On repeat (Dec 2017-Jan 2019)

Musically, it was quite a year. Did anything else happen? Besides playing myself, I spent a lot of time on SoundCloud, listening to others. Here is a small selection of favourites I kept returning to - on repeat of course - during the last year. - The last piece is a kind of bonus track, it was with me most of the previous year, too. "Chill out" is an understatement for this one. It's a proper piece for travelling. - Have a good 2019, you all! - Onwards!

On repeat I (Haunting tunes from 2018)

Eletif

This is a loose salute to Stephen Bruton's Treasured Wounds.

Vocals, keyboards, Mix and production: conover
Acoustic Guitar and arrangement: Alexis Roche https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2 
Drum Track edits: Katze Bach

Treasured Wounds
There's a neon sign blinkin
On the wrong side a town
It's an old lighthouse beacon
For lost soul's run aground
And they look at their live's
Like a vein that's been opened
And ya can't tell for sure
If their laughing or choakin

Some sit in silence
and stare off in space
And some holdin court
Tend to get in your face
But they all see themselves
Like a coin that's been tossed
And hope that their worth what they've lost

So turn back the clock
To back when it stopped
And we'll sing all our old favorite tunes
And resurrect kneel bow and gene-flecked
Before our most treasured of wounds

Now memories and shadows
grow long with the day
and come back to life
when night has it's way
And we're all old soldier's
we won the war
only to fall on our swords

Before our most treasured wounds
Before our most treasured wounds
And it takes one to know one down here

Stephen Bruton

Treasured Wounds)  Conover/Roche

‘Apologues’ will be released by Erased Tapes on September 11, 2015 on LP/CD/DL and can be pre-ordered from www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP075
or via iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/apologues

Masayoshi Fujita, the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player, also known under his alias el fog came to the attention of label founder Robert Raths a few years ago. Not only because the vibraphone is an intriguing instrument, but also the way Masayoshi treats his instrument and draws ethereal and layered sounds, is what truly attracted him to Masayoshi’s work.

Having released more ambient-based/electronic recordings of the vibraphone under el fog, Masa became more interested in the sound of the vibraphone itself. He started to compose acoustic pieces and released the first solo album under his real name, titled ‘Stories’, in early 2013. ‘Apologues’ sees Masayoshi for the first time use an array of instruments besides his lead instrument – such as the violin, cello, flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion, piano and snare drum played by friends, but arranged by Masa himself.

In addition to the mallets, Masayoshi often plays the vibraphone with a violin or cello bow, like on ‘Tears of Unicorn’ and ‘Knight and Spirit of Lake’. He would also place bead strings on the vibraphone bars to create an ambient shimmer that can be heard on songs like ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Swallow Flies High in the May Sky’. The latter was composed to let the clarinet express its characteristics and tell its story, whilst the vibraphone takes a supporting role. “The clarinet sounds very warm and soft and very ‘spring’ to me”, says Masa.

“With this album the main idea was to evoke images, atmospheres, sceneries and stories in the listener, the images that have accumulated in myself. At the same time it was an exploration of the unexplored beauty of the vibraphone, and also a pursuit of the charm of the instrumentation and the music itself. Erased Tapes releases a lot of great stuff and naturally became my favourite label of late. And I thought it would fit well to my music.” – Masayoshi Fujita

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: masayoshifujita.com · erasedtapes.com

Apologues

Moonlight

Masayoshi Fujita – Moonlight

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▼ Release Tracklist:
01 Delectatio - With You
02 Delectatio - Stories
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Silk Music resident Delectatio (Portugal) is back with another batch of delicious downtempo cuts, collectively entitled "Past In Present."

Up first is "With You," which quickly establishes a stunning groove, including mesmerizing guitar riffs and unforgettable saxophone melodies. A beautiful atmosphere is introduced in "Stories," which showcases immensely stunning piano melodies and captivating percussion elements. "Moving Around" features a moving breakbeat, lush pad lines, and an array of stunning background melodies and textures. A calm breakbeat is introduced in "Lost In Time," where numerous light rhodes melodies play an extremely soothing theme.
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Past In Present

With You

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Delectatio - With You

// Music & mix @Guiville
// Vocals, lyrics & additional arrangements @cthefaerie
// Thanks to all who listen, comment and repost x

There’s a place right off the corner. 
Where they sing old lullabies. 
They sing for us to dream at night.
And so I dreamt of somewhere 
cause we’ve got nowhere now.
But I could show you how…you’ll see. 

