@matt-hoffman-523285821: Thanks Matt! Nat xx

Fine songwriting Nat.  To me, so many of your songs have a classic American country flavor.

Nice one really like it great tune good job.😎👍🎶💖

truly a beautiful song ...medmnorable...keyboard is fantastic

Such a nice job bringing out the emotion of this fine song with this sort of production. Great teamwork guys! Durge

I heard the beautiful instrumental piece called 'Moon' by BoxTox https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493/moon-one and listened while studying his amazing artwork. It is really inspiring and conjured up a complete world within my imagination! Part of a longer story https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor/sets/jeremiah-and-the-moon
I asked him if I could make some additions and he kindly agreed! Thank you Jonas! So I wrote this allegorical story and narrate it here. I also added some atmospheric samples : )


BoxTox  - Music composition, performance and beautiful cover artwork 
Garddwr Porffor - Story, narration and some atmospheric samples 

Go and listen to BoxTox : ) https://soundcloud.com/user-247600493

Samples taken from 'York Minster Solo Choristers
with Masters Beverley Jones & Roy Bean'
Handel, 'I know that my redeemer'
sung by Beverley Jones, Head Chorister
Eboracum privately pressed 78rpm, 1950 
https://www.recordedchurchmusic.org/historic-recordings/soloists-from-york




Jeremiah and the Moon

Jeremiah was very young to be singing to the moon
and everybody wondered how he'd learnt so much, so soon

It had barely been four seasons since he came into our care
as his mother somehow faded into a deep and dark despair

Veronique spread lightness in the kingdom of the day
but life contrived some bitterness in its classic, cold, ballet

When transpirational powers took her lover from her side
her skin turned pale, her eyes were black, she cried, she cried, she cried.....




Jeremiah came to us then, a thoughtful serious child
to learn of incantations to the spirits of the wild

We explored the deepest meanings of the wondrous world of art
and the existential leanings of the life that is our part





The citizens absolved themselves from any present shame
by nominating leaders to relieve them of the blame

and upon mid summer evening they would gather on the moor
to sing the songs of solstice , welcome all the coming year




Jeremiah knew his role, lifting his eyes to heaven
His infant voice he offered up, in innocent intercession

A weighty price, it may seem to us, for his selfless benediction
Yet his face remained beatific, circumscribing our condition

That the innocent shall pay the price, is the bargain we have made
The population is now content, till next mid summer day

Jeremiah was very young to be singing to the moon
and everybody wondered how he'd learnt so much, so soon....

Jeremiah and the Moon (music by BoxTox with story by Garddwr Porffor)

Photo is Lulu at Muscle Shoals studio.
Two turn tables and a microphone. Well, maybe three drum samples and an upright bass. No actual blisters, thanks for the suggestion John, but that tall old man can take a punch. Felt like Daffy at the last take. "I can only do this trick once." My little tribute to the joys of bass playing. ;)

I Got Blisters On My Fingers

Had the great pleasure of covering this song with Jussi Welin and beautiful piano by Sheryar Malik...track from Bruce Conover

20/September/2021

Daddy w/Jussi Welin Sheryar Malik and Bruce Conover (cover)

Copyright Nat Daniels 2020
Gentle Rain Records

How quickly we go from childhood friends to adults in a moment..  the sun burnt up on the ocean, and we awoke to a new understanding..   
I'll always see you there..   Whenever I play.. Elvis Costello.   

Mastered and Mixed by Junkheap  -  My Profound thanks to you Dave xx  You're amazing!
Written by Nat Daniels, and Performed by Nat Daniels & Junkheap
Piano, Vocals and Guitar: Nat Daniels
Bass, Percussion, Backing vocals and Synths: Dave T
Lyrics:

Late one night you came to my door without warning.
You just kissed me without even saying a word.
The dust from the desert still clung to the flag on your uniform. 
We had only a moment, before you’d return in the dawn.

Looking down, you hated to leave...
Then you said please wait for me.

