Now there are some cookian chords :) Nice!

U BAD?

DJ Truth - U BAD

An Academy of Saints song.

This song is unashamedly influenced by the songwriters of the 'Great American Songbook' and some of the favourite artists such as Hue and Cry, The Bathers and Gary Clark (of Danny Wilson!).
The arrangement features voice, piano, guitar, drums, flute, muted trumpet, double bass, harp, a string section, a glockenspiel and an ARP Odyssey synthesizer.

The lyrics are about how sweet memories of first love / infatuation are dulled and stolen by the passing years. In the song, the person who held that particular torch for all those years (me;)) is told by the singer to rest now as no amount of revisiting of those treasured memories will change the outcome and each day they are farther gone. The love that you long for will never shine in those eyes whose image is being reclaimed by the past... it looks like the polka-dot girl is finally going to run away. Time has claimed her and all that's left is the keepsake of those first feelings.

Quite appropriately for the first (proper) release from my long-intended orchestral pop project the subject of the song is someone I met through playing in the local youth orchestras sooo many years ago! I never seemed to have the right words.

Written, Performed and Produced by R Cook August 2023

Keepsake - Academy of Saints

In this week’s segment we discuss US policy towards African nations, Canada's revelations of Ukraine’s and its own connections with Nazis, and how the restriction on federal funds for abortion impacts low-income people seeking care. But first we talk about the US Africa Command, AFRICOM, and the upcoming International Month of Action Against AFRICOM.

Black Agenda Radio September 29, 2023

New Cycle 011 (live Recording)

Always wanted an Amiga :( I'll have to settle with Ableton; Bitcrushed to fuck.

Epoxy Crush

"Stagecoach Mary" is written by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the R.J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore musicians. Joe DeFilippo: vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar; Bill Phelan: acoustic slide, electric guitar; Glenn Workman: piano; Sue Pratt: background vocals; Bill Pratt: drums, background vocals. Produced & recorded by: Bill Pratt @ the Bratt Studio, Baltimore,MD.

Stagecoach Mary

Us > Them! (My Favorite)

UA397: XFA - XCSS.DSRS [Lp] Including 33 Tracks;
Glitch \ Ambient, Ambient With Glitch & Glitch With Ambient Music.
Worldwide Release Out 27/06/2020 [UA397]
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/xcss-dsrs-lp/2983092
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/xfa-xcss-dsrs-lp/4623724-02/
Itunes\Apple: https://music.apple.com/album/xcss-dsrs-lp/1514436272
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0893L5YNJ
Mixupload: https://mixupload.com/artists/xfa
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6uKLF9lQSiY1pbjJ3c4fUx
Youtube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJoOAq7VpfNz2PyXiEuRH2FNAjX-MRPqQ
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/universe-axiom-label/sets/ua397

promo mix lp album on youtube https://youtu.be/MakzBQpAGfs
promo mix lp album at hearthisat: https://hearthis.at/universeaxiom/xfa-xcss.dsrs-lp-promo-mix/
promo mix lp TRACKLIST:
MMXIX.XI.XXX.TTNTN.SKR
MMXIX.XII.XXIII.TRTC https://soundcloud.com/200703/mmxixxiixxiiitrtc
MMXIX.IV.XXIX.WT.BR
MMXIX.XI.IX.LS.BLS
MMXX.I.XII.BXR
MMXX.I.XVII.BLND.BNN https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxxixviiblndbnn
MMXIX.XII.II.CHSNG
MMXIX.XII.XX.CRS.RTST https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxixxiixxcrsrtst
MMXIX.XII.IV.DP.RLF
MMXX.III.V.FLRSH
MMXIX.XII.I.GRLLR
MMXIX.XII.XIX.JMMNG
MMXX.III.III.KGLCS.II
MMXIX.XII.XVI.LVL
MMXIX.XII.XXVII.MV.DT
MMXX.IV.X.NPPNG.RTST https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxxivxnppngrtst
MMXX.III.XII.NGHTL.RTN https://soundcloud.com/220320/mmxxiiixiinghtlrtnii
MMXVIII.VIII.XXIII.RT.F.TH.TS
MMXVIII.IX.XXIV.N.TRGT
MMXIX.XII.XIX.JMMNG.T
MMXX.I.XVI.CNDD.PRFRMNC
MMXX.II.XXIII.PCTRSQ https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxxiixxiiipctrsq
MMXIX.XII.XVIII.TW.PC
MMXX.I.XXVI.SLF.RFLCTN https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxxixxvislfrflctn
MMXVIII.VII.IV.RVTR
MMXX.III.XII.NGHTL.RTN.II https://soundcloud.com/220320/mmxxiiixiinghtlrtnii
MMXX.II.XX.SMTTN
MMXIX.X.VII.FRST.SPCLM https://soundcloud.com/02022022/mmxixxviifrstspclm
MMXX.IV.IV.STRNG.RCPTN https://soundcloud.com/231219/mmxxivivstrngrcptn
MMXX.III.XXIII.STFFD.II
MMXX.I.XXI.SWLL.ND.QLL https://soundcloud.com/200703/mmxxixxiswllndqll
MMXVIII.X.II.PSSNG.TM https://soundcloud.com/02022022/mmxviiixiipssngtm
MMXIX.XII.XXVI.VNNG.TRT https://soundcloud.com/200703/mmxixxiixxvivnngtrt


