Clover and hop,
the growing won't stop
untill winter comes.
The meadow is green,
lush is the scene
To where the river runs

chorus
I guess you could say,
I'm a boy of nature
with my boots in the mud
while I roam the pasture
The trouble with me,
I'm hard to pin down.
But if you give me a whirl,
I will come around.

Chestnut and oak,
forrest gone rogue,
The birds have a ball.
Salmon and trout,
jump like a crowd,
from brooks
rich and fresh.

chorus

Let us go forth
into this wild
and unknown land
getting a scan,
making a plan
to understand.

chorus

Deputy Jay
went all the way
to the Delta bash,
had to get home 
before the sun's 
daylight crash.

solo

I guess you could say,
I'm a boy of nature
with my boots in the mud
while I roam the pasture.
Clover and hop,
the growing won't stop
untill winter comes.

Will come around

Rubicon

It's hard to see what's my destiny
A point of no return, a bridge to burn
How I love to see you, once again
Can it happen, tell me where and when.

I cross the water at a shallow course,
even if I have to go to the river's source
Tell me, tell me, will you be there
Clocking up some time to spare

Rubicon

The night falls, the car crawls
the wind blows, the sign shows.

Discussion at
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songs-for-review/2/rubicon/7288/

Rubicon - 17 - 10 - 2021 - Mr.wav
ISRC NL1BH2100024
Picture - Paul Citroen (1896 - 1983) de danseres Estelle Reed (1933)

Rubicon

bandcamp

The pictured mini kalimba or thumb piano ( a present from a Fair Trade shop) was used for a short piece to accompany this gardenvideo https://youtu.be/nUY7OPUV8Z8

Mini Kalimba

A clip with an impression of the newly created patch of coast at the Dutch North Sea near The Hague.

https://youtu.be/xqZHhlFWW_M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_engine

Zandmotor

7 instances of Bucketone (version 1.0.0.0), 5 of Bucketpops (version 1.0.1.0)
KVR OSC 173 Entry

Thanks to Björn from Full Bucket http://www.fullbucket.de/music/

Effect Plugins - native Cubase reverb, delay and EQ

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2023/osc-173-two-buckets

oorlab - Bucketones KVR OSC173

Music for this clip
https://youtu.be/07oXun5IcCE
Downloadable CC BYNC
ISRC NL1BH2300026
27-7-2023
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirrksv/albums/72157614980749778
for MB

Forest stream Leuvenumse beek

Forest Stream Leuvenumse beek

clip (short / reel) at
TikTok 
Youtube
Facebook

Violin + VST tunefish
Music also at Bandcamp:

Timelapse Weather Detective

https://youtu.be/pN_GyRUp66M

thanks to https://soundcloud.com/shamukhamedov-803522980 for comments on an earlier version and https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem for borrowing his fretlles 5string bass guitar

Forward and upwards
No need to look back
When I hear your voice
I almost see your face
Give me that reality check

Detours and sideways
as push came to shove

Windows and doorways
(crawling out, pushing through)
loopholes and timeframes
Forward and upwards
(don't come back, don't look down)
fragile but agile
I know we can make it okay

I see you are wearing a mask 
 (lay it down)
to hide from the gazes

We're okay with everything
We're okay with everything

U-turns and ley lines,
cruising and loosing myself
every inch of the way
Can you shed a light
(show it to me)
on this conundrum now?
I'll wear my heart on my sleeve

Occupy where are you now?
Did you find a way for salvation?
(show me the way now)

Forward and upwards
)how to get myself out of here)
I'll only transmit on your wavelength

Forward

Darbuka, 12 string guitar and three tracks with freeware Essence VST from Ronan Fed - see https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/02/13/essence-plus/

Strapped to the Mast

Sempervivum-WIP

Strawberries
Summerfruit
feels like
orchard music

water mellons
Huckleberries
Peaches, Pineapple, Plums
Apricot
   and quince . . . 
 
I don't need more
to be convinced

Summerfruit in the kitchen
you don't know what you're missing...

songwriting challenge - see
https://discord.com/channels/1031582785799979108/1031582786898890889

Summerfruit

Summerfruit (Kalimba Kitchen Challenge)

https://youtu.be/vM4m-a5I4QY

Lies and Deceit

G	  Gm	    G7		   C
Lies and Deceit, you were sly as a fox
C			      G
How could I know the game you play?
G	  Gm	    G7		   C
Anger and grief and trust just disappeared
C		  G
Station call, no reply

A			       E
Did you really think you'd get away with this?
    A                E
it all looks like a hit and miss
  C9	     F9
Stuck in the limousine

Angels and muses, songs in disguise
please take off your tight mask
Balancing challenges, how can you sleep
White-knuckled down to the bone

Bullet ripped your ear
But here you are
Keep your eyes on the getaway car
How dark can this story get?

