ROCK ON ROCK 7 A bunch of fantastic ROCK songs from some
of the great Artist/Bands on Soundcloud & few of my own.

ROCK ON ROCK 7

AKS March 2021 playlist

Rock and Progressive spring 21

Beautiful Classical and Contemporary

The Latest songs from some fantastic Artist's/Bands and a few of my own,

Playlist 077

GHOST FLUCTUATIONS

The Upload

March 2021 Favorites

PowerPlay027

Baskets of Gratitude: Thanks for your playlists and comments on What Difference Does It Make Pt. 1

« Pavane » de Gabriel Fauré - Opus 50 (1825-1924)
My concert Flute playing and recording in my Home - Studio on Wednesday, March 10, 2021.
Thanks for listening. Hope you'll enjoy!
Link on YouTube : https://youtu.be/vhJ6VZk3TwE

« Pavane » de Gabriel Fauré

Well, I'm far too gone for any social please
And I crushed the odds but I'm far from free
Gotta find a way to sustain
This numb feeling cause' it's always

In my head again
when I'm feeling this adrenaline
Of the whiskey that's been kickin' in
I hope that this will never end, I said
In my head again
When the problems started from within
And the truth begins a sinkin' in
I'm beggin' please just make this end, yeah

OH! I gotta feel it, getting near it all
Opened up a void that was a hole
Pour it down until it warms the soul
Gotta feel it, getting near it all

Feeling far too gone for any 'socialing'
And I'm way too young to have this disease
So you think I'm wrong? Let me tell you right
How I've all but won this fight

In my head again
when I'm feeling this adrenaline
Of the whiskey that's been kickin' in
I hope that this will never end, I said
In my head again
When the problems started from within
And the truth begins a sinkin' in
I'm beggin' please just make this end, yeah

OH! I gotta feel it, getting near it all
Opened up a void that was a hole
Pour it down until it warms the soul
Gotta feel it, getting near it all (x2)

Far Too Gone

Original track:  https://soundcloud.com/drannic/caravan

Caravan

The Ghost Vessel - Fleursonseaux
All rights reserved - © Copyright

The Ghost Vessel

Its Free to Dream ,
 You can go anywhere no one can lockdown your Deams.

3 2 Dream

Produced, Composed and Arranged by Sullivan and Ruizzoidman https://soundcloud.com/ruizzoidman21centurions https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo
Guitars, Piano, Bass: Ruizzoidman
Lyrics: Darren Sullivan (Ruizzoidman translator)
Vocals: Sullivan and Ruizzoidman

Lyrics:
Hey, I was hoping all day, anyway you want, I was green, I’m sorry, for being, this way

Sneaking around, blessed ground, once it was, for me. 
pleasure of the world, blessed ground , I shall walk with thee

"Esperaba todo el día para ser como quieres. Tenía celos. Lo siento por ser así."

Hey, I was hoping all day, anyway you want, I was green , I’m sorry, for being, this way

On the radar , bristling down coming around
Maybe later, bubbling boil toil and trouble
Porous crater, simmering now melting crown
Making pay dirt, exploding sound erupting ground.

Bring in the floating bills
Bring in the frozen lock
Bring in the callous frills
Bring in the broken clock
Bring the jury and judge
Bring in the final gasp
Bring in the resentful grudge
Bring in the ghosts from the past

Sneaking, around, blessed ground, once it was for me.
pleasure of the world, blessed ground , I shall walk with thee 

"Esperaba todo el día para ser como quieres. Tenía celos. Lo siento por ser así."

Hey, I was hoping all day, anyway you want, I was green , I’m sorry, for being, this way

https://topbuzzmagazine.com/music/darren-sullivan-releases-lasses-birgitta/?fbclid=IwAR3lbQNuOMWO_ZjwEOhJA6uW8m2WxP0_mkFc5RSqHG3eqsVwAtfoSzEMZhs

Witches's Brew

Witches' Brew (with RUIZZOIDMAN)

I AM A FOOL LOVING YOU
Vocal : Melissa
 www.Ghosthack.de
Trumpets : Don Clark and  Al Matheson
Arrangement, Mix and Production : Lillithe
Mastering : Paploviante

I AM A FOOL LOVING YOU (Mastering Paploviante)

Cut through the static—Three Photons is broadcasting pure analog soul from a rain-slicked midnight in Chicago

I have been playing around with.....ii V I progressions and the Bebop A dominant scale. I call this one an Indie Dark Jazz flavor. Hope you will like some part of it and maybe hum along before it ends..... 
Thank you René for feedback on the first draft! 

