Omg this takes me back ...... thanks 🙏

Great cover! So deep and beautiful! Wonderful collaboration!

@user-942389983: Thank you very much indeed. We are both so glad you enjoyed it

wow this is a major work in the Prog canon and you're doing it a servie Mark!  the parallel harmonies sound eerie and urgent; props to the guitarist too!!

and now I see that you did this 5 years ago...I thought I'd heard your catalog but I guess better late than never!

 Nice collab.. great production and fine vocals 

WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IS NOT

EVEIL

Track 2 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Hiding in the attic was Grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk. It looks like those insurance policy where contracted in a different century. Do they have any value today and whose life is insured on those forgotten insurance policy?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The grandparents haunted house

The Forgotten Insurance Policy

Thank you for listening to this track.
I want to drive in a good season.
 Do your car maintenance well. 
Take your lovely lover and music with you.

Hot Garage

'Firing On All Cylinders' is a Jazz/Funk/Fusion track and groove.

Firing On All Cylinders

It was a hard piece of work, but it was worth it: 
As part of an artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW/Germany in the wake of the Corona pandemic, a piece of music was created that consists of 6 different arrangements and involved 6 artists including a blackbird.
The piece is in the tradition of the Hip Hop-Cyphers as well as in the interlaced compositions of 70s Prog-Rock.
The goal was to connect the individual parts so that in the end a homogeneous but multi-layered overall work comes out.
I think that has succeeded!
Of course, this was only possible because I found really excellent fellow musicians, big thanks to Couch King, Christian Kappe, Lady of Fire Poetry and Frawstakwa! And of course to Blackbird "Miles" for his wonderful jazzy chirping.

Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW/Deutschland; Bezirksregierung Münster

Trumpet: Christian Kappe www.christiankappe.com
Vocals/Lyrics: Lady of Fire Poetry @ladyofire
Vocals/Lyrics: Couch King @couch-king-presents
VocalsLyrics/: Frawstakwa @frawstakwa
Chirping: Blackbird "Miles"
Vocals/Lyrics hookline: DeeP.

Composed, arranged and produced by DeeP.
Cover artwork: DeeP. & Ulrike Löw
(Photo of Christian Kappe: Thomas Kruesselmann)
Lyrics in order of appearance:

Lyrics Lady of Fire Poetry:
Not Alone
We are fragments of one another
Breathing in bits of you bits of me
We came exploding out from nothing
But gravity
Crashing into each other
Making this pretty wave called humanity
We love by trial and error
We follow our hearts
reaching the center of ourselves
Each beat a musical beacon
So we may explore our horizons
then reach a familiar shore
When you are lost again
Remember you are never alone
Come back to home

Lyrics Couch King:
Everyday looking clues 
Ashtray’s, dinners, and booze 
Dossiers, hard drives, and blues 
They’s lost reality from watching the news 
I gain the truth from being a recluse 
Nothing to loose 
No one left to cut loose 
Leave no print from my shoes 
Cold stone stare like medusa 
Old bones don’t care I accuse ya 
Poker face beware I confuse ya 
Short lace thin hair Short fuse 
Mean street bruisa, I paid all my dues ah 
Hot on my tail but still I refuse 
To get off the trail 
Of shady interviews 
Digging up fools 
Gold to derail 
Encrypted email 
I must be getting too close 
The woke got no time to doze

Lyrics Frawatakwa:
trials
and tribulations
who 
is even asking though
‘cause seriously you never know
could just be inner dialogue
with me myself and I 
besides
what 
would you want to know
all that for anyway though
c’mon I’m sure you’ve got problems
of your own on your mind
so
where
will we even go
to from there 
who could know
and how can any outcome
that we happen to arrive 
at
when
all is said and done
be considered satisfactory
if it comes at a price
that’s too much to pay
tell me why
why
should I continue 
to carry on a mission
which has proven itself 
to be so difficult 
as if it isn’t 
is it the human condition
controlling decision making
or am I following visions
unique to my third eye

an exercise in sacrifice
yet it’s fine
yeah 
that’s right

everything I do 
is for the greater good
playing nice

never mind 

hammer strikes
the anvil twice
sparks will fly

What to Know

Sinfonia « Full of Feelings XVII » for Piano and Strings
Composed and recorded in my Home - Studio on Sunday, June 13, 2021
Franck Douvin © 2021 Contemporary Chamber Music
Thanks for watching. Hope you'll enjoy!
Here's the video link on YouTube : https://youtu.be/WTA8L5oxKSY

