Wonderful playful piece...a fine exploration.

Visible from miles around, an age old, lone sentinel stands atop the ridge.

© 2021 Dairv Dubbleyew

Lime Tree Ridge

Still rediscovering my youth compositions on old tapes, and trying to save them as best as possible!

Bachal In Empty Space (For Dominique)- Bruno C

For the defenders of Ukraine.

Written, recorded and produced by K Gennery.
All instruments played by K Gennery except the wonderful main piano's and beautiful BV's by Alise Kirtley. 
Image not my own.

Thank you Alise for being so generous with your time and talent and coming to work in my very basic home studio, with ancient gear and an ancient bloke. You helped to make the record exactly what I had imagined. It truely needed a gifted pianists touch and not my rough and heavy mitt's.
Twas a delight spending time with you. 

Heres the actual open mic performance.
https://youtu.be/CLDW8ZK1J-g

And Alise performing a cheeky little number at the very same open mic.
https://youtu.be/7PvJ6utVoC8

A few links to my fave songs from Alise and her band, The Bearing.
https://youtu.be/ixaPvRT08Is
https://youtu.be/ZE168NXoXJU
https://youtu.be/p3sm6Buu1ec


The story:
I wrote this song on my acoustic guitar and started to record it that way, but just wasn't getting the vibe as I did when played live. I tried various ways to get it down with the guitar including an electric...nope, nothing happening.
So I  then thought maybe it wants to be a piano song but my wooden, plonkey key skills were not up to the task. About this time I was thinking possibly the song was not that good. Maybe I was feeling the emotion from the lyrics and not the melody. So I decided to play it at the next open mic, along with two other new songs and I asked the audience to pick which to record next. They all said this one.  On the way to sit back down Alise, who I knew was an amazing piano player, said, "Thats a beautiful song". So, I tried my luck and replied, "I'm just not getting it down with the guitar, what the song needs is a classically trained pianist, anyone spring to mind?" Alise smiled and said, "I would love to be involved". I was tickled pink.






Lyrics:
So many of us fall, cause we all heard the call,
to bleed blue and yellow.

For this is our own home, dust will cover our bones, forever,
we'll never concede.

If I can't be found, lightening marks the ground,
 if I can't be found, lightening marks the ground,
where I once stood.

Keep or children safe, teach them of our bravery.
Death in defiance, we'll never be compliant to invasion,
cause this is our nation.

If I can't be found, lightening marks the ground,
 if I can't be found, lightening marks the ground,
where I once stood.

Where I Once Stood

Honorable Mentions:
Chris Lane Sr - Bass Guitar
Lauren Nolan - Title Suggestion

"What went wrong"

(Chorus)
Hey, Hey
What went wrong with the world tonight
I made not home alive - I'm so tired
Don't wanna fight

(Verse 1)
You win - I lose
We act like fools
Nothing changes 
From day to day
You Said you're right
I say goodnight
I get the feeling
We're seeing things differently

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)
Check In - Checked out
I'm inside out
All is quiet
On an endless stream of misery
Be one without
There is no doubt
My will is broken
But I ain't getting angry

(Bridge/Guitar Solo)

(Chorus)

What Went Wrong?

Music to accompany a series of images taken of the same view over a period of about a year. Includes many sunrises. The video is available from:
https://youtu.be/pf5dPaugpEY

A walk through time (position 6)

My ego run rampant! Starting my own cult of personality, living in abandoned empty big box stores with my family of followers. No takers so far...
Please play this Captain Beefheart inspired song LOUD!
From the EP "Smilers"
Lyrics:
Pulling off the highway
In some dusty, sunny suburban town
I'm going to start my own cult
I'm gonna call  it "TheTemple of the Stumpgrinder blues"
It will get you out of that catatonic state
Bloated bursting bellies
C'mon fill your plate
C'mon C'mon
I'm about as subtle as a car crash
You're all invited to my
All night
Day-glo
Ego bash
But, you're gonna have to bow down
Everybody in their life
Has to bow down
Stumpgrinder
Stumgrind

You know what you know
You do what you do
That's how you ended up here
Living in a burned out big box store
There's something missing out there
There's something missing in your life
(Something missing in your life?)
Your gonna bow down
Stumpgrinder
Stumpgrind

Living in a  burned out big box store
It's got everything you need
Fishing tackle and gear
Diamond encrusted wrinkle cream
Budweiser
Red beans and rice
Polyurethane sleeping bags
For 43% more warmth at night
Transistor radio
With a long antenna
Set to an oldie station
Bloated bursting bellies
Of fulfillment
All sales final!

Stumpgrinder

Lotus ((vv))

Can survive in a hostile environment.
Rarely opens itself to others.

"Lotus" was our main release from last year. This is a concept album about disease as a transformation agent. Musically, this is a psychedelic journey that covers Stoner, Far East, Cante Jondo, Freak Folk, European psychedelia and Krautrock.

You can get this EP on Bandcamp for less than the price of a coffee. All proceedings go to support other underground acts. 

https://sugaarpan.bandcamp.com/album/lotus-ep

Love.

Lotus EP

Wake of the Lotus

Triphop vibes with chill downtempo flavours. 
Miseryland is listed on Scratch Kelly's Grand Plans album, released in June, 2023.

Grand Plans

Miseryland

Piano 
clip at https://youtu.be/NFl6JCBfhWA
inspired by Torsten Janssen's novel Leinstermann in Doorn

Huis Doorn

Organ Donor A1 Project

Paino and synth improvisation.
Free to download for rework/remix, just tell me.

Un Momento #4 (free to download for rework/remix)

Welcome to oorlab's soundcloud corner: 

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

latest album https://open.spotify.com/album/2OMg0zyJSeFFV1bQ6gh8Nm (sep 2022)

Huis Doorn

Oorlab

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