Live from Chicago 
Written by TJG March 2021
Mix 1: March 23, 2021

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars
Rhythm 1: Guild DV52
Rhythm 2: Les Paul Standard
Lead1: Fender Stratocaster
Bass: Fender Squire

Percussion: 
Pearl Cajon Mach 2 – with brushes
Pearl Hi Hat with Zildjian symbols - with brushes - no idea what I'm doing here, but I like working the foot pedal. 

Mics: Neumann TLM 67 (vocal)
AGK 414 & Shure KSM44 on guitars, cajon and hi hat

Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape. I used an input and output transformer to give some additional harmonic distortion......I just like pushing the buttons and watching the reels spin…;-)


Verse 1
They’re all buying guns
To take a shot at you
But you’re still smiling
Because you died a long time ago
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain 1
It’s live from Chicago
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago

Verse 2
When the morning breaks
The camera fades away
But you’re still smiling
Because you’re still standing tall
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain2
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

outro
How was I to know?
It's live from Chicago....

Let the camera roll
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
Here in Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
let the cameras roll
let the cameras roll
it's life in Chicago
it's life in Chicago

Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

Live from Chicago

This is the 3rd song Bitzone, Frawstakwa, and I have worked on together for my CKP page. I wanted this latest track to continue with the electronic hip hop vibe we had established with our previous two tracks.  Bitzone dug into his rich production archive and found a beat 10 years deep that met the criteria. This time I sent the track first to Frawstakwa to switch things up, since the last two songs I had started off. Frawstakwa came up with these deep metaphysical verse and chorus lyrics and I added a literal interpretation with my verse that I hoped would complement his meaning while keeping in theme with the previous two tracks. Bitzone then worked his magic and transformed the track into an electronic hip hop rock fusion. And then for a final surprise, he asked Joerxworx to join in with some futuristic EWI. In the end, I like that this track is different from It Ain’t Looking Good and Trendsetting and I think it points at a possible new direction for the next track we all work on together. 

Thank you for all your listenings, comments, playlists, radio spins, and purchases. The musical team is eternally grateful. 
Don’t loose hope, keep faith in yourself and your community, be creative, and persist.

Bitzone: Music, Mix, and Production
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
bitzones.net
Joerxworx: Akai EWI
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
RS Frawstakwa: Verse Lyrics and Chorus and Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa
Couch King: Verse Lyrics, Vocals, and Vocal Arrangement
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
She’s Excited: Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/she-s-excited
https://she-s-excited.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-crazy
Intro: Michio Kaku

Lyrics

Oh, this is just great 
Yo, gimme a break 
No, Freudian slip made
So, it’s no mistake
Go, psycho analyze it 
Though, am I insane
In the membrane
Or normal
It’s weird right?
We’re here but so briefly
Mere mortals
Appears our fate is foretold
How unfortunate 
Of course there’s this
Who says we have to forfeit free will
Forget about it
We are forward thinkers 
And forces of nature
Scratch that - supernatural
Look at how we have grown
And evolved
Lets explore
What’s beyond
What is known 
And accepted by all
Be omnidirectional 
Slow, in the fast lane 
Flow, like a mixtape
For, goodness sake
Over and over again 
Face total
Loss of control
Lack of faith
Don’t trip though
Effects cause vertigo
Catch wreck, let ‘em know
Fact check, general 
Search, research
Both the world and the earth
First you learn
Then you teach
Art and culture
To reach out and touch 
All of the people 
Them, no doubt indeed

Bitzone and the Couch King

One stereo image
Audio visual one

Sirobosi Frawstakwa
#frawstakwaforyou

What difference does it make
If at any given rate
The only thing that matters in the end is too late

What difference does it make
If at any given rate, yo!

Have you ever felt alone
In a place so dark, so vast, so cold

Everyday I pass by
The same lame busted gate 
The same 
Boarded up broken windows and
Old rusted grates
The same
Overflowing trash cans continue to accumulate with a ever-growing stench that won’t abate 
It’s the same
Neighborhood cats talking smack on da crates 
It’s the same
Families falling flat with not enough food on their plates
I’m passin’ by the same
Kids in baseball hats standing wet in wait 
Out there gettin’ rained on cause the bus is running late 
It straight 
Hasn’t changed at all 
What difference does it make
I’m still awake at dawn 
Exerting on 
Getting my debt rate gone
Word is born
What difference does it make
Cause pass generations gone
Still couldn’t pass it on
What difference does it make

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
Things just stay the same

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
We keep on playing games

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
There really isn’t even anything else left for me to say

What Difference Does It Make

Bitzone, Joerxworx, RS Frawstakwa & the Couch King - What Difference Does It Make

