Keep strong 
Grin in the mirror.  Laugh at the cretinous banality of it all
Be good
N

All music: ♤
Pic. I love wallpapers.org

cloudcation longer than expected or wanted
catching-up
be good / wicked, responsibly, to suit

pic: pxfuel.com

Reaching (free DL)

Low blow, slow glow
Mellow bellow 
Callow fellow
Hallo fallow gallows


Be good, munchkins
Nicholas Ridiculous

Photo: pinterest

Amble

Only three years late, party long finished. I came across this on my old hard drive and thought it right to post it now. One of many I intended to finish but have left the chisel marks visible

Original here https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere and much more to enjoy 

Fantastic experimental guitar noises and sounds form the backcloth. Beats from lincolnproduction. Vocals and additional guitars by me.

pic: https://wallpapercrafter.com/5904-forest-snowstorm-bw-winter-snow-4k.html

Out There Somewhere - Learningtoplay With Nicholas Ridiculous

I backcombed and lacquered every hair on my head and body to record this. Just hosing down now. Hope you enjoy

Be good

pic: nasa

Slingshot Round Saturn - free DL

Having benefitted from many generous SC artists' Open Collaborations in the past, I have decided to upload my own.

Please feel free to add anything you like. If you'd like me to comment and repost, please send me a DM and I'll oblige as soon as I can. Sorry I won't be able to send individual stems.

It is a simple guitar, bass and drums turnaround, repeated three times. Complicate it as much as you'd like, or just use it to jam to as you please

Be good

Nick

pic: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/see-also-colour-in-the-insert-Ephyra-larval-stage-of-jellyfish-scyphomedusa-feeding-on_fig29_266223304

Open Collab - Jelly

The wonderful Special Cecilia's unique voice added to my original open collab.
https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/waiting-for-your-sunshine-standing-in-the-moonlight

Opencollabradabra

pic https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1375257

Waiting For Your Sunshine - Special Cecilia with Nicholas Ridiculous

The soundtrack to my third and latest novel, Head House. A journey inside the consciousness of a dying man. A difficult yet fulfilling book to write, the music was somewhat easier and I hope has an optimistic ambience.

I would be grateful If you would share the link below on your social media, if you feel comfortable doing so.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-House-Mr-Nick-Davies/dp/B0BZF8V4X2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SUAC1IJ6ORN6&keywords=NICK+R+DAVIES+HEAD+HOUSE&qid=1682868651&s=books&sprefix=nick+r+davies+head+house%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-1

Thanks as always and be good

Head House (soundtrack to a novel)free DL

Butterfly

I look for you, but only see you for a while
Then you’re gone, gone, 
Won’t be back until you’re ready, 
Changes
Changes in the light
In the colour of the moment
In the sunshine, in the night
Painted features of summer
Dancing moment of your flight

I look for you, but only see you for a while
Then you’re gone, gone,
Now when will love transcend?
You have pollen on your wings
But all the flowers have gone

I look for you, but only see you for a while
Then you’re gone, gone, now 
Won’t be back until you’re ready,

Changes
Changes in the light

Be good

Nick

pic: PINTEREST

BUTTERFLY

Made with some loops from the inimitable and sorely missed Jens @senfsuck
Catch the rainbow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoAeyQEtzI 
Percussion, drum, voice and music loops - Jens
Guitar, bass, keys - Nick

Always keep some senf in your Chuchichäschtli!
Ciao for now!
Be good

Nick

Senf Abuse - senfsuck and Nicholas Ridiculous

My take on Paul's cracking ambient Open Collab track, the version with the intoxicating vocals. 
The original is here - thank you as ever, Paul for the inspiration!
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/hot-sand-open-collaboration-offer

I recorded this before my current stay in Crete but refinished it on the island, inspired by the stunning scenery, mythology, smells and ambience.

I hope the sand is hot under your feet, wherever you may be...
Be good

Nick

additional guitar, synths and percussion: Nick
all other instruments: Paul

pic: Nick 2023

Hot Cretan Sand - Paploviante And Nicholas Ridiculous

Ah, dear listener! I present myself here with my good buddy Gary, rather sheepish and shamefaced at being absent from this church of sonic jewels for the longest time.  I have been a bad listener, I'm afraid.  Bereft of mojo, time and without my little studio. Mea culpa. 

If you've read this far, you already have a whiff of the legendary about you.