I’ll meet you somewhere on the outside.
I’ll find you waiting on the outside.
This winter we’re falling like snow
and then darling, we’ll melt like in summertime.
Out there, somewhere on the outside. 

I could hear their voices ringing.
Shadows danced away.
Once I saw, I knew I couldn’t stay.
And so I ran into the streets
Looking out to see
If there’s something more for me to be…

So I’ll meet you somewhere on the outside.
I’ll find you waiting on the outside.
This winter we’re falling like snow
and then darling, we’ll melt like in summertime.
Out there, somewhere on the outside.

© 2017 - Music and vocals remain the copyright of Guiville & Faerie.

Outside feat. Faerie

Music and mix @guiville
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My Mum loved her fags and Martini. When I was child I'd make a trip to the local Spar shop for her in the days before you were asked ID. It was her 'Martini Money'. Gui x

For those interested... 
Martini label: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/25/99/e42599ef35660acaabe52fb2bb42a310.jpg
No.6 fags: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/men/2016/05/19/players_no.6_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqql6ZVqw2K9kLBBgaKs87NAlgjHCouUg7M08dJRyrjJk.jpg?imwidth=450
Spar Shop: https://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/6794955420

Martini Money - Instrumental

Composed and Performed by Jussi Welin https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Orchestration by Roman Czerny    https://soundcloud.com/gotchi
Flute performed by Jörg Stohwasser  https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
vocals, production and mix by conover
mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
© 2017 Conover/Welin

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion\\

Spoken word penned by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
Voiced by conover
Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/dominiquefrench and conover
Photograph c) 2014 Nicolas McComber
https://mccomberphoto.wordpress.com

B r e a t h e D e e p.   (The Conover/ Welin Adventure)

* 1st Place - Songwriters in the Kitchen Travel Song Competition 2017
*****     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP575_kUyOY    *******
The Story: A girl and a boy meet one summer in the park where they immediately fall in love.  Jokingly they suggest that they'll meet again on this same day but twenty years in the future. Pretty funny, right?
Well now that day has come. What if he was serious? Maybe we really are supposed to meet...... Well, there's only one way to find out, right?
I guess I'm traveling now......

The Song:
The place they call the point: that’s where you’ll find me.
Where three rivers flow the winds they’ll guide me.

I’m traveling now.
We said we’d meet back then.
I’m traveling now
To find a long lost friend.

When we were seventeen we said we’d meet again this day.
Twenty years ahead, oh man, it seemed so far away.
Sit in the park, laugh and joke and watch the rivers flow
If you’re still single and I’m still single where else would we go

………….. now,
to meet again?
I’m traveling now
to find a long lost friend.

‘neath the summer skies by the riverside
we thought we had the world to our self.
The world was ours and ours alone.
We could think of nothing else.
Were we just innocent or were we ignorant?
Said we’d be back in twenty years.
Now the time has come I’m sure that you moved on……
But still, I’m heading here…..      This is crazy.

A thousand miles and halfway there.
Flying now. I’m almost there.

I’m traveling now.
Promised we’d see each other again.
I’m traveling now.
We said our love would never end.
I’ll find out now.
I’ll find out now.

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Bill's Note: True to form Melissa nailed this vocal performance in two takes! The high "classical" sounding parts were mic'd overhead. That type of vocal performance causes a lot of interference with a close mic'd setup due to the volume, mass of air and sound that is moved.
In this recording I tried to emphasize also Will's cymbal work which to me adds to the magical nature of this piece. 
The first seven notes are given to us by Serj Tankian and his "7 Note Challenge". That motif then returns to represent the passage of time. The chord progression is loosely based upon Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do" which really seems fitting considering the subject matter.
The place is "The Point" - a park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and the Monongahela meet to form the grand Ohio River ...it is a place that I believe is magical and so I created this story.  
Well....The preceding message is for the musicians and historians out there. If you actually read this far then God Bless you! You are the mosty important people in the world to us.
-NS

The Place

February 1st

// READ ME // Big thanks to everyone who has liked, reposted, commented and just listened to the track x Anyone who made it past the 3 minute barrier I send big virtual hugs! x

// Vocals and lyrics by Anja Enrud @anjaemusic
// Music and mix Guiville

// Featured on TrackForDays: http://tracksfordays.com/post/170811401531/guiville-like-a-freak-ft-anja-enerud-rising

// Photo by Valentina Aleksandrovna
// Vocal sample of Lauren Bacall from 'To Have and Have Not' 1944
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_and_Have_Not

"You don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together, and blow."

