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written and recorded 2001 by andrew salvner and kris skentzos
recorded on a jambox, as i was using my 4-track for an amp.  andrew salvner (p.malone) on guitar, and kristoffer skentzos rocking the lead bass.

frank and ozzy

Excerpt from Porest's "ABJECT MIRROR" – a full-length audio-drama with advertisements and musical accompaniment.

Porest is dragged through an inconvenient network of paranormal subterfuge after exposing something significant that may have happened 33 days from now.

Featuring appearances by Robert Millis and Jake Rodriguez. Special thanks to Vicki Bennett, whose MIRROR theme this is in partnership with.

Porest, etc: Mark Gergis 
Dr. Lumen / Mr. Fleckt, etc: Jake Rodriguez 
Acoustic guitar on THROUGH YOU: Robert Millis 

Recorded and produced by Porest until 2019 

Supported by public funding by Arts Council England 

Porestsound - 2019 (Porestsound 010-DI)

Through You

The Mother Julian EP

Snow Sleeps Cold Beneath

Torn down the middle
There’s a space where you once were
I cannot reach you
You are clinging like a limpet
to your dark despair
What made you choose
to walk that path
with rocks and stones
that rip your shoes
I walk on soft grass
I hear the angels sing,
but you, you cannot lift your eyes - you cannot see anything ....
Your cage is imaginary 
which is why it’s so hard
For me as your friend
to watch from the sidelines as you
choose the Death card

RIP-ped

offered here, you have, you see, a compilation of music created by me...

Can't Stop

i'm just seeing figures
things that don't exist

a million friends (original)

Strange Cats ft A-woken and friends, also produced by A-woken.

got a few hours in to record a tune this afternoon and this is what fell out..i havent played guitar or anything since the last recording so its another rough and ready sketch kind of thing.. its about a little weasel who terrorises the rest of the woodland wildlife animals out there in the wild.. like autumn watch style or something..nature is cruel..
words include:

he'll stalk ya
steal ya eggs from ya nest a ya sleep
he's a creature
creepy crawling
scuttling up yer tree
he'll eat ya
scratch ya eyes raw with his
claw and his teeth
he's a weasel and he's called Weasel Keith
Weasel Keith he cares not
Weasel Keith don't care
Weasel Keith he fears not
if ya feeling scared
Weasel Keith is hiding
underneath ya bed
greasy wet cold n hairy
crawling up ya leg
ya better watch out for the WK
ya better hope that he never comes your way
ya try to sleep tight in ya den alright
ya don't want a visit from Keith tonight

Keith The Weasel

Android Void

The Sander

In this track I set out to try and blend keys, or make a song that is atonal.  The following is how I attempted this.  The song starts by cycling back and forth between two guitar progressions:  Cadd12 - G - Am - Em  and  D - Dsus4 - Cmaj7add11 - C.  They are both technically in C Major, but I used two different scales to play lead over them, so they sound like they are kind of in different keys.  I believe the the two scales were E and D Harmonic Minor.  I don't remember for sure though.  They sound like they are almost competing though.  There is the vague sense of two different keys cycling back and forth.

The first real modulation comes at 1:04 where we cross firmly into the key of D Minor using a new chord progression (this is a good example of how the chord progression and not the lead really controls the key of a song.)  This new progression is Dm - Bb - C - Am - Em and it cycles with another progression Dm - Bb - C - F.  This is also around the time the lead seems to speed up and which I think is actually in E Harmonic Minor.  I wish I could remember for sure, but it is part of the reason it sounds kind of tinny and a little off key, but in a cool sort of way.  It is off-key.  The rhythm and lead are a step apart, I'm pretty sure.  I think part of the reason it might sound cool and actually work is that the E Harmonic Minor and D Harmonic Minor scales were competing from progression to progression earlier in the song, so there is already this blend of E and D going on.  Maybe?

Towards the end of the build up I suddenly switch mid-solo into the Pentatonic scale to finish it up, which you can kind of pick up if you listen closely, it happens around 1:40.  But you'll also hear the key change back to C Major at the same time, which is probably what really stands out.  I use a new progression for this ( C - Cadd9 - D - Dsus4 - E) which I play four times while finishing up the big build-up.  The Pentatonic scale is in E Minor, I think.  Again, I'm not sure and if I take the time to pick up my guitar and figure it out, I'll edit it into here, some day I will, maybe later tonight.  Anyhow, the song builds up into the big release where I repeat a riff from the Pentatonic scale (from my favorite pattern actually) three times and hit the synths hard and then after that it's back to the same progression that started the song (Cadd12 - G - Am - Em) and we sail on out using the relaxing synths from the beginning of the song.  It is a really nice release.

