Canned Heat really caught my attention with this. I was completely unprepared for "On The Road Again". Previously to its release in 1968, I'd erroneously classified "The Blues" as slow and dreary stuff, done by trad jazz bands. 

"On The Road Again" was an education for me: "Vamos a ver!" That should be my motto.

"On The Road Again" achieved No. 8 in the UK Hit Parade and, thank goodness, that was enough to justify several TV appearances, which got me hooked on blues and more off-the-radar music for a whole lifetime.

I've done something a bit free and new with the song, which I hope you will forgive; maybe like? 

Please let me know. I thrive on your comments.

On The Road Again (after Canned Heat)

I had the great pleasure of collaborating with Martin Hirsch.  Martin is a recording genius and I was along for the ride.  Thank you Martin!  I hope you enjoy our track.

@martin-hirsch-656665916

Take Me Back To St. Augustine w/Martin Hirsch

noxpox - öiofn

Lyrics by Marisa Bettina from Soundcloud in Italian and Stefan Svetsky (he made the English lyrics )
https://soundcloud.com/marisabettina

[[FOREVER]] 
Lyrics by Marisa Bettina 
[Ami] I will not speak to you I won't [F] even give you a hug 
When [C] you see me When you [G] see me 
You ask me now what are you doing? 
I promise you, I'll be back. 
[Refrain] 
[F] Yes my love The journey is not [C] over ... amore mio 
We are [Ami] made to be We are [C] made to be to- [G]gether 
Yes my love The journey is not over 
I belong to you, you belong to me Forever 
Yes my love to be together (Amore mio) 
Yes my love to me forever (Amore mio) 
It sounds strange but it's not Sometimes it is difficult 
I ask you now what are you doing? 
I ask you now what. Please don't go. 
Our story remains Please don't go. 
Yes my love to be together (Amore mio) 
Yes my love to me forever (Amore mio) 
Yes my love to be together (Amore mio) 
Yes my love to me forever (Amore mio) 
[Refrain] 
[F] Yes my love The journey is not [C] over ... amore mio 
We are [Ami] made to be We are [C] made to be to-[G]gether 
Yes my love The journey is not over 
I belong to you, you belong to me Forever 
Yes my love to be together (Amore mio) 
Yes my love to me forever (Amore mio) 
Yes my love

Forever to be together - Soundcloud Collaboration

Arright! Last one off this album. If you haven't snagged already, the full thing is available for free on Bandcamp: https://mayorofdonutville.bandcamp.com/album/perpendicularism

A couple of notes:
This is the track where, when I got done recording, I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "Am I that much of a Monkees fan?" And the answer is yes. I am that much of a Monkees fan. I particularly like Nesmith's writing, but to be honest, the more time goes on, the more I'm totally okay with the whole catalog. Mickey had some pipes, and he wrote at least one banger. Pete had some weird stuff that I can get behind. Davy? Davy? That was the hard sell for me the whole time, but believe it or not, I'm warming to him. If you haven't watched their bizarre Jack Nicholson acid trip movie, Head, I highly recommend it. Yes, you will say "What the heck was that?" when it's over. But you'll have some laughs along the way, and you'll maybe better appreciate how THEY felt about being a fake band. 

Ok. Monkees Rant is complete. 

Next, I need to re-up my apology on being a bad SC friend. I have only been popping on for a few minutes here and there, and when I go to dig in to someone's catalog, I realize how long it's been since I've listened proper. I suck, and I apologize. 

The NEXT PROJECT: Apart from working on some still way overdue collabs (sorry Austin and Micah) I am fully-entrenched in what I consider to be the best thing I have ever worked on. That's the joke, I guess. Whatever I'm working on HAS to be the best thing I've ever worked on, otherwise, why bother? Right? This one, though... It has the heavy guitars. I've been getting a real workout. Like the Wren Hollow project, it's also a selection of very old writings that never got finished, only it lives in a different place from Wren Hollow. It's got the memory interpolation. Really stoked to share. I'm probably gonna drop those tracks on the Mayor profile, and I'm considering dropping a couple early, because I'm just eager to share. Also considered making a whole new profile for it, but I think my memory for accounts is officially at capacity. Recordingwise, I'm at 7/10 complete, 2/10 instrumentally complete, and 1/10 totally not started. You might think it'd be easy to track out older stuff, but I have a fun little thing I do where I record all the instruments in the wrong key TWICE. lol. 

I hope you all are well. Thank you for the support.

Perpendicularism

Downcast the Clouds

pro bros./even been known to cast like a fish/in mostly vacant parking lots/just fo practice/hey folks/a diff. stroke.

FORE!!!! Good Measures

Noro Pig Mind Melt

City Lights

A Brief Afternoon Dance Before an Open Window

This is our Cover Version of the all time classic "Summertime" written by George and Ira Gershwin. This Version is played together with Moni, my sister on clarinet, Bernward (myself) on guitare, vibraphone and cornet and Eva on organ and trombone. So the Band ist called this time "kaas & kopje and family". Have fun with it... 
So our Version is more in a drunken new orleans walking brass band style, and we decided to make an Animation Video for youtube. It cost us mostly 100 hours, but every minute was creativity work and fun. Hope you take a look at it and share it...
youtube link: https://youtu.be/E3KCrJX69jU

Summertime (Brass Cover Version) - kaas & kopje and family - (see the animated Video on youtube)

Broken

I’m a song-writer who enjoys creating music of any genre.

My son recently introduced me to A.I. and taught me how to do covers of my previously released non-A.I. music. Since I've never considered myself a performer (except playing with worship bands at church or solo-piano at a rehab center) using A.I. is right up my alley.

Since I've  exhausted using my previously released music for A.I. covers, I now compose music in a DAW, rip to a wave file, and make an A.I. cover of this wave file. I then write lyrics to the A.I. music. It takes around 100 A.I. iterations to complete the lyrics and get a style I'm happy with.  

Brief Bio: Lived more than a quarter of my life overseas (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). Each country gave me an appreciation for different types of music plus probably why I get bored easily in sticking with one genre or another.

A Brief Afternoon Dance Before an Open Window

Mike Krath