Name: "Havoc" by Turning Plates by smallfishrecordings in A
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: The second single from the debut album "The Shouting Cave". Engineered at Chem19, mastered at smallfishrecordings.

@inthatsuit: I'd love to take the credit for the blythwoodness but confusingly, good mastering is what you DON'T hear! So glad you enjoyed the band, that's the best compliment I can get.

@jeff-slarve: Thanks Jeff, on both counts....

Stunning with Mingus style Bass-Beautuful & Magical.

the writing is v/ impressive to say the least!

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The second single from the debut album "The Shouting Cave". Engineered at Chem19, mastered at smallfishrecordings.

"Havoc" by Turning Plates

www.collapsiblemountains.com
collapsiblemountains@gmail.om


COLLAPSIBLE MOUNTAINS - Endings

The first single from Sunshine Social's upcoming debut album. Includes single 'The Brace', a further song from the new album 'Men at Work', and a remix of an old Sunshine Social song 'Next of Kin'. 

Next Of Kin (Spirit Guides Remix)

"I Sing The Body Electric" is taken from Ruled By Dreams, the forthcoming début solo album by ex-Geneva vocalist Andrew Montgomery. Released 5th October 2014.

Produced by Sean McGhee (Robyn, Imogen Heap, Alison Moyet). Featuring Röyksopp / Schiller collaborator Kate Havnevik and Jody Gadsden & Simon Neilson from Autoheart.

Contact press@ruledbydreams.com for further information.

Critical praise for Andrew:

"Astonishing...sings like some heaven-sent of love child of Smokey Robinson & Harriet Wheeler." Andrew Mueller, The Independent
"Andrew Montgomery's yearning falsetto calls attention to himself...an extraordinary voice." - Allmusic
"Distinctive, powerful and evocative" - Metro

Andrew Montgomery - "I Sing The Body Electric"

"Flim Flam" is a song written by Bryan Ciliberto. 
Bryan Ciliberto - Guitars, Bass, Organ, Vocals
Henri Ciliberto - Drums

Recorded and mixed by Bryan Ciliberto
Mastered by Smallfish Recordings 

Flim Flam

Flim flam, alakazam 
What do you think I got in my hand?
Chump change, people are strange
Some are in debt others in pain?

Hell hounds all around
Showing their teeth, smelling the ground
Fish fry, sounds like a lie
I wouldn’t accept, but I wouldn't deny

Flim flam
Flim flam 
Flim flam 

Topsy turvy, roads are curvy
He’s too shy and she’s too nervy
Stars stripes, naughty or nice
It don’t matter, never  think twice

Double trouble, living in a bubble
Coloseums  turn into rubble
Sticks stone, break your phone
too connected and too alone

Flim flam
Flim flam 
Flim flam 

Judge and jury, favors curried
Don’t you like our fire and fury
right wrong, same old song
stand and fight or play along

Flim flam
Flim flam 
Flim flam

Flim Flam (2021 remix)

Thanks to all my imagined and unimagined friends on this song (and you know who you are or you don’t!) I was really happy with the previously released “Blood Moon,” so I thought, let’s use the same team. Some extra background vocals were needed, so Joseph Houck was called on to sing some, and he did so wonderfully. The Return To Normal duo returned for double duty. Martin Lucas added a splendidly psychedelic organ part. Corinne Lucas sang a harmony vocal as well Beach Boys style backing vocals along with Joe and myself. Mark Biegel returned to play his trumpet. Special thanks must go out to Jon Huxtable who worked his magic in the mixing and who’s patience I’m sure I tried, as this song had a ‘devils in the details’ quality.

My Imaginary Friends

Captain Dave, to a fault is brave.
His sister Candy stone-faced and aloof

On Christmas eve, always joined by Steve
We like to sing together on the roof top     

If you could? Would you join us too?
if you’re so inclined would you mind 
to meet all

My imaginary friends  
You’re there for me, I’m there for you too
My imaginary friends
 we sing hallelujah

Candy sighed, You know I never cry
and why should I, The whole world’s gone insane.”

This made Steve smile but all the while he thought
“No, but you most certainly complain, dear.”

don’t judge too harsh all my company
it’s all give and take and what you make
you’ll see 

My imaginary friends  
Do on to others as you do to yourself
My imaginary friends
we sing hallelujah

Do you know who your real friends are?
How will you explain
fair-weathered deals in sunshine
washed away by rain

It happened fast nothing ever lasts 
its unforeseen, just what will disappear
Steve got hired and Dave retired
Candy’s in L.A. she says its all so weird, out here

My Imaginary Friends

The Temporary

Minute Steak

Here's one from my forthcoming album "Congeries."  "The Mountain" features several talented artists who kindly lent a hand. 

