Long... but extraordinary piece! Very inventive.

Couleur Virtuel

The second song I wrote words to back in 2002 at Jeff Paynes

Prayer

This song was inspired by reading Stoic philosophy whilst listening to Professor Longhair. I recommend both!
I am joined by the wonderful Mr Georg Böhme on an assortment of saxes. Georg is an exceptional and generous musician, I recommend his music https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

Tralalalala (with Georg Böhme)

This is another “folk" approach to a cover song, in this case an all-time Motown favorite originally popularized by a 1968 collaboration of the Supremes and the Temptations (written by Gamble & Huff and Jerry Ross). Hard to match the vocal excellence of those two awesome groups but I just put a spin on it to channel the awesome emotive nature of the song. Got a little out of my comfort zone but for a base file done on my iPhone and with some grand help from my partner in music, Nat Daniels (piano & bass & production), I like the outcome.

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (Motown cover)

Lyrics


lately you've been pondering, crawling away
said I'd got too heavy, started dragging the skin
down your face

but it ain't no good us two trying to figure it out
here's your hat and what's the hurry
please don't step on my cloud on the way down

time was slipping away from you
or at least that is how it feels
but there's one more grain of sand left to drop
before you leave,  before you leave, before you leave

give in to those fake smiles, Miss.  Stuck In The Mud
better get back down on your knees
Search for that good old loving touch

someone said I drew the shortest straw
and she won't let me forget

I'd chew you up not spit you out
regurgitate eat me all up again

time was slipping away from you
or at least that is how it feels
but there's one more grain of sand left to drop
before you leave, before you leave, before you leave

never thought that it would end this way
you and me both be stood with nothing more
no words to say

before you leave, before you leave, before you leave

just when I thought that I had figured you out
my enigmatic mysterine shrouded inside so much doubt

well I guess it is that I have made one too many mistakes
but there ain't a single smile left inside my head 
for me to fake

before you leave, before you leave, before you leave

recorded at home on my 8 track. This is one from last year, like many more that I didn't get a chance to record, hopefully some more to come soon.


Thanks for stopping by, listening, reading and most of all thank you for the inspiration.

Before You Leave

an alternative 'dreamy' version for a different part in the film

the scriptures 2 - hell is november

In a rare moment of freedom I listened to some of my impro again; I tried to find in some parts of them the emotions that I was able to feel during their realization and ... they are all there! The same, unchanged ... I decided to take some parts and propose them to those who will have the patience to listen to them again.
Unfortunately, the phase of life we are experiencing and which has rediscovered war as a phenomenon that we thought was perhaps not current by now does not allow me to compose or improvise with serenity. So I dedicate my emotions contained in these few notes to people who at this moment are experiencing great difficulties or even lose their lives in an absurd and incomprehensible conflict in its reasons for existing.

The palm flower III° (Piano medley 2022)

While in space the calculated outcome can become an uncalculated in coming...
Prepare to brake fast...you never know what is flying around.

Space Travel

Illustration : Povilas Petkevicius (Pixabay)

Réalisé avec Arturia Analog Lab V et Cubase 10

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You darkness from which I come
I love you more than the flame,
that bounds the world
in that it shines
for some circle,
out of which no being knows of it.

But the darkness holds everything to itself:
shapes and flames, beasts and myself,
as it seizes them,
men and powers -

And it may be that a great power
stirs in my neighbourhood.

I believe in nights

..........................................................................

Du Dunkelheit, aus der ich stamme
ich liebe dich mehr als die Flamme,
welche die Welt begrenzt,
indem sie glänzt
für irgend einen Kreis,
aus dem heraus kein Wesen von ihr weiß.

Aber die Dunkelheit hält alles an sich:
Gestalten und Flammen, Tiere und mich,
wie sie's errafft,
Menschen und Mächte –

Und es kann sein: eine große Kraft
rührt sich in meiner Nachbarschaft.

Ich glaube an Nächte.

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I'm Only At Night

Ain't No Sunshine 

Originally written & recorded by Bill Withers in 1975

Janine Levinson @janinelevinson : vocals 
Mahan Mahan : instrumental track, production & final mix
Recorded at Pahlavi Sound Studios, Mama Shadi's basement, next to the Washer & Dryer, Los Angeles, CA, USA 01/2021
Mastered by SoundCloud Mastering Wizardry or a close facsimile. 

Ain't No Sunshine ~ Janine Levinson | Mahan²

I'm on SoundCloud from November 2015.
I'm just an amateur self taught pianist and composer, a lover of music and I'm glad to have discovered the planet SoundCloud and its interesting people.
Sometimes I compose something or I improvise a song , and if I like it i send it to SoundCloud to make it listen. I thank you for the time you want to devote to listen to my songs.

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