Hi my friend, superb idea for this text, magnificent voice, lots of emotions, very beautiful music, great guitar too :)

Wonderful project. Love the water analogy through it. Brilliant song. Terry's voice epic as ever 👌🏽🔆 Very tight all round 🙌🏽 Super production

Epic and fantastic , this is a great collab !

Back drifting down your rivers of imagination. Such an awesome flow! Every element of this so in sync : )

Réalisation musicale parfaite. Tout y est parfait. Superbe à écouter. Le TOP.

got this on while sitting on my balcony. no river view here but this song suits a city view well, too!

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocals
Gary Reeves: Drums, Cajon
Hans Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement & Production

This was one of those songs that was inspired by something Hans wrote,  prompting an idea of the movement of water representing the melding of musical ideas.

Whilst we were working on “Release The Ashes”, he sent me a working arrangement in an email, signing off with the words "Love from The Elbe to The Thames”.  Friends and family often say things that spark song ideas and this poetic  greeting stuck in my mind.

I looked at a map that showed The Elbe flowing into The North Sea and The Thames into the Estuary a little to the south and imagined the two bodies of water flowing toward each other, intertwining back and forth, much as the song ideas between Hans, Gary and myself are inclined to do when we’re working on something.

So I have to thank Hans on two counts, both for bringing the idea to mind and also for the arrangement he created, which to me is very special.  Hope you do too.  Many thanks for listening.
(Terry Reeves)     

The river runs from Elbe toThames
Connection between distant friends 
North Sea growing back and forth
Mixture giving and taking at source 

A watery song with dance 
Dispersing over distance
Ebb and flow with a chance 
Avoiding tide resistance

Mersey mixture in history and song
Salt water blends and tries to belong
Move East to West, North To South
Trickle of ideas by word of mouth

A watery song and dance 
Dispersing over distance
Ebb and flow with a chance 
Avoiding tide resistance

River to river to river to river to river...

Tidal transfer of words and music
Echoing sounds, a demo acoustic 
Treaty of Versailles to Parliament plaque 
Rules of agreement, musical track

A watery song and dance 
Dispersing over distance
Ebb and flow with a chance
Avoiding tide resistance

The river runs from Thames to Elbe
Passing secrets, some to be held
Musical water with mixture to last
Ferry sails sea with historical past 

A watery song and dance 
Dispersing over distance
Ebb and flow with a chance
Avoiding tide resistance

River to river
River to river
River to river to river to river….

RIVER TO RIVER - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

(Song Terry Reeves, Lyrics Janice Slater)
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Gary Reeves: Vocals, Congas, Drums
Hans Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement & Production

Cover pic from Janice Slater's personal archive.
Arterial-flow – Rive-gauche
australianjazzrealbook.com/artists/janice-slater/
bentenlaughing.blogspot.com/
www.reverbnation.com/janiceslater

I arrived in London in early ‘71 and landed on the Holland Road, Shepherd’s Bush not long after.
My good pal Julie Lewis (from Durham) with whom I’d worked with in Sydney, had digs there and invited me to stay. Nonetheless I found it a challenging place to be after Sydney, Summer, beaches, family and gigs. Amongst Julie’s record collection was Nick Drake’s 'Bryter Later' which brought solace to me as I often felt very alone and completely at a loss as to how to navigate London town.

Years later I was to learn that Freddie Mercury was living just a few doors down from us on the Holland Road...no I never knew him...but when I wrote the lyric it seemed apt to pay homage to Freddie and our collective dreams. I’m so happy with Cripple Club’s interpretation of the lyrics, bringing to life a musical collage that depicts the highs and lows of living on the Holland Road through my first cold winter! From my heart; thank you Terry & Gary Reeves; you are two soulful & gifted brothers; I feel so indebted to you both and to Hans Albers for his powerful musical contributions. Thank you, everyone, for listening. (Janice Slater)

Having been such a good friend to us over the years, it has been such an honour to work with Janice on this song. It is dedicated to every one of the beautiful friends we have made here on the Cloud. Thank you all for the support you have given to our music. The last ten years have been filled with such wonderful memories. Much love to you all. (Gary & Terry Reeves)

I’m standing on the fraying edge
Of golden russet gown
Everything’s evolving
Spinning and turning my head around

A familiar voice insulted
And 'Bryter Later's so understated
There’s evidence of a circumstantial nature
But once again, I don’t feel the danger

(Spoken) But now I’m declining all invitations...

I hear the doorbell
But there’s just a stranger
Standing on the fraying edge of fear
Of a city without pity and you’re not near

Freddie he’s walking
Heading down the street
Just like me
The snow and sleet under his feet

Oh but we’ve yet to meet
Looking down the Holland Road
Nobody can see us
Standing on the fraying edge

(Spoken) I was just like you Freddie, looking for that song...

