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Fresh Daily Discoveries  - 3

Jack's House

A Jejune Affair

Grant Me Speed

DO YOU KNOW MY NAME ?

Do You Know Her Name  (Explicit)

Abstract Zombie (Single Version )

Cantare per strada (IL PRESO BENE)

Codify depicts the gradual loss of self and identity; the control that we have over our own decisions, choices and lives ultimately. It speaks to how the sort of tech based society that we live in is not even hiding the fact that it's manipulating and controlling representation of ourselves and what we should find important so that our own autonomy is blatantly and unashamedly diminished.

Codify, 
Codify,
my decisions,
so I may not, I do not, 
rely, 
on myself, 
integrity, 
my breath, 
judgment, 
my breath,

pick the through the patterns, flick,
away, 
irrelevance, experiment,

potential, 
you may crawl, through,
the intimate, 

fought tongue hiding,
no longer, 
beneath, 
the flower,
you have the power,

knowledge, 

penetrate, 
once private
disregard, 

intuition, 

please do

Produced by Leg Puppy 2.0
Mastered by Paris Alexander 
Strings by Paris Alexander 
Words and Vox MB aka Kerry Coburn
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowyfLSBrl4

Codify feat MB

https://open.spotify.com/track/7nrX5FIHjAS2qaxjRj2XBR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQq5pJuP88
https://music.apple.com/us/album/brave-captains-song-single/1788242991

Brave Captain's Song

I know I’ll survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHbMxx3vsw
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Iom8kd7lduJlWIzaPoX91
https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-only-crush-single/1789370521

My Only Crush

https://open.spotify.com/track/6UecTzAnSmPWgskjcVSWaO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGMs8tmlGE
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-melody-is-gone-single/1789900794

The Melody is Gone

https://music.apple.com/us/album/chaotic-8yo-queen-bee-single/1789813009
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Nv0T9ZEb5LJtGkCUBXPWT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WXpej4Mdgk

Chaotic 8yo Queen Bee

Deep In The Holy Water' in the old days would be the hidden track on the album. Colin wrote the tune after I said I'd like to have a surf song about surfing the Severn Bore. in a crazy coincidence our pal Jane's Granda mad Jack Churchill(no relation) 1955 surfed the 'Severn Bore' in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard. and it coincided at the time with the scandal that had hit the news that the majority of England's rivers are polluted, only 14% meet the standards of a "good ecological status. Its not perfect in Scotland but its better and one of the few brags we've got is that our water tastes better, but i dont want our English family literally swimming in shit when they're at the beach. I was listening to the Blindboy Podcast at the time about Irish Godesses and the reverence that Clíodhna the Celtic goddess of the sea, with a passion and love, and deep beauty had and how our old myths and religions meant there was a deep devine respect for nature that has been lost over the years. Where as before water was worshipped and revered, now it is sadly polluted. Look what happened to The Black Sea for evidence of why we shouldn't mess with our life giving bodies of water. It experienced unprecedented degradation in the 1990s causing a large dead zone. The main sources of nutrients were runoff from the agricultural sector (fertilizers and livestock waste) as well as domestic and industrial wastes. You can go a month without food,  but you can't survive 3 days without water. The oceanographer Helen Czerski's was on the brilliant 6 Music Cerys Matthews  show talking about her latest research, measuring ocean breathing. All of these different bits of inspiration led to the lyrics. It's time we got back to respecting our water and what we put into them and oh aye 'Deep In The Holy Water' is a banging tune to surf or dance to regardless of the meaning. 

7. Deep In The Holy Water lyrics 

Deep in the holy water,
into the endless wave,
The tide breaks free into the estuary, oh me oh my oh me.
Deep, deep state, Illuminate my faith, deep in the holy water. 

Deep in the holy water,
where throats and tears run dry,
storm speeding, ocean breathing,
Clíodhna reigns supreme, oh me oh my oh me.
Streams like veins, and dreams remain to ponder, deep in the holy water 

Deep in the holy water into the endless waves  oh me oh my ,oh me 
Deep in the holy water where throats and tears run dry, oh me oh my ,oh me 

Deep in the holy water!


Deep in the Holy Water by Mellow Party

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xi6yaDTkJA2BWWtxIB3dk
https://youtu.be/n_vRTFvP-h8
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tomorrow-single/1793026339

Tomorrow

Unforgettable Night

Stance

I thought it would be interesting to write a song celebrating/acknowledging good times. The catalyst for the song was a positive end-of-something song. A lot of endings are often marked by bitterness. The song is part tongue-in-cheek because although the song is called “Good Times” ultimately the song is about someone I had to pull away from as she was a bit mixed up. It’s also partially about the city of Madrid which is a place I’ve had a love/hate relationship with down through the years.  The city has been calling me back in recent times so I decided to shoot the video there. When I wrote the song, I was thinking of previous Good Times in my life I’ve had there (and the not so good times) but with time I’ve been able to reignite the love I had for the city. We had together so I’m both celebrating those good times albeit with a sense of perspective and loss of something. The song is about being good together but the relationship was blowing hot n’ cold like the weather.

Good Times

Keelan X - Good Times

Don’t make sound
you tear it up
you carry on
Stop carrying the worst thing.

April's entry for our song a month quest for 2025. Nearly a day to spare, we must be getting the hang of this...

The Mourning

Halloween Night 2025

https://open.spotify.com/track/4uPoVgxLFqiUcgrezpx14R

Eugène Pottier, was a refugee from the Paris Commune, who wrote the poem 'The International' in June 1871 while in hiding in the aftermath of the massacre of the Communards. This song's lyric is adaptation of Charles H. Kerr translation from the original.

Arise!

https://open.spotify.com/track/3rDPMQwJiXDNB4N2fT2dor

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

Tomorrow

R.Ranger