CLUB APOCALYPSE - ft. KIEF NEBULA "We just wanna have some fun in these end times." (Lyrics by Grimm Justice & Kief Nebula) (Beat by @Allrounda) (Mixed & Mastered by Kief Nebula)

Enter The Mask

Club Apocalypse

ENTER THE MASK (Album)

👾CLUB APOCALYPSE👾 - ft. KIEF NEBULA

A Wisconsin anthem...sort of....
Are you addicted to cheese curds? Crave whitefish livers and a cold Leinie's? Spend hours sitting on a bucket, ice fishing at twenty below zero, but release all the fish cause you'd rather have a burger?
Another single from the upcoming Penelope's Thrill album, "Twilight on Tunnel Road," due out on April 26, 2021. 
Main guitars on this are a Vintage Modified Strat playing the fast-picking melodic riff and my '66 Guild Starfire XII filling things out and playing the lead. They are joined by my Gretsch 5622T and '78 Guild S-60.

“Clockwork Clouds”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say gives you a clue.
You just want me singing the blues.
But I don’t know how to choose—
too many things jostling my mind like leaves in the wind.

And this corn looks so fine, but I’m losing my mind,
living out here in the countryside
with these cows and this corn—
never forlorn—some say it’s paradise
and I guess that’s maybe true but….

CHORUS: Take me through the skies
above the world we know,
looking at these clockwork clouds from so far below.
Take me past the stars, somewhere far away.
Looking at these clockwork clouds for so many days.

Tell me again, why am I here?
Looking at clouds in the stratosphere.
I don’t feel so alone cause I’ve got this here phone,
the Packers on the tele, a sixpack on ice.

When I’m walking the fields calculating the yields,
the clouds are floating by like cottony shields.
There’s manure and milk, soybeans and corn silk,
Bears fans down in Janesville but I don’t mix with that ilk, so….

CHORUS

Wisconsin’s my home so I’m never alone.
There’s cows and curds and cheese and birds
and whitetails in the woods.
And there’s wolves and black bears,
our meatpackers shares,
the green of spring and gold of fall really tell it all.

We harvest ginseng roots, trim Christmas tree shoots,
grow fine leaf tobacco for your big cheroots.
Red tail on the wing, it just makes you sing.
Turkey vultures circling like angels in the sky.

And there’s cows and there’s corn, whitefish livers and porn,
Northwoods hair salons where no one lives but the trees.
And there’s trout streams and hills, Lake Superior’s thrills—
ice fishing in winter, sitting on a bucket in the wind.

Words & music by Timothy Walsh
Timothy Walsh: Vocals, guitars, bass
Recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios
(that is, a tiny upstairs room in my house nestled amid century-old yew trees)
©2021 by Timothy Walsh. This recording ©2021 Timothy Walsh
All rights reserved.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Clockwork Clouds

Download

Are you ready? 

Jason Akita: guitars https://soundcloud.com/kobe-akita and https://soundcloud.com/kobe-akita/new-peters-akita-2
Me: the rest, including mean vocal and dirty, demented harmonica

One World Town (Brian Peters)

Let there be darkness
And let there be light
Let the sun and the moon
Keep the day and the night
Let there be evil
And let there be good
Another War of the Worlds
Where the Tree of Knowledge stood

Let there be pleasure
And let there be pain
Let the living mourn the dead
And let the dead rise again
Let there be trouble
Between the old and the young
Another Tower of Babel
A confusion of tongues
-
Don't wanna live in a one world town
Where nobody knows what is real
Where there is no up and there is no down
Cause you were made with magic
On the Potter's wheel
-
Let there be heaven
Let there be hell
From the Book of Revelations
To the worlds of HG Wells
Let there be loving
And let there be hating
Let a man know within himself
Of the road he is taking

Let there be heroes
Let there be gods
Let there be rebels
Who live under the sword
Let there be greatness
Outcasts and giants
Let the martyrs carve the roadways
With the prophets and the saints
-
Don't wanna live in a one world town
Where nobody knows how to feel
Where there is no up and there is no down
Cause you were made with magic
On the Potter's wheel

One World Town (w Jason Akita)

今回も明治時代を題材を題材にしました。
（This time, we also used the Meiji era as a theme.)

鹿鳴館などをイメージし西洋化の優雅さと葛藤を描いています。
（It depicts the elegance and conflict of Westernization in the image of Rokumeikan, etc.)

燈火 (短編）

Scrit II -  muterial / P a b l o

This is the single of the audio visual EP "Shock Therapy". 
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFctbyXC9EA

Music and lyrics by She's Excited!
https://www.shes-excited.com/
Visuals by Erin Wajufos
https://www.erinwajufos.digital/


Add clarity
Split seconds, detailed motions
Shock therapy
City lights and notions
Wandering, wondering… 

Music sticking to my heels
You know just how it feels
I'm wondering, wandering, wondering

If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
Who's gonna dream my dreams?

