Incredibly powerful lyrics - call to arms! Terrifying marching bookends. You've pulled out all the stops with this one Bryan. Bravo everyone involved in this great rocker. Thanks for sharing

great lyric (as usual) Bryan, well it's all good, but I especially appreciate the lyric.

Excellence! Great writing, vocals, harmonies, and everything else ;)

Really great arrangement, Bryan. Love those name checks in the lyric!!!

creative and alluring ,a well crafted track

Absolutely loved this!!!! Well done!!! woo hooooo!!!

master piece - thumbs up for Jessica harper GeminiiDragon vocals!

Summer is coming - something happy from me.

Burning Car- Crazy Cowboy

Rise of the Humans - Words and music Bryan Ciliberto

Bryan Ciliberto - Guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Jon Ciliberto - lead guitar
Jessica Harper aka GeminiiDragon - Backing vocals

Recorded and mixed by Bryan Ciliberto
Mastered by Joe Drzewiecki
Artwork image - Felix Ciliberto

Rise of the Humans

wait a minute now   
we just passed the promised land
we should really turn around here  
double back if we can

look at these zombies        
there just standing in our way
don’t they know hitch hiking 
is so dangerous these days

I could be your Ghengis Khan
now wouldn’t that be sweet
hiding till the break of dawn
in the Pittsburg heat

feel like jumping through a keyhole
a keyhole in your door
feel like sleeping by your bedside
on a pallet on the floor

I was born here with nothing
nothing in my head
but everyone and everything
keep filling it till I’m dead

I could be your Bukka White
Wouldn't that be cool
you could be my Tuesday Knight
lying by the pool

Rise up all you humans
Wake up wake up wake up
and meet the dawn

Just then sky ripped open 
and a stairway did descend
but it didn’t lead to heaven
from this place will shall transcend

I could be your Daniel Man
Wouldn’t that be right
heading for the promised land
but not without a fight

Rise up all you humans
Wake up wake up wake up
and meet the dawn

Rise Of The Humans

This is part 2 of some improvisational recordings I made with Pat Howell's beautiful handcrafted-from-a -kit dreadnought acoustic guitar.  Part 1 details the guitar's journey a little more and here I wanted Pat to hear his guitar in drop D tuning, and I thought you'd like to hear it too:)

For My Friend--Part 2

With Soundcloud, music is so often created across the oceans, with musicians from around the world who have never met or spoken directly other than through this platform joining together.  Our new jazz fusion composition Across The Oceans pays tribute to these connections across oceans which have fostered such high quality of music, the sharing of regional influences, and true friendships.   
Joining me again are players from Germany, England, Spain and the US, who contribute their individual sounds, elevate and shape the music.  Our horn section was provided by two versatile instrumentalists - Georg Boehme on Baritone saxophone and Andy McLean on Tenor and Soprano saxes and EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument).  Love the full sound they get together and also the interplay between the two musicians.  Our featured guitarist is Stephan Lipinski, who weaves his fine solo to connect the oceans between Europe and North America.  Spanish percussionist Sergio Parraga provides the underlying churning rhythm complement to further bridge our two continents.
Follow these fine musicians if you are not already doing so:  https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf
https://soundcloud.com/pinner
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

And thanks so very much for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Across The Oceans - Georg Boehme / Andy McLean / Stephan Lipinski / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

After a long time I come back with something controversial, so you should sit down before reading and listening further. I have created something very different inspired by the Ukraine-war. I needed a song to channel my aggression and this is the result. So I have recorded a Metal-HipHop crossover-track inspired by Public Enemy, who did the same on their legendary "It takes a million to hold us back"-album.
I have used this song to test also some new production-methods for my project "Heartscore". 

I grab my sniper-rifle and travel to Moscow

I’m sitting on the table with my family, 
Surrounded by hot coffee and calamities
It’s Sunday morning soon we will go to the park
But first my television will enlighten the dark
 
I wonder what I see feeling totally ashamed
An uneducated child is fucking the whole world
They try to negotiate, but I know that they will fail
Brutality is sometimes needed outside the jail

Somebody must take action to educate the child
Before it will destroy the toys and we are in the wild
If nobody stands up from his comfortable chair
The little monster dares what nobody has dared

I grab my sniper rifle and travel to Moscow 

The child is getting wild and kills the innoc ent
It can not play so properly, because of the past
When he was left alone and he was really the last
Raised in poverty, criminality, ambition to rise

From the deep hell the child has climbed to the top of the roof
It is looking down to the former play friends’ group
His envy has grown bigger than his wizen, tiny balls
He is putting on much Botox to cover the grief of a dwarv
 FCK FCK FCK PTN
Take me to the Kreml, driver

I sit on the backseat of a limousine
I spit on the head of the propaganda machine
I hit too late the face of brutality, but
I lit the revolution, I lit the revolution

A candle in the wind of the hot war
It’s the hope I have seen, I will see, I saw
Many people running round holding blank posters
Their lives were a lie, an empty rollercoaster.

Credits:
Drum-sample taken from "Behind the wall of sleep" by Black Sabbath
Vocals created with https://uberduck.ai
Music and lyrics written by Dirk Radloff
Guitar: Schecter KM-6 MK III

I Grab My Sniper-Rifle And Travel To Moscow

one day i will run out of posts for my part with this band

.......will i be sad

Good Gods Gravy

Somnambulate

This is a newbie, I'm playing my epiphone Dove on this one, but a lot of the guitar parts originally started out on my Yamaha classical. I'm writing a lot of music on the classical at the min, but lyrics generally come when I change to a steel string, mostly the Dove these days. 

take it easy folks, thanks for stopping by!

Lyrics

When I let you stay the night
boy I don't appreciate the morning call
gonna turn your foghorn right down
just so as I don't have to hear it anymore

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outta my book
and nail it onto your door

I don't understand why your tiny cloth ears
they don't listen
yeah you'd rather tune in to some
pastiche cheap country honk musician

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outa' my book
and nail it onto your door

I don't understand why for me 
your crying eyes do not see
and I can't quite comprehend
why it is that you picked her over me

keep playing your indie pop
like it is 1994
or take a leaf right outa' my book
and nail it onto your door

it's getting harder now
than it ever was before
that little voice inside of your head
is screaming out
and he'll shout 

forevermore
forevermore
forevermore 
forevermore
forevermore........ and maybe some more


thanks for listening, and inspiring, always greatly appreciated. 

recorded at home on my Tascam 8 track.







1994

The night sky stirs as evil forces conjure malevolent beings to do their bidding. Will they comply?

The Conjuring

MMXXIIIIIIXVIIIDVRCT

Don't Give Up

Everybody

Now, just behind this drawn curtain, beyond this static veil, I know you are there. Like beacons of unfiltered humanity your bravest dreams are real and they reach me even in the most remote and ancient ocean abyss. They are magic. Oh, magnificent invisible gods I’ve been trying to write a poem for you. 

These recordings can be divided into three (Four if you count cover versions of my songs by other SC artists) unfit categories; Butterflies songs, Waltz Bros. Songs and Pall of a Past World songs. Butterflies were a three and four piece band of which I was a member. The band released two albums and several singles 
during it’s run in the mid to late nineties. The Waltz Bros. Is my most current project consisting of myself and Matt Wilson with occasional help from friends. Pall of a Past World consist of things that I’ve done that don’t fit into either of those titles.

Rise Of The Humans

Pall of a Past World

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