A relaxed, eclectic mix for your morning coffee and/or tea. Updates every Wednesday with popular tracks in Germany.

Mellow Melodies

A relaxed, eclectic mix for your morning coffee and/or tea. Updates every Wednesday with popular tracks in Indonesia.

Nur Ein XX

Copy of Mellow Melodies

HOT N GLASSY

SWIMMING LESSONS

Let Things Go

Lonely Mountain Town

Dewasa Yang Menyebalkan - Rizqi Alam:v

MONDAY

Apa Mungkin - Bernadya (Cover)

🎥 Sudah ada versi video lengkapnya di YouTube lho!
👉 https://youtu.be/C08fQ61kFWI
Kalau kamu suka nuansa lembutnya, kamu harus lihat visualnya.
(Trust me… it hits different.) 🌙✨

Apa Mungkin (Acoustic Version)

Vinyl, CD, Cassette

When Winter Returns

Mangu X Mangu - Fourtwnty  Tik Tok Version - Ruang Galau V2

stranger

stranger (stripped)

Stecu Stecu

Full album: https://on.soundcloud.com/G75wVH4ivAjOn2dNNj

Lyrics:

"They’ll call you crazy," 
they always do,
say you’re chasing 
things no one pursues.
They’ll roll their eyes, 
they’ll shake their heads,
“Who are you to dream that big?” they said.

They don’t understand,
you were made for this.
They won’t see it coming,
you carry the gift.
You hold the strength,
you bring the shift.

“You know nothing,” 
they will shout,
“Where’s your title? 
What’s your route?”
They’ll laugh and point 
from their safe ground,
while you’re building storms 
without a sound.

They don’t understand,
you were made for this.
They won’t see it coming,
you carry the gift.
You hold the strength,
you bring the shift.

You walk alone, 
but not in fear,
your fire speaks 
when none will hear.
Born with light 
they tried to dim,
but stars don’t ask 
the world to grin.

Let them doubt, let them resist,
true change was never born to fit.
The wheel of life won’t place you high or low
it takes you where you’re meant to go.
But only a few know how to draw
the map that leads through fire and flaw.

They don’t understand,
you were made for this.
They won’t see it coming,
you carry the gift.
You hold the strength,
you bring the shift.

So stand your ground 
and face the fire,
you were never meant 
to just admire.
The world will change 
because you stayed—
not when they clapped,
but when they swayed.

The wheel of life

written for the Nur Ein songwriting contest, year XX, Round 0. 

Title: Get Cooking
Challenge: Must name drop a previous Nur Ein participant. 

Lyrics: 

Yo, you wanna take a hit of that thing?
Alright...

Nur Ein, what's up?
This is your old pal Lucky Witch asking you to
Get cooking!
We need some flavor round here
Some sugar and some spice
But don't you dare play nice
Get up, honey!
Get out your buffalo stance
I know you ain't got time for the same ol' song and dance
Because...

The girls on the corner
They're drinking bottled water
Got a dollar in their pocket
And they wanna dance

So get cooking
We need some flavor round here
Come on and just play no matter what they say
I got some friends down on 125th and they wanna groove
C'mon, c'mon, what you got that's gonna make the booties move
C'mon now
Because...

The girls on the corner
They're drinking bottled water
Got a dollar in their pocket
And they wanna dance

So get cooking
We need some flavor round here
You got that flavor?
If you don't got that flavor where you are
Just come on down to Gowanus
You got three dollars on that Metrocard?
Just come on down to Gowanus
We can show you what that flavor's all about
Come on now, C'mon and get cooking

Get cooking
We need some flavor round here
Get cooking
Don't you show me no fear
There's a scratch in your record
We need to hear something new
What you got cooking, Mr. Big Face
Whatcha gonna do
Because...

The girls on the corner
They're drinking bottled water
Got a dollar in their pocket
And they wanna dance

So get cooking
C'mon now, get cooking!
Yo, In Queens, are they cooking? Ya, they cooking.
How bout in Manhattan? They cooking there too.
Up in the Bronx? You know they cooking.
Staten Island?! Shaolin is always cooking.
New Jersey. New Jersey ain't cooking.
They got a transit strike about to happen.
They ain't cooking.
And out here in Brooklyn?
Out here in Brooklyn?
Out in Gowanus?
The canal is radioactive but you know we cooking.
We cooking out here.
So, Nur Ein, what you gonna do?

Get cooking.

Credits:
Vocals: E. Niveous Rayside
Omnichord: R. Brookes McKenzie
Bass: Eric Novak
Drums: Jay Ackley


Get Cooking

Written for the Nur Ein songwriting contest, year XX, Round 1. 

