My Feb 2020 Favorites

Album:    Autobiography of a Lab Rat

	This song applies “funk” techniques to a 14:16 time signature (at a tempo of 75 quarter notes per minute).   A fascinating groove, but impossible to introduce during a “jam” session.


Lyrics:
those who have tasted the waters of the River Lethe
dwell peacefully in the Land of Nod
safe and warm in the golden temple of Morpheus
they dream by the grace of the sleeping god
but some have no peace and are eternally driven
to search, awake, for some uncertain seventh heaven

some folk find bliss in a seaside setting
some in a rural life or a green level lawns
they may never find cause for any regret
having seized the chance before that chance was gone
but some have no peace and are eternally driven
to search, awake, for some uncertain seventh heaven


I have no peace, I am forever driven
to search, awake, for some elusive seventh heaven

some people are blessed with a life of ease
they do not have the dark shadow at their door
their future, their comfort, is safe and secure
they shall live in their dream evermore
but some have no peace and are eternally driven
to search, awake, for some uncertain seventh heaven

Autobiography of a Lab Rat

Seventh Heaven

Free download

Following the last D7's work, I recorded the major blues of A7 as "Summer Night Monologue 02". 
This time, I play a combination of mute playing and ordinary picking.It is a method of playing a guitar that engraves rhythm with mute playing style and simultaneously plays improvisation with a pick.Many great players around the world make use of this performance style.This playing method is also one of the basic rendition style of acoustic guitar like the previous work.I also noted how to mix Western scales and Blue Note scales  :)
Since A7 's blues is also a prototype of rock' n 'roll(also E7), I made it as a supplement to the D7 blues. I hope everyone will be helpful for using minor pentatonic in major blues. In playing the Blue Note Scale, it is important how to use the minor pentatonic plus alpha. If you are practicing guitar, let's master this basement by searching on the net on this occasion. For guitar players it is not so difficult.
However, it is finished a heavy sound than what I originally thought. It will be nice if you listen to it on a midsummer day when it gets sweaty. Please be careful about the volume when playing ;)
This work is inspired by Ten Years After-Alvin Lee's guitar playing , a blues rock band.
* Ten Years After - I Woke Up This Morning　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSFmXULlr0

JUNZO -- Summer Night Monologue 02 ([Solo#7/A7] Etude For Major Blues)

One day I'll stop using the 'Halion Granular Piano' preset in every single track -
BUT THAT DAY IS NOT TODAY

Part Of The Cosmic Journey

A TERRE

N.O.B.S. II

Illegal Moneytransaction

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Shadows are with the light

Music & Lyrics: Jan Schonander

Having some fun with the piano here, and beating the c**p out of four chords. For those interested the following instruments and patches were used: Piano, Thumb Bass, Sidechain Overdrive, Marbles In A Glass bowl, Electrical Interferences, Theatrical Chord Builder, Bike Riser, East Bay Drum Kit, Crate Digger Drum Kit.

Listen with headphones - and loud!

ET EXPECTA - AND WAIT

Soon it’ll be over
Soon they’ll let you through
Soon they’ll let you in
Soon they’ll let you go
Soon

Sometimes a single hour can seem endless
Sometimes in a second can seem forever
Sometimes  you wanna move
The wait - it’s almost over

Sometimes you need more than you get
Sometimes you feel more than your love
Sometimes you hold yourself back 
Sometimes you have to wait

Soon it’ll be yours
Soon you’ll get what you want
Soon you’ll have the time
Soon you’ll go anywhere

Soon it’ll be easy
Soon you’ll lose your fear
Soon she’ll let you in
Soon you’ll let it go
Soon

Et Expecta

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I wish you a happy, creative and friendly new year.
May the right notes. time and daily groove be with you and yours.

P.S. After some years (sometimes slow in technical progress ;-) I´ve done myself a favour and bought a new Stereo Mic.
Now I´m able to record instruments with three Mics :-)

Flying School

BERLIN

Very proud to present this collab with the very talented Elle (@cycleofhands) !!!

We've certainly taken our time to get the track right, having started this project about a year ago, but Elle's lyrics about lovers in a dystopian setting are amazing, and such is her voice, perfectly fitting the melancholic vibe in the music. On top of that, she added some really cool musical elements (like that awesome guitar) that really upgraded the song. I am very happy to be able to release it now.

