This is new take on a song that Rodolfo and I first worked on 4 years ago. He had always imagined it with fine saxophone and great backing harmonies and now that Continental Collision has a wonderful pool of talent to draw on, that has become a reality, thanks to Ce Mastro and Georg Boehme's beautiful contributions.
The song has been given so much more feeling and emotion.
Thanks to them and Rodolfo for believing that we could succeed  and thanks to all of you for listening.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - @rplanes
Me - Vocals and additional lyrics
Javier Rolando - Original song lyrics
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - @cemastro
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - @georg-boehme
Image (Caithness, Scotland): Courtesy of Douglas Corrance

A Stranger In Your Heart - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro & Georg Boehme

I don't know what I've done wrong?
I don't know why you have gone?
Though I hope some day,
When I whisper your name,
We'll be together.
But today's too soon.
When I think of you, I dream.
Yet still, I'm a stranger,
Yet still, I'm a stranger in your heart.

Sometimes I feel like a fool.
Never knowing whether you'll,
Give me hope some day,
Still I call your name.
We'll be together.
Is today too soon?
When I think of you, I dream.
No longer a stranger,
No longer a stranger in your heart.

A Stranger In Your Heart - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro and Georg Boehme)

About the depths of depression that I call the blackstuff. Happens to all of us, the trick is escaping. 

BLACKSTUFF WIP Mix 1.12725

This a companion track to "Stay the F--k Out of Ukraine" uploaded in 2022) Let's not become desensitized to all the destruction and human loss at the hands of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Over 3 years of sustained violence with some of the heaviest drone and missile attacks being being  this week with attacks on civilian centres - Apartment Buildings, Neighbourhood playgrounds, Schools, Hospitals, Transportation centres/routes, Power generation . Wanton destruction. Mass graves. ICC, where are you?  Slava Ukraini. Putin could end it all as easily as he started this, faster than Trump claimed he could end it. LEAVE! and pay for all the damage in property and human lives wasted needlessly. Time for the Dinosaur of the old USSR  to go.

Lyrics:

Dinosaur 

Сволочь (You B******d)
Stop your shooting…Mr Putin…stop your shooting…( now!)
I bet you were a lonely child
Pulling legs and wings off flies
You cannot hide the dead behind your eyes
I bet you got no love from Mummy
Never even loved a woman
What you gunna get you will deserve
With malice towards none and charity for all  (Lincoln)
But you got malice towards all and charity for none
Stand your citizens in a line
They believe your every lie
“Tactical manoeuvres?” …my ass!
You wanna shell every woman and child
Then you threaten to vaporise
Leave them just shadows on the wall
You’re a dinosaur (x6)         …you should be extinct
You’re just a school-yard bully
Out of state and out of Country
And if we say the word “war”…ya gunna slap us all in chains
Stop your shooting…Mr Putin…stop you’re shooting now! (x4)
прекрати стрелять  (stop your shooting) 

Wigmore: Music and Production, additional vocals
Allen : Lyrics, Guitars, Bass. Vocals:

Dinosaur (Stop Your Shootin Mr Putin)

What happens if "Dust In the Wind" meets "Classical Gas"?  I sought to answer that profound question one morning when I was riffing on an A-minor chord and couldn't think of another way to describe this acoustic concoction. I couldn't think of a better name for it either, but seemed to have a "ballad" feel to it, either about a hero or villain, I'll let you decide, and maybe catch a "catnap" thinking about it:)

Ballad For Acoustic Guitar

Let's Drive Up Highway One (Rhodes & Fretless Bass)

Surfers like Us ….. composition, all guitar parts, arrangement, mix and cover picture 

Hi Everyone!
I hope you enjoy the continuation of my project called „What’s Up?” 🍀

Here I invite you all to listen to part two which is combined with part three.

My whole lead guitar part was recorded „live” in real time! 😎🎸 (as always in my songs :)

Many thanks for listening and support.
Artur

- - - Summer Break - - -
Have a great holiday! 🔆🦋

What’s Up? (Parts 2 and 3)

story of  young man, tough childhood and life, life just got tougher 

#rock #hardrock #chriscornell #soundgarden #laynestayley #AIC  #tremonti #alterbridge #myleskennedy #metal #SOUTHERNROCK #legato 

***LYRICS***

I smell the ocean, I hear the sea,
I feel the warmth of sunshine on me,
But its all in my minds eye,
I'm doing 25 to life ....... yeeaaah 

Locked in 6 by 9 all day,
I never got to have my say,
Lawyer said you'll be fine,
Now im fighting for my life ..my liiiife!!!!! 

