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Kinda laid 80’s uk guitar with a rocker vibe

Again

The artwork for this track was created by my talented brother Brian, otherwise known as the self taught artist bunkt_ 

You can find his quirky and unique art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bunkt_/?hl=en

This was a track that I had so much fun with. Making this song brought me out of a musical funk (literally) I was in, and it's the first track I thought sounded better as an instrumental. I had fun adding different parts and making it a musical story.

Electro Conejo

Lyrics and composition, guitar and vocals by Joliz

April 2024

Three minutes before the bus …

Your words,
Your smile,
Eyes do not lie.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Stops and takes you away from me,
Deprives me of your company.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Comes and takes you away from me,
Leaves me to my destiny.

Cheek to cheek
Our will is weak.
Kiss me, kiss me
Let’s dive in deep.

Our tender hands 
Trying a shared life to pretend.
But three minutes can’t replace
A lifetime full of grace.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Stops and takes you away from me,
Deprives me of your company.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Comes and takes you away from me,
Leaves me to my destiny.

Cheek to cheek
Our will is weak.
Kiss me, kiss me,
Let’s dive in deep.

Our touch touches all,
Our body and our soul. 
But three minutes can’t replace
A lifetime full of grace.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Stops and takes you away from me,
Deprives me of your company.

No love is meant to last
Just three minutes before the bus
Comes and takes you away from me,
Leaves me to my destiny.

Your words,
Your smile,
Eyes do not lie.

Three Minutes Before The Bus ... (Guitar Version)

Lyrics and composition, guitar and vocals by Joliz

July 2024

Paradox of Hope

Even a desert is cold at night.
Even a cyclone is calm inside.
Even two parallels meet one time.
More than a million points form a line.

So keep your hope in the darkest of times.
Be aware that the sun always shines,
even if he's on the other side,
even if he often tends to hide.

Even Schroedinger's cat's still alive,
if you don't look too closely inside.
Even a monkey can write "Faust II",
if he gives it an infinite try.

So keep your hope in the darkest of times.
Be aware that the sun always shines,
even if he's on the other side,
even if he often tends to hide.

Paradox of Hope

Gotta Run by Korima celebrates the joy of running - our evolved desire to run – and running legends. Inspired by Christopher McDougall’s: Born To Run.


Download: https://www.korima.net/listen

Gotta Run - Korima

No way in.    
Lyrics by Cookie Jay
Music by Kit with guitar work from Mike.

No Way In

Wrote the title phrase on a birthday card and immediately thought  that's a 'song title'.  The first take of the vocal was a loose ramble but I just left it in - it seemed to fit.

Love Our Together Life

That cliché thick and thin about loving all the time
We’re not vascillating over always gotta rhyme
Doubling up in laughter keeps an even keel
And getting to a sweet spot finally it’s real

We drove out to the cliff and back
Now it’s all about giving back

It’s life upon a road with little jobs to do
And a race across the sand to share the view
It’s pouring out the drinks as the sun dips down 
And talking ‘bout the people who we see around 
Love our together life
Love our together life

Back in days of war it was tight in the lip
And the putting up of walls with a face half lit
Cause expectations could never be met
And it takes a lot of years to wind it back to less 

Yeah giving up on hurt and feeling how it was
In the years embryonic burning hot
And the psyche bathed in the songs of the time
But transplanting now to a wiser kind of rhyme

Love Our Together Life

High Wire Wild Christopher & Unguided Express

I was working on updating this and it suddenly struck me that it's sorta spooky sounding and it's Halloween time. Perfect.

Circa 2007 I began poking around with synth sounds in GarageBand. It was fun to play with the settings to see what new sounds I could contrive. This is the result of one of those adventures. I recently opened the file in Logic and tweaked it to match where I'm at presently in my musical journey.

(This tune is downloadable.)

I compose in MIDI, using Logic Pro and sound libraries from EastWest. This tune has a lot of personally tweaked synth sounds.

