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- Michael Gomez
- Kamila Mercado
- Alfredo Fernandez
Publishing: Monstar Entertainment Sound Studios (BMI)
Produced by Michael Gomez
Recorded and Mixed by Michael Gomez at Busy Studios, MIA
Guitar, Bass and Percussion by Michael Gomez
K4MI appears courtesy of Kamila Mercado

Perfect Angels

Schattenstrahlen

THE AGE OF PLASTIC POP

Mr Medlock on The Kit @rick-4-1
Mr McWalter on The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

There are passing references to Gustav Holst's 'Mars' (The Bringer of War), the morse code for SOS, and the starfish from 'Here Comes The Flood'... all other references are your own responsibility ;-)

CAN'T CHANGE IT (S.O.S.)

I don’t want to wait
I don’t want to see what’s left
When everything we think we can’t change
Changes
(The pyramids still look on
Do we blow away with the sand)

And we can't change it
But we can't change it
But we can't change

(When all that ever was
Isn’t anymore
Everybody’s buying gold
Save Our Souls
SOS)

A thousand churches in your heart 
Save us
The breeze in your hair
Save us
A cry in the dark
Save us
The darkness in my heart
Save us
The goodness in your smile 
Bless us

The radio air
The starfish bare

(The thunder of last words
Fills the page
The cries of everyone 
Crying for everyone else
Makes it rain
Makes it pour
Here it comes
SOS
SOS)

Is that all there is left (And all there ever was?)
We did everything that was bad 
We did some things that were good
Changes
But we can't change it
And we can't change it
But we can't change
God bless us
God, God, God...

© April 2020 Phil McWalter

Change (S.O.S.)

Spotify

Can't Change It (S.O.S.)

"Ultimatum" by My Black Dress (BCS & Michelle) 
Rough Cut Demo with my vocals only.  Michelle's vocals will be added soon (in French!)

Ultimatum (demo)

© 1995 Morphine

A collab featuring the ever amazing saxophone of Nigel Manning of The Windscale Blues Experiement, @windscaleblues

From Morphine's 1995 album Yes

Don't worry I'm not lookin' at you
Gorgeous and dressed in blue
Don't worry I'm not lookin' at you
Gorgeous and dressed in blue

I know it drives you crazy
When I pretend you don't exist
When I'd like to lean in close
And run my hands against your lips
Though we haven't even spoken
Still I sense there's a rapport

So whisper me your number
I'll call you up at home
Whisper me your number
I'll call you up at home
Don't worry I'm not lookin' at you

Don't worry I'm not lookin' at you
Gorgeous and dressed in blue
Don't worry I'm not lookin' at you

I know you see me see you
As you see me walk on past
When there's nothin' more I'd like to do
Then come in close and hear you laugh
Though we haven't even spoken
Still I sense there's a rapport

So whisper me your number
I'll call you up at home
Yeah, whisper me your number
I'll call you up at home
Whisper me your number
I'll call you up at home
Hmm, whisper me your number

Whisper - Windscale Blues Experiment | Gary Rees (Morphine cover, 1995)

Quo Vadis

Every Serious Moment

Alternative Paths

Please also check out the amazing video S.A.D. by https://soundcloud.com/maria-korporal based on my sonopoem of the same title here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssaa5BmxyIQ 

Always more often a few walk this planet affected by S.A.D. while around us light euphoria for nothing or ill-concealed detachment stand out.
There is a human-environment attunement to hurt. 

Sonopoetry and field recording in Washington 2019 by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa 
Pic 2019 Potomac river by IB
S.A.D., seasonal affective disorder

The Lucio Battisti's cover 'Nessun Dolore' (No Pain) recorded at George Washington University is performed by the i-Talians band during the NeMLA Conference 'Writing in a Different Language'. Check i-Talians the Band work here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgTJK0xFoiFzpXvqDmEJTw 

poem S.A.D. by IB

'Before long it will turn up.
The dividing line of the light. 
In this epoch, humans
and environment alike are
disordered. We suffer from
a mutual attunement to hurt.

An affective relationship 
often hidden, that keeps a few
unrest and vigilant.
Our own interdependence 
models the rationale of being 
inseparable.

And so it happens that
natural elements share hints
for they see into your intentions.
Their syntax transposes 
fervour and agony. Unrepentant 
I write mine.'

S.A.D.

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! See link below. Pre-order now for release on 12th Aug! (Release has had to be moved back from 7th due to unprecedented demand!)

Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.