Persecuted from a young age
Cops never let up, had me framed,
My father's dead my mothers insane,
Blue collar family from East LA... 

25 to life
25 to life, yeah
25 to life
25 to liiiiiiiiife


Appeals exhausted , what can I say,  
state says im guilty, ill always remain,
California politics dictate,
You got to run with you own race 
But that's crazy and that ain't my way,
I aint running with these fools any day,
Shot callers spoken,  who holds the keys,
Waiting for death to come claim me... 

25 to life
25 to life
25 to life 
25 to life
Yeaaaaaah 





25 - Life

Cast of characters:
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four string bass, Collings mandolin, Rogue banjo, Roland electric piano, and composition

K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Taylor T5z acoustic guitar, production, mix, and mastering

This song began with Josh coming up with it on his electric piano and fretless bass, to which he added some banjo, then mandolin. Once he had a solid basis for the song, he shared it with the rest of Eclectic Collective for them to add their parts. 
  Ken was first up, adding his drums in an such a creative way that matched Josh's bassline perfectly. It was originally recorded to a looper disco beat, but that was blown out of the water by Ken's creative drumming. Tez jumped in next, adding his thrilling guitar to the second half of the song. Not to be outdone, Stephen batted clean up, adding his textural and melodic guitar to the first half. He also added some subtle, but brilliant acoustic guitar to the first half, too. 
  This is a great example of Eclectic Collective coming up with an original band sound out of one of Josh's seeds. We're always pushing boundaries and trying to find fun and exciting ways to build a song. Lots of teamwork in here, too, of course. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

The Plot Thickens-Eclectic Collective

'ghetto falsetto' with Harmful if Followed and sixstring mac 

Isaac and the apple:
Mac: music, lyrics and vocals
Harmful/Shane: lyrics, vocals, backups 

one man verity show:
Scotty: lyrics, vocals, backups, art 

Well the night’s effervescent and I’m on fire
Full of anti depressants to blunt my ire
Well aware of the presence of my desire
It feels very pleasant as I get higher
And I’m clad in a fashion to catch the eye
So why does everyone ignore me as I walk by
It would be a different story for a different guy
But I’ll never find the glory unless I try
So why do I lie so low 
Why don’t I let them know
Let them bask in the glow
Of my ghetto falsetto 

Most are fucked up from the drugs they take,
and don't care to interrupt all the love I make,
but I can't quite erupt so, I'll simply fake,
and make believe
that I have climaxed, because all the noise
that keeps me far from relaxed and trapped in the void, 
I've always had a clean nose but perhaps I'll toy 
with singing in falsetto. 

These streets are full of cackles and high pitched screams
A ghetto manifesto haunting my dreams
Monotone narration to a story I know
A baritone ending won’t leave me alone
I’m not crazy it’s the world around me
I’ll deal with the shit eventually 
Then get past the truth I know
That I’m too low for ghetto falsetto 

But it don’t mater how high or how low 
Unless you mean it nobody will know
All you need is the seed and the get go
Let go of the ghetto falsetto

ghetto falsetto (with Harmful if Followed and sixstring mac)

Lyrics, Harmonica & vocal : Snow Man Dave

Our Son A Rocker

Leise rieselt der Putz

Leise rieselt es in meinem Kopf
während es von oben in das Stübchen tropft 
Ich weiß es ist
hier nie ganz dicht
Und wenn die Decke Risse kriegt
wenn sich alles immer wieder nach unten schiebt
dann beug ich mich
während die Zeit zerbricht

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war
viel zu klein war

Leise rieselt es in meinem Kopf
während es von oben in das Stübchen tropft 
Ich weiß es ist
hier nie ganz dicht
Von oben fühlt sich’s an
als käme unten nichts an
als würde alles zerbröseln was zerbröseln kann
Die letzte Schicht
zersetzt in sich

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war

Leise rieselt‘s weiter
ganz fies unverzeihbar
Leise rieselt’s weiter in mich rein
dann lass ich’s halt so sein
dann lass ich’s halt so sein

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war


Leise rieselt der Putz

Dear listener, Feel free to leave comments and I'll try to reply.

I've been making music for around 16 years now but because of the wonderfully generous community that is SC, I have learned so much in a short time. I look forward to learning even more by collaborating. 
I suppose my strengths are in lyric-writing and singing. I feel fortunate to have been able to work with some stunning compositions by some very talented SCers.

My very best to you, Mark

Some links to recent Continental Collision streaming sites, etc are available below:

A Stranger In Your Heart - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro and Georg Boehme)

markjbennett