So one day, quite recently,  the Phaigester messages me and opens his raincoat to reveal a select library of stellar little ear-nuggets he's been hiding away. What beauties, I tell thee! What beauties!
He lives here and you should visit if you haven't before 
https://soundcloud.com/thephaige

Three grabbed me instantly..deep, swirling soundstrata, complex and intriguing in equal measure. 

Perched on my bed, yodelling into the abyss, I attempt to add to his painting.  Teleported into that great,  inkyblack wonderland of transcendent joy again.

Hats off to Gar. Inventive, musical and patient. Thanks for your art and resuscitating me.

3 tracks..8mins plus..big ask. But hey, if you've read this far whilst listening you're halfway through 

Cheers me hearties, catch  you soon
Be good 

Nick

All music, production and artwork   Gary
Vocal and lead on track 1    Ridiculous

Peripheral

I can’t see you, I can’t be with you
I can’t hold you or feel your welcome touch
As we slip into the water

I always sense you, I always feel you
Moving with me, our thoughts alike so much
As we slip into the water

When you slipped away on that awful day
You made me promise to live my life my own way
As I walk with you into the water

No more peripheral
It is logical
It is you and me

Tlaslila

I feel
Like I want to ride across the desert
Baking sand, tears of sweat in my eyes
Then climb climb the black mountains
Oh-oh-over we go, sail into the grey blue skies
I feel cold, dark deepness,
Feel fearsome rain,
Then fall
Fall into your arms again

Strange Agent

Strange Agent
You're never gonna find the man
Strange Agent
He'll let you run while you can

Fool you summoned him from beyond
Fool you thought he'd give you what you want
But that ain't the deal
Spinning the wheel
He's found something to steal
There's a soul to pay

Strange Agent, running wild in your head
Strange Agent telling you to talk with the dead
He's taking you by the hand

It's In The Room EP ThePhaige with Nicholas Ridiculous

Sadly and tragically as apt today as it was when released 50+ years ago. A song of divine retribution, ultimately. This song has been with me all my life and it was a pleasure to do vocals for https://soundcloud.com/thephaige on this. He did all the hard work and created an orchestral, snarling, chaotic, beautiful soundscape which nods to, but doesn't ape the original. 
Not monetising, just for fun
Play as loud as you can, then turn it up more
be good
Nick
Instruments, mix, prod, artwork  - Gary
Voice - Nick

War Pigs - Alternative Universe - ThePhaige with Nicholas Ridiculous

Words I never thought I would have to write.

The great eSyrup, Thom Palumbo has tragically left us.
I am heartbroken. He has been a frequent collaborator and loyal correspondent over the last ten years. When I play guitar, I think of him and whether he would like it. When I write, I imagine his reaction. And now he is gone. He achieved his lifelong ambition of returning to Maine to live over the last few weeks. I was so proud he had done it. I had hoped for more of his time, his music and his humour. An incredible man.

We never met, but we had an uncanny connection. This was done but not finished nearly six years ago, in December 2017. Life and stuff got in the way. Time was our only enemy and sadly a cruel one.

Please listen to his fantastic legacy here and appreciate his beautiful art 
https://soundcloud.com/esyrup

Released with kind permission from David - I thank you and salute you.

Hedd, perfaith hedd, cariad

Be good

Nick

All other instruments - Thom
Guitars  - Nick

Pic: https://www.terragalleria.com/index.html

In Loving Memory Of ESyrup (Thom) - ESyrup and Nicholas Ridiculous

"can you find me among the scraps of dark
skeletons of silence echoes of sparks
broken things cloaked in dreams
i can't find my way, find my way home"

Please visit 
https://soundcloud.com/wildsilencez to find poetry and a voice fo lose yourself in

words and vocal: Indii 
music: nick
pic:interest

Among the scraps of dark - Wildsilences and Nicholas Ridiculous

Instructions for use:-

1 Press play
2 Shake before use
3 Repeat treatment often
4 Use before date

Be good
Nick

Rat's Coat, Crowskin, Crossed Staves

Thanks for the inspiration, Paul, once again!
Some guitar, beats and vocals to Pauls mesmerising open collab

https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends

A song to the dispossessed

All the while you see the big people laughing
Drinking wine and loving living the dream
No-one stops to ask you hey, how you doing??
Seems the world, it’s leaving you behind

Find a corner in an old, dirty bus stop
Shelter there until the chill goes away
Cry to mama but you know she can’t reach you
Cry to papa but he’s long gone away

You need some water but you’re tired and you’re aching
The cars and people drive by
You look to the sky and think you can’t really make it
Then it rains and all my thoughts wash away

