My April Favs

THINGS OF LIFE

Potatoes Scissors Paper: 55 Varieties of Potatoes

Best of the Cloud 10 04 2020

The Lodge

Related tracks: We Strong Together - 2020 - [soundboardtinkerers + PAPLOVIANTE - original]

Stay at Home Playlist part 2

Recent Collaborations

Cloud-Occlusion-41

Songster version was a little ‘copla’ about not being able to be with, nor without, a loved person.  As usual, I’ve ‘upgraded’ it, process from which you only get the final result, normally. 

But, following lyrics’ contradictions, I not only serve parts with different levels of (dis)order in heavy rock - flamenco sauce, but raw vs very cooked parts as well, starting with the improvised phone recording of the very first idea I had to develop the song, so please excuse my failures and noises.

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)  /  I know where you're coming from (Don’t you leave again)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pena,        /  when you come with that sweet sad face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes llorando sin que te duela,     /  when you come crying without any pain,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando dices que quieres hablar conmigo,  /  when you say that you want to talk to me,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando quieres estar al lado mío,                /  when you want to be by my side,

te veo venir (x3)                                           /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pilla,          /  when you come with that sweet sly face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa sonrisa, chiquilla,    /  when you come with that smile, little girl,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

ER33FI03 RUIZZO©1996 – FRANCÉS RECORDS®2016


Factor Integrante

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)

MOTHERLESS CHILD traditional

Now with added guitar by Mr Bouzouki
  https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/1000-miles-jam-collaboration-d-zeitlin
Watch the video at
  https://youtu.be/a6hUt0sgCLI

1000 Miles

Destroy and Renew

Destroy And Renew

Track art: "Tetrahedral Planetoid" by M.C. Escher

improv #20

dreadnaught

While elephants in the wild need our support, there are deranged elephants, in Washington and other cities around the world, stomping the life out of this earth and poisoning our families. Become a fly - let your voice be heard. Stand against the deceit and corruption.

Mary - Expression,  Lliam - Guitar,  Chad - Drums,  Rich - Bass, Zoid - Atmosphere

Elephant Poem - Judy Grahn

Suppose you have an elephant 
with 56 millimeter trunk 
and say he’s tearing up the jungle 
(say you think he’s drunk or crazy) 
How’re you going to bring that elephant down? 
lion can’t 
bear could but don’t want to 
and the panther’s too small for that job. 

Then suppose you have an elephant 
with a million millimeter trunk 
and his jungle is the whole green world? 
(and he’s drunk and crazy) 
you see the problem.

one more word
about elephants 
No matter how hard they try 
elephants cannot pick their noses 
any more than bankers can hand out money 
or police put away their pistols 
or politicians get right with God. 

a sty 
in the elephant’s eye 
aint nothing 
but a fly in his nose 
is a serious if not fatal condition 
when the fly 
gets into that nostril 
it begins to swell 
and stay closed 
he can’t smell can’t drink can’t think 
can’t get one up on anybody 
he beings to regret 
all that flabby ammunition 
hanging on him 

he begins to wish 
he’d been a little more bare-faced 
like an ape or a fish 
all those passageways 
he needs to feed himself 
tied up 
ELEPHANT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN 
by a fly 
a million flies 
outweigh a trunk 
a tank 
a bank 
a million flies 
outthink a pile of IBM junk 
 
we must be wise 
to the elephant’s lies 
you may think we should try  
to sober him up 
but the trouble isn’t that he’s drunk 
the trouble is 
that he’s an elephant 
with a multi-millimeter trunk 
who believes the world is his jungle 
and until he dies 
he grows and grows 
we must be flies 
in the elephant’s nose 
ready to carry on 
in every town 
you know there are butterflies 
there are horse flies and house flies 
blue flies, shoo flies and it’s-not- 
true flies 
then there are may flies and wood flies 
but I’m talking about  
can flies & do flies 
bottle flies, rock flies and sock flies 
dragonflies and fireflies 
in the elephant’s nose 
ready to carry on  
til he goes down

Elephant Fly

AoSW - Elephant Fly

This must be from the 70s. Copy of a song written by Shane Love Appling.