(Dream my dreams)
(Dream my dreams)
Is it you?
(Dream my dreams)

I love you, too

I'm wondering, wandering…
Memories sticking to my heels
You know just how it feels, don't you?
I'm wondering, wandering, wondering

If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
If I refuse to sleep
Who's gonna live my dreams?

(Dream my dreams)
Is it you?
(Dream my dreams)

Or is it you?

Savor it, drink it in
Catch your breath, let it sink in
Cough it up, spit it out

Brace yourself, see it through
I see you've got some demons, too
Cough it up, spit it out
Ain't this what our life's about?

So I dance into the darkness
And close my eyes
And improvise

I love you, too

Shock Therapy

Add Clarity

Add Clarity (Watch Video On YouTube!)

Well this is the Grand Finale in the Twilight Series.  I sent M an idea and he really took this to another Level.    We gave this our all   ,We sincerely hope that you have enjoyed this series and this piece .
Visit The 3 M Group on YouTube for some killer music!!!https://youtube.com/channel/UCABPfZtTBobkNyflbsk3eSw
Thank you Mike for your hard work and dedication and being my buddy.


( you are sorely missed my Jeff see you in the stars' mom)

I Talk To The Stars  M&G

THE RUSH
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2021

THE RUSH

The second song from our upcoming EP.Give it a listen! Namaste! Available in all online stores.

Namaste

01 - SA - HCT - Swells Grid
02 - SA - KO - Celli - Shards Grid Time Machine - Celli - Momentum Grid
03 - SA - WE - My Preset 01

Long Away

01 - SA - LCOT - Space Chatter_HCT - Ghouls on Hovercrafts
02 - SA - WE - A Simple Start
03 - SA - Albion One - All Combinations - Brs_Str. hight Trem
04 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Moment of Decision
05 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Elven Choir Sustain Vowels
06 - NI - Noire Felt
07 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Exquisite Pulse

Don't Worry

Eight Soundcloud musicians together, what an experience!
I wet my pants and at the same time I am incredibly proud. This song is one of the most exciting I've ever done. 
I am really grateful for the encouragement from all sides during the process, thank you very much!

I hope to speak for all involved - may you, esteemed listeners, enjoy the song!


vocals: Frawstakwa https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa
vocals: Couch King https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents
vocals: Stone Catcherye https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye
brass: Joerxworx https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
guitars: Russ Sinfield https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
organ & co-arranging: DeeP. https://soundcloud.com/detlef-piepke
drums: Noah Biggeleben https://soundcloud.com/theblacksuedeshoes
electronics, bass, additional drums & odd melodies https://soundcloud.com/bitzone

mix & master: bitzone

*Black Into Blue*
(Frawstakwa)
we’ve dreamt in the darkness ending with dawn
opening upon vast expanses beyond
the shadows of structures we’re stretching across
intersections of our systems of thought
which should serve to strengthen us all
awakening the sleeping dragon c’mon
I take it we might need to break down some walls
to let in some light clear the air knock it off

(Couch)
I’ve been holdin’ on vision goin’ strong
Days are long not looking forward to the dawn
When the rays are gone sleep can linger on
Eternal rest I’d be blessed ain’t saying sinners wrong 
I can confess but god be my witness 
I never did much harm so why do I feel forlorn 
Manifest the stress of the station I was born
You gave me hope but I was torn pessimistic 
Fellin’ the pressure to be realistic 
That’s a whole lotta haters talking
That’s my inner mocking 
That’s the life generations have been walking
That’s the future for my kids I’ve been hopping I’ve been stopping
You say it’s just me who’s been blocking
Ain’t knocking the pursuit but startin’ negative on the loot
Got me resolute this dream was never true 
For me 
Still heading black into blue 
We’ll see

(Frawstakwa)
if not that then let us pause 
in silent reflection a song
somehow inspiring awe 
black into blue and I yawn
as the eastern pearl of blonde
rises and fires a shot
from where the horizon was born
that single line on the dot
signed sealed delivered and hot
get up give it all you’ve got
we’re only here on this rock
to do what we need to so what do you want?
time for me to stop

(Stoney)
keep your head strong, when light comes, I will meet you where 

the sky will brighten up my dear, 
your eyes will finally see clear, 
outside it's too cold for this fear, 
black into blue, this bruise will heal

is the dream ending here, goodbye to the fear, from cave I appear

the sky will brighten up my dear, 
your eyes will finally see clear, 
outside it's too cold for this fear, 
black into blue, this bruise will heal

