The 11th EP of "past is the verse"

-Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dLLIv3TUVCgAr0YzlXYvD

-Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/silence-single/1622703037

-Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.co.jp/albums/B09ZMKRPSW

-bandcamp
https://pastverse.bandcamp.com/track/silence

Silence

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I wanted to exploit the sound of one of my favourite folk instruments. The hurdy-gurdy is not heard so very often in the UK. What could be better than to use a medieval instrument for a leading-edge space opera like my essay into "The Vanished Birds"?

Several SoundClouders have remarked on the hurdy-gurdy. My own passion for it started in the 1990s when I found myself in a Breton village on the day of their hurdy-gurdy festival. We marched up and down through that village behind a band of 30 or 40 hurdy-gurdy players, with the odd Breton bagpiper and bombarde-player chipping in, as the mood took them. Somewhere, I still have my field recordings of the day. The tunes were simple and very catchy.

Home Has The Brightest Stars

While we wait for BARDS: Of The Shimmering Seraphs to finish physical production, in the meantime we are forging ahead with a new crop of songs for the next album. The next album will serve as a continuation of the oracle deck concept, featuring songs about "objects" - the first of which be this little song about the magical horn of the elusive and beautiful Aardvark Girl. It is also about a recently discovered strange dwarf planet at the farthest reaches of our solar system.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà  was discovered on 19 Oct 2007 at the Palomar observatory in California, at 9:09 UT. Gkunhomdima is a member of the extended scattered disc and is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Its orbit is inclined 23° off the ecliptic and is quite elliptical. It was knocked out of a normal orbit early in the history of the solar system, probably as Neptune migrated outward to its current position, which gives the high  inclination of Gkunhomdima’s orbit. However, there is no known orbital resonance with any other planetary body, except for its binary companion. Its ‘moon’, or secondary is called G!o’e !Hu (pronounced GOH ay KOO). Goeku means ‘horn’, or Oryx horn. And that takes us to a bit of mythology.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is also the Beautiful Aardvark Girl of Juǀʼhoan mythology, who sometimes appears in the stories of other San peoples as a python girl or elephant girl; she defends her people and punishes wrongdoers using gǁámígǁàmì spines [devil’s thorn plant], a rain-cloud full of hail, and her magical oryx horn.

Drums and percussion, keyboards, backup vocals: R Thomas
Guitars, Mandolin, Melodica, Bass, Lead vocals, backup vocals: PS Perkins

LYRICS:
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Aardvark girl, come trumpet your horn
Bellow your clarion call
Summon your dark and impenetrable cloud
And let your hailstones fall

Are we just ants crawling around on the ground
Are we just termites in a crumbling mound

Scatter the poisoned thorns in their lane
May they tread upon those in their path
The stinging in their feet shall remind them
They’ll be dead before their next bath

Aardvark girl burrow down in your den
The night will be ending soon
The Oryx are gathered at the watering hole
And your face is in the moon

Are we just ants crawling around on the ground
Are we just termites in a crumbling mound
We are just ants crawling around on the ground
We are just termites in a crumbling mound

The Oryx of the Aardvark Girl

Emilio, aka https://soundcloud.com/stranger-something and https://soundcloud.com/olla-de-insomnio send me this wonderful instrumental. A very special thank you to Alejandro Venegas for playing these great drums. Later on he mixed and mastered it, he also provided this picture. It was a great pleasure to write and sing along, a Big Thank You for that…

Vuelo Lejano

1
Oh,
Wait
Is it already that late ?
And we still hesitate
Let us concentrate…
Let ’s collaborate…
Yeah…
Seriously…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
But 
We cannot sort out heart from mind, 
And that won’t be different this time

And with  .4 k per second
Just spinning around ourselves

No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…

Let us concentrate - ah -
Here today
There is no escape…

No giggling please…
Let’s collaborate…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
We won’t sort out heart from mind
And that won’t be different this time

And with 3.2 k per second, 
Ahaa, ahaa…
Circling around the sun
Ohh,
No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…
It’s only one way…
One way-y-y-y-y-y-y-y…yeah…

- solo - 					

2
So many lovesongs have been sung
So why again now a further one ?
Because it must not be left undone
Cannot leave it undone
Just cannot leave it undone…

Ohh,
There are turbulences

No joking please
There is trouble ahead
Hitting the unprepared -
Ohh, this is a hard way…

While we float
With some 30 k/s 
Around the milky way
And other hundreds of k/s
Trundling other ways
Within a thousand days
That is quite a stray
Even if you don’t move a single hoof…

No giggling please
This is supposed to be another love song
No joking please
This is a far flight
No giggling please
This is a heart’s way
And it’s only…
It's only one-way,
It's only one way…

Vuelo Lejano (wt Stranger Something)

THE NAGS HEAD

Elowan

Chrysalide

Metallic mix of 'Organic' (2nd page) https://soundcloud.com/user-146692255/organic?si=9d2d4a113ff6440b89c70f67bde8470b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

image: 'Angel of the North' statue by Antony Gormley in Gateshead, England. (c/o Pinterest)

INORGANIC

Call it whatever I want to call it
Individual victory
Caught off guard and brought Into the light
Incremental failure

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone

Don’t see what everyone else can see
Avoiding the crystal clear
Anyone else here wondering
If I’m gonna wake up?

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone

Twice I’ve tried and twice I’ve failed
Try to visualize what it means to win
Twice I’ve tried, twice I’ve failed
Got to visualize what it means to win

Do what I want
No longer hiding in darkness
Time has come to face the truth
Laughter echoing between my ears
Relief and acceptance

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone 


Anyone Else Can See

Intermine

Terra X - a melodic and melancholic epic soundscape produced by Peter Heckmann in early 2019. This extended Sci-Fi orchestral version features vocals by Yelica and additional voicings/dialog snippets from the cult movie "The Fifth Element". It was originally mixed in 5:1 Dolby surround, here presented as regular stereo file.

The complete Ethnic Soundtrack series (plus Ethnic Jazz tracks with my wife Yucca Rose) can be found on a Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4dDkR4KY1DZl3kCNF0dijp 

Original artwork by Peter Heckmann from the painting series - Romantic And Not So Romantic Dreamescapes: https://www.behance.net/gallery/78317715/Romantic-And-Not-So-Romantic-Dream-Escapes

Terra X

Terra X (Extended Sci-Fi Mix)

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Terra X (Extended)

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BIO: Independent Music / Film / Theater Producer, Musician, Mixing / Mastering Engineer and Multimedia Production Specialist with over forty years of experience in the entertainment and multimedia design industries. 

I worked with a broad spectrum of clients in both the entertainment industry and corporate sectors. 

My expertise has been achieved through nearly five decades of professional involvement in documentary video, feature film and music production, audio recording and engineering, stage design and theatrical production, multimedia and graphic design, investigative journalism and project management.