Album

LaterTonight

Embers

All Here Are Dead

Original Composition / Performance : Bonetender 
 https://soundcloud.com/bonetender 
Lyrcs / Vox : Chris Dargay
2020

First Breath *ft. Bonetender

sun animals
_________________
sweet sunshine,
don't turn your light on me
come with us animals 
in the skies we play
we prey on the cold night
we play in the jungle light
and if you’re one of us
we wouldn’t have to fight

we live by the burning lake
been drinking in the rays
I wish I could save the world
or make it my new fireplace

I’m a sun king, 
an animal in heat
breeding by a fiery light
burning up the street

hey sweet sunshine,
turn your light on me
an animal you wanted and,
an animal I’ll be

come out sunlight
make them bleed
you wanted fire and
burning in the streets

hey sunshine
you remember me
I’m still your animal and
the fire in your sheets

yes you’re my sun queen
and when it finally rains
you’ll see fireballs and
burning in the streets

Sun Animals

Opus35

This is a joint project between Janine Levinson, beSRK & Guitarbeard, made in 2017.

Music by @beSRK
Melody, lyrics, vocals by @janinelevinson
Guitar by @guitarbeard

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/butterfly

Butterfly

Butterfly (Janine Levinson, beSRK & Guitarbeard)

Produced, composed, arranged and performed by Andrea Veltroni. All right reserved siae 2020. buy the new album " weird tales" here:https://andreaveltroni.bandcamp.com/album/weird-tales-2
video is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzZE0hb9yw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0ACyKcwzKXzAUVOkbgZoUr3e1IflYrA3x9aQe0rNUJ5dsaXSRLyhWd9HI

Timewarp Baby

Written by DD Danahy (see below for credits) 
Reptilian aliens from Planet Z
Controlling our minds with phones and T.V.
They don’t really care about what we believe 
Gonna mess up the earth, and then just leave

I don’t like brag about the things that I see
No one ever takes me very seriously
But I’ve been watching and I know what’s up
I got a line on this conspiracy stuff

Everybody laughs at my tin foil hat
But I don’t any part of that
It isn’t funny and it’s not a joke
They always seem to think we had too much to smoke

Reptilian aliens from Planet Z
Controlling our minds with phones and T.V.
They don’t really care about what we believe 
Gonna mess up the earth, and then just leave

Transistor radio tuned to Art Bell
Confirming all the theories I know so well
He has a lot of info and knows the deal
With the geometric shapes in my cornfield 

I heard they were conspiring with the “reds”
Pretty soon we’re all gonna be dead
gonna violate us with an anal probe
We’re already hooked up to the electrodes

Reptilian aliens from Planet Z
Controlling our minds with phones and T.V.
They don’t really care about what we believe 
Gonna mess up the earth, and then just leave


D D Danahy Electronic Instruments, Guitars, Lead Vocals 
https://dddanahy.bandcamp.com/
Kathy Freeman Backing Vocals
https://kathyfreeman.bandcamp.com
Stone Catcherye Drums and Backing Vocals 
https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye
Russell Sinfield Bass, Mixing and Mastering
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

Darren Douglas Danahy wrote a complete demo version of this song in Ableton Live and as is our usual workflow he sent me the whole project and we went from there.

Drums from Stoney were added to replace most of the Digitakt ones, new bass was added by me and another lot of Bass 6 by 3D as well as vocals from Kathy Freeman and Stone.

All in all a fun project and a great track to launch the new BC page, thank you 3D for graciously letting me have your hard earned creativity adorn this and for Kathy and Stone joining in the fun.

The art is by the very magnificent Wou Wou & The Wormling 
Instagram.com/wouwouandthewormling

Cheers Russ 31/03/2020

Buy Me On Bandcamp

Reptilian Aliens From Planet Z

linda

song for all the dreamers, hope you enjoy :-)

Close Your Eyes

Life's Number
Written and mixed by Tim Griffis at Princeton Studio.
Mix 1: April 2, 2020
Mix 2: April 7, 2020 reprinted to a 1/4 inch 2-Track Tape MCI JH-110
Cover art extracted from this week's lecture.....;-)
Keep safe and stay healthy during this difficult time
Cheers, Tim
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Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Tim's Guitars
Rhythm: Fender Stratocaster
Rhythm Gibson Les Paul Standard
Lead: Gibson Les Paul Standard
Bass: Fender Squire

Mics: Neumann TLM 67
Drums: arranged by TG
Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Eventide Eclipse effects
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Lyrics

Verse 1
He's a mystery man
He's got the cure in his hands
For love, For Hate, and Disease...

Chorus
Looking back on life
Should have died a thousand times
Looking back on life
What the hell am I doing here?

Verse 2
He's a mystery man
He's got the numbers in his hands
For Life, For you and me....

Chorus
Looking back on life
Should have died a thousand times
Looking back on life
What the hell am I doing here?

Bridge
Bass riff...

