GodKingMajorLucre - Grind To Get Fetti

As soon as I got serious about putting this playlist together I was afraid of missing something or someone from among the many wonderfully talented and supportive people here. And it can't be helped. So this is best described as a sampler of some tunes I really liked a lot, but it certainly isn't an exhaustive list. If I were David Geffen I'd be working on getting people the listening public they deserve. But in the meantime here's a list of great songs by you for you.

2023 Sampler  (not ranked)

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Related tracks: You're So Strange To Me

Shirley Barr - The Rope

This piece is based on a traditional Scottish-Gaelic waulking song - a highly rhythmic song that would accompany the waulking (beating and finishing, or fulling) of woolen cloth. Though traditionally, waulking songs and other Gaelic puirt-a-beul (mouth music) songs would have been sung unaccompanied and in unison, we put together a little arrangement for SATB.
We hope you'll enjoy it.

soprano - Diane Roberts
alto - Abby Bryden
tenor - Angus Bryden
baritone - Rob Llewellyn 

words:

Hé mandu 
'S truagh nach tigeadh
siud gam' iarraidh
gille 's litir
each is diollaid
Hé mandu hì ri oró hó ro hù o
'S mise dh'fhalbhadh 
null thar sàile 
le mo leannan
's cha bhiodh dàil ann
Nam biodh agam
sgiath a'ghlaisein 
iteag an eòin 
spòg na lachainn 
Shnàmhainn na caoil
air an tarsainn 
An cuan Ileach 
's an caol Arcach 
Rachainn a-steach 
chun a' chaisteil 
's bheirinn a-mach 
as mo leannan 

translation:

It's a pity that what I want isn't on its way - a lad and a letter, a horse and a saddle.
I would go across the sea with my lover, without delay.
If I had the wing of a finch, the flight of a bird, the webbed foot of a duck,
I would swim the narrows, right across the Sound of Islay and the Orkney Sound.
I would go out into the castle and bring out my lover.

Hé Mandu (Scottish Waulking Song - SATB)

I have again the pleasure and honour to share with you a piece composed by my good friend Jean- Pierrre Dubois (JiPé ), a small account of this piece is written below with the permission of Jean- Pierre...

The melodic theme used here is that of the song “Le temps des cerises” written around 1866-1868 by Jean-Baptiste Clément (words) and Antoine Renard (music) , and which was associated with the bloody events of “La Commune de Paris” in 1871.This song was successfully covered and recorded in 1955 by Yves Montand.
Here the form of this piece is deliberately very much inspired by Franz Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3, in G flat major D899, op. 90.

I hope you will enjoy listening and will like my interpretation of this beautiful piece...

Art picture by Alex Belogub on Unsplash

Kirshenzeit by Jean-Pierre Dubois (performed by Liz Dicker)

Original Fouglas.


Lyrics:

She’s living in a tomb
amongst the insects and ghouls
Fallen from earth
in a land beyond sleep and waking
Whenever she closes her eyes
she’s lost to the spirals
Spinning in a hex,
in an echo of truth,
in a dream that can’t die

Yet you carry her like an ache in your head
And as you walk through your days
just thinking and seething, 
though you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

She’s broken into fragments
of ugly scenes you must forget
You still feel her
and, of course, she still haunts you
Is she still buried out there 
in Satan’s junkyard 
‘neath the iron and rust 
and red rotting branches?

Yet you’re driving her like a nail in your coffin 
And as you swallow more pills
all wasted, sedated,
‘cause you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

Nail In Your Coffin

I'm writing on piano (well, a Bosendorfer Grand Piano present on Logic) as I've got a piano piece commission so I'm triallling ideas for that. Plus, tentatively getting used to the whole new world of possibilities of this DAW.

This is this week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge:

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st May 2023

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

webbed (naviarhaiku490)

Insomniac dreams

Crucifixion

I AM THE ALIEN SONIK WEAPON

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

A little bit of old school music made with my 4-track that I leave alone more and more, because it is tired (playback heads and recording out of order) and to find some? It's got a lot of miles on it, but it's pretty damn solid, made to last!!!
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, MSI, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental
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❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Old School_1

Old School 1

I bought a used accordion in 1993 at a thrift store, greatly upsetting my college roommate when I brought it back to our shared dorm room.  

