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Para Lia - Kassandra
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis 'Light From A Candle' 

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

The background for the inspiration of course is Homer and the tales on the Trojan war. But Kassandra does not tell a story – it’s a kind of a painting with an ancient scenery or maybe just a sketch: Kassandra in front of the burning city. And it could be a modern painting. We are in a distance of more than 3.000 years to the plot of the ancient tales – and still mankind has Kassandras and tears in front of burning cities.

Working on Kassandra i had in mind from the beginning that Cindy will take the main voc in this song. So i wrote the harmonies and the song structure with that in mind and i love how she sings the song. Kassandra also includes a few notes played with a Greek Baglamas and helps the song to get a special note. This string instrument is the small sister of a Bouzouki. 

lyrics:
on sungod days in the morning dew
the tears of kings are just a few
meaningless rain drops

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
and the ships are grounded

in the golden light of the afternoon
she is dancing like the queen of doom
she blinks into the sunlight

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
into the sky
into the sky

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

Kassandra

The Most Extreme Level
(Previously "Nuclear War")
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021/2022
Vocals: Simon Chamberlain
Artwork: DeSa

Lyrics:
Look into my eyes
Look into the darkness
Look into the void, and
Look into yourself and then

Tell me what you want
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you hear
Tell me what you want to be

Can you hear the sound?
Can you feel the heat?
Do you look away?
Do you feel your heartbeat?

Listen to the voice
Listen to the dream
Listen to the fact that
Nothing here is what it seems

Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
Tell me who you are
Tell me who you want to be

Is there any doubt?
Is there any fear?
Is there any way, that
You can run away from here?

Do you want to live?
Do you want to die?
Do you want to get high?
Do you need an alibi?

This is what you want
This is what you see
This is what you fear, and 
This is what you want to be

Look into my eyes
Look into the darkness
Look into the void, and
Look into yourself and then

Tell me what you want
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you hear
Tell me what you want to be

Can you hear the sound?
Can you feel the heat?
Do you look away?
Do you feel your heartbeat?

The most extreme level
The most extreme level

Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
Tell me who you are
Tell me who you want to be

Is there any doubt?
Is there any fear?
Is there any way, that
You can run away from here?

Do you want to live?
Do you want to die?
Do you want to get high?
Do you need an alibi?

The most extreme level
The most extreme level

The Most Extreme Level

You Are Not Alone
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Artwork: Harutmovsisyan

Lyrics:
You are not alone

You Are Not Alone

Mr Jones - Prelude
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021

Voice Actors: The Russian - Nick Denton, Mr Jones - Jeremy Long

Artwork: Pexels

Synopsis: Mr Jones is hired to find Nikolai Petrov

Script:
My name is Richard Jones
I was hired 6 weeks ago to find a missing person
After an extensive investigation, I finally have a lead
That brings me to this airport and a ticket to the capital of Siberia

The missing person is Nikolai Petrov the son of a Russian diplomat based in London. He’s been missing for three months. All leads were cold but then I received an anonymous call informing me he had been spotted two months previously in Siberia.

Was I on a wild goose chase?
Was Nikolai really in Siberia?
And if so, why?

Mr Jones - Prelude

Man-Eating Psycho Nightmare
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Vocals: Yasmin Palmer
Artwork: Lunesse

Honey, take on me if you dare
I’m a man-eating psycho nightmare

I’ll take everything from you, and then I’ll take more
My body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor
Now you feel inside, like nothing before
Cause you’re mine
(My body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor)
Oh yeah

Honey, look at me I’m on fire (fire)
‘cause I’m everything you desire

I’ll take everything from you, and then I’ll take more
My body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor
Now you feel inside, like nothing before
Cause you’re mine
(My body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor)
Oh yeah

Cause you’re mine, Oh yeah

La, la, la, la, la, la la

I’ll take everything from you, and then I’ll take more
my body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor
Now you feel inside, like nothing before
Cause you’re mine
(My body moves around you, dancing on the dance floor)
Oh yeah

Man Eating Psycho Nightmare

Love Is AI
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Vocals: Text to speech: https://ttsmp3.com/
Artwork: Icons8 Team

Lyrics:
Love is everything
Love is control
Love is money
Love is the air you breathe
Love sustains you
Love is your meaning
Love is your life
Love is AI
Love is AI
Love is AI
Love is AI
Love is AI

Synopsis:
This track started off as an addition to the Mr Jones series, however after a change of heart I decided to make it a track in its own right. The basic concept is the eventual take over of AI and what this means to us all. The guitars are fake of course, simple synth tones run through distortion pedals - this is my best interpretation of what playing the guitar is actually like, having never even picked one up (although I'm tempted to try the bass guitar). This track was recorded in FL Studio using mostly stock plug-ins. Hope you like it. If you have time to comment, that means more than anything. Thanks for listening.