Verse 3
He's a mystery man
He plays guitar in a rock band
For Love, For Life, For Peace

Chorus
Looking back on life
Should have died a thousand times
Looking back on life
What the hell am I doing here?


outro

Should have died a thousand times

looking back

Life's number

Always Lonely
2020 Janine Levinson

I’m always lonely    
No matter how I feel       
I can be happy         
And still feel lonely

I’m always lonely      
I don’t know what’s the deal     
Cause when I’m smiling      
I still feel lonely

Lonely me

I’m always lonely       
It’s gotta be my fault        
When all around me 
Is only love

And yet I’m lonely             
I don’t know what to do
And you stay with me           
Does that mean you feel lonely too?

Oh lonely you!

So much fun looking out the window              
What’s the use of opening a hole
To burn my sweetened skin with what is salty   
And drag my tender heart across the coals

I’m always lonely       
No matter what I see  
Those pretty flowers     
Are not for me

And I’ll be lonely              
Until my dying day
When gathered round me              
I’ll hear the mourning people say
Oh lonely she

Always Lonely

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.)

This was written at a time when regular folks were being asked to tighten their belts by the rich politicians, and wait longer and longer to retire. Then along came COVID-19....so maybe when the world recovers the "workin til 100" line may not be an exaggeration.

https://soundcloud.com/fossil60
Derek on slide & instrumental composition, me on vocals and lyrics/vocal melody.

Grab and Plunder Blues      copyright Okunbor & Phillips 2019

They told us, we could have it all; the money, mansions and the time.
Some good years, we couldn't see the fall; they robbed us blind with a smile.
Moanin', rollin' workin' 'til the drop, tight belt is turning to a noose.
Moanin' the work'll never stop, talkin' bout the grab and plunder blues.
Ooh, I’m talkin’

Steering broken down motors; no way to fund a drivin’ wheel.
Finding the rent is a killer; nothin’ in the kitty for a meal.
Moanin', rollin', workin' 'til the drop, tight belt is turning to a noose.
Moanin' the work'll never stop, talkin' bout the grab and plunder blues.

Ooh, hear me howling.
Aah hear me moaning.

Waiting for the pension ‘til a hundred; payment with a letter from the Queen.
Days of entitlement are over, except for politicians on a scheme.
Moanin', rollin' an workin' 'til the drop, tight belt is turning to a noose.
Moanin', the work'll never stop, I feel I’ve got the grab and plunder blues.

Lord, hear me howling, tight belt turning to a noose.
Oh, hear me moanin’,
Moanin’ bout the grab and plunder blues.

Grab & Plunder Blues ~ Chris O & Fossil60

Strong Together / Open Collab 2020
Music Paploviante
The track is downloadable as a mp3 file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!
Stay Safe !!!
Thanks !

Strong Together - Paploviante / open collab

Church In The Lake

"The Sixth Stone" (Alice in Chains - Nutshell)

Sandstone / Open Collab / Paploviante 2020
BPM 120
The track is downloadable as a mp3 file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!
Thanks !

Sandstone - Paploviante open collab

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with another great SoundCloud Artist.
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the very talented singer Ren Faye
Check out the great work of Ren: @https://soundcloud.com/renfaye-1
Lyrics and vocals: Ren Faye

Drinking Games (Feat. Ren Faye)

I'm very pleased to offer this lovely collab between REKHA and myself.

It took me a while to get the instrumental where I wanted it, but after REKHA added her first vocals, everything clicked into place and the track took off and it more or less finished itself.
And it came out really great! The laidback groove makes for a great combination with REKHA's lovely vocals. We're very pleased with the result and we hope you will be too! Thanks for listening!!

For more exciting music go here: @rekha-iyern-fe

Only You | Music by Wane of Summer | Music & Lyrics by REKHA

Only You - Music & Lyrics by REKHA (under edit)

Is it heaven that I'm in?
Could I be dreamin' within?
Is it heaven I'm feelin'?
Could it be
These feelings I'm
These feeling I'm
These feeling's I'm

Living within'
Oh Baby

Everything feels so beautiful inside
All I have to do
All I have to do
Is close my eyes
I see you, only you, only you
Your beautiful smile
Makes me happy inside

(Music Break)

Everything feels so beautiful inside
All I have to do
All I have to do
is close my eyes
I see you only you, only you
Your beautiful smile
Makes me happy inside

