Sweet production, Nick and Paul. Excellent addition that made it stand out superbly.

Love these Jazzy lines in your lead. Love the rhythm section, too.

dig that feadog, adds a really nice jazzy feel, great additions, super smooth jazzy vibe over Paul rhythm, great sounds, thoroughly enjoyed!!!

Cool funky jazzy groove. Great collab work. 

ISN'T IT ALL STRANGE?

Composed & produced by: Chivicke
HomeStudio Productions ©2022
Artwork: Zumrad-Normatova

Desert Song

Devastation

Wrote the title phrase on a birthday card and immediately thought  that's a 'song title'.  The first take of the vocal was a loose ramble but I just left it in - it seemed to fit.

Love Our Together Life

That cliché thick and thin about loving all the time
We’re not vascillating over always gotta rhyme
Doubling up in laughter keeps an even keel
And getting to a sweet spot finally it’s real

We drove out to the cliff and back
Now it’s all about giving back

It’s life upon a road with little jobs to do
And a race across the sand to share the view
It’s pouring out the drinks as the sun dips down 
And talking ‘bout the people who we see around 
Love our together life
Love our together life

Back in days of war it was tight in the lip
And the putting up of walls with a face half lit
Cause expectations could never be met
And it takes a lot of years to wind it back to less 

Yeah giving up on hurt and feeling how it was
In the years embryonic burning hot
And the psyche bathed in the songs of the time
But transplanting now to a wiser kind of rhyme

Love Our Together Life

Mrs. Rhymes & Lost Angel of Havik - Dark Desires

Lyrics and music: Michele Ansani (1998).
Inspired by a Robert Musil's short story ("The Perfecting of a Love", 1911).
Cover photo is from Pietro Corrao.

Like some others I have already posted, this is a song from the late 1990s, recorded then with a Korg D8. I remixed the surviving file, working on volume and equalisation after separating the tracks, and adding some stuff. 

LYRICS (ENG / ITA)

nervously looked at the stranger
at that moment his beard lit up for a moment
she guessed there solidity, naturalness
and everything reconnected, she was there...

It flashed in her mind that already other times
The thing had begun in the same way, it was so...
And at the thought for an instant a voluptuous horror touched her
A voluptuous abulic horror
as before a sin yet unnamed

she wondered if he could have noticed
that she was looking at him
and her body filled with a slight sensuality
she seemed to be swimming in darkness before him
dissolved and impalpable like pale foam

so they travelled close
and little by little crept back into her thoughts
that restlessness
she tried to tell herself
that it was only the disturbance
of that sudden solitary journey
among strangers
soon afterwards instead she believed
that it was the wind that enveloped her
in a rigid frost

there was suddenly
a light high and clear on her past
as on an indescribable landscape of mysterious order
was a strange sense of the future
as if everything
that seemed long past
still lived on

furtively she sought the stranger
at that moment his hand for a moment
caressed her
she sensed in it a natural solidity
and everything reconnected
they were there ...

and thought of days
strangely distinct
from all the others
open before them
like a fugue of remote rooms
and joined with a hasty laugh
to the conversation

----

nervosamente guardò lo sconosciuto
in quel momento la sua barba per un attimo s’illuminò
v’indovinò solidità naturalezza
ed ogni cosa si ricollegò, lei era lì…

le balenò in mente che già altre volte
la cosa nello stesso modo incominciò, era così...
ed al pensiero per un istante la sfiorò
un orrore voluttuoso abulico
come davanti a un peccato ancora senza nome

si chiese se potesse essersi accorto
che lei lo guardava
e il suo corpo si colmò di una leggera sensualità
le sembrava di nuotare nelle tenebre davanti a lui
dissolta e impalpabile come pallida schiuma

così viaggiarono vicini
e poco a poco ritornò ad insinuarsi nei suoi pensieri
quell’inquietudine
cercò di dirsi
che era solo il turbamento
di quell'improvviso viaggio solitario
fra gente estranea
subito dopo invece poi credeva
che fosse il vento che l’avvolgeva
in un gelo rigido

vi fu improvvisamente
una luce alta e chiara sul suo passato
come su un paesaggio indescrivibile dall’ordine misterioso
era uno strano senso di futuro
come se tutto ciò
che pareva da lungo tempo passato
vivesse ancora

furtivamente cercò lo sconosciuto
in quel momento la sua mano per un attimo
l’accarezzò
v’indovinò solidità naturalezza
ed ogni cosa si ricollegò
erano lì ...

