Name: BLACKSTUFF WIP Mix 1.12725 by Ruby LaRue
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: About the depths of depression that I call the blackstuff. Happens to all of us, the trick is escaping.

the curse of the creative mind or somewhere in between. cool track

Yep, I go there from time to time but, but as you mention the trick is escaping. Nice writing for sure.

@user-936947521: ThANKS Frans, appreciate the listen  :)

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Gary Reeves: Drums / Drum arrangement
Hans Albers: All instruments, backing vox, arrangement & production

Cover art by Jooinn.

This is a totally stolen idea gleaned from another one of those phone conversations with my brother Gary. We talk to each other every few days and normally end up sounding like two old men sitting on a park bench putting the World to rights.

I’m sure a lot of what we say has been said many times before (what hasn’t?) but one day, out of the blue, Gal says to me “ Sometimes I find things too difficult to deal with. I would love the opportunity to step off the world for just one second and clear my head a bit...” At the time I just accepted it as the type of thing we say to each other but two days after the phone call the idea of stepping off the world to escape the pressures of daily life returned when I was playing my guitar. The words “I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off” fitted with what I was playing and the start of a new opus was born.

Once a song seems complete, I generally record a quick demo and send it off to Gal to see if it has any potential. If he thinks it has, between us we try to put a better demo together to send to Hans.  If he thinks it’s any good, he’ll work on an arrangement and more often than not sends back something back that sounds way better than what we’d imagined.  

We might chip in a few ideas here and there (as Gal did with a totally new drum arrangement on this) but Hans is definitely the one that gives it most of it’s final shape and sound.  I love every step of the songwriting process.  It provides a kind of therapy and the creative process gives every day purpose and interest.  You could say it’s my way of stepping off the world for a short moment.
(Terry Reeves)

I’m stepping off the world
To give myself a chance
For a moment of reflection
Avoid the need to dance 
One thousand miles per hour
Never firmly on the ground 
Gravity with no connection 
Spinning fast head going round 

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world 

No New Year's Revolution 
Rotating much too fast 
Survival of the fittest
Fittest days are in the past
Step off every Monday
Not back until Tuesday week
One moment makes a difference
Like a lifetime so to speak

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world

Don’t want to give a reason
Good feelings are oppressed 
Try different constellation 
Laying down has more interest
Stepping off a single second 
With no single past regret
Not a care for single thinking 
Avoid joining one single thread

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off the world
Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world...

STEPPING OFF THE WORLD - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

that's my cue

About the depths of depression that I call the blackstuff. Happens to all of us, the trick is escaping. 

BLACKSTUFF WIP Mix 1.12725

Music- Finn Eces  
Doina-All Violins
Finn Eces-Guitars, octave mandolin, tenor banjo and tin whistles
Mixed by Finn & Doina

For all my cancer & chemo comrades in Limerick University Hospital and for Pat.

I started this piece a few years ago, and Doina was kind enough to write some beautiful violin parts for what is quite a simple chord progression really. I didn’t have lyrics and life events overtook writing music. I picked it up recently wanting to mark that life event, and an upcoming crossroad. 

More fantastic work from Doina here https://on.soundcloud.com/nnwFWWwW9ofaPd3z6

Come Sunshine Come Rain

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Thank you for your support!

Songwriting und Lyrics by René Methner / Recorded by Para Lia / Mix und Master by Lakesidestudio, Berlin

Para Lia:
René Methner - Gitarre, Vocal, Synth
Cindy Methner - Vocal
Michael Schlottke - Bass
Emanuel Mukow - Drums
Remo Ender - Gitarre
Dennis Grund - Mellotroneffekt-Gitarre

Cover art: RM, Foto by Heiko Portale

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with the cream of the jest
at the wheel we are blessed

with shrill and loud disputes
straight ahead the downwards route

in neverland

infantile speech for the dumb
for all the sheeps

we are underestimated rats
gold-givers for spoiled cats

in neverland

s.o.s. we lose contact with the cell
in the end we lose contact with ourselves
in neverland

Para Lia - Neverland

Forbidden Colours

New Slinkys on. Schweeeeeeeeet

We are tuned to 444Hz A... The first time I've gone straight for that tuning on new strings I think.