Improv Fade Out: Ah, ah, ah, wo, ho

Only You (Wane Of Summer & REKHA)

we strong together - 2020  [soundboardtinkerers and Paploviante - original]

music, beat and co produced by Paploviante 
lyrics, vocals and produced by soundboardtinkerers

we strong together

take a bit of time off
if u bak from overseas
take a bit of time off
of course when ure laid off
take a bit of time off
to learn with ure kids
take a bit of time off
if u got a bit a coff
take a lot of time off
if u got tht bitter coff    
take a bit of zoom now
get a fix get it quick
all faces going square
on th screen right there
20 seconds of wet hands
rubbing fingers to bone
20 seconds is a long time
put that to rhyme
two happy birthdays yeah
splash splash hooray hooray
in mask parade oh 
sucking sucking air yeah

we strong together

u don't need to eat  
an u don't need no money
u don't need nuthin 
not even ure honey 
u don't need tissues 
with all these issues 
u don't need sleep
an say no to cash
you just don't need nuthin 
not even your stash     
no need for an escape plan
[cause theres] nowhere to go
which means ure at home hey
fun!
an those things th home wants
hammer and nails an ure set 

[nah]
borrow all th money from china [nah]
th added debit won'tl be minor [nah]
we live on two worlds right? [nah]

now tht th worlds outside
open up ure windows wide
all th worlds go cray-zier
leaders 
not even fine denying orators
no marks
coal oil gas radiation spikes
[theory] 
about wuhan th first with 5G
first city covered      
totally in 5G radiation read
radiation mutating snake cells
[with bat shit]
sars 2.1 and 2.2
maybe more 

we want this to blow over
th quicker th better 
we want this to blow over
[so we can] get bak to life
we want this to blow over
a kinder life
we want this to blow over
but not in our mouth 
we want this to blow over
not in our nose        
dead set keep it skool mate
lockdown  
thats how 2020 starts
locked in
just naked flesh and bone
hanging on a rock in space

gotta tag it now
now while u have th time
gotta tag it now
gotta tag it now

take a bit of time off
if u bak from overseas
take a bit of time off
of course when ure laid off
take a bit of time off
to learn with ure kids
take a bit of time off
if u got a bit a coff
take a lot of time off
if u got tht bitter coff     
take a bit of zoom now
get a fix get it quick
all faces going square
on th screen right there
20 seconds of wet hands
rubbing digits to th bone
20 seconds is along time
lets put that to rhyme
two happy birthdays yeah
splash splash hooray hooray
in mask parade oh yeah 
sucking sucking air yeah yeah

we so strong together

lyrics - johns of soundboardtinkerers april 2020

We Strong Together - 2020 - [soundboardtinkerers + PAPLOVIANTE - original]

https://soundcloud.com/temple-of-the-haunted-man/running-through-my-dreams

No Comfort Zone

Dark Skies

Huge thanks to these Valuable Friends:

Mrs J Levinson - Chorus Backing Vocals Choirmaster @janinelevinson
Mr R Medlock - Drums & Master of Rhythm Design @rick-4-1
Mr J Beckenstein - Guitar Solo Past Master @jonathan_beckenstein
Mr P McWalter - The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

The home-made shaker: Thanks to Meena Pathak for the glass jar and lentils.

KEEP SAFE

So you point out the sky
The beauty
The money
The jobs
Your dreams may have gone
But you show them the pictures
Painted
In the clouds
It’s hard to tell them
How much you love them
So you just ask them 
To keep safe

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

And loving them
Is loving yourself
Harder than expected
And hard to show
But sort of expected
And not easy
You want them to outrun you 
But you don’t want them to run too fast

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

Don’t miss the last bus
Don’t walk home alone
Saturdays we’d watch the football
We never really watched the football
I’m just imagining we had a better time
Than we did
I’m walking home alone now…

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

But they don’t see it at the time
You build a home
You build a hope
But something’s always going wrong
Going wrong
They don’t see it at the time
They don’t see it at the time


© April 2020 Phil McWalter

Keep Safe

Featuring my Valuable Friends who kindly gave their hearts and remarkable skills to this project: Thank you!

