Name: Clouds by Paul Adams
Duration: 6 min 48 s
Description: Atmospheric and ambient influences for meditation, exotic listening by paul adams. An ambient sound painting rich in cinema and implications of natural filmscore

He was a young, English R.A.F. recruit stationed in Germany. She was the daughter of the local high-school Deputy Head and if you were 20 something, the ‘small café’ was the place to be...

Small Cafe

A beautiful and exotic beginning to Paul Adams new album Imaginings, New Age and world fusion sensibilities in an exotic and romantic atmosphere. Beautiful and cinematic

Just Such Beauty

Atmospheric and ambient influences for meditation, exotic listening by paul adams. An ambient sound painting rich in cinema and implications of natural filmscore

Clouds

I wrote this tune for the Jazz Vespers service that I do at the Westminister Presbyterian Church. This is a more electronic version. The tune was inspired by a poem of Maya Angelou's.

Amazing Peace

A groove using Trumpet, Bass Trumpet, Shells, Ableton and Reason.

What Is Right, and What Is Wrong

This is dedicated to the young musicians of the Knox Jazz Ensemble and Cherry Street Combo, who were welcomed to China with open hearts by the students of the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi'an, to whom this is further dedicated.

Children Of China (We Are All One)

Inanimate objects messing with you? Machines doing the opposite of what they're supposed to? Time speeding up when you're really short of it? And everything (and more) in the same day? Of course that must be the universe playing tricks on you to amuse itself watching your reactions! You try different methods of getting back in the saddle but nothing works. It's all been efficiency proved before being thrown out at you. You: a) get very angry b) laugh c) you write a song about it d) all of the above. 
Just as complex as the answer to the irony of life can be was also the making of this song. It kept playing in my head for months and months, without me being able to make sense of how to express it - there was no melody, idea, chords or rhythmical form to start from. 
Finally I took the chance and just played and sang the closest I could to what I felt it was. It turned up a groovy funny paranoid sweet frustration sort of entity. 
Looking back on it, the whole situation and the result of it couldn't have made a better point. 
The beautiful helplessness of human beings in their frantic race for control.


general conspiracy 
trying to keep you away from me 
general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 
I did my best to get there on time 
but they simply planned it all too fine 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 



I tried to get to you on time 
but my dress zipper just broke down 
so it's back to my jeans and sport shoes 
so much for looking pretty for you 

there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you away from me 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 
I did my best to get there on time 
but they simply planned it all too fine 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 



I really tried to get it right 
but my old car just wouldn't start 
though I used my best technical skills 
hitting the steering wheel and kicking the wheels 

there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you away from me 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 
I did my best to get there on time 
but they simply planned it all too fine 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 


[guitar solo] 

I did my best to get there on time 
but they planned it all too fine 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe 


then when I could finally start it 
I went on and got caught in the traffic 
there was some demonstration for human rights 
well what about my right to get there on time 

there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you away from me 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me 
I did my best to get there on time 
but they simply planned it all too fine 
there's a general conspiracy 
trying to keep you away from me 
general conspiracy 
trying to keep you safe from me... 
[etc...]


Credits
 
Recorded at Bardo Music Studios 
Mixed by Scud Noonan 
Vocals and guitars Ana Patan 
Bass and percussion Jamal Evans 
Drums Zoltan Csörsz

Spice, Gold and Tales Untold

General Conspiracy

Theme For An Imaginary Western/ Gulliver

01 Early morning light (From The Road Curves CD)

From Paul Adams album A VIEW FROM THE PLAIN. Drop thumb Finger Style Guitar done in a meditative rural setting on the prairie

At Prairies Edge

Adams works in a number of different genres. His work can be heard throughout the world on Satellite such as Sirius/XM. Music Choice, DMX, Pandora where he has amassed for than 104 million plays. He also has a band called THE NEURONS with ex Ray Charles arranger David Hoffman.  His album IMAGININGS won best Cont. Instr album of 2015. SLEEP THE DREAMING FLUTE won Native Flute Album of the year at The Zone Music Awards in New Orleans in 2013.

Clouds

Paul Adams

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