excellent production and tones and guitar playing, you may like our song "Castle"

Our biggest battle to make this a better world is ourselves.  
For information about image used for this song got to http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2011/04/06/how-the-christian-strives/

Inner Struggle for Peace

Epic piano driven Prog/Rock instrumental. Michael Spinella - Piano,Keys Soldier Peach - Bass Guitars BretB - Drums Jeff Maxwell Guitars,Synths Song produced & mixed/mastered - Jeff Maxwell

Confused(Master)

Sometimes I’m so Confused is a collaboration of 1 year’s work in a total online environment. We wish to thank Indaba for their vision in encouraging musicians to collaborate together from all over the United States & the World. 

The following musicians have made this project possible. It was their dedication to professionalism and musicianship along with their patience in the technology that brought together such an ambitious project. If you listen to the song you will see the complexities involved. The song is striking in its originality and in its familiarity. From classical to progressive classic rock your ears will enjoy an instrumental story in the style of a rock symphony. If you want to get to the group’s talents listen to the song.

Bret Brewer from Woodard, OK 
https://beta.indabamusic.com/people/BretB 
Drums/Percussion

Bret has a deep love of all types of music. He enjoys the technical side of music production from engineering both studio & live sound. He is surrounded by music almost 24/7 as owner of 3 Radio Stations. You hear Bret’s percussion talents in this song. His many complex rhythms prove his ability to adapt to many various genres of music.

Jeff Maxwell from Los Angeles, CA 
https://beta.indabamusic.com/people/jeffmaxwell62 
Guitars/E-Bow/String Arrangement

Jeff has been playing guitar for many years. Jeff is much more than a guitar player. He is able arrange great string sounds through his midi guitar and his many software synths. He has a keen sense of arranging as will be noticed when you hear this song. Jeff took a good song and helped transform it to what hear in the song today.

Boris Rziankin from The Netherlands
https://beta.indabamusic.com/people/861840966 
Bass

Boris has classical background. In his own words, I’ve always wanted to do cool music. His most intense experience is when he first heard the Beatles. He writes & produces various kinds of music from blues to techno, from ethnic to lounge. Some call it eclectic. Boris shows off an inkling of his talents on the bass in this project. Listen to the song tune into the bass guitar and you will hear harmonic melody & counter rhythms that will have your ears saying that just the right note was played there.

Michael Spinella from Delaware City, DE
https://beta.indabamusic.com/people/mikezart 
Piano/Keyboards/Composer

Michael has been composing for over 40 years as a piano soloist. Never giving up his dream of composing complex musical pieces he is indebted to this group of musicians who have helped him achieve a beautiful piece of music with live instruments. He credits himself as the main composer to this piece but admits that some of the ideas were given to him by a grade school friend who inspired him to play the piano. He states’ “We create in a world of musical geniuses. We hear what we like and it enters our being. From inside if something comes out that is original it’s only partial because we heard it somewhere out there before. Listen to the song and you will hear his influences. The ending of the song is a variation of Mike Oldfield’s tubular bells but the group’s talents has turned into awesome ending that completes this rock symphony.

Someimtes I'm So Confused

funky soul

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” ― Malala Yousafzai 

#WatchTheSnowflakesMelt

HUMAN SACRIFICE

Typewriter Sonata was a song I wrote in 1977.  Years later with the advent of the internet I was able to collaborate with several musicians on-line from around the world.  Of course, today our younger generation are not familiar with those old antique things we called typewriters.  This song is dedicated to all those typest who typed millions of documents with a typewriter.

The following have collaborated on this project.

Cherie (USA) -  Vocals 
Helder Rock (England) - Rhythm Guitar
Boris Rzainkin (Netherlands) - Bass Guitar
Mark Jackson (England) - Keyboard Guitars
Michael Spinella - Keyboards 

A big thank you to those who have helped on this project.

Typewriter Sonata

Memoirs of dopeness montage borderline blue and all tht jazz.



There's snow on the mountain but i don't get cold.
I got the sweet fires of heaven burning in my soul.
I'm a lucky man-now ain't that divine.
I'm biding my time.
Writing songs for the preachers on the borderline.

I drank a lot of whisky-I smoked a bit of dope
i had a whole lot of fun on a slippery slope,
I was a villain once , in my own pantomime.
drawing circles in the dust on the borderline.
I'm biding my time

I know some day that i'm going to die,
an old man will turn into a butterfly.
I've felt the claw, I've seen the sign.
I'm just biding my time
selling trinkets to the tourists on the borderline.

I don't drive a car and I don't eat meat
I wear plastic sandals upon my feet,
and everything I try to hold-well it's not really mine.
I'm just biding my time
shedding my skin on the borderline.

I bought a guitar and I wrote myself a song,
I've got this dislocated feeling that I don't belong,
but if you ask me how I'm doing- I'll say 'I'm doing fine'
I'm just biding my time- I thought I saw Bob Dylan on the borderline.

I've marched with the lovers and the great oppressed,
I kept the red flag flying but I was not impressed.
My alliance lay, not with this paradigm.
I'm biding my time-counting the soldiers on the borderline.

I sold myself to a woman for a music-room,
I was dragon-tense, she was strange perfume,
but the gods of love- they deemed this a crime.
Now I'm just biding my time- trouble with a woman on the borderline.

Dancing with the Gypsies.............
Drawing circles in the dust...................
etc...............

General Pinochet, Dear Sir..........."You gave me to the soldiers sir, you gave me to the dogs, you gave me to the Patriots. It was your country. I was the girl from La Serena, barely seventeen, a bloodstain on the history of our nation.  ...................


Trouble on the Borderline. Steve Killingbeck

Slow Jazz

Until The End
Guitar: Rick Connor
Lyrics & Vocal : Craig Ikerd

Until The End

New Master on 5/4/2024(May the 4th be with you! :-). Instrumental track done online sharing files with Bret Brewer on Drums, David McLeod on Bass Guitar/Synths/Piano, Jacob Munk Nielsen on the Sax and Jeff Maxwell playing all the guitars, and Mix/Master engineering work.

Moody Daze

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