Some great classics with friends.  Joined by the amazing Scott Nelson, Mirko Borach, Mark Woodyatt, Daniele Turani, Daniele Petrocchi, Alan Schulman, Stephan Lipinski and Joe Bongiovanni

Let's Get the Party Started

The Very Best of 2022

2022 Recordings

Lou Taverna's an exceptional guitarist and musician.  So many love his sound, his playing, his abilities to perform and write across many genres with proficiency and true artistic flair.  Music comes together for Lou and he elevates everything that he's involved with.   This playlist is of the growing collection of music I've had the pleasure recording with Lou, many of which tunes also have other great players and friends joining us too.  

Follow Louis's sound here:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Tearing it up with Lou Taverna & Friends

NUNCA SAY JAMAIS PLUS

Thanks to all the exceptional musicians who continue to join me to create and to those who listen.  This collection is of our 2022 recordings

Boehme Borach Jankauskas Lipinski Mendez Parraga Petrocchi Rhind Simon Taverna  van den Berg

Gen-Jun 2023

Here's a super funky one with Lou Taverna and Jeff Volkman and me.  Lou created this one and always a pleasure to be asked to join him.  

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Struttin' It With Lou Taverna

The music speaks for itself.  I'm joined here again by the superb Louis Taverna on electric guitar, whose playing shows no boundaries.  Check out what he does throughout our funk fusion original Back to Back.  Pretty sure I go down in this duel! 
Follow Louis' outstanding recordings - such sophisticated rock, blues and fusion playing and writing:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always too for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Be well - this thing's not over yet....

Back To Back - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Love what happens with the right musicians and on our original, Can't Get There Without You, it all comes together.  Sam's playing both flute and tenor sax, Lou's on guitar and Sergio on percussion.   The kind of stuff that lifts the spirits.  Follow these wonderful musicians:
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Can't Get There Without You - Sam Mendez / Louis Taverna / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Our fusion original Diminishing Returns gives guitarist Lou Taverna a chance to strut his stuff again.  Spectacular guitar soloing across and around the diminished and whole tone scales taking the music into the stratosphere.  Love his contributions and playing.  Check out his wonderful gallery of originals:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Diminishing Returns - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

This one grooves...joined by the exceptional Daniele Petrocchi on bass and Al Schulman on guitar.  So much fun

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

The Vineyard - Daniele Petrocchi / Alan Schulman / Jamie Rhind

The wonderful Lou Taverna goes to town on our funky blues original Listen Up.  Check out his outstanding sound and playing over this blues rock groove.

And a link to his wonderful gallery:   https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Listen Up - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Catching The Wave - Lou Taverna / Andy McLean / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Some fresh new blues rock with the exceptional  Lou Taverna joining me on guitar.  He's got fire and so much groove too.
Check out and follow Lou's sweet gallery of originals:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Climbed to # 7 in SoundCloud's Hot & New Jazz and Blues category.

Feelin' It - Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

2021 | VOODOOVIBE - GRANDPA'S DINNER (A MIDTEMPO GLITCH FUNK EP) 
▶ Listen Now On Spotify 
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Rec, Mix & Master by VoodooVibe
Artwork & Video by VoodooVibe
All rights reserved © 2021 - IndiePendente Label  
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Instagram 🔴
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01 - VoodooVibe - Grandpa's Dinner

'For Now' is a dedication to "Mother Earth and is in part, the sorrow that I feel for the desecration of Planet Earth. The piece is in the form of a soundscape, for the want of a better genre description. However that aside, I still have a positive attitude towards over coming the forces of darkness, that are intent upon destroying this beautiful place that we all call home. So Happy New Year to all and health and happiness for 2022.

For Now

Sevenes 55,000

Love Is Better In The Morning

Some original latin jazz with Barcelona's Sam Mendez on flute and Sergio Parraga on latin percussion.  Follow these wonderful creative musicians:

https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

Reached #17 on the Hot and New playlist in the Jazz & Blues category

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Secret - Sam Mendez / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Breaking The Bank - Mirko Borach / Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Here's a shuffle blues/rock jam and joining me on this track are two killer musicians: Jamie Rhind, who goes off on his Hammond Organ for his grooving scorching solos and Jeff Volkman, who adds so many layers and dynamics with his funky bass/synth basses. Check these guys out!
Jamie Rhind - Hammond Organ https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Jeff Volkman - Bass and Synth Bass https://soundcloud.com/jeffvolkman
Louis Taverna - Guitars, Drum Programming, Backing Organs, Pianos, Horns and Additional Bass Guitar
Strut It was written by Louis Taverna © 2022

Strut It - Featuring Jamie Rhind and Jeff Volkman

Jamie Rhind joins me on a wild adventurous musical adventure!