Thank you all for listening, and please visit @cycleofhands for more amazing work <3

lyrics:

Underneath it all
Behind the brick and mortar tall
Slowly becoming barren like the fall
Trees that wish to stalll
The distance from the sun the Earth revolves
Spring time rebirth is far
And they're putting on the final straw

People watching revert to simple awe
As so many lines start becoming crossed
Power through crimes whats the cost
Of an entire world bound and lost
Warming up but still crowned in frost
Made hostage by the hostile law
The coverage is constant like a coke withdrawal
Never budging like a water soaked log
We need a fire but all we got is smoke like fog
That obscures our view of hope till its gone

Try
Try to smile for me
Lets pretend we are free
Right Here
While we’re Wrapped in each others arms
We know we are safe from harm

Please turn off the radio
When its on your eyes lose their glow
Those voices speak poison don't you know
They’ve chosen to keep us dull and low
Stay poised and don’t let you mind go
To where it naturally wants to the most
Keep your cards close

To your chest
And never tell the rest
Keep your secrets buried deep within your breath
People can be trusted less and less
This is all for your best interest
I can already tell when your thoughts want to burst from your head

I know it hurts but think of our past blessings instead
Remember when I met you back in summer of 07?
As soon as I saw you I knew within just a couple of seconds
That you were someone who was homesick for heaven

It was a bit of a miracle you even talked to me
I was never social my thoughts never Let me be free
But you fought through my walls so playfully
Your kiss must have worked like an open sesame
You showed me a whole world anew a little like Disney
It’s a little cheesy and thinking of it has me dizzy
Your love has always made me sick like a disease
Butterflies from you make a hurricane erupt in me

I was hoping this day would never come
But I think it was time to grab our things and run
I’d rather die than see you under a gun
Being forced to give in and succumb
To these wicked men or whatever they have become

I no longer see any trace of love in their eyes
They despise anything that looks like life
Reflecting off of the sheen of their knives
If we leave now there is cover under disguise of night
It’s fight or flight and we both know what is right

Try - Wane of Summer & Cycle of Hands

VIDEO :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzgIyi1FY0
LYRICS:-
Sending out communication
Beaming out to every nation
All around the world
For every boy and girl
Satellites in pure elation
Speakers in a new vibration
Shaken but not stirred
It can not be unheard 

Turn all the lights on - low in the room
Put on your headphones it will be on soon
You're favorite show
Isn't it perfect now is the time
To let all the music take you on that ride
In perfect time

The Radio
The lights down low
Radio, Radio
You got the ...
Radio
The lights down low
Radio, Radio

winkandwoo 2020

Scenario Bizarre

The Radio

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THE RADIO

Music: Jan Schonander
@thegats
Lyrics: Jan Schonander & Amanda Sanderson
Lead Vocal: Amanda Sanderson 
Guitars, Bass: N.O.B.S @nobsmeyer
2nd Vocal, Piano, Synths, Drums: Jan Schonander @thegats

Thanks a lot Jan and Amanda for your passion and your dedication to create this excellent song!

IF ONLY

If only you could see through my eyes
If only I could find just one more way
If only we could go back in time
If the two of us didn’t feel so lonely

If only could be sublime

And I will never forget
I remember your tender embrace
I miss gazing into your eyes
I miss hearing your laughter
Seeing your smile
Feeling your love

And yet
There’s so much more
Why I walked out that door
I can’t ever forget
Lying on my back 
On a cold floor

If only you’d never got mad
If only you hadn’t made me sad
I sing every night and day
I sing if only
If only

If we could get back to just having fun
If everything could be undone
If we could live on regret
If the two of us, had never met
If no-one had to run

If only you’d never got mad
If only you hadn’t made me sad
I sing every night and day
I sing if only
If only

I pray from Monday to Sunday
I pray for both of our souls
I sing every night and day
I sing if only
If only

If Only | Amanda Sanderson, NOBS, TheGat(s) by TheGat(s) is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

If Only

If Only - with Amanda Sanderson & The Gat(s)

SAY THE WORDS
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020
Re-Mastered by Andrew Borderick OCT 2020
Youtube Link; https://youtu.be/RuuseKt9nVE                                                                                                    

LOOKING DOWN THE WISHING WELL
IT'S IN MY HEART I NEED TO TELL
A MESSAGE OF LOVE IS ALL I NEED

SETTLE DOWN TO FALL ASLEEP
SOMEONES WAITING IN MY KEEP
A VOICE OF LOVE IS IN THE AIR

I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

I WAKE UP IN THIS MAGIC WORLD
LOOKING UP THE WISHING WELL
WHATS FALLING DOWN IS ALL I GAVE

I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
(break)
LOOKING DOWN THAT WISHING WELL
WATCH MY COIN IT DISAPEARS
A LITTLE LUCK IS ALL I NEED