Sinfonia « Full of Feelings XVII » for Piano and Strings

... just a one man jam :-) ... soprano sax and keyboard improvisation - some fun synths too ;-) .... enjoy my saturday afternoon draft !

flow motion

Collaboration with the awesome JUXTA (@atom-collector-records)

LYRICS

(Juxta)
I think you must be mistaken
I’m not the person you are seeking
I may sound the same I may look familiar
But the river of time eroded a new path

You may think that nothing changes
But I am here to tell you that’s a lie
My horizons have expanded
But it looks like life has passed you by

(LANG/V)
Hello my friend
it sounds you think
That life has
passed you by
Your boundaries have
all but shrunken
You think I’m
Telling lies?

your trundle trunk is
Overflowing like the
horizons you described

that river’s path
That started sweet,
Those rivers
here run muddy
from the blood
And from the flies
Little piggy best get
Running before the
Lord gets him
In his sights

Stay clear from the spirits
Keeping your soul afloat -
The one you drink
or the ones you spoke...
The things that take
you down the creek
Are the ones that
Will sink your boat

(Juxta)
I think you must be mistaken
I’m not the person you are seeking
I may sound the same I may look familiar
But the river of time eroded a new path

You may think that nothing changes
But I am here to tell you that’s a lie
My horizons have expanded
But it looks like life has passed you by

The River Of Time - Juxta Feat. LANG|V

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco
Artwork by Jorge Everardo Vivanco Topete

Far And Beyond

Original description disappeared !!

NADA  / NOTHING

He pensado en la muerte  /  I've thought about death
y en lo que habrá detrás.  /  and what will be behind.
Puede que no haya nada,  /  It may be nothing,
¿te has parado a pensar?  /  have you stopped to think?

Nada, nada... nada.  /  Nothing, nothing... nothing.

Nada, nada, nada ni siquiera aire,  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing not even air,
nada, nada, nada que pueda tocarse,  /  nothing, nothing, nothing you can touch.
Nada, nada, nada que tocar ni respirar.  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing to touch nor breathe.

Nada, nada, ni una idea ni un deseo,  /  Nothing, nothing, neither an idea nor a desire,
nada, nada, ningún miedo ni silencio,  /  nothing, nothing, no fear or silence,
nada, nada, nada nada se puede escuchar.  /  nothing, nothing, nothing nothing can be heard.
...
Nada, nada, no esperes encontrarte  /  Nothing, nothing, don't expect finding
nada, nada, no puedes imaginarte  /  nothing, nothing, you cannot imagine
nada, nada, nada, no te entra en la razón.  /  nothing, nothing, it doesn't fit your mind.

ER18PB06 - ©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2014 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Nada (He pensado en la muerte)

An unforgettable classic from King Crimson at the end of a classic era.
The closing piece from their album 'Red' (1974) which is normally 12 minutes and 15 seconds long with an extended instrumental section, fusing jazz and rock in a complex arrangement. However, you may be pleased that we are offering the abridged version here. I hope we have made a respectful tribute to a landmark song in King Crimson's back catalogue. Thanks to Graham for believing that we could even try this one let alone hope to pull it off.

Mark Bennett - Artwork and Vocals 
https://soundcloud.com/lavallin - Guitars and all instrumentation and production 
Instrumentation: 
Fender Strat guitar through Apogee Gio pedal board interface to access the onboard GarageBand amps and FX for the 'Robert Fripp style' parts which in this instance was the 'Stadium Solo' sound. Also Fender Strat guitar through BossME70 pedalboard and Magic Stomp pedal with one of Charlie Hall's 'Echoes Of The Past' delays.
EWQL '72 Rickenbacker bass guitar, drums and percussion, viola and cello, and Bari sax
AMG Mellotron strings and Alto sax

The title and the refrain comes from a line in 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).

Starless by King Crimson

Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes, turned within, only see
Starless and Bible black

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness for me
Starless and Bible black

Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that, oh, yearns to be
Starless and Bible black

Music by William Bruford, David Cross, Robert Fripp and John Wetton. Lyrics by John Wetton and Richard Palmer-James. 
Copyright: Universal Music Publishing Mgb Ltd., E.G. Music Ltd., Topographic Music Inc.


Starless (King Crimson Tribute) with Lavallin

Maybe, maybe, maybe

Morning dew

Acheter/Buy

White Swift

Your Eyes

Your Eyes - 2020 - Vox - Key - Demo 2

My garden friend.

New site after E-Ruizzo: https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo

Many thanks to Alex https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling
and Richal https://soundcloud.com/rickitansky for their fantastic pics !!

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:

Starless (King Crimson Tribute) with Lavallin

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