Keith needed to get some stuff out and needed to wail away on his guitar, singing his heart out. I rode his coattails through the concrete. 

King of the Concrete Jungle
Lyrics:

King of the concrete jungle
As far as he could see
Across the road and down the street
As far as the distant tree


Paved with puddles and historical dirt
A field of broken tiles
The Lord of darkened corners
Can see for miles and miles
 

(CHORUS)
NOW ALL AROUND IS CONCRETE
AND GREYNESS WINS THE GREEN
THE KING OF THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
WEEPS FOR YOU AND ME…YOU…AND ME


 Singing from his lamppost
A branch without a tree
The sweetest notes you would ever hear
But no honey for this bee

 
Mouth open to the heavens
Warm sunshine from deep within
Blue skies he used to soar in
Clear waves he used to swim

 (CHORUS)

(INST BREAK)

(CHORUS)

note from Keith:
"This was inspired by a lone blackbird, singing his heart out from the top of a lamppost. (The branch without a tree)  I remember that behind 'his' lamppost there used to stand a beautiful Maple tree...long chopped down to make way for more car-parking space. There's not a single tree left standing down our road now...not one"

Note 2:Terry likes the social/political application to life in the 21st c. , always ready to see a moral to all of Keith's tales. ;)
 
Wigmore: synths, percussion, production
Allen: guitars, bass, lyrics, vocals

King of the Concrete Jungle


I was lost in time
Feelin' like the victim of a perfect crime
Until that night I met you
How was I to know just what your love could do

Now I believe there has been a change in me
Oh, I believe that it was meant to be
Oh, can't you see I believe in you and me

In the dark of night
We can be what we would like to be
And it's all right
When it's you, you and me girl
Well I feel like we're the only people in the world

I believe there has been a change in me
Oh I believe that it was meant to be
Oh, can't you see I believe in you and me

It's so easy so damn easy to see
The way I feel for you
And you for me

Solo

Well, I believe there's been a change in me
Ya, I believe that it was meant to be
Can't you see I believe in you and me

Oh, can't you see I believe in you and me
Oh, can't you see I believe in you and me
Oh, can't you see I believe in you and me

V2.03

I Believe

Original track here: https://soundcloud.com/user-659662265/make-some-noise

Make Some More Noise

Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino 
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Vocals, Strumming and picking tracks (Taylor 114ce): Joe Stroffolino
Additional Picking Track: Native Instruments Sunburst Guitar
Bass, Drums and Keys: Toontrack EZ Bass, EZ drummer and EZ Keys
Fiddle: PG Music Real track (viola)
Recorded using Logic Pro 11 and mastered with Ozone 11
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All those times when you tried to play at the at top of your game
lately your enthusiasm’s starting to wane
You’ve been trying so hard to re-ignite that fire in your belly
lately your resolve, it’s turning into jelly 
You've been trying to be the best that you can be
but maybe you’ve been barking up the wrong tree
if your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice 
You’ve been swinging for a home run, but you can’t even seem to get to first base
You feel stuck like a rat in a race, like one of those monkey’s they shot into outer space
There’s days when it feels like you’re hanging by the end of your rope
And you struggling so hard to find a solution so you can cope
if your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice 
You try to make it through each day and sometimes you feel like the missing link
White knuckling your way through all the changes, trying not to be the first to blink
People doing things fast with AI that you're sure would take you several weeks
But you swear you’re going keep doing things the old-fashioned way with your luddite techniques
Your life is like a river that’s constantly flowing, 
You get swept along by the current You’re never sure where it’s going
Sometimes it feels like you’re playing a game of musical chairs
You’re afraid that when the music stops, you’ll be the one whose left standing there

If your Spidey sense starts to tingle, maybe it’s a sign 
that you should open up the curtains and let in some sunshine
Sometimes you need to listen to your inner voice
Every morning that you wake up you still have a choice

All Those Times

mountains grow wider and i cant find her

Hey everyone, been a while! After two months away, I'm back with something I'm really excited about: "Spiritually Loaded." This track is a journey into that feeling of inner awakening. Hope you can feel it too. ✨ Good to be back making sounds.



Spiritually loaded

Call it whatever I want to call it
Individual victory
Caught off guard and brought Into the light
Incremental failure

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone

Don’t see what everyone else can see
Avoiding the crystal clear
Anyone else here wondering
If I’m gonna wake up?