Like A Freak feat. Anja Enerud

MY BODY HAS NO SKIN
THAT'S WHY I FEEL IT ALL
SHATTERED BONES INBETWEEN

I FEEL MUCH MORE (I FEEL)
THAN I WOULD LIKE TO FEEL  (MUCH MORE)

SO MUCH I KNOW (I KNOW)
IS NOT GOOD FOR ME (TOO MUCH)

((MY SKIN IS BURNING IN THE DESERT
BETWEEN SNAKES I KNOW))

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source of the image:
https://8tracks.com/decus_forem/driving-down-a-dusty-desert-road-at-sunset

tante meli

SKIN

A big thanx to "Current Device" <3
He really got this song alive and groovy with some awesome organs/rhodes, also some really nice strings, brass and drums. 
He gave the song just the right kick it needed. 
If you already didn't check him out you def should!! :D
https://soundcloud.com/currentdevice

Lyrics:

I can't expect, It to last
I can't explain, why it fades
Waiting for some signs
lack of motivation blinds
like I didn't try enough
as If I didn't pray enough

Blinds 
Blinds
Sublime
Waiting for some signs,
waiting for some signs,
waiting for some signs.

Waiting for some signs
lack of motivation blinds
(as)like I didn't try enough
as (If)I didn't pray enough
Come on, come on, bring it on
Im here to face whatever comes.

I can't expect
I can't expect.
I cant expect, It to last
I can't explain, why it fades
Trying hard to stay well
but my mind creates a living hell
trying hard to stay clear
wanna live a life without any fear

Bring It On - Miper & current device

Written as part of my licensing library for film / TV. unseen-music.com/licensing
Art by Stephanie Ho. https://www.stephaniesyho.com/

Adventurers

I wanted to create a piece of music that had an ethereal mystical quality. Lizzie kindly agreed to join me on this  song and she has added such a beautiful Angelic vocal which is so atmospheric , thanks so much again Lizzie x !!

We hope that you like this , and please go over to Lizzie's page and check out some really beautiful songs that she has written.

https://soundcloud.com/taylor-pentland

When Night Falls       (With Lizzie Taypen)

particle in a box

Wheelwright: voice, words, vocal melody, cellos @wheelwright.

Jonathan: music, guitars, bass, keys, drum programming.

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

When I was seventeen
And really so in love
I did not understand
How much of an embarrassment I was to you
But looking back I see
You were really very kind to me
And you had to move on
But at the time I just felt so rejected

But now I'm a grownup
I'll say I don't care
And life's just a train wreck
And life isn't fair
But when I look in the mirror
I'm not sure what I see
Now I'm a grownup

When I was ten and
We were driving back from holiday
And it was dusk and we hit this young deer
After we came off the motorway
And it was hurt real bad
Dad stopped the car got out to do what had to be done
But I could not understand
I thought it was my fault I so wanted it to be OK

[Repeat chorus]

It never really goes away
It never really goes away

bandcamp

Now I'm A Grownup (Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Some recordings from when we first started! 

03 Act 4

Acoustic guitars with synth background textures and very old movie samples. 
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Guitar recorded using (from ebay for £9.00): www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-980186-…ne/dp/B0000ATCOR

What Will You Do Now Mr Darcy

Welcome! If you stick around a bit, you'll find some sketchy sketches of a looping guitarist, interested in minimal music, jazz, fusion etc.
 
I wish I would have thought of saying the following about me, but it was Robert Fripp, and he seems to have had himself in mind: “Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.”

Oh, and you might wonder why I call my sketches "meta-music". Well, since I am always inspired by others,  I think of my improvisations as music *about other music*, thus meta-music.

On repeat I (Haunting tunes from 2018)

Going Loopy