© 2024 Rebecca Williams All rights reserved.

Novel Conservation (18 Years Later)

A HUGE thank you to J.J. for the piano masterpiece of beauty.

Contributions:

Piano: J.J. Terrell
https://soundcloud.com/j-j-terrell
Lyrics, Vocals, Mix : Tam Jennifer

Note on Lyrics - Tam Jennifer

This is a dark one - so a disclaimer for my listeners - one of my inspirations for this was from the thought experiment "Imagine one hand clapping" that we use in yoga or meditation practice, mixed with the idea of "Unstruck" - The word associated with the heart. The Unstruck Sound. - A beautiful way of thinking of it. 
So mixing these ideas - makes it fairly straightforward to produce a love song featuring (what I hope is ) a fairly accurate portrayal of what love can sometimes feel like - in all its complexity.

🩷
💜
 

Lyrics

There's something in the air between us, my dear.
It's a whisper that you can't, hear.
There's something in the air between us, my friend.
An agony - we can't comprehend. 
.
In this space between, you and me,
Is an ache so deep, and lonely,
With a climb so steep, to get there,
The air is thin, it's suffocating, oh! 
Just out of reach. 
Like a memory, oh! 
But the weight of this is crushing, oh! 
Where do I end?
And where do you begin?
I gave you my heart, to keep,
Safe.
Safe.
You promised me! 
.
Calm, calm, calm and slow. 
Darken the windows.
Hope is a long road.
Time is a quick trick.
.
Calm, calm, calm and slow!
Darken the windows. 
Hope is a long road.
Balancing in the thick, thick.
.
It's like, God, wrote me a poem. 
-
And now I know I'm alive. 
Alive. 
.
It has to have a place to go! 
So you MUST know. 
Your face is perfectly placed - 
Your face is perfectly placed - 
.
On Love's Road. 
.
-End-

© Tam Jennifer Hastings, J.J. Terrell, 2024. All rights reserved.

Love's Road (with J.J.Terrell on Piano, 2024)

Lyrics and composition, piano and vocals by Joliz

October 2024

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If I was a butterfly
I'd map the countries from on high.
If I was a butterfly
On every flower I'd stop by.

If I was a butterfly
I'd cross the ocean in the sky.
If I was a butterfly
I'd rest on sails to paint their white.

If I was a butterfly
A graceful dance would be my flight.
If I was a butterfly
The weight would fall and I’d feel light.

If I was a butterfly
A graceful dance would be my flight.
If I was a butterfly
The weight would fall and I’d feel light.

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Inspired and supported by Robert S. Dean.

Passing Butterfly

This composition presents you with a musical plateform that represents you calling out to your  past family, friends or people you have felt a bond with,or who are experiencing hardship.
The Sad Souls are captured in the -Celo, flute and piano.
The Happy responses are felt in the guitar and piano
I hope you can relate to this composition as it allows you to  create your vision.

My Soul cries out for you

Here’s my latest song written at my real acoustic piano. 

Thank you so much to my lovely Sander for mastering. 
@wane-of-summer 😊💕🎶❤️🎼🎵🎹🎤❤️

You’ve stolen my heart
Killed all my doubts
And now I’m falling
Head over heels

And now I’m wondering 
If you’ll be my partner in crime

You’ve robbed my soul
Set me aflame 
And now I’m burning
Just for you

Oh sentence me
Oh sentence me

PARTNER IN CRIME (acoustic piano)

C'est une deuxième collaboration avec cette surprenante  chanteuse qu'est "DelhyA" à l'origine des paroles qu'elle interprète ici, pour cette complicité musicale. 

Avec la participation de mon ami Anglais Paul à la guitare.

Vous pouvez la retrouver ici: https://soundcloud.com/user-945711181

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This is a second collaboration with the surprising singer “DelhyA”, who wrote the lyrics she interprets here, for this musical complicity. 

With the participation of my English friend Paul on guitar.