@janinelevinson - The Mistral Vocals
@burn-it-smith - The Scirocco Piano and Aeolian Double Bass
@rick-4-1 - The Beaufort Scale Drums 
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Wuthering Stuff

Janine has recorded a wonderful stripped-down version too:
 www.soundcloud.com/janinelevinson/mr-Ps-bag-of-sunshine-mcwalter-cover-with-phil-mcwalter

Vodka and Caviar

I once flew across America
Just holding a balloon
Discovered a buried treasure chest
Full of gold doubloon 
I walked into a hurricane
And found myself back home
On a wild white stallion
Galloping through foam

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
Of vodka and caviar

I sold my soul to a friendly gecko
Who left it on the bar
I ate a bag of sunshine
That exploded in my car
I flew with the Egyptian gods
And travelled to the stars
And I dressed up like a carnival king
With glitter in glass jars

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
On vodka and caviar

Some days
Are better than others
Some nights I
Don’t bother…

It’s not the truth
Sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train

The walled-up dust on a jester’s laugh
For a cask of sherry wine
The smell of sugar cane in the heat
And a woman’s gaze divine
Float around my spinning head
A trail of petalled steps I said
Take me from the tower and sing
My songs around my bed
(Is he dead?)

It’s not the truth
But sometimes you can’t complain
It’s just the wind
Through a window on a distant train
It’s not the truth
But sometimes it aint too far
Just the echoes of days
On vodka and caviar
Vodka and caviar
On vodka and caviar

June 2020 Phil McWalter

Vodka and Caviar

Vodka And Caviar

@rick-4-1 The Perfect Drums
@janinelevinson The Dreamy Vocal Choir
@phil-mcwalter The Other Stuff

I was blown away by the beautiful contributions of these two Valuable Friends; Janine and Rick. How do they do it? Don't ask me...

Drift to this...



DON'T ASK ME

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Said don't ask me
'Cos I don't know

On my Roberts radio
On my Roberts radio

It never gets better alone
Oh no
It never gets better alone

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Why ask me
'Cos I don't know

Come in.. Come in... Come in...

Don't ask me
'Cos I don't know
Said don't ask me
'Cos I don't know

On my Roberts radio
On my Roberts radio

It never gets better alone
Oh no
It never gets better alone
Never gets better

Don't ask me...
'Cos I don't know
Why ask me
'Cos I don't know

Don't ask me baby
I don't know I don't know I don't know

©Phil McWalter July 2020

Don't Ask Me Baby

Don't Ask Me

!!!PLAY IT LOUDER!!!

@janinelevinson on Soaring Vocals
@rick-4-1 on Pineapple Stealing Drums
@phil-mcwalter on The Other Stuff

SPREAD YOUR WINGS

I’ll give you a minute
Then maybe an hour
But I don’t like the look of you
Or your ivory tower
Are you a candidate?
You don’t smell of the street
The pavement don’t suit you
Trips up your feet

Spread your wings
If you don’t like the darkness
Spread your wings
And you’re afraid of the lights
You’re not safe in your nest
Take the plunge
It won’t hurt for long
Spread your wings

There’s rain in the forecast
There’s time in your eyes
Flags in the furlough
Waived by the wise
The church door was open
Granite and still
The boys went in
And the pigeon came out

I'll give you a minute
It won't hurt for long, oh no
I'll give you a minute

Spread your wings
If you don’t like the darkness
Spread your wings
And you’re afraid of the lights
You’re not safe in your nest
Take the plunge
It won’t hurt for long
Spread your wings

I’ll give you a minute
I’ll give you a minute
I’ll give you a minute
The pavement don’t suit you
The pavement don’t suit you
The pavement don’t suit you

© Phil McWalter Sept 2020

Spread Your Wings

Huge thanks to my Valuable Friends who partied hard!

@janinelevinson - Dance invites and vocals
@rick-4-1 - Funkin' it up for the dance floor
@phil-mcwalter - Sausage rolls and other stuff


PARTY BACK AT MY HOUSE

Party back at my house
Party back at my house
Party back at my house
Everybody's gotta come!
'Cos you're wonderful
Ooh Lord, we think you're beautiful
And we wanna hear you talk
We wanna see you walk
We wanna hear you shout
Have fun
Back at my house

Party back at my house
There's a party!
Party back at my house
There's a party!
Party back at my house
Everybody's gotta come!
'Cos you're wonderful
Oh Lord, so beautiful
We wanna hear you talk
See you walk
Hear you shout
Have fun
Back at my house

"BE the party" (Theresa May)

"Let's just get wastey-pants" (Nicole 'Snooki')
"Wow! What a ride!" (Hunter S. Thompson)
"I wanna see you dance" (Janine Levinson)
"Party Sleep Repeat" (Rick Medlock)
"Remember when we could?" (Jack Nicholson)
"Is this a cocktail party?" (Jimi Hendrix)
"Is this my party?" (Phil McWalter)
"Hell yeah!" (Clarence Clemons)

© Phil McWalter Oct 2020
[Photo by Emma McWalter @emmam-7]

Party Back At My House

!!!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.