Those harmonies, love that bass line as well.

Meet Sumitrosis inaequalis, a member of Tortoise and Hispine Beetles, Subfamily Cassidinae (photo/location: New York, US)

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Calm and Steady tracks series no. 436

created on 2024/03/16


Picture CREDIT:
(c) Clarence Holmes – all rights reserved

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Mirjana Bogdanović And Carlos Alberto Bergmann  - Svjetla Velikog Grada

As each November approaches I try to make my own little Remembrance-time tribute.  Seems more relevant as each year passes...

Following the huffing and puffing empire lunacy in the summer of 1914, the next four years would see 40 million casualties, half of them deaths and of those, half were civilian.  

40 million.

40 million tales of poignancy, pain, grief and human tragedy, through times that can often seem littered with coincidence, symmetries …. bookends and mirrors.

In the Military Cemetery of St Symphorien near Mons rests John Parr.  At only five foot three inches and several years under age he (amazingly) managed to enlist in 1912 - hoping to see the world, and get the advertised “two square meals” a day.  He was the first British Army casualty, killed in the battle of Mons aged just 17, his body left behind, fate unknown until much later in the conflict;  the army unable to answer his mother’s letters of enquiry about her “silent” son.

By pure coincidence, John lies just a few yards from the last British soldier to die in the great war.  George Ellison served for four long years including at the same first battle of Mons as John, and most of the famously grinding, attritional infantry battles of the conflict.  His working life bookended by military service, George had first enlisted in 1902, leaving the army in 1912, just as John joined, he became a coal miner, re-enlisting at the outbreak of war to dig mud not coal and fight from trenches he helped excavate.  George was killed just 90 minutes before the armistice took effect at 11:00 on the 11th day of the 11th month.  The futility of the conflict was cruelly illustrated by the fact that George’s war had started and ended at exactly the same place, Mons in Belgium.  They had literally gone nowhere.

As a postscript to progress since "the war to end all wars" the human race is currently reckoned to be engaged in 7 major wars, 15 significant ongoing conflicts and 21 “minor” conflicts (the latter defined as up to "only” 1000 deaths per year).  By way of another macabre bookend, the longest of these has been going on, unbelievably, since the year .... 1918.

As always, this simple ballad is offered as a live one mic one take effort - please excuse the fluffs and gaffes.
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Bookends and Mirrors

Sun turned cold ‘cross every sky in the summer of ‘14
The Good Lord shook his head, and he placed it in his hands
Braided declarations flying, whose like was never seen
Lunatics in feathers stockpiled lead, bagged their sand.
Slapstick Mephistopheles, unleashing of his flame
Spiral minds lobotomised in the waltz of the insane
Simple lives unknowing of the mud that would become
A mirror in the resting place of two Holy Mother’s sons.

Signed the line, five years young, fingers crossed behind his back
Chance to see the world, grab a future, two square meals.
At 17, John’s angels sung, first to fall in dawn’s attack
Abandoned and forgotten, deaf to all his ma’s appeals.
Never knew the miner, his bookend pal to be
Fighting down the line, many battles that he’d see
Full four years in trenches, George’s hell lived through them all
Cruelty was smiling wide at England’s last to fall.

In service time they travelled nowhere, nothing to achieve
Embracing 40 million weeping mothers left to grieve
The crime of puffing chest bravado beggared to believe
Hall of mirrors seeping others’ blood of the innocent naive.

Now John and George lie facing each to seek their mirrored peace
Raise my eyes and brim a tear for the lessons never learned
Pray God, don’t ever let them know man’s insanity but increased
The war to end all wars a mere sequel oft’ returned 
By comedies of leathered fools stuck on infinite repeat
Bemedalled and bejewelled, they prosecute their moral defeat
But here, on sallow turf twixt heroes, broken mirror in my broken hand
Met by my own broken eyes, I still fail to understand.
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Photo by Michael Yuan on Unsplash

Bookends and Mirrors

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Recording sessions from 29/11/2023 to 14/12/2023
3 tracks MOOG Modular (vst Arturia),
1 track PianoV2 (Arturia),
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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A long whisper... thus sums up all the cries that we did not hear or did not want to hear from all those who suffered a life that they should never have had, but who is to blame?
All of us have forgotten so much of what once united humans without it being perfect, that's for sure, but the teaching of respect, love and peace were instilled in us. It's up to everyone to see what they do with it next... and it's unfortunately... a long whisper...

01-12-2023-Pier WILL - in mmemory of François Verdys

Un long murmure... résume ainsi tous les cris que nous n'avons pas entendus ou que nous n'avons pas voulu entendre de la part de tous ceux qui ont subi une vie qu'ils n'auraient jamais dû avoir, mais à qui la faute ?
Nous avons tous oublié une grande partie de ce qui unissait autrefois les humains sans que cela soit parfait, c'est sûr, mais l'enseignement du respect, de l'amour et de la paix nous a été inculqué. C'est à chacun de voir ce qu'il en fera ensuite... et c'est malheureusement... un long murmure...

