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The Upload  - 15 octobre 2018

Soundtrack for Inside The Forbidden Outside

This is the music to my most recent music video https://youtu.be/SYN6rOjuU70
I recorded the music a couple years ago planning to use it for my book. When someone has been locked up for a long time it does not mean they are a criminal the public has to shun or be afraid of. Many are in there due to circumstances out of their control. There should be a way for these people to have a better second time around and have the life that had been denied them.

Second Time Around

This music was recorded for a book being written, Inside The Forbidden Outside" to be published the end of 2016.  This music will be given with every hard copy sold.  The book is about the life of Jamie Cummings, currently in Huntsville Prison  You can read his story at mynameisjamie.net

Remembering My Life

This is music for the chapter titled "The Value of a Letter" in the book being written "Inside the Forbidden Outside' due out by the end of the year.  The book is about the life of Jamie Cummings, who has been incarcerated for for 14 years - a gentle man with epilepsy who has never been allowed to touch his son even one time.  The book is about the injustice and racism of our prison system in the US.

Silence Is So Loud

This piece was recorded quite a long time ego. I hadn't really listened to it in a couple years. It still brought years to my eyes. It was a very emotional time in my life. All of my pieces very recorded for a reason.  Sometimes for me and sometimes as a gift for others.

There is also a music video  https://youtu.be/z9OxroRGpO0.  There is poetry for this. I have to find it

Picking up Broken Pieces

Stories Without words

Waiting  . . . Too Long

Taken from the Robert Paul Corless & Arkestar Album - REMIXXVI

[Original Track is here if anyone interested in making the comparisons? https://robertpaulcorless.bandcamp.com/track/the-eight-sigh Enjoy. X

Some Smouldering HOt Funky Darkwave EDM Groove with a smattering of Underground psychedelica:

Check out the rest of the 'Remixed' album here:
https://arkestar.bandcamp.com/album/robert-paul-corless-arkestar-remixed-part-one

Buy @ Bandcamp

Robert Paul Corless & Arkestar - The Eight Sigh [Arkestar RMX]

Scene in my dreams: song electronic, synthesizers guitar and vocals
art work: one of my old pencil drawings
lyrics:
As the night draws in
it casts shadows from the trees
high road
village street
sink into a silvery dream
a scene in my life
scene in my dreams
and every day the river flows
beneath the moon that glitters so bright 
scene in my dreams

Scene in My Dreams

Scene In My Dreams

Partial chapter in the upcoming book "Inside The Forbidden Outside" found at https://mynameisjamie.net/2018/06/09/circles-inside-circles-2/

Later that night, getting up for a drink, Jamie fell and twisted his knee. It was swollen and hurt like a son-of-a-bitch. It was worse when he put his weight on it the next morning. It was so swollen he could hardly bend it. He put in for a medical call. A guard came get him with a wheelchair because there was no way he would be able to walk there.
     "What did you do?" the nurse asked after the guard helped him up onto the examining table.
     "Damn that hurts," slipped out of Jamie's mouth before he could stop it. He didn't like to cuss around women.
     "I slipped on the carpeting," he joked and tried to laugh.
     "No, really, my knee buckled. I went down and landed hard on the side of my knee and it twisted." Jamie winced as he attempted to change position.
     "I've had problems with this knee before," he told her.
     "I'll have x- ray take a picture," she concluded. "Make sure it isn't fractured.
     The nurse pressed gently on different parts of the knee. "This feels like fluid, "she commented, "not just swelling from the damage caused by twisting it."
     "Can the doctor do something? Could it be drained?" Jamie thought it would make his knee feel better if they were able to get the swelling down. Right now he could only bend it a couple inches.
     "No." It only took a second for the nurse to answer."The doctor won't do it. The Medical Unit would never okay that kind of procedure."
     The nurse stopped for a few seconds and thought carefully. "They'll say it's not medically necessary," she finished saying, almost under her breath.
     She saw inmates all day long who had medical conditions that needed treatment, and she knew they would never receive it, or they would get the barest minimum care. She'd placate them making them think something would be done. Chronic illnesses with simple, effective treatments that could make their lives easier to bear would most likely be denied. Conditions got worse that could be fixed. Inmates paid precious dollars out of their accounts to be seen by a doctor and were usually given the runaround. They would receive token or incorrect treatments and blood tests might even be taken, but getting the right diagnoses and proper medication were much more difficult to get. This wasn't the reason she became a nurse.
     Inmates coming into the prison with a known condition who had a history of medication had a better chance of receiving it, but if other conditions developed there was a good chance it wouldn't be addressed.

