Smile

Aesthete

What if the stars
And cars
The oceans and hills
The moon
And houses
Were all just 
beautiful dust
What if all these things 
Had just
Grown too huge for us
Now impositions
Making all the rules
Where once it was said
By you 
By me 
By us
What if the stars and cars
The oceans and hills
The moon and houses
were all just 
Beautiful dust
I love to gaze up high
I love to drive real fast
I love to dive deep in 
And climb up hillsides
I need shelter from storms
And from the night
And i love to watch the moon
Mocking in her flights
What if all these things 
Were only beautiful dust.

Beautiful Dust

Please enjoy listening to this track.  Spring is coming to Chicago!  The best to you all!

All music is composed, written, produced and performed by Jeffrey Lasky.

Karen

I had approached Jeff (stonerjazz) to help me out with a beginning I had ... this here has  evolved over time. wow, what a flame flaring! 

credits:
STONERJAZZ: lyrics, guitar, voice, various instruments and sounds
SONIC STRUCTURES: lyrics, t resonator on contact mics, voice, various instruments and sounds, mix

onion peel pt i to iv

onion peel pt i to iv - prominently featuring stonerjazz

Wild Romance

inspired by NIna Simone/ 'you don't know what love is...'



Wine is TRUTH

after 3 AM I hear your voice
tortured as I remember 
recognize your pain
glowing flames of fiery ember
haunting memory of wanting
you despite the cost
tip the golden chalice
till all inhibitions lost
leave nothing but skin
over your bones while
whispering in softest
under tone

always loved you baby
I hang on every word
 amplified and allowed
every distant darkened cloud
in your mind of paranoia
blue and defined
See myself inside 
your harsh lines
if I hadn't fucked it up
could I have made you mine
if I hadn't fucked it up
could I have made you 
mine

doesn't seem like I can
hold a man
set myself up to be damned
by those who should
cherish me the most
yet treat me like I'm toast
attract me just to boast
they took me down
and watched me fall into
a wretched fog of wasted time
scold myself for acting in a haste
when the truth is
I was just afraid
 you'd take me out as well
you'd take me down, as well

couldn't get the words out
couldn't bare to trust
anyone new again...
yet here I  am weeks
 on down the line
syncing with your mind
like you'd give me time 
of day if I reached 
out to you again

yes, you....yes you....


Wine Is TRUTH

Lyrics 

You’re so sure that they’re thinking about you
When none of them really give it a thought or two
Most people got the lowest IQ 
Most people yeah I could name a few 

Stop giving them your power
Stop giving those strangers your peace
Who cares what they think or say
They don’t feel for you no kinda way

Walk on by if they stop to stare
Make sure it’s not just all in your head
Another day on this planet of fear
Time to release yourself from all of those cares

Stop giving them your power 
Stop giving those strangers your peace 
Who cares what they think or say
They don’t feel for you no kinda way 

It’s all in your head…

It’s All In Your Head

The opening movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2009, Rev. 2012).
Live concert recording, Warsaw, "F. Chopin" University of Music, Concert Hall, 19th of November 2012.
Maria Pawlik - oboe. 
Aruto Matsumoto - piano.

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. "A Song Without Words" [Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2009, Rev. 2012)][live rec.]

Polar synchronization

DREAMCATCHER

Polish composer (M.A., 2002, "F. Chopin" Acedemy of Music in Warsaw, Prof. Zbigniew Baginski's class), music theorist (M.A., 2000, "F. Chopin" Acedemy of Music in Warsaw, under Prof. Maria Piotrowska), musicologist (Ph.D., 2005, University of Warsaw, under Prof. Zbigniew Skowron), researcher, lecturer.
So far he has written 117 pieces: 12 symphonies (2017-2024), 3 symphonic poemes (2001-2011), 3 solo concertos with orchestra (organ, piano, flute, 2002-2024), 18 string quartets (2001-2024), 16 sonatas for different solo instruments with piano (violin, cello, oboe, trombone, etc.), chamber music as Piano Trio (1998), Piano Quartet (2021), Piano Quintet (2003), String Trio (2021), numerous songs for voice and piano, sacred works, e.g. Mass for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra (2002, rev. 2021), and electronic music.  
The author of the crucial, first and original book (used as academic manual and present in many libraries) on "New Romanticism" in Polish music after 1975 (2022, English Language Edition).
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1282565?fbclid=IwAR1Pm40flHnsqH07OsvXdXwV1ZwLeVLOmfrxkqe3wxL5rsJioluBL-2FQ9M#document-details-anchor
Polish edition (2006):
https://mi.pl/pl/p/Pawel-Strzelecki-Nowy-romantyzm-w-tworczosci-kompozytorow-polskich-po-roku-1975/59

The book was quoted in: Andrea Bohlman: "Musical Solidarities. Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland". Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 208, 266. The link to the quotation (p. 208):
https://books.google.pl/books?id=uNnBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&dq=bohlman+nowy+romantyzm&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyL-x-Lf4AhXOk4sKHUWMChUQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=bohlman%20nowy%20romantyzm&f=false

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. "A Song Without Words" [Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2009, Rev. 2012)][live rec.]

Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D.

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