A Shade of Blue

Energy (2)

HK_Tradacoustic_50

I needed everything you gave
Everyday I was wasting away
I needed...
I see it, things I threw away
Pacing the room, remember the day
I see it...
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La,la,la,la
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Still waiting for my time to come
Patiently waiting, ready to fire 
Off....
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Yeah, I know it, I'm not fine
I'm lost in a maze, running blind
And bare false witness to these rants
I'm not in control, your command
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Someone lead me out
Far away from all this sound
Someone lead me out
Away from here, away from here
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No feelings, your blank and dreary eyes
Never could say for certain that
You tried...
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Yeah, I know it, I'm not fine
I'm lost in a maze, running blind
And bare false witness to these rants
I'm not in control, your command
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Someone lead me out
Far away from all this sound
Someone lead me out
Away from here, away from here

Running Blind

Simple Saxman

When warming up for recording the greensleeves cover I've uploaded two weeks ago I did this little improvisation over the main melody of 'For The Love Of God' by Steve Vai. 

I used the Ibanez JEM77FP into the boosted clean channel of the Bluguitar Amp1 into the Blubox (set on Black 1x12 I think) and used a Mooer A7 for the reverb. 

Also: I've got my first soundtrack on Bandcamp, so if you want a free download of cool sci-fi sounds head on over to the following link. You can also check out the last three original albums I've done. 

https://saschamuhr.bandcamp.com/album/cheese-louise-original-soundtrack

Also if you'd like to hear more original stuff you might want to check out Spotify and Youtube:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ti7ScpoJPlzAuh8beNTCV?si=7oZ3N-ljRam026I0y55ONA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI50R673GNlv0aG_zSVfTDw

Improvisation_20: ambient take on the melody from Steve Vai's 'For The Love Of God' with the JEM77FP

Rock Paper Scissors

Ripped Up Not Down

And the dog says "wharf, fisherman's wharf".

Spoken samples taken from the awesome video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLOF2es9tu8
Sarah Silverman & Todd Glass - Getting Doug with High.

Thanks for listening,  QWiRL

Talking Dog Joke

A generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way—a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word "beat" spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of America—beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction. We'd even heard old Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer. It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization ...

 - Jack Kerouac from the 1940s or 1950s sometime.

Thanks for listening, QWiRL

Beatnik 9

Noisy, bluesy, saxophonic, distorted, instrumental, cigar box guitar

Bbox

nur mit dir

Blues, rock, dirty, saxophone, cigar box guitar, instrumental, moody, catchy.

I Got Those Low Down, Dirty, Faffing About Blues

Bluesy, funky, rocky, saxophone, cigar box guitar, instrumental, catchy, moody

It's All Building Up To Nothing

The project is a collaboration with Jan Exner @exner from 2016. We divided the poem "Aufbruch" into six parts. With music and sounds Jan created a fascinating acoustic imagery.  Lets go ⇢

Jan Exner : Guitar / Synths / Mix / Production
Karin Tarabochia: Text / Voice / Image

Aufbruch
1 
Aufbruch! Was war, fällt ab. Knöpf’ meinen Kragen auf.
 Zieh’ die Weste aus, an der noch Land hängt. Warte ab.  
Was klammert, saugt, in Zaum hält, bröckelt und springt. 
Mein Schneckenloch, mein Honigfuß, mein Schritt ins Leere  
und endlich Fall, Bruch, Sturz … und Landen!

Departure. What was, falls off. Unbutton my collar.
Take off the vest with land still hanging on it. Wait.
What clings, sucks, bridles, (now) crumbles and cracks.
My snail hole, my honey foot, my step into the void …
And finally fall, break, plunge ... and landing!

2 
Neubeginn verschieben, unendlich lang?
 Das Ende aufzäumen, und den Anfang aufspüren? 
Erfüllung vorwegnehmen?
 
Postpone a new beginning, infinitely long? 
Bridling the end and tracking down the beginning? 
Anticipate fulfillment?

