lightening flash above
Hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Seeing in real time
Following the way
Having seen what’s real
Only truth will stay

Lightly holding on
As the poles turn round
peaceful through it all
as the world falls down

Pole Shift (River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu)

So juicy and so purple black
Profusion in the mortal stack
Relentless in their silent March
To dominate the universe
With a vengeance few can understand

Dilitants with good intentions
Were enlisted and abetted
The invasion from the Himalayas
Where they landed long ago
From the planet of the purple berry
In a tiny spaceship made of Gold

Sent by cosmic tricksters
With intellect and agendas
Way beyond our comprehension

Now they're in my backyard
Now they're at my door
Razor canes drawn for battle
Like Neolithic Swords

Some say the Cobbler makes it worth the Risk
But I'm not so shore.

Planet of the Purple Berry (Himalayan blackberry)

The cakewalk was more than a recreational dance; it also gave a chance for enslaved people to ridicule those who tyrannized them.

Photo: Bert Williams and George Walker who popularized cakewalk dancing more than anyone.

Cakewalk Into Town (Taj Mahal)

..... my remix of Paul's wonderful track https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/house-bass-paploviante-open-collaboration with a bit of sound design and a humble solo with breathcontroller and Respiro sounds !
Cheers & a big thank you to Paploviante !!!