An excellent portrait of reality in lyrics and musically is one of those songs 100% Ryu!

nailed it/tells all/way to go/folk with gusto/great lyrics & song

This works brilliantly, and on so many levels. Your lyrics are perfectly and uniquely beautiful.

sweet psychedelic pop sound! love your melodies

a promising title and a very beautiful song!

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Q-A Midsummer Night's Piano

"We've Got So Much" - Bezkwit Jam.

Hidden World III

The Stand

"Corroded Brainstorm" (2025).

"Urban Guerilla" Live Radio Session 2015.

Another wonderful song by Jim Barrett, another collaboration with Roger Whittlesey, who played piano and drums, and sung the remarkable background vocals, not to forget Noel Barrett on bass. I added some saxophones. And there's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyw9tMktmjs

Songs that Won't Cry Mercy (J. Barrett)

Sunken Mind

I stumbled across an uninhabited white mansion when I was out for a run in the countryside. I got chatting to the security guard looking after it, who let me look round the grounds. He told me a ballet dancer once lived there. I made up a song about the ballet dancer. 
I ended up pouring a lot of my anxieties into the story of poor dancer- they have ended up being a horrendous mix of my personal and political fears. 
I think this song is kind of fantastically ridiculous- an OTT 10 minute epic, with a whole horror-theme 2 minute instrumental at the end. I love it.

Castle of light

This song is a new one written this year and it's about how we've all become Broken Mirrors in some way. All of us, we were a loving people, not a cruel people, we were a caring people, not a hateful people, we were a hard working and strong people but also a very fragile people and I feel we've become a little bit more shattered in recent years. Our beliefs and hopes have diminished somewhat and this song reflects that broken mirror in us all. It's harder and harder to stay positive in this crazy hateful world today. I sang this one since Charlie was not available. I think the mix was too loud but I'm having problems with my computer and couldn't adjust the sound in my film editor like I usually do. 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/CUpzZLL-xJc

I worked hard on the video and tried to follow the lyrics as close as possible. It will drop on August 1st on YouTube. It's about our lack of empathy as of late and this constant hatred for other people that I now sense in this great country of ours!.  So I asked myself, how did we get here? When a country starts depriving its citizens of basic needs like healthcare and not helping our senior citizens and ignoring the less fortunate among us and stop assistance for veterans (like me) that risked our lives for this country, then we're on a road to destruction and our government has failed us.  All I can do is write songs, so songs I shall write. I still believe in love, love is always the answer!  Take care & God bless!🙏😎✌🏼

“BROKEN MIRRORS"

WE LIVE INSIDE OUR CASTLES,
WE HIDE BEHIND OUR WALLS,
WARM AND SECURE, NEVER ENDURE,  
HARDSHIPS THAT BEFALL,             
THE CRESTFALLEN AMONG US,
THE ONES THAT WE IGNORE,      

PRETEND THEY DON’T EXIST,
PERHAPS THEY’LL MELT AWAY, 
THEY’LL DISAPPEAR, ALONG WITH FEARS, 
WE MAY BE THEM ONE DAY,
THEY REALLY NEVER MATTERED,
THE WRETCHED WE DEPLORE, 

BROKEN MIRRORS, BROKEN MINDS,
SOMETIMES WE CHOOSE TO BE BLIND,
CONVINCE OURSELVES, WE’RE MILES ABOVE,  
THOSE THAT BEG AND CRAWL,
 BROKEN MIRROR ALWAYS REFLECT, 
 WHAT’S BROKEN IN US ALL,

MAN IS A STRANGE CREATURE,
SO CRUEL BUT YET SO KIND, 
OUR TAPESTRY IS OUR ARTISTRY,
OUR HEART SOMETIMES SUBLIME,    
YET SOME HAVE A DARKER SIDE,
THEY LURK BEHIND SATAN'S DOOR,  

     BROKEN MIRRORS, BROKEN MINDS,
     SOMETIMES WE CHOOSE TO BE BLIND,
     CONVINCE OURSELVES, WE’RE MILES ABOVE,  
     THOSE THAT BEG AND CRAWL,
     BROKEN MIRROR ALWAYS REFLECT, 
     WHAT’S BROKEN IN US ALL.

 BY JIM VALDES © 2025

"BROKEN MIRRORS" (Video - https://youtu.be/CUpzZLL-xJc)

i heard on the radio the other day that loneliness is the new epidemic.............peace and cheers for having a listen





                 Afterthought

well i don't really know what happened to us
but i could sure use a friend right now
cos all that we built is turning to dust
and there ain't no more how or why

so please don't say that you know what i'm going through
it's plain to see that you really wouldn't have a clue
i'm trying to appreciate, the little effort that you gone and made
but it saddens me that you need to pretend, when you can clearly see
that i'm at the end of my rope
that's ok, i was just trying to say
i need a friend

so don't give it a second thought
it never mattered much before
and if there was a page for all the mistakes we made
i'd fill a book or four, a volume that's for sure

so please don't say that you know what i'm going through
it's plain to see that you really don't have a clue
i'm trying to understand, things were good and now they're bad
and it saddens me that you need to pretend, when you can clearly see
that i'm at the end of my rope
that's ok, i was just trying to say
i need a friend

Afterthought

Excerpt from Porest's "ABJECT MIRROR" – a full-length audio-drama with advertisements and musical accompaniment.

Porest is dragged through an inconvenient network of paranormal subterfuge after exposing something significant that may have happened 33 days from now.

Featuring appearances by Robert Millis and Jake Rodriguez. Special thanks to Vicki Bennett, whose MIRROR theme this is in partnership with.

Porest, etc: Mark Gergis 
Dr. Lumen / Mr. Fleckt, etc: Jake Rodriguez 
Acoustic guitar on THROUGH YOU: Robert Millis 

Recorded and produced by Porest until 2019 

Supported by public funding by Arts Council England 

Porestsound - 2019 (Porestsound 010-DI)

Through You

offered here, you have, you see, a compilation of music created by me...

Can't Stop

Strange Cats ft A-woken and friends, also produced by A-woken.

The Sander

From Milo Hunter's Sophomore EP "Lux Flakes"

Lux Flakes

Generator

Our life is fragmented and flows somewhere far.
It's called the score, and it actually affects our life.

Free beer tomorrow.
It's called marketing here.

In some country, a riot happened.
We are watching it on TV news.
The anger and the indifference.
We can share these on the network.

Free beer tomorrow.
Our future will become a default.

The people headed for the south reached the South Pole eventually.
It's a cold but peaceful place and they live happily.

Who says the future is splendid?
The future is only consumed.
We are fishing the garbage mountain and trying to find dreams.

Free beer tomorrow.
It's called marketing here.

Free beer tomorrow.
Our future will become a default.

Free beer tomorrow

No subtitles are available for these sounds.
I do not have the correct change for the machine.
Thats not a queue, Its a procession,
https://fagashrecords.bandcamp.com/

I'm making songs at midnight in my room. I play acoustic guitars, synthesizers, and I sing.

Free beer tomorrow

Ryu.

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