Black Into Blue #Frawstakwa|Couch King|Stone Catcherye|Joerxworx|Russ Sinfield|DeeP|Noah B

SAY THE WORDS
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020
Re-Mastered by Andrew Borderick OCT 2020
Youtube Link; https://youtu.be/RuuseKt9nVE                                                                                                    

LOOKING DOWN THE WISHING WELL
IT'S IN MY HEART I NEED TO TELL
A MESSAGE OF LOVE IS ALL I NEED

SETTLE DOWN TO FALL ASLEEP
SOMEONES WAITING IN MY KEEP
A VOICE OF LOVE IS IN THE AIR

I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

I WAKE UP IN THIS MAGIC WORLD
LOOKING UP THE WISHING WELL
WHATS FALLING DOWN IS ALL I GAVE

I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
(break)
LOOKING DOWN THAT WISHING WELL
WATCH MY COIN IT DISAPEARS
A LITTLE LUCK IS ALL I NEED

 I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

2020 PRO TOOLS

SAY THE WORDS

SAY THE WORDS (see info for video link)

02 Killing Desire

Don't miss the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86QGnhPJeI

Para Lia - Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady Haddad)
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2020
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band
www.youtube.com/channel/UCNABsfHKaCDk28fOj91Dc1g

Meeting @fadysporz on Soundcloud back in 2018 felt like a meeting of soulmates. There is a mutual respect for each other’s work and i wrote the track with room for Fadys heavenly synth work in mind and also with the idea that he joins Cindy and me in the vocal work. With Fady having the ability to ‘read’ the way of the songwriting and harmony construction it was effortless to work together - he is a fantastic musician. Thank you Fady for joining us here! 

how can you sleep, did you sleep
how dare you sleep?
when the water already laps your feet
it's time to move offbeat

you are the rider on the withe horse on the dike

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away

how would we guard what we love
if we were stuck behind a broken dike
how would we save what has to be saved
without a heart and nothing but an angry mind

we are the children of the flood

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away
we are the children of the flood

Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady)

NastiGi is a mix of raw energy, noisy riffs guitars, muffy bass and tight grooves. NastiGi's releases (So I Run & Love Your Enemy) have featured on some of Spotify's premier editorial playlists (All New Rock, New Noise, Rock Out) reaching 1.53M cumulative Streams & 648k Listeners, also featured on LIFOTI Magazine, METAL IN ITALY, ARTISTIC ECHOES and many more www.nastigi.com

Just a Miracle

I start this new album with better sound by means of one of my more beloved and evolved songs ever, a structured piece with progressing parts.

LETRA   /   TRANSLATED LYRICS:

BIEN, MAL (LLUVIA VIEJA)    /   WELL, BADLY (OLD RAIN)

Sí, no, ¿por qué no?   /   Yes, no, why not? 
estoy pensando que esto no es lo mejor.   /   I am thinkinkg this is not the best.
Bien, mal, ¿tú qué tal?   /   Well, badly, what about you?
de repente me he puesto a pensar.   /   Suddenly I have started to think.

El tiempo esparcido entre mis amigos   /   Time scattered among my friends
 es el más valioso cuando estoy contigo.   /   is the most valuable one when I am with you
Los ratos vividos estando contigo   /   Moments lived being with you
 son reconfortantes cuando estoy perdido.   /   are comforting when I feel lost. 
Tengo que buscarlos entre mis amigos,   /   I must search for them among my friends
tengo que encontrarlos, pero ya se han ido todos.   /   I must find them, but they are all gone already.

Fumando   /   Smoking 
tras los cristales   /   behind the windows
mojados de lluvia vieja.   /   wet with old rain
Recuerdos   /   Memories
 que me llevan flotando   /   carry me floating
 a estar con ella.   /   to be with her

Tengo que buscarlos entre mis amigos.   /   I must search for them among my friends

Tú, yo, ¿qué sé yo?   /   You, me, what do I know?
está lloviendo pero tengo calor.   /   It is raining but I feel hot
Qué, quién, ¡mírame!   /   What, who, look at me !
soy todavía quien empezaste a querer.   /   I am still who you started do love

Soy todavía quien empezaste a querer.  /   I am still who you started do love

ER13PB01 ©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2013 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Image: "Prickle prick cactus", photo by Ruizzoidman

Bien, mal (Lluvia vieja)

Check out the video for this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwnjh97Wh4

House of The Rising Sun. - Instrumental Version

House Of The Risng Sun - Instrumental Version

Crazymaker

been chewing on this bitter pill for so long
but it's a jawbreaker
well all that I did wrong was let myself get strung along
it's too easy to make excuses for a faker

but I do you the favor, forget your bad behavior 
we'll just chalk it up to my failure to see

you were a crazymaker, a bomb about to crater
I was looking for a savior, shame on me
shame on me
shame on me
shame on me

and I'm the easy thing you reach for
when you need something to hold
yes I know what's good for me
I just pay no mind
and time and time again it gets so old

but I just do you the favor, forget your bad behavior 
we'll just chalk it up to my failure to see
you were a crazymaker, a bomb about to crater
I was looking for a savior, shame on me
shame on me
shame on me
shame on me

knowin' I've been taken for a ride but
takin' the ride anyway
what will happen when the bomb goes off?
will I find another reason to stay?

