yo! I love how it goes from hard guitar playing to the emotional piano and deep lyrics 

wonderful collaboration guys,  I want to hear this track live in a stadium 

Abolutely epic, brilliant track!! Wonderful song, brilliant production & playing!!

there are some tracks on SC that seem perhaps too good for the rest of the listening world, gems that somehow seem to belong to us - can't help but think Bowie would find this to be as sensational as so many of us do - yowza

this is up there with 10cc and ELO for me , want to rush to the nearest record shop and buy it .... oh they're all closed

More than fantastic - a huge thing  What an amazing combination, You really did what you set out to do, both a youse. All of the tribute you wanted it to be, plus novel brilliance!

love this so much i am putting it up for RADIO EVOLVED tonight at 8pm uk

Radio Evolved LIVE! Show Playlist - 6 Oct 2019

Y tú no estás aquí

Cover art: Publicity photo of American television host, Chuck Barris promoting the June 14, 1976 premiere of the NBC reality talent show The Gong Show.

The world can be an unpredictable dog eat dog kind of place full of all sorts of all sorts of people who can get under your skin
Sometimes you just have to smile and nod and keep your feelings to yourself and try your best just to just to take it on the chin
And there’s people who seem friendly, but they’ve got a knife in their hand behind their back
And they’re waiting for the right moment to attack
There used to be a TV show, where you could dance or sing a song
and if the judges didn’t like your performance, they would strike a gong
It sure would be nice if you could walk around with a mallet in your hand every day
And you had access to a gong you that you could strike and make annoying people go away
It sure would be nice to have that kind of power
Amateur performers of dubious talent, trying to win a small prize
Five hundred sixteen dollars and 32 cents, You could see the hunger in their eyes
Chuck Barris hosting on that Burbank stage, he knew the people competing were toast
But he smiled and tried to encourage them and be a good friendly host
The dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years until the asteroid struck
it was like a giant cosmic gong
Mammals arose from the rubble and now humans rule the earth, but we haven’t been around for nearly so long
We’re all just making it up as we go along hoping somebody doesn’t strike that gong
It sure would be nice if real life was more like that old Gong Show
And you could get a large gong attach it to wheels and take it wherever you go
You could follow in the footsteps of Chuck Barris and be your own gong show emcee
And whenever people start to annoy you -you could strike that gong and make them flee
He wrote a book called Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Chuck Barris was one of a kind.

The Gong Show

i’m already 
goin’ down
to the end of the story now
wind is blowing
to the end of the story now

come away   come away

time is bending 
drifting down
spin the hourglass all around
pulverize it
spin the hourglass all around

i’m comin’ after 
i’m comin’
i’m unembodied
i’m free

i’m already 
leaving town
train is rounding the mountain now
got my ticket
train is rounding the mountain now

come away   come away
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image from Malcom Shadrach via Unsplash


Quietus

From the Album "Gravity"  by W. Dannemann,  played by Dannemann and Friends. 
W. Dannemann:    comp./ arr., all vocals, guitars, Dannemann&Friends: add. arrangement
Pee Gee           :    Lyrics

Yesterday Is Long Ago

Now the night is fading
The dawn is yet to come
A new day is waiting
All bad dreams are gone

Time to leave..you told me
In your own personal way
You made your point clear
Come back and make my day

There is a way of turning the wheel
Yesterday Is Long Ago
Today is now ..today is real
Yesterday Is Long Ago

They say that time will heal
The wounds if you can wait
Today is now.. today is real
Never ask ..is it too late?

Let us begin the dance
Whirling into the future
Taking another chance
Holding you tight forever

There´s a way of turning the wheel
Yesterday Is Long  Ago
Today is now..today is real
Yesterday Is Long Ago

There´s a way of turning the wheel
Yesterday Is Long Ago....................

Yesterday Is Long Ago ....

Yesterday Is Long Ago

Inside (2008)

Composition and Sampling collage by Synline.

Pray For Me

Recorded in Modesto Ca.  Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Hammond B3 Electric Organ solo. Flute solo. Acoustic Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Godin Acoustic Nylon Strings Guitar Rhythm. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Electric Organ Rhythm. Drums Acoustic Full kit set. Percussion, Tree Chimes, Rainstick, Nature Birds Chirping, Crickets.

