Trouver le Nord et garder le cap
Toujours savoir quoi faire
Se montrer fort quand le destin frappe
Sous le velours une main de fer

On your own
You're on your own now...

Tenir debout avoir envie de vivre
Surmonter les épreuves
Tenir le coup comme un bateau ivre
Qui remonterait le fleuve

On your own
You're on your own now...

Deux pieds sur terre bien enracinés
De retour aux affaires
Et un oeil clair pour tout affronter
Et tout mettre en lumière

On your own
You're on your own now...

On Your Own

Maniacs

Space Watcher 2023

again an attempt to write and compose my own songs

kvinden på min vej

In commemoration of the 20th of december, 1989, the day when the United States government invaded Panamá and ousted the country's military dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Government of Panamá recently decreed this date as a National Day of Mourning, to be commemorated yearly.

Panamá's citizens would do well not to regard this event in isolation.  Preceding the U.S. invasion, Panamá went through over 21 years of military dictatorship.  The dictatorship in turn was the result of years of questionable leadership and politics and a self-serving ruling elite and political class.

The way things are going today, almost 33 years later, it would seem these lessons were collectively not learned to the extent that they probably should have.
"Aquellos que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo."
(Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.) 
-George Santayana

The song uses part of a melody by Avelino Muñoz and drags it across the entire length of the song.  The melody is part of a piece of Baile Típico, one of the main genres of Panamanian music, on which in turn the main theme of RPC, one of the country's regime-sanctioned TV stations during late 70's and 80's -- the heart of the dictatorship era -- was based.  The theme was thusly ever-present during those years that I was growing up and to me thusly almost synonymous with that dark yet wondrous time.

Los Años De La Dictadura [REMASTERED]

the bane

Plenumur Receiptol (Down and Dirty Mix)

Unresur

YOUTUBE CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/user/WrittenForGuitar
BANDCAMP: georgewanat.bandcamp.com/

In The Fullness Of Time

Floating (Free Download)

Sometimes… a little slap bass is ok😉 and listen out for mutated chordal jazz solo at the end 🤘
Image: MS AI.
Drums: NI 40.
Bass: Warwick 5-string.
Guitars: Suhr Classic and PRS CE24 through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea + mucho effects.
Keys: Karanyi, NI and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Missing Letter

The Menace Of Marijuana

U Mom Rodnom Gradu

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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