FUNKY CURVES ON A ROCKY ROAD (Audric Jankauskas/Jamie Rhind-2022)

The incredible bravery and will of the Ukranians continues to inspire the world

Bravery - Jamie Rhind

The horrific situation in Ukraine is on everyone's mind - Gathered to tell our story here are great friends and musicians who bring their hearts to the unfolding situation. Sennid Simon's super soulful lyrics and groove are so welcoming. Our two exceptional guitarists - Stephan Lipinski and Lou Taverna - alternate a total of 6 not to be missed burning solos across the funk, Georg Boehme's tight baritone sax adds glue with both funky inside and outside playing and Sergio Parraga's exciting congas and lead quinto drive it all forward and add to the tension. Lou's added some additional rhythm and harmony guitar parts for even more color.
Just doing our musical thing for Ukraine and freedom...

Follow these fine musicians:
@sennid
@pinner
@louis-taverna
@sergioparraga

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares. And continuing prayers for Ukraine...

Funk The War - Sennid Simon / Stephan Lipinski / Lou Taverna / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Esperaza Jurassic  Market

Here's a guitar jam/solo I wrote that takes inspiration from the guitar solo section of Poison's Bodytalk, as I am a huge Richie Kotzen fan, he's one of my favorite guitar players. I made this long jam and just free-styled over it. I added a lot of layers with the use of organs/electric pianos and some trumpets. 
All guitars, bass guitar and organs/pianos were recorded by me, as well as the programming for the drums, trumpets and sax.
My go to guitar for the entire song was my schecter custom

Dirty Talk

I'm joined here again by Jamie Rhind on the keyboards/synths and piano for this jazz fusion track. Jamie's two intense synth solos and his absolutely beautiful passages for the outro section speak for themselves. Grateful to have him join me on this one!
Jamie Rhind - All keyboard/synth solos and piano solos, extra pianos and backing synths
Louis Taverna - All guitars, bass, drums, electric pianos and synth pads

Check out Jamie's soundcloud! https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

All rights reserved ©

Artwork by Circe Denyer

High Stakes - Featuring Jamie Rhind

Badkup - Bonetired 
(c) 2022 by
@fadysporz
@para-lia

Bonetired

Watched and I Did

How does it happen
A child learns to talk
You ask the child how
The child says I don’t know
I just heard sounds and I imitated them
You ask a bird how to fly
The bird will say I watched other birds
I did what I saw and the next thing I know I was flying
You ask a wolf how it hunts
The wolf will say I don’t know
I just watched and did

Watched and did, watched and did
That is what I did
I watched and did

You can find Dave Cooper's music here:
https://soundcloud.com/warfydave

Watched And I Did (with Dave Cooper)

Jamais plus, (*Translation below*)

Plus jamais, je ne la reverrai
Plus jamais, je ne l'entendrai
oublier tout ce qui s'est passé
oublier que nous nous sommes aimé.
Plus jamais, je ne l'appellerai
plus jamais, je ne lui écrirai
effacer son visage de mes pensées
effacer sa voix de ces bandes usées.

Un peu cassé, je sortirai du fossé
vous retrouver, je sais que vous m'attendez
chère inconnue, je viendrai vous chercher
car jamais plus, je ne saurai me tromper.
Un jour de mai, nous nous sommes embrassés
Un jour, oui mais, depuis nous sommes enlacés
Mon ingénue, c'est bien de vous dont j'ai rêvé
car jamais plus je ne saurai me tromper.
*(Chanson originale, mix, voix, texte KidOfEarth)  
©Copyright France

Never again,

Never again will I see her again
Never again will I hear her
forget everything that happened
forget that we loved each other.
Never again will I call her
never again will I write to her
erase her face from my thoughts
erase her voice from these worn tapes.