e pensavano a giorni
stranamente distinti
da tutti gli altri
aperti davanti a loro
come una fuga di stanze remote
e si unirono con un riso precipitoso
alla conversazione

La Conversazione *

All the huddled masses
From faraway shores
Yearning to breathe free
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

Save the spotted owl
The dolphins and whales
And every redwood tree
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

What about me here alone
What about me one lonesome soul

I see the crippled children
Makes me want to cry
May every illness be healed
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

I wish and pray
That there could be a home
For every soul on the street
May there be peace and love 
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

What about me here alone
What about me, just one lonesome soul

The bombs that fall
The guns that fire
The millions of casualties
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

All them huddled masses
From faraway lands
Yearning to breathe free
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, tonight, what about me

What About Me

I'm Fine

Samples from Unicorn Tears - Rhythm and Refrain - Vintage Crates

The magical powers of unicorns are legendary. Unicorn horns are said to be harder than diamonds while unicorn tears have the power to heal physical wounds and sorrows of the heart.

Unicorn Tears

Another gem hidden from deep within the Archive, no.97 of the the Zoom handheld recording device to be precise.

Dancing guitar work done by Matt Hedges and I. If you follow the conversation we have in this than you'll know who the devil being tamed is.

P.S.

I have an 18 minute extended version of this jam.

Taming the Devil Within



Music by Stina Crow 2025
Instrumentals/vocal/lyrics/mix/master/compose/production and final producer Stina Crow 2025

Without WIngs

Drive time (Mix 2, October 28, 2019)
Mix 2 changed pan and compression on acoustic guitar to bring it forward in the mix. 
Mix 3: April 7, 2020 reprinted to a 1/4 inch 2-Track Tape MCI JH-110
Written, performed, and mixed by Tim Griffis at Princeton Studio. Thanks to Rene, Kevin, and Andrew for comments on an early mix. Always appreciate the feedback. 

Hope you like the sound ;-)

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars: Guild Acoustic, Fender Strat; Les Paul Standard; Fender Squire Bass

Mics: Neumann TLM 67 and AKG C414xls
Drums: arranged by TG
Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 16 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)

Lyrics

Verse 1
The demons inside your head, they're on fire
It's making it hard to fake your smile
you're cool on love, it's breaking you down
it's a simple life, in this heartbreak town 

Chorus
You fake a smile at me - I don't mind
Come see the world with me - it's our time
We'll find a cure for you - it's drive time

Verse 2
You're stronger than steel, you gotta heart of gold
The cells in your blood won't leave you alone
It's a rare disease, one step at a time
It's making it hard to fake your smile

Chorus
You fake a smile at me - I don't mind
Come see the world with me - it's our time
We'll find a cure for you - it's drive time

Bridge/Verse 3 
no lyrics
Enter Heavier Guitar Sound (Gibson Les Paul Standard)

Chorus
You fake a smile at me - I don't mind
Come see the world with me - it's our time
We'll find a cure for you - it's drive time

Drive time

Music & Mix by Rizzlic https://soundcloud.com/rizlix
Lyrics & Vocals : Special Cecilia    https://soundcloud.com/spacialcecilia
Dan aka Rizzlic made this Super New Version with my Vocals from "Same Planet" 
& ask me to put it in here on line :)

Original Track ;   https://soundcloud.com/spacialcecilia/meme-same-planete
Other Version :  https://soundcloud.com/ricochet8888/same-planet-2-step-demo

CHILDREN Of The UNIVERSE *** Rizzlix feat Special Cecilia

Hans Albers:  All instruments, arrangement, production and final mix
Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocal

Like many relationships, mine and Jo’s started at work and I think the fact that we were always holding hands soon made our feelings pretty clear to everyone.  Holding hands has always felt special to us and through every life event, good or bad, our relationship has been strengthened by having this powerful physical connection.

So how else would you celebrate 30 years of marriage other than having a full size bronze statue of yourselves holding hands?  Sounds relatively straightforward but, sadly,  this eventually proved to be a little optimistic, given that it involved not only ourselves but one artist (who was as mad as a hatter), an assistant (who had never done the procedure before), three buckets, one stick, a wooden stool, something called alginate (the stuff dentists use to cast teeth), bronze (naturally), one foundry (which burned down, necessitating finding another – this actually did happen) foundry workers (number unspecified) and someone to organise the whole creation (that would be me).  Piece of cake.