3 
Schnipp’ die Leine durch, lass Haus und Hof 
und was ich schuf, rollt durch den Kopf. 
Dreh' mich aus dem Schleiertanz.
Spann' meinem Wagen andere Pferde –  
höher geht’s und weiter!
Sonnenfahrt!  Der Täuschung abschwören - 
Wütend platzt mein Innerstes und gibt frei: 
Anemone, Traumpferd, das ein Holzbein schwingt.
 Am goldenen Wagen im Sturmwind treiben –  
den Füßen fehlt Boden, den Händen fehl'n Sprossen. 
Nichts da, nur Lederhaut an Sohlen und Schwielen.

Snap the leash, leave house and yard
and what I created rolls through my head.
Turn me out of the veil dance.
Bring other horses to my carriage -
Higher it goes and further! Sun trip!
Renounce deception -
Enraged my innermost bursts and releases:
Anemone, dream horse swinging a wooden leg.
Floating on the golden chariot in the storm
and the feet are missing ground, the hands are missing rungs,
nothing there, just leather skin on the soles and calluses.

4
Träume meinen Flusslauf vom Anfang zum Ende
und schwimme zurück, dorthin wo ich bin.  
Fisch sein! Springen! Am Ufer lachen sie
und manchmal hält das Fischmaul die Trommel an  
und hört Sirenen singen.

Dream my river from the beginning to the end
and swim back to where I am.
Being fish. Leaping. On the bank they laugh.
Sometimes the fish's mouth stops the drum,
hears sirens singing.

5 
Wir müssen diesen Platz verlassen,
so schnell wie möglich unsern Kopf vergessen,
 der benommen Geschichten schwatzt, vergisst.  
An Scheiben rinnen Tränen. 
Was befürchtet war, wird wahr, vergeht.  
Am Weg besteht, was ist.

Mich nicht messen an anderen, mich nicht missen! 
Nicht verkaufen, dem Anderssein weglaufen!  
Mich am Fluss einfinden, wer ich war, wer ich bin,
im Zwischenraum die Zwischenfrau. 
Den Mädchentraum beenden,
den Zeitraum größer drehen und kleiner,
 Schritte sehen, die fest am Boden.
Ich war weg und komme wieder.

We have to leave this place,
as soon as possible forget our head 
who gossips stupid stories and forgets. 
Tears run down the panes. 
What was feared will come true and pass. 
On the way persists what is.

Not compete with others, not miss me,
not sell myself, nor run away from being different.
Find myself by the river, who I was, who I am,
in the interspace the interwoman.
End the girl's dream, turn the period bigger and smaller,
See footsteps firmly on the ground. 
I was gone and I'll be back.

6 
Lass’ mich nicht hängen und bis zum letzten Tag warten, 
bis ich mein Blut abgebe und mein Gesicht sich ins Tuch drückt.
Nicht bücken und suchen, mich zwischen Spuren verfluchen. 
Das Ziel sehen, nahe bei mir:  
Ich bin Traube. Ich bin Straße. Ich bin Mensch.

Not leave me hanging, waiting until the last day,
until I give up my blood and press my face into the cloth.
Not bend down and search, curse myself between tracks.
See the goal, close to me: I am grape, I am street, I'm human.

3 Schnipp die Leine durch (eXner / Augenmerk)

Cosas de Sevilla

Caminante Si Hay Camino

Not What You Were Hoping For?

Spoken samples from this very funny video:

Michael Che - Lying on Your Résumé, Paying Taxes & The History of Sexting

https://youtu.be/6AhAi0NfWbs

English

Hello and thank you for dropping by.

Thank you very much to everyone who takes the time to listen, like and share my noises. I am extremely grateful. My apologies if I take a little while to respond to those that leave nice comments.

I like listening to music, making simple, tunes when I have time, and generally faffing about in an inefficient manner. Hopefully you might like something on offer here. 

I use a Hinkler Cigar Box guitar (about $30 from Aldi, great fun), a Flying V ukulele, a couple of old keyboards, other bits and bobs, and a Yamaha tenor saxophone.

Rock Paper Scissors

Mikey McFaffington and his Saxophonic Adventures