PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, vocals, samples
R Thomas: Drums, percussion, keyboards, kitchen gamelan
Mixed & Mastered by Mystic Tape Deck

More experience here: https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-technician/


LYRICS:
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The flashing light is indicating error, error
A wave of fear, a rumbling of terror, terror
Push the button, summon the repairer, repairer
The technician!

Arriving on the scene
Resequencing the gene
Talking to the machine
With a list of simple rules
And a tidy bag of tools
Who will save the helpless fools?
Who will save them? Who will save them?
The technician.

As the only unit who is fit to, fit to
The technician has identified the issue, issue
The virus is in the soft tissue, tissue
The technician!

There’s a bump in the road
There’s a bug in the code
A system overload
There’s a fly in the soup
A redirection loop
There’s a dupe within the group
Who will save them, who will save them?
The technician.

The mechanical voice repeating warning, warning
The broken beings all aborning, ‘borning
This cannot wait until the morning, morning
The technician!

With a flinging of the dung
And a twisting of the tongue
The ladder skips a rung
The clock has slipped a gear
With the deadline drawing near
Have no worries, know no fear
Who will save us? WHO WILL SAVE US?
The technician.

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Technician

This is an old song, originally written in 1992 or '93 while on a hitchhiking trip through the Nevada desert from Boise to Tucson Arizona. It took my friend and I eight days on the road to travel about 700 miles. 

The title is a reference to the two of us standing on opposite sides of the highway, willing to take a ride any direction as long as it got us out of there. It's about desperation, resignation, freedom, harassment, and finding beauty in the midst of extremes.

It is an experience I will personally never forget, and I have written the story once before but it was destroyed when a computer crashed and literally caught on fire before I could print it.

In the last few years I have started to try and tackle writing it again, and I stalled out a bit. Maybe revisiting this song will help inspire me to finish   documenting the tale?

You can read what there is of it here: https://twowaythumb.wordpress.com/

Ron and I originally recorded this song with our old band Godzoundz, but it was only ever released on a very limited cassette run. We decided a while back that we should chip away at re-recording these songs and try to give them their due as it was all pretty deep underground back then. So here's the first one of those.

Our basement studio flooded a couple weeks ago and production has been temporarily slowed, so we thought we'd trot out some of these oddities and misfits while we chip away at reworking our studio and getting it put back together. Hope you enjoy!

Godzoundz

Two Way Thumb

In a book and several widely read newspaper articles, the English journalist David Goodhart has identified a new cause for the vicious populism of our time. Le Pen, Brexit, Trump, the online hate culture - according to Goodhart, two new "meta-classes" (the "Anywheres" and the "Somewheres") have emerged in the global world, two completely different ways of living and feeling. According to Goodhart, these separate cultures are now competing against each other in a kind of new world culture war.

The picture shows: an altered extract from a photo somewhere out of the net

Somewhere, 3:33 am


Anyone awake again…? 
Now, 3:33 am…?

I was just looking… 
I was gazing…
I was just listening,
I was wondering…

Is it change that drives, 
Challenges and brings life, 
Even if failures are included?

Or is transformation 
A constant calculation 
Of loss, a humiliation?

And I was just looking… 
I was gazing…
I was just listening,
I was wondering…

You were somewhere, out there
You were not anywhere, no

Is it change that drives, 
Challenges and brings life, 
Even if failures are included?

Or is transformation 
A constant calculation 
Of loss, a humiliation?

I was just looking… 
And I was gazing
I was just freezing
While I was listening
And I was just looking
(For an answer
Of any kind)

You sang somewhere, out there
You were no anywhere, no
You were a somewhere, out there
You were not anywhere
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
(To find)

Somewhere, 3:33 am

Lyrics:
It is always on the lurk
...merciless, so merciless
Interfering everywhere
...heedless, so heedless
Has to judges everything
...soulless, so soulless
Influences you all the time
...shameless, so shameless

Riot in the head,
makes you crazy and mad
Jumble in the brain,
gives you harm and pain

Listen, careful, realize, that's all just your monkey mind
Shows wrong way and it makes your soul blind
Wake up, heedful, feel it all, that's all just your monkey mind
Let it go and peace will you find

It kills silence and leisure
...peaceless, so peaceless
Always chattering to you
...ruthless, so ruthless
Jumping wild from thought to thought
...restless, so restless
Doesn't let you sleep at night
...shameless, so shameless

Riot in the head,
makes you crazy and mad
Jumble in the brain,
gives you harm and pain

Listen, careful, realize, that's all just your monkey mind
Shows wrong way and it makes your soul blind
Wake up, heedful, feel it all, that's all just your monkey mind
Let it go and peace will you find

Riot in the head,
makes you crazy and mad
Jumble in the brain,
gives you harm and pain

Listen, careful, realize, that's all just your monkey mind
Shows wrong way and it makes your soul blind
Wake up, heedful, feel it all, that's all just your monkey mind
Let it go and peace will you find
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Written, performed and produced 2024 by Kapellmeister Krause.
Crafted in Cubase Pro.
All vocals were created using the brilliant Synthesizer V voice engine by Dreamtonics (it's not AI - it is magic!).
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Monkey Mind

Moon solstice noon.mp3

Me and Xavier Jaari , French Singer/Songwriter 1st released this 2 years ago , we used this trying to raise funds for the Ukraine on a Kickstarter crowdfunding project , unfortunately it fell flat . I just thought it was time for a remix and get it back in the public domain . I hope you like it as much as we do , check Xavier out when you have a minute , thank you !

Hands Across The Water (Mike Fox 2024 Remix)

Hands Across The Water - Fox and Jaari ( Mike Fox 2024 remix )

Sometimes

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music - David Cooper

Lyrics - Glen Granthem

Lead vocal - David Cooper

Backing vocals - Glen Granthem

All Instruments - Glen Granthem.

Arranged and produced by Glen Granthem

Watch the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJApBE754s

From the new album The stories that we tell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcJJ8Ae2…6GT2dVYW4p86DcLx8

Lyrics:

Can you feel the rain falling down
Can you see the moon spinning round
Can you feel the earth beneath your feet
Can you feel the sun’s penetrating heat

Chorus

That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe and warm
That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe from harm

Bridge

Everyone will tell you exactly how love feels
But no one can tell you if this love, love is real

Music break - Solo

Can you feel the breeze blowing through your hair
When I touch your skin are you  more aware
Can you free your mind without a care
Can you feel the love when we are near

Chorus x 2

Can you feel the rain
Can you fall in love

Can You Feel The Love (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with Video)

I played an Ibanez RG & SA, plus a G&L Bass on this.

Just

take advantage of me

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