wow, man, this is a wonderful composition, very well performed. great vocals, too! great job all involved!

wow what a song!! brilliant title & great message, as always - the vocals are outstanding!! awesome rock music! ♥

Fantastic !!!! Great vocal and deep emotions 👌

Super cool and restrained accompaniment for this intense vocal, at least cinematic the beginning he he, breaks out nicely

cool intro with the marimba /organ sound........a fantastic burst of energy with the rocky bits.....and belting vocal!

Great vocals, epic guitar, awesome songwriting

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01. Zagib - Goin Out West

Don x Khalil - BURBERRY prod. NickxMiles

First Collaboration between Em Highfield and Vapor Void.
Hard work, great fun! Thank you so much, Em: High five!
https://soundcloud.com/suldusk

Funny Games, feat. Emily Highfield on Vocals

ANOTHER ZERO (TO MY NAME)
(Written by Terry Reeves, 2016)

I decided to write a song to celebrate my 60th birthday and came up with the line 'another zero to my name' and at the time I thought I really had something and was looking forward to working on an up-beat, happy song.
Age is becoming a big issue in my life right now, affecting my Mum and Mother-in-law, who are both in their late eighties. The ageing process is making life difficult in so many ways, and they do miss the simple pleasure of being able to go outside and feel the sun when they want to. It’s hard to watch, because they are both very special people who, against the odds, try and make each day worth waking up for.  The medical care they’ve received hasn’t always been too helpful, though.
Having observed this from such close range, it does appear that advances in this area haven’t focused nearly enough attention on the effects the ageing process has on their mental health. Lack of patient care for the old is scary at the best of times, but when it comes to how you actually ‘feel’, if your needs don't tick the designated boxes, they are, sad to report, mostly ignored. 
So that became what this song is about.  Not the first time that the writing process has taken a different direction to the one I’d expected, but certainly the first time I’ve fully completed a song in just half a day. I hope they like this protest song on their behalf and that I can help keep the sun shining.
When Hans agreed to listen to my demo and then to having a go at laying down a version, I couldn't wait to hear the result.  When Gary contacted me some weeks later and said, "You have got to listen to this", I still had no idea just how brilliant it would be. How on earth was I going to do a vocal that could even come close to matching that brilliance I didn’t know but, in the end, thought, “Who in their right mind would miss the chance?”  (Terry Reeves)

Anyone who has had the privilege of working with Hans (https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for), will know just how rewarding a process that always is, but what he did with this song really is something else again.  Neither of us can ever thank him enough for that.
Also want to thank Jono Trott (https://soundcloud.com/jonodog) at Core Arts (https://soundcloud.com/coreartsmusic), for all his help with mixing the vocals. Could never have achieved this result without all his knowledge and help.  (Gary Reeves)

Cover art shows local graffiti artists ‘Nanksy’ defacing Tel’s garage wall.  You’d think they’d know better at their age….

Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocal
Hans Albers:  All instruments and backing vocals 

LYRICS:
I tried to cry
But there's a desert in my head
It's been going dry
Since the sun stopped shining

Intake of breath
Assisting broken heart
A thought of death
Since the sun stopped shining

Another zero to my name
I Think the Birthdays are to blame       CHORUS                    
I'm not able to beat Cain
Another zero to my name

Aching words of trust
Forget the lack of care.                   
Finance going bust
Since the sun stopped shining

Walking through the pain
Tried and tested thing to do
No supporting frame
Since the sun stopped shining

CHORUS

Voices always on the edge
Shouting childlike in my face
No more vision of a pledge
Since the sun stopped shining

Mindful thoughts but no repair
Not listed for success 
Best friend despair
Since the sun stopped shining

CHORUS

Another Zero (To My Name)  Cripple Club and Hans Albers (Free download)

I've never been in the desert :) ... I'm imagining the groove of the caravan. Another piece with sounds from the TAL-NoiseMaker vst in two instances. Plus midi beats, midi percussion and saxophone :)
So the camels were not photographed by me, Pict is Public Domain!

The Spice Road

The second song with which I had the pleasure of making with the amazing Amanda Sanderson! 
soundcloud.com/phoebeelena.   We hope you enjoy and thank you very much for listening!

Amanda Sanderson: Vocals, lyrics, art work
Me: music, mixing

Lyrics:

How did it end this way?
So much pain on display.

So needless this distress, 
Despair and emptiness.

This cannot sustain, 
Whoever is to blame,
This is the end of the game.

How did it end this way? 
So much pain on display.

So needless this distress, 
Despair and emptiness.

This cannot sustain, 
Whoever is to blame,
This is the end of the game.

Got to rid my mind, 
Leave it all behind.

From darkness to light, 
Got to rid my mind, 
Darkness to light...

On Display (with Amanda Sanderson)

Hans Albers:  All instruments, arrangement, production and final mix
Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocal

Like many relationships, mine and Jo’s started at work and I think the fact that we were always holding hands soon made our feelings pretty clear to everyone.  Holding hands has always felt special to us and through every life event, good or bad, our relationship has been strengthened by having this powerful physical connection.

