This Playlist is About You

Its no time its no year
Well I'm flying when the coasts looking clearer
I feel fine give a cheer
Hell I'm crying don't judge a book by appearance

In the past in the light
It fades fast well thank God I'm a fighter
Called to task scared of heights
So I'll bask in the heart of the sunlight

CHORUS
When you say the slightest word I'll come running
I only need a single word not two
The dreams are good the prospects sure are stunning
I think I get carried away

Its no time its a fact
I'm no Einstein indeed I'm mentally cracking
I'm fine but lets chat
And I pine when my batteries are failing

CHORUS

Carried Away

In a shot (bam) I'd flee from this land
To a distant place where we can walk hand in hand
Give it time (tic) we'd certainly click
I hope I've not been beaten by the ugly stick

CHORUS
Its true
Heaven is a place with you
We two

If I stare into space at your beautiful face
Its just because it takes me ti a much better place
In a short while I'll control my smile
I hope that you don't see me and you run for a mile

CHORUS

In a shot (bam) I'd flee from this land
I'm feeling so giddy that I can only half stand
My heart beat when I dream how we meet
Its fair to say you've gone and swept me off of my feet

CHORUS

Heaven is a Place With You

Creatures and plant life evolve but the worlds vaguely the same
I've a short shelf life
I've been the heir to fortune just in name

Picture a princess
Picture such a beauty as you wish
Though I may confess
I've picked up the most tasty dish

CHORUS
And I will always feel the same through pain and thunder
And I will always feel the same
And I will always feel the same until you cast me asunder
A chance to run dear as I'll always feel the same

Sat at a table staring gormless at your eyes
The best I'm able I'll lift you up into the skies

A voice mesmerising
It suits the accomplished written hand
You are so tantalising
I've a different wish than originally planned

CHORUS

The Same

You can't stop the waving frantic from the shore
I've sent all my loving and I'm still sending more

CHORUS
I'm simmering under
I'm testing understanding
I'm literally under your skin

I'm full of the wise cracks my stories the same
There are butterfly flutters each time when I see your name

CHORUS

I work like I'm clockwork in some ground hog day
I'm waffling endlessly and I don't go away

CHORUS

Under Your Skin

Spanish Harlem

I felt a frisson, a presence, as she passed me; “never fall behind” she said
Blue eyes, yeah china blue; or green maybe 
The silhouette of a crown was it? Or of his fine hair on a perfect head
I lost them in the dream; never saw them again
 
Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer
   
These were different, seven years on, but it felt the same
They stood and looked me in the eye, and I could only stare
Felt like honey kisses, like the remembered bliss of a dream
Felt like a lost love, then they were gone; if they were ever there

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Seven times seven years, waiting and waiting long 
I sensed them in the twilight, in the half conscious fall into dream time
This time I was ready, I had waited for them through the long years
I reached and touched her hair, ephemeral in the sun

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Kingfisher and Calista

Making music to capture something that was never there. Not in your fingers, not in the notes, not in the dancing around each other of the sounds like lovers... But you could swear it's close, something you've heard, something real, something for which your heart raced once. 

Then time goes by, the music fades, it's finally over, and you didn't capture anything. 

You were captured instead.

--

100% Caustic.

Artwork: original photo by Lukas Budimaier (from Unsplash).

Greifnah

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XPxpD330QwOEOOfmRZzwe
Buy: https://atlascedar.bandcamp.com/album/fool-ep

A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
http://trillionthtonne.org/

This song is the 'twin' song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi)on Unsplash.com

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2019
Original improv: 16th May 2019
Recording: 24th August 2019

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

Beyond The Billionth Tonne

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Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

If you have a taste for The Blues, you may also like my collaboration with hummingbird: a song called "Don't You Ever", published more recently on Soundcloud. There's also my cover of Jimmy Rogers' "The Last Time", which is about as bluesy as I can get. Enjoy!

So Long, Fareham Town

@ApproachToSilence2 - 8.3.20 [Teaser]

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1aQfXdX1lVhTkObc8adkYS

ApproachToSilence_2020

Eintagsfliegentanz

Walter Vincent - Vocals
Frank Bianco - Guitars
Pat Mohr - Bass
Domination - Drums

Undertow

Beneath The Mountains

Far Older Power

A Persian Sonata in the Key of Grunge

Like a very distant star
Sparkling with mystery
I stare, looking from afar
Wondering where the future leads
And every night the starlight seems brighter
Twinkling dreams across the ripples on the water

CHORUS
I think of all the things I want
And wonder how those things would be
And I feel such a lonely voice
Calling out to sea

Let me sail upon your waves
Embrace the calm in me
Take me to the better days
I drown in joy beneath the deep blue sea
And every night the starlight seems stronger
Twinkling dreams across the ripples on the water

CHORUS

Calling Out To Sea

I'm sure you'd never be bored
'cause what's to be bored with what we have
It's pure, we play the same chord
And what a great chord that makes me smile and laugh

CHORUS
I can hear you breathe when I wake at night
Then I realise that I'm just dreaming
But I feel a warmth from your body held tight
This time I tell it true
This song is about you

I'm sure you'd never be bored
'cause what's to be bored with what we have
There's no cure for the feeling you've stirred
But please keep on stirring - I'm crush starved

CHORUS

This Song Is About You

Digital Rocks

Fire In A Frosty Night

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?

Calling Out To Sea

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