AMAZING GROUP OF TALEND PEOPLE, GREAT SONG!!

really liking this sound, you've done great job here,good lyrics and vocals too

Love the Vibe, love the Groove, you two! ✨ and wonderfully produced! 👌

Awesome. Rare to find such brilliant reggae.

THE CRIME 
Curtis Lugay and Sheila G-La Giles are back together to record - THE CRIME.
These quite Music makers mirror the times embracing Reggae, Lovers Rock, Ska, Brit Funk, Dub, Dance, Rock, Punk, Metal, Engineering, Production, Multi-media, Video and Live Performance.

As founding members of Funk Band Inch by Inch they set up their own Label Blue of London releasing If its Magic, we don’t want it and Ska b side - War’s Not Inevitable. Time has shown we were among the leaders of Brit Funk with our Band 'Inch by Inch' with our Track 'If it Magic' (Lugay, Lugay & Giles)

Peer Review: Lou Osiavo, a writer I have a lot of time for, on hearing me perform 'The Crime' live,  wrote this - “Gotta sell the water”...awesome body of work Sheila!!! Glad I didn’t miss this one!!!.....love it instant classic!!!...”Don’t pay homage to the crime”...simply amazing!!! ;)

The Crime

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THE CRIME

I have been playing around with.....ii V I progressions and the Bebop A dominant scale. I call this one an Indie Dark Jazz flavor. Hope you will like some part of it and maybe hum along before it ends..... 
Thank you René for feedback on the first draft! 

Live from Chicago 
Written by TJG March 2021
Mix 1: March 23, 2021

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars
Rhythm 1: Guild DV52
Rhythm 2: Les Paul Standard
Lead1: Fender Stratocaster
Bass: Fender Squire

Percussion: 
Pearl Cajon Mach 2 – with brushes
Pearl Hi Hat with Zildjian symbols - with brushes - no idea what I'm doing here, but I like working the foot pedal. 

Mics: Neumann TLM 67 (vocal)
AGK 414 & Shure KSM44 on guitars, cajon and hi hat

Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape. I used an input and output transformer to give some additional harmonic distortion......I just like pushing the buttons and watching the reels spin…;-)


Verse 1
They’re all buying guns
To take a shot at you
But you’re still smiling
Because you died a long time ago
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain 1
It’s live from Chicago
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago

Verse 2
When the morning breaks
The camera fades away
But you’re still smiling
Because you’re still standing tall
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain2
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

outro
How was I to know?
It's live from Chicago....

Let the camera roll
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
Here in Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
let the cameras roll
let the cameras roll
it's life in Chicago
it's life in Chicago

Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

Live from Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c0HJRaHB1s

East Berlin / YT video (link in description)

This was recorded in the front room, just me and guitar, couple of years ago. Unfortunately I haven't been able to play in this style for the last 12months due to a wrist injury, hence why my recent songs have been more strummy. 

This is The Rain, cheers!


The Rain

LIVE Rec Guitar And Synthes IMPRO

An original song about, well, The Forest.  We drive by them almost every day and seldom stop to admire their beauty and think about the importance they play to the well being of our beloved planet.

The forest reverberates           with sights and    sounds.
Sheltered by the trees,           wildlife           abounds.
Such immense beauty,              hiding in plain    sight.
So very few,                      ever venture       inside.
Majestic, alive and thriving,     yet so easily      ravaged.

No door to enter by, no door to exit from.
Once inside you feel, tranquility taking hold.
Anointing you to the spiritual and the material.
Daring you to let go and dream in peaceful solitude.

The forest reverberates           with sights and    sounds.
Sheltered by the trees,           wildlife           abounds.
Such immense beauty,              hiding in plain    sight.
So very few,                      ever venture       inside.
Majestic, alive and thriving,     yet so easily      ravaged.

Perhaps a bit indifferent, when you first arrived,
Now in awe of it’s diversity, and its abundance of life.
From the outside we give it, but an indifferent glance.
On the inside we immerse in the sights, sounds and smells.