You look to the sky and think you can’t really make it
Then it rains and all my thoughts wash away

be good

Nick

Weightless - Paploviante with Nicholas Ridiculous

Another of the fabulous Wildsilences Open Collaboration tracks, to which I've enjoyed adding bass, beats, synths and guitars.
Original and links to her numerous pages here
https://soundcloud.com/indiiwildmoon/i-dont-wanna-bury-wildsilences

'i don’t wanna lose myself silence holds no
i don’t wanna lose you i don’t wanna bury myself slowly 
i don’t wanna lose myself stories untold breathe in breathe out
i don’t wanna scream cry walls are closing in and
i don’t wanna lose myself

Lyrics - wild silences

Be good
Nick
pic: Nick - Hyde Park 2024

I Don't Wanna Bury - Wildsilences with Nicholas Ridiculous

The entrancing voice of Indii again. Inspirational sounds and phrasing 

Die See

koue water, warm son
maak my oë toe
strek my arms wyd
voel die wind in my hare
tone in die sand
die see
uitgestrek voor my
die see, blou, blou
lok my nader
my hele lyf is koud
die water, donker
die stiltes omvou my
ek sink dieper
die blou, die blou
ek voel vry
ek voel vry
hou my vas
soos ons gly, ons gly
ek voel vry, vry
die see"

---------------

"cold water, warm sun
close my eyes
stretch my arms wide
i feel the wind in my hair
toes in the sand
the sea
spread out in front of me
the sea, blue, blue
lures me closer
my whole body is cold
the water, dark
the silences wash over me
i sink in deeper
the blue, the blue
i feel free
i feel free
hold me
as we glide
as we glide
i feel free
free
the sea"

Vocals and lyrics: wildsilences 
Instruments: nick

Be good

Nick

Die See - Wildsilences And Nicholas Ridiculous

Fuerteventura

The first collab for some years with long-term friend and musical maestro, Jimmy Rivas . Thanks Jimmy for the inspiration. 

For Your Crazy Smile

It feels like.. I’m young again
I’m running through fields with the sky in my hair
It seems like, and I don’t know when
The sky turned to grey and stole time away

And time, oh, time it can’t stand still
But the thoughts in our heads live forever
You’re my little girl again, with your crazy smile
And you’ll be my girl forever

One day, baby and it won’t be long
You’ll look for me and I’ll be long gone
Look up to the sky and wish me well
I’ll wait in the fields for your crazy smile

And time, oh time it can’t stand still
But the thoughts in our heads live forever
Look up to the sky and wish me well
I’ll wait in the fields for your crazy smile


Drums and Keys and backing track..J Rivas
Vocal, bass, guitar..Nick
Be good

Pic: Dietmar Rabich

For Your Crazy Smile - J Rivas And Nicholas Ridiculous

If no-one will love me like you can
Then love me more than, you ever loved before
Oh oh
If Jesus forsakes me, and life makes me more than I need be, then need me like never, like never before
If you can, then be mine, be always, forever, be always my heaven, my air and my baby, forevermore 
If no-one will love me like you can
Then please love me more than, you ever loved before

Be good
Nick

More Than Ever Before

Brilliant original here.
https://soundcloud.com/mreguest/upright-citizen
be good
N
p: pixabay

UPRIGHT CITIZENS - MREGUEST And Nicholas Ridiculous

A real pleasure to work again with Gyula and his amazing Jaw Harp playing. Here he is using Lucy and the higher pitched Georgina. The voice is his too. https://soundcloud.com/discratebye
"Jaw Harp be with you "
Be good
Nick
Photo. .https://uk.pinterest.com/jupiterschild3/jump/

Lucy Boogie, Georgina Trance - KONOKUNOK And Nick R Davies

Las Vegas, 1971. Raoul Smirks and Dr. Gonzo Jens von Grünbaum had been submitted to a fake abduction by Nicholas Rotter De Vis and sold to a circus for a twinkling rainbow of psychoactive recreational pastilles. They were dressed as clowns, ready for a stage rehearsal, but were swiftly ejected after both sitting on the edge of the stage, affecting vacant stares and blowing spittle bubbles and low droning hums. All met back together in the motel car park. De Vis rattled the swag bag. Minds whirring like radiator fans..Zone out required. .. Smirks suggested Horlicks and milk. 3 pints each, strained of lumps. Warm catatonia kicked in. "Going down deep" Gonzo slurred. The others peeped through the their interlocked lashes, before surrendering to Morpheus and his nightblue dreamworld. Devil Ether.
Be good.

