@user-138663860: It is really, really an honour to get such a beautiful reflection on the song 🙏

if I close my eyes the melody puts me in a very quiet, foggy peaceful place with lots of memories

Matthias... Ich mag das Lied. Ein Teil meiner Vorfahren stammt aus Baden-Württemberg.

A kaleidoscope of moods and images invoking a flow through an urban nightscape.

- Music by: Robin Benjamins, @blunt-force-serenity, BluntForceSerenity.com
- Arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "The Night Flame" by Robin Benjamins
 
Key: Eb minor, A minor, F minor
Time signature: 29/16, 8/4
BPM: 80

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.1.7 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.6.3
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Spitfire Audio – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ez Drummer, AIR theRiser
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Total Aquarium

Metropolis

Hello my friends this is my new track  I hope you like it
best with headphones

Travel To Nowhere

Good Rut		c. 2021 by M. A. Manetz

V1
Alarm goes off at six each and every workin' day,
Shower, shave, and breakfast, get the kids off on their way.
Same ol' traffic, same ol' job, same reload/replay.
Sometimes it feels like we're in a rut, but you know what? 

Chorus
It's a good rut,
'Cause I got you by my side,
We're in a good rut,
Together we have made this life...
(Into) Somethin' solid we can hold onto.
I'm happy in this good rut with you.


V2
When we met you swore you'd change my wild and crazy ways.
Now it's dinner, TV, bed by 10, darlin' that's ok.
As long as we're together at the end of the day.
We may be in what some folks call a rut...but...

Chorus

Bridge
Without your love I don't know where I'd be...
Thank my lucky stars you stuck with me...in a good rut.



Chorus

Good Rut

Fantastic space.
Where everyone is looking for.
But it is not a hallucination, but it is in your familiar. 
A comfortable space, friends are it.
 Even if it is a little bird, I feel an oasis.

Oasis

Happy New Year from The Welcome Parade!!

We hope 2022 will be the start of something quite exceptional for everyone.  I think we are all due a bit of a respite from the current state of affairs! 

Lyrics:
I'm moving slow and steady
wind your watch here comes the ready
looking so unsteady
I think you had enough already

Time is slowly finding time to leave you without time
now you've seen the time you've taken was you're own decline

1234

I'm moving slow and steady
wind your watch here comes the ready
looking so unsteady
I think you had enough already

4321


The Welcome Parade is proud to release our first two tracks of 2022

The Ready - This piece starts with our usual Skype call and some drinks, after a few rounds and a lack of focus that requires another call. The next call we dedicate to getting the music business accomplished before we drift off topic. First on the list to complete is "The Ready" a heavy piece that has a unique frenzy to it.  

Edges with a bit of fury and finesse,  Jay's tense vocal work pushes this beautifully in the punk direction.  Perhaps something you might encounter in a Tarantino movie...preferably one with Selma Hayek in it! Thom with his top shelf fret board dancing, creates a complex texture that keeps you on the edge of your seat.  Finally Jeff keeping the piece grounded with some pounding bass work! 

On a final note...this track gets me off the hook for a request made to me by Jay's bride!  To have Jay perform something as an Englishman!  Huzzah and mission accomplished! 

Not Today - See "Not Today"

I hope one day the world looks at us and says...we got to get these guys together!  If not I am just very happy to have a couple of friends with a musical connection that exists as something so natural, it is difficult to keep the components separate, to realize where one ends and another begins. 

You guys rock and I am so glad to have you as friends and musical companions...rock on mi amigos!

The Ready

The Ready (by The Welcome Parade)

I don't have a specially good connection to my ancestors. I don't know too much about my family roots and I didn't know my grandparents very well either. 
But lately I am starting to build a connection to the people who lived here long time ago. I am following the songlines of the surrounding landscapes and listening what they want to tell me. And I am curious to find out, where this vague interest wants to take me...

Google translation of the lyrics of the song:

You lived here then
How was life here?
How did you live?
Were you happy here?

Did you bathe in the lake?
Were there still fish here?
Was it all forest then?
Was the winter cold then?

Secret fire on the grave
Wide view down to the valley
Narrow stripe of the Pene river
did you see it too

Take me with you
Tell me more about you
Make me wild again
Show me how that was done

Light the path for me
Come to me tonight
Lives with us again
Close the circle with us

Secret fire on the grave
Wide view down to the valley
Narrow stripe of the Pene river
did you see it too

Foto: Nicola Sansom

Matthias am Klavier

Mit unseren Ahnen

Ancestors Song

Got to work with Marc Freak @marcfreak on this one after he foolishly offered to, in a comment on a track of mine. I spent a bit of time in London in the late eighties. Boy George was king, the food was still mostly bland and there were a million different rules for dress depending on where you went. Funny how sometimes things can be so foreign and familiar at the same time. I have lots of thoughts but I won't bore you. Oh and the music. I knew most of the bands but it did change my perception a bit to hear them in context. Thanks so much Marc for the singing, melody, lyrics and maybe some context. ;)
Lyrics:

PERFECT DREAM
Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire
Like a drug bust with a visible wire
But its worth it for the time that we spend
And I pray they don't end

All I crawled through has the skin busy itching
And my internet is permanently glitching
But I cannot bare the time we're apart
Its a trial of the heart

CHORUS
Is this just a perfect dream that's coming true?
I want to spend the whole of my brief life with you

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And although you are freaking I'm loving this dream come true
With you

And the time I have left grows ever shorter
I am drowning in invisible water
Its a failure on my part I can't swim
And the prospects look grim

There's a torch that ever shines in the distance
Hold my hands up - show no signs of resistance
I'm a prisoner of love 
I don't mind in fact I'm pleased to do time

CHORUS

When you're standing in darkness and a glimpse of light shines through
When you're lit up like a beacon
And everyone's peeking 
I'm loving this dream come true

Perfect Dream (A Marc Freak Collaboration)

This is the fourth part of the story of Veronique and Jeremiah, going backwards in time.
The music and cover artwork is by the wonderful BoxTox https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493 based on his 'I Remember My Friends and How We Used To Play' https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493/i-remember-my-friends-and-how-we-use-to-play Thank you Jonas : )
I added the bass, story and vocal. 
Today the Welsh Senedd (Parliament) has outlawed smacking children.

Jeremiah was a naughty boy
His daddy told him so
Though he tried to be a good boy
and he tried with all his might
He couldn't make them happy
He never seemed to get it right

Veronique was pale these days
At times he'd see her shaking
I love you mummy he would say
To try and make her better
But that just seemed to make things worse
It just seemed to upset her

I'll look after us mummy
Jeremiah said
Stroking Veronique gently as she lay upon the bed
Let's go to the picnic on Saturday
That would be lots of fun
Perhaps, if we ask her nicely
Dominique could come?

Your daddy is a nasty man
and he's never coming back
When Jeremiah thought about
The things that he would lack
He wouldn't miss his daddy
Or his shouting or his smacks

Jeremiah Was A Naughty Boy (music by BoxTox, bass and story by Garddwr Porffor)

Hannah Bontana

mascara

Born to be wild (Mellow)- Cover

Jerremy - why is it so hard .wav

Nature music * Gardening pianist

I consider myself a nature writer. Besides doing music I am a Feng Shui gardener. I like to listen to rivers and landscapes.

Ancestors Song

Matthias am Klavier

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