Before realizing this is essentially a Sea Shanty (right?), my feelings were immediately drawn to the Canadian Maritime musical stylings. Your vocals are wonderful for this style. Great job!

many thanks for the inspiring trumpet playing by malte heseding

dac insomniac + r.s.stropharia - fuga din subsol - remixed by r.s.stropharia (14.01.2022)

For the joy of acoustic instruments.

I wrote this when I turned 35 and moved to the UK.
So grateful to have my good friend Johnson joining me - this really feels like a sweet acoustic jam, JR (@johnson-ramm)

JR: added guitars and added vocals
Me: vox, guitars, harmonica and other stuff

Middle of Life (Brian Peters)

I'm in the middle of life
So much has passed
I'm only 35
Save the best for last
Hey, riding through the middle of life

I'm in the middle of love
And I'm settling down
I can't get enough
It goes and comes around
Hey, riding through the middle of love

I'm in the middle of the world
Between the east and the west
And I'm riding the curve
Between the bad and the best
Hey, riding in the middle of the world

I'm in the middle of life
So much has gone
I'm only 35
But I'm moving on
Hey, riding through the middle of life

Middle of Life (w Johnson Ramm)

Another ambient piano piece, this time a lot darker

Gwydrfaen ("Obsidan")

Written October 2022.  Threats of armageddon are stupid beyond belief.  Listen with headphones.


Don’t Cross That Line 


I go to bed so fearful 
I wake up so tearful 
Don’t want to see those flowers of yours bloom 
I have children you see 
And I love my family 
I don’t want to know that they’re all doomed 

So what gives you the right 
To cloak the world in night 
And set a dying wreath upon our tomb 
Please don’t cross that line 
Please don’t cross that line 
Please don’t cross that line 
Just let the daylight shine 

To see the rockets fall 
In blinding flashes all
Where everything I love will be consumed 
The power that it brings 
To which your dirty fingers cling 
Means nothing to those alive nor in the womb

So what gives you the right 
To cloak the world in night 
And set a dying wreath upon our tomb 
Please don’t cross that line 
Please don’t cross that line 
Please don’t cross that line 
Just let the daylight shine

The world should only be over 
When the sun goes supernova 
And not burnt on the whim 
Of one whose ego matters more to him
Than all the lives you disrespect 
Who it should be your duty to protect 
Not destroy while you stand so proud 
In the shadow of a mushroom cloud 
But would press the button and then hunker 
Down inside a concrete bunker 
To emerge when entire nations
Are engulfed by the conflagrations 
And if this is what goes through your mind 
I don’t trust you not to cross that line 

So what gives you the right 
To cloak the world in night 
And set a burning wreath upon our tomb 
Please don’t cross that line 
Don’t you cross that line 
Don’t you cross that line 
Just let the daylight shine

Oh you’re all the same 
Leaders just in name 
Tyrants, despots, dictators, all fools 
As you try to shape the world 
With your hellish flags unfurled 
You’re creatures of my nightmares, demons, ghouls 

So what gives you the right 
To cloak the world in night 
And set a burning wreath upon our tomb 
Please don’t cross that line 
Don’t you cross that line 
Don’t you cross that line 
Just let the daylight shine


Image by CJW, coloured pencils on paper with filters

Don’t Cross That Line

Everybody Has Won And All Must Have Prizes by Amy Fear. My Fault Music 2022.

Everybody Has Won And All Must Have Prizes

I am because you are

This one's for Ray and Jimmy and the boys from the Dark Water Band. Thanks for the music and the positivity! : )

State Of Mind Blues

Written, performed and produced by Luna Neptune
Recorded at Gunfactory Studios by Tom McFall

It was a wet and cold night when Captain McGlashan brought his men, through the driving rain to Stegh Beagh. There they found the crone in her hovel on the hill, with ravens standing by with gleaming eye. McGlashan asked Old Christine to end the wicked gale. She called for the water pail for their fishing boat and said

“The price is 6 pence for the wind to get you home to Cromarty,
6 pence for the wind, do you agree?
And it’ll be a fine, fair breeze with the morn,
It’ll be a kinder wind to take you home.”

So the crew brought the pail and she trussed it up with sacred herbs and bade them not disturb the spell she cast, until every member of the crew was set safe upon homes shore, and not a moment before or the storm would return. With they woke with the dawn, they found a clear and pleasant morn, and set their fishing boat upon the firth.

But at the gloaming they rolled into the bay, and with it their resolve washed away. For they spied the kirks spire from the deck, and feared the preacher would send them down to Old Nick, for consorting with wind witches like Old Christine. So they threw the pail in to the wake, and watched the herbs float away. And the clouds started gathering, and the the wind started howling, and the waves started crashing, and the rain started driving them away.

And at dawns early light, they saw they were crashed upon the rocks, and they looked out at an unfamiliar shore. And there sitting on a rock, with a rye wicked smile, was Old Christine herself. And she said

“What brought ye back so soon lads? It’ll be a long walk home for you now lads.”

So if you treat with wind witches, follow their instructions to the tee, or end up on bended knee.

Six Penny Witch (Old Christine)

Almares

Nina Müllers Album

bird

The wonderful Frank Wilke has recently sent me a bunch of files for a new big project involving a heap of great musicians. As a warm up to this new project, and for a bit of fun I put together this little thing. Always a great pleasure to work with Frank : ) check out his stuff @brass-lines

Another Round Of Happiness - with Frank Wilke

Space Pop Folk Rock with additional trinkets thrown in.    https://linktr.ee/lunaneptune
Contact: mgmt@lunaneptune.co

Six Penny Witch (Old Christine)

Luna Neptune

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