Tempo 71 bpm

The pic is the lyrics and all the leaves we collected today in the pic. We are very lucky, the woods is a 5 min walk from where we live.

Picture This is an incredible plant identifier app if you haven't heard of that it's well worth getting for learning what you are looking at.


Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.danatech.xingseus&hl=en_IE&pli=1

iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picturethis-plant-identifier/id1252497129


Lyrics

Hey my Loves
Check... Signed out!
Let's walk in nature and stop the shout
To the trees with love we picture this
Let's learn the leaves and aborb bliss

Hey flashy 'Male Fern' calm us now
Good 'Common Elder' takes a bow
Giving us worth wows 'English Ivy'
'Common Hazel shows real mighty

'Hawthorn' talks to nature walk
'Sessile Oak' accepts no balk
'Honeysuckle' soothes our scene
'Euro Beech' give kids new dream

The greatest 'Gorse' you carve our course
'Mountain Ash' beamed quick from source
Ah, 'Lady Fern', I never knew...
Aside 'Holly' prickly Christmas clue

Spruced 'Douglas Fir' pined always green
New 'Red Raspberry' wild and clean
Blue 'English Oak' mourns old theft ' knows
Flanked by 'Jetbead' might as rose

Why weep dear 'Birch you Silver' lady
Friend 'Downy Birch' lined walnut wavey
Aced 'Maple of Field' soapberry knowledge
To 'Norway Acer Maple' leaf foraged

What a walk
Thank you Nature
You calmed us down
You talk much greater
We learn you more and have more spine
This nature walk through real divine

ah yeah ah yeah

Hugging Trees foraging leaves
The truest love now calm my kids, good seeds
Nature walk fix our talk
With child's play we stalk with light
To darkness, We balk

Ah yeah, Ah yeah



Something I learned...
I assumed when I noticed Male fern and Lady fern that these were dioecious plants but thats not the case. They can hybridize as explained below but they are not seperate male and female plants as I assumed when I noticed the two today...

Male fern and lady fern are distinct fern species with notable differences in appearance and habitat preferences. Male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) is a robust, larger fern with deep green, lance-shaped fronds, often found in woodlands and hedgerows. Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina), on the other hand, is generally more delicate, with a finer texture and a lighter green color. It thrives in damp, shady conditions, often near water. 

Ferns reproduce through both sexual and asexual methods. Sexually, they reproduce using spores, which develop into a small, heart-shaped structure called a gametophyte. This gametophyte produces sperm and eggs, and fertilization results in a new fern plant. Asexually, ferns can reproduce through vegetative cloning, where new plants grow from rhizomes or by the tips of their fronds touching the ground and rooting. 

Ferns can hybridize through the fusion of gametes (sperm and egg) from different species, often occurring when spores from different ferns land and germinate in the same area. Hybridization can also be facilitated by apomixis, a form of asexual reproduction where unreduced spores (with the same chromosome number as the parent sporophyte) are produced, leading to the formation of a new sporophyte without sexual reproduction.


Schweeet

Nature Walk

Super Sweeper (2025)

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:

Salt air
Land locked shore
Clipped hair
Clipped hair
Dusting the floor

When the reason's her
When the season's here
Not stuck anymore 
When the reason's her

Going stir
The voice of an Age
Cut off
At the fur
At the fur
Red apple rage

Windowless her
Windowless her
Nausea I could not 
assuage

Tongue tied blur
Tongue tied blue
At the hopelessness
of the page
All the hope I have/hold 
of you

Windowless her
Windowless her
            April 24, 2025

Windowless Her

Another of Barry's songs recorded very quickly with the typical Zeds twist. Barry Potter is the best dressed punk in Dundee !

Between the lines

Reprise

Just a couple of songwriters trying to find our way. Blessed with some INCREDIBLE musician friends (Tim Pierce, Matt Laug, Jimmy Z, Arlan Schierbaum, Bill Churchville, Rafael Padilla, Michael Parnell) that create the musical magic of Ruby LaRue!  Steve Valenzuela is our trusted engineer and studio Producer Guru. We'd be lost without them. We share our music during the mix process and welcome everyone's 2 cents. Thanks for listening! Rock on......Follow us on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/rubylarueofficial/

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