cool - loving the Big in Japan intro - that proceeds to a Japan/Sylvian groove - and then settles in the wonderful eerie vocal part that could be King Crimons-esque. In short,  vintage Pleudoniem.

Very interesting groove with cool vocals. Nice and catchy

Excellent song with fantastic style Eric. Loved every minute, thanks for sharing

On my second listen. Loving the Karnesque bassline

words and music © Pleudoniem 2021

The idea was based on the Hitchcock movie, and what I described in the lyric really happened, except what I made of it. But that is the essence of the movie, isn't it?

Rear Window

It possibly happened
When the door of the car
Was slammed with a bang. 
In our chock-a-block street.

An ill-tempered dame
As this thunderstuck guy
Rose his hands in the air
What was he to do?

I guess he was right
To get lost by her pique
Her merciless tantrum

My rear window view
Hitchcocked reel
A dreamt up ordeal
Killing my time.
   As traffic goes by

I fathomed the tale
He’d got into his wheels
Put the gears in reverse
And rushed into her heels

And if that’s what he’d done
It’d be a far degree murder
Or a close-to attempt
To make her shut up.

He would have been right
To have booted her guts
On the tongue of his car
Licking her up.

What if the story
Ends up bloody and gory
Really
I could still hear them shouting
And nobody cared
Nobody cared
Except me in the window
Moving a cactus
To clear up my view.
Secretly hoping
For a ravaging end
To cheer up my day.

Rear Window

words and music ©2009 Pleudoniem

Everyone does Everyone

I remembered a song
When she gave me that look
Clicking her mouse
As she smiled  when she took
A sip from her mug
As if she'd understood
I was bad news

She claimed I'd left a note
On a blog about their shop
That was slightly out of tune
They didn't like the lines
If people'd stayed away
Damage had been done
So she'd double me the price
For a loaf of bread.

We've Googled you my friend
Everyone does everyone
And here's where we've found you
We've Googled you my friend
Everyone does everyone
And here's where we've found you

I said she'd found a lie
But she said that she cared shit
What was there was there
And she showed the 13th hit
What she could find
The world could find
And she'd forward the result
To the supermarkets' crookbook

I claimed it had been long ago
And couldn't quite remember
But I couldn't quite disprove
What was written in September
Almost 5 years back

We've googled you my friend (5x)

Everyone does Everyone (2024 remaster)

Original "Enya style" song about the imperativeness of honesty in all we say and do. 

Vocals by Layna Claunch
Composition and Instrumentals by Layna Claunch

True Friend

Is it kind to tell a lie when a friend needs the truth?
What is kind from fellow minds true friends all have to choose
Saying words without meaning will not help a friend
Speak the truth, mean the truth and it will set you free

Choices made can make us slaves gravity starts to pull
Causing minds and hearts to ache changing wise into fools
Tell the truth, speak the truth, honesty will supply 
 Second chance, stable hands, and it all starts with you

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Speak your mind leave doubt behind
Courage will free the lost
Do what right to warn a friend
Never mind what the cost

Speak the truth
Live the truth
And it will set you free
Truest love never shirks
Truth is all that can be

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Speak the truth
Live the truth
And it will set you free

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Great book about honesty:
https://a.co/d/gvi5yCN

True Friend

Having some fun again with the wonderful Andy McLean on saxes - such sweet lines, harmonies and sound 

Check out more of Andy's great playing here:  https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

Thanks for your generous time listening, for your comments and your shares

Wah Tz Up?   -   Andy McLean & Jamie Rhind

Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Lyrics, Vocals, Slide guitar, Guitar, B3, Rhodes, Bass and Drum programming, mix and mastering.
If you have the time.... Please repost!

 Title: Silver Linings

In the pocket, in the groove
Chasing shadows, trying to prove
life's a struggle, but we'll find
The silver linings left behind

In the city, in the heat
Searching for a taste so sweet
Threads of sorrow, threads of hope
Tangled in the twisted rope

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

In the mirror, what do you see
Is there anyone you'd rather be
Keep the faith, don't lose sight
Silver linings shining bright

And the struggle, it's in the past
All the shadows, they won't last
Silver linings in the end
Worth it all, my  dear friend

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

SOLO

And the struggle, it's in the past
All the shadows, they won't last
Silver linings in the end
Worth it all, my  dear friend

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows
Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

Silver Lining

The first draft here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/riverberi
Final recording on 2 August 2024 in Milan, with Lorenzo Di Biasi (www.sartoria57studio.it/)

Picture is from Pietro Corrao

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2023).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, August 3.

Riverberi (final draft) *

Brandywine Creek ~ cover

Opening track for my second album ‘Everything is Upside Down’
I made this song a couple years ago, but then forgot all about it. When I was cleaning up my GarageBand I found this song again and was blown away by it. I let my farther listen to it and he suggested to add a bass pattern. And voila, a brand new opening track was born!

Everything is Upside Down

CIACCO/ Be Another - Only a lie : you are...

Compressed success

I am a multi-instrumentalist who plays the bass guitar, standup-bass, drums, the guitar, a tap guitar, keys, and I sing. I know that we're increasingly entering a world in which nothing may be real, but I believe in authentic play. So, I play all the instruments myself, and in the case of collabs I prefer people who also do this. Don't be a fake.

I usually take great care of the lyrics, because I feel a song is more than just a set of sounds, it also conveys an idea. As a linguist, I have been inspired by a great number of poets that I've come across, and I sometimes wink at them in my own work. Thank you, all you great carriers of moods and ideas, I take a deep respectful bow to you. It's great that the English language has got quite a number of you.

I have been influenced by many artists, but when I ask listeners who they think frequently return, they mostly mention Steely Dan, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Weather Report, Incubus, Duran Duran, Jimi Hendrix, Roxy Music, Japan & David Sylvian, Tower of Power, James Brown, Wishbone Ash, Iron and Wine, Ian Dury - how is that for a salad? That is not to say that I try to mimic them, their influences just ambush me when I am not paying attention.  

I am quite open for collaborations. Quite a number of them have been done with @Oorlab already, @Kellie-Rowley.

Rear Window

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