You can find her here: https://soundcloud.com/user-945711181

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PLUIE ET LUMIÈRE

C est là en plein cœur de l’orage qu’Elle surgit là
C’est depuis le fond de moi qu’elle me foudroie
Elle surgit là, quelque part ....

Ces nouvelles montagnes à grimper ....
Je me retourne une dernière fois vers ce monde,
ce bout de moi que je vais laisser,
Seule une partie va me rester.
Je regarde l’autre se détacher,
Je n’ai pas le choix, je dois avancer:
A cette main du destin, je ne peux résister.
Une nouvelle partie va se rejouer
Est-ce à prendre ou à laisser?
Vais-je partir vers ces contrées insoupçonnées?
Les dés de ma vie ont été relancés
Vais-je la même rester?
Tout vient de se bouleverser
Toutes les pages de ma vie se sont retournées
Tout a été redistribué .… pour tout recommencer
Tel un phœnix je renais de mes cendres.
Je ne peux plus prétendre…

Je regarde une dernière fois tout autour de moi .…
Et je fais alors le premier pas.

Et même si la pluie ne cesse pas
C’est une autre histoire qui commence pour moi
Elle surgit là, elle surgit là ….

RAIN AND LIGHT

It is there in the heart of the thunderstorm that it arises there
It’s from deep inside that it strikes me down
it appears there, somewhere ....

These new mountains to climb .…
I return one last time to this world,
this piece of me that I am going to leave behind,
Only part will remain with me.
I watch the other one break away,
I have no choice, I must move forward:
I cannot resist this hand of fate.
A new game will be played again
Take it or leave it?
Will I leave for these unsuspected lands?
The dices of my life have been rolled again
Will I stay the same?
Everything has just turned upside down
All the pages of my life have turned over
Everything was redistributed…to start all over again
Like a phoenix I am reborn from my ashes
I can no longer pretend ....

I look around me one last time ....
And then I take the first step.

And even though the rain doesn't stop
This is another story that begins for me
It arises there, it arises there ....

Pluie Et Lumière .... With DelhyA

I wrote this forty years ago as part of the "Scenes of St. Francis" small-town song anthology and thought it might be fun to post as fall is winding down but before the Christmas season gets into full swing.  St. Francis, Kansas is a little prairie town nestled in a shallow river valley and has an abundance of trees, mostly cottonwoods, but a few hardwoods that stand out especially in the fall. And with the trees was an abundance of squirrels always playing chase or hide and seek when they weren't getting into mischief.  They needed a song, and with my daughters being so young, I wanted to make it in the form of a children's song that they could sing along to.  As adult women, they still like to sing along when they hear it which is a good thing since my own singing voice has largely depleted with age.  But it is a nice reminder that once upon a time I could sing:) Rescued and remixed from an old but faithful cassette tape.

Squirrel Song lyrics:
Hop, skip, and jump, and away they go,
Haven't got a care in the world.
Playing hide and seek 'round an old tree trunk,
I'm talking 'bout my friend the squirrel.

Gathering nuts is a way of life,
But even they know when to play,
And though winter's coming before too long,
They still live life day by day.
Chorus:
Just let their antics entertain you,
From a high-wire act to a tree-top stunt or two,
There's not a dull moment when you see them around,
There's fun wherever they're found.

Instrumental hums then repeat chorus

Hop, skip, and jump, and away they go,
They have something we need to learn;
That a happy life is made of work and play
When each one gets a turn.

Squirrel Song (from Scenes of St. Francis)

Made in #Ableton (December 2024)

Video; youtu.be/kAwdhqfbWzE

Genres;
#Electronic
#Experimental
#Ambient

Deep History

The second track I have done with The Gatsbys and it’s always a pleasure to be asked to collaborate.
Dirk sent me the instrumental and like before I was blown away by his guitar work & melody.
I contributed the lyrics and vocal melodies to this.
It was an honour that he used Nothing left to defend on his latest album Cancel the winter.
So to be asked again was always going to be a yes. 
The  Gatsbys always create that live indie band sound on final recordings  especially with Bens percussion work. 
I hope you enjoy the track as I enjoyed singing on it.
We give you The Gatsbys with Gaz Brownie….