Smirks - mix, samples, beats, guitar
Jens - sonic and percussive vitamins

Image: 1973 film Don't be afraid of the dark 

Zone Out - Devil Ether Adventure - Lyrical Smirks, HERCULESZENTRALE & Nick R Davies

There'll be good times,  bad times,  it will never be the same.
I've spent hundreds of years stating the obvious as a source of self-reassurance. And looking back, there were, and it wasn't. 
Be good 
Nick

Image : http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Baby_Boomers

Goodtimesbadtimes

1971. Unable to impress with our raucous, careless originals, the lads and I decided to rip-off new rockers de jour, Jethro Tull. We dressed horribly, I in my grandmother's tights, a ruched, frilled shirt and a roughly fashioned cardboard codpiece. We all practiced standing flamingo style on one leg. The codpiece chafed mercilessly,  causing some intimate discomfort.  Grumps, our roadie-cum-beer officer, was on the flute, which was in fact a tin whistle, played at an awkward right angle to his face out of the extreme corner of his mouth.
Trouble was, none of us had heard Tull, so we guessed hopelessly at their sound. We named ourselves Jethro Trull, to avoid confusion but court suggestion. Winged it for a while, jamming furiously for an hour each gig then exiting sharply. All came to a scudding halt when a bearded jester type came windmilling through the audience slashing a flute through the air, followed by the feds.
"Peep Durple" was born in an instant. 
Be good
Nick

Jethro Trull Tribute Band Concept Disaster

We made this some months ago, before my rather extended cloudcation. I had all sorts of difficulty with my dying Windows Vista PC (RIP). So this is dedicated to Bill Gates who has consumed a significant fraction of my life with his virus-ridden, self destructing but nonetheless indispensable genius.

Thanks as ever to Jimmy who provided a guide vocal as well as the music for me to mimic (impossible to sing like him!)and to Mark for his excellent bass

Jimmy's posted here but that was 4 months ago, so sorry for telling you something you may already know!
I  hope you have all been good in my absence and we all appreciate anyone who flits through here

https://soundcloud.com/j-rivas/the-whale-song-wnick-davies-and-mark-dennis

Please also visit Mark's page for great bass playing 

https://soundcloud.com/user-38588249

Be good
Nick

Jimmy Rivas all music except
Mark Dennis Bass guitar
Nick Vocal and guitar

The Whale Song - with J Rivas and Mark Dennis

Another one from the vault, this one has hibernated for about a year,  so I jabbed a finger at it to rouse it. It's a short piece, at 1 minute 45 seconds - a compact morsel for some, mercifully brief for many :)
Be good

Nick

Image: Getty images

Shan't Keep You Long

Time is indeed an illusion. This acapella from Holly is 11 years old, but sounds like she sang it this afternoon. https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/348/time-by-holly-110bpm-jazz-acapella

..and the excellent Laurent Wirz has delivered again with some stunning drums.

https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/109451/uncomplicated-soul-groove-84-bpm-by-laurentwirz-free-84bpm-soul-drum-loop

And to add to the mystery I posted this tomorrow but it feels like I did it yesterday

Image: Wallpaperscraft.xom

Time is an Illusion - ♤ with Holly and Laurentwirz

Dedicated to Phil Jones, S.E.X. who passed away this week. True gent and rock and roll star. I played very briefly in his band in my teens and always enjoyed his shows and releases. I am very sad that we've lost him and that I have lost his inspirational presence.
https://youtu.be/oc6Uc_wc4Ew
I hope to catch up with you in the future 
Nick

Hero Soul - a Dedication to Phil 'Geronimo'Jones, S.E.X.

Whatever the meaning of the words 'stay here forever' has for you, I hope this music helps consolidate it. A desire to stay somewhere,  the losing of a loved one, the desire to stay with someone, the dawning realisation that one might not move on or progress?  
Only you know
Be good
Nick

Stay Here Forever

Hope to be here more often 
Some bass moods in the meantime 
I do hope you're holding on whilst the storm passes 
Bg
N

Under The Weather

Jamming with my granddaughter,  who takes the lead on the xylophone on this. She is 8 months old and very special 
Be good 
Nick

Xylophone:  LMD
Other stuff: N

Image: barnimages

Papa's Lil Girl

Just listen to Paul's bass burble, bubble, bop and bark through this!
Thanks again Paul for the inspiration 
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante2
Paul: all instruments except
Nick: Guitars 
Be good, you rapscallions
Nick

Pic: pinterest

Funky Space - Paploviante And ♤

This is what I did.
Fast asleep now
Time was our only enemy 
Be good
Nick

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