Guitar Fusion

Nowhere Home

Artoffical Intellegence

Thunder cracked, releasing a brittle family
the members made amends,
laughing like kids again
playing under the sheets of their deathbeds

We moved away
to the other side of the train set
went to a new school on the basement
where the teachers never left
galloping into the sunset

One wrong turn meets another one
and makes a circle you can see through
a circle in the sky
a circle in the sky

I have heard stories about you
I want to meet you
I remember the way you feel
I want to return to you
I want you to stay away
I like missing you
I like missing you
I like missing you
I like missing you

Herco Gold                    

I Like Missing You

From Milo Hunter's Sophomore EP "Lux Flakes"

Lux Flakes

Generator

Warm To Me

Our life is fragmented and flows somewhere far.
It's called the score, and it actually affects our life.

Free beer tomorrow.
It's called marketing here.

In some country, a riot happened.
We are watching it on TV news.
The anger and the indifference.
We can share these on the network.

Free beer tomorrow.
Our future will become a default.

The people headed for the south reached the South Pole eventually.
It's a cold but peaceful place and they live happily.

Who says the future is splendid?
The future is only consumed.
We are fishing the garbage mountain and trying to find dreams.

Free beer tomorrow.
It's called marketing here.

Free beer tomorrow.
Our future will become a default.

Free beer tomorrow

Clouds

something

three years

Lead Vocal and Lyrics:  Special Cecilia
Band Support:  Paulo Medias Project

Not Alone  (Special Cecilia) Collaboration

The lyrics and the original performance by Learningtoplay: 
https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay
https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/bang-bang
 
Bang Bang!! 

we're in a race that's running, running out of time
creation to annihilation – one straight line
with every step a question banging in my head
will we live to see a day of peace, before we're all dead?
a single day of peace before everyone's dead?

you only learn walk by people leading you 'round
you don't know how to talk until they tell you the sounds
all these people teach you is 
to be like them
before you know, they'll teach you how to kill other men
before you know, they're teaching you to kill other men

the cavalry is coming, can you hear that sound?
hatred and stupidity, they push you around
bombs our taxes bought about to hit the ground
with a Bang bang!! Bang bang!! You hear it? Bang bang!! Bang bang!!
Bang bang!! Bang bang!! Don't you fear it? Bang bang!! Bang bang!!

well Ronnie's done the Math, he says the numbers look good 
and once we clear the forests, we'll be out of the woods
champagne in a chalet, in that mountain air
now we're burning up this highway, out to get our share
blastin' 'round this planet, not a single care	

I'm spinning 'round and 'round in mechanical seizures 
from a system in a spiral with a faulty control
and I'm trying to fix the tracking but my mind is in pieces 
from the story with the pictures where they stole my soul
that story . . . those pictures . . . they stole my soul . .

their real estate and tax free loot they don't want to share
dressed in all their finery, pretending they care
they tell you to be generous then they hold out their hands
and it's all part of God's plan or is it . . . all part of their scam?
their big doors with the cash behind 'em . . . they all slam. Bang Bang!!

our virtual worlds, eternal life and trips to the stars
trash this planet, tech will build a better one on Mars
is there any limit to the lies that we'll buy?
'let me see what's happening'
just open your eyes
wake up to existence . . . it's such a surprise!

the leaders of the world all love that social media
thumping chests and bumping their gigantic heads
straight to hell's the only place their egos will lead you
unless we want to live in peace, before we're dead,
unless we finally get the trick
to not be led

the fat man with the haircut and the one with the wig
both want us to remember them for something big
if people have to die for it, they don't give a damn
they'll stick to their guns to show us . . . Bang bang!! Bang Bang!!
but their might isn't right! . . . . . Bang bang!! Bang Bang!!

Bang, bang . . bang, bang . .

Bang Bang (Variation of a composition by Learningtoplay)

No subtitles are available for these sounds.
I do not have the correct change for the machine.
Thats not a queue, Its a procession,
https://fagashrecords.bandcamp.com/

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TheNumbersInTheDream