more of this - this is great – good chords, sound and lyrics – how do you find the subject for your words, just curious.

Sounds like Ween had a baby with the Fab Four...I love it...nice guitar licks

Sorry that i missed this one :( This is great too!!!

Reminds me of Ariel Pink twists. Love the harmonies!

beautiful chorus -all in all kinda a Zappa theatrical thing without the bs -no waste of time

Written for the 2019 Wintergreen Composers' Retreat. a huge thank you to everyone involved!
Alison Hall, Violin
Jeannette Jang, Violin
Johanna Beaver, Viola
Adam Carter, Cello

Skybox

side-scroller (2021) is inspired by “death music” in 2D platform video games (platformers). When a player loses or “dies” in a video game, often specific music will play, indicating to the player they have failed. Death music in early platformers often had upbeat descending melodic lines underlaid with triadic harmonies. In side-scroller’s opening phrases, failed jumps can be heard followed by death music. The piece chronicles a player’s progress through a game world. There’s extra health to be found. Secret passageways to be discovered. And a boss fight! Plus, a little “game over” sequence at the end.

"side-scroller" performed by JACK Quartet

Immersion - for string orchestra

composed and conducted by J. A. Devor
performed by the West Chester University Symphony Orchestra
on 29 April 2021

dedicated to Maestro Joseph Caminiti

Copyright © 2020 JDevor Music, LLC

Immersion

4/28/21
Performed by the Hartt School Foot in the Door Ensemble, conducted by James Minnix

A dream from different spaces

written for the 2021 Wintergreen Composers' Retreat

Oboe - Jessica Warren
Clarinet - Joe Beverly
Violin - Jim Lyon
Cello - Sarah Kapps
Conductor - Erin Freeman

Photo by Tim Oun on Unslpash

Explorational Planes

all tracks by Mick Kelly, recorded on a zoom mic in a bedroom in the Bronx, New York and mixed on Adobe Audition. completed and published in Virginia.

head was mastered by Atlas Glaas in Berlin, Germany. (https://soundcloud.com/atlasglaas)

Gray Man

head

I Wore It Just For You

Music, lyrics, and arrangement by Michael Laster
Produced by Michael Laster and Taylor Bradshaw.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Taylor Bradshaw at the Sonic Arts Center, New York, NY. 

Michael Laster: Guitars, mandolin, bass, electric piano, percussion, recorder, backing vocals, "Angry Angus" vocal on bridge.

Taylor Bradshaw: Lead vocals, backing vocals, drums

Shimmy Mangubat: Backing vocals

Lyrics: 

Verse 1

One day, you’re brought into the light of a world that feels so strange
Join to the race to find your place.... on this dusty stage
Seas on costumes, mountains of roles, lifelong journeys bought and sold
You're the star and you're the screen asking what it means

Chorus:

Well, we’ve got to be right (got to be right) got to be right
‘bout the stories we’ve been told
Don’t want to be wrong (don’t want to be wrong)
Watch the people live their song, and carry on

Verse 2

Well the fables of your country, the tales of your tribe, from Krishna to St. Paul
You decide what gives you pride... just don’t build up a wall
You construct an ego that you try to transcend, you learn the rules to see how they bend
That fragile road may turn to dust, so walk with those you trust

Chorus:

Well, we’ve got to be right (got to be right) got to be right
‘bout the stories we’ve been told
Don’t want to be wrong (don’t want to be wrong)
Watch the people live their song, and carry on

Bridge:

When brave ol’ Angry Angus killed the dragon
He crossed the bonnie banks for Stubborn Sue
...gather ‘round and I shall tell ye stories
Of old and new, yeah

(Guitar solo)

Bridge:

When brave ol’ Angry Angus killed the dragon
He crossed the bonnie banks for Stubborn Sue
...gather ‘round and I shall tell ye stories
Of old and new, yeah

Chorus:

Well, we’ve got to be right (got to be right) got to be right
‘bout the stories we’ve been told
Don’t want to be wrong (don’t want to be wrong)
Watch the people live their song, and carry on

Stories

“this was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. in the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. this music was her—the real plain her...this music did not take a long time or a short time. it did not have anything to do with time going by at all. she sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. the whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.” 

– the heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers

track 5 is a cover and a rip off. 

track 8 was mixed & mastered by Atlas Glås in Berlin, Germany.

everything else done by Mick Kelly in the Bronx, New York, on Munsee Lenape land, from 2018-2020. 
 
cover art includes an image from a "chirologia; or, the naturall language of the hand" by John Bulwer, 1644, an early English study of gesture.

thank you Efrem, Aaron, Jane, Jello, Jacob, and Grace, I love you and yours.

X

Reedeemer

11:11pm you can't decrypt mee

As if there were deer in the next field

Classical composer/alt rock songwriter, arranger, and private guitar and piano teacher living in NYC. Click the tracks for lyrics, descriptions, and performers. More at michaellaster.com.

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