Kitchen recording. Finished Version.

Lyrics/Poem: Dan Andersson
Vocals/Guitar: Marcus JB

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Tonsättning av Dan Anderssons dikt Milrök II.

Milrök II

En gång i ändlösa skogar där urbergen stupande stå,
bortom svindlande, vida myrar, där timmarna dödstysta gå,
där välvde i smältvit hetta ett bål under stybbade bryn,
där tumlade väldig och vitgrå den fräna röken mot skyn
Där kring gick en sotig mänska med ögon som matt porslin
och svettas hett under sotet i de vassaste vindarnas vin.
Hans själ kunde brinna som andras, hans bröst hade hat och tro
och hans längtan steg med röken ur skogarnas eviga ro.
Han sjöng och hans sång blev röken från ett bål som helt brann ner,
det är vitt och svart och försvinner, det är milrök och ingenting
mer.

Foto: Ebehard Grossgasteiger

Milrök II (D. Andersson)

Driven by a passion for exploring, sharing and mixing House Music and all the vibes that contributed to it and all that it gave birth to. 

Communication and story telling via vibration and frequency 🙏 

AKA Nick from Brighton. 
during the pandemic I bought decks for the first time and finally  got involved. .. Supported The House Scene since the beginning - now sliding in vibes  from The Sahara to Ceylon & Saigon and back to Brighton .   from all over...    

Raised between North Africa, Brighton and The Middle East - and chased the vibe worldwide ever since -.
Most artwork is original and exclusively produced by Bernie

I’m inspired by nature and the changing seasons to share my joy of music.

BBC   "a haunting voice and fabulous songs" 

Acoustic Magazine "Soulful beauty" 

Fatea   "worldly observations" 

Folk Radio UK "raw and emotive vignettes, lovingly crafted"  

Music Junkie Press   "a poetic embodiment of perfection" 

American Roots "beautifully written reflections on life" 

Audiostage "brilliant songwriting" 

Suffolk Punch “Lyrical marvels are everywhere”  

New boots runner up song of the year 2019 

Shoetown sounds runner up song of the year 2019 

Folkwords nominee for album of the year - male artist 

Folk Radio UK - Artist of the month  

Folk Radio UK- Album of the month

Folk Radio UK - Song of the day

Independent Music News - Artist to watch



Kenneth J Nash has never done things the easy way, but his courage to confront the darker moments of his past has led him to spending his years on the music scene carving out a thriving repertoire of haunting music that stirs the heart and spears the soul. 
  
With a knack for blending his smooth, emotive voice with a lyrical prowess heavily influenced by his time spent on the road as a musician and DJ, his music resonates as a poignant story of a man who’s been to hell and back more times than he can remember, but has come out the other side stronger. 
  
Drawing on his influences (Damien Rice, Gregory Alan Isokov, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Ian Cruickshank, Glen Hansard, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed & Nick Cave), his deftly dramatic songs of love, loss, regret and renewal, bring this artist’s dark journey to light vividly to life. 
  
He has written and released nine LPs under his own name, In the company of ghosts, Under a gypsy moon, We all belong, The brewer & the dealer, The fall of Eden, Luna, Room 7, For Sarah and The Explorer, several EP and Single releases. 
  
Recent highlight live shows of his career include playing the 2015 Isle of Wight Festival on the same bill as Fleetwood Mac, Blur, Prodigy, Counting Crows, Pharrell Williams, Imelda May, First Aid Kit and The Charlatans. In 2016 he was selected to appear at Seth Lakeman’s televised Hootenanny party. In 2018 he was selected to play HowTheLightGetsIn - the worlds largest philosophy festival on the same bill as Donovan, Anna Calvi, British Sea Power and Noam Chomsky. He has provided support for artists such as Eliza Carthy, Neville Staple, Kings of the South Seas, Mark Morriss, The Wonderstuff, Dodgy, Mark Geary, Suzanne Vega, Seth Lakeman, Bob Collum & The Welfare Mothers, Tankus The Henge, Mad Dog Mcrea and Hannah Aldridge.  Spending a lot of time in the industry he has worked with Martin Simpson, Turin Brakes, Blue Rose Code, David Ford and members of Fairport Convention. 
  