So how else would you celebrate 30 years of marriage other than having a full size bronze statue of yourselves holding hands?  Sounds relatively straightforward but, sadly,  this eventually proved to be a little optimistic, given that it involved not only ourselves but one artist (who was as mad as a hatter), an assistant (who had never done the procedure before), three buckets, one stick, a wooden stool, something called alginate (the stuff dentists use to cast teeth), bronze (naturally), one foundry (which burned down, necessitating finding another – this actually did happen) foundry workers (number unspecified) and someone to organise the whole creation (that would be me).  Piece of cake.

Anyway, as you can see from the cover pic, it was finally completed in time for our anniversary and now sits a couple of feet away from my chair, a constant reminder of the wonderful life Jo and I have had together.  This love song tells that story – the two of us holding hands as we always have done and always will.

Hans’ interpretation, arrangement and recording of such a personal song is simply brilliant, capturing as it does every nuance with each simply perfect note.  Working alongside him is always such a complete pleasure.  If you want to get full value from his astounding work, I’d recommend using headphones.

Thanks so much for listening.   (Terry Reeves) 

Thirty years of holding hands
Palms Face to Face
A single hold linking two
No more dismal dark to trace
Connecting skin with strength 
Stop thinking of the past
Future brings no worries 
This simple join is here to last 

Pressing with the lightest touch 
Making sure we don’t offend
Working both together 
Showing strength is hard to bend
Feeling joined as one
To make a single change 
Holding hands is more important 
Than the world tries to explain 
(Repeat)

BREAK 

Love with fingers clenched 
But a softness touch to heart
Making special art of love
Using hands showing just how much
In this sequence of just thirty years
Giant secrets find a way to shout
As we hold our hands together 
Squeezing all the sadness out
Squeezing it out

Fearless love in bond of hands 
So tight and never letting go
A feel of chain reaction 
There’s many will never know
Can’t challenge this connection 
No matter what whispers say
Showing those who care to look
At our skin to skin performance 

Every day, every day, every day, every day .....................

Palms Face To Face: Cripple Club & Hans Albers

Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocals, Ukelele
Hans Albers:  All instruments, Backing Vocals, Arrangement, Production & Final Mix

This song is based on an interesting conflict that occurred between an urban young vixen and my daughter who came face to face in our back garden. Both of them seemed to object to sharing what I thought was a fairly large space and each time my daughter opened the back door the fox appeared. This went on for some time until my daughter stated that she would not go into the garden until the fox had gone and continually moaned about the situation at every opportunity. She kept telling me about the fox, I think expecting her Dad (me) to do something about it but every time I went in to the back garden the vixen would disappear. It became a major intrusion of her personal space and she was not happy.
On Christmas Day 2015 I decided that I should, as far as the fox situation was concerned, try and help my daughter’s confidence and said that I wanted to take some festive pictures at the bottom of the garden. I recorded the whole event on camera but I am not sure that it helped.  In retrospect, maybe dressing my son Daniel as a fox wasn't the wisest way of achieving this...
If you'd like to see the video, here's the link: https://youtu.be/thhGdLUACEg

Hans took what was a simple, three chord uke song and turned it into this wonderful thing, as he always seems to do.  That man is a truly extraordinary talent.  He also put together the video from the one and a half minutes worth of footage we took, so it seems there really is nothing he cannot do...
(Terry Reeves)

Chorus:
The Fox is coming to town
The Fox is coming to town.    

The Fox is taking over
She has a dominating stare
The eyes shine like lasers
Her teeth so sharp to scare

Chorus
The Fox is taking over
She wants to occupy my space
Every movement getting closer
Soon be standing face to face

Chorus
The Fox is taking over
I must get my tactics right
Stand and face her eye to eye
Getting ready for the fight

Chorus
The Fox is taking over
I will pretend to be really scared
There can be only one winner
And she'll be the one who's red

Chorus
The Fox is taking over
I haven't seen her for a while
I now stand in a different place
I think it really suits my style

Chorus (Repeat)

The Fox Is Coming To Town - Cripple Club & Hans Albers

Song made thinking of my daughter, my son, young people in general, thinking of the collective responsibility of my generation. Now, it's up to you to repair our damages. I did a bit, but sorry, not enough. 