V1
He would never catch you when you fall 
Like humptey dumptey on the nursery tale wall 
I’m that 3am person who you can always call
I’ve got your back and I do what you ask 

Bridge
Suck it up……. buttercup 
Let’s Drop a gear……. let’s disappear 
This was built on sand  like sand slips through your hands
So Suck it up……. Oh my buttercup 


V2 
I will always show up when your down on your luck 
We’re all born to  places and seldom thunderstruck 
Somewhere along the way we all lose ourselves 
We must  come back stronger to say our Fairwells 

Chorus 
Whitheat happiness 
Will take away this   heavyness
White heat happiness 
It’s a long drive to confess your happiness 


V3
Let’s move away from what we only know 
To a place where we enjoy the feeling of the afterglow 
Where every single  eye only see the now
To Rebuild again & be happy Somehow 


Bridge 
Suck it up……. buttercup 
Let’s Drop a gear……. let’s disappear 
This was built on sand  like sand slips through your hands
So Suck it up……. Oh my buttercup 


V4 
I just wanna be your whiteheat happiness
And be that warrior who takes away the sadness 
Friends with benefits can’t last forever 
So look no further for your buried treasure 

Bridge 
Suck it up……. buttercup 
Let’s drop a gear……. let’s disappear 
This was built on sand  like sand slips through your hands
So Suck it up……. buttercup 


V5 
Drive in my head im six months down line 
Time as been the healer and now you are mine
I am yours and there is another new bloodline
To be arriving in 9 months from treasure to a goldmines

Chorus 
White heat happiness 
Will take away this heavyness
White heat happiness 
It’s a long drive to confess….
Your happiness

Whiteheat Happiness - The Gatsbys with Gaz Brownie

Whenever there is a senseless brutal bloody conflict , God somehow seems to be on both sides.
I don't think this is God's fault

lyrics

With a bible in one hand and a rock in the other
catholics and protestants fought one another
for centuries with war unabated
no mercy, no quarter just blind rage and hatred

not much to show for all this fury
just widows and orphans and bodies to bury

but wait..don't you have the same book?
and don't you have the same god?
doesn't it say to treat your brother as yourself?
seems like a phrase that';s simple enough

Shia and Sunni stand eye to eye
as Iraq and Iran fight an endless war
Millions of moslems killing each other
sent into battle like lambs to the slaughter

not much to show after all these years
just widows and orphans who shed tears
and stand in the rubble and shiver with fear

but wait..don't you have the same book?
don't you have the same God?
Doesn't it say to treat your brother as yourself
seems like a phrase that is simple enough

so if you have the same book
and if you have the same god
that what is the source of all the rage?

do me a favor
all get into one room
open your books
and get on the same damn page

questions 69,70 and 71

"Eye of Thought"

Dropping from the eye of thought,
a conciouss reality that was never born,
holding all this life in my hands,
i thought it was better to show them to dance,

Taking down this trip in the slope,
what you had known was always been told,
looking for someone to rest,
the thoughts in your head that were never blessed,

dropping from the eye of thought.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YALXi2ZO8YA

Eye of Thought (Lyrics on Description)

Official Music Video | Clip officiel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpbhx_Oavs

Produced and arranged by Shane Watt and Marie-Noëlle Reyntjens
Mastered by Fran Ashcroft
Music and lyrics by Marie-Noëlle Reyntjens except for "secretly": written by Len Arran and Skin

Marie-Noëlle Reyntjens: vocals, back-up vocals, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel and percussion
Shane Watt: bass, acoustic and electric guitar, drums, percussion, glockenspiel, keyboard, programming and back-up vocals
Blaise Watt: electric guitar and back-up vocals

No heart feelings

myself

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos

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