Did you really think you'd get away with this?
it all looks like a hit and miss
Stuck in the limousine

Lies and deceit, clouding our minds
The library is burning
Closing a deal, sealing a pledge
who do you think you are fooling?

Lies an deceit

Lies And Deceit

Piano and Violin - inspired by recent visit to the enchanting village of Pentedattilo in Calabria. 
clip with a few amateur pictures can be found here
https://youtu.be/JbEkQfkuzhI
4-11-2024-mr-oz-oorlab

Pentedattilo

https://youtu.be/Oy0R6W-debs

"From Geneva to Naples"

While I searched, I came down to the crossroad
Star shone like a secret gem.
I guess there's no way to woo the moonlight,
Everybody knows by now.

Floating stones, believe it
Vulcano never sleeps.
It keeps its eye fixed on you,
Prepare yourself to leap,
Prepare yourself to leap.

Chorus
Hit the ground running,
No time to settle down - 
that's when you see,
the writing on the wall,
the writing on the wall.

Come to me, the fire is burning
Underground, to the sea.
Switching tracks, jumping stations,
reschedule instantly.

Geneva is waiting,
Naples lies ahead
The sun is warm
the sky is clear
Like joy in memory yet.

Chorus

Last three lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45140/stanzas-written-in-dejection-near-naples

the lines
The sun is warm / the sky is clear 
Like joy in memory yet.
from Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Stanzas written in dejection near Naples"

song: oorlab "From Geneva to Naples" 
december 2024


Thanks to @pleudoniem and @soundswimmer for comments on earlier version

From Geneva to Naples

https://youtu.be/T8WGP1CQ1co 

Jump this train (Geneva Road)

Gotta Jump
this  train
Get me out
of this rain

Chillin out

Trave itch
driving me
to infinity

If you see something 
that doesn't look right
inform staff or text the British
Transport Police on
61 016, we'll sort it 
See it, say it, sorted


Geneva Road
Just chillin out
Just Chillin

Geneva Road

Contains sample from De Wachtrein https://www.mixcloud.com/dewachttrein/

Jump this train

Semper idem


Haven't you seen?...
the sign is off the wall
since the last week...

Oh no! something happened today
all the lights were green all along...
Far for me to fall
I wish you again
again

Somebody trading to be me

Hinterland - onwards we go
By the colours of the ocean
I can tell my lover's eyes

Send me a line
and if history repeats
trouble's up ahead
I guess you'll pull it through
and discover the next clue
the cause-way takes us over the water

Always the same
same as it ever was

Oh no!, something happened today
all the lights were green all along...
Far for me to fall
I wish you again
again

ISRC NL1BH2400022
28 - 12 - 2024 - Mr - Ozone

Strapped to the mast

Semper Idem

Lumen Festival

RIP Wilma Schuhmacher

From the blueroom

Thanks to Mark and Eric for feedback on earlier versions
https://youtu.be/mDz6Y6Z_lbI

Love Scandal

Tried to get in touch with you
but you seem to have gone with the wind
I did my best, what more could I do?
In these troubled times

Following the trail to lead me
to the next split in the road
within a moment I will navigate
and be crawling through

______________

Facing my ghosts, but I
won't leave my post
Better trust my senses
before I roll the dice
______________

Love is scandal
and heartbreaks galore
The life of a spy is always a lie
but still we try

________________
I will confess
my crimes to you
the measure was pleasure
the dice had been rigged
but I made it through

The ethics got hectic
stakes ran too high
did I get too personal?
when you said
"do as you see fit"
______________

Bring me to the window
where the light shines
from the mountaintop.
I can handle the scandal
But I can't handle love

Out of respect, eh,
Slightly aloof
Love was scandal 
Who needs proof
When everything breaks down

Love is scandal
Truth is cruel
If only we could
live again
in saner times

Buy at bandcamp

Love Scandal

Turning the hinge

Soon, come again
Rise, live again
The door from the inside
Turn, turn the hinge

The moment passed too soon
never never thought 
that this would be the end

Soon, the door will close
the boatman is waiting

As we walk in twilight,
and the tides are twirling
The timelapse sunrise
doesn't last all day

Noon is the hinge of the day
eyes wide open
let the journey begin

Icons and beacons 
The light of the lighthouse
is turning as a cold eastwind 
creeps over the coast.
The sign says
'beware of fog'

Soon, lay thee down,
down.