Drums- Bryan Ciliberto
Piano- Martin Lucas
Pedal Steel- Matt Wilson
Backing Vocals- Anna Houck
Guitar, Bass, Organ, Vocals- Joseph Houck
Mixed by Jon Huxtable

Photo by Laura Rash


Lyrics:
Going up on the mountain
Don't know when I'll be back
All my old friends and lovers
They welcome me back
They welcome me back

And some say the New River
Is as old as the Nile
Like that name they give her
I hope to stay young awhile
Through the last brackish mile

Going up on the mountain
O'er the valleys and hills
Reaching out for new beauty
In the palms of old thrills
As it drains from the hills

Going up on the mountain
No, I ain't coming back
Leaving old cares behind me
Like a ramshackle shack
On a hill gray and black

The Mountain

Here's track 10 from my upcoming album "Congeries."

Joseph Houck- Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Piano
Anna Houck- Backing Vocals
Jeff Martin- Bass and Drums

Mixed and Mastered by Jon Huxtable

Dance Again

Good morning, friends! My new album "Congeries" goes live today! It's a mix of country, folk, and rock in moods of magic, mischief, and melancholy. It's available on CD and digital download at Bandcamp.com and other online locations. It's been years in the making, and I got to work with talented individuals to make it happen! Thank you all so much for supporting my music, and I hope enjoy this latest offering!

Visit my website to listen and buy:
http://www.josephhouckmusic.com

Here's track 5 "On That Hill"

Martin Lucas: piano
Joseph Houck: vocals, guitars, bass, organ

Mixed and Mastered by Jon Huxtable

Lyrics

Swathes of leaves on that well-worn path 
In their earthen gully graves 
The woods grow dim, the beasts come out 
From their hidden mountain caves 

His old plank shack in shadows black 
In sweat and pride was built 
Veiled in vines, the once straight lines 
Did sag and drag and tilt 

Chorus: 
The grass grows high 
And in the wind it sways 
And the sun beats down on that hill 

On that hill they call his grave: 

There’s a creek runs down, springs from the ground 
Not too far, where he would drink 
In the summer heat he’d soak his feet 
And rest awhile and think 

And he held the girl he called his wife 
They tilled and grew their crop 
And when the harvest finally came 
She was about to pop 

Chorus 

There he died at a ripe old age 
His son grown, his wife gone 
Next to her he was buried 
On that hill they both called home 

His shack--no room-- an empty tomb 
And the trail would disappear 
But the spring would flow, and it would know 
At last that he was here 

Chorus

On That Hill (featuring Marty Lucas)

A public service announcement from your friends at Pall of a Past World. It occurred to be that I had yet to write a song for a season, That along with the acquisition of a new Vox AC-30 prompted me to write this summer shindig rocker for all you groovy kids. Hope you dig it.

Here Comes Summer

Here comes summer
Got your number
What a bummer she can’t hang around

Here comes sunshine
fruit and white wine
sweat and tan lines cukes round your eyes

See her at the pool
Perched high and looking cool
If your drowning she can save your soul

Here comes summer
With her drummer
just play dumb her mother doesn't know

Here comes blue skies
Airbrushed sunrise
Chlorine pink eye jet-ski afternoon

See you at the mall
after  volleyball
text me after brunch and ti qun do

Here comes Summer
Here comes Summer
Here comes Summer

Meet you at the Lake
Summer for goodness sake
Your dog days are here and linger on
  
Here comes Summer (don’t get burned)
Here comes Summer (don’t get burned)
Here comes Summer (don’t get burned)

Here Comes Summer (don't get burned) 2021 remix

Dumb Down

Welcome to the Viper’s Pit where no one feels alone
all the news that’s fit to spit is right there on your telephone
can you imagine anymore than this? The It would not approve
so here's a rhythm, you can dance, be thankful that you still can move

We dumb down, we dumb down down down

Any tool can make a rule, so here is one they don’t teach in school
don’t be so certain of certainty and don’t be so sure you won’t play the fool
some times I wonder what’s the point at all and why should I resist
take me by my little hand baby, come on baby just like this

We dumb down, we dumb down down down

Third verse is not the first
Here comes the limo, here comes the hearse
Spoon feed like a baby daughter
open up son it’s sheep to the slaughter 
you know that tune so you can hum
you know the words come on, get ya some
What’s the symptom, what’s the cure
Who’s the pimp here, who’s the whore

We dumb down, we dumb down down down

We Dumb Down

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