A dark and moody piece reflective of our times

Lyrics:
Here at the crossroads
Going over the edge
We hope for tomorrow
But it hasn't come yet
The world is burning
People drowning and sick
Our leaders have no desire to get this thing fixed
Ay what will become of us?
Ay what will become of us?
Well my feet were wet through August
and the corn was 12 ft tall
and the wheat was all rotten and the summer skipped to fall
the world around us is burning
and the idiots are dying in droves
I don't have much hope for us humans
no I don't, no I don't.

We might go, we might go quietly in the night,.....

Here at the crossroads
Going over the edge
We hope for tomorrow
But it hasn't come yet
The world is burning
People drowning and sick
Our leaders have no desire to get this thing fixed

Rotten

Cloudy Days

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2024 Remix and Remaster version to bring it up to the standard of the later album tracks for full album release in 2025.
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"A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine - From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord"

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website

www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The Vikings! instrumental features rolled timpani, strings, electric guitar and a choir ending. Various sound FX from that are classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

"Flock of Seagulls" by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Background
Simeon of Durham recorded the grim events of the Viking attack on Lindisfarne in 793 AD

"And they came to the church of Lindisfarne, laid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted feet, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church. They killed some of the brothers; some they took away with them in fetters; many they drove out, naked and loaded with insults; and some they drowned in the sea" .
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'The Vikings' was in direct contrast to the dreamy first piece of the album. I came across a Latin Phrase spoken by priests as a prayer of protection from the scourge of Viking raids. It helped me get into the mindset required for this piece. I chanced upon some 'Foley' material of some actual Viking re-enactors from freesound and used this to create a very short, brooding piece that explodes into an electric guitar solo before just being suddenly left with a voiceover of me chanting the Latin phrase against the backdrop of the sound of the sea.

Often Viking raids were short and bloody and I wanted to try and capture how an attack like this could change everything for the vulnerable monks. Faith was their shield but could it really protect them from these savages from the sea ?

The Vikings - 2024 Remix and Remaster

siren summons

All Booked!

Music: Mike Krath
Lyrics and Vocals: Xian3
DAWS: Reason 12 and Ableton Live
VSTs: Nexus, Omnisphere, VPS Vengeance.
Various loops: Splice

Lyrics

Oh, ohh
Well, well,
There are many things, that we can talk about
And there are lots of things
And there are lots of things that we don’t talk about
And there are some things
There are some things completely covered out
And there are not many things
And there are not many things that i would sing out loud
Not so many things

And when I close my eyes
It's nearly out of sight
And when I plug my ears
the words are barely to hear
And when i shut my mouth
There’ll be no coming out
Without a mouth
There’ll be no coming out, (3)
No…

Well, there’s so many things, we can’t talk about
And there’s so many things we’ll never figure out
But there is one thing, i love to sing out loud
But there is one thing,

But there is one thing,
I’d love to sing out loud
I love to sing out loud…

One Thing (collab with Xian3)

I Tried to Catch Some Fog, But I Mist

Tried to Catch Some Fog, but I Mist

naviarhaiku545 – white petals
June 12, 2024

white petals
on the stormy sea -
floating memories

haiku by El Wud

picture by Hans Isaacson

its pet whale - naviarhaiku545

The DRUMAX PROJECT Present Track 48 // ... about special relativity .... ;-)
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