everyone came together with nice swagger!

Skillful collab by everyone involved. Very good genre awareness and mood. Partly contradicting lyrics though, from my own perspective. Sometimes contradictions are deliberate like contrasts, which I think can be interesting still. Thanks for the comment on my Shoreline Scenery piano track, Mike!

@user-830390974: smiling :) thank you from all of us

So just in time! Yesterday, I was watching some Soul Train videos! Love this funky vibe, this kind of music. Feels so good! Great production, so 70s! Great collab!!!

Great collab, excellent vocals by NayJ as ever, cool sax and great organ. Funky :)

Beim Schlafengehen is the third song in Strauss's song cycle, The Four Last Songs. Written just before his death, these songs are set to poems written by Herman Hesse, Joseph Karl Benedikt & Freiherr von Eichendorff. They are widely recognized among the most beautiful music ever written for the soprano voice. 

Vocals by Stacie Eirich, piano by Tom Jesty. Recorded in isolation in 2021, following an online masterclass lead by The Choir of the Earth & Ms. Lucy Cox. 

Thanks for listening! I’m a mom who sings & writes poetry and prose. 
Links: 
https://www.stacieeirich.com/
https://www.choiroftheearth.com/

*Text & Translation below. 

***

Beim Schlafengehen 

Nun der Tag mich [müd] gemacht,
Soll mein sehnliches Verlangen
Freundlich die gestirnte Nacht
Wie ein müdes Kind empfangen. 

Hände, laßt von allem Tun,
Stirn vergiß du alles Denken,
Alle meine Sinne nun
Wollen sich in Schlummer senken. 

Und die Seele unbewacht
Will in freien Flügen schweben,
Um im Zauberkreis der Nacht
Tief und tausendfach zu leben.

Authorship by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Beim Schlafengehen", written 1911.

While going to sleep

Now that the day has made me so tired,
my dearest longings shall
be accepted kindly by the starry night
like a weary child.

Hands, cease your activity,
head, forget all of your thoughts;
all my senses now
will sink into slumber.

And my soul, unobserved,
will float about on untrammeled wings
in the enchanted circle of the night,
living a thousandfold more deeply.

***

*Text & translation is from: https://www.lieder.net/

Beim Schlafengehen (While Going to Sleep): The Four Last Songs, composed by Richard Strauss

AudioBake's Mix Drink open collab.  Amazing original track, superb stems to work with, Pure Joy to Remix.  Thank you AUDIOBAKE!
Thank you for listening!
Original Track:
https://soundcloud.com/audiobake/mixed-drink-open-for-collabs-or-remix-download-link-in-description?in=audiobake/sets/mixed-drink-collabs-and&si=eace041034ad44a89761ea3f7abbfb4d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Mix Drink Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/audiobake/sets/mixed-drink-collabs-and?si=1ac56c08d03140f8b527e21a1dd183e8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The PanGalactic GargleBlaster [AudioBake's Mix Drink remix]

The PanGalactic GargleBlaster [AUDIOBAKE OPEN COLLAB]

Lead Sheet: https://bit.ly/ecmusic_sentimental

Sentimental

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i wasn't going for an ancient egypt vibe but it happened anyway. maybe i'm channeling thoth or something

art by 6557056: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/egypt-woman-queen-nefertiti-2824582/

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Guitar Beats - Guitar, Songwriting https://soundcloud.com/beats-guitar
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Bass Guitar, Drum Programming
Special thanks to Guitar Beats/ Audrey for offering up the great collabs! check out her profile.

Loop Diggers Sunday Roulette Challenge 89 (feat Guitar Beats) - G R E E N _ M A N

FUNK STATION originally started off with Terry’s funky guitar riffs. Terry performs on a regular basis together with his funk band FU5ION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU6mqscd8ag  You can find Terry's original instrumental here https://soundcloud.com/user-719649280/bounce
 
I liked Terry's guitar play right away and after some time had passed I asked Terry for a collaboration. I told him that I had some interesting ideas to let it grow :) After having edited Terry’s recordings for a straight drums I added my lyrics/vocals and bass guitar, some percussion and an appropriate amount of claps & snaps. Since I am a great admirer of Jamie’s keys playing I asked Jamie Rhind to add his instrument and he did this so well I must say. It changed the flavor of the piece immediately. Next I found the wonderful sax player David Milzow from Germany willing to add his wonderful saxophone solo. From the start I held in mind to ask NayJ for adding her vocals too and thus make a funky duet together. Well… she did! :)) So now we can all  proudly present to you our FUNK STATION!

The track is kind of a wink to ‘Soul Train’ the most funky and inspiring television show in the Seventies. You can find those on YouTube and I can recommend to have a look and listen because this show was just amazing. All great funky R&B soul singers and bands from that era came along. For instance The Jackson Five, Donna Summer, Tower of Power and James Brown. Since the funk stole my heart for many years I felt now was the opportunity to celebrate the funk all the way. For the occasion I chose to give it a cinematic ambiance by creating a logical environment for our sweet funky station. I blended the music with a number of outdoor and indoor samples to put it all together so that it would sound like it’s recorded in a station hall. I sincerely hope you guys enjoy the result as much as we did recording/producing it!

My sincere gratitude goes out to David Milzow, Jamie Rhind, NayJ and not in the least to Terry Harris who inspired us all with his funky guitar playing. Thank you all so much!

NayJ – vocals https://soundcloud.com/nayj-2
Terry Harris – guitar https://soundcloud.com/user-719649280
Jamie Rhind – keys and synths https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
David Milzow – saxophone https://soundcloud.com/david-milzow
Mike Spring – production & audio engineering, lyrics, vocals, bass guitar, percussion (congas, tambourine), claps & snaps

Another interpretation of the Soul Train Show https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/soul-train-blues. Steph laid down a fantastic ode to the era I think.

LYRICS

Say where your goin’
Get infused for feelin’ the Funk
Hear that guitar smokin’
Watch that Soul train comin’

Say what your doin’
Clap along ‘cause you feel the Funk
Brothers and sisters pokin’
Catch that train on Funk Station runnin’

Ooooh Ooooh
Do do what you wanna do
Get wooed, funk your mood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Oooh
Do do what you wanna do
Funk your mood in the hood
Do do what you wanna do

Say how your doin’
Move your hips and feel the Funk
Get your bodies movin’
Beat that train on Funk Station groovin’

Say where your strollin’
We’ve got it comin’ the Funk
And keep it rollin’
Keep your funky muscles flowin’

Say what your lookin’
Now do you feel the Funk
Hear those barrels cookin’
It’s our Funk Station crookin’

Say you better start movin’
You can’t whisk the Funk
Your funk train should be runnin’
Now don’t keep me punnin’

Ooooh Ooooh
Do do what you wanna do
Get wooed, funk your mood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Oooh
-
Funk your mood in the hood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Ooooh
Do do what you wanna do
Don’t get prude, funk your mood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Oooh
-
-
Funk your mood’n taste the food

Ooooh Ooooh
Do do what you wanna do
Get wooed, funk your mood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Oooh
Do do what you wanna do
Funk your mood
In the hood
Do do what you wanna do

Ooooh Ooooh
Do do what you wanna do
-
Do do what you wanna do
Ooooh
Oooh

FUNK STATION

FUNK STATION - NayJ · Mike Spring · Terry Harris · Jamie Rhind · David Milzow

Netherlands based singer-songwriter/guitarist/composer/sound engineer.
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FUNK STATION - NayJ · Mike Spring · Terry Harris · Jamie Rhind · David Milzow

MIKE SPRING

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