as in "drive"? Came from reddit. I'm usually not a fan of looping/repetitive music (sorry if that sounds harsh, just trying to describe the structure) but you make it work with creativity and imagination. Will check out more.

If I had to describe it, this album is some sort of weird intersection between my love of The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sparklehorse, early Broken Social Scene, M83, Hum, and Roy Orbison.

I've also been tinkering with Ableton, my Microkorg, Juno 106 VSTs, drum machines, and my strat for about 20 years no, so maybe it's just the natural progression of taking all those weird little moments in time, which started in a studio apartment in Boston, and weaving them together into this little collection of songs.

Here's to brain fog, unrequited loves, missed chances, new beginnings, and dancing alone.

Release Date: Jun 18, 2022

© 2022 All rights reserved. Music by Sssstephen!

Dryv

I thought I would like to share with you my cover of an Amy Winehouse song from her posthumous album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures. “Halftime” is one of a couple of songs whose lyrics reflected the crucial role music played throughout her tragic life. I wanted to warn you a little about the third verse: Amy had a very unique way of describing her love for traditional jazz, completely different from my own songs. However, it’s the drum patterns of Questlove that led me to cover this song. 

During her life, Amy longed to make a jazz album with Questlove, and sadly, her team wouldn’t allow her the opportunity. So after she passed, her producer Salaam Remi reached out to Questlove, so that the world could hear kind of the direction she wanted to go with that supergroup. However, I later found out that she wanted to perform a wild Duke Ellington album, which is a 180 from this song. I’m currently in the process of making an album inspired by that particular story, and would love to find some way for Questlove and the rapper Mos Def to record those Ellington songs with me, along with my own songs featuring a style like “Halftime.” Anyway, hope you like it. This was a fun cover to do!

Halftime  - Amy Winehouse cover

Created using Virtual ANS and normalized in Audacity for Disquiet Junto 0554, Cage Chord. Any piece submitted was intended to be loopable.

Used pulses in close drone, not only according to chord notes, but in upper registers, within notes to play with additive heterodying/intermodulation, as notes were synthetic, not inherently full of overtones etc. Also to take some cue from the chromatically adjacent notes in the chord notes.

None of it done with fine resolution to encourage any idiomatic lo-fi glitchyness in the program.

More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) — at: https://disquiet.com/0554/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

End Hold

where you are,
there you are,
near is near,
far is far,
there's no forgiveness,
just whispering ears,
my head is a bony bag,
of broken mirrors,

summerset, 
can't forget,
all strung out,
fingers fret,
invisible friend will be keeping the time,
deep in the slake of my slither-pit mind,

the imaginary world that grew from our love,
sleeps in the deep dreaming of the above,
cold and indifferent the cynical skies,
heart that won't start and a head full of lies,

how I love you,

make believe,
starts to rot,
the story world,
you forgot,
whispering ears or a silence so cruel,
borrowing tears on eternal renewal.

I love you,

you left me here, all whispering ears,
the shadowless Queendom that you used to rule,
sleeps in the deep 'neath a silence so cruel,
and I'm laying to rest,
the skipped beat in my breast,
and the hiss of my whispering ears

           ....

happily never after,
a moment of sad sobbing laughter.

well, you know my head's a squat house,
and I've boarded up the eyes,
so that no one else can see,
that I'm fooled by my disguise,

happily never after,

        ...

how I let them in,
and how they piss on the floor,
deep in my squat house head,
drowning in my powdered rapport,

I only live one day in eternal refrain,
it's a Burmese repeater, again, again, again, again,

are you a beautiful melody,
with horrible words?
there was a sermon of insects,
and it was all I ever heard,
bestowed a blessing of filth,
and I was high on the stain,
it's a Burmese repeater, again, again, again, again,

Burmese Repeater...

Whispering Ears/Happily Never After/Burmese repeater

Proleća Proba - Springs Rehearsal Take

Imagine Belle & Sebastian had listened to more jazz, funk and hip hop. If you like your indie pop a little off-kilter – like the Magnetic Fields and the Beta Band – you might be into this.

Album available 27th March on all streaming platforms and limited edition cassette (Bandcamp).

Not As Bad As It Sounds

Here All Night

Saturdays Modular Improvisation .Cassette Tape Loops and Eurorack .

Overlaps

Let me dive into the whirlpool
Covered in shimmery red dust
Just before the explosions 
Light my eyes
Collapsing with the clouds
Burning, bursting as celestial fireworks


The stellar wind is blowing me 
Where is too dark to tell
Where your fingers end 
And the void begins 


Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Lost in space, time cannot cheat us
We'll sense the meaning of it all
Holy radiation will lead us to revelation  

Stellar wind is blowing me away 

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Credits:

All music and lyrics by Lunar Bird

Recorded by Stefano Manca at Sudestudio
Mixed by Steffan Pringle
Mastered by Charlie Francis

Guest artist: Andrea Rizzo (drums)

Supported by Help Musicians 'Do It Differently Fund'

Firestorm

My Cave

Sick of Everything

Take It To The Streets (Radio Edit)

© NRJ France

NRJ - Jingle We are NRJ 2001 (Version longue)

This music is a sort of natural progression of taking a lot of weird little music moments in time dating back to my apt. in NYC 20+ years ago & weaving them together with new instruments & software and adding silly lyrics & simple names.

Dryv

Sssstephen!

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