Ragae

Brenda Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004)

Much thanks to Arkestar https://soundcloud.com/ocean-of-tunes-presents for hours of slog and oceans of brilliance!
A big thanks as well to Russell Sinfield  https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield for initiating this project and for all the encouragement and pointers

Vocals by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel
All Instrumentation by The Ocean Of Tunes Arkestar
Backing Vocals by The Aquabooty City Choir

 
Brenda – Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj 

Showstopper, pill popper
What’s it all about
Bad weather coming down
The fans sing and shout
Cry heaven, earth in ruin
A battle won and lost
Somewhere up a Muslim moon
Somewhere down a Christian cross

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation

Survivor, revive her
She can’t die again
What will we do without her
The last link on freedom’s chain
Cities fall, madmen rise
Fear everywhere
Kids learn the facts of life
From bigots who don’t care

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation
Oh…it’s a situation
A bad situation

Singing sweet and strong
Weeping deep and long
What voice comes to you today?
Singing sweet and strong
Weeping deep and long
What voice comes to you today?

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation
Oh…it’s a situation
A bad situation

Laid to rest, she was the best
To her grave alone
With every song she ever sung
To find a way back home
A lone wind calling, sirens howling
Somewhere someone screams
If we could lay our weapons down
And like her start to sing

Brenda - with  The Ocean Of Tunes Arkestar featuring The Aquabooty City Choir

First cover I ever put out. Peeps!
Produced by : Roddy_Rod
Artwork: Michael Simonis


"Middle" - DJ Snake (Cover)

Rippin Rhymes - One By One ft. Cyba, Shorty-Mic & Mrs. Rhymes.

FREE DOWNLOAD @ https://audiomack.com/album/rippin-rhymes/worldwide-homicide-1

One By One ft. Cyba, Shorty-Mic & Mrs. Rhymes

WRITTEN/ARRANGED/MIXED AND PERFORMED By : DOMINIQUE SOTO aka DOMINIQUEFRENCH
INSTRUMENTAL PRODUCED BY: SHIN MATSUBARA aka DIDDYMOUSEDID

Holiday Today (12-4-16)Instrumental Produced by: Diddymousedid (from Tokyo, Japan)

I am happy to once again have collaborated with the very talented *Chuck3baby*A*OK. (Lyrics and vocal)Copyright protected ©

Into The Night  ft *Chuck3baby*A*OK ©

Tort Reform Skit

Collaboration via the open collab page, check it out and snagged yourself a tasty starter for free! Many thanks to Wou.
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouopencollab

Glass Garden w/ Wou-Wou & The Wormling

An oldie but goodie from 2005.  

I was going to re-record this but a friend convinced me to keep it this way as a snapshot in time.  I agree 

please enjoy!

Down And Out (in A Lonesome Town) - 2005

NayJ. and Alex 2017

NayJ......lyrics and vocals
Alex........music and production (https://soundcloud.com/joytime-studio)

Take Pride In Yourself......NayJ. and JoyTime Records

Mansion written by A.R. Ammons (He is truly one of my fave poets!)
Synth and Recited by Lady of Fire

Here is the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34_H7Ha2wQ

Mansion
by A.R. Ammons

So it came time
for me to cede myself
and I chose
the wind
to be delivered to
 
The wind was glad
and said it needed all
the body
it could get
to show its motions with
 
and wanted to know
willingly as I hoped it would
if it could do
something in return
to show its gratitude
 
When the tree of my bones
rises from the skin I said
come and whirlwinding
stroll my dust
around the plain
 
so I can see
how the ocotillo does
and how saguaro-wren is
and when you fall
with evening
 
fall with me here
where we can watch
the closing up of day
and think how morning breaks

Mansion Remix read by Lady of Fire

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alive-feat.-bravei-single/id1195363967?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Amazon: http://a.co/7yNy2f8 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/58BWlBkMJFZ8tNCXe7aRYK

A soundtrack for our lives written by Bravei and Wild Christopher
https://soundcloud.com/officialbravei
https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

"Alive"

We are… here
And we… still breathe
Our life has meaning
We’ll make a difference
Go make that difference