01-12-2023-Pier WILL - à la mémoire de François Verdys
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space
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Complex work - ❤️🕊️🙏 A Long Whisper

A Long Whisper

Symphonic Nature

Symphonic Nature ( Collab DAMGA)

Another Foundation track. It was the bass synth that inspired the track, it made me think of an anti-gravity engine... 
The "machine gun" guitar is a Fender Telecaster bi-amped to give that meaty punch. The warbling guitar is a Deusenberg Paloma with a vibrato pedal, reverse delay and fuzz box put through a plexi amp.

The Edge

New full album release from UK based electronic producer Cartoon Vandal (2024)
https://cartoonvandal.bandcamp.com/

Lights Out in Wonderland
Focal Point Blur
Night Shift
Hunger Cult
Summer and Ever After
Diagonal Fiction
Kid Astronaut
Cells
 
#idm 
#signalwave 
#lofimusic 
#brokentransmission 
#ambient 
#electronicmusic 
#vaporwave 
#electronica 


Departing from the sample-based sound of his previous releases, the sonic palette of Hybrid instead draws heavily on the synthetic sounds of MIDI instruments, synth presets, and VSTs.


New electronic music album released in 2024 from Cartoon Vandal. 
Album genres:
Late night Lo-fi signalwave  electronic experimental vaporwave
https://soundcloud.com/martin-rutley/tracks


New electronic music and albums in 2024


Cartoon Vandal is based in Manchester, UK and has been producing electronic music for several years. Influences include Oneohtrix Point Never, Boards of Canada, Skee Mask, Haircuts for Men and The Caretaker.

Kid Astronaut

The Limit/Inst

And now this is the concluding track 10, "Stay with Me", in my just completed album "New Beginning" (2024): composed in Garage Band iOS in the late evening of 3 March 2024 and arranged, mixed and recorded in Logic Pro in the late evening of 4 March 2024, with final arrangement and mix in Logic Pro in the late evening of 5 March 2024, by Alex M, then posted on SoundCloud on 7 March 2024 (together with the album as a whole).

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in PowerPoint and annotated in Mac OS Preview on 19 July 2023 (and 5 January 2024, changing the year from 2023 to 2024 in the brackets of the album title).

Duration: 3:19 minutes
Tempo: 124 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: Bb

Digital instruments used, in the order of composing and recording:

1. Piano - Boesendorfer Grand Piano
2. Bass - P-Bass
3. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Mallets - Spacetime Keys (Breathy)
4. Drums - Electronic - Simmons SDS-V
5. Synthesizer - Strings - String Decay
6. Cinematic - Textures - Tranquility
7. Synthesizer - Sound Effects - Thunderous Ambience
8. Cinematic - Ambient Drone - Twilight Splendor

Stay with Me

Artist Picture. Shyntwirl
Art Cover Editor. Shyntwirl
Birds Sounds Editor. Shyntwirl
PROD. Shyntwirl
Ambient / Electronic / Drums Bass / Atmosphere / Birds 


Shyntwirl - Paradise (PROD. Shyntwirl)

A record number of well over 100 producers of electronic music from Gelderland and Overijssel (two provinces in the Eastern part of The Netherlands) submitted a track to Nieuwe Electronische Waar this year. A broad professional jury judged all the submitted tracks. The producers with the best rated music productions are selected for the 18th edition of Nieuwe Electronische Waar (NEW).

Release show
NEW celebrates its 18th release on Saturday March 9 at Luxor Live's new location, the former Rembrandt theater in Arnhem. The compilation is presented at 7:30 PM. In addition, several members of the selection will take turns behind the turntables. On that same date the album is released on Bandcamp and on all relevant streaming platforms and via the NEW website: www.nieuweelectronischewaar.nl

About Nieuwe Electronische Waar
Nieuwe Electronische Waar (NEW) is a platform for electronic music in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. Every year NEW selects 10 producers of electronic music from Gelderland and Overijssel based on their submitted music productions. The selected tracks are released on the NEW compilation and the producers are supported for a year.

NEW is a joint project of Poppunt Gelderland, Poppunt Overijssel and BRUT. Regional collaboration partners are: Burgerweeshuis (Deventer), Doornroosje (Nijmegen), Hedon (Zwolle), Metropool (Twente), Astrant (Ede), Luxor Live (Arnhem), GIGANT (Apeldoorn), De Perifeer (Deventer), Studio Wonder, Booster Festival and of course Esc.rec.

Nieuwe Electronische Waar 18

Book of Spells: To Relate To

Nynke - Book Of Spells: To Relate To

Ubea

The Long and Winding Loop

Jericho

Sunset

summerend

Downbeat - Fantasy trip

NEW staat voor Nieuwe Electronische Waar. NEW is een platform voor producers van elektronische muziek uit Oost-Nederland.

Check www.nieuweelectronischewaar.nl voor meer informatie.

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Nynke - Book Of Spells: To Relate To

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