 I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

2020 PRO TOOLS

SAY THE WORDS

SAY THE WORDS (see info for video link)

Jump out of the forehead

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/sunday-lazy-jazz

Hand Made 

Sunday Lazy Jazz

Long Time Gone was originally written as a “swing” blues for a recording session with Bill Kavanagh's Blues Affliction in 2014 (SC link below).
	In keeping with my fascination for eccentric rhythms, I later thought I would try it in a 7 beat meter.   The result was good enough that I asked Foresto, N.O.B.S., and Tot. to give me a hand.   These very talented musicians had joined with me previously on “Heart of Snow” (SC link below).
	The track came out even better than I had hoped ... retaining all the characteristics of a rock/funk boogie while losing none of the odd feel of the unusual meter.

Credit to:
	Andrea Martini aka Foresto (electric guitar) https://soundcloud.com/user-959329289
	Norbert Meyer aka N.O.B.S. (bass) https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer
	Tot. (percussion) https://soundcloud.com/tot-beat
	I can be held to account for the lap steel, acoustic guitars and vocals

Cover image: L.Moonlight, acquired through Pixabay	https://pixabay.com/users/LMoonlight-236255/
Swing blues version with  Bill Kavanagh's Blues Affliction:
	https://soundcloud.com/kcm069/03-long-time-gone
Previous collaboration with Foresto, N.O.B.S., and Tot.:
	https://soundcloud.com/kcm069/heart-of-snow-w-tot-foresto-n-meyer

Lyrics
        we're a short time here and a long time gone
	we're just a short time here but we're a long time gone
	make hay while the sun shines you can't once it's down

        you might dance with the devil but that don't make him your friend
        you might gamble on the devil but that don't mean you're gonna win
        best to keep your cards close you just might meet him again

        perhaps I'm just a fool behind a sage's mask
        I keep posing questions only heathens ask
        may be come judgement day I will pay for my faithless past

        we're a short time here and a long time gone
	we're just a short time here but we're a long, long time gone
	make hay while the sun shines you can't once it's down

yes we're a long, long time gone

Long Time Gone

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Long Time Gone 7

『Blazing Higher Dance』
作詞・作曲 / Papyrusたくや

あそう美和のtalent tropical 
ラジオドラマ “クールボーイズ ~宇宙を守りし男達~” 主題歌

【Music Video】
https://youtu.be/z0RUcM6QIpQ

ギラついたCity
眠れない夜
彷徨う心
体が疼いているんだ

全力だった
あの日の事が
過ったときは
きっと血が騒いでるんだ

すべてが力持っていって
押し寄せる流れの中で
センス皆無の閃きで
世界を変えちまえ

Beatの渦が
紐解いた答え

Blazing Higher Dance
だっさいステップで
踊り明かせ
悩みなんて消え去った

Crazy Disco Fever
ださいステップで
Blazing Higher Dance
踊り明かせ

闇が希望を呑んでいって
押し寄せる不安の中で
センス皆無の煌めきで
光を解き放て

ぶっとんだBoogieで
紐解いた答え

Blazing Higher Dance
狂ったステップで
踊り明かせ
悩みなんて消え去った

Crazy Disco Fever
ださいステップで
Blazing Higher Dance
踊り明かせ

Blazing Higher Dance

Some people carry around a secret, a carefully buried basic feeling or a wish that is locked away deep in the abyss of their soul. Often it is only when death is already in the doorway that they can bring up and communicate what has been hidden for so long.  
This is also what happened in this true story, in which a man can only tell his wife how he really feels about her just before he dies of cancer. 

Lyrics in English:

The Last Words

I'm lying here in hospice
Eaten up by cancer

I'm at stage four
I'm about to be killed 
Can't see anything more

My body fully tattooed
Now as skeletonized
My fitness-treated muscles

Mercilessly pureed 
I've never felt so strong
Yeah, I must be losing myself as a hero   

You sit at the edge of the bed
Swimming in a sea of tears
Yes this softness is incredibly difficult for me

You cried for me
Rhymed the most beautiful funeral poems for me
Lived for me the pain
With noble dignity

I'm stuck in a tank dress
Even in the deepest suffering
Can't I tell you how I feel

Fuck!
I'm a John Wayne idiot

I'm as good as dead
And it wants out
I push, cramp, swallow:
I love you

Don't look at me like that
I really mean it

There is no more repetition
I just die now
Please let me go

Somewhere in the next life
Let's meet for a beer
I promise you that
But please stay for a very long time- 

