Slowly Now

Mtlsir https://soundcloud.com/user-434699157 and Me are Glitchy dot Phong

Glitchy Dot Phong - Ho My Toms

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Flickering tower
Old estate
Windows rattle 
Side doors grate
Jump the metal 
Barricade 
Slither past 
Another raid
Slip some milk dots 
In that vest 
Let’s release all
Thoughts compressed 
Slide the bolt in 
And move the grid
Open up
The metal lid

Swing your mind to ancient rhythms 
Feel the ley lines start to burn 
Bend the past and read the future 
Every single head will turn 
Dance about your inner garden 
Did you see the faeries fly 
Bathing in the purple grass blades 
Roll around and lick the sky 

Changing patterns 
Obscure test 
Watch the changelings 
Manifest 
Higher plateau 
Smoother thought
Deeper troughs 
Won’t leave you short
Amber goblet 
Hidden cave 
Free the mind
Release the slave
Open souls
From endless lies 
Honest mouths 
Don’t patronise 

Swing your mind to ancient rhythms 
Feel the ley lines start to burn 
Bend the past and read the future 
Every single head will turn 
Dancing about your inner garden 
Did you see the faeries fly 
Bathing in the purple grass blades 
Roll around and lick the sky

Mental ocean
Waves of green
Remote viewing
Sights unseen 
Sailings ships 
With silver arcs
Lean out east
And swerve the sharks
Grab that rainbow
By it’s tail
Hold on tight
You cannot fail
Feel the future
Marinate 
Ease into your 
Altered state



Swing your mind to ancient rhythms 
Feel the ley lines start to burn 
Bend the past and read the future 
Every single head will turn 
Dancing about your inner garden 
Did you see the faeries fly 
Bathing in the purple grass blades 
Roll around and lick the sky

FAERIES FLY

Ooooh .wav

Silver Bella recruited her good pal, Paul Claxton (formerly of Ashes and Dreams), to get fun + funky with this mix.
With influences of soul and R&B, Paul added some funky organ, sax and trumpets, and beautiful spacey strings, among other great elements.

More about Paul Claxton:

Paul's project @trisektor 

Silver Bella + Paul jamming on the banks of the Red River with friend, Kris Kosie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IVxFBwsag

Lyrics (courtesy of Silver Bella):

You can choose your shirt
Fix your hair how you want
You can run your game
Select the best restaurant

You can wear that skirt
Put on your favourite jeans 
But there is just one thing
That you cannot pick between

He can check all the boxes
Seem like a dream
But that don’t mean anything

You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with  
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with  
  
You can pretend you’re straight
Be a good Muslim girl
But no force-fed mate, or marriage can rock your world
‘Cause pretty soon that crack will run right across your face
‘Cause love don’t care about the politics of disgrace

She can check all the boxes
Seem like a dream
But that don’t mean anything

‘Cause like fiddles and foxes
Cookies and cream
It’ll make you go ding, ding, ding!

You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with  
You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with

You Don't Get to Choose

Silver Bella - You Don't Get to Choose (Paul B. Claxton Mix)

Trois Mouvements

Go To Go

“Trudge” alludes to the weird disconnected-yet-superconnected reality that envelopes us all day, every day. We wade through a mire of strangely polished ‘normal’ on every social medium we consume, and then can’t work out why we feel so substandard all the time. We voraciously seek the positive feedback that is designed to suck us in and keep us coming back for more. We scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll. What will it take for us to stop and look up? Or will we all slowly fall into the void?

Lyrics

This is the future baby
Trudge along ahead
Lead in my footsteps baby
Follow in my stead

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Friends on my left babe
Friends on my right
They like what I’m doing
But they can’t help me tonight

Oh I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone

I feel like nobody today
Faceless, insignificant, in the way
In the way
In the way

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

We’re so together
But inside we’re so alone
Got all the answers babe
But still just don’t really know
We don’t really know, no

Yeah I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
Standing alone
I’m a child of my time
I live out loud
And you call my name but I can’t hear you
I’m standing alone in the crowd

Credits

Ben Singer (@bensingermusic) and Sarah Golding (@voiceofgolding)
Drums: Sam Carter

Available on most streaming services (Spotify etc) starting on the release date (below)-- or support Nights by the Fire on Bandcamp using the "Buy" link under the track (above) or by going to nightsbythefire.bandcamp.com

Trudge

Might be the last new release of the year.  It's been a great 2023 for me creatively.  Thanks to everybody who stopped by and spun a tune or two.  Special thanks to all my collaborators and future collaborators.

Best Holiday wishes to you all!

Dedicated to Emmy.

Ripple Effect


Every night I stay up
Dreaming of things I made up
I can’t sleep I can’t rest,
Putting insomnia to the test
kinda messed, it's for the best!
I have never wished before
The way I wish this wish for sure
The wish will be my final test
To wish for not wishing anymore

I’ve been on peaks
Dived off shores
Spent my money at brand-name stores
Winning streaks
To moppiing floors
Ups and downs 
been there before
The racing heart
The metaphors
The taste of a thousand oysters
will only make you wish for more from distant shores
But when will it stop?
Where will it end?
The karmic wheel
of want and pretend?
Why waste more time on wishing for more?
When every wish out there has already been wished before?
ically) Reality is a collection of wishes that came true. The moment a wish comes true it's shuffled off into obscurity only to be replaced by the next wish. We toil and struggle to repeat the cycle.... ... over and over again for the last three hundred thousand years...
I’ve been on peaks
Dived off shores
Spent my money at fancy stores
Winning streaks
To moppiing floors
Ups and downs 
been there before
The racing heart
The metaphors
taste of a thousand oysters
will only make you wish for more from distant shores
But when will it stop?
Where will it end?
The karmic wheel
how to transcend?
Why waste more time on wishing for more?
When every wish out there has already been wished before?

To wish is to desire
A craving from emptiness
Unfulfilled wishes are distractions
From the peace and abundance all around us.
A closed fist loses everything out of its grasp.
The Open hand holds, the universe.


WISH Jazz cover

François TAMBY:  musique
Aline T: chant lead, voix et choeurs

CIACCO-Moon Child[cover King Crimson]

Hello lovely people! Welcome to my new solo project, Silver Bella. 

Also the Canadian half of quantum pop duo The $cience @thesciencemusique - and ethereal chill-out band, @ashes-and-dreams. 

Inquiries at silverbellasings@gmail.com

Silver Bella - You Don't Get to Choose (Paul B. Claxton Mix)

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