Something different for the holidays.

A lot of synths, keyboard, guitars, bass, bassoon, sleigh bells, shakers, tambourine in a mix of beats from hip hop to pop at 85 bpm. Migrating geese in flight recorded live October and November 2023.

So I had recorded geese calls to use in music. What developed was a surprise to me, Wild Geese music that came pouring out in one eight-hour period on the day before winter solstice. Don’t know if it’s good — just what happened when the geese took me on the journey with them, flying high to their good weather hideaways or on a trip home.

Wild Geese

Daybreak

The Sanctuary Garden

Wind Quintet #3

method: field and other recordings from various occasions, some involving other people. two of the many sound sources: https://www.kosmos.de/de/rebotz-duke-der-skating-bot_1602598_4002051602598 and https://discordier.github.io/sam/
narration: facing the river. 
Image: concert announcements next to Friedrich Schiller‘s Lodge (Gartenhaus) in Jena, Germany, copyright jo richter.

poem / copyright jo richter:

stone is a liquid
that moves far too slowly

if river lethe asked you
would you offer your memories

if the primal river called you
would you go

floating in amniotic liquid
would you pretend to flow like a river

if the only river called you
would you go

((social thanks to YKMS (5ys) for the black-key-pentatonic piao loop and AIS (11ys) for gravel shovelling and toy robot Operation ))

would you go

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music - David Cooper

Lyrics - Glen Granthem

Lead vocal - David Cooper

Backing vocals - Glen Granthem

All Instruments - Glen Granthem.

Arranged and produced by Glen Granthem

Watch the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJApBE754s

From the new album The stories that we tell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcJJ8Ae2…6GT2dVYW4p86DcLx8

Lyrics:

Can you feel the rain falling down
Can you see the moon spinning round
Can you feel the earth beneath your feet
Can you feel the sun’s penetrating heat

Chorus

That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe and warm
That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe from harm

Bridge

Everyone will tell you exactly how love feels
But no one can tell you if this love, love is real

Music break - Solo

Can you feel the breeze blowing through your hair
When I touch your skin are you  more aware
Can you free your mind without a care
Can you feel the love when we are near

Chorus x 2

Can you feel the rain
Can you fall in love

Can You Feel The Love (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with Video)

Guitar, G pentatonic, drums, effects, one improvisation take
Musically speaking ... over and over again

OVER AND OVER AGAIN

Gaz invited me to sing along to this Gem of a song he wrote, and It was a thrill and a pleasure to Join this Super talented guy once again!!  Gaz is a terrific vocalist, song writer and just the warmest kindest person to work with! I was introduced to Mike Fox who's wonderful and intuitive instrumental talent transformed the song not to mention that truly wicked guitar solo he threw in and the truly wonderful production work he did.  I am honoured and thrilled to work with these two amazing talented Gentleman!   
We hope you enjoy this wonderful song and we hope you will share it with others.

Copyright Brownie Fox 2024
Vocal Copyright Nat Daniels 2024
Instrumental tracks, Guitar Solo and Production: Mike Fox
Written and Performed by Gaz Brownie
Performed by Nat Daniels

Marry Me In Vegas

V1
I know I’ve been marry before
But that was a god damn chore
I want to do something different
Instead of feeling insignificant
It’s always been a dream of mine
So baby don’t decline
So I got down on one knee
And said you are the man for me

Chorus
Marry me in Vegas, It will be amazing
I will never look so pretty
Standing in the sin city
And my thoughts they wonder
To Elvis singing love me tender
That Beautiful velvet voice
Being trashed by a pub singer
Marry me in Vegas

V2
Now to be honest I didn’t wanna get married
But Vegas beats my local the horse & carriage
And she’s already brought all of the tickets
I’m British so it wouldn’t be cricket
How could I honestly say no
When it’s a place I’ve always
wanted to go

Chorus
Marry me in Vegas
It will be amazing ……
I will never look so pretty
Standing in sin city
And my thoughts they wonder
To Elvis singing love me tender
That Beautiful velvet voice
Being trashed by a pub singer
Marry me in Vegas

Guitar Solo - Mike Fox

V3
On the day of the flight Im a no show
I over slept and when on a go slow
She was waiting at the airport for me
So I rang her and made up a story 
She said : I’m telling ya this ain't gonna happen
You better get yourself here!
To marry me In Vegas
Am I making myself clear!

Outro
She shouts down the line …….
You better make make it on time ….
To…
Marry me in Vegas

Marry Me In Vegas - Fox, Brownie & Daniels

Another of the fabulous Wildsilences Open Collaboration tracks, to which I've enjoyed adding bass, beats, synths and guitars.
Original and links to her numerous pages here
https://soundcloud.com/indiiwildmoon/i-dont-wanna-bury-wildsilences

'i don’t wanna lose myself silence holds no
i don’t wanna lose you i don’t wanna bury myself slowly 
i don’t wanna lose myself stories untold breathe in breathe out
i don’t wanna scream cry walls are closing in and
i don’t wanna lose myself

Lyrics - wild silences

Be good
Nick
pic: Nick - Hyde Park 2024

I Don't Wanna Bury - Wildsilences with Nicholas Ridiculous

My fourth album and one of most consistent and technically challenging releases. Artwork done by Adam Gordon who did my artwork on Tomb. 

BANDCAMP

The Pleasure Realm

This an another one of those semi-live recordings. We took an initial iPhone recording of mine that was meant to be a simple test run and decided to keep it as the base to which Nat added her lovely harmony vocals and piano. It’s a very gentle, quiet love song that expresses how our deeply personal core is really one with nature, with God, where only the truest of spirits can find a home to share in love. The pine trees know and the dawn reveals such truths.

Written, produced and performed by: Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Craig Durgy: guitar & vocals
Nat Daniels: piano & vocals
Copyright 2024 Daniels & Durgy / Gentle Rain Records

Lyrics: WANTING

What I want is simple 
As stand the swaying pines
So quietly a symbol
Of this heart of mine
Reaching for the sunlight
To gain the heavens’ view
And when each storm expires
Will solemn watch renew

Yes, simple is my compass
It steadies on one light
It quiets the presumptuous
Withstands the darkest night
And deep within my wanting
I hear the pine trees sway
A call so low and haunting
To watch you slip away

Yes, I know well my longing
I watch, and there’s the sound
Of stars that rest with dawning
As the sunshine comes around
The warming of my inner-most
With gray and green and blue
Wanting is no more a ghost
The pine trees sing of you

Wanting

Wanting (live)

No AI tools were used!

The bottom line is that the older we get and the more we experience, the less certain we are about things we once thought we knew for sure.

So life has taught me that all I know is that I know nothing!

And I look with sadness and horror at the present state of the human world!

But - 'Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.'

OVER AND OVER AGAIN

Seelensack