His songs have received national UK radio play with regular airtime in California USA, been featured in an independent Hollywood Movie (The Whyte Album), featured on a National TV show on The Discovery Channel and Brazilian TV, appeared in the press in Europe, North America and The Middle East, and released on popular podcasts worldwide,  

Independent Music News picked him as one of their ‘artists to watch in 2013’,  Folk Radio UK nominated him artist of the month, his album 'The fall of Eden' album of the month and his song 'Slow burn'  song of the day in January 2015. Folkwords nominated his LP ‘the fall of Eden’ as ‘Best LP from a male folk artist’ for 2015, Spotify choose two of his songs to appear on their new release radar in June 2019, and went on to chart him at number 7 in their singer songwriter chart for his song 'The Explorer' (just behind Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi), Shoetown Sounds and New Boots gave his song 'The Explorer'  runner up in their respective song of the year awards for 2019 and he continues to receive accolades for both his live and recorded works. 
  
With his intuitive gift for self-reflection and humble view of the world woven into a stream of beautiful melodies, the music of Kenneth J Nash is a warm, sophisticated pleasure.

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.


I am drawn to folk, blues, soft rock, and country music, new and old. I love songs that tell a story, especially the Irish, English, and Scottish ballads of long ago because their stories are often timeless, and most everyone at any time can relate to. 
 
I also am a pastel painter and find being able to express universal emotions through my art, as well as writing lyrics and putting them to music that I can sing and play on my guitar or ukelele so rewarding and comforting.

Memories of people, places, and events throughout my life influence the songs I write.





wonder: a tale of self emancipation
wonder tunes are in listening order under albums

reposts at w.e.b. repost

MUSICIANS

WONDER

w. e. bartolotta 
- tunesmith 
- vocal: lead + backup 
- instrument: keyboards - percussion 

Michael Konopka 
thundertone audio =  www.mikekonopka.com
- engineer
- producer
- instrument: acoustic guitars - bass - electric guitars - mandolin - percussion- violin  
- vocal: backup Workindamojo + Wonder

Nic Barnum
- special guest: Waiting - Jealousy - No Excuse - Our Love - Wonder 
- instrument: acoustic guitars - bass - electric guitars
- vocal: backup Wonder

Trish Ramsey
- special guest: Waiting - Washing My Hat - Workindamojo - Wonder 
- instrument: percussion

PEOPLE GET READY - CURTIS MAYFIELD COVER

w. e. bartolotta = vocals
elliot delman = all instruments
mike konopka = mastering

WHEN FIRST HE HEARD THE CAWING

w.e. bartolotta = copy and voice
dave carlson = producer 
matt lejeune = engineer
library = music

MERCYLAND - PHIL MADERIA COVER / LIVE

dan mcmurray = audio mix / diameter music - percussion 
fred koch = bass 
john eggan = drums
kathleen doetsch = backup vocal
ken hall - keyboards
nick barnum = guitar - backup vocal
steve hill = lead guitar
w.e. bartolotta = lead vocal

One half of ELEMENTS crew (beatsbyelements) and a long time lover of Hip Hop and music in general.

w.e. bartolotta repost account

find my tunes 
here  spotlight
these and more
at  w.e. bartolotta

thank you

Reviews:

"..melancholic and dark singer-songwriter music. Fits perfectly when hanging out at home drinking tea. His debut album "Silver Lining" will be released 2018".  www.eclat-mag.de

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"You never fail to touch me with your dusty guitar and husky, lamenting vocals. Such control in your vocal delivery, such tenderness as always. Love this to death!" Jake Dasilva on 'No More Flowers'

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Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Incidental Music For Eyelid Movies (IMforEM). That's the style of music I write and record. It's music to be watched with your eyes closed.

When I was 14 and trying to learn to play guitar no one told me about A440 tuning. I knew how to tune the guitar string to string, but wasn't aware that records and what I heard on the radio had a standard. I soon became frustrated trying to play along with what I heard and began making up my own music. Still at it.

More of my work can be found at https://incidentalmusicforeyelidmovies.bandcamp.com/ and everything (the good, the bad and the ugly) is at https://archive.org/details/@keith_q.