Cloud Occlusion-16

Haunting Acoustic Guitar song about being willfully taken onto the threshold of the unseen, the unknown dimension that exists all around us. Built on simplicity, yet eerie.

Children Of The Matrix

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On The Threshold Of The Unseen

Malice

Tests And Tasks

"Tonight - London skies have never looked so bright"



Quiet Riot

Oily Road Hideaway by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.   

Performers:
George: guitars, Plank, string fish, synths
Dave: bass, percussion, keys, programming

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Oily Road Hideaway is in the key of G minor and the tempo is 85 BPM.
* It was composed at around eleven o’clock on a Friday morning in October 2000.
* Instead of being at home composing a tune, George should have been in Luxembourg to celebrate Floyd and Kat’s wedding.
* Unfortunately, Joe’s old Ford Sierra wasn’t up to the task of completing the journey.
* At around 3am, the old Ford emptied the contents of its sump all over the A303, about two miles from Stonehenge.
* The stricken Sierra was towed right back to Exeter and its sleepy occupants returned to their homes, disappointed.
* Within 15 minutes of returning home, George had composed this piece on a Hokada classical guitar.
* Nearly all the other pieces on the album At Least 1000 Words had their drums recorded at Tim’s house in North Devon, in a room about the size of a toilet.
* The mics were all pretty horrid too, and the whole system looked like it had been built by Captain Hook at a Heath Robinson school for elementary electronics.
* Oily Road Hideaway is the only track on the album that uses programmed drums.
* The rhythm breakdown in the middle of the piece was somewhat longer originally, and cut down quite drastically to save precious space on the CD.
* The Hokada classical guitar, on which the piece was written, plays two parts panned to the left.
* One is the main rhythm part, and the other a melodic motif, which only uses the two top strings.
* The nature of the part means that if one should find oneself at a party where there is a wreck of a two-string guitar, it is still possible to play Oily Road Hideaway!
* The other lead guitar part is played on the Yamaha steel string, which is panned to the right and plays unison with the bass to begin.
* Oily Road Hideaway features a delicate, wistful ostinato played on the string fish, an extraordinary instrument built by Martin from Pyg.
* It starts at 2:05 and continues to the drum break, then reappears at 2:54 and plays until the end.
* A string fish is a like a pair of dulcimers or zithers, joined together at an acute angle.
* The strings are vertical and to play a scale, the player must alternate between the left and right side, like a kalimba.
* Dave and George both play a unison bassline, on the Fender and the Plank respectively.
* George and the Plank are panned right, Dave and the Fender panned left.
* Just after the drum break, at 2:48, George plays two notes that Dave doesn’t play.
* Other than that, their parts are beautifully in sync.
* Flicker would have liked very much to have found a brass section for Oily Road Hideaway, but none was available.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/oily-road-hideaway

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/oily-road-hideaway
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Oily Road Hideaway

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Flicker: Oily Road Hideaway

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard by Wud

Words and music by George Davies.
Recorded and produced by Ian Dent at Daylight Recording Studios, Honiton.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1985 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Performers:
Ken Staple – voices
George Davies – guitars

THAT’S NO WAY TO PAY A BODYGUARD
Well there’s whisky on the shelf
What are you running from?
Do you know if you’re coming or going?
Well I have got an idea
You’ll need someone to look after you
Just like I know that I can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Well that’s no way to pay a bodyguard
I don’t want to be tied down
And I am so afraid of you
Because I know just what you can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Fun Facts:
This song in the key of Am was written a few days after George spent a day in the Stokeinteignhead music studio of a friend of his father’s.
Said friend of father played the two chords that begin the song as he tested that the necessary things were all on.
Having never seen the second chord before, George thought “Aha!”, although he spent most of the day fiddling with the rather magnificent organ and all its sounds and buttons and levers.
The instrumental section that goes C-Bb-F-G-Am-Em-Bm-Dm originally had some lyrics that made a chorus that spoke of such things as sheep, fields, grass and the relative merits of the colours thereof.
These were soon dropped due to being too silly.
Fairly near the start of this version George almost makes a right mess of the lead guitar - again - but just about manages to get away with it.
It’s take 3407, or thereabouts.
The guitar used for this song was a Westone Paduak, which has subsequently seen a fair amount of action over the years and now lives at Cliff’s house.
The sound of the guitar was never really quite right on this recording.
It sounded much better when played through an Electric Mistress and a proper amplifier.
This version also misses the drums and bass guitar.
Ken is extremely restrained in the performance.
The title of this song was too long for the eventual cassette that was produced, and was truncated to simply Bodyguard.
This song was something a campfire favourite amongst the Wud posse.

See also:
www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/wudtheband
www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/wud/daylight-demo/thats-no-way-to-pay-a-bodyguard
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-demo
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Daylight Demo

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard

Wud: That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard (DD)

The Joker (demo) by Dark Company.
Album: Signmaker
Bonus track!

THE JOKER
I look out from this scratched and faded view
Makeshift repairs instead of getting new
Don’t you ever get tired of tracing all the wires
Knowing that the switches won’t switch for you?

I work at the job that’s easiest, you see
Paying rent instead of living free
Don’t you wanna be bad instead of just being sad
Finding out you can be you instead of me?

The Joker he stares proudly at the wall
He can be who he wants to be
But he don’t wanna ‘be’ at all
He’s an empty Harlequin
With colours growing dim
And he struts about inside his little world

I keep up with the latest lines of talk
So I can ride instead of having to walk
Don’t you like the fashions that gotta little passion?
Being daring takes an extra bit of thought

I sleep with one eye fixed upon the clock
Waiting for the Reaper’s ghostly knock
Don’t you keep the days checking which ones can stay
Using them for your story’s clever plot?

