Love the sound and vibe....cool track...well done

groovy Flow… Singst Du eigentlich selbst. Sehr geile Vocals!👏🏻

Fantastic composition! Fresh and addictive performance with great saxophone part. Sounds really good 😎

Sehr schön, mir gefallen die Abwechslung durch die 2 Stimmen und die jazzy parts mit Sax sehr

🔥🔥🔥🔥 excellent work here 😎🫡🍻👻

Es gibt so viele gute musikalische Teile zu beklatschen, wie wäre es also mit - ALLES! 🙌👏👏👏🔥❤️😀🌻✌️

Newly remastered Darkness
You're such a goody two shoes - don't smoke you don't drink booze - sometimes i wonder - how i hooked up with you - you never let your hair down - hardly ever come around - is it that you think your just too good for me.
I'm starting to think can't handle the pressure got a My Little Pony on your dresser for Christ's sake - still believe in elves and Santa Claus - wonder what's really in those dresser drawers -  every time i walk in i have to pause waiting for the moment you take out your claws I'll never believe your really this nice - accepted a man that's cold as ice.
I can see your bright eyes shining through my window i can see your kindness your tranquility - I'm thrown off by your good deeds you'll never suit my needs i just need some darkness you're way too bright for me
Your so conceited when you show the goodness in you and every time i falter you throw it in my face - I'm such a disappointment yet you still come back for more - in spite of all your sweetness your really a disgrace - 
I'm starting to think that i should run this relationship just isn't fun for me no more - still believe in hugs and holding hands you're so blind that's not who i am - may have been back then who i was - used to hit you up all the time just because but that type of shit's all in the past - you can shove your righteousness up your ass
I can see your bright eyes shining through my window i can see your kindness your tranquility - I'm thrown off by your good deeds you'll never suit my needs i just need some darkness you're way too bright for me
I'm starting to think the roof's caving in  I used to believe I was one with the one who made me sin - truth is i really don't care could really give a shit if you're elsewhere darkness has a hold on me open up my arms and welcome him in even if I'm damned for eternity - i don't give a fuck you're too bright for me 
Chorus

20 years in the making

The Darkness

This is an old song, originally written in 1992 or '93 while on a hitchhiking trip through the Nevada desert from Boise to Tucson Arizona. It took my friend and I eight days on the road to travel about 700 miles. 

The title is a reference to the two of us standing on opposite sides of the highway, willing to take a ride any direction as long as it got us out of there. It's about desperation, resignation, freedom, harassment, and finding beauty in the midst of extremes.

It is an experience I will personally never forget, and I have written the story once before but it was destroyed when a computer crashed and literally caught on fire before I could print it.

In the last few years I have started to try and tackle writing it again, and I stalled out a bit. Maybe revisiting this song will help inspire me to finish   documenting the tale?

You can read what there is of it here: https://twowaythumb.wordpress.com/

Ron and I originally recorded this song with our old band Godzoundz, but it was only ever released on a very limited cassette run. We decided a while back that we should chip away at re-recording these songs and try to give them their due as it was all pretty deep underground back then. So here's the first one of those.

Our basement studio flooded a couple weeks ago and production has been temporarily slowed, so we thought we'd trot out some of these oddities and misfits while we chip away at reworking our studio and getting it put back together. Hope you enjoy!

Godzoundz

Two Way Thumb

put this together one rare morning, waking with my girlfriend at my place. we had the morning off from our usual responsibilities. it felt so dreamy and inspiring that i had to write a song, and this is what resulted. thanks for listening.

morning wakes a dream

Lyrics:

I'm sorry for all the boxes
we have to carry out now
we have to fill with the past
we erase the traces 
and lay new ones 
in far away places
would you like to keep this?
or shall we throw it away 
like we did before

I can't wait 
for the dawn
of the new day

I feel sorry for all the boxes
that are now closed and carried out
driving fast out of this space
No more possiblity
to change our mind
to change and turn around
the road goes steeply down
because all promises no longer
mean anything, mean anything 

If you ask how I'm 
I would say I'm ok
if you ask how I'm 
I would say I'm ok

A Trace To Keep Control

The Boxes

New album "A Trace To Keep Control". Releasedate: 17. May 2024. Timezone-Records. Pre-Order Now: https://presentparadox.bandcamp.com/album/a-trace-to-keep-control

All Songs written and performed by David Kleinekottmann

Saxophone on "Ready To Hide" & "Ephermeral Ghosts" by Antonio Necchi

Flugelhorn on "After The Rain" by Flippo Tungo

Tenor Clarinet On "A Lense To Find A Trace" by Michael A. Grant

Artwork by Dr. Screen

Recorded in Maastricht, Essen & Dortmund

All Rights Reserved by Present Paradox © 2024 


Lyrics: 

Was it you? 
or was it me?
who have stolen 
the flowering tree 
was it you 
or was it me?
who called 
the excavtors?
was it you
or was it me 
who fell for the cheap trick

Slip slop slap seek slide
I think we're ready to hide

it is too simpel much too simpel 
how I let you get away with 
because you because you 
have let the soil dry up
now i can no longer walk
the streets are flooded with water

Slip slop slap seek slide
oh I think we're ready to hide 
ready to hide, ready to hide
oh ready to, ready hide, ready hide

Ready To Hide

Chasing On The Wind

Blues about the fall from grace of a former drinking partner.
Lyrics:
Well, well, well,(cough) well, well
So here you are
Your back in the bar
Well, well, well, well
You've been living the life of an eccentric
You've been out there in the realm
Like way out there man
Like gone, like real gone
You'd been living it up downtown
But uptown, you've lost your shine
Hanging around the Garden of Babylon
It's where you left your keys, your heart and your mind
Well, well, well, well
It's the bottom rung of the ladder blues

What did I see?
Out of my peripheral vision
My friend?
They always say:
You always come back to where you begin
You've been living uptown
But downtown, that's right
The money, the money , the money, the money
She never treats you right
C'mon!
Well, well, well, well
The bottom rung of the ladder blues
I hit the bottom rung of the ladder blues

Well, Well, Well, Well (Bottom Rung Blues)

My 2nd Album. Back in 2019.  This was a big step forward for me, the recording was hard but a lot of fun too.  
All Songs written by Will Russell
Recorded at Rose Pro Studio, Buckinghamshire. England
My Thanks to the guys at Trick Cat Records for the Production.

Against The Shore

The golden ages of the past
Seem distant now, seem distant now
And all the things we said back then
Keep coming around, keep coming around

CHORUS
So, in my life, i dont know what we're coming to
So, in the world i don't know what its coming to 

Its a strange combination
Higher tech but a lesser nation
We now have hot showers and all mod cons
But we step over people on the way to proms

Chorus

Our politicians seem so pointless now, so pointless now
The lifeblood has been sucked out of the here and now

381. the older i get, the more leftwing i become (harding).mp3

Always loved this track so when I was asked to do a cover.. I jumped at it...

The Edmund Fitzgerald

Turnupthesound

The music project "Present Paradox" by Dortmund-based David Kleinekottmann provides insights into the often opaque nature of the present. The result is a fusion of melancholic and danceable elements, expansive and intimate at the same time, diverse and yet familiar. Since 2013, Kleinekottmann has been regularly releasing LPs/EPs that move between indie, experimental rock and electronica.

Ready To Hide

Present Paradox

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