I recall nights listening to Elvis Costello.
Every slow breath you took a sleep in my arms,
Every sunset we saw burn up on the ocean, 
And I am still, I’m still there with you, 
Whenever I play Elvis Costello...

Young love always have great expectations.
But I guess we couldn’t survive though we tried.
Like a car changing lanes, our lives did the same in so many ways.
But the memory of you stays a page in the life I will write.

We moved on, but you still remain,
In a time we won’t have again.

I recall nights listening to Elvis Costello.
Every slow breath you took a sleep in my arms.
Every sunset we saw burn up on the ocean,
And I am still, I’m still there with you, 
Whenever I play Elvis Costello. 
Oh whenever I play ….  Elvis Costello.

Whenever I play Elvis Costello

Whenever I Play Elvis Costello ft. Junkheap

Written by Josh McAlexander
Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin: Josh McAlexander
Old song new arrangement

cumberland coal

Cumberland Coal (Original)

ragged spat/coin slot/cold feet(PART 1)collaboration (featuring Devin Locke)

A fun collaboration of a song by Willie Dixon, made when my friend Tanya was in her last days of the 14 day quarantine in a hotel in Tasmania. She recorded some drums and finger cymbals on her phone and we stitched this blues classic together. 

A few additions are still needed when we get together in the home studio in person.

SPOONFUL  ft Tanya Catelli on drums & Chris O banjo

A simple love song about a girl watching guy who is enthralled with a certain passer-by. This was a crude live take that Nat decided to dress up with her own beautiful harmonies and piano, and we decided it was worth releasing until we find time for a "studio" version.

Hey Girl

Hey Girl (Live)

Happy Valentine's day folks!
Vocal Copyright 2021 Daniels & Durgy / Gentle Rain Records
Produced and Performed by Daniels & Durgy
Original work: Let it be me - The Everly Brothers

Lyrics
I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you
Let it be me
Don't take this Heaven from one
If you must cling to someone
Now and forever
Let it be me
Each time we meet, love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you'll always
Let it be me
Each time we meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you'll always
Let it be me

Let it be me

Let It Be Me (Cover)

I'm working on a series of tracks about artificial intelligence.
This track is the second to listen to if you want to follow the "storytelling".

In the previous track https://soundcloud.com/kamihunter/my-name-is-root, a computer program becomes aware of its own existence and the possibilities offered by this discovery.
Now it/he is trying to communicate with other potential AI (Artificial Intelligence).

It's an experimentation I don't know if I'll go through the end of the process but I promise I'll make a real last episode for the musical story.

Each track will be like a chapter in the story.
Do not hesitate to tell me what you think about it.

This is experimental. The final goal is to make another project with some visual illustrations and social interaction to produce an album and a beautiful booklet. But this is another story 😉
The name of the album will be "Lost Horizon".

Thank you for listening.

I wish you all the best 💖. Be safe !

Lost Horizon

AI Vocalises

The Shining One names their immortal self “Micaloz” and undergoes many developmental evolutions which resemble the stages of a larger pattern of development found across the various lifeforms of Earth.

Instruments used here:

- washing machine
- can of air duster spray
- mizmar (synth)
- mellotron (synth)
- bone tree/bamboo clackers
- Christmas bell bouncing inside an octagonal hand stretched goat hide drum
- furnace sounds
- large metal bowl with water in it
- miscellaneous digital beeps and bloops
- guitars: electric and acoustic
- bass guitar
- drum kit
- small hand drum
- tambourine
- flute (Nick Collias)
- melodica
- the entire last BARDS album sped up 13x
- digital piano
- Melissa and Doug toy piano
- steel drum
- vocals
- spoken word samples
- Hindi words read by google translate

BARDS: Of The Next Revolution

The Ontogeny of Micaloz in Three Arbitrary Evolutions

Singer/Songwriter/Producer focused primarily,  but not limited to, Country, Folk, Blues, Ballads and Many other Genres.  Co Owner of Gentle Rain Records and Part of the Duo https://soundcloud.com/DanielsDurgy

Whenever I Play Elvis Costello ft. Junkheap

Nat Daniels

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