As per usual, a work in progress until the last day of the corresponding month.
To get on these playlists, you have to make music that I like. 
That's the only criteria.

MTD Mixtape August 2022

The 3rd single from the album Lazybody (Last Night From Glasgow)

Written, arranged and performed by Annie Booth
Produced and mixed by Chris McCrory
Recorded at Chem19, Blantyre and Green Door, Glasgow
Mastered by Samuel J. Smith

Vocals & guitar: Annie Booth
Bass: Jack Richardson
Drums: Gavin Lamont
Pedal steel: Conor Smith
Guitars etc: Chris McCrory

℗&© 2021 Annie Booth

Nowhere

Girl in the Box

Written for a family whose child has a medical problem, and because they were poor were were wrongly accused of it being the mother's fault. They battled the courts for four years.  He recently passed on from brainstem neurodegenerative disease that he had when the nightmare began.  Mayo Clinic now has his brain for research as his condition was so rare.


You can find the tracks he made here:
https://soundcloud.com/ourvoiceisking/tracks

She’s a single mother with a very low income			
He’s an eight year old who knows there’s nothing that he’s done
To be torn from his mother, his sisters and his brother
It’s the only life he knew and he loved it like not other

But you don’t give up, you don’t give up, you don’t give up, or give in
You know; you don’t give up, you don’t give up, you don’t give up, or give in

We’re always thinking of you Aaron, you’re always on our mind
We know your lonely, you know we love you all the time
How can some strangers say what’s good for you or I
There’s one who knows best, look in the child’s eye

The world is crumbling round me, its in a dizzy spin
With all I see and hear, my heart is full and breaking
I could end up on a mountain top or in a deep prison
But I know I never, never give up or give in

But we won't give up, we won't give up, we won't give up, or give in
You know; we won't give up, we won't give up, we won't give up, or give in

Don't Give Up

OPC - Don't Give Up

Lyrics: 

Staring at today's headlines
in an empty compartment
warning tape and a lost bag
a cold wind in downtown

I'm walking
I'm walking

I keep walking
I keep walking

I know it won't come back
step out and deal with that
a different normality
the keys stay in the keyhole

I'm walking
I'm walking

I keep walking
I keep walking

Caesura

Warning Tape And A Lost Bag

Two Shy People In Conversation

I was going through old files on my computer and found this - looks like the master copy is lost and all we have is this lossy MP3 but we might as well wack it up onto Soundcloud for posterity.....just me on pokey rudimentary piano, Gina on gorgeous vocals and the drummer we use while our demos are still in the very early phase of the creative process, the ubiquitous Mr. G.Arage-Band.....who is always upset 😡 when we replace his parts in the final versions of the songs........🤣
This version has different chords to what we ended up using in the finished version.
If you want to hear the "official" version you can find it here ----> https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile
And if you really want more, you can find the cute remix which we quite like here --->  https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile-zen-heartbeat-mix

Smile (Simple Piano Version)

Collab with Entheogenic Psychonaut.
I sent Josh a DADGAD electric guitar track, he put vocals and instruments on it and then I did a remix - this is the result :)
Great vocals and melody!!

Check out Josh’s SC page here

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cWZpPoToWhSV2pAE7

I'm Gonna Get You - with Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)

Dick sent me this great instrumental long ago, full of details and different sections. I was too busy then, now I've enjoyed working on it at last !!

https://soundcloud.com/oorlab: composition, drums, bass, synths, guitars... all before 0:20 and most after that.
https://soundcloud.com/ruizzoidman21centurions: lyrics, vocals, lead guitar, pocket sax, and 40 years old school flute.

Letra  / Translated Lyrics:

(Coro:  /  Choir)
De coger café yo vengo  /  From collecting coffee I come
A coger café voy  /  To collect coffee I go

(Solista:  /  Lead:)
Quisiera ver lo que no vi,  /  I’d like to see what I didn’t see,
quisiera ir donde no fui,  /  I’d like to go where I didn’t go,
quisiera hacer lo que nunca hice…  /  I’d like to do what I never did…
… pero veo lo que no se ve,  /  … but I can see what cannot be seen,
voy donde nadie nunca fue,  /  I go where no one ever went,
y hago lo que no hace usted. /  and I do what you don’t do.

Picture by Carlos Duque Rangel: "Recolectores de café"
https://www.artelista.com/obra/2345713654034411-recolectores-de-cafe.html

De Coger Café (with Oorlab)

Joel@trappedanimal.com for all enquiries.

