https://youtu.be/0FjLXsBxFPc

C#m Am    C#m   G#m
No show, night falls,
     F#		A	
you didn't show up,
C#m		   B/G#m
cold shouldered my calls.

Who can stand
this foul weather 
No solace or comfort
conniving and scheming

   E		  C	   D
  A red storm is going to blow
   E		      C  D
  Cuts through the crater
   E		C	    D
  Searching details in the dust
    Bm		  C
  Nothing stays the same

Batten down
The hatches now
Lighthouse' beacon 
still stands in the night

Reason,
Don't fail me now.
Comforting thought
To have you near.

Close call, play dead
Now I remember 
what you said

Cold case, foul play
Mayday Mayday
once again...

  A red storm is going to blow
  Cuts through the crater
  Searching details in the dust
  Nothing stays the same
  In the martian rain.

 thanks to @pleudoniem for feedback on the text

19 - 5-2021 - Mr
NL-1BH -21-00009 - Red Storm

Red storm

bandcamp

Red Storm

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

For the promptwriting it's not a challenge thread https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/post/topic=7279.0

Breakfast at noon

Sprinkling the breakfast
with bubbles, sparklingly fresh.
Bread & butter & what not,
am I coldreading you,
Or loosing the plot?
Baking bread, grinding beans,
slowly rising
From confusing dreams
Don't squeeze that orange
  all over the place!

Breakfast at noon
(Cereals, Continental, Vegan toast)

Pretty soon
we will be back in the room
but now's the moment
to chase away the gloom

Tea, my dear?
There is still time
For now and all tomorrows
This should be the line
That we don't want to cross
before breakfast is done.

Making bread, taking time

Gotta get back
to the breakfast
as soon as I can!

Zoom ba be day bye doom dai
dum a dum da boobe di bay

Picture https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-T-1950-165 Rijksmuseum publiek domein     Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande
1915.

Breakfast at noon

Picture https://jafaralam.blogspot.com/2012/08/diego-frazao-torquato-known-as-violin.html

Written for promptwriting https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songwriting-ingredients/26/prompt-writing-2021-and-2022-its-not-a-challenge/7279/msg76309#msg76309

The violin, it's plain to see
is strung within, to necessity;
And the tears and the fears
are taken in a flash.
And in this time and window,
We can only keep it as it is.

The violin, bowed to sing
a melody, that surely brings
Empathy, energy
To pass it on to those
Who will come in times to come,
To capture music
From the thinnest air.

Violin Ghosties

https://youtu.be/o_Kl2g-hkw4

When the moon is up
and the sun is down
come dancing
And the fog crawls up
from the sea below
come dancing

Dance on the volcano
Waltz on the Titanic

When the stars come out
and the night bird calls
come dancing
When the rhythm goes down
into a sway of sorts
Come dancing

When the light is fading
and the tide has turned
come dancing
When the door is closed
crawl through the window
come dancing

Dance on the volcano
Waltz on the Titanic
 ( take a chance now)

Dance on the volcano

Picture https://flic.kr/p/jRpZD
Nicolai Bangsgaard 
Wonderful Mt. Kazbegi in The Greater Caucasus mountain range on the Georgian/Russian border

Into Kazbegi Mountains

Spoken word poem by Jean-Marie Romana https://soundcloud.com/jean-marie-romana/blue-lotus-spoken-word-poem

Blue Lotus

Blue Lotus Featuring Jean Marie Romana

Promptwriting #SWITK 
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songwriting-ingredients/26/prompt-writing-2021-and-2022-its-not-a-challenge/

Lift your eyes to the Hills

D					A
You got married in Reno, Nevada
G			Bm
On a hot August Day
D				A	
But a war came and went,
		G			D
and your love was torn away

chorus a
C
Finally free in Washoe county
Bm					G	A
from the Silver mine a dry wind blows,
C				  
When I travel through Nevada
Bm					Am
I will lift my eyes     to your hills, 
chorus b
G			A			F#m
God knows Maree, you’re   free

D						A
The soldier you pledged your life to
G					Bm
you kissed goodbye on the trail
D					   A
he had to march a madman’s mission
G					Bm
no chance to make it alive

chorus a+ b

3rd verse
The thunder that keeps on rolling
across this desert land
  watching and listening  from the cliffs above
trying to see if I can understand

Chorus a a b

Lift your eyes to the hills

Lift your eyes to the Hills

https://youtu.be/7_AyGpRB_kU
Picture
Dave Govoni Sea Lion, Galápagos Islands https://flic.kr/p/PFLXu
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Sea Lion

A collage containing spoken word from commentary during a solar Eclipse - an enthousiastic volunteer wants to educate the people.

