Caustic Calamity

Some noodling with a hypnotic rhythmic TD reference… Please enjoy


09.07.2022
Image and Title reference Zelda botw ©nintendo

mean-time

Naydra

Been a little bit since the last track but I’m glad to be back out with this one! Hope y’all enjoy!!!

What A Trip

LIVE FOR YOU
Lyrics:

Come closer
You have nothing to fear
There is no one anymore
can hurt your skin

the big bad wolf
caged is
And its claws do not
can reach

Dream again
laugh again
that now the world is
looking forward to you

no one can bring you down
Now you want to stand
Now you are a woman again
And your screams will be of freedom
And the crying... of happiness

forgiveness is over
The guilt of loving you more
today your heart
Now just listen to your voice... listen to your voice
(….)
no one can bring you down
Now you want to stand
Now you are a woman again
And your screams will be of freedom
And the crying... of happiness
live for you...
live for you...

Vive Por Ti

from the debut album, available everywhere

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Miss Carlos

Al Chiar Di Luna

In A Spin

Look after yourself so well
Far better than myself
I tell you that life's ok
Just try to live it day by day

CHORUS
And its true
I respect you
And I would share my life with you

Talk about anything
Talk about feelings
Talk until it gets dark
Well excited and well charged

CHORUS

Until It Gets Dark (Original Marc Freak Mix)

Before you can truly love others, you must first love yourself.

Self Love

Continuing the tea related song themes, here is another with my old friend and former bandmate Gareth. Gareth sings main vocal.

Cover art base photo by Dominik Martin on Unsplash

Lemon & Ginger Tea (with Gareth)

When you hike in the Chugach Mountains, relationships between all things—some unfolding over thousands of years—can be readily observed everywhere you look. Nothing is inanimate. Everything seems to have a life and trajectory behind it; the massive glaciers propagate themselves from the ice field high in the peaks above, patiently sprawling across the valley for eons until they each find a spot that suits them. Their meltwater, like a vast circulatory system, feeds many streams and rivers, which in turn nourish the local marshes, fungi, plants, and animals. The mountains constantly make their motion known to you as well; several times a day, the unearthly rumble of distant rockslides punctuate the vast white noise of the wind and rivers. Even the force of gravity seems to have a mystical persona that hangs in the air. Everything is constantly drawn downward from the peaks to the valleys.

The calls of the Golden Crowned Sparrow seem to echo this state of being; though the melodies will vary slightly from place to place, they, too, always descend downward.

When I visited the Chugach Mountains, I spent much of my time transcribing the calls of the Golden Crowned Sparrows. Taking in their melodies, and the landscape around me, I had a bizarre, almost transcendental thought: A mountain must perceive a glacier similarly to the way I, or a sparrow, perceive a brook gurgling by our feet. Perhaps all forms of existence are just different sides of some cosmic coin. Perhaps through music, I can show how a sparrow's call can become a brook, and that brook can become a glacier...

Performed by Corvus Ensemble, March 2023 at Federal Hall, New York City.

A Sparrow is a Brook is a Glacier

An ongoing aspiration of BMI Award-winning composer and cellist, Nicholas Denton Protsack, is to seek new connections between music and the natural world. Called a "(composer) to keep a close eye on" by the Canadian Music Centre, Nicholas' ecologically informed music includes composed works, studio albums, and experimental improvisations, and has been featured in a wide variety of concert settings across North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Recent accomplishments include two first prizes in the 2021 SOCAN Foundation Young Composers Awards and commissioned works for the Toronto Summer Music Festival and the American Prize-winning Ensemble for These Times (E4TT).

	As a cellist, Nicholas is an active freelance performer and advocate of new music—frequently involved in collaborative projects that range from traditional to highly experimental concert idioms. Although primarily a chamber musician, he has also appeared as a soloist with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra.

	Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD in music at Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), studying with composers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. His other major teachers have included David Garner (composition), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), Jennifer Culp (cello), and Morna Howie (cello).

A Sparrow is a Brook is a Glacier

Nicholas Denton Protsack

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