There!
Get the fuck out of here
I'm already dead in my grave

Cancer has won
Got me down

OKAY
No more fighting

I'm leaving now ahead of schedule
Cancer has freed me
Come black brother, take me with you
Wherever to go

Deutscher Originaltext:

Die letzten Worte

Lieg` hier im Hospiz
Vom Krebs zerfressen

Bin im Stadium 4
Gleich ist`s um mich geschehen 
Kann nichts mehr sehen

Mein Körper voll tätowiert
Nun wie skelettiert
Meine Fitness-gestählten Muckies

Gnadenlos püriert
Hab`mich noch nie so stark gespürt
Ja muß mich wohl als Held verlier`n

Du sitzt am Bettrand
Schwimmst im Tränenmeer
Ja dieses Weiche fällt mir unglaublich schwer

Hast für mich geweint
Die schönsten Trauergedichte gereimt
Lebtest für mich den Schmerz
Mit edler Würde

Steck´ im Panzerkleid
Selbst im tiefsten Leid
Kann ich Dir nicht sagen, was ich fühle

Fuck!
Bin ein John-Wayne-Idiot!

Bin so gut wie tot
Und es will heraus

Ich presse, krampfe, schlucke:
Ich liebe Dich

Schau`mich nicht so an
Ja das mein` ich wirklich

Ein nochmal gibts nicht mehr
Ich sterb` jetzt einfach
Lass` mich bitte gehen

Irgendwo im nächsten Leben
Treffen wir uns mal auf`n Bier

Das versprech` ich Dir
Doch bitte bleib` jetzt noch ganz lange – 

Hier!
Hau jetzt endlich ab
Lieg` schon tot im Grab

Der Krebs hat gesiegt
Hat mich untergekriegt

O.K.
Kein Kämpfen mehr

Geh` jetzt vor der Zeit
Der Krebs hat mich befreit

Komm nimm mich schwarzer Bruder
Egal wohin

Die Letzten Worte (The Last Words)

Die Letzten Worte (The Last Words) (Engl. Lyrics In The Intro)

After collaborating with the amazing Nic Evennett before on ‘Feel the burn’, I knew that one day I just had to work with her again. So I wrote this for her one Sunday afternoon - and luckily enough, she liked it! Her voice and her lyrics are just perfect and have turned my original idea into something so, so much better.  You can find Nic at https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night

Her lyrics are shown below:

I'm glass and light,
And silver edged,
And guzzle up the secrets
Once you close the door.
The wrong and right,
And things alleged,
Do not escape me;
Please don't make me
Tell you more.
Yet here I am -
Your tangled hair, 
And nothing but the greenest green
And truest true.
A monogram
Of smoke and glare
Is sewn under a face serene
And grown into.
Ohhh, your echo will follow you
Ohh, your echo will follow you.
The shards of my mind
And drying lips
Are scattered in the soil
Under a moon of gold.
That's humankind
That you eclipse;
The empty words
Confuse the birds
And leave them cold.
But holy, holy
Waters creep,
They drink my cries,
And sink my lives
Into the blue.
You follow slowly
Into the deep
And see your eyes
And all the lies
Look back at you.

Play on Spotify

Echo (feat. Nic Evennett)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACMN_tSTV_w&ab_channel=winkandwoo
LYRICS:-
Can't say when friendship began
Or when indifference took it over
We had the funniest thing
And tried so hard to keep it going

Did we have fun? Those comfortable silences ; was that all ?
Then the long months, we didn't see each other, no more calls

You're not welcome no more
'Cause to me you're just a stranger
You don't know me no more
'Cause to you I'm just a stranger

They say that friends come and go
And to err is to be human
It's just a matter for fate
There's just no room here for tomorrows

Instead of waiting , I filled my time creatively (for me)
So it's goodbye , the past is in the past and C'est La Vie !

You're not welcome no more
'Cause to me  you're just a stranger
You don't know me no more
'Cause to you I'm just a stranger

winkandwoo 2020

Stranger

STRANGER

Rock, Rock, Rock and no Alternative …
Rock is not dead, you can validate the evidences here.
People who want to get mellow might be wrong on this site, but are more than welcome to take up some energy here 😀
I am playing guitar and Bass. Keyboards and Drums are programmed.
Mix and Mastering was done in the „N.o.b.S. Moonshine Studios“ in Mainz Germany.
Nearly everything had been recorded during the night, sometimes at daylight on weekends.