More recently, I'd been wanting to dust it off and use it in a song, and I tried playing it rhythmically along with a funk guitar riff I had. I had also been wanting to write a song in Spanish, so I decided to incorporate some rhymes en espanol I wrote. Thirdly, I had been looking for some new types of rhythm loops to use in my music, and I randomly tried a cha-cha loop. These three elements together gave this song a latin feel that wasn't intended when I began this song. I hope you enjoy it.

Dime lo que quieres
Que sea un poco de mi
Y esos placeres
Si estoy loco por ti

Dime lo que tienes
Dentro del corazon 
Dime que sueñes
Con mi acordeon 

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Capto el sentido
De tus palabras
Esta bien entendido
De que tu hablas

Quieres que yo sea
Participante 
No me parece fea
Ser tu amante

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Music and lyrics by David Wagoner

Dime Otra Vez

Won't Be The Same Without You - Eleyan Di Palma

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/She-Loved-My-Anxiety-888190895

Healthy Selfishness

From the Album: "The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost" (2023)
Lyrics:
It's a nitroglycerin bomb sniffing skirt
That's a lollipop night stick
She only hits you where you need to hurt
A Marie Laveau shotgun shack
Don't ya know there's gambling in the back?
In a shotgun shack
I'm reading the tea leaves  by the smoke stack
We've all been bitten by the maharishi's baby teeth
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(And I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm gonna have to lay real low for a while
My trouble follows me
I'm waist deep in the marsh
That's been thickened up with
Gumbo voodoo mule skin starch
I hear the Hellhounds on my tail
And I don't know what their motivation is
Maybe it's the Mississippi hog maw fizz?
If you think you know me
It's because I'm the guy that shows up
And all the trouble begins
Hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm down at the racetrack
I'm sleeping on a mattress made of blister packs
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

Oh, I'm up on the rack
The executioner is sharpening his ax
He says: the world is ruled by fools
"And I'm sorry, man, but I don't make the rules."
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
Wherever I'm going
I'm looking forward to what the cool weather brings...

Hotter Than A Sacramento Summer

(p) & (c) 2023/2024. Taken from the debut album (to be released mid-2024, under the tittle "Rock and Roll Kills").
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/Ls4kYAwMN2w
lyrics (Parental Advisory):
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You're so strage to me

you got offended so fast
you're not built to last
you're made of sugar, butter and shit

You think it's only you
you cry like a bitch
your job it's only to abuse

whatever i say is wrong
your life is like a crappy song
no reason to talk to you anymore!

Rock and Roll Kills

You're So Strange To Me

naviarhaiku533 – Flowing along
March 20, 2024

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

Takashi Matsumoto was a Japanese poet originally from Tokyo. Born into a family deeply interested in nō theater, he also devoted himself to it in his youth until 1921, when he came into contact with Hototogisu magazine and haiku poetry. Beginning the following year, Matsumoto became a student of Takahama Kyoshi. In 1946, he launched the magazine Fue 笛 ('The Flute').

Haiku by Takashi Matsumoto

Picture by Rodion Kutsaiev

Floating Colors - naviarhaiku533

Dans cette conférence je vous explique :
- Comment entrer en contact avec le monde spirituel
- L'impasse du matérialisme
- Comment faire la différence entre un maître spirituel et une mauvaise entité
- Tous les bénéfices que vous pouvez retirer du contact avec le monde spirituel


Le monde spirituel

Dans cette conférence je vous raconte la vie d'Allan Kardec père du spiritisme. Je vous explique ensuite les points essentiels de sa doctrine qui, à l'origine n'allait absolument pas à l'encontre de l'occultisme.

En deuxième partie je vous mets en garde contre le spiritisme moderne et vous explique pourquoi il faut s'en méfier. Le véritable processus de contact avec les défunts est ensuite présenté, processus complètement différent de ce que les spirites enseignent.

Allan Kardec et le Spiritisme

Cette conférence traite d’une loi fondamentale de l’univers : la loi d’équilibre. Je vous explique comment appliquer cette loi dans votre vie à travers 7 règles simples à appliquer dans votre vie. 

Vous apprendrez aussi quelle est la pulsion fondamentale de l’être humain et comment celle-ci se manifeste.


Loi d'équilibre

Energy Bubbles

Shirley Barr may be late to the table, but her recently discovered passion for compelling songwriting and performance shows she’s earned her place. Quirky, insightful, and sumptuously layered, she melds beautiful melodies with novel lyrics to create soundscapes that leave you wanting more. Summer 2024 will see the release of her debut EP, Begin Began Begun.