This is bloody brilliant! Great performances from everyone 👍👍👍

not sure about a previous version but this vocal and "jazz" is really excellent..

Funny how the trash mouthing & the sound effects invoke nostalgia, even for one who’s spent little time in the urban jungle.  This is just a cool concept Nadia, and diggin’ the voice…you’d kill in any smoky lounge in 11211, if there are any left.  And the evil Mr. Global – love it – he’s coming for us all.

Awesome stuff, again : ) (And a good ole rant is so musical : )

Sounds ..vocal.. really good! 🌍☮︎👍

🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰😻🌞

The Twist of the Tale

When I first heard this I instantly picked up a  blusey mid eastern flavour to it and decided to pick up on that theme. I used Pauls track "Remember" in it's entirety with no edits to do some post production work around it, picking up on that eastern vibe I was getting !! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making it.  
A BIG thank you to Paul for this opportunity and for all your great support!!

Track,music bed and inspiration :- Paploviante https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/remember-paploviante-open-collaboration-offer
Additional guitars,orchestration,post production mix and arrangement :- Pablo

The Long Journey

The Long Journey // PAPLOVIANTE // CAMBERELLI

"Take aim at his heart now!" he yelled. "And shoot for the head!" shouted back his armed colleague. But with tears in the formers' eyes, he knew he had already lost the fight. The longer he wore on in the battle with his foe, the greater his uncertainty. 
This song is about a mercenary remembering an encounter with a fellow mercenary. They were both after the same target and the first, unarmed mercenary was forced to kill his armed colleague with a car.
Listening to the story of the song, one may get the sense that betrayal and regret are central themes; however, they are only one of the many threads unfurled in the song. Violence and mercy are more central, especially within the mind's eye of the protagonist re-living what had occurred on one fateful day.
A violent mind may not breed mercy, but mercy will never hold a place (or a candle, if you will) in the minds of those whose idea of violence is not honourable and just -- in a moral sense, of course. Moral compasses change direction from person to person, from time to time, and from situation to situation. They can even, sometimes, point to one's own fate -- mercifully or not.

LYRICS:
Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Hearing slowed-down sounds
Of an engine roaring,
Wheels rollin' to a cliff's end
And shot out in escape.
So it seemed
Was a blow to my youth.

Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Seeing moving parts
As it comes upon him,
Devoted locomotion
To bring about elimination.
What I've seen
I have created.

Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Take aim at his heart now
And shoot for the head
A backstabber grieving his existence,
So tortured.
Hold up a candle
In a darkened cave
Canot fix what cannot be seen:
I refuse to replay.

Like You Stole It

Similar to R I.P.  A bit of fun with a Dylanesque type blues.

A Little While

Featuring the maestro that is Jamie Rhind! Originally written in Jan 1999 and re-recorded to mark the turn of 2024, showcasing Jamie's sublime laid back keywork.
Jamie Rhind - Piano solo
Andy McLean - Soprano saxophone, EWI, Keyboards, Bass, Drum programming, Composition

New Beginning (feat. Jamie Rhind)

Chants Métallurgiques (metallurgical songs)

Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Lyrics, Vocals, Slide guitar, Guitar, Keys, Bass and Drum programming, mix and mastering.
If you have the time.... Please repost! .........Also Link to Video below.
Video: https://youtu.be/B_7cJXsGLWs?si=DMFdXgbov5SWRT92

A Foolish Heart / Video link in Description

*Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi/not-my-neighborhood-by-garddwr-porffor-nadia-selvaggi-with-the-windscale-blues-experiment
The Rant: Cono Corvino & Nadia Selvaggio
Instrumental & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: 
@garddwrporffor
Lyrics, Vocals, Production by Nadia Selvaggi
*New Sax Solos by Nigel Manning of The Windscale Blues Experiment: 
@windscaleblues
'Two Boys Smoking' (1975) by Photographer Peter Bellamy:
pswbportaiture.blogspot.com/
www.peterbellamyphoto.com/
More on Peter Bellamy:
medium.com/@Brownstoner/in-197…photos-a3bbe85c0246
New York Street Noise by Pixabay

Not My Neighborhood
by Nadia Selvaggi

This, this, this is not my neighborhood!
Where is Williamsburg, Brooklyn --
my crime-ridden, filthy, spray-painted 'hood?

Where is Eastern District High School?
Where is that old school cool?
Where is all the red brick?
Where are all the addicts itchin' for a fix?

I don't know this place at all
I don't smell my Grandma's moth or meat balls
Corporate greed, thy will be done,
as it is in Manhattan and the City of London

Mr. Global's mercenaries killed our low rent,
our culture, and our authenticity
Damn the L train gentrifiers!
Damn the cold glass and bitter steal!

Bamonte's, Fortunato Brothers, Nunzio and Sons,
survived New York's perpetual reinvention
Tell me craft beer drinking, Hipster trust fund --
where is my 11211?

Not My Neighborhood, Extended by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi (w The Windscale Blues Experiment)

This Rain piece is the next level of my piano pieces I think.....

Rain

Art Expressed in Music – Picasso's Brilliance
March 2024
Duration: 3:05
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 
John-Marc Ventimiglia: jagged shards sound effects 
Visit: @john-marc-ventimiglia
Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century.  The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.  Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized.  The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), Neoclassicism to Surrealism (1921-1937) and Post-War Work (1937 – 1970s).  Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from his African–influenced period, marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards.  Picasso unveiled this monumental painting, that precursors Cubism, in his Paris studio after months of revision.  Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in these masks moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style”.  The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.  Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.  Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, from heart failure, reportedly while he and his wife Jacqueline were entertaining friends for dinner.  Considered radical in his work, Picasso continues to garner reverence for his technical mastery, visionary creativity; paralleling the entire development of modern art in the 20th century.
For morin khuur violin, dudek, bansuri, bamboo flute, hecklephone, bassoon, kalimba, marimba, double bass, ethnic percussion and jagged shards sound effects

Art Expressed In Music - Picasso's Brilliance

alone but w/ people around me

For more of Garddwr Porffor's fine music, visit his page: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Nadia Selvaggi Reposts: https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggireposts
AMERICA available for purchase on bandcamp: https://brianbutts2.bandcamp.com/track/america-feat-nadia-selvaggi-the-windscale-blues-experiment
Ye Are Many by Brian Butts & Nadia Selvaggi featured in album 'Solitarian' available for purchase on bandcamp: https://brianbutts2.bandcamp.com/track/ye-are-many-feat-nadia-selvaggi
AMERICA by Brian Butts & Nadia Selvaggi (with The Windscale Blues Experiment) featured in album 'Reification' on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gr6jjJAJO4&list=OLAK5uy_kCya9ENT5OoqqUuqIyYn1v-bUr3B22-hY&index=1
Norma's Restaurant, Monaco: https://norma-monaco.com/audio-post/

Not My Neighborhood, Extended by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi (w The Windscale Blues Experiment)

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