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone

Twice I’ve tried and twice I’ve failed
Try to visualize what it means to win
Twice I’ve tried, twice I’ve failed
Got to visualize what it means to win

Do what I want
No longer hiding in darkness
Time has come to face the truth
Laughter echoing between my ears
Relief and acceptance

Act as if I’ve seen it all
Circling my tiny little safety zone 


Anyone Else Can See

"Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance..." Thaaaaaaaanks Wikipedia...

Music can deliver a form of Shamanism to us in my pea head opinion. Joining me in this track is TexMex Shaman from Texas in the good old USA.

Connect here: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman

Stephen is an incredible human, musician, artist and producer and made this the way more polished piece it is with his wonderful lead guitar and mix and master skills. I just handed him my splat and he made it the five pointed star it is with more Actual Intelligence from a human being brain. Nice one bro!

Lyrics

Yeah... Meet a musical bear 🐻

Sounds vain,
Bigging up my own brain.
Blame the world,
This status quo
The fake and fucked up reality show
I can't watch artificial grow
Without musical smells to make it go
Life is art and art is life
Fake the steak for a weak minded right
Go live your FUD
Go live in pain
I'll sing real truth!
Soul gain!
From indie to metal to rock to rhythm and blues and jazz...
Human algorithm

Yeah.. I'm liking this musical bear 🐻 😆

Make a style
Be a new way
Create a world that says new day
Create a world that honours history
Where artists spirits expand our mystery
These spirits are sad with your fovia fake
Art 'aint random when a human make!
So regurgitate your souless take
It all sounds the same this AI bake
So grab an instrument and express real heart beat
(Guitars / Samplers / Keyboards / Saxophones... all music that is expressed whether that's banging rocks or playing a harp)

FUCK AI MUSIC
Ask your soul to prove it
Chuck the lazy loser... you!
You lost!
Now hear those waves where life is not a cost...

Waaah

This project is one of multiple styles of the same song. The more fake bs skip to result splats I hear from ai typers the more I want to try and upgrade what goes into my own real music. Sir Isaac's 3rd law says what we need to do with that poison! So for me thats the only positive so far from ai music... It inspires me to make it the insignificant random arrangement of plagiarism it is... Sometimes I go soft in my head on some ai typers... but they need to have that reckoning with the technology as individuals too.. They robbed all of our musicians work and they're probably going to steel all of ours here eventually too... Like social media, for me from a creativity stand point it just adds to the general limiting of our abilities and desire to develop skills being happy with some heroine result instead of a grind to get there... If ai artists were honest with themsleves, listen to what they make and what every other complicit plagiariser makes... It's the same fake sounding music! Who are you inspiring with that? Usually as far as I can tell the individuals artists ego and thats it... It's the indifference towards the artists that taught it without permission... Thats the real shallow Merovingian in the system and the people that feed it. Piano/Keyboard - two directions... left and right. My tip... start there

Imagine a bank with all the cash. It's everyones cash... Then some dude comes along and builds a bank beside it and prints the same amount of cash and says! Look at me I have all the money lets play here.. If your head is poisoned by money too... thats not fair obviously... what ai companies have doen to artosts is worse. They took their fucking souls and will now profit on them for years to come because of the lack of political will to regulate or stop big corps doing this bs. It's too late to save the soul of their art fully but we need to get it reigned in fast

Actual Intelligence

Belle Amie

/// LYRICS \\\

[verse 1]
Hello, Friend" I wrote
An odd way to start my note
Hours thinking, days waiting
on how I plan to abandon this boat.

[chorus]
It's been so hard to see
What is in front of me
Do I not deserve to be happy? 
No.. No, I don't.

[verse 2]
"I'm sorry," Said I
Trying to write and not cry
Listing reasons, counting my lesions
Writing my note while trying not to lie.

[chorus] 
It's been so hard to see
What is in front of me
Do I not deserve to be happy? 
No.. No, I don't.

[outro] 
When this note would end
I would finally hit send
A bright flash of light in the night
And my last words read, "Goodbye, Friend"



Hello, Friend

Shotgun Carousel [prod.90N1GHT]

Hi! I'm Rob!! I write and record my songs, and present them to the world here. I am the singer, guitarist and bass player, EZDrummer3 keeps the beat!
I have a collaboration with Single Use & Recycled:
https://on.soundcloud.com/XmiY1G8qKTuGQiAeZQ 
and another with my brother Joseph Olsson:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y261JZd5ZFZbOKmn40 
(Starts October 17)
Check 'em out!

Anyone Else Can See

Rob Olsson