Isles & Co.

i've got two lonely shadows
that are fit to kill
if one of them does not get me
the other has the will...
prayers for the high holy one.
 
written & sung by poet/songwriter gil chasin
guitars by gil & naldo
keyboards by guillaume pearson
drums by naldo
arranged & produced by kid otari

Recorded on tape at the Laundry Room, Oakland California
8-channel 1/2" Otari MX5050
remastering by guillaume

cover art by naldo

Two Shadows

Original song, first arrangement and guitars  by Neno J. 
Vocals arrangements by Electrometis: https://soundcloud.com/fiona-greasley
Added keyboards and arrangement by J.J Terrel;  @j-j-terrell

Electrical Storm II (Electrometis, J.J. Terrell and Neno J.)

Sidetracked

Sāmoa Amelika/American Samoa - Matou

As part of American Oceania, American Samoa is a territory of the United States in the South Pacific. American Samoa is part of the Samoan Islands and borders the independent state of Samoa to the southeast. The largest and most populous island of American Samoa is Tutuila, with its capital city, Pago Pago.

A special cultural feature of the entire archipelago is the coexistence of a modern American lifestyle and Samoan traditions.

During World War II, American Samoa temporarily gained greater strategic importance for the United States between 1942 and 1945, when the construction of a naval base and an airport (Pago Pago International Airport) was decided upon.

Critics describe American Samoa's lack of self-determination and its control by the US government as a colonial relationship. The territory has been on the UN list of non-self-governing territories since 1946.

American Samoa - Matou

Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas - Ta Hanao Gi Chalan

The Northern Mariana Islands, fully known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, are a sub-territory of the Mariana Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan and north of Guam.

The area consists of 16 islands stretching over 500 kilometers, of which Saipan, Tinian, and Rota are the largest. The Marianas Trench Marine National Monument was designated there in 2009.

86 percent of the population speaks a language other than English in private, including Micronesian and Polynesian languages. Population growth is 2.8 percent per year. Due to the predominantly female migrant workers in the textile sector, the Northern Mariana Islands used to have the largest female-to-female ratio in the world at 1:0.77, but this is no longer the case following the collapse of the textile industry. The population has declined in recent years, to an estimated 55,000 in 2017.

Marianas - Ta Hanao Gi Chalan

Cymru (Wales) - Ar Y Ffordd

Wales is a region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is located in the west of the island of Great Britain and borders England and the Celtic and Irish Seas. The capital of Wales is Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd). The country is one of the six Celtic nations.

Wales - Ar Y Ffordd

Níngxià - Lèqù

Taiwan - Women

Taiwan is an island nation in East Asia that is diplomatically recognized by only a few countries due to the One China Policy. Its territory consists of the main island of Taiwan (99%) and other smaller islands. This technologically advanced industrial nation, which produces well over half of all semiconductor components manufactured worldwide, has a population of approximately 23.5 million.

The Republic of China was proclaimed in Nanking on January 1, 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution on the Chinese mainland. The island of Taiwan, under Chinese rule from 1683 to 1895 and from 1895 to 1945 under the rule of the Japanese Empire, only returned to the Republic of China at the end of World War II. In 1949 – following the defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and the founding of the People's Republic of China on the mainland – the government, elites, and armed forces of the Republic of China withdrew to the island of Taiwan. There, the Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, established a one-party rule that lasted for several decades, maintaining a state of emergency. The second half of the 20th century was characterized by high economic growth; towards the end of the 1980s, the Kuomintang initiated a gradual democratization process. In several scales of democracy measurement, the Republic of China (Taiwan) is today, alongside Japan and South Korea, one of the most democratic states in Asia, comparable to Germany and Switzerland.

Even after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the government of the Republic of China initially represented the Chinese state at the United Nations and was a permanent member of the UN Security Council. As a result of the People's Republic's one-China policy, however, more and more states severed diplomatic relations with the Republic of China, which was forced to cede its UN membership to the People's Republic in 1971 with UN Resolution 2758. In 1979, the United States finally severed diplomatic relations after establishing official relations with the People's Republic (Taiwan Relations Act). Today, only a minority of the international community maintains formal diplomatic relations with the government in Taipei. The status of the Republic of China under international law is disputed and is the subject of the Taiwan conflict.

Taiwan - Women

دولة فلسطين (Daulat Filastīn) - على الطريق (Ealaa Altariq)

The State of Palestine (Arabic دولة فلسطين, DMG Daulat Filasṭīn) is a de facto state in the Near East. He claims the areas of the West Bank including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Palestine is recognized as a state by 146 of the 193 member states of the United Nations; The neighboring country Israel, the USA, the German-speaking countries and some other countries in the Western world do not do this, but maintain official relations with it.

In 1988, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared independence, which has since claimed all of the territory occupied by Israel since 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. From 1994 onwards, several agreements led to Israel's withdrawal and thus to limited independence for Palestine in the autonomous areas. In 2007, due to the Fatah-Hamas conflict, Palestine split into two territories: the West Bank, ruled by Fatah, with around three million inhabitants, and the Gaza Strip, ruled by the radical Islamic Hamas, with around two million inhabitants. Both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are governed by authoritarian rule. After 2006, no elections were held in either area. Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are severely restricted.

In 2024, the International Court of Justice declared in a legal opinion that Israel was occupying the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law. Israel must evacuate all Israeli settlers from the occupied territories and compensate for the damage caused by the occupation. The legal opinion is not binding.

Palestine - Ealaa Altariq

Anguilla - We Pon Di Shoreline

Anguilla is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom (British Overseas Territory Anguilla). It is located in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. The area forms the main island of the same name, Anguilla, together with several small, uninhabited coral islands. The name was derived from the Italian word anguilla for “eel” and refers to the elongated shape of the main island. Snake Island was also used as an alternative name. The Arawak called the island Malliouhana, the “arrow-shaped sea serpent.”

Anguilla - We Pon Di Shoreline

My track for day 31 of Jamuary 2025. Today's prompt is: "A Farewell" (from Brian Funk). 

Eh.Co2

Timgin 4/4
BPM 50
415.30 Hz A

Lyrics


Let the words~smith fix your broken lines
With the technique truth time to tell the signs
Then the world is new and the fixes find
A perfect you
A more perfect time

So rhyme find reason
The tone timed through seasons
We're tuned to berievement 
Good spiritual heathen

Then the world is new and the fixes find
A perfect you
A more perfect time
Let the words~smith fix your broken lines
With the technique truth time to tell the signs


The Perfect Time

Tarzan (2025)

tingle your nkjingle

Other Side

Country

Egg of Yog

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years.

Níngxià - Lèqù

Ramixjoe ♈︎

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