I do you the favor, forget your bad behavior 
we'll just chalk it up to my failure to see
you were a crazymaker, a bomb about to crater
I was looking for a savior, shame on me
shame on me
shame on me
shame on me

Modern Age

Crazymaker

This is a track I discovered on a mini disc and released as a CD album ("Shout") in 2004. Lots of shredding in this. It was another exercise in hammer-ons and two handed reverse quadruplets.Just an exercise really, hence the title. But given other tracks like this have been appreciated,I thought I'd put it up for those who enjoy guitar stuff :)

It'll Do

The remnants of a dream

Sunlight for your sins
written by TJG January 2021
give this song a chance - it gets a bit better by the end ;-)
mix1: Jan 24, 2021
cover art: TJG

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars
Rhythm 1: Guild DV52
Rhythm 2: Les Paul Standard
Lead1: Les Paul Standard
Lead2: Fender Stratocaster
Bass: Fender Squire

Percussion: Pearl Cajon Mach 2 – I tried to play it with brushes ;-)
Mics: Neumann TLM 67 (vocal) and AGK 414 & Shure KSM44 on guitars and cajon
Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape. I used an input and output transformer to give some additional harmonic distortion.

Lyrics

Verse 1
I don’t see a way you could find it here….

refrain
You got the sunlight on your skin
You’re looking for a win
Nothing heals your sin
Babe it’s time to go
Babe it’s time to go
You know it’s time to go
Again

Verse 2
See the rain
on the window
Crashing down again
Three miles from where we began…

refrain
You got the sunlight on your skin
You’re looking for a win
Nothing heals your sin

Babe it’s time to go
Babe it’s time to go
You know it’s time to go
Again

Verse 3
Well the rain keeps falling down
Nothing left to see in this old town
So much sin bringing us to the ground……

Refrain
You got the sunlight on your skin
You’re looking for a win
Nothing heals your sin

Babe it’s time to go
Babe it’s time to go
You know it’s time to go
Again

Outro
I see the sunlight now
I see the sunlight now
I feel the sunlight on my skin

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Well I Know
Well I know
I feel the sunlight on my skin
Well I know
There’s something happening here

Sunlight for your sins

I spent two years making Punto Ártica album as a whole, and I mostly played my mom’s Spanish guitar in the spare time. This theme and chords got shape with time, without any plan, in some different variations I’ve tried to remember and craft here.

Even a 7/4 vocal section had come up. In the spirit of this new profile, I asked Codi (https://soundcloud.com/noisealter) to adapt my translation of a poem I wrote when my age was about 1/3 than now (see below), and he also sung it with the passion and delivery I was looking for !!

Original poem  /  First translation:

FEBRERO  /  FEBRUARY

Efe de frío, Febrero,  /  ‘F’ for Freeze, February,
tiempo de ocio y ventura  /  leisure and venture time.
Sueño, guitarra, lectura,  /  Sleep, guitar, reading,
paso intermedio.  /  intermediate step.

Tiempo de amigos y risas  /  Time for friends and laughter,
de descanso e ilusión  /  of rest and illusion
de esperanza y ocasión,  /  of hope and opportunity,
muere la prisa.  /  the rush dies.

Febrero de nacimiento,  /  February of birth,
pausa para el estudiante.  /  pause for the student.
Los problemas van delante,  /  The problems go ahead,
estoy contento.  /  I’m happy.

F E B R U A R Y (vocals by Codi from NoiseAlter)

Creative Spirit Online: "The sixth of Robert John Brooks’s challenging and intense single-movement piano sonatas; atonal works of musical art. No. 6 is perhaps the most lyrical, even sensitive at times, with a masterful sense of cadence, phrasing and textural/emotional contrast."

Mastered by eMastered.com. Click eMastered.com/profile/robtjbrooks to access the composer's library on eMastered.com

If you or your organization is interested in premiering this work please contact the composer. To view or order printed music please go to www.creativespiritonline.com/product/pi…brillante/.

The tile artwork, "Mellow Yellow" by Barbara Ponder-Brooks, was used with the artist's permission.

