Sophie has been such a joy to teach. I hope what learns will stay with her throughout her life.

Exquisite and graceful, like a bird in flight! Thank you.

According to the story of Buzz Aldrin during his trip to the moon his vision of "fireflies" through his cockpit.....! Thanks for your listen ! : )                                              Sounds of perfect landing : https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/sets/ark-dambient-open-collab

LUNAR

JIM ANDERS _ KOSTN_ Dj Commander Loop Rmx (Trancemix)

PonZitician

N.B. 11/07/2023: at last I think I managed to delete the more disturbing noises!! And keep quite the best of the recording ! Hope you better enjoy the song now 🎈 … and the new cover art 🤩 closer to the chorus ❤️‍🔥

it's been a dilemna to choose wether or not I would publish that track:
1. After hours and hours of work on mastering to remove the huge amount of noises on that old tape recording , it was only half a success...
2. I love this song!... despite its not perfect sound

Hope you’ll validate the option 2 :)

Bruno (future Loony) wrote the song, programmed drums, played the bass and the guitars, and sung.
Composed in July 16th 1989
Recorded in January 1992 on Yamaha 4 tracks

The song has been played live with the Catsbleed between 92 and 94, meeting a bit of success 🎈

WHEN I FIND MYSELF (LoFi Remastered)- Bruno C     -   Art cover: Nataly NGM

Another collab with my student Sophie. I am playing piano and she added cello and birds. It's great to be able to do recordings with her, so she can hear what she is playing. It is wonderful encouragement when she can read comments people have left for her on other music. For me, hearing her music grow sometimes I can't tell if she is playing or if it is me. We have been working on expression. Anyone can learn how to read music and play the right notes at the right time with their hands, but learning how to feel music with your body is different. So many adults took piano lessons when they were young and stopped playing and don't have the confidence anymore . If they had a way to hear themselves now maybe they would be encouraged to play again, otherwise it is a complete loss. Today most public schools have shut down creative studies. Children aren't exposed to music like they used to, not since George Bush changed education and made it all about testing testing testing and teachers couldn't teach the way they had been used to. Now its getting much worse. Children need to learn to be creative. It gives me great pleasure to teach them (and adults too!) 

Here Come The Birds!

Strange Dark Night [Live] * Copyright SCRT Record Co.

What came first, the tree or the telegraph pole?
Either way, there was no foresight by those involved.

Bamboo didgeridoo
Yamaha tenor saxophone
Some drum sounds
Chainsaw

Journey Through The Land Of The Deformed Trees

Rodolfo https://soundcloud.com/rplanes first shared this beautiful piece with me 2 years ago, which has had a gradual development since I first wrote the lyrics back then. More recently Ce Mastro https://soundcloud.com/cemastro added some exciting backing vocals which transformed the chorus and then even more recently we invited Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to contribute some lovely sax that we believed was just what the song needed. Rodolfo's song has such a feeling of romantic innocence yet with a wonderful rhythmic flow, that I hoped the words might feel from a simpler time. We hope you all enjoy our song of innocence (and inexperience) which thankfully is a work of fiction. Thanks again to Rodolfo for sharing this magical piece and his great skills as well as Ce and Dave's unique gifts to make this one happen. 
We thank you all for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix.
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals
Me - Lead vocals and lyrics
Dave McKeown - Sax solo and fills

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/almost-lovers

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear 
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro & Dave McKeown) Now Available on Bandcamp

This is a song I came up with, using a looper to create the beat, and adding bass to that.  I then sent it to Brian, who added some killer guitar tracks. I then sent that version to JJ, who added some really cool keys and synth. We then gave it over to Tez, who brilliantly mixed the monster into something palatable. I love afrobeat, and feel very honored to have all these brilliant musicians create this song with me. It's named after a phenomenon my South African buddy Louis (Zero on here) was telling me about wherein the power is cut for more than several hours on end. Makes for plenty of misery there, although I don't consider that aspect of it as relating to the song. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it!

Shedding The Load (with Brian Butts, JJ Terrell, and Llanpsych)

Hugo - Piano Mandala 6876 3:35 06-05-2024

LYRICS:
In the beginning, you were just friends
You gave it a go, both fucked it up, made your amends
Then he met me, and he fell in love
He took his chances, asked me to be his, forever enough
 
But all it took was one kiss, just one simple fucking kiss
And suddenly he’s chasing dreams and pushing me away
He promised me forever, that we’d always be like this
But suddenly there’s you, and what was black is now in grey
 
I've never felt so incredibly sick
Back to the wall, foetal position, cut to the quick
Such a betrayal, cutting as ice
All I can see is that image of him gazing into your eyes
 
So all it took was one kiss, to make this train jump the track
Inexplicably those buried feelings flooded back
He promised me forever, told me that he’d always stay
But suddenly there’s you and what was black is now in grey
 
The nightmare keeps unfolding and I know my hands are tied
There’s nothing I can change, and there is nothing I can fight
This can’t be happening, let me out please wake me up
 
Cos all it took was one kiss, to bring back the love you missed
And suddenly he’s wanting you and pushing me away
He promised me forever, that we’d always be like this
But suddenly there’s you, and what was black is now in grey
 
Yeah all it took was one kiss, to bring back the love you missed
Sabotaging everything I thought was there to stay
He promised me forever, that we’d always be like this
But suddenly there’s you, and what was black is now...



CUBIC G: 
vox/keys - Sarah Golding
sweet sweet bass - Gavin Simpkin
kickin' drums - Simon Golding

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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  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 also played. I learned recently that my grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. My great grandmother sang and danced in minstrel shows in the early 1900's. I know 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!

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