my fave part from here on out.. might have to sample that ;)

Deadline: 3rd April 2024

All submissions to Haiku 534:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia/

To participate:
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz
Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #534: Pre-dawn inertia / Where do I go / From here?

I wrote the lyric for this song after a family blackberrying expedition a few years ago. My old friend Gareth and I put some chords to it and recorded it. Lizzy Taypen said that she liked it a lot, so I took the opportunity to rope her in to sing with us. I mixed her vocal in and produced another version. https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor/blackberrying-harmonies-with-lizzie-mix-2
I listened to it again and thought that Lizzies vocal was very special and that I had missed the best version. So I mixed a version with only Lizzie singing and a more gentle support track. I thought that it was beautiful, it is the track  here.
Her page https://soundcloud.com/taylor-pentland

Blackberrying

When the sun light falls in a steeply slanted angle
And the colours of the world fade to muted reds and golds
The living soil still holds it’s warmth and waning sweetness
As another summer gently slips from our aging fingers hold
We can still find simple joy in the things we did as children
Finding fruit among the bushes along the margins of our roads
with our adult children now
as we enjoy this timeless pleasure
Of finding fruits just hanging ripe and ready in the hedgerow
And taking them back home with us like edible treasure hoards

Folk don’t seem to bother now, to take the time to pick them
Still they grow and glow like jewels amongst natures topiary
A present from an old imagined ancient world of wonder
As sweet fruit drops into our hands from the realm of the fairyies
We stretch to reach the fullest ones, beyond reach in the branches
the nettles tingle our arms and legs if we fail to be wary
Then we carry home our bounty, taking great care not to spill them
and turn them into memories that we had very nearly lost
a refreshment for our hearts from our purple blackberries

Blackberrying feat Lizzie Taypen

Music and backup vocals by Hobocop
soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Vocals and lyrics by Cosmic Keanu
soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Produced by metrocityrecords
soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Lonely sits the city
Now desolate,
Barren and empty!

We watch the fall
In silent apathy
Nothing’s real
Augmented reality

Walking sleep
Our lips are sutured
Our eyes stitched shut
To past and future

Self-serving
Apathy
Buried along
with our fantasies

[chorus]
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Turn back before
it’s too late!

Silicon smiles
Hide mechanical gears
Oiled with blood
Spilled in fear

Enemies
Seek our demise
Choking us
With honeyed lies

Parasites
Have wormed their way in
They cause our fall
And mock our ruin

In the midst
of our distraction
ravening wolves
Have overtaken

[chorus]
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Turn back before
it’s too late!

Lamentations (HoboCop & Cosmic Keanu)

Dear friends, once upon a time there was an opposition politician in a great and powerful country. After surviving a very severe poisoning, he was put in miserable prisons and later died under mysterious circumstances - It hurts!!

Lyrics in English

A Poor Man

What is it that hurts so much?
which hurts so much - in me
that's when I hear when someone has died
when he fought for something that is good
he had striven for the freedom of his people

What is it that hurts so much?
which hurts so much - in me
that's when I see that children in the world are suffering badly
when they were hit by bombs in their home
there they would have been safe from wicked men

What is it that hurts so much?
which hurts so much - in me
that's when I hear people are starving to death
when there is so much money in this world
it would be very good if we can share everything we have

What is it that hurts so much?
which hurts so much - in me
that's when I hear tyrants torment their people
they have thrown many people in a cage
and they have murdered several of those who oppose themselves


Lyrics in Swedish

 En Stackars Man

Vad är det som gör så ont
som gör så ont - i mig
det är när jag hör när någon människa har dött
när han stridit för något som är gott
han hade strävat efter friheten för sitt folk

Vad är det som gör så ont
som gör så ont - i mig
det är när jag ser att barn i världen lider svårt
när de träffats av bomber i sitt hem
där skulle de ha varit trygga från elaka män

Vad är det som gör så ont
som gör så ont - i mig
det är när jag hör att människor svälter ihjäl
när det finns så mycket pengar i denna värld
det hade varit väldigt bra om vi kan dela på allt vi har

Vad är det som gör så ont
som gör så ont - i mig
det är när jag hör att tyranner plågar sitt folk
de har kastat många människor i en bur
samt de har mördat flera av dom som opponerar sig

En Stackars Man - A Poor Man ( Lyrics in English in description below)

Enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/t3AsvEyUhXc

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF intertiA [naviarhaiku534]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
534
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia/
train sound  https://freesound.org/people/bassboybg/sounds/218925/

224-03-28

Pre - Dawn Inertia (Naviarhaiku 534)

two drum and bass drum loops hand cut and glitched. layers of distortion, feedback, electric guitar, sub drones, voices and multiple field recorded one shots.

[naviarhaiku534] dawn, pre-inertia

I have posted this song some years ago, but I decided to do some new recordings on bass, synths and piano. 
Some latin vibes inspired by Carlos Santana.
Lets go:)
Oddvar Solheim Guitar
Torbjørn Vagle, compositon, Hammond organ, percussion and the rest

Pacific Crossing.  Oddvar Solheim guitar (instrumental version)

29Mar24

My Naviarkaiku534 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/746205559437557760/naviarhaiku534-pre-dawn-inertia
:D

Pre-dawn inertia [naviarkaiku534]

Electronic composition, an evolving structured drone-like sequence, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Lassitude (naviarhaiku534)

https://youtu.be/Mfbh2NhtcZM
Naviar Haiku 534

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Marco is the founder of Naviar Records.

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Dameli Zhantas

Onward (Piano)

Onward (Piano) - NavairHaiku534

Frightning

Frightening

IndieRoad

Beyond Earth And Sky (for Piano)

Illusionary Daytime, by Shirfine, performed and recorded on Dexibell Vivo H10 as a #30DaysofLoveSongs Challenger on @claracmee (Instagram) nominated by @akuahinds (Instagram) who was nominated by @tahako.tank (Instagram). Video available on YouTube (see link under bio). Thank you for listening! #pianoteachersplayingpiano #amorfati❤️

Illusionary Daytime by Shirfine

“Dicen que los niños vienen al mundo con un pan en el brazo, pues Garazi además viene con esta composición. ¡Bienvenida al mundo y a la vida!”
“They say children come into the world with a loaf of bread in their arm, well, Garazi also comes with this composition. Welcome to the world and to life!”

compo20241026 (Garazi)

the script-  for the first time piano cover

I'm a composer, working from a 3' x 5' studio (some may call it a dinette) in a 5th wheel camper, while traveling the United States. I've been on the road for six years, so most of my recent work will have come from a different state (of mind and location) during my travels.

Music makes me feel better about everything. I don't know that I'm ever happier than when I am creating. I sometimes wonder if creativity isn't one of the primary keys to happiness. Do you ever feel better than when you say, "Look what I did."? This phrase magically conjures the purest sense of childlike joy.

Music works for every part of our lives. We all have music for when we are sad, happy, celebrating, meeting others, when we are alone, and even when we are lonely. Did a song come to mind as you read each of those situations? I remember the first song I ever heard on the radio, on my first bus ride to kindergarten. One of my favorite musical memories is playing in a band for steel beach on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

I love telling stories with music. Everybody loves John Coffey in the Green Mile, but Mr. Jingles should have a song commemorating his reaching and joining the circus at Mouseville. If you agree, join me for this and similar journeys. The music here is synthetic, but as real as you would choose to have it.

My music most often lands on Soundcloud first and is inspired by one of my favorite communities, Naviar Haiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
I find writing to a Haiku prompt sufficiently limiting and exquisitely inspiring.

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Onward (Piano) - NavairHaiku534

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