like the melody and of course the lyrics/message.. I think the songs kind of understated comment on the climate change issue is effective.  great tune

how are you not famous? You have a great voice, sound like Leonard cohen and your songs are catchy and full. Did you record all the instrumentation?

Very appealing, Chris, in a most 60's/Donovan kind of way. I don't know how I missed this one. I guess this is why god created re-posts.

really like how you put songs together with instruments that don't necessarily 'go' together traditionally, but sound wicked here! my kind of experimenting!

Garden Of A Thousand Candles

In the garden of a thousand candles
Dreams awake you
Silently stare at the walls
Gold adorns you
Fantastical colours
Dreams await you
Lead where you dare

In a little field beyond Granton Meadows
There's a spot of heaven under yonder tree
Step aboard my time machine 
The future looks a silent Spring
Listen to the spirits come walk with me

Look around there were trees there were fields
Seems so serene beyond finite ideals
What happened to the simplest of times?
Blood, fire and steel
The old ways die
The old ways die

In the garden of a thousand candles
Dreams await you
Silently stare at the walls
Gold adorns you
Fantastical colors
Dreams awake you 
Lead where you dare

Over and over dreams falling over
Over and over lead where you dare

Pete Austin is The 1969. Playing electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, piano and mellotron, lead and backing vocal. Mixing and drum loops.
Released January 2022. Recorded throughout 2021.

The Garden of a Thousand Candles

Water Wings

High mark for water
Flooding the corridor
Why don't you hold your
Tongue until you see
How it's gonna be

Build a raft out of floaty things
I'll take my chances with water wings

Typhoons in winter
Tornadoes splinter
Now you begin to
State the ocean breeze
It's how it going to be

Build a raft out of floaty things
I'll take my chances with water wings

Build a raft out of floaty things
I'll take my chances with water wings

Featuring Pete Toigo on bass.

Water Wings

Here is a new song I wrote and recorded. Its sort of the second part for my song "The road to Nowhere" Hope you enjoy!

A Way Home

Delighted to present my latest collaboration with The Phaige, one half of Soundcloud stalwarts One and Other, alongside Jaime J Ross. This is a trippy, exotic backcloth with a cold North wind blowing through. 
Gary once again amazed with his creativity and his multi-layered production. He has such a keen ear for detail and brushstrokes to enhance and improve. What grabbed me from the outset was the slinky, fluid bass playing, but there are many levels across the frequencies to hook you in. Always a fun process to work with him.

All instruments , artwork and production: ThePhaige
Vocals and lyrics: Nick

Check out more sonic treasure and please also support the track if you like it, here:
https://soundcloud.com/one-other

Come with me with tales of magic, mountain spirits, hail and snow from your motherland.
Tell me secrets never told of winters bleak and hardship in the biting winter cold - aah

Take me to hidden places where food and love and family keep you warm
I’ll ride with you on Northern winds through deepest valleys and the blackest storms

I’ll sing with you while we are drunk with laughter in our eyes
I’ll listen to your strange new words of love from the North

Fly me faster through the stars to universes only we will ever know
Keep me close and make sweet memories for now and evermore

From North - The Phaige with Nicholas Ridiculous (lyrics in description)

If ever you're in doubt, consult the ancient wisdom cloud. The thoughts are there, the eye in the sky doesn't care what you do with the information. It's yours for your perusal, don't refuse it, learn to use it. Take a moment and address the cloud by its proper name, whatever that may be.

Ancient Wisdom Cloud

Another track inspired by "The Wake", a post apocalyptic novel by Paul Kingsnorth.

Buccmaster and his friends visit a village untouched by the Norman invasion. They participate in a village celebration, which Buccmaster looks back on as the very last joyful day. Even so, everyone there fears for the future.

I used my Flamenco guitar again... but economically, my early versions were too Iberian!

the last daeg we was yonge

Escape plan 80s

Youtube video  https://youtu.be/yU42IQgX6P4

Truth is stranger than fiction

Can't Hold On

Dance (John Stone)

I heard the weather report
And it’s worse than we thought
Because of all that we’ve done
Now there’s nowhere to run
The sun's getting hotter
The sea's on the rise
Before long the water is up to our eyes
There’s floods on  the earth 
And fire in the skies


We all thought we’d be fine
Yeah we’ve had a good time
But we were wrong when we guessed
That we’d always be blessed
Now we can’t drink the water
We can’t breathe the air
There’s not enough left for the people to share
It’s too late to panic
It’s too late to care


If we are reaching the end of the line
Walking as if in a trance
It’s already too late
To alter our fate
But while we still can we can dance

As we’re approaching the ending of time 
Caution is thrown to the wind
Kick off your shoes 
And surrender the blues
Forgive us, oh Lord, we have sinned!

So we dance

Dance dance dance dance

Dance like there’s no tomorrow
Dance to the beat of a funeral drum
Dance like there’s no tomorrow
We can Dance till the dawn that’s not going to come

Dance

Emotional here... With piano backing track.    Original artist Radiohead

Creep  (Cover)

Original music by Stu Sugarman
Version 12 - May 23, 2023
A 70's folk rock style song about a dark dream in a dark house.
Lyrics video available at https://youtu.be/Ete1xolKniA

Lyrics:
In a strange place
In a dark space
In a speck of time
In an empty rhyme

A faded face
Whispers gentle grace
For old thoughts
I’ve twice forgotten

Dark house
Silent  house
How do we choose
What to say?

Someone cried
I don’t know why
But I’m thinkin’ ‘bout
Runnin’ away

Light from the hallway
Is gone 
Through heaven’s door
Tomorrow
In the garden
I’m gonna get me
Some more

Sure it’s a dream
Do you think
I would show you
My darkness?
But every night
I can see it
Almost clear as the day

Dark house
Silent  house
How do we choose
What to say?

Someone cried
I don’t know why
But I’m thinkin’ ‘bout
Runnin’ away

I see you’re shaking your head
At the images
Shaped by my mouth
Your finger
Touching my lip
As we shut the light
In our dark house

Dark House

Songwriter; also play guitar in the rock band, The Warp/The Weft and I'm half the duo, Teeniest.  Can't really sing but I do it anyway.

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