Piano score is available from Creative Spirit Online. Please go to
https://www.creativespiritonline.com/product/piano-sonata-no-6/ for information and viewing.

View Piano Score

Piano Sonata No. 6 - Scherzo Fantasia (mastered by eMastered.com)

A blast of spacerock cosmic jamming for you :)

Problem Mystic Motor

This is the final track from my most recent release, 'Compton Abdale'

You can find it on most platforms including Bandcamp & Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/47eMo2pA8l513HZA8jv62b?si=Povt5ps4QWCYLxk1tAeNgg

Check it out and grab a free code from bandcamp :)

Compton Abdale

Hazel

THE SONG WITH NO NAME
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Coptright AB Music 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wTEzWb6-E

WHEN WILL THE DAYLIGHT COME
THERE'S NO MORE SKY LIVING INSIDE
WHEN WILL THE LIGHT COME ON
WHEN YOU GET HOME   A FLASH OF LIGHT

BUT LIFE WILL PASS US BYE
AND NEVER SAY GOODNIGHT
NO KEY TO THE OTHERSIDE

WHICH WAY DOES THE RIVER FLOW
IT'S LOOKING REAL DRY EXCEPT WHEN I CRY
THE MOON AND THE SUN WILL RISE
AND EVERYDAY   THEY CALL YOUR NAME

A LIFE OF RIGHT AND WRONG
A NEVER ENDING SONG
NO KEY TO THE OTHERSIDE
(Break)
THE TICKING OF TIME GOES BYE
THE MEMORY LANE IS FADING AWAY
THE WAVES ARE ALL CRASHING DOWN
AND EVERYDAY HAS NO NAME

SO LIFE WILL PASS YOU BYE
THE PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME
NO KEY TO THE OTHERSIDE

THE SONG WITH NO NAME

MACHINE

If you dance with the devil then you need to consider that the hell is loose. If a church organ can keep him calm is not guaranteed neither that you can calm him down with a smooth ending ... so up to you to decide, if you dare that dance or not ...
For those who want to assess the risk better, please get more insight in the nature of the devil here: 
https://soundcloud.com/kcm069/long-time-gone?in=kcm069/sets/the-reservoir-dogs

A Shark Never Comes Alone

Dance With The Devil

Sometimes I just don't pick up on stuff.

Lyrics:
When I saw that fist coming at me
I knew they'd met the end of their hospitality
I'd become a professional dinner guest
Couch surfing pest
They said: Hey man, you've got to move on!
We've giving you ample opportunity 
To get your shit together
You've got to move on!
I hadn't a clue
I've got the oblivious blues

She wanted to try some new things in bed
I thought that meant do the same thing
But twice instead
Oblivious blues
It's what you do when you can't read the mood
Oblivious blues
I'm not reading the room right at all

The preacher say (hey boy!)
Were going to Baptize you for a second time
We've got to get that devil out
We can't tell if your just clueless
Or full of doubt

Oblivious blues
It's what you do when you can't read the room
Oblivious blues

When I see myself in the mirror I see my younger self
A dewy rock & roller
With baby fur
The cashier at the drugstore calls me sir
Oblivious blues
It's what you do when you can't read the room
Oblivious blues

I can't tell when to end this song...

Oblivious Blues

I Prefer To Be Alone

Thanks again to Amanda for for joining on this track and helping shut that window!  Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

Love
so wise
Love
Breathing's not a bother 
when you take in all the light inside

Love 
so brave
Love
Backed into a corner
Gonna hold for hurricanes
You say

Well maybe we fit every fold, every fold
You take a little weight..
You take a little weight off the soul
So don't let go

For loves
will last in time
Alright?
For loves 
will last in time
Alright?

(Love can never be lost
can never unwind
Love can never be wrong
can never be wise)

Love
don't fade
Love
backed into a corner
well
gonna hold for hurricanes in rain

Loves Last (by Amanda and Paul)

Coming to Spotify/streaming, welcome to pre-save Apricity (19 March). This is a portion/preview of the work.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sharonchen/apricity

Watch the Movie: https://youtu.be/NMV4yRF9Jv4
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Apricity, literally 'the warmth of the winter sun', is an orchestral-ambient work and a collab with https://soundcloud.com/echosonica. I had an idea to make a classical orchestral dronescape. I heard Elena's ambient tracks and believed we could make something different. Given airy, diverging atmospheric pad layers, I then wrote the orchestral lines on top. I used evolving, dynamic string articulations and non-traditional wind and brass articulations to give an evolving, evocative soundscape with themes of light and dark and how despair converges into hope.. 

