Name: Crossfire by Roger Whittlesey
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. Lead guitar by Audric Jankauskas. Bass by Noel Barrett. 2024.

You really know how to put this sound off. Well done!

super track, great sound  terrific vocals. Audric's guitar always sings. well done, play on. (<:

Always superb Production by your Creativity and Awesome Guitar, BRAVI 👏

Wow, great track Roger! Your voice sounds amazing, spot on!! Songwriting is TOP! (I'm reminded of the great Toto a little)

This Song is so beautiful Thanks for letting us listening to It 🧡

beautiful harmonies here Roger - love the extensions

Keys: by MikaJ Saturn
Brass: MPE Luna Dreaming by MikaJ Saturn
Guitar: Gliss Guitar by MikaJ Saturn
Second Stellar Strings: by MikaJ Saturn
Bass: Wonk Bass by MikaJ Saturn
Drums 1: 909 Flavour Kit/
Drums 2: DrumLoop16multitrack provided by Loopcloud
Vocals: provided by Ghosthack
Noises/Space shuttle/Nasa radio: provided by Loopcloud
Composed, arranged and produced by MikaJ Saturn June2024

Saturn Sound Flight

L'histoire continue ! 
The story goes on - - - - - - - 
EN speakers : see translated video here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76eJeiqRQH0

Thanks  ! - - - - - -- -- - - - - -  -

Histoire d'une invention  - chap. 7 : L'hôtel de ville

A song in an old tradition, with the wonderful Nadia Selvaggi. 
I recommend that you go and listen to her lovely music https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi

Oh, where is my love

Oh, where is my love
Oh, where has he gone
He has gone to the war
With fathers and sons
To fight for our right
to live a peaceful life
To safeguard the future 
of daughters and wives
To fight those other men
With rockets and knives

They were once our neighbours
Our cousins and our friends
We would live together
Brothers without end
How could they turn against us
What twisted reason wends
To create this wicked violence
To hell we will descend

Oh where is my loved one
I have heard not a word since he left our home
I fear I have lost him 
I have heard not a word
Please return to me my darling with the swiftness of a bird
Please fly to me my darling with the swiftness of a bird

They were once our neighbours (etc as above)


Oh, where is my love
Oh, where has he gone
He has gone to the war
With fathers and sons
To fight for our right
to live a peaceful life
To fight those other men
Who have daughters and wives

Oh, Where Is My Love (with Nadia)

Unabashed - (Eclectic Collective)

Cast of Characters:

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– acoustic and electric guitar, production, mix, mastering, seed idea

Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – verse vocals and lyrics, backing chorus vocals

Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar

J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, piano, and synth

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, percussion, and backing vocals 

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 4-string fretless bass and chorus vocals, lyrics, arrangement, and harmonies

Composition – The Eclectic Collective

This song began its life as a beautiful guitar 
chord progression from Stephen. He wrote it with the idea the The Eclectic Collective would bring it to life, which we were all excited to do. First up was Tez, who added the distorted guitar you hear adding the edge to the entire thing. Ken added his lively foundational drums next. Josh, of course seized on that, and followed shortly after with his four-string fretless bass. JJ came along next and added the expressive organ and dancing piano, along with the big choral vocals at the end, which he did with his new synthesizer. 

  Now that we had the music done, it was time for Mark to add his distinct, signature singing to the mix of his original lyrics. Josh decided to come up with some very simple lyrics for the choruses and arranged some harmony parts for them, too, which he also sang. Mark also threw in his voice to the choruses. Ken, too, contributed his voice to the choruses, as well as harmonies and vocalizations throughout the verse. 

  Once the song was in the can, Stephen edited, mixed and mastered it for us, very ably, as always.

  This was a seemingly large project, which took us almost two months from introduction to finished product. It's another good example of the songwriting capabilities of the EC. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by Mistermark:
 Watching the city lights getting smaller while I’m looking through my rear view
Leaving it all behind hit me harder than I  thought that it could ever do
Sometimes a man gets lost on the road like a wheel spinning round in his brain
It’s not what you said but it’s in the way you said it
Now it’s stuck in my head and I’m never gon’ forget it

I’m moving on
Away from home
(Away from home, that’s where I roam)

Well home is where the heart is as the saying goes, but my heart ain’t in it no more
But I remember all the times smelling grits in the hall as the morning sun hit the floor 
Old picture frames, and every toy’s got a name, now they’re packed up and stored away
Turning that key for one last time keeps turning around & around in my mind

I’m on the road
Away from home
(Away from home, that’s where I roam)

Now I’m pointing these wheels toward the setting sun
we’re flying straight up ahead like a bullet from a gun
Just you & me kid and this old guitar
we got dreams to dream and we’re gunna go far
Like stars in the sky there’s city lights up ahead
and I’ll keep driving toward ‘em till the day I’m dead
Closing one door just opens up another
there’s plenty of world just waiting to discover

I’m moving on
Another home…
(Away from home, that’s where I roam)

Away From Home - (Eclectic Collective)

Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. Lead guitar by Audric Jankauskas. Bass by Noel Barrett. 2024.

Crossfire

Thank you for listening. 
I think I've created a playful yet calming song.
I would be happy if you would rate it.

Musings

Angels On High (2023) Anthology CD3 Track 01

Sound diary of my one-month trip to South Korea (March-April 2023). Field recordings made in Seoul, Busan, Gyeongju, Jeju Island and on the Queen Jenuvia ferry on the Yellow Sea!
Journal sonore de mon voyage d'un mois en Corée du Sud (mars-avril 2023). Enregistrements de terrain réalisés à Seoul, Busan, Gyeongju, sur l'île de Jeju et sur le ferry Queen Jenuvia sur la Mer Jaune !
zuunzug.com/2023/10/14/coree-du-sud/

South Korea Sound Diary

A 20 minute medley of some of the better bits & pieces from 20 of my solo recordings, all from about 20 years ago (between 2000-2004)

A pretty wide variety of styles - jazz, funk, ambient, classical, world, worldbeat, experimental, alternative, industrial, reggae, electronica, latin, pop, game show music, more. Some unorthodox explorations here... have at it.

0:00 - I, Spy
0:55 - Variations
2:10 - Belle Curves Blues
3:24 - Saxofunk (a)
4:14 - Game Show (b1 - interlude)
4:55 - Game Show (b2 - main theme)
5:35 - Lives of our Days
6:04 - Aulde Europe
6:38 - Multi2dinal
7:56 - Sitar & Santur
9:06 - Last Days of November
11:10 - Industrial Mustard
11:57 - House In Da Jungle
12:45 - Casio Adani
13:26 - Funky Junk
14:49 - Jazzy Ditty
15:44 - Tiger Raga
16:53 - Latin Loop 2
17:59 - Latin Kinda Thang
19:29 - Pennywise (c)
20:50 - Harp of My Dreams (reprise)

(image is a mosaic of mostly self portraits using a scanner)

Mark's Album

Mark Music Medley (part 1: 2000-2004)

Piano composition by Anibal Seminara 
Image by Marco Britto

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Roger Whittlesey is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter from the Boston area. He often composes and records pop music with intricate harmonies and deceptively sophisticated chord changes. Many songs spring from his 60s, 70s and 80s influences, but his music is original and unique. Whittlesey often collaborates with instrumentalists and singers from the world of jazz, folk, and pop to create a hybrid form.

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