Cormorant Tree Oh - The Cave

Featuring 
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme on Alto flute and Bari.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/ 
Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze

See also https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/ about the challenge: "The Naviar Haiku music challenge invites artists to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre."

NaviarHaiku 439 Tall Trees

Naviarhaiku 439 – Tall Trees  (Georg Boehme & Oorlab)

Written by João Gonçalves

All instruments by João Gonçalves

The Way (Demo Version)

Unfortunately, Schmitty and Nekbhet were busy eating a snack during the time of this recording.

Syntania: mooing, snorting, neighing, braying, vocalized boat horn
Midori Cullnough: backing vocals
Brian Ordbon: cowbell

Additional Personnel
Schmitty's dog: barking

Song For Cowbell And Voice

Link BandCamp :  https://specialcecilia.bandcamp.com/track/music-philosophy-2
produzindo o instrumental com o lindo e poderoso vocal da minha grande amiga @specialececilia...  cinematic elements!

Part of Album "Elevate Everyone" by Special Cecilia
specialcecilia.bandcamp.com/album/elevate-everyone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbOkGNO1I8

original vocal : www.soundcloud.com/specialvocals/music-philosophy-the-sixth-element-vocals

Save The Nature!

Music Philosophy - Special Cecilia (prod. Assá)

Thrift Shop Treasure

Surfing Home

Never, ever go in there...

Keep It In Ur Pants (with Fady)

This is a magical collaboration with folks I've admired a while.   Finally got a chance to make something happen.  Thanks to STONERJAZZ for asking me to play on his cool bossa nova track.  Hope you enjoy! 

STONERJAZZ - https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679
Janine Levinson - https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Uziel - https://soundcloud.com/user-455619833
Jo Richter - https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures


lyrics
Wretched light so aptly said libra ish in their balanced dread
Wretched light of another day ln the soup out there
the falling down and getting up, it's "Showtime" Fossi said
As he popped amphetamine in the shower scene
Or so it's said by some writer of his dreamy technicolor happenstance
That made the cut.

Could it be scorcery that I see
Through jaded glasses full of gin
Or just a conjury of collected clarities'

So sweet the experiential meat
Dark or light the gods prefer
Is not what we do not do for us
But them.

The guillotine of thoughtless bliss
Takes the Serpent's head
And tiny lights appear around my bed.

Chase the monster south for 14 winters and a night
It grinned across the canyon with a monstrous delight
I thought I saw you yesterday up on the ridge behind my house
It might have been the way you turned your head to speak
But the wind you know it blew your words away
What you said I couldn’t’ say
You know it really doesn’t matter anyway

Know-Ware - STONERJAZZ, Janine Levinson, Uziel and Jo Richter

05 Bunny Ear Stew

"Something Broke Inside" narrates waking from a nightmare, coughing blood laced with shards of broken glass – the psychological aftermath of contaminated intimate relationships, angst, and isolation. Surging with complex visceral textures, and an unparalleled fusion of hurdy-gurdy, Ukrainian Bagpipes, and avant-garde electronica, simultaneously potently dark and despairing, Something Broke Inside travels on a stark rhythmic beat enhancing Eugene's piercing vocals, infusing the tune with feelings of oil-and-water, while layers of sound assemble uneasiness.
lyrics
Awoken in fear
By my silent scream.
I dreamt of spitting shards with blood.
Did something break inside?
What was that?

Something inside,
Made of glass,
Something fragile,
The body didn’t hurt.
But inside all torn
And screaming: “What was that?”

Have you ever heaved up blood,
Shattered like glass,
Shouted silently?
What was that?

Something Broke Inside

AVANT GARDE | GUTTER PROG | GARAGE JAZZ

A Multimedia Puzzle-Story Of An Immortal Being's Struggle To Define And Exert Their Will Upon A Wholly Deterministic And Ambivalent Multiverse, And The Strange Cult Who Loves Them.

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Greetings to you: readers, beaders, seekers, wanderers, wonderers, outsiders, rebels, fantasy gamers, freaks, mythologists, philosophers, appreciators, creators, perpetuators of beauty, coveters of mysterious objects, collectors of counter culture, the curious, the questioners, the unusual, the unique, the star children, the light workers, shadow integrators, diviners, alchemists, hermits, monks and popes, the saviors and prophets, the builders and destroyers of worlds, the old ones, the young ones, the rollers of boulders, the sun orbiters, the morning star dewdrops and twinkle toed dreamers of dreams, you mystic shining beacons, you crossers and denizens of the void, reality shapers, universe makers and underworld freaks.

"A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate the mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms."

MTD Mixtape August 2022

Mystic Tape Deck