🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 lovely guitar work Mike 😎🎸

The rumbling bass on this is brilliant and the guitar/organ tops it off - a really fun song with a great hook. Edmonds is fair game!

Great tune with a good mix of retro and modern sounds! Dig the vocal harmonies in the verses and that guitar solo rips!

Love the Beck-like riffage and the powerful vocal & I'm a sucker for some big feedback

Waves Of Serenity Sunset

The next album from Time. Space. Repeat. - the soundtrack to a utopian society, destroyed by hubris and unforeseen events. Everything has its consequence.

Bossa Never

Man is a song I do with my band Ruby Dawn. This is a take of the song but more like in an experimental sampling way. I've only used the line Man Where's Your Heart and followed a totally different structure mood and emotionality.  I really love experimenting with wordless vocals, or mixing some words in with no language based melodic lines. This way the music remains universal, and I can express an emotion without articulating it in any language.  Man is made of mostly harmonic voices and instrumentation. 

All parts recorded performed played and mixed by Carola Baer

Gil Barco is the story of a ghostly attendant at this abandoned garage. 

Fun fact: her name came from the make of the middle pump.

v1 - instrumental (lead guitar over acoustic)
v2 - 
dont loiter here
dont interfere
From the girl on the inside you dont deserve a smile
Shes made it clear

v3
she's watching through the glass
But wont even think to ask
Through the window with the shelves full with clutter that she sells
And time will pass

spooky instrumental

v4 - instrumental (lead guitar over acoustic)
v5 - 
There's so much that isn't known
It seems we are forever closed
Attended service is denied so will you kindly step aside
It's time to go

v6 -
so Gil Barco thinks she'll stay
maybe just another day
she doesn't yet believe that it's impossible to leave
she cannot say

spook

m8 - 
a whisper through the peeling paint 
bleached by sun and soaked by rain
And though he seems to stare right through 
she hopes he'll ride this way again

spook

motorbike arrives
shop door attention bell tinkles

Gil Barco (awc unmastered)

This song is about introspection, facing your fears while using the wilderness and moon as a backdrop.

Sing To The Moon Draft - Chenél No.1

RevolvingDoor

Just Mad

Slinking down back through the alleyway
Hiding his face from the light of the day
Up to no good, or so the rumors go
Better watch your back ‘cause you never know
When he’ll be around 
When he’s out on the prowl
Get yourself back in the house now

A temper that’s fowl, a demeanor to match
Kerosene eyes, that ignite with a scratch
Dressed all in black he is one with the night
Looking for trouble, he’s ready to fight
He’s not one to cross
For he doesn’t forgive
With a baleful glare that cuts like a shiv

Little fluffy
When did he go bad?
He used to be cuddly
But now he’s just mad
Our sweet little angel
Fallen from grace
There’s no love in his heart
He’ll hiss in your face

With whiskers aquiver he creeps through the night
If his pink nose is twitching you’d better take flight
Don’t dare let him catch you when he’s making his rounds
He’ll sneak up behind you with nary a sound
He’ll leap on your back
And dig in his claws
He’d give Satan a moment to pause

Little fluffy
When did he go bad?
He used to be cuddly
But now he’s just mad
Our sweet little angel
Fallen from grace
There’s no love in his heart
He’ll hiss in your face

Little fluffy
When did he go bad?
He used to be cuddly
But now he’s just mad
Our sweet little angel
Fallen from grace
There’s no love in his heart
He’ll hiss in your face

Just Mad

The MAW Experiments single entry for the AWC 2023

Hook The Moon

Hook The Moon (Demo - AWC Single)

Lyrics:
"I feel like everyone is hating what I say
They should be glad I talk to them
They've banned me from commenting under all their posts
but now I came up with a plan

You see I got some money from my mom and dad
Where did they get it? I don't know
But I can just go out and buy my toys these days
so I will never have to grow

I bought a big one but they tell me it was bad
I thought they love the things I do
I promise I will make it better than before
There's just one thing I need from you

Pay your subscription
pay it all to me
pay your subscription
pay you monthly fee

There's all these people that have problems just like me
I'll make a place where they can stay
It's gonna be a paradise for everyone
as long as they agree and pay

To join you only need to be of a pure heart
We'll accept any credit card

Pay your subscription
Pay it all to me
pay your subscription
pay your monthly fee

pay your subscription
so I can make you see
pay your subscription
free speech isn't free

Free speech isn't free
'cause I need all of your money"


Written, performed and produced by Simon Janssen in May 2023. This was part of my submission for AlbumWritingClub 2023.

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Johnny Cashflow

promo single for REAL FUN and their contribution to Album Writing Club 2023

REAL FUN - MAY - 06 - REAL LIFE IN HIGH FIDELITY

I can't win this obviously but wanted to join in. This took 4 days, with most of it written and recorded in final 2. Mixed kindly by GRIM17 as I ran out of time. 

I thought it would be fun to take something wholesome like TV Game / Quiz shows and be a bit snarky about them. But then Jerry Springer died to I had to expand the brief slightly to include him... so it's really just TV. 

Lyrically this is fairly unimportant but the reason I wanted to do it was to flex my songwriting muscles a bit after spending 6 months writing and recording a punk album. This was about going the other way by improvising everything to begin with until I found some structures, using clean verses because I haven't had a chance to do that for ages, and including some unnecessary guitar solos because why not! Enjoy x

Deal Or No Deal

Passionate about songwriting and music. Mostly my interests are in running the label and listening to other peoples songs. But I do use this space to post tracks I probably wouldn't release anywhere else... Themes usually include things like hedonism, anti-government / anti state / anti-capitalist rants, and drinking. Also did a thing about TV shows.

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