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XFA - XCSS.DSRS [Lp] (Promo Mix Album) 33 Glitch \ Ambient Tracks [UA397]

'Taghan'; Scottish Gaelic for 'Pine Marten'
First track using my newly acquired Roland JU-06a (on strings and e-piano type timbre).
Prophet Rev 2 doing the bassline and fast sequence
Roland Jx-08 playing the jazzy chords.

Taghan

More bass more face. This one’s for you Chris. RIP.

Maybe

test export number two, still more tweaking needed

i did a bit more mixing, there's a preliminary master, sound design still needs work

would be happy to get some feedback

||DRUM'N'BASSICS

machinesforliving is an independent outlet for my music projects. 

Songs are also available on Art City Glimmer's Bandcamp page.

I was the synthesizer player and songwriter in Thieves Like Us, however, as the band became more electronic I felt that the original idea of the band playing sophisticated, funky, soul-pop in the style of Scritti Politti, Hue & Cry and Jam & Lewis had changed calling for a rebranding. I took the name of the first band I had formed in school and we became 'the semantics'. In this form we completed two albums of electronica with a final album completed by me more or less on my own- 'Take Me Home', one of the few group tracks on that final album is the earliest track on this Soundcloud page. Damaged and From 2 to 1 were also on this final semantics album but are solo recordings.

Following the drifting apart of the band I started recording electronica as 'Art City Glimmer' and formed an EBM project (International Electromatics) with my friend, the writer MM Lewis. We shared a love of Old School Electronic Body Music such as Front 242, D.A.F. and Front Line Assembly. With lyrics provided by my old friend I indulged my darkest EBM dreams in the studio and between 2011 and 2021 we produced 23 singles of pure EBM. Some are featured on this page but all of them and their b-sides are available on the International Electromatics page.

Enthused by some individual collaborations with the two other members of Thieves Like Us  around 2020, we relaunched the group with two projects. One is to re-record our debut album 'Lovessence' with the technology we now have so it can finally sound as it should have done. The other is the completion of a new album featuring some brand-new songs alongside recordings of songs that would always have been on a new TLU album... had the band existed, but ended up on my solo projects. These were, in approach and concept, always TLU songs.

PROJECTS
Art City Glimmer: 2010 - Present. Solo electronic pop.

Thieves Like Us: reactivated 2021. Funk, soul, sophistipop collaboration with Rich Braithwaite and Jon Paul.

International Electromatics: 2011-2021. EBM project with MM Lewis. Currently on hiatus waiting for new lyrics😁!

Outlier: 2022-Present. Sample-based hauntology project. Sound sources include 1930s movies, obscure library music, 70s easy listening, 20th Century classical, cult TV, dance and electronica.

Academy of Saints: 2023- Present. Orchestral and chamber-pop project. 

Stars of the Silver Age: 2012-Present. Exclusively analogue synthesis-based occasional project. Lockdown album written, recorded and mixed across 4 days using just an SH101 and a Volca Beats. All tracks from that available on own Soundcloud page.

Red Sky: 2018-Present. An umbrella, soundtrack / ambient project for the orphan instrumental music I have produced.


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