The whole work is on BandCamp and Spotify later. I used mostly Spitfire Audio software including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Felted Piano, Orchestral Swarms, and Eric Whitacre Choir. This is my first true ambient work.


https://linktr.ee/sharonchenmusic
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#BandCampFriday is the first Friday of the month. New additions include a newly mixed and mastered 'Spring Serenade' and 'Apricity'. Also in the Spring theme is 'Spring's Hope' and 'Reflections on a Spring Lake Sunset'. (Piano and orchestra). Follow me on BandCamp for the latest.

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/apricity
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/spring-serenade
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13 March: My ‘Nocturne in C Minor is now out on YouTube.  After experimenting with various materials including felt and interfacing to make a felted sound, this is the result.  Inspired by my Pleyel, Chopin, nature, and C Minor.
Welcome to pre-save for 9 April release:
https://occ.lnk.to/NocturneinCMinor

Performance: https://youtu.be/4FpHHFu5YhY
Welcome you to subscribe and like for more!

Apricity

Here's a song about an army of corn marching on a town at midnight. (Hey, these things happen in Wisconsin.)
Main guitars on this are a Vintage Modified Stratocaster and a Gretsch 5622T. The combination of the classic Strat tone and the Gretsch's Super HiLotron pickups is a recipe I personally love.
A single from the upcoming Penelope's Thrill album, "Twilight on Tunnel Road," due out on April 26, 2021.
All the songs on "Twilight on Tunnel Road" are about Lonnie and Chloe, who grow up on adjacent farms on the edge of the Driftless Area of Southern Wisconsin. This song is about Chloe's recurring dream of a vast army of corn marching at midnight toward the town. Ever since she was a child, Chloe has dreamed about the billowing ocean of corn covering the undulating hills around their farmhouse--the tall, thick stalks that towered above her head with leaves that looked like arms. The way the corn swayed in the wind made the stalks seem like people, like an orderly crowd of people standing in rows, or--by moonlight--a vast army. She dreamed about this corn army, sometimes imagining herself their queen. When she grew older, she would joke with Lonnie about this. Lonnie would call her Queen of the Corn and refer to cornfields as her troops.
LYRICS:
“The Edge of Town”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

When you’re feeling so low,
getting so you’re feeling so run down,
you’re heading for the edge of town.

When your mind starts slipping,
when your head is tripping round,
you listen for a certain sound.

You go walking late at night, look at the distant lights
that flicker in the midnight sky.
You don’t see no one. That’s because you are going
deep beyond the edge of town.

Now the night wind’s shifting,
looking at the cornfields stretching wide
like an army in the night.

You see corn troops moving,
marching through the midnight fields alive,
heading to the edge of town.

And the pine trees sifting…the messages drifting down
from the moon into your eyes.
Now the oak trees wonder why you stare up at the sky
so rootless and alone.

Noctilucent clouds are
drifting past the moon and I
wonder why you’re looking down.

Armies of corn are marching
down the hillsides toward the town
sleeping silent in the night.

Words & music by Timothy Walsh
Timothy Walsh: Vocals, guitars, bass
Recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios
(that is, a tiny upstairs room in my house nestled amid century-old yew trees)
©2021 by Timothy Walsh. This recording ©2021 Timothy Walsh
All rights reserved.

The Edge of Town

The Edge Of Town

Future Fluctuations

Debut Album Now Out!! "Twilight on Tunnel Road"
Available now on Bandcamp: https://penelopesthrill.bandcamp.com/
(and streaming everywhere....)
For an immersive experience of the new album, visit the new Penelope's Thrill website at:
https://www.penelopesthrill.com/
Penelope's Thrill is a lucky accident. Lured out of musical retirement by son Andrew, Timothy Walsh dusted off his guitars, including his favorite vintage Guilds and Gretsches, and picked up where he left off 25 years ago playing in garage bands in New Jersey and Boston. 
Tim founded Penelope's Thrill as the vehicle for his new songs, often pulling in other musicians from Madison and from around the world for particular tracks. Son Andrew occasionally appears on guitar or adding vocals. Wife Barbara also appears on keyboards and backing vocals.

     ***All tracks are recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios (that is, a tiny upstairs room in my house nestled amid century-old yew trees). Recent songs are recorded with Logic Pro using hardware tube preamps, compressors, etc. Earlier tracks were recorded direct to a Zoom R8 recorder.

>>>Downloads available at Bandcamp:
https://penelopesthrill.bandcamp.com/
>>>Tim's poetry & writing website:
http://timothyawalsh.com/
>>>Andrew's writing website:
http://andrewjwalsh.com

Also check out our re-post and playlist page, Penelope's Playlists:
https://soundcloud.com/penelopes-playlists