Name: Black Full Circle Rainbow (Live@PonyBar Hamburg) by Oli Boli
Duration: 6 min 2 s
Description: Live Session "Black Full Circle Rainbow" @PonyBar Hambug. Feb 2023

Plein d'émotion!! J'aurai aimé être dans ce bar à Hambourg, pour t'écouter et  te voir jouer!! Bravo!

Super de t'entendre en live et bon contrôle du pitch !

Very nice listen Oli, and a fine performance before an audience.  I'm a little surprised the performance was not in German.  Excellent playing too as the chord changes come quickly as you sing.  Kudos to a musician who takes his music to the stage:)

you have your own unique style...I like the changing up intensities and sensitive very effective in a live setting like that ...I liked it Oli

Live Session "Black Full Circle Rainbow" @PonyBar Hambug. Feb 2023

Oli Boli - Pony Bar

Black Full Circle Rainbow (Live@PonyBar Hamburg)

The tragic tale of a foreign girl forced into prostitution in England during the First World War, and the terrible fate that awaited so many of the soldiers. Many, many thanks to Ale Destiny for her poignant and plaintive vocal. You can hear her latest song "Vincent" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfa7jjZoK0U&list=OLAK5uy_kwTdpzKWQbJ5Xm05Ok3ulGPmfAm_xv7s8

“Many home-front brothels served an increased number of clients following the war’s outset owing to the influx of men in arms preparing to go into the field.”
- Journey Steward (International Encyclopedia of the First World War)

Slang used in the song:
Dose: (in this case) a venereal infection
Dough: money
Slut: term for a person, usually a woman or girl, who is sexually promiscuous or considered to have loose sexual morals. It dates from the late 14th century in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, although ironically he was describing a man!
Squaddies: soldiers
The clap: gonorrhea (The narrator in this song gets gonorrhea, or the clap, which was rampant at the time because so many soldiers were catching it from the prostitutes operating near the front. Many of those soldiers, believe it or not, were still virgins and didn't want to die without experiencing sex)
Whore: prostitute

Lyrics
There’s many a squaddie comes visiting
From the barracks up the road
And they all, if they pay, get a welcome
And a rest from a soldier’s load
They’ll be fighting for King and country
And be paid with a grisly end
So, the least we can do is to hold them
To be, for a while, their friend
To be, for a while, to be, for a while
To be, for a while, their friend

Ah me, I was born in a Catholic land
I’ve no love for you Protestant lads!
But I got put in the family way
And reviled as sinful and bad
I’m in England now, a whore for sure
But I dance and I sing and I play
And the squaddies laugh so innocently
As night gives way to the day
As night gives way to
as night gives way to
As night gives way to the day

I fell in love with an Irish boy
No more tender a lad you could meet
He was set to ask me to marry
But was lost in some bloody retreat
I’m carrying his child in my belly
But it’s whoring that brings in the dough
I’m to visit some witch in an alley
To make sure that there’s nothing to show
Make sure that there’s nothing,
Make sure that there’s nothing
Make sure that there’s nothing to show

The doctor says that I got the clap
A soldier, I’ll bet, from the front
The sluts down there do a roaring trade
Death so close, that they bear the brunt
Of virgins wanting a taste of the flesh
‘fore their bodies are ripped to shreds
And if they survive, return with their dose
To pass on in the heat of our beds
Pass on in the heat, pass on in the heat
To pass on in the heat of our beds

Yes, many a squaddie comes visiting
And will do for some time to come
But will there be any lads left alive
To march to the military drum
Yes, soldiers are welcome, one and all
And will be for some time to come
But where are all of the marrying types
To save us from our whoredom
To save us from our, to save us from our …
To save us from our whoredom

From One Singer Left to Mourn; track released August 11, 2023
Music: Michael Sellers; Sergio Aguilar
Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Lead Vocal: Ale Destiny
Backing Vocals: Alejandro Hidalgo & Michael Sellers
Guitars & bass, piano, percussion; musical arrangement, & production: Sergio Aguilar
Cover photo: Photo by The British Library on Unsplash, combined with a photo provided by Loretta Sellers
Cover design: Michael Sellers; Loretta Sellers Fortuny

One Singer Left to Mourn

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Soldiers Welcome! 5 Stars; Highly Commended Entry; UK Songwriting Contest, 2023

AI!
AI, you never die, you will come back from a heart attack
AI, the new creation of our generation for every nation

I don’t work, you don’t work, we all have our own bots

We use it all the time, how can it be defined?
AI is now our guide, only algorithms decide 
AI masters our fade so that our lives are saved

I back up my complete life on a hard drive and a cloud device
Binary code on the digital road,
forever in our prime, no walls of time
AI, the robots rise
They know every move
Have their own proofs

The emotion that I reveal, the machine never feels
Can the circuit overload, we’ll be left in the cold

We use it all the time, how can it be defined?
AI is now our guide, only algorithms decide

(Is it our blood that flows? Or just bits that roll?)

If there is a place called heaven, it would be here!

Southern Island

Southern Island (南の島)

Keith Emerson has been an inspiration to me in so many ways...this is simply an homage to him and his musical genius. I wasn't about to tackle the entire 18 min piece, so this is my abbreviated, slightly electronic hybrid version of this intense work, originally released on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1977 album, 'Works Vol. 1'. I've worked on this off and on for the last 6 months.

The original piece was performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Composed by Keith Emerson

Piano Concerto No. 1 - 3rd Movement

Let your soul rock...a wonderful combination

Night Sky

My tribute to a great Bruce Springsteen song from the album Darkness on the Edge of Town released in 1978

BAD LANDS, Bruce Springsteen Tribute

Original artist Leonard Cohen 1988

Instruments: PJ Project
All Vocals : Janne Hennie

Ain't No Cure For Love W/PJ Project

One stratocaster, a little reverb and very few notes

Close Your Eyes - Instrumental

Written and Produced by Tottery in Ableton/FL Studio.

Tau Ceti Jazz Lounge

this is the love,so you keep on saying. - 28_10_2016, 15.39

Composer of Quirky Lyrics and Squiggly Melodies.

And a Part of this Grand Orchestra.

The One And OliBoli.

Black Full Circle Rainbow (Live@PonyBar Hamburg)

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