Sometimes the enemy we face without is actually a projected manifestation of the monster within.

This is a track I created for @Stradomyre's Pico Day '22 animation. He's an absolute beast of an artist/animator.
You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/0utm5w26BHE

This is one of the first times I've recorded my singing in recent years. I don't feel super confident with voice but this track felt like it needed some words and I didn't have the time and/or money to hire someone so...Apologies. Ideally I could have gotten Astrud Gilberto to sing on it but that wasn't an option for a myriad of reasons. Mostly, she wouldn't return my calls. I tried to make up for it with some twangy baritone guitar.

Happy Pico Day!

Lyrics:

Where is the line
we draw on our faces
Where can we hide
without leaving traces

How far can you run
before you expire
Despite battles won
I feel awfully tired

Sometimes the greatest stranger's
hiding right behind your eyes
don't stop too long to linger
or they'll see through the disguise

So keep on running

Keep On Running

I was inspired by the incredible videos of hummingbirds created by Anand Varma for National Geographic.
https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.com%2Fphotography%2Fproof%2F2017%2F06%2Fhummingbirds-slow-motion-flight-videos%2F&token=28f2d5-1-1655148317500

Not only was the information fascinating (of which there is more in the linked article at the bottom of the aforementioned post) but I had an emotional reaction to the videos themselves. His images captured a world very familiar, yet when slowed down, have an otherworldly ethereal beauty.

Every Photon, 100 Times a Second

For some reason I find it difficult to use a Fender Rhodes in an electronic context and not end up totally ripping off Moon Safari. As such, I channeled a fair amount of Air and Boards of Canada for this one.The bass, chords, and keyboard beat were originally sketched out for a scene in the Starship Goldfish pilot, but we ended up cutting it out for something more simple (and rightly so...this funky ditty was too much music for the spot). That said, I always dug this little groove, so I finally decided to flesh it out.

Shoutout to my thrift store Casio SK-10 for the samples in the initial drum loop.

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Planeteer Reaction

"Blues pour la planète" est une chanson inspirée par la composition et l'arrangement instrumental "Blues For Stephanie" du contre-bassiste John Clayton Junior (interprété maintes fois par Count Basie et son orchestre) ; elle  encourage à changer les choses pour le bien de la planète en renforçant la prise de conscience vis à vis des divers maux auxquels nous faisons face, ainsi qu'en invitant à davantage d'actions écoresponsables et d'initiatives citoyennes. Une chanson au swing endiablé et aux cuivres percutants  pour porter des paroles cinglantes sur un ton enjoué ; deux générations sont réunies autour du micro (un père et sa fille) pour une interprétation à faire vibrer les amoureux du swing.

Swing pour la planète

Blues pour la planète

Blues pour La planète

Sur une composition de Pierce Murphy, "Pourquoi ?" est une chanson écrite par Richard Ihuel qui décrit en musique la solastalgie, cette forme de détresse psychique - voire existentielle - qui touche de plus en plus de personnes, notamment des adultes ou des parents qui ont le sentiment d’être en deuil du monde qu’ils imaginaient pour leurs enfants. Cette chanson est triste certes, mais également d'une rare beauté nostalgique enveloppée par un duo unique piano Steinway et orgue Hammond.

Pourquoi ?

Nothing lasts forever...

Here are the lyrics:

Well, it has come the time
i was craving all my life
Now i just have to choose the
last song that i'll sing

It doesn't have to rhyme
after all it's only mine
There's nothing more to lose
long gone the days when i was king

I was waiting for so long
everything i did was wrong
Oh God how much it takes 
learning from your mistakes?

No need to say goodbye
don't share another lie
Just go your own way
it's not the right place to stay

That was all, nothing new
this song will be my last
i'm not tall that's the truth
so you can bury me fast

Well, it's that time of year
when everything is clear
The wind is blowing cold
inside is colder than outside

Noone will have to die
noone will ever cry
don't wait in vain my dear, from me
there's nothing else to hear

I fall, step aside
this song will be the last
don't call, i don't mind
please girl, bury me fast

The Last

A song about the light...

Here are the lyrics:

Don't you know it's OK
don't you know it's alrigh
don't you know it's only you 
boy you got to turn on the light

She was so dark inside
with the devil by her side
Oh God please show me the way
well i got to get back in line

What else could i do back then?
It was nine out of ten
I had no chance to do it right
hiding into the night

Lord you got to show me
brother do you see the light?
On a Sunday morning
man i'm gonna win the fight

Girl you know 
i'll never give up
watch my step 
i know it's a trap

Yes i know she
couldn't stay
What was given
is taken away

Up and down, right and left
sounds around but i am deaf
i only live for one thing now
i 'm gonna get to it somehow

The Light

A song about showing off...

Here are the lyrics:

I could love you more
now he's gone
as he's playing with someone else
but it's so wrong

I could push you back
inside my head
and forget that i wouldn't 
mind to see you dead

I recall the time
when i was crying
And you laughed at me 
showing what's your kind

Now it seems there's someone
else who took your place
and the clown you loved don't
want to see your face
 
Don't you tell me how it feels  
because i know
Girls like you don't cry for real
just for the show

I could spend my life
just singing about you
but the way it's done
you don't deserve me to

I could set you free 
and stay away
but i was used real bad
and then, just another day 

Don't you tell me how it feels  
because i know
Girls like you don't cry for real
just for the show

Pic taken from: https://unsplash.com/

Just For The Show

De-Colonize (feat. @janan)

In case you don't like my voice, here is an instrumental version of my new track.

Blues pour La planète

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