I'm glad this song is not in smell-o-vision?

Thought provoking stuff Mike that can be abstracted in different ways at different levels.  The lyrics, delivery and musical backdrop are just perfect.

wonderful song with magic vibes , love the keys !!

Like how your voice navigates the story of a toxic situation, & how pollution leaves a stench in the nostrils, no doubt an irritating & grievous ordeal! I hate to say what country, but I have visited a border town that had poopy diapers just thrown outside the store on the right side of the building's street. It was like a breeding ground of festering germs to which was accumulating a small, scattered pile.  It is sad to see people digress in such a way as society progresses.  I'm sorry you had to experience that level of discomfort for any length of time. Leadership & concerns vary from country to country, but toxic air & sanitation issues should be top priority around the globe. Cheers to obtaining healthier resolve in the future. 🙌🏻💯💝🤗💎

To Breathe Once More
Music and Lyrics by Mike Krath

I ride the train with packed men
Who haven’t bathed in some sense 
I hold my hand to my nose
After covering it with after-shave,
The dirty men make it necessary 
Their stench makes it necessary 
Their mannishness makes it necessary 
To hold my nose. 

I am above these sad souls,
I am rich, they are dirt poor,
I hold my cash in my pants,
After seeing these men as beneath me
These poor men make it necessary 
Their clothes make it necessary,
Their beneath me makes it necessary,
To hold my cash

And thirteen stations later,
That pass by in a dim blur,
These zombies move without purpose
Into the dirty air,
As rats play in the door
And women move their bellies,
But not their brains,
And children poop in the streets,
And no one cares. 
Not there in Filthy Land,
Not there in Filthy Land.

And I find resolution,
But not absolution,
A dissolution if you will,
To breathe once more,
But the air is dirty.

To Breathe Once More

Old rehearsal sound file.
The sound is bad but the groove is great.
Enjoy 😃.

Sound quality is poor due to one shot recording.
Sorry.

Mirage (Rehearsal 20120701) / 蜃気楼

Written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed and produced by David Cooper.

Music by David Cooper

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin

Drank a few beers
And a little rum
At the end of the night
I'd make my way home
Home was a house 
Half way up to the sky
Where I'd look down 
On the birds flying by

When life was so slow
And I did what I pleased
When my days were so full
Many moments to seize
When time was my own
With so much to waste
When life was straightforward
And not two faced

DON'T TAKE LIFE FOR GRANTED
TAKE IT ALL IN
WHEN WILL IT END
WHERE DID IT BEGIN
NOW I'M SO GRATEFUL
FOR THOSE LITTLE THINGS
THE AUTUMNS THE WINTERS
THE SUMMERS AND SPRINGS

But soon that time
Had  gone so fast
And soon that time
That I thought would last
Had disappeared
To who knows where
And all of a sudden
There's no time to spare

Don't Take Life For Granted (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

The Tumultuous Journey of the Reflection of Purple Hangings on the Soft Blue Sea...
Le Voyage Tumultueux du Reflet des Tentures Pourpres sur la Douce Mer Bleue...

Title 1 - 179
Title 2 - 089
Title 3 - 090
Title 4 - 091
Title 5 - 093
Title 6 - 190
Title 7 - 219 - Background atmosphere linked
Track duration - 16m.30.255s

Recording sessions from 08/12/2013 07/01/2024.
 track MOOG Modular V2 (vst Arturia),
 track vst Element of Surprise,
 track vst DSK Darkness Theory,
 track vst DoubleSx XXL V1,
 track Spark (vst Arturia),
 track vst KristalReverb,
 track vst Element of Surprise,
 track The Darker Blues,
 track vst Addictive Drums,
 track vst Purple2,
 track Prophet V2 (vst Arturia),
 track BeatBurner VSTi,
 track guitare Yamaha,
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
________________________________________________________________________
- Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
- Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
- Artwork - Pier WILL
- Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite,   Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
- #Ambient #Movies #Experimental 
________________________________________________________________________
❤️🕊️🙏

The Tumultuous Journey of the Reflection of Purple Hangings on the Soft Blue Sea...