The forest reverberates           with sights and    sounds.
Sheltered by the trees,           wildlife           abounds.
Such immense beauty,              hiding in plain    sight.
So very few,                      ever venture       inside.
Majestic, alive and thriving,     yet so easily      ravaged.

Staring up at the sky, to see those towering pines.
Reminds us of our minute place, among living beings.
Afraid and delighted, loneliness and enlightenment
In debt to the forest, for stimulating our minds.

The forest reverberates           with sights and    sounds.
Sheltered by the trees,           wildlife           abounds.
Such immense beauty,              hiding in plain    sight.
So very few,                      ever venture       inside.
Majestic, alive and thriving,     yet so easily      ravaged.

Sustainer of life, comforter of souls.
In-stiller of wisdom, evoker of feelings.
A world within a world, where life seems to stand still
A sanctuary of sorts, to experience and protect.

The forest reverberates           with sights and    sounds.
Sheltered by the trees,           wildlife           abounds.
Such immense beauty,              hiding in plain    sight.
So very few,                      ever venture       inside.
Majestic, alive and thriving,     yet so easily      ravaged.

The Forest

‘The psych vibes echo round the valley bouncing off the sheep as they tumble and fall’

This is a collaboration with Tez aka Llanpsych https://soundcloud.com/llanpsych
It sprang out of one of our interchanges in relation to another track.
The lyric is full on nonsense in the tradition of Edward Lear/ Lewis Carrol, but contains a story within.
We had fun, hope you like it

Llanpsych is responsible for the guitar, beats (backwards and forwards are from Looperman - Pineapple Beats by Manson Productions), synth noises and bass
I am responsible for the lyric, vocal, strawberry flutes, sheep, monsters, mix and master
Base photo for artwork by Jaka Škrlep from Unsplash

The Perils Of The Psychedelic Shepherd
   
When the sun comes up, on the Valley of the Psyche
Who is this, riding on his bike

All mistry glinps e foggly grools bestow le vallee Psyche 
A headstoll tills a tell abol de herol bade de low

Here the muchroom trees, make a dappled shade
And the brewery lees, form a beer cascade

He gensil bowl, he magit ban, he givid om lee hibsile
Egg-genrous man, he magit ban, soul – wakling by lee roadsile

He fought for his flock, against the Bandlerock
It’s snickering claws, tore his shepherds smock

Tenbendrous fight, all through the night, o hero he be kilded
Now his morbual soul, he gardes all, and Bandlerocks bewilded

The Perils Of The Psychedelic Shepherd (collab with Llanpsych)

wikiloops.com Metal jams

80s Hair Metal 2 Open Collab

Jim made an excellent backing for me to yodel along to and get a little hoarse. I shouldn't be doing this at my age, but couldn't resist!

Jim: all instruments
Nick: all vocals

This is just for fun, so no monetisation or downloads

Hope you're all looking forward to a better year
All Jim's music here @telefan
@one-other The Phaige helped with a rework of the beginning - thanks Gary

Be good
Nick

Image: pinterest

Misty Mountain Hop (Led Zep Cover)- Telefan And Nick

This is a demo version of a blues tune devoted to some people who really influenced my playing style. In this case I am talking about Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Roy Buchanan, and Alvin Lee. It is intended to be the first track on my album "Booty From Dummyland".

Rainy Morning Blues (Demo)

Sooner Or Later Summer

I WISH I COULD FOLLOW MORE OF YOU - I do My Very Best to Share everything I like.....xxxxx  After all "Fair Exchange is No Robbery" Just imagine if I could afford to buy trax. Wow Stand with the Oppressed Globally !  XX xy

Sheila ‘The G-La’ Giles: Born in London, I Studied Art & Music in London, Boston, New York and Dublin. Now living in Dublin since 1998 (where I experienced more about homelessness than any one should). Settled, but still Standing.

Web Link:  https://www.sheilag-lagiles.ie
All Rights Reserved: A Plum Music Publishing IMRO/MCPS & Sheila Giles

With Respect and best wishes, Sheila G-La

THE CRIME

Sheila G-La

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