Retro Rock

C-Disco Nocturne

The lyrics  and vocals by: J J Samuels
The music and production by: J J Samuel
#Pop #RnB #Soul #Love #True #Romantic 

“5th Of April” is a love ballad which is for my partner with whom I have been with  for 14 years. I Love her as much now as I did when we first met 🥰

5th-Of-April

Galerie 14

Check out Walker on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/THOtpFO0iSwUAEAf9M
This song was seeded by wonderful UK artist Walker and a chat we had on a previous track. Thanks a mill buddy 🫡


Tuning 432Hz A
Frequency Focus 963Hz
(Sine wave B6 & Tuning Fork)
Tempo 963bpm
Timing 32/1

The 963bpm is an attempt to get the rhythm resonant with the tuning and frequency in focus... Hertz=Wave cycles per second so should align them given BPM is aligned to a minute making them divisable or at some level, in harmony with one another.

The lyrics were built after absorbing these two videos, I avoided the speculative ones for now:

1)
https://youtu.be/58WaZYZCV_4?si=gZFnAleKio0kg6gX

2) https://youtu.be/ZEL68kt1Q-8?si=989MU7-v3MJcb_h9

Also big thanks to Valerio and Mary from Beating Edge for their valuable input. They are experts in brain stuff when they are not showing us how it's done with music! 🎵 🧠
Check out Beating Edge on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/j2zQ3LicQe7enBuHoj

The Pineal Gland

Circadian rhythms
Put me to sleep
As I close these eyes
Dream diurnal relief
Reset the reason drenched in this brain
New light will come soon
More chance of sane
First we must wire head PC with sub stitch
Asleep time for rewire taht mind cannot glitch
Carve those fine memories into this grey matter
Create more unknown while I've stoppe dthe chatter

Some say third eye
Activation of God
Good symmetry bind
Truth, give us a nod

Immense melatonin
Good chemist head sand
Your team has this god like lone pineal gland
It doesn't take sides
There's no left and right
;Takes symmetrical rhythm
Center dark
Center light
Drug dealer of head
It distributes best
Discernment of nature
When to wake or rest
The morning is near
Head pharmacy pause
Here comes the Sun
Day ' effect new cause

Some say third eye
Activation of God
Good symmetry bind
Truth, give us a nod

Light paints the retina
Fill optic nerve
Through axons to clock of biological verve
Like super charismatic neucleus send
To superior cervical ganglion tend
Noradrenaline levels scened trigger for conscious
Rhythmic regulation for body of honest
Direct connection
SCG chemist hand
To centered head
Fine Pineal Gland

Some say third eye
Activation of God
Good symmetry bind
Truth, give us a nod

The Pineal Gland

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them” ― Munia Khan

The sheet music of my compositions can be downloaded from here:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
https://youtu.be/e_-vkT2jRv8


Dry Flowers

A track with and by my brother Paul. I played drums on this. This was done as demo for a pick up company which I can't remember the name. A nod to Peter Green too.
Paul Rose Guitars and Bass
David Cowan Piano and Organ
Me Drums

GREEN BMW

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11vAypstLA

Inner Earth Railway (Remix)

Inner Earth Railway (Remix) & Video Link

Video 1 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBr8TqD-5JM
Video 2 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G07dKdLDArM
Video 3 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLE_WN30v8c
Video 4 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3ewIQPHV8

Garden of Transformation (Remix 2025) & Video Link

Grow Gorbachev Grass

Oh good old power
Reigning in the rain
The rain of pain on people's sane
The power of steel with decision of heart
Sense to switch off the nukes
For kid future art
The current Stalin doesn't care
He forgot Mikeal and killed Navalny prayer
He wants East and West as it feeds enough fear 
To hold the reigns for more 10 year'
Your tears don't matter once you shut your mouths
Autocratic wimp faction wants war of world now
Let's all bin Thor with intention
Bring silence to heart and ease our tension
Give God like grin to this tyrant so bold
Soon he will die and new ideas be told
We live on a sphere where all east is west
From south we go north
In space visa versa mind rest
Peace has a future
As one we will grow
Divided we welcome their dystopian show
We cannot confirm these rich men of war
We must find first peace with internal lore
Stories for children to build a green planet
With Gaia based future we fly free with Gannet
One life one love
All dividers will die
Suwalski gap flowers bloom for love on both sides
We came together
We found a way
We decommissioned our technological grey
We are all a little gay and good and great
Acceptance of difference with handshake
It's easy to have enemy
You feel like good one
But meaning ain't cared for by nuclear Sun
Save our deaths and lose the crass
Like Reagan saw light
Let's grow Gorbachev grass




Grow Gorbachev Grass

A little reminder that summer isn't quite over yet - "Here shall he see no enemy, but winter and rough weather"

"Under the greenwood tree" is the second song in Roger Quilter's cycle of Shakespeare songs. It appears in "As You Like It", Act II, Scene 5.

Piano accompaniment as always by the wonderful Helen Roberts.

We hope you'll enjoy it, as well as the very last days of summer :).