Educate the people

The sky tonight 
seems cut in two
good and bad,
false and true.

Will the world
turn like we want it to
or is it spinning 
Out of control?

Love or hate
Mind or matter.
Just like the light in the sky 
is scattered
from the axis of the milkyway.

looking up is looking down,
Gazing at what we can't see -
just like the light in the sky 
is scattered,
from the axis of the milkyway.

Milkyway

Milkyway (promptwriting)

When - Music - Cries - 1roomstudio - Oorlab17 - 4-2022 - Mr
1Roomstudio - Lyrics & Flute
Oorlab - vocals, guitar, drums

When Music Cries
From Prompt Writing 12/30/21

Comes from somewhere
Hidden deep... slow arise
Strings pull  beating heart
Spirit helpless pulled apart
Somewhere deep surprise

Meaning pulses strains aloud
Singing soulful lines  - comprise
Bowing phrases arc their point
Expressive faces tears anoint
Aloud .... when Music cries

Desperate tears... tears of joy
Come naturally to this boy
Practiced pluck of violins
Melody embrace - begins

Black and White Harmonize
Keys and Signature of Time
Music reaches most sublime
Aloud again when Music cries 

1Roomstudio
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songwriting-ingredients/26/prompt-writing-2021-and-2022-its-not-a-challenge/7279/msg76277#msg76277

When music cries

Instrumental synthmaster recording, download CC BY
https://www.kv331audio.com/downloads.aspx

The picture is from a fallen trees, with some farms in Doorn, the Netherlands.

Tree

Picture https://flic.kr/p/ezdQLe Lynne Rutter 2013

Translator

https://youtu.be/mU_ry4QSDtc

Just dance
no strings attached.
Just dance
no strings attached.

Then again I think I love you
or at least I could 
if you say you would do too.

May we dance
Just dance
And could we be friends
May we dance
Just dance
And could we be friends

Then again I think I trust you
I wouldn't mind
to be on my knees
all the time
all the time.


 

6-5 - 2022 - Timstretch+3BPM - Mr

Just Dance

Just dance

One Leg Dancing 
107  BPM 
Instrumental 7-5 - 2022

One  leg dancing (instrumental)

One leg dancing (instrumental mix)

https://youtu.be/nOWi9145Zwk
Thanks to @progRockDan1

Picture : Photograph Curator  
SC 320901: Normandy Invasion, June 1944. Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.

Fog of War

Fog of War (with ProgRockDan1)

https://youtu.be/VqxWSkGGUiw

One leg dancing


Hey, the moon is out tonight.
Catch us dancing, to a timing that is just 'bout right

Show, show what you can do
One leg dancing is no easy thing to do.

Get balanced, don't slip overboard.
It takes some practice, a rhythm and a chord.

Move, or at least don't stand still.
One leg dancing, if you can't, you bet I will.

So, where have you been?
Come & try the moves, - that rule the scene.

Unwind and at ease, when you're dancing...

Who, who you want to be?
One leg dancer, careless & free.

Get balanced, stick to the floor,
Essential swaying, if you like it you can get some more.

Roll over, then jump back again,
One leg dancing, every woman, every man

Slave, slave to the beat
If you can, join the boogie, or tap your feet

Say, say what you wanna say
Speak to me with body language, 'till the break of day.

Dance, dance to the groove
If you can, do the boogie, yeah

One leg dancing

picture - harry_nl  Delft: "Share your Talent" - Flickr 22 BYNCSA
https://flic.kr/p/s9ki23
this is a short recording of the piano at Hilversum Station - it needs tuning but still very nice to have this piano in this station.

Untuned Piano Station Hilversum

Thanks to @Pleudoniem for text suggestions, and even providing the clip, and Marc Veldt and Jankobus Seunnenga for comments on earlier versions.
https://youtu.be/vc6Fm3b2zmg

Take your disco lights
Out tonight
Send your laserbeam
into the sky

Lord I'm lonely
But the beat will guide me
back to the place
where we can be together

Unbox your dancing shoes
don't tie them too loose
Emoji, gives me a sign 
that all is still fine?

