Name: Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Valentine Cover) by MRK
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Just in Vale-time. Photo by Gina Canavan. Track produced by Alex Arias.

your voice is like smoke to a beehive..calming...intoxicaing...mesmerizing.

https://stratosfearrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ships-space-inside-7

Ships - None Of It Real

Fortress
Words and music by Chris Pendergraft

Day By Day
Stone By Stone
I've watched your tower
grow and grow
This world is only dark at night
It is you that is the light

Come down my queen
Down from your fortress
Try to remember
Try to remember 

Come down with me
come take my hand
we can leave this forsaken land
Try to remember 
Try to remember 
This Fortress

Day By Day
Stone By Stone
I've watched your tower
grow and grow
This world is only dark at night
It is you that is the light

Come on Now I can wait no more
Open Up Your Fortress door
Come on Now I can wait no more
Open Up Your Fortress door
Come on Now I can wait no more
Open Up Your Fortress door
Come on Now I can wait no more
Open Up Your Fortress door
Come on Now I can wait no more
Open Up Your Fortress door

Fortress

Woo Hoo Hoo (Saturday version)

Hands and Knees

Newest album. please feel free to download it here: https://ghoistnoises.bandcamp.com/releases

Got It

Echo and Narcissus
Words and Music by Chris Pendergraft
for EchoCosmic

So how does a song take place? My secret weapon is my visual mind. The name EchoCosmic is not a name I picked, rather it found me. I inverted it, CosmicECho from the microwave signature left over from the big bang. Then it name meaning of the phrase was given meaning to me by another kind soul. That lead me down the path of defining what I was focusing in on, Echo, a wood nymph, a lost soul, lost to another's vanity and her own want for connection to a creature of such beauty. I thought deeper still about Narcissus, lost deep in his own gaze. There is a lesson on both sides, about what we attach our selves to and why. 
This song is a year in the making in some ways as thoughts grow and evolve, the idea of EchoCosmic evolved in me, take from everything, drink of the cosmos, of everything. Be honest in your values and have integrity in the course of your inspiration. A different story would emerge from Echo, had she taken a different course, or never tried to show the young hunter his beauty, or rather deeper still, his perceived beauty. 

So the painting came first, I had looked at Waterhouse, and as many references as I could, I saw Echo fading away- I imagined her translucent but then I shied away from that visual. I saw her floating above Narcissus as lost as he. 
In one of the stories he withers away and she is left to spend her days pinning away on his passing. Wasted love, wasted focus, still a valid parable so many years later. 

Me painting it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8CDwShaTg&feature=youtu.be
Detail of the painting on deviantart.comhttp://chrispendergraft.deviantart.com/art/Echo-and-Narcissus-Final-500302819



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Stardust and Ashes 
Words and Music by Christopher Pendergraft
and string arrangements with Thomas Brunkard 

Cello & vocals - @faerytale - Lisa West 
Viol - @thomasbrunkard - Thomas Brunkard
Lead guitar- @sparkyland - Michael Blodgett
Rhythm guitar - @man-on-a-grill MOAG
Drums, Bass, vocals, Piano and arrangement- Chris Pendergraft
Lead Guitar - Michael Blodgett
Drums - Kyle Pesonen 

We are Stardust and Ashes
Memories of Tomorrow 
Know where you came from 
If not where to go
Once we were angels
So give fear no place in your breath
 Once we were demons
So give fear no place in your breath

Across the Evening Sky
It is time not space in which  
 We Fly

So don't spend your pay
on Drowning your pain
You'll miss the bliss
Along the way
For Apathy is 
The beast of the day
The beast of today

Stardust And Ashes  Ft. The Royal Chamber-Psyche Orchestra

drum and bass track i have been working on for a little while
nice and smooth, classical sounds
let me know what you think!

Zackyri - Kindness In An Elevator [FREE DL]

Hey all, here is my first new song of 2015.

This is a strange one to kick things off. It falls under the category of what I describe as ‘fever dream’ music.

“The God In Me Just Evaporated” is a strange mix of blues, electro, disco, post punk and maybe a bit of ambient for good measure. It came about pretty organically as bits and pieces started to merge together to form a picture.

The song was inspired by my home country of Australia. I don’t often write about Australia as everywhere else always seems a lot more exciting to me – you know, the grass is always greener. Anyway, what you quickly discover about Australia is that once you leave civilization (i.e. Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane etc) and venture into the outback it can become a pretty terrifying place. If something can bite you, poison you, eat you, break you or generally scare the hell out of you it resides down under. Make no mistake, Australia is unforgiving. 

Importantly, there is a real sense of isolation in the Australian outback. I’ve been around and to me it is different to any other desert or landscape anywhere in the world. It is alien. It feels like nothing has ever existed out there. It feels like a land before time. I’ve heard someone describe as being older than God.

With that in mind, I was also inspired by the brilliant 2005 John Hillcoat film ‘The Proposition’ and its idea that God does not exist in the outback – that the land sucks any belief out of you (i.e. the God in me just evaporated). I actually sampled the film. You can hear Guy Pearce and the beyond incredible John Hurt conversing. I tried to write lyrics that reflect the feeling of their conversation.  I don’t know... You’ll get the idea. It is more about mood.

I think the music does a good job communicating vastness. I also give my old Guild 12 string a workout which I haven’t used in a while. Think I’ll end up using it a lot more this year.

I like this one.

Hope you enjoy!

The East Village Vampire
  
   
  
LYRICS...

Mr Lamb:

"Russia, China, The Congo... Oh, I have travelled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea.

But nothing! Nothing could have prepared me for this God forsaken hole."

East Village Vampire:

I am lost in a shroud of stars
I am lost and on my own
Feel it leaving me behind
Soon the land will claim my bones
Because there's nothing out here to find
No there's nothing but sand and stone
And those birds circling the sky
Will never point the way back home
See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn

Charlie Burns:

"Do you pray Mr. Lamb?"

Mr. Lamb:

"Good lord son no I do not!

I was in days gone by a believer, but alas I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just evaporated..."

The East Village Vampire:

I feel all God leaving my soul
I feel the city lights fading away
And all memory of you will dissolve
but the scars will always remain
And the land is looking for blood
And it knows that's what it will find
And those birds keep circling the sky
See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn

See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn



The God In Me Just Evaporated

Just in Vale-time. Photo by Gina Canavan. Track produced by Alex Arias.

Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Valentine Cover)

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Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Valentine Cover)

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