Cloud Occlusion - 24

Another Star in the Sky by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars, keys, synths, percussion
Dave: Plank, drums
Lucy: cello

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.
Stratocaster solos recorded by Dan Davies.

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:
* Another Star in the Sky is dedicated to George’s father, who passed away around the time of its creation.
* He never heard it.
* In the evening of the day when Mr Davies senior died, the sky was cloudy and only one star could be seen.
* Another Star in the Sky was almost named Another Scar in the Sty due to an outburst of mispronunciation.
* This would have been appropriate in some ways, because George (bass) and Dave (drums) were playing in a kick-ass folk band called Pyg at the same time.
* Pyg’s live performances could be a bit hit-or-miss, due to some of the dynamics within the band.
= Some of Pyg’s songs can be heard in the Archives section of the Wud Records website.
* Another Star in the Sky is based around the acoustic guitar part.
* It is in 6/8 time at a sedate 75 BPM.
* The key is G# minor, and it ends on a B major.
* Lucy’s cello copies the acoustic’s melody.
* George’s son Dan helped with the recording of the Stratocaster solos.
* Dan took up playing guitar that day and has now become a fabulous and accomplised player.
* No real horn players could be found at the time, so those parts were played using MIDI.
* The horn parts are actually quite amusing and rather scrappy.
* One of the guitar parts was made by setting the old Marshall to the most horrible sound possible, with maximum overdrive, presence and treble, and no mid or bass.
* The idea for this came from a track by Tindersticks, called Vertrauen II, from their second album.
* Dave was wincing as if to say “This just isn’t gonna work!”
* The part was dropped back in the mix and treated to a little reverb and it was “just right”.
* The idea for the simple yet distinct piano came from a piece George used to play on piano as a boy of about nine.
* It was from Forest Fantasies by Walter Carroll.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/another-star-in-the-sky

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/another-star-in-the-sky
https://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://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/pyg-2/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Another Star in the Sky

Flicker: Another Star in the Sky

Armed & Dangerous by Dark Company.
Album: Signmaker

ARMED & DANGEROUS
In the circus there’s a uniform for fun
The love they got is fired from clownish guns
But it’s so dangerous
Armed laughter changing us
Warmed up with a yellow paper sun

Each act in line comes right in on cue
Bringing our emotions into view
And it’s so dangerous
Armed laughter changing us
Next time bring your mind along with you

There’s a pistol in my smile
It shoots grins for miles and miles
But look into my eyes
The reflection’s saying goodbye

Outside the ring we sit and blankly stare
Nobody but our own selves in the chair
But it’s so dangerous
Armed laughter changing us
Close your eyes and no-one knows you’re there

With animals such tricks are neatly made
They nod and wink in terminal parade
It’s oh so dangerous
Armed laughter changing us
Into their souls we think we can invade

There’s a pistol in my smile
It shoots grins for miles and miles
But look into my eyes
The reflection’s saying goodbye

★

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/S. Lock/J. Willmot.

Performers:
Peter Greatorex – vocals
George Davies – electric and acoustic guitars, bass, Boss DR220A drum machine
Sammi Lock – flute
Jeff Willmot – soprano sax
Rowena Parsons – tenor sax 

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

Originally released 19th December 1991.
First re-release March 1992.
Second re-release June 2000.
Third re-release 16th December 2010.

Cover Art:
Arrows of the Sun by Peter Greatorex

Copyright ℗ 1990 D & G Music.
Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* This song is very closely related to The Joker 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 The Joker appear to not be all that similar after all.
* The original guitar parts came from a groove that George wrote whilst living in Plymouth.
* The tempo is 150BPM.
* When Sammi first heard this song, she sat and thought for a moment, then suddenly said: “I think here it should go like this,” and played the instrumental flute parts.
* During this recording we discovered that giggling and playing the flute are reasonably incompatible activities due to one’s inability to form the correct shape with one’s lips to blow anything resembling music from the silvery pipe.
* It took three or four weeks of visits and prolonged outbreaks of the giggles all round before Sammi finally nailed the parts.
* This was the most joyously memorable aspect of the entire recording of the Signmaker album.
* The 12-string was made by Melody.
* George acquired it by swapping a pair of jeans with ripped knees for it, a deal with which he was most chuffed.
* Some years later the guitar was destroyed by the boot of a drunken Satan’s Slave at an Ug Brothers after-show party (harumph).
* Jeff borrowed the soprano sax from Chrissie and recorded his parts before becoming a more permanent Dark Company member.
* The bass for Armed & Dangerous had already been recorded when he arrived.
* Guitars were plugged straight into the desk.
* George used the lyrics for this song in a fiendishly difficult English lesson when working as a TEFL teacher.
* When he ran seminars for other TEFL teachers on The Use of Music in the Classroom he would set the lesson’s tasks to groups of teachers, and even they would struggle with it.
* Pete wrote this song about the circus and enforced jolliness.
* George felt that it was about the unwanted and resented child whose role in life was to be its parent’s performing monkey, e.g. “aren’t I clever because isn’t my little Johnny clever”.
* To correctly spell the title of this song, an ampersand must be used.
* George and Jeff each produced a dub remix of this song, available as bonus tracks.
* Thus it came about that the ampersand would be used for & co, the remixing arm of the Dark Company project.

