The Price

Price is always changing
I'll never get it paid 
Rises right around the time 
I think I've got it saved 
You see the price blazing,
blazing in my eyes:
Figures like the shadows 
that are thrown by fire

You see the toll in the centre of my brow 
Regret - you old knower - how freedom frightens me
I know my way around you, 
I know I do not wish to leave 
I know my way around you 
I know I do not wish to leave

Guilt, my oldest lover;
How newness unnerves me 
The heart a freedom fighter 
that has no wish to win
Under all new wishes, 
I know I do not wish to leave
I know my way around here 
and newness seems like disease

You see the toll 
in the centre of my brow...
Regret - you old knower - how freedom frightens me
I know my way around you 
I know I do not wish to leave
I know my way around you 
I know I do not wish to leave

My conscience - my decider
My heart - bellowing freedom-fighter

Price is always changing 
I'll never get it paid...


The Price

B-Ume Blossom Groove

Daybreak

My 'Adagio for Expanded Chamber Orchestra' draws heavily on the music of the late romantic composers Bruckner Wagner and Mahler but does its (acknowledged)borrowing in a uniquely improvisational and individualistic style style for which I make no apology.
The music in this piece is sometimes dramatic, and as the piece unfolds, its structure in terms of the golden section durations it employs become evident and I hope pleasing to the listener
This track was mastered by John Cafarella.

Adagio For Orchestra An Exercise in Late-Romantic Harmony (Remix 24 February 2023)

New SpAce Territory

Space ExPed Venture 1

DCR - I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS - DCOMPOSED

Been thinking about Lou Reed recently and how he'd spin his lyrics. Especially his album "Berlin".

I'm Going Mad At Ten
Music and Lyrics by Mike Krath

I’m going mad at ten
Won’t you join me then?
Have a bit of tea,
Then a maddening spree
Won’t you join me 

We’ll start with some soft shoe,
Then I’ll scream at you,
And make a fist to swing,
And we’ll break some things,
Then laugh and sing.

Your love led us to this madness,
My illogical syllogism
Your love has made us go quite insane,
See what the blows of mad people can do.

Your love ideal is high,
Way up In the sky,
I can’t stand on solid ground,
With you around.
Nothing is sound.

Your love led us to this madness,
My illogical syllogism
Your love has made us go quite insane,
See what the blows of mad people do.

How many times must you cry in pain,
to give our love some understanding,
How many times must you tell me,
There’s no reason for what you're doing,
love is just having fun,
Our love is just having fun,
and I’m mad to think you think you don’t want another beating,
That thinking is insane.

Tea?
How many lumps?
Fifteen?
Or as before,
Thirty-nine?

I'm Going Mad At Ten

That feeling when you pass through the clouds and enter the space called the Ether

Alone In The Ether

Hypnosis

Engaging The Rain

This set of SWWs was written in memory of a wonderful singer, teacher and friend, Diana Walkley. Here, significant reference is made to Elgar's Music Makers - a score of great insight, I now understand, into a lonely composer: a true 'dreamer of dreams'

SWW22.5

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.