The Joker he stares proudly at the wall
He can be who he wants to be
But he don’t wanna ‘be’ at all
He’s an empty Harlequin
With colours growing dim
And he struts about inside his little world

★

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/B. Ballard/S. Malpas.

Performers:
Peter Greatorex – vocals
George Davies – guitar, bass
Simon Malpas – trumpet
Ben Ballard – drums 

Recorded, mixed and produced by George Davies at Silent Running Studios Exeter, Autumn 1991.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2010.

Originally released March 1992.
First re-release June 2000.
Second re-release 16th December 2010.

Cover Art:
Bite Me! by Peter Greatorex

Copyright ℗ 1989 Pig Pen Music.
Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* This song is very closely related to Armed & Dangerous as they both share the same tune in the verses.
* George considered this tune-sharing conundrum a challenge and set about making this song and Armed & Dangerous appear to not be all that similar after all.
* The tempo is 138BPM and the key is B minor.
* George composed and recorded a demo of the guitar part whilst looking through Pete's lyric book during a marathon 72-hour session of studio work.
* Ben recorded the drums at the same time as George’s guide guitar track, which was played on the Ice Maiden plugged straight into the mixing desk.
* George was attempting to give directions to Ben throughout their performance.
* When Pete laid down a guide vocal track, Simon was rehearsing his trumpet parts in the background.
* If you listen carefully, you can hear little snatches of his horn being picked up by the vocal mic.
* Some of it is rather wonderful.
* George then added a guide bass track on the Plank, which in those days was tuned as a standard bass guitar.
* The bassline was unplanned until its recording, and has since become a main feature of the song.
* There is a touch too much trigger flange across the cymbals and liberal amounts of delays from the Alesis Quadraverb in this rather fun and dubby mix.
* Even the click track makes a tastefully calculated occasional appearance!
* It is not certain why this recording of The Joker was never finished.
* We felt that it has a curious merit all of its own, despite a few musical blunders.
* This demo version of The Joker was first included on the Signmaker album for its first re-release, in March 1992.
* There is a subsequent version of The Joker by Dark Company on their Alien Heat album.
* When Pete became too ill to perform in 1994, his replacement Andy would sometimes sing different and rather comical lyrics.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/signmaker/the-joker
https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/dark-company-the-joker?in=wud-records/sets/dark-company-alien-heat
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Signmaker

The Joker (demo)

Dark Company: The Joker (demo)

Let Me Hold Your Hand

Run To The Sunset

My next more heavy track. At first there was the bass. It is inspired by the bass sound of Peter Steele from Type 0 Negative (May he rest in peace).  Second I wanted to add a classical element again. This time I put an oboe into this track :-))). 
All instruments were played by me, except the drums which came from addictive drums 2, as usual ;-).
Enjoy!!!
For some interested guys ;-))
guitars I've used:
rhythm & semi lead played with Schecter Custom 7-string
lead played with '62 Strat customshop with a set of 60's Kloppmann pickups ;-)))

Dark Spheres

This piece, number 24, started off inspired by Black Heart Procession, but then traveled through Gravenhurst and latter day Nick Cave. Once again, it's a bit dark.
Becca Allen joined in on backing vocals and autoharp.

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That's the Message

A new day at the edge of the world ft Thin Lizzie and TTM

Summers Dream Night Ends

AS YOUR HEART DIVIDES 
THE STRANGEST LIGHTS
 WILL BLOOM THE NIGHT
AND THE MINDS 
WHERE HOPE 
CONFIDES IN BITTER LEAVES
WILL YOU STAY IN MOLD 
IN DEAD AND STREETS?

CHANGE THE LIGHT 
THE LIVE 
WILL HOPE CONFIDE?
THE SIGHT 
WHEN THE SUMMERS DREAM NIGHT ENDS

AND WE FADE SOMEDAY
 AS WE ALL BETRAY 
OUR DEEPEST BELIEVES
AS A SHINE OF GLOW
 WE’LL SELL THE GOLD 
OF ALL DEAD MATTERS

CHANGE THE LIGHT 
THE LIVE 
WILL HOPE CONFIDE?
THE SIGHT 
WHEN THE
 SUMMERS DREAM NIGHT ENDS

Guitar and Vocals: Sascha Bücher
Bass: Philipp Löfflat
Drums: Nicholas Alan Taylor


Music written by: Sascha Bücher, Philipp Löfflat and Nicholas Alan Taylor
Lyrics: Sascha Bücher

Portrait of an inner Landscape

Summers Dream Night Ends

Flowing electronic track about the importance of single minded focus.

Middle Earth

Gravity

Small Song is a sweet, melancholy love song off of my debut LP. 
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Production, Recording, Mix: Daniel Alba
Mastering: Oscar Zambrano
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Featuring:
Acoustic Guitar & Vocals: Mikhal
Electric Guitar: Daniel Alba

Small Song

003 Caught In The Act

Music - @pierrou
Vox - @mirandafoxx
Cover art - @time2cclear

Comfortably Numb (covered by Miranda & Pierrou) EXTENDED & REMASTERED!!

Smooth Instrumental Hip Hop with captivating sounds, about a Clone's longing to belong. Perfect as background music in any environment.

A Clones's Life

Now And Again

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Origin

Four

Mother

A full time, freelance children's book illustrator, introduced to Magix music making software in January 2014.  Haven't been near music production since school about a hundred years ago.  Can't play a note, and sing like a drain unblocking - Hence any music I may eventually have the nerve to upload is all created using midi/vst instruments playing compositions created in the piano roll editor.   The Magix forum dedicated to music production is the only place to suffer my creations so far.  Didn't realise it could be so much fun though.  Woohoo.

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Cloud Occlusion-16

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