Lyrics

What can I say of what I've done 
I have tried but I felt so alone 
Everyone on earth is homesick 
Human beings, fish or bees

Sugar, my future 
What about your life 
Secret melody 
What about your fight

Oh Popie Popie go on 
The way is long 
Oh Popie go on 
Don't let the world down

What can you say of what I've done 
That I lived as if I was alone 
Heat and water are coming up 
But you're not allowed to be fead up

Sugar, my future 
What about your life 
Secret melody 
What about your fight

Oh Popie Popie go on 
The way is long 
Oh Popie go on 
Don't let the world down
Oh Popie Popie go on 
The way is long 
Oh Popie go on 
Don't let the world down

What can I say of what I've done 
What can I say of what I've done 
What can you say of what I've done

Oh Popie go on, Don’t let the world down 
Oh Popie go on, The way is looooong 
Oh Popie go on, Don’t let the world down 
Oh Popie go on

Close to Robert

Oh Poppy go on

Only two nice chords and all built over a lucky strumming improvisation
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69JwLWkiv4
Enjoy

Busy Day

Merci à Georges Alberto de m'avoir permis de réaliser cet arrangement sur sa jolie chanson  interprétée par Mariam . 
Thanks to Georges Alberto for allowing me to do this arrangement on his beautiful song interpreted by Mariam.
V@M : Lyrics & Music 
Mariam : Vocals
Pascal Basso :  Instrumental arrangements - Production  
Lyrics :
Verse 1
I was never someone who cry,
I was wrong maybe to denied.
Even when I'd seen the other side.
I'd hided my pain so deep inside.
Chorus
But today now i realise,
In the same way when i disagreed.
Still I'd know that i had no faith in me
What they said was a compromise.
Verse 2
Places I've seen, I've searched a million times
To find someone who understands my mind.
So many times I've told my share of lies,
Out of time bearing no disguise.
Chorus
But today now i realise,
In the same way when i disagreed.
Still I'd know that i had no faith in me
What they said was a compromise.
Ad-Lib End
I was never someone who cry,
I'd hided my pain so deep inside

But Today 🌷     ( V@M and Mariam .  prod pb )

A simple song/jam that got me out of a rut during a difficult time... not one of my best, but a personal favourite

Recorded 4th December 2020

You're out of time, baby
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care,
I'm going to find you out
And if you don't know me by now...

You're out of time, baby,
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care
I'd rather find out now
And if you're not fair
I won't be hanging 'round
And if you don't know
You're going to find out now
And if you don't know me by now...

Artwork based on a photograph by JP Lavery
Used under Creative Commons license at Unsplash.com
https://unsplash.com/@jpvalery

Out of time

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Hans Albers: All instruments, Arrangement, Production & Final Mix

Douglas Adams challenged the world and asked the question “Why?” in such a witty and perceptive way that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it captured my reason to be in a way no writer has before or since. “The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy” has become an international best seller so it’s therefore a surprise, at least to me, not to see his name mentioned more frequently on regularly published lists of history’s most significant authors.  Whilst it’s no doubt true that I wouldn’t be someone whose opinion you’d seek out as an authority on such things, I do find it hard to believe that a man who created something so hilariously and philosophically original doesn’t get the true recognition he deserves. “Hitch Hiker” was so much more than a work of science fiction.  It was something that taught us the valuable life lesson that there really was no need to have an answer to everything.
Has anyone heard of Douglas? Well, he was certainly the man who let me know I wasn't on my own.

Once again, my grateful thanks to Hans (also a ‘Hitch Hiker’ fan, by the way) for the brilliant arrangement on this song.  But he’s just this guy, you know…
(Terry Reeves)

Has anyone heard of Douglas?
Writing life is for the living words
Has anyone heard of Douglas?
Tried not to kill a mocking bird

Has anyone heard of Douglas? 
Madness now was so profound 
Has anyone heard of Douglas?
He was not far from the madding crowd

Dickens, Lee, Lewis and Christie
Tolkien, Dahl, Fleming, and Rushdie
Kawakami, Smith, Whitehead and Orwell
Shakespeare, Austin, Pepper, and Powell

Does anyone remember Douglas? 
Forty two the reason why?
Does anyone remember Douglas?
Who was once the Catcher in the rye

Can anyone remember Douglas?
He had a gold but broken heart
Can anyone remember Douglas?
An Adam Blithe Spirit from the start

Ishiguro, Kipling, Russel, and Lessing
Fitzgerald, Woolf, Cookson, and Gissing 
Bronte, Thackeray, Richardson and Hardy
Winterson, Walker, Tan and Galsworthy 

Has anyone seen my Douglas? 
Taking as many baths time will allow
Has anyone read my Douglas? 
Climbing 39 steps with his towel 

Has anyone seen my Douglas?
Hitching to a galaxy of his own
Has anyone considered Douglas?
Taking us all To a God Unknown

Trollope, Butler, Smith and Beckett 
Hollinghurst, Gibbons, Golding but DON’T PANIC
Stein, Doyle, Tolstoy, and Adams
Checkhov, Vern, Steel, and the one and only Douglas Noël Adams

Douglas Adam, Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams

AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE� CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS,  Live At Milliways Feat. Max Quordlepleen

Exploration of Latvia forgoten spaces through sound waves

Music video: https://youtu.be/b_EIlQe-QE8

forgotten_latvia

Mountain Songs is a project dedicated to my brother Brian Reeves (aka Rocky Mountain, 1948–2012), an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and arranger.  He was the creative force behind so many of the songs on this page.  If you have time, please click for lyrics and track history. 
This is for you Bri, with love and thanks from us all.   We miss you. (Gary Reeves)

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