Here comes the disco king
watch him do his thing
like a chachacha
before the camera

There 's a tendency
in the tinder scene
that if you dance alone
you get stuck in the zone

But I don't mind
as long as I can find
a disco light
shining through

Disco Lights

https://youtu.be/_ByUjSDu3Bc
-2-6-2022-mr

Now you see me, now you don't
All a matter of afterglow
I'll be dancing through the dark
you might catch me in a waltz

Here comes the night dance
Here comes the night dance 

Steps and slides,
synchronizing.
Disco Wizard,
while the moon is rising

Will you jive, or jump in line?
Whatever's coming from the deejay
too much treble or flakey bass?
all comes down to proper mixing...

Here comes the night dance

Can you tango? It aint't that hard
Just forget you're not a dancer
In the ballroom of romance
you might get caught in a cha cha cha

Here comes the night dance

Syncopated, animated
Something's waiting round the corner
let a rhythm, let a beat
get you to a new groove

Here comes the night dance
Here comes the night dance

One leg dancer

Here comes the night dance

Here Comes The Night Dance

A Winter's Waltz

Picture : suitcases flickr public domain-elizabeth-masek-2020
https://flic.kr/p/2jK5AAL

Delsey

My trusted Desley,
where would I be without you
You carry mine,
I carry you
Together we go places, and pull it through

Here comes another transit
ready or not,
Another check-in
in another spot,
ID, OD
What is next?
It takes a clairvoyant,
to know what to expect...

Take me to customs
to file a report

On the road to nowhere
(that's wehre we want to be)

The label is lost,
the key is broken.
But we'll carry on,
by the same token.

My trusted Desley,
where would I be without you
You carry mine,
I carry you
Together we go places, and pull it through

My trusted Desley
(shoop - shoop- shoop dohwaaah)

My trusted Desley
(shoop - shoop- shoop dohwaaah)

Delsey

Slide Step



Hey now, watch your slide step
You could easily go astray.
You think, you think you take a straight course
But in fact, you're just going around and round

Hey now, take a look at my sidestep
Two four, you can make it up
as you go along
One two, I can see that you practised
No worries, you know I will tag along

Hi there, can you hear me?
Trying to get in touch with you
The slide step that you've been taking
Sure led you away from the beaten track.

Oh lord, finders keepers,
If only things could be simple as that
Use the side door, that's wwhat they said
But still, we're left out in the rain

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the Forest of the Night

(last two lines from   William Blake's poem "The Tyger" 1794)

Slide Step

Instrumental with my recently acquired banjo at Zeist muziekwinkel.

Pod Borovima- below the pines. Picture - Zadar, Hrvatska.

Pod Borovima

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

Longstory Short (Guitar Instrumental)

Picture
Rosse vleermuis (Nyctalus noctula) en grootoorvleermuis (Plecotus auratus) https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-T-BR-2017-1-1-86 

This tune is an instrumental adaption of the song Vleermuis by Trio Drie eilanden (3eilanden).

Chauve Souris

Original mix at
https://youtu.be/CLuUIf2F_mY
Collaboration October 2020 by @pleudoniem @ProgrockDan1 & yours truely.
Picture by Dixtuin, London 30-12-2016
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/collaborations/21/asking-for-a-friend/6614/

Lyrics

What about salvation?
(Asking for a friend)
Is it too late to learn guitar?
(Asking for a friend)
What about reincarnation?
(Asking for a friend)

Is New York already safe?
(Asking for a friend)
Has the debate taught us anything?
(Asking for a friend)
Can crises be averted?
(Asking for a friend)

Can I get myself into new Zealand?
(Asking for a friend)
Can one get oneself tested?
(Asking for a friend)
Is love still a proposition?
(Asking for a friend)

The title was taken from a tweet by Sean Ono Lennon, when he 'asked for a friend' (#askingforafriend) if it is possible to get a resident permit in New Zealand. 

IRSC NL-1BH -20-00022 - Asking for a friend


https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1
https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem
http://www.soundcloud.com/oorlab
September - October 2020

https://oorlab-music.tumblr.com/post/632616978945916928/asking-for-a-friend-collaboration-with

Asking For A Friend (Less Perc mix)

For Janis, Gosia & Tim, 
Snow song 

Snow is descending
Branching out
Fill the world
with a cover of silence
from moist to crystal
A shiny endless glow.

The hour is getting late
The world is getting full.
Will you be there?
With me
    in this snow.

Picture https://flic.kr/p/2kuJQ9y 
The guitar parts were recorded with my KorgD888. After finding them back again today, I added harmonica, a string sound with the VST Orpheus, and a small vocal part.

NL-1BH -21-00001

Snow SOng

Buy on bandcamp

Snow Song

Welcome to oorlab's soundcloud corner: 
Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
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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/musicpat-2 : https://soundcloud.com/julsy

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