Samples are from the free text to speech website: https://ttsmp3.com/
and the film "The Creation of the Humanoids" 1962 (Public domain)

Listen on Spotify

Love Is AI

Microsoft
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Connect To The Rhythm

Microsoft (Connect To The Rhythm)

Seduction
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2022

Seduction

Take Our Time
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2022
Artwork: StockSnap

Lyrics:
Let's take our time
You know we've got the whole night?
Wanna watch me climb?
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time
You know we've got the whole night?
Wanna watch me climb?
Then you gotta do it right

The moment we turn out the lights
I'm gonna be on it tonight
I'll give you the thing that you like
Hold on tight for the ride of your life

The moment we turn out the lights
I'm gonna be on it tonight
I'll give you the thing that you like
Hold on tight for the ride of your life

Let's take our time
You know we've got the whole night?
Wanna watch me climb?
Then you gotta do it right

The moment we turn out the lights
You know we've got the whole night?
I'm gonna be on it tonight
Wanna watch me climb?
I'll give you the thing that you like
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time
The moment we turn out the lights
You know we've got the whole night?
I'm gonna be on it tonight
Wanna watch me climb?
I'll give you the thing that you like
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time
The moment we turn out the lights
You know we've got the whole night?
I'm gonna be on it tonight
Wanna watch me climb?
I'll give you the thing that you like
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time
The moment we turn out the lights
You know we've got the whole night?
I'm gonna be on it tonight
Wanna watch me climb?
I'll give you the thing that you like
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time
The moment we turn out the lights
You know we've got the whole night?
I'm gonna be on it tonight
Wanna watch me climb?
I'll give you the thing that you like
Then you gotta do it right

Let's take our time

Take Our Time

Dinner in Heaven
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021/2022

Dinner In Heaven

UNIX

Years have passed and I will never forget my one regret. A friend of mine jumped off of the Tobin Bridge in Boston because of the pressure his family put on him to send money back to them in his native country - They should all be crucified. This is my recollection. I should have been there for him that day - instead I was looking to be seen "AGAIN" - always craved attention... Full lyrics below
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who was I to you guess I was just a ghost reached out to everyone and played the clown but it turned out you needed me the most I wish i never ever let you down - but I was just a kid and i was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
Was in the lunchroom making a cup of Joe - when you walked in trying to compose yourself - I felt like there was something I should know - but i bit my tongue cause I didn't want to pry - saw it in your eyes you were alone but carried on as if I didn't care truth was I was having a bad day consumed with all the problems of my own - but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
The next morning state police had questioned me they said that you had jumped the night before and even though they placed no blame on me - my aura showed that I was ugly
but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't d----

One regret (for Diego)

Para Lia
Kaleidoscope
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Atwork: Louis Renzoni, 'iSpy Red'
Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
https://www.youtube.com/c/paralia
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/

Lyrics:
the paper sun has gone down now
for shining eight miles away
no mad man's running through the fields now
no longer he lives for today

the purple haze has passed away now
and lucy's now a daughter of eve
the iron butterfly has vanished
so light my fire before we leave

come take my hand
we dive into the kaleidoscope
where green circles wait
watch me i am gonna fade away

a former psychedelic siren
now part of the music business scene
is casting spells only for money
 the white rabbits hide in lemon trees

come take my hand
we dive into the kaleidoscope
where green circles wait
watch me i am gonna fade

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quotes / reminiscences (psych and garage rock bands and songs 1966 - 68)
in order of appearance in the lyrics:

traffic - paper sun
the byrds - eight miles high
dantalion's chariot - mad man's running through the field
the grass roots - let's live for today
jimi hendrix - purple haze
beatles - lucy in the sky with diamonds
the daughters of eve (us band)
iron butterfly (us band)
the doors - light my fire
kaleidoscope (uk band) 
small faces - green circles
the tide - psychedelic siren
ccr - i put a spell on you
jefferson airplane - white rabbit
the move - here we go round the lemon tree

Kaleidoscope

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

get the album

Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

Rites of Macabre

Falling (Tick Tock)

Are You Human? (Simply A Machine)

Common Objects

Schizophrenia
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2020

Lyrics:
Can you hear what they say?
Voices that haunt me
They all hate me today

And they won't go away
Am I just crazy?
Is it true what they say?

All the games that they play
Just to confuse me
And the things that they say

Then my thoughts slip away
I'm floating on air 
Can you meet me halfway?
Why are they lying to me?

I'm not sure where we are
I'm not sure who I am
I'm not sure any more
What's all of this for?
Have we been here before?
Why are you lying to me?

And now I feel so free
We're here together, you see
No-one to question my mind
No need for reasons to find

Schizophrenia

Get Down
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2020
Artwork by Alexas Fotos
Vocals: https://freelyconvertonline.com/text-to-speech/

Recorded in FL Studio, Mastered in Ozone.

Lyrics:
Get down, to the beat
Get down, to the beat
Get down, to the beat

Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Oh, I know you do!

Get down
Get down
Get down, to the beat

Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Oh, I know you do!

Get down
Get down, to the beat
Get down
Get down, to the beat
Get down
Get down, to the beat

Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Can you feel it?
Do you want it?
Oh, I know you do!

Get Down

10 Seconds
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2020
Artwork by Foundry Co
Vocals: freelyconvertonline.com/text-to-speech/

Recorded in FL Studio, Mastered in Ozone.

Lyrics:
You have ten seconds
To make an impression
You have ten seconds
To make an impression

Oh my God
Oh my God

You have ten seconds
To make an impression
You have ten seconds
To make an impression

Oh my God
Oh my God

You have ten seconds
To make an impression
You have ten seconds
To make an impression
You have ten seconds
To make an impression
You have ten seconds....

10 Seconds

Groove
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Artwork Юрий Урбан

Lyrics:
Groove
I love you
Do you love me?
Get into the groove

Groove

"move 37" is the creation of Simon Chamberlain, an English musical experimenter based in London. If you like any of the tunes here please leave a comment.

All tracks are original compositions, except for covers.