Kinda broke, I'll get out the ditch
find you, I know you are waiting for me
dear stranger, I will come and get you
because never again will I be able to be wrong.
One day in May we kissed
One day, yes but, since we are intertwined
My ingenue, it's really you I dreamed of
because never again will I be able to be wrong.
*(Original song, mix, vocals and lyrics KidOfEarth) 
©Copyright France)

Jamais Plus

Jamais Plus © (original song/Translation in description)

Little Bitty Bigfoot

Biiig Thanks Guys for this goodness
So good to work with you two Lunatics;-)
https://soundcloud.com/mikepolcari
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics72 Monky Business/ Mike Polcari Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Lunatics72 Monky Business🙈🙉🙊/ Mike Polcari Joerxworx & Ratzzz

High energy 12/8 grooving with the fabulous Georg Boehme and Stephan Lipinski.  Georg laid down 4 sax, clarinet and flute tracks and Stephan's got the tight wah rhythm and lead guitars. And as always, great soloing from both of these players.  This one’s risen to #8 in SC’s Hot & New Jazz & Blues category 

Georg Boehme:  https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
Stephan Lipinski:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner

And for playlists of our music together:

https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme

https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Bari Him - Georg Boehme / Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

#1 in Soundcloud's Hot and New playlist in the Jazz & Blues category!  And how great to have Georg Boehme and Sergio Párraga joining again on our jazz original Chill Time.  Make sure to follow these fine musicians and creators:

https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

And check out our playlists of the music we have created together:
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-sergio-parraga

Our cover photo is a shot I took just today in Pategonia, Chile, in the magnificent Torres del Paine National Park 

And thanks as always for your motivating likes, comments and shares.  Each one is most appreciated

Chill Time - Georg Boehme / Sergio Párraga / Jamie Rhind

With the tragic news of jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco's death at 51 last week, Al Schulman and I created our Blues For Joey D tribute.  Al's got the guitar and bass here and sure swings hard.  Check out his wonderful collection of jazz  https://www.alanschulman.com https://soundcloud.com/alanschulman including his beautiful duet and ensemble music with his wife Stacey and ASIS https://www.asisjazz.com 
And here's a collection of the 20 tunes we have recorded together :  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-al-schulman

The great Joey DeFrancesco will be missed by so many, but his incredible recordings live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkpb63NNlAI

Blues for Joey D reached #7 on SoundCloud's Hot and New playlist in the jazz and blues category

Blues For Joey D - Al Schulman / Jamie Rhind

From the upcoming album Garbage Town.
https://www.sickyb.com

Garbage Town

Sleep On It

unnamed station

22 3 16

My sister and I wrote this rather jazzy track a few moons ago. Was recently remastered by my lovely Sander. We hope you enjoy this instrumental number full of gorgeous strings from my big sister Jane. 😊🎶❤️🎻
@jane-hamilton-1 
@wane-of-summer

MISS YOU ALREADY...Annie Smart & Jane Hamilton

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Hammond B3 Organ solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Acoustic Bass. Hammond B3 Organ Rhythm with Bass Peddles. Drums Full drum kit. Percussion Tambourine, 22" Zildjan ride & Crash Cymbal.

Redondo

Bluez House

About time Lou and I turned it up a little bit.  Such a tremendous musician in every way - listen to Lou's deep appreciation for the blues - tasty fire.  Always laying it down so well.   Check out and follow Lou's wonderful music, albums and releases:  

https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna



Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your  likes, comments and shares

Inner City Jive -- Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Back with Scott Nelson on guitar and Mirko Borach on bass for some heavy funk.  This time we're doing Heavy Duty Judy, another original.  Gotta love Mirko's wonderful slap bass technique and lines, and when Scott's solos come in we are taken for a Heavy Duty Ride with Judy.

Follow these guys on their SC galleries:
Mirko Borach:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Scott Nelson:  https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Heavy Duty Judy - with Scott Nelson / guitar and Mirko "Stringburner" Borach / bass

Check out Rio Breeze - Scott's done his usual brilliant thing and added four wonderful tracks of guitar, bass, percussion and drums.   We hope you love it.