Anyway, as you can see from the cover pic, it was finally completed in time for our anniversary and now sits a couple of feet away from my chair, a constant reminder of the wonderful life Jo and I have had together.  This love song tells that story – the two of us holding hands as we always have done and always will.

Hans’ interpretation, arrangement and recording of such a personal song is simply brilliant, capturing as it does every nuance with each simply perfect note.  Working alongside him is always such a complete pleasure.  If you want to get full value from his astounding work, I’d recommend using headphones.

Thanks so much for listening.   (Terry Reeves) 

Thirty years of holding hands
Palms Face to Face
A single hold linking two
No more dismal dark to trace
Connecting skin with strength 
Stop thinking of the past
Future brings no worries 
This simple join is here to last 

Pressing with the lightest touch 
Making sure we don’t offend
Working both together 
Showing strength is hard to bend
Feeling joined as one
To make a single change 
Holding hands is more important 
Than the world tries to explain 
(Repeat)

BREAK 

Love with fingers clenched 
But a softness touch to heart
Making special art of love
Using hands showing just how much
In this sequence of just thirty years
Giant secrets find a way to shout
As we hold our hands together 
Squeezing all the sadness out
Squeezing it out

Fearless love in bond of hands 
So tight and never letting go
A feel of chain reaction 
There’s many will never know
Can’t challenge this connection 
No matter what whispers say
Showing those who care to look
At our skin to skin performance 

Every day, every day, every day, every day .....................

Palms Face To Face: Cripple Club & Hans Albers

An old open collab from the ever brilliant Paul, with his irresistible burbling bass lines. I added rhythm,  lead and some feadóg (Irish whistle). Thanks for the inspiration Paul, once again.

https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/phoenix-paploviante-open-coll

Hope you're all behaving nicely to one another 
Be good

Image: Deviant Art

Nick

Phoenix - Paploviante and ♤

Five steps (each one with two parts) progressing along 3 minutes thru different styles: rock, psycho, pop, hard..., and finally back to the psychopoppy ones.

Letra / Lyrics:

No siempre he estado aquí (soy imperfecto) / I have not always been here (I am imperfect)

Cuando tengo frío, o tengo calor, / When I feel cold, or I feel hot,
cuando tropiezo, me quemo, o siento dolor… / when I stumble, I burn myself, or feel pain …

y  empiezo a pensar que no siempre he estado aquí, / and I start to think that I have not always been here,
y que todo en este mundo es ajeno a mí. / and that everything in this world is alien to me.

Pienso que este cuerpo / I think that this body
que me sirve para moverme / I use to move myself
no es todo lo perfecto que debiera. / is not as perfect as it had to.

Me siento extraño / I feel strange
donde tendría que estar a gusto, / where I should to be comfortable,
y me reconforto / and I feel better
cuando me relaciono bien con el mundo. / when I relate well to the world.

Empiezo a pensar en el tránsito; / I start to think about the passage;
que no siempre he estado ni estaré aquí; / that I have not always been nor will be here;
que mi vida es un entretenimiento / about my life being an entertainment
en el viaje a otro sitio. / along the trip to another place.

Y descubro lo profundo / And I discover the deepness
entre tanta superficialidad, / among so much superficialness,
si la meta de todo lo que hago / if the goal of everything I do
es comer y respirar, / is to eat and breathe,
¿qué clase de razón tengo en la cabeza? / what kind of reason do I have in my head?
¿qué soy yo dentro de este juego? / what am I within this game?

 descubro lo profundo / And I discover the deepness
entre tanta superficialidad, / among so much superficialness,
y me pongo a pensar, / and I start thinking,
y empiezo a pensar… / and I start to think …

y  empiezo a pensar que no siempre he estado aquí, / and I start to think that I have not always been here,
y que todo en este mundo es ajeno a mí. / and that everything in this world is alien to me.

Pienso que este cuerpo / I think that this body
que me sirve para moverme / I use to move myself
no es todo lo perfecto que debiera. / is not as perfect as it had to.

©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2013 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Image: "Rocky sprout", photo by Ruizzoidman

No siempre he estado aquí (Soy imperfecto)

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

(Don't follow me here, best on my main page ;)

Phoenix - Paploviante and ♤

Nicholas Ridiculous

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