My Spectacular Fall from Grace ( Sneak Past Demons )

THE END OF 2022

Just Before Dawn
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Night is dark and deep (so deep)
The angels are asleep, so sweet (so sweet)

Coming through
Just before dawn, (here) 
the borderland, in between, 
awake and dream.

Strange it seems
Just before dawn, (now)
Silence embrace,
this place.

Angels sleep
Just before dawn, (and)
no one's here to cast
the demons away 
so they stay till dawn has come

Just Before Dawn

Sort of a "joke piece" but also sort of serious I suppose. This was one of a few attempts to write a composition for one instrument playing only one note (though in this case it also plays the same note up and down an octave).

Albertine

22 8 7

Vox & Lyrics - https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa/configurations-of-figure-1?in=frawstakwa/sets/open-for-collab-1
Artist - https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa
Original Track - https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming, Bass Guitar
Special Thanks to FRAWSTAKWA for offering up the great open collabs! check out his stuff!

FRAWSTAKWA - Configurations Of Figure 8's Loop Diggers MC 62 In Tune Trk 2

method: layering, understanding which kind of noise suits where
narration: what happens to characters in children‘s stories after the fairy-tale‘s told? to follow up on grimm‘s tale of two children lost in the woods, this soundscape drowns the first and the last poem of my kaleidoscope-cycle in apt kinds of noise. this static arises along the edges, ledges, margins and rims where the uncollected and recollected protrudes into the unknown. ah, the wind sings! 
image: copyright jo richter

headphones recommended

poem 1 (originally title: morvarid) /copyright jo richter:

All Gretchen‘s life
she had made haste
to catch up on
refractions of her youth,

yet all the scattered
crumbs of light only
led her deeper and
deeper into the dark:

The world‘s a forest -
she placed her bounty
on a tree stump – with
sugar-coated death
patiently waiting
for her to arrive.


poem 2 (original title: yeohanan) /copyright jo richter:

By and by, Hänsel lost sight
of everyone. His parents vanished
in the maze of their empty pantry.
His sister, he lost in the dark.
He then left the forest, simply,
and was shanghaied in a hustle.

Having crossed the equator
on numerous seas, he managed
to blindside the crew and be left behind
on some remote jungle island.

Blinded by the bright
southern sun, he lived on
in a kaleidoscope world, con-
fusing himself for light‘s shadow.

the static after the fairy-tale

small dream in a big sky

This is a collaborative project with Shane Beck (The Last American Poet) Luke ’Skyscraper’ James (This Twisted Wreckage) and Ricky Humphrey (This Twisted Wreckage)

Shane Beck: Spoken Word/Poetry

Luke ‘Skyscraper James: Vocals/Vocalisations/Guitar

Ricky Humphrey: Fretless Bass/Guitar/Keyboards/Loops/Drum Programming/Percussion 


Recorded at different locations in the USA and England

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Ricky Humphrey at Bomb Proof Studios, England.


© 2023

2 - THE BOY WHO HELD ON FOREVER By Souls Don't Sleep Album Mix

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DOWN BY THE SEA - Re-Mastered Aug 2020
Written, Performed & Produced by Andrew Borderick
Copyright 2019 AB Music All righte reserved.
Mastered by Soundcloud Aug 2020

IF I WAS A BIRD
I COULD FLY THE WORLD
OR LIVE DOWN BY THE SEA
WHERE THE WIND IS FREE

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
WE'LL FIND A TREE
LIVE UP THERE AND SEE
THE WORLD BELOW

IF I WAS A FISH
I COULD SWIM THE SEA
I WOULD DIVE SO DEEP
SO NO ONE CATCH'S ME

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
WE'LL FIND A PLACE
AND LIVE OUR LIVE'S AWAY
FROM WHAT'S UP THERE
(break)
IF I WAS A CAT
I WOULD CLIMB THE TREE
OR CATCH YOU BY THE SEA
IT'S JUST A PART OF ME

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
DOWN BY THE SEA
A PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
WE LIVE BETWEEN,
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
DOWN BY THE SEA
A PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
WE LIVE BETWEEN

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Down by the Sea

DOWN BY THE SEA

This is Newly, Busted out the Taylor acoustic for a bit on this one.  

**NEW
Check out Rekha's cover of this one at the link below.  She killed it 
https://soundcloud.com/rekha-iyern-fe/newly-tms-cover-rekha-iyern-fe-m1b-aug-25th-2021

credits:
This song has 2 bass lines, one is goofy and it's mine and then the other cool one is from One Blind Mouse, who also did the production here and he's pretty dang good 

vidya : https://youtu.be/btz3xRc0LJ4

Lyrix:
Oh, By the way...
I love this one
Did I mention that?
lol
I said I love this one!
Get mad
Get mad!
yeah yeah yeah

2 - THE BOY WHO HELD ON FOREVER By Souls Don't Sleep Album Mix

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