Carmel

Nesting

Lyrics

It's a cushty life
Making songs
Where I landed
Most lucky charms
Love is affluent
No foreign bombs
Thanks clear skies
Thanks food filled farms

Let's appreciate what good we can
Let's spread our love and light for Iran
Let's hope and pray now finds better day
Let peace prevail
Make freedom the way

We love you
We are here
We feel some of your fear
We can't understand
Our light can hold your hand
Observational control
May light fill your land

This is Our land
With the light we stand
No sabres sounded on this sand
Just Jedi together
Hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand....


Thanks for your good people
We see your pain
If tears could drown deceiptors
Hear an ocean insane
They bomb my chest
Your forever youth
Please Dear Universe heal them with truth

It's for the 1 two three four
It's for do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti more!
It's for more best singing Earth will ever see
It's for today so we hear more of that free

We love you
We are here
Solidarity feels some of your fear
Light holds your hand
Fill your land
Light holds your hand
Fill Iran

This is Our land
With Our light we stand
No sabres sounded on this sand
Just Jedi together
Hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand...


🙏🏽

The Light holds your Hand

(No GenAI used - My voice + Vst instruments)
J'ai écrit cette chanson en pensant à certains lanceurs d'alerte visionnaires et courageux dans notre histoire qui se sont battus et continuent  de se battre, souvent seuls au début, jamais dans leur intérêt mais pour un monde meilleur, quitte à chambouler leur vie à jamais
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J'ai marché loin des cartes
Et j'ai vu des choses qui n’existent pas encore
Des lumières dans la nuit, des arbres vieux qui chantent
Et la vie qui disait merci

Mes mots tombent, sans écho 
Tu regardes ailleurs, isolé dans tes écrans
Je trace des cercles dans le sable rouge de mon sang
Des idées debout dans un monde qui dort

J'ouvre les yeux, je suis seul sur Mars
J'entends mon cri dans le casque
Qui s'éteint dans un vide infini

J'ai pris la route sous un ciel sans phare
Cherchant l'esprit derrière le masque
Rien n'est écrit

Je grave des poèmes sur des vitres givrées
Quand tout est figé, exilé dans ma capsule 
Des mots laissés pour ceux qui pourraient me trouver 
Espérant qu’un jour, ils feront le détour

J'ouvre les yeux, je suis seul sur Mars 
J'entends mon cri dans le casque
Qui s'éteint dans un vide infini 

J'ai pris la route sous un ciel sans phare

Et personne ne croit
Le monde que je vois
Mon rêve et ma voix

Et c'est ici que je vis
(Et personne ne croit) 
Vis seul sur Mars
(Le monde que je vois)
Dans mon esprit
(Mon rêve et ma voix)

Et c'est ici que je vis
(Et personne ne croit) 
Seul sur Mars
(Le monde que je vois)
Dans mon esprit
(Mon rêve et ma voix)

Et personne ne croit 
Le monde que je vois
Mon rêve et ma voix

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I walked away from maps
And saw things that don't exist yet
Lights in the night, old trees singing
And life saying thank you

My words fall, without echo 
You look elsewhere, isolated in your screens
I draw circles in the sand, red with my blood
Ideas standing in a sleeping world

I open my eyes, I'm alone on Mars
I hear my cry in the helmet
Fading into an infinite void

I hit the road under a lighthouse-less sky
Searching for the spirit behind the mask
Nothing is written

I engrave poems on frosted glass
When everything is frozen, exiled in my capsule 
Words left for those who might find me 
Hoping that one day, they'll make the detour

I open my eyes, I'm alone on Mars 
I hear my cry in the helmet
Fading into an infinite void

I hit the road under a lighthouse-less sky

And no one believes 
The world I see
My dream and my voice

And this is where I live
(And nobody believes) 
Live alone on Mars
(The world I see)
In my mind
(My dream and my voice)

And this is where I live
(And nobody believes) 
Alone on Mars
(The world I see)
In my mind
(My dream and my voice)

And nobody believes 
The world I see
My dream and my voice

Seul sur Mars

This is actually the third version of the song. I felt the original idea I’d roughed out with the keyboard and computer could be more interesting. So I reworked the whole track again (twice) adding several ‘hooks’. These were some vocal ‘stabs’, some keyboard/synth riffs as well as writing ( what I hope ) is a more interesting bass line. I beefed up the drum section too. I hope the fun I had creating it is reflected in the overall vibe of the track. Having said all this, the question is: did it actually work? 


