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Facelift

Being my second solo track, this is a musical form of pixie dust with a little stomp of techno. Throwing in some experimental sounds & samples, you now have Celestial Awakening. 

It's time to wake up!

Celestial Awakening

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

With rhythms inspired by UK garage, lyrically Clydecore is a tale of coercive control told through the romanticised lens of a survivor and offset by imagery of the real experiences of the Barrow Gang. In an instant, guitars and electronics switch from atmospheric to stabbing in a dance of freedom and rage.

Clydecore

It won’t take so long
to sing this sad song.
I wrote this short song
so long ago.

When we said so long
I knew that it was wrong
but we said so long
so long ago.

As long as I am here
I’ll be longing for that year
I spent with you
so, so long ago

but if my memory serves me well
you didn’t take it well
when I said so long
so long ago.

So it’s so long Mary Ann
you were named after that man
who sang So Long, Marianne
so long ago.

Wish I’d found a better end
to this song I won’t be sending
you lost your heart
so long ago.

So Long

Warmest Regards is the first single from the Fishery Commission's returning E.P. "Four Under Three". 

The track addresses the concept of the overwhelming bleakness facing humanity, with the firm belief that the planet will one day fight back and overcome the mess we have made of it. 

Mort Garson meets 8bit over a heavy dub sound system to accompany a set of songs written by a late night torch singer.

Warmest Regards

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/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .

Forward

Oorlab