Title: Pyramid
Challenge: Use a repeating melodic phrase that gets shorter as the song progresses/builds.

Lyrics:
You say
denial is just a river
so you say, and so you say
You say
you were there
when aliens built the pyramids
so you say

but I've been listening
to the songs of the stars
and I'm hearing things
that you don't understand

You say
I learned nothing from
your college course
so you say, so you say
You say
secret teachings of ancient masters
are lost on me
so you say

but I've been listening
and I'm hearing things
that you don't understand

Credits:
R. Brookes McKenzie - vocals, Omnichord
E. Niveous Rayside - guitar
Eric Novak - acoustic bass
Jay Ackley - piano

Pyramids

Written for the Nur Ein songwriting contest, year XX, Round 2. 

Title: Flower Moon
Challenge: Narrative song about a murder.

Death comes in the springtime
Smothered by the verdant vines
Strangled by the signs of time
Death comes in the springtime

Chorus:
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
God what did you do, beneath the Flower Moon?
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)

I thought that you were gone
Digging deep to make sure I did
But now the flowers growing
Show the world just what I hid

Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
God what did you do, beneath the Flower Moon?
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)

Bridge:
You took my spirit
I took your life
Struggle in the garden
Two sides of the same knife

Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)
God what did you do, beneath the Flower Moon?
Who buried me in the garden? (Hoo Ha Hoo Ha)

Credits: 
R. Brookes McKenzie - vocals, Omnichord
E. Niveous Rayside - vocals, guitar
Eric Novak - bass
Jay Ackley - drums

Flower Moon

Written for the Nur Ein songwriting challenge, year XX, round 3. 

Challenge: Call and Response with a guest vocalist that you've never collaborated with before.
Guest Star: Mama Pills

Lyrics:
When I was young and well
I fell under your spell
You tied me up in a knot
'Til I almost forgot

What it means to feel
How it felt to be real
What it means to feel
How it felt to be real

Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling...

Time had stopped for you
Long ago, it's true
Frozen in carbonite
Carved up by your knife

What it means to feel
How it felt to be real
What it means to feel
How it felt to be real

Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling
Once more with feeling...

I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)
I'm scared (wake up, wake up, wake up)

Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)
Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)
Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)
Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)
Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)
Once more with feeling (wake up, wake up, wake up)


Once More With Feeling

Written for the Nur Ein Songwriting challenge, year XX, Round 6 as a shadow (non-competing entry). 

Challenge: use snaps and handclaps

Lyrics: 

Spoken: It's 10pm, do you know where your children are? 

Some kids like to pretend
Some kids don’t have any friends
Some kids roam the night, wasted youth, wasted life
Stuck on a street with a dead end

Some kids play silly games
Some kids are those led astray
Some kids will never know more than a broken home
Never ever going to graduate

CHORUS:
The kids aren’t all right, the kids aren’t okay
The kids aren’t all right, all right, okay

Some kids worry about the prom
Some kids pull the fire alarm
Some kids get hand-me-downs, they’ll never leave this town
Some kids learn how to build a bomb

Some kids grow up too fast
Some kids never get to class
There’s nowhere to go in a town called Dark Cove
Some kids just aren’t meant to last

Because the kids aren’t all right, the kids aren’t okay
I said the kids aren’t all right, all right, okay

Spoken (by different voices): 
Did you see Tiffany? She got braces!
Can you go be a bitch somewhere else?
What do you mean, he’s your boyfriend?
Say hello to your son, Tristan! Hi… daddy
You never say what you mean to say.
But I thought he died in a motorcycle accident after homecoming.
He’s dating Brianna. Why would he send you that?
Me and the crew are going to go down to Scooby’s for some milkshakes. You want to come along? 
Oh my god, Brian was wearing these lame-ass shades.
I don’t know how to do this anymore.
Everyone knows that you’re ten times the tramp than I ever was. 
Just try it! All the cool kids are doing it.
Oh my god bitch, get your own boyfriend!

Because the kids aren’t all right, the kids aren’t okay
I said the kids aren’t all right, all right, okay
The kids aren’t all right, the kids aren’t okay
The kids aren’t all right, all right, okay

Credits: 
E. Niveous Rayside: Vocals, guitar
R. Brookes McKenzie: Omnichord, backing vocals, mixing, engineering & production
Eric Novak: Bass
Jay Ackley: Drums

Featuring the voice talents of: Eric Novak, Becks Gagnon, Glenn Case, Isobelle Novak, Oliver Novak, Margo Goldstein, Elana Low, Jay Ackley, Nikki Bates, Tom Urwin, Martina Fiserova, and Clementine D. Muppetinski

Pyramids

Lucky Witch & The Righteous Ghost