@user-138663860: Wow! Thanks so much for your kind words.

That’s GREAT ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🥰🥰🥰

Definitely hints of Steely Dan, but also wonderfully original. Superb musicianship and production front to back. A most engaging listen. The vocal work is mesmerizing.

Lovely melodies, elegant production, great lead guitar

This just popped up on my stream. Excellent music Roger,you have a great voice.

Nice song. I did not expect something so fresh and cool.

Just love this original combo.  Great musicianship...

Smiley Face  July 21 mix

Flying Man

Randall and the eyes take a trip to Jamaica Bay, where they are swallowed by a whale.

Humpback

Musique composée par O#D le 21/03/2019 de 14h05 à 14h09
Arrangements par O#D
Photo par O#D
Tous droits réservés

Female

Words and Music by Roger Whittlesey. All sounds made by Roger Whittlesey except:
Guitar by John Mason.
Some background vocals by Christy Bluhm.
Click here to watch the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8XsJy9lJg

Sunshine

Tales from the Surveillance Age.

'Electric guitar' on this track was played by Ivan Azzetti on keyboards.

[lyrics]:

Look on the bright side
Someone reads the letters that you send
Honin' your profile
You want that plastic eye to be your friend

Look on the bright side
Every little thing you say is being heard
Feeding the file
Recording every bit of every word

In your very home
Ain't it good to know you're not alone


When you waste an hour
Flippin' through the channels on TV
Singin' in the shower
Then a beer or else a cup of tea

Do they know, can they tell
Can they hear, can they smell


There's a crumb for every step of every trail
You've been notified your life is up for sale

But look on the bright side
Now you know you'll never be alone


Cruisin' on the highway
Your wheels know just where you want to go
Ridin' in the subway
With the other extras on the show

Do they know, can they tell
What you think, how you smell


There's a tag for every name and every face
Until every little soldier is in place

There's a crumb for every step of every trail
You've been notified your life is up for sale

But look on the bright side
Now you know you'll never be alone

Bright Side

I was very lucky to collaborate with Philleann @philleann: on such a beautiful song. 
Peter @user-264930040 collaborated on the lyrics. 

The Glimmering Shore

They married in haste on a bright winter’s day 
Knowing the next tide would sail him away 
But he pledged his return come the warmth of the May
 And to wait for him there on the glimmering shore

High masted whaler, fading from view 
Beyond her horizon of shimmering blue 
Steeling her heart, through tearful adieu 
Set to wait for her love by that glimmering shore

May’s softness as swallows came dancing on air 
July blessed her life with his daughter so fair 
Then autumn winds rising, whispering despair 
While she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Darklings of winter, snow blankets the sand.
 Earth forged to ice, life stripped from the land. 
Daily returning, the horizon to scan 
To wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Weeks swelled to months that folded to years
 Hope’s light expiring, extinguished by fears 
And the salty sea roared and it crashed like her tears
As she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Like a ship gripped by tempest ne’er to break free
 Her heart imprisoned on a turbulent sea. 
No lighthouse of guidance to lead her to lee. 
She'd wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Vocal - Suzanne Ledwith 
Guitar - Philip Hitt
Lyrics - Philip Dale & Peter Keenan 
Music - Philip Dale

Picture by Lukas Robertson via unsplash.com

The Glimmering Shore (feat. Philleann)

My soundtrack for a Sunrise.  Watch the video https://youtu.be/d4uzsUIdEr8
The calm pre-dawn with its promise of the new day to come is broken by the sun piercing the horizon.  Light streaks across the sky, kissing all it touches with gold.  Mundane objects are transformed into works of art by the beauty of this first light. Then the majesty and power of the suns slow warming ascent. 

...and yes I went there, I used tubular bells!

Photo by Wes Hicks https://unsplash.com/@sickhews

Watch the Video

Hope Shines Forth

Dedicated to our dear friend.

With SuZanne Ledwith on vocals. Check out SuZanne's atmospheric new song "He of Ebony" here: https://soundcloud.com/suzanne-ledwith/he-of-ebony-wav

The Gift

Please don’t despair
There are darker things in this world that could take you there
When daylight breaks across the lawn
And you breathe the pristine, scented dawn
You’ll know we care
Reach out your hand and we’ll be there

Please don’t be low
There are better places in this world you know that you can go
Then the moon lights up the path ahead
And the Jasmine blossoms fill your head
You’ll feel we know
Raise your eyes to the afterglow

You hitched our ride and that’s our gift
You hitched our ride and that’s our gift

Please don’t lose hope
There are bigger fools in this world to supply sufficient rope
In the midday heat you’ll rest a while
Brush the noble chamomile and smile
Your spirits lift
You hitched our ride and that’s our gift

You hitched our ride and that’s our gift
You hitched our ride and that’s our gift

The Gift

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

Gone With The Flow

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Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

Krissi & Ari- Ikitalvi

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