Lyrics:

Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And tune his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.

Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleas'd with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.

Under the Greenwood Tree (Roger Quilter - with Helen Roberts)

https://soundcloud.com/mrinal-desai 
+ https://soundcloud.com/jtcmposr
+ https://soundcloud.com/nayj-2 on vocals
+ me on guitars
:D enjoy 

My Heart Is Vulnerable" Feat. NayJ - Me -, & Jeff Torres (The TCM U/G Groove Mix)

Food Stamps

Once I Found It
Written by Rocky Mountain, around midnight, 11/12 May 1977

Brian Reeves (aka Polar Bear & The Rhubarbs):
  Vocals / Guitar / Mandolin / Harmonica
Recorded in Coventry, 1978...I think…

When Bri was a mature student at Warwick University, one of the things I looked forward to most was the ‘clunk’ of a Jiffy bag on the front door-mat, almost invariably containing a cassette of his latest demos.  “Once I Found It” comes from one such, entitled “IHOHO RADIO”, which took the form of a pseudo radio broadcast with Bri as DJ.  It’s his voice you hear both announcing and talking all over this Polar Bear & The Rhubarbs classic – where are they now, eh?  
Once again, this is the only version of the song we have, hence being presented here as it appears on the original IHOHO cassette. The cover art is from one of Bri’s own  lyric books, the reason I’m able to be quite so precise about the date it was written…
 
Lyrics

Harder it is more you must get away
Getting away is easy if you run
Running is easy if you’ve got the breath
Breathing is easy if you’ve got the air

If you can, you must
If you can’t, you bust

Smiling is easy if you’ve got the lips
Laughing is easy if you’ve got some joy
Happy is easy if you’ve room to sing
Singing is easy if you have a voice

If you can, you must
If you can’t, you bust

Chorus:
Once I found it, once I found it
Once I found it on me – I let it go
Once I found it, once I found it
Once I found it on me – I let it go

Good timing’s easy if you’ve got the mood
Mood comes so easy if you’ve got the beat
Beat comes so easy if you’ve got the dance
Dance comes so easy if you’ve got the feet

If you can, you must
If you can’t, you bust

Repeat chorus


Once I Found It by Rocky Mountain (1978) [please see description]

Another demo.I need to finish it at some point ...

Wakeup

Often Times Inside ~ One and Other

She Said:  This song started when Gary came up with this awesome groove and slick/sick synth line...I was hooked the minute that I heard it.  I so much enjoyed watching/listening as this piece grew layer by layer...Gary's awesome groove was born and then he came up with the concept...how we sometimes focus on the "outside" of things and really don't go to the root of the issue which, most often times lies inside...This one is a bit of a back and forth...question/answer kinda vibe between us...Gary came up with the beginning lyrics and then passed it off to me to come up with the ending ones...when we create, it truly is a back and forth, cyclical process...we truly do vibe off of each other as we go from verse to verse...and we have so much fun!!!   All credit goes to Gary for the vocal melodies ALL of the music and the entire production side of things...he has truly blown me away (once again) ...not only do i LOVE his voice so very. very  much and think he is an amazing writer...but, his guitars just do it for me...those walls of sound he creates with those heavy chords are just what i like and I find it a true honor that he continues to create such awesome music for us to sing upon :)  

He said:
Well Jaime pretty much said everything I was gonna say except the kind words she said about me but I think she totally ROCKED her vocal and lyric on this piece and love her resonance on the chorus. She always finds these killer harmonies that really sound amazing to me and on this tune its no exception. We always have a great time going back and forth and forth and back as we build the tune. Another great "inisde" memory for me absolutely:) We are already working on another piece that will feature heavily Jaimes Piano and Im excited for that already as well !

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Often Times Inside (One and Other)

what you gonna do to change
yeah I wanna hear
From you what your gonna do
and how your going to affect 
an external change
Can ya tell me now
How ya plan on doing this
As im curious as to your methodology
to all things outside our-self

in reply to your question 
it's not your place to know...no
it's an instinctual response
to an always natural seeming way to go
but as I stand aside from this
i see there may be some other kind of approach
it may be that i've overlooked it
or that I didn't really wanna see
to look upon the inward 
is where I need to be

why do we look to the outside of us
when the problem is often times inside (2 xs)

what you gonna do to change
yeah I wanna hear from you what you're gonna do
to try and work upon the outer you
can you tell me now
as the ladies go
in and out they flow
what your process be
can you share with me

in reply to your question
cause I know ya that ya wanna know...know
the ladies satisfy my need to deflect
a connection with one for which to reflect
what i seek i shall not find
through multiples... no peace of mind
this cannot be the answer
this cannot be the way for me
to look upon the inward
is where i need to be

why do we look to the outside of us
when the problem is often times inside (2 xs)

Often Times Inside - One and Other ~ 2019 mix

ThePhaige and Jaime thank ya for all the years of great fun, music, collabs and friendships... keep on pushing :) Cheers!

Often Times Inside - One and Other ~ 2019 mix

One & Other

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