Inside The Forbidden Outside

Circles Inside Circles

Improv For Josef

https://soundcloud.com/keitonie/blues-collab
@Keitonie had this cool little blues track posted for a collab he put together with Bass & Drums and give it a raking over for some fun!!! :D

~ Blues Jam~ Collab w Keitonie

How do you remember who you are?
Looking like the loneliest of stars

If only we could stand up straight
to hesitate
to fall and disappear 
Some day
the moonlight shade
the long too late, 
the rolling credits fade.

How do you remember growing old?
Written on your only rubbered soul
How can we still play it safe?
the teeth too straight
some day we'll take the stage
we'll start again
One day we'll run away from it all.

You should be in movies to the stars
You should be in movies, you're the star

How far am I supposed to fall?
How far am I supposed to fall?
Running away from it all.

We should be in movies, you're the star
You should be in movies, you're the star
You should be in moves, to the stars
(running away from it all)

How do you remember who you are?

You should be in movies

Day after day my life revolves around two constants - my music and buying and selling vintage jewelry.  There is so much hate and disrespect in America being shoved down our throats that it is depressing. The only way to survive it is to crawl inside one's own mind and create a space you want to be in and for me - create the music to listen to. I enjoy the music I record, with all the little mistakes I make because I'm not an engineer. At night, if I  have trouble sleeping I  stream my music.  If you don't enjoy listening your own music why would anyone else? I often go to sleep with my music playing so it is indeed the music of my dreams

I'd Rather Be Dreaming Today

Some days have been harder than others to go through. I lose track of what day it is because of the isolation. There is sadness knowing there are millions of people who are grieving the loss of their family and friends this year that should not have happened this way.  There are many more that don't know they are on the list. I've worked hard to make it to this point. There is so much more music to play and give away hoping to leave a piece of me with them. As I play I have another great grandbaby on the way. will my music be the only way they get to know me. I guess that depends.

This piece has other instruments, 4 tracks, which often changes the story. I have also uploaded just the piano where all the music begins. The music is layered one improv over the others. There is no mixing, only what I hear in my head as I play. It can't be changed. It is what it is, what I'm feeling at that moment.  The music is completed usually in 20-30 minutes. It either works or it doesn't.

The Beginning and the End

Staring out my window today, a gloomy day and it's getting dark earlier and earlier. No sun to pick up the spirit to let me pretend that everything is going to be okay. Tomorrow I will wake up and everything will go back to normal as if that normal was okay - because it wasn't. If I didn't have my music to make me feel whole I couldn't stand it. Standing is getting harder before I have to lay down. It's going to be a very long winter.

Will We Heal From This

It has been a stressful year and everything I thought would happen, did. It has been ugly. Many people have lost the ability to seek the truth and thousands of everyday people joined the cult Qanon. The president has shown more racism the closer we got to this day, and those who aren't loyal to him got axed or destroyed. People are dying yet he insists they aren't. What is happening? But we have reached the next step. Tomorrow we vote. It is just the beginning of the next fight for the life of our country. I never thought, I never believed such a day would come. we have a long way to go to undo the damage  he has done, but at least we will soon know, after the ballots are counted if we will be able to begin to put the pieces back together again.

The Waiting is Almost Over Now - Maybe

It has been a long hard year for everyone and emotions have been high. From despair over loss, to fear of not being able to repair our lives and anger because not enough was done to lessen the possibility of paying this price because too many haven't wanted to believe it was happening.  This will be a year that will never be forgotten and the repercussions have only begun to be felt. We will never be the same again no matter how much we pretend we won't have to create a new normal. The year 2019 was the last year of 'Good old Days' which is my next piece of music.

A Year of Sadness

A Heavy Price to Pay

My music pieces are all piano improvisations expressing emotions. It is music telling stories without the words. In my earIy years I sang and played piano in piano bars or fronted bands of different styles, from country to heavy metal and to 40. I've been composing, teaching and performing most of my life.  I'm getting old(er) now 😔 but the great thing about creating music is it gets better the longer you play, and you have more to write about! 

This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. My mother, grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. My son is also exceptional.  My great grandmother and gr grandfather sang and danced in minstrel shows (vaudeville) in the early 1900's. Kids today have no idea what life was like before moving pictures.  I now have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music. When I am gone my music will still be here. What a wonderful thought! 