Or three or four
We are looking for salvation
On the Holland Road
And Shepherds Bush Station

Freddie he’s still walking, heading down the street
Just like him, singing music for trick or treat

(Spoken) Oh but we’ve yet to meet…

GUITAR BREAK

(Spoken) Just around the corner from…
Portobello Road
On the fraying edge (repeat x 8)
Of a fraying town

THE FRAYING EDGE - CRIPPLE CLUB, HANS ALBERS & JANICE SLATER

Grabado en 2024   
No quería andar                            Em-A5-C
Con tan poca luz 
Aunque no quiera mirar 
Siempre veo esa cruz 
Sí tratas de llegar 
A cortar el dolor 
Es tu parte animal
Cuando dice que no 
Quema el lujo                      A5
Y quema la espera                      Em
Ahí afuera                              C-A5       
Vas por lo que queda                Em

AHI AFUERA

Du discours de JF Kennedy à l'alunissage d'Apollo 11, je vous propose un rapide résumé musical de la conquête lunaire

Apollo

Inspired by Marcin Kulik conversations over ai and music

SThoP'!heh! - Broken March - SailThewaVz (Poem2Ai)

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Hope you are all keeping well out there and the temp is rising!!
Thank you for all your kind support

Unravel  ( Instrumental version )

This song is dedicated to my love and admiration of the poop-smearing GOAT of rock music, the one and only, GG Allin.  The skilled musicianship of this musical recording is a flattering tribute to his stunning genius.  Recorded on a 4 track tape machine.

I Like GG Allin

Lyrics

We found it looking inside
It worth a mention
Pay close attention
Its love
Its inner light
It’s good
Its right
Its hope with cope
It’s something inside
It’s worth a mention
In every moment
No tension
Just flow in projection and reflection
Conversation with true observation 

Find a map,
Draw a heart,
Top lines intersect on an Isle that we are part
Try funny,
Live poetry,
Rule writing
Love love
Let's all absorb this Éire dove

For a while our neighbours tried to fight 
They took our Oak,
Built boats,
Made blight
But we survived and became beacons of light for all Earthling'

Before invasion our Druids shone
Just altered myths now paint them wrong
I see mesoamerican beings
Too advanced for christian scenes

So the church rolled in & tried to brain wash us
It worked for a while until the poor kids got it...
So we learned and evolved and found new truth
New truth defined in protecting our youth

So here we are,
Smack bang in the middle
We'll explain it in word,
Or sing it with a fiddle
In the end we are neutral
As neutral as neutral can be
The secret?
Just love and have a laugh
Be a real "me"

Just be the real "me"
We need more real "me"
Need more real
The real meaning of life
Be "me"

We found it looking inside
It worth a mention
Pay close attention
Its love
Its inner light
It’s good
Its right
Its hope with cope
It’s something inside
It’s worth a mention
In every moment
No tension
Just flow in projection and reflection
Conversation with true observation 


#Buzzing Pop Candidate (I didn't do it on purpose I swear...🤷🏽‍♀️ 😆🔆)

File Updated: Piano added and orchestral basses and sang an additional low lead line throughout. Still building the idea so the over layering will be fixed when it's fully filled with instruments. Also mutiple vocal lines have become a great way for me to build one solid vocal line. I think I understnad whats happneing now... You then when singing it after several listens have a chance to get the best nuances from all the lines... so they setup your final vocal for a near future take


My Uncle said that to me years ago. About the heart and a map. He's more like a brother to me and is a wonderful soul. A true light server (Server of Good if the other words seem whack job to you) For human history we have looked for light. Religion tried to tell us to look outside for it when the opposite is true in my universe. Light represents where we come from. The sun. I believe its actually important to focus on it as light and maybe we'll understand that better when we understand the effects of intention better...

In Ireland we are neutral with a defence based status militarily (we're obviously fucked if attacked but sure 🤷🏽‍♀️we're all fucked if an asteroid hits and who worries about that 😆) We generally genuinely love everyone. We have a national broadcaster in RTE that has proved over the years they have at their heart a try for the truth about things genuinely. We have frank conversations with 'power' such as Israel at the moment. We are a positive beacon and I'll stand up and happily celebrate that in a song especially in the face of all the fake which challenges this way forward.

We all need to be the positive and balance out the whiners. Even the universe tells us that. EVERYTHING is positive and negative

I'm not at all saying we are better or worse then anyone. But when we have something we all have it. whether it's culture from long ago, culture from now or the culture we are about to create to fix this shit show we all have to watch


Positive culture in mycelium..
A "positive culture" in mycelium, specifically in the context of liquid culture (LC) for mushroom cultivation, refers to a successful and healthy growth of the mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus, in a nutrient-rich liquid medium. This means the liquid culture is teeming with healthy mycelial growth and is free from contamination, making it suitable for inoculation into other substrates like grains to create spawn.

Humanity

It seems that each season has its own "perfume of mystery".  In a typical Texas panhandle spring, it is Lilac and Russian Olive that perfume the air.  In the deep South, Magnolias are hypnotically fragrant.  In summer it is the fresh, petrichor air after a rainstorm, or a newly-mown field of hay.  In the fall there is a pungency of fallen leaves as they are raked into piles, and as the days grow cooler, smoke from a fireplace during an evening walk. It is an odor that grows stronger and crisper as winter sets in and the sweet scent of pine with the setting up of Christmas trees.  Dan wanted to capture this "perfume of mystery" with his unique composing and keyboard skills and invited me to come along. Thank you my friend for inviting me.  Hear more of Dan's beautiful and unique "French Fantasy" music @dan-t-3.

Like A Perfume Of Mystery (DAN-DT; composer, keyboards, David; guitars)

The Cinderlands Portrait Gallery is a reflection of where many find themselves, in this world and many variations of it...   It is a message of understanding and sympathy. Hope for better times after hardship.

The Cinderlands Portrait Gallery

Gears and Gutters

✨🤍🙏🔊✨

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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