Signmaker

Armed & Dangerous

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Dark Company: Armed & Dangerous

Watch the video at
  https://youtu.be/rTsye_1p3s8
This track was included in Jul's Progkast Episode 9, September 2016, 
on SoundCloud at
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-9
as well as iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Player FM
and broadcast on Undiscovered Rock Radio, October 2016
  http://undiscoveredrockradio.com/

December 2016: Jul's Progkast - 12 - Top Ten 2016
 - in at number 10 in the top ten songs played on Jul's Progkast in 2016 as voted by listeners.
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-12-top-ten-2016
and played on Undiscovered Rock Radio December 2016.

Played on Prog Rock Nation, KTAL 101.5FM, July 2018.

Played on Eclectic Storm Radio 12th December 2018
  https://youtu.be/E7m37nhrhCs

７拍子の曲です

Trying the rare 7/8 meter

【UPDATE】
この曲、無料PC音ゲーHexeriaに収録しました

This song is available in music game “Hexeria”

此曲已收錄於節奏遊戲「Hexeria」

Website [Japanese] →https://sphericalpyramid.wixsite.com/hexeria
GAME DL → https://t.co/dzZHJVktUK

Take "Seven"

I only used about half of the vocal for my first version of this so I decided to do a part two. And now there's a video: https://youtu.be/fKtzNYbaFjU

Ich Habe Heute Den Anderen Kopf Angeschraubt Pt 2 (Augenmerk/Goldenrod collab)

Inspired by the results of using vocal clips on Air, Icons continued in the same vein. A house/trance mashup with gratuitos use of sine falls and a synthesised ‘bye’, it concludes with a melancholic, repetitive synth that reminds us of Soft Cell and laments the recent [at the time] loss of two icons; Bowie and Prince.

Revelation

Icons

Lyrics:
Man fumbles in his infancy,
angels look the other way,
fashion tries to copy me,
but I look the other way,
set you up for the greatest fall,
but you just jump and soar,
you tried running for the door, 
but you slip on the way,
doesn't seem like we're going to win,
doesn't matter either way,
we're, indestructable,
indestructable, not gonna die,
indestructable, don't wanna die
preacher said he had to die,
doesn't take the hurt away,
is it just another lie,
could it be the other way,
feelings like this are hard to hide,
crying makes it harder,
refuse to say that we die,
I'm indestructible,

Listen on Spotify

Indestructible

Remembering Bygone Times

Kurz Aber Suß

Kurz Aber Suß #deruxform

This track is inspired by 70s funk and disco, merged with modern electronica. I am not quite sure what tags would do it the most justice. Suggestions are welcome!

Dark Beach

Written by Lake Rudyard, Staffordshire, April 2017.  No it wasn't the lake wot wrote it, it was me sitting near the lake.

Watch the videos:
  https://youtu.be/vTV8apD2BUQ
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiESVHd8FhM

Rudyard

Live performance with electric guitar. A song about the sad falling apart of a relationship.

The Pious Live EP

Canopy (Live Recording)

Dance Of Charm

Reflections 

Track no 4 from us and this one is a Lo-fi vibe. Heavy beats mixed with guitar , synths and strong vocals .... 

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Reflections

Funk it up

DNPQ One Shots

Wonderment

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After Image

Across the Pyrenees

Buy on Google Play

Alan Davey from old school Hawkwind says "it's Supertramp meets The Beatles" This is the latest from our new collection before we move onto new sounds for the future. Enjoy

Your Dreams

Electronic Dance Composition

Inspired by funk bassline and House groove

City Of Empires

Those first steps onto a new world...

A different version, with YellowBelly's vocals, Syd's synths and Luke's guitars is also available.

Those first steps

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.

Join me and a lot of other artists at www.atomcollectorrecords.com.
Get more plays for your tracks and meet a lot of awesome people!
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Cloud Occlusion - 24

Nickillus