what a delicious confection this is. I love all parts of it. your arrangement/instrumentation is just perfect!  and what a good song.

this is perfect :) love the vibe of this, it has this strong melancholy in the organ, but guitar and bass bring some optimism. Beatles meet Sparklehorse :)

Yes - difficult to think of anything worse than that really. This is lovely Paddy.

Brilliant lyrics! Love that sparse organ--blends so perfectly with the vocal register!! Perfect build to the track!!

Until The Quiet Came

Needs to be cut & chopped like crazy...just float away with what makes (little) sense for now.. I did this a long time ago, decided to upload it here to keep it safe.. Complete improv stupidity.

[Noise, Eileen Olson]
[Artwork, Leonora Carrington]

Madness

Making music to capture something that was never there. Not in your fingers, not in the notes, not in the dancing around each other of the sounds like lovers... But you could swear it's close, something you've heard, something real, something for which your heart raced once. 

Then time goes by, the music fades, it's finally over, and you didn't capture anything. 

You were captured instead.

--

100% Caustic.

Artwork: original photo by Lukas Budimaier (from Unsplash).

Greifnah

dreaming 
in detail
as we go on 
with this scene
for too long
i have been buried
by a cover of illusion
for too long
well, the sound of your name
brings me back
to a real state
for your joy
it is reflecting
and confusing
dreaming in detail
dreaming
well, we are dreaming
in detail

ॐ

in b flat minor (a=440)
written, performed, and recorded by viola moonshape in july 2019
mixed and mastered by brahma
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

wooden chair > sm57 > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 01)
korg wavedrum > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 02)
ice cubes > sm57 > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 03)
metal saw > sm57 > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (track 04)
yamaha clp-575 > apollo twin > logic (track 05)
korg minilogue xd > apollo twin > logic (track 06)
vocals > sm57 > apollo twin > logic (tracks 07, 08)
vocals > sm57 > line 6 dl4 > apollo twin > logic (tracks 09, 10)

ॐ

cover by brahma
photography by viola moonshape
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

In Detail, Buried

My Music Videos

I would like to apologize in advance :)
all songs, instruments(soft synths, moog theremini, korg volca sample and guitars fretted and fretless) & production by me.

1. Waves For GENISIS

What'll we do when we make it big?
The big hit could come tomorrow
Whatif it all went wrong for me?
What if I ended up like Bono
I won't have time for autographs
I wanna get home for an early bath
What'll we do when we make it big?

What'll we do when we make it big?
You know it can be quite a concern,
You just can't write songs like this
Without success in return
What about the kids in the school,
While I'm beside that hotel pool?
Who'll be doing for the kids?
What'll we do when we make it big.

Let's put in a middle eight
It's what the kids want these days
Shame it's just a matter of time
Until fame and fortune's mine

What'll we do when we make it big?
Don't wanna smash up no hotel room
I wanna wake up Sunday morning
Home in bed with you
I just wasn't made for this kind of thing
Snorting coke off porcelain
Love's the only drug I want to dig
What'll we do when we make it big?

What'll We Do When We Make It Big?

After finishing my recent album “Astray” my brain needs to navigate what I want to do next musically. This simple 4 minute piece might be too comfortable, but I just go where my heart leads me. 

*free download

Mood Exhibit - Glow Warm

Nightingale: songbird renowned as tuneful mimic; Covid-19 emergency hospitals in UK (after Florence).
?Track: Alto sax distortion (antigen); Clarinet frenzy (antibody); Flute (bird). 
(Other interpretations quite likely).

Nightingale vs Virus

Hello love
Hello love
do you walk
do you walk upon this earth of old?

For the seams 
that we share
I would hold them anywhere
Do we fall apart to just let go?

All your dreams
sing em loud
I will follow them somehow
Don't you know that we weren't meant to be afraid?

All your words
that still hurt
they will never be enough
but a love is still a love to find someday

Do you wander alone?
Do you wander alone?

Wear all your lights
So I might find
(for a love is a love to find someday)
Wear old fault lines
for stars will sigh
Wear all your lights
in time
(for a love is a love to find someday)
They will guide us home..

Hello love
hello love
do you walk
do you walk upon
this earth of old?

Faultlines

Vocals- Barthaarschneider
Synth, Loopty Loop Bass, Vocals- Nic
Electric rhythm guitar (left), lead guitar(fills)-Vice Commandant Dubois
Drums- Monkey Blood Lowdown 
Acoustic guitar, electric rhythm guitar(right,
lead guitar (solos)- Admiral Krank

Greatest Hits

Californian Califonts

Tried playing back in the room through speakers for drum and bass loud into a room. An external sampler allows you to track simultaneously while laying down bass. I think there is something about knowing the track you are playing to is being tracked at the same moment ensures that they always fit together. I used a beat up SP-202 for the beat that I resoldered in a crazy way, the board was cracked and I can't believe it still works. Cant remember where I got the drum sample might have been Max? I sat on this basic track for a long time, then imported phrases to Ableton ,which I have never really used, and hashed out a rough arrangement, Then did a bunch of overdubs which I ended up erasing. I think I enjoyed the more stripped down sound then the crazy sounds I was throwing on top. Its been a wild year. I didn't get much music done, probably my worst output for a year. Its a tough fight finding the time an energy and then keeping your head on what your doing. Sometimes it works to just re-work the whole thing from another angle and cut harshly. Hope all you future people reading this are taking care of this world. We all wanted to be the generation that did it, but the greedy pricks slipped into power, and corruption seems to only work in one direction, rarely are people corrupted into being more compassionate.

Broken Windshield Shopping

'Wry Genius' -Mojo Magazine

Congratulations, you have stumbled across The Sturmey Archers time capsule that has lain buried beneath the Soundcloud sunken garden since the beginning of the 21st century. No doubt you are reading this from a future where music has become just that stuff in the background of funny video clips of dogs and babies. But historians amongst you will probably of heard of a time when music actually meant something to people. 

In the second decade of the 21st century a law was passed that decreed that all lyrics to songs should be about 'this night being the one' and stuff about 'putting your hands in the air'. These were strange times when songs about unique thoughts that sprung into individual's minds were considered retro, but musicians that copied German bands from thirty years previously were thought to still be original.

It was in the context of these times that small groups of renegade songwriters decided to carry on with the virtues of rock and pop's golden age and actually write songs about things, thoughts, feelings and other stuff. These were sometimes profound and and sometimes silly, but the words meant something, the music was playful and adventurous, and the tunes could be whistled by milkmen if they ever got the chance to hear them. They were on a mission to be at the very least, mildly entertaining.

Eminent musicologists of the time scoured the planet to find examples of this music that wasn't rubbish so they could bury it for future generations to enjoy. You now, the lucky archaeologist and future pop picker, have in your grasp the key to a world of wry world play, mad thoughts and old fashioned chord progressions. N.B. If Apes have taken over the planet, sorry for all the trouble we've caused.

What'll We Do When We Make It Big?

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