Follow Scott's extensive gallery of deep music: https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064
And here a link to the collection that Scott and I have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/stylin-with-scott-nelson

Rio Breeze - with Scott Nelson / guitar, bass, percussion

Little to say about this song; both lyrics and music (all organic but for programmed drums) were done very impulsively, so it may show my primal inspiration without reworks or additions. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Pic from: https://vincentmars.com/2013/11/20/the-sensual-paintings-of-fabian-perez/

Translated Lyrics:

YO PENSÉ (LA SEXTA VEZ) / I THOUGHT (THE SIXTH TIME)

Yo pensé: esa mujer no es peligrosa…
  (I thought: that woman is not dangerous …)
No esperé enamorarme como un idiota.
  (I did not expect to fall in love like an idiot.)
Me pregunté: ¿qué tiene en los ojos que tanto me tienta?
  (I wondered: what’s in her eyes which tempts me so much?)
y me acerqué para hablar con ella y verlos de cerca.
  (And I got closer to speak with her and watch them closely.)

Y si era la primera vez, ¿por qué no extrañaba hacerlo con ella?
  (And if it was the first time, why didn’t I feel strange doing it with her?)
Y si era la primera vez, ¿por qué parecía que era la sexta?
  (And if it was the first time, why did it seem to be the sixth one?)
Y si era la sexta vez, ¿por qué hubo preguntas después de la escena?
  (And if it was the sixth time, why were there questions after the scene?)

Y si fue la única vez, ¿por qué no puedo apartarla de mi cabeza?
  (And if it was the unique time, why cannot I take her out of my head?)

ER41FI08 97-17

Factor Integrante

Yo pensé (La sexta vez)

Prelude / Crazy

TWAVE 2020
download: https://travellingwave.bandcamp.com/track/the-strike

THE STRIKE

Pinner and I are having fun again with some funky blues.  He must be practicing or something, cause it sounds so good.  Follow his great guitar playing here:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
And for a playlist of the music we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Some Serious Blues - Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

the video — https://violamoonshape.com/video-1

how we made the video — https://tinyurl.com/y5cbbmgr

the blog — https://violamoonshape.com/blog/f/on-smog-part-1

stems for remixers available here: blnd.io/3ev4Elk

did it take some time after 
even as they did play?
did it take some time after 
or was it all just a laughter?
did it not take you by surprise
how my world wells with tears?
just thinking about it 
how the mess begins, darling 
how the mess, the mess begins, darling 

only there in the night 
when it starts to fall 
only there in the night 
do I see my fault 
only there in the night 
incognito deal 
only there in the night 
deliberate deal 
only there in the night 
reaction is served 
only in serving the cause of all causes 
only in serving the cause
does the dust settle 

how long will it take me
only to feel for you?

ॐ

part 1 in g flat major (a440) 
part 2 in e major (a440)
written, performed, and recorded by viola moonshape in april 2020
mixed by viola and brahma in september 2020
mastered by brahma in october 2020
copyright © 2020 viola moonshape

ॐ

vocals > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (tracks 01–07)
fender squier precision bass > apollo twin > logic (track 08)
liverpool software bass > logic (track 09)
korg minilogue xd > apollo twin > logic (track 10)
mayapur jackals > sennheiser mk 66 > zoom h4n > logic (track 11)
carob pod shaker > sm57 > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 12)
maracas > sm57 > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 13)
gibson es–335 > apollo twin > logic (track 14)
garritan abbey road studios cfx > logic (track 15)
conch shell > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (track 16)
lowden f-25 > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (tracks 17, 18)
drums programmed in logic (tracks 19–22)

ॐ

cover by brahma
frame from don's footage
copyright © 2020 viola moonshape

ॐ

Smog Part One

The Music Video

Smog Part One (video on youtube)

Mixing it up here again with a little funk.  
Wear those masks, wash hands and lots of distance.  We're all in this together.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for you comments and for your shares

Phunk City

Lou
Guitarist/Music Artist/Composer
I love to create. So much inspires me.
All music created, arranged, recorded and owned by me unless stated otherwise.

My 2019 Demo EP Welcome To The Neighborhood is now in select online stores

Currently working on an album 

Thanks for taking the time to listen to my music

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