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02 - Ocean Atlas

"Tragic Endings" was written about my obsessive tendency to worry and my need to know how things will end.

Tragic Endings

tragic endings

Bandcamp

I added Antonella´s vocals to my instrumental track Patienceand it feels like it needed her vocals to be complete

Patience

Wilfried Hanrath: Patience feat. Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi

STOP WAR

STOP WARS

Addis

I Need Your Love (Radio Edit)

Best I can do to emulate the great Joseph Spence or Ry Cooder who recorded this great tune. I worked on Andros Island for two years and never met either Joseph or the Pindar family he worked with, to my eternal regret.

Great Dreams From Heaven

Travelling Song

Take The Bullet

Neck-Deep in the Blyth

Come Undone

Circles Of Heather

Josh and Chris put this track up on BandLab for collab and here is the Llanpsych mix :)))))

Listen to the original here 

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/3pj5voAiZSngRMtf9

Minor Swing remix - with Entheogenic Psychonaut and cgmaness

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Latin, literally ‘not having control of one's mind’.

If there was ever a time in my life when I questioned the sanity of the world, this would be it. So many things are not working; and so many people in power seem to want to keep it that way. How does one maintain hope (and provide others hopeful ideas), when the daily news tells such a different story? At what point do the hopeful messages just feel out of touch, rather than helpful?

Bo Burnham’s comedy special ‘Inside’ (on Netflix, but you can find several skits on YouTube as well) should be recommended viewing for all human beings right now. It’s a brilliantly insightful and snarky view of the world we live in, and a candid peek into his struggles facing that world. Half charming, half alarming… he is unapologetic and razor sharp in how he interprets the modern age. Here’s a line from one of the opening songs that really hit home for me:

"The more I look, the more I see nothing to joke about. Is comedy over? Should I leave you alone? Cause really who's gonna go for joking at a time like this? Should I be joking at a time like this? I wanna help to leave this world better than I found it. And I fear that comedy won't help, and the fear is not unfounded."

This so accurately summarizes how I feel right now. Is what I’m doing helping? Or does (you pick the hot topic driving you nuts at the moment) seem so out of control, that I seem out of touch with reality… trumpeting loving and hopeful messages in the face of the chaos? 

In the end, I feel there are only two paths available to us at any given time; activity and inactivity. I don’t know that the specific activity matters as much as the drive and purpose behind that activity. I suspect the point is simply to do anything positive that tells the universe where your heart and intent are focused. The alternative… inactivity probably looks a lot like freezing in your tracks, getting lost in fear (or anger, which I consider a sub-category of fear)… and refusing to (or feeling like you can’t) move forward. It’s pretty easy to imagine how that energy won’t be helping anyone… especially you.

So maybe it’s as simple as just doing something that seems meaningful to you. Maybe that means protesting. Or donating to causes that align with your values. It might be conserving water, limiting waste, and recycling. Perhaps it’s providing your services and skills to someone in need; or simply smiling at someone as you pass them on the street. And it can also take the form of artistic and creative expression; a valuable offering for people in need of evocative images, sounds and ideas. All of these things hold power. And all are important in my mind. So rather than questioning whether we’re doing the right things, or enough of the right things… maybe we just need to follow our hearts (not our minds), and see where that leads us. Our hearts already seem to know us better than we know ourselves anyway. Let’s try trusting that little fellow, and see where it takes us.

I hope you enjoy my latest sonic adventure, ‘Non Compos Mentis’. :)

WTF! The Musical

Non Compos Mentis

Come on down you synth-folk slacker cyberpunks
I know you must be lonesome

Inviting all the wretches and the feckless
I know you’ll find your home soon

Way out there
Fade away
Ungracefully
In obscurity

[Contains samples from Philip K. Dick's press conference at the Metz Science Fiction Festival, France, September 1977]

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

one human at a time

Synth-Folk Slacker Cyberpunks

Romantic Wings

A huge shout out to Len Rice for all his production suggestions on this and other tracks of mine - a true expert, check him out https://soundcloud.com/lenrice

The telephone keeps ringing lately
And I don’t know who it is
Every time I say hello who is it 
There’s silence on the line 

And when I try to trace the caller
There’s no number to be found
I can’t even call the operator
They don’t exist any more

Maybe I’m just imagining it all
Just Tricks upon my mind
If it’s you that keeps calling
Won’t you please just give me a sign
Please just give me a sign

Instrumental verse

In the night I heard a high pitch pinging
A message had just arrived 
But when I checked my phone to read it
A blank email was all I found 

I wonder if I’m imagining it all
Just Tricks upon my mind
If it’s you that keeps calling
Won’t you please Just give me a sign
Please give me a sign
If it’s you just give me sign

Silence on the line

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‘Moon Moth’ The long awaited debut album from Lola in Slacks is finally here and will be released on 22 October 2021 on Glasgow’s ‘Last Night from Glasgow’ label. 
All vinyl pre-orders will ship to eager fans in late august/early september with the worldwide digital release coming the weekend they headline Glasgow's CCA on 23 October 2021. 

https://shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/lola-in-slacks-moon-moth-vinyl-lp-and-lossless-dl

There’s somewhat of a sense of mystery around this ambitious, literate outfit. Charismatic singer Louise Reid is the focal point, with songwriting partner and guitarist Brian McFie providing skilful garage grind and spiraling melody. Lesley McLaren has a growing reputation in her own right as a great rock 'n' roll drummer, and the band is fleshed out by Davy Irvin on bass and Fiona Shannon on piano and keys. 
‘Trocchi's Canal’ takes the beautifully crafted song-writing of Reid and McFie into another realm, a strand of romantic adventurism which is a precious rarity in these times. 
‘Gus Ironside - Louder Than War’

02 - Ocean Atlas

Lola in Slacks

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