The line "Noon is the hinge of the day" is from Emily Dickinson's poem 931

Turning the hinge

Storm Line

Hear that old wind blow strong
Right through the street and gate
Harbour is showing the tide
call me when you need to hide

Full is the rising sky
with clouds that glow in the dark
do you know where you are?
And how to get home?
straight as the storm line breaks

2 for a naught we dance
we long to be among friends
sign off the day, stuck in the clay
fade in the light, one off chance
into this storm we'll dance

The edge of the wood where all must pass
but none really quite belong
the basin was filled, then came the rocks from the hill
the surge of the stream is close

Throwing caution in the wind
Do we still have a chance to escape?
high wind and heavy rain 
clouds in every shape,
Amber warnings turning red

Ill wind blows, through my bones
accused of betraying your misjudged trust
wild is the water, on these pagan waves
2 for a naught, come aboard
pull that oar and skip that surf

Storm line

Inspired by the Laibach / Mina Špiler version my take on the wonderful Beatles song. ☮

Across the universe

Back from the Brink

Contains https://archive.org/details/solar_eclipse_1709.poem_librivox Solar Eclips, poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, as read by Newgatenovelist (EL)

Ceteris Paribus

Picture https://flic.kr/p/7RbvJS

Dirge is from the Album Planet Waves - one of the most poignant self-reflective Dylan songs. 

Dirge (Dylan cover)

Canada here we come

The way of the world
From this misty outlook
The sherif took for granted,
The road of the lakes 
not yet explored,
Seagulls from the North,
Parade in front of my southern window,
The window of opportunity.
Oh slim hope
on Fitzwilliam Island,
to the Big Tub Lighthouse

Canada here we come!
Prairie girl under the noonday sun,
Canada here we come!
A big tornado 's got me on the run

Gentleman Jim wrote out a counterfeit cheque
The crew was double crossed and cheated
In the logging camp 
where sentiments ran high
folks started sharpening knifes
Not too late to settle the business
Carve your own paddle
if you need one
From Copper harbor to Thunder Bay
The villain laughed all the way

The zig-zag course
of that rusty old boat
Freshwater fury, the big blow
Along the lee of the rocky mountain
truely a tendered farewell

Canada here we come

an instrumental to accompany a video with a collage on Pattern Mining, a concept from data science, where you throw in a bunch of data and try to discern patterns.https://youtu.be/hgb94lQtjlY

Pattern mining

Open for collabs.
Also on
Musicoin
https://musicoin.org/nav/track/0xd3700a0eaecfe60dae1b5a9fffecfb055710dcfe

Longstory Short (Guitar Instrumental)

Picture at ello.co
https://ello.co/oorlab/post/u3eloogcz0fhtzvoe0re2a
Spoken word parts:
radio-prague EN190513-1442-dl Radio Prague May 2019
https://www.radio.cz/en/broadcast-archive/2019-05-13

defcode-scan-2004-10-31-04-1 Archive.org Scanner radio Community Audio
https://archive.org/details/2004_11_Washtenaw_County_MI

This track contains sounds from the Freeware Firebird VST
https://www.tone2.com/firebird2.html
recommended musical software.

Headed down the Citrus Road

Headed down the Citrus Road (Collage)

With Mo : https://soundcloud.com/user-65096772
Picture - a surprised bloody actor https://flic.kr/p/vFxuUE
Lyrics by Mo
Inertia

Oh, how it does me sad
your recurring play of social rat
good lucky years you had
Abundance did fed you fat

Oh, how it does me sad
your recurring play of social rat
Fathered many kids you get
But know, whats drives me mad
Fathered many kids you get
But know, whats drives me mad

If resources running low you pray
forgotten love gives way gives way
forgotten love gives way
gives way

egoism fun whats count you say
provoke aggressions that will stay
egoism fun whats count you say
provoke aggressions that will stay
gives way
Comes bloody, not just may
Comes bloody, not just may

gives way

Don't pretend surprised actor
how nature solves this crowd factor
Makes no sense try to track her
and abuse won't stop her time reactor
no no
 Oh, how it does me sad
your recurring play of social rat
Comes bloody, not just may
Comes bloody, not just may

again she'll work
as crowd rat ejector
again she'll work
as crowd rat ejector

again she'll work
as crowd rat ejector
Oh daddy, not just may
Come daddy, let`s are play
Come daddy, let`s are play
Gives way

Inertia

Inertia (Mo & Oorlab)

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs , https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem , https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/silent-steps ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy : 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt : 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli

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