Unboxed March 2024
Original lyrics, vocal performances and recordings by the wonderful @diamondlajolie
Reimagined and embellished by OUT OF THE BOX

[ d o w n l o a d a b l e ]

Di Si Dolce (Featuring diamondlajolie)

Tommy: bass
Scotty: guitars, adlibs
Looperman: drums

420 '23 Demo 5 (the last demo)

Space Gate

wistful old fashioned

another old demo from what was going to be a good idea. Let us know what you think... I'm trying to get Jana back in the studio

Solitude - Jana

The Trial
A Pico-Operetta for our Times

International Cast:

Lady Humanity - Oddrun Eikli - Norway, vocals and lyric on the last song; @oddrun-eikli
Lord Mammon - Peter - England, All poetic lyrics in the operetta, except the last song; soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
The Judge - David Dunham - USA, nylon-string guitar in the song for Lady Humanity's defense; @david dunhamuser589535203
Music & Production - Seagull - Sweden, compilation, mixing, sound effects, and acoustic guitars in last song; @farout-music-studio

Here you can download all poetic lyrics: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/37k203an5c…5u74dp2i&e=1&dl=0

Synopsis

Following unprecedented worldwide growth in human conflict, an emergency plenary session of the United Nations was convened late in 2023, tasked with finding new approaches to defuse global tension and ease conciliation. Recognizing the abject failure of extant UN jurisdictions and powers, and in a radical restructuring of the international legal and security framework, that session established a new UN institution to sit alongside the International Court of Criminal Justice. The International Court of Moral Justice was formally incorporated into the UN Constitution on 1 January 2024.

The foundations of this infant organization and those of the UN itself were shaken when it was revealed that the inaugural case to be heard by the ICMJ was to be a private prosecution brought by greed (Lord Mammon) against the defendant, mankind’s innate sense of humanity personified by Lady Humanity

In papers lodged with the court, the protagonist, Lord Mammon has asserted that the fundamental basis for human misery, the creation of discontent, thence envy and hence conflict, is to be found exclusively in false moral goodness and self-righteousness borne of a misplaced sense of benevolence. The human race survived and thrived, he states, not by moving at the pace of the slowest, or sharing resources with the weakest, but by taking and keeping, for the self alone, much more than is needed for basic subsistence, this being the singular route to strength, individual contentment and thus tolerance of others.

In reply, a broken and demoralized Lady Humanity has been compelled to present her own defense after failing to secure funding for a legal team to counter the advocates ranged in front of Lord Mammon. The case for the defense rests solely on the premise that good comes from within and cannot be created from nothing. So whilst she may try to bolster the moral cause in her work, she increasingly finds that the human souls she sees have no humanity in them whatsoever for her to strengthen, nothing to work with and as such, concedes that she has failed, but denounces the notion that it was for want of trying. Devoid of resources, supporters and allies of any kind she single handedly has held the fort against the self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing massed ranks of Mammon.

The Lord Chief Justice of the ICMJ along with his bench of associate judiciary adjourn proceedings to consider their findings and in the final act, return to deliver their verdict.

The Trial - A Pico Operetta for Our Times

Rohypnol

I'm a keyboardist with a love for layering sounds to create ambient, ethereal atmospheres and composing simple piano pieces to embellish. I love all genres of music, and find myself composing different types depending on my mood of the day.

I’ve never had formal training. As a teen, my parents wouldn’t let a piano in our house in Egypt, so I studied piece-meal at friends’ homes. When I got to college, I learned by going to university piano practice rooms. In my 40’s, I met my birth-mom who turned out to be a child prodigy, winning a Van Cliburn competition by playing Rachmaninoff at age 11. Most of what I play today, I learned from the techniques she taught me. 

I’m an American who has lived abroad for a good part of my life in Egypt, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Taiwan, and now back to Texas.

To Breathe Once More

Mike Krath

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