A new morning
Is coming to life
Embrace the feeling
Won’t stop it

Take a moment (and) look up
See us arrive
Embrace the feeling

Alive
Coming to life
Embrace the feeling
Won’t stop it 

Alive
Coming to life
Embrace the feeling
Won’t stop it

These walls
These chains
They won’t claim us

See these scars
These pains from the past
They are the fuel to feed us

We are.. on our way
We’re built to last

Alive
We are coming to life
Embrace the feeling

Alive
We are coming to life
Embrace the feeling

(falsetto humming)

Alive 
We are coming to life
No one can stop us
Embrace the feeling

These days in the dark
Break in the morning light
We are alive

Photo by https://flic.kr/p/eWJ6Pt
Written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2016

Alive (with BRAVEI)

Pippifax Of Doom

I am very grateful to my dear soundcloud friend Stéphane aka DDJohn (https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn) for joining me on this track. This was initially intended to be a pure guitar-vocal song but, when playing it for myself, I could feel that something was missing. I called Stéphane on rescue to add some more Parisian flavor. Once again, he put his incredibly versatile talent into operation, and delivered a beautiful performance, so merci Dédé! 

Cover picture by Vincent Carayol (https://soundcloud.com/vincent-chansons-bleues). Heureux que tu aies aimé Paris, mon ami.
Keyboard: DDJohn (https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn)
Guitars, vocals: Alexis

Adieu Paris

Dans les balloches
Dans le fond de mes poches
Dans un dédale de rues
Dans un rêve incongru
Dans les plis de mon âme
Au fin fond de Paname
Je t’ai cherchée partout
Et puis je suis parti

Loin
Poussé par le vent
Incertain
Magnifiquement
Adieu Paris

Un vrai baltringue
Dans un costard cradingue
Affalé sur le zinc
Bras en croix de Berny
J’avais plus beaucoup d’sous
Et j’étais vraiment saoul
Peu importe le train
Pourvu qu’il parte aussi

Loin
Que souffle le vent
Incertain
Fatidiquement
Adieu Paris

Comme un voleur
Gentleman joli-coeur
J’ai laissé un bristol
Avant d’me ranger des bagnoles
Si je reviens un jour
Pour épingler l’amour
Sûr que je te dirai
Là où il se planquait

Bien
A l'abri du vent
Dans quel coin
Il était vivant
A Paris...

Alexis Roche's Album

Adieu Paris (starring Dédé Djeune)

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synths,voices,mixing and mastering = https://soundcloud.com/copyc4t
moral support = me 
:)

DM - Here Is The House - (feat@Copyc4t) Cover

Piano track written by Tina Fisher

Buz Lee (@buzlee08) kindly titled the track, and has written some beautiful lyrics which we hope to share with you soon.

Tears May Drown (Instrumental)

Vocals and guitar - Ken McAlpin
Melodica - Richard Gutierrez
Bass, beats, ukulele, keys, mix - DMonroe / @fatpockets

We do not own any rights to this music. We just think it's super cool! Don't Sleep!!!

Rusted Hook - Man-eater (Hall & Oates cover)

We have been talking to Johanna Fegan about doing a song together for some time.  Johanna listened to our version of "7 Second to go" and wanted to do her own (unique) version.  She sent us some vocals.  We then began altering the music to highlight her vocal stylings.

We ended up with this very unique version of 7 Seconds to go.  It is very different ion feel and texture to our original version.   

https://soundcloud.com/user-590884876/seven-seconds-to-go

Some of the original parts remain but they have been altered to fit the heavier sound of this version.

We are honored to showcase our first collaboration with Johanna Fegan aka jOjO'Star .

You can find her music here:
https://soundcloud.com/johanna-fegan

Seven Seconds To Go (Featuring Johanna Fegan aka jOjO'Star )

Kind of a one on one with the ol mighty with questions on why if everything is his will he got alot of questions from us down here lol pretty relate able and I mean no offense to you bible thumpers lol enjoy this entertaining song

Letter To God Prod. Anno Domini

Letter To God  Prod. Anno Domini

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Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Ragae

Mohammud Ibrahim Ali