Get Up

@wheelwright wrote the song after David Bowie died. He had a beautifully strong song and vocal, on a smaller arrangement of piano, some strings and brass pads.

Wheelwright then ran it past me and I immediately begged to be his Mick Ronson and Tony Visconti! We think we’ve ended up with a truly collaborative result that is much bigger in scope than the original; via a lot of close and truly enjoyable discussion and idea bouncing. It's always wonderful to work with truly gifted folk like Michael.
  
@wheelwright: Concept, words, vocals, chord structure and vocal melody, piano, some strings and brass.

@phil-mcwalter: Guitars, trumpets, drums and percussion, bass, choir, bells, synths, cello, extra strings, overall production on all parts, mixing and mastering.

Song For A Fallen Rockstar

Well there's a danger
If you're a rock star
And you live too long
They'll say you died too late to save your reputation

But what do they know
They still played the songs you sang
And printed photographs
Of you when you were young

Oh what do they know
Yeah what do they know
There can be no music in their souls

Just for a moment
Seemed like a star shone
Brighter than the sun

But on the next day
It was all explained away
And life just carried on

But this unbearable
Sense of impermanence
It builds us up
It cuts us down

But when the air is still
Just before the dawn
I think maybe
Oh just maybe
I could find my way back home

Then all the bad girls sing along
Coz all the good girls couldn't come
To your performance

And as the closing credits roll
All the kids get up to go
Oh maybe someone shed a tear
But we'll never know
And I begin to realise
I'm not so good at letting go

They'll try to break into your mind
They'll try to steal away your strangeness
But there’s no future with no engine of desire
Oh who’s going to paint those pictures
Who’s going to set the world on fire

Oh who needs structure for the sake of structure
Who needs love for the sake of love
When your daddy said "history repeats..." you said
"I don't wanna to hear about that..."

And when they took him away he said
"Please don't test my blood, in case it's already cold"

And we made up all these stories
But they turned out to be true
But we’ve got to make a new life
Anywhere but here

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
But it turns out we were young
And so we didn't die

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
And I took your hand in my hand
And we ran for miles and miles

And I'm dreaming that I'm lying here
With my back against the snow
I'm reaching for the stars
But the earth won't let me go
They say there's nothing left now
But something still remains
Yeah

There's something out there...

© Wheelwright May 2016

https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright/song-for-a-fallen-rockstar-wheelwright-phil-mcwalter

SONG FOR A FALLEN ROCKSTAR (with overture) Wheelwright & Phil McWalter

Made the original track back around 2010. Decided last week to dive back into it and update it. The two versions sound very different.

Free

Beauty and the Killer (Ver.2)

This is a collab with a very talented music creator called Nakedverse or Deggsy or The machine :) he has many names and has worked with so many people look him up
https://soundcloud.com/nakedverse
 hope you enjoy our collab, there are more to come too.

Circles  - with Deggsy

A collection of funky, anthemic songs about weird platonic love, sticky subways and Brooklyn throughout the apocalypse.

Lyrics, voice, and the basic chords by Annie Nirschel.
The brilliant Eva Lawitts and Chris Krasnow at Wonderpark Studios did everything else. 

Eva Lawitts: production, engineering, editing, guitar, bass, upright bass, piano, so many other things that I can’t think of atm, #dankmemes

Chris Krasnow: production, engineering, mixing and mastering, trombone, drums, guitar, piano, dad jokes.

Wonderpark studios: 
https://www.wonderparkstudios.com/

Smoke Show

If any of you actually know me, you'll know what this song has been for me, and what it has done for me. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for this song. I hope you enjoy it :)

HAIFAI

Strollin'

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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.

SONG FOR A FALLEN ROCKSTAR (with overture) Wheelwright & Phil McWalter

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