great collaboration - dreamy, spooky, mysterious

@dan-s-blackard that is a lovely comment, thank you Dan!

Great hypnotic voice and textures. Simple rhythms can bring out so much depth!

the inflections, variations ... in your music ... confuse me with awakening and astonishment ... really successful ***

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Whew - Music by TexMex Shaman, Music by Jeff Roberts, Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Final Music Mastering by TexMex Shaman in the USA
Vocal Mixing & Mastering by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

YT Vid: https://youtu.be/xdLNfF3h8eg

Cover Art Design by TMS

Listen to the amazing music of TexMex Shaman here: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman

A fusion of rock eras celebrating the coolest retro punk-glam vocal styles from the 80's all the way to the 90's. High powered rock riffin' guitars to take make you sweat out the Whew factor! We even added the dub thing...Man I had a mega blast teaming up with TexMex Shaman and Jeff Roberts in the making of our fantastical Whew!

WHEW - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a. REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Intro:
Gonna give ya everything ya need Baby 
Was soll ich dann sagen Baby?
Was soll ich dann sagen Baby?
(Sock it to ya)
Was soll ich dann sagen?

Gonna give ya
My wild sonic drive 
Gonna give ya
Wild-Wild 
Tronica
Exclusiva 
Up-Fi-Fun-Tastica 
Exclusiva 
Up-Fi-Fun-Tastica

R-O-C-K (Errr-Oh-Tsay-Kah)
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock 
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock 
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock

Anti-sap, full on rock magic 
Anti-mush, chargin’ hard 
Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Blasen 
Makin’ it clear
Distinctly ever so perfect
My true side defined
And Baby you know it
My true side defined
And Baby I will remind you of it

Rock and Roll is my True-Love 
It’s my Sun-Shine-ee-World 
Hey-Hey-Hey-Ee...Yeah-Oh 
Uh!

R-R-R-Roll it with the tongue Darling 
R-R-R-Roll for the Rock
Rock, Rock-Mobilia, Rock
Ich bin ein Super-Star-Rocker! 
Rocker, bin ich ein Punk-Rocker!
Verstehst du dann dass? 
Ich bin mit Attitüde! 
Ohne Stress!

Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Wild-Child

Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Wild-Child

Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my 
Wild-Child

Wild-Child 
Wild-Child 
Givin’ ya my 
Givin’ ya my

Wild-Tronic 
Wild-Tronic 
Wild-Tronic 
Wild-Tronic 
Uh-Uh-Tronic 
Wuh-Uh-Uh 
Wuh-ild-Tronic

Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Wild-Tronic
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Rock-Tronic
Givin’ ya my
Ich bin ein Super-Star Rocker!
So populär, mit die ganzen totale flair! 
REKHA, JA!

Shape-Shiftin’
Plate tectonics
Guaranteed to take ya down 
Into the hot molten ground 
Petrol, a need fuel, ignitin’ 
Tronic power side
True desire defined
And you might already know it 
(I gotta keep it that way Baby!)

Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll
Just want my
Rock and Roll
(Wow-Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow) 
Rock and Roll
(Wow-Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow)

Yeah, Eh-Eh-Eh-Ee...
Gonna give ya my
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock 
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock 
Uh!


Whew - Main - 24042022g

Whew

Whew - Music by TexMex Shaman, Music by Jeff Roberts, Music & Lyrics by REKHA IYERN [Fe] | ROCK | YT

The Suit and the Grief

floating on air

Floating On Air

It’s just a love song. Written in June/July 2022 but set in a room in an old house in Exeter in 1985.

Lyrics: 
I must accept its love

My watch strap smells of perfume from a town in Southern France
You wore my watch last weekend at a party where we danced
We were kissing in the pub, our friends were laughing,  they were singing
The band was playing loud, our lips were sore, our ears were ringing

And now, the window to my room is open to the night
Its cold but I can see the stars, and watch the trees sway in the moonlight
The tap drips, floors creak, but I’m safe within these walls
And I miss you so badly, can’t live at all

Its just so strong ,I feel possessed by these thoughts of you
I’ve tried to fight it but there is nothing I can do
I should accept its love

I hear the train announcements from platforms down the hill
And prayers are said for our love in a room that’s light and still
I love this life I live, but now its dull and slow without you
I don’t want that anymore, and now I know what I must do

And now, I’m alone and lying in the deepest bath
My fingers trace the places on my body where you kissed me in the dark
I want the movement of your body, I want the touch, I want the heat
And I miss you so badly, just got to get through this week

Its just so strong I feel possessed by these thoughts of you
I’ve tried to fight it but there is nothing I can do
And Its changed my life and now all I want is you
I must accept its love
Yes, I know its love
It’s our love 

(Fade out….)
(Sitting by an open window, cold breeze airs my mind
I’ve been writing words with lonely meaning just to pass the time
And I should be working, or reading or something, just things that have passed me by
But your image haunts, it controls my senses, you have my heart and mind
(So Lost without you)

James Whiteman June 2022 (and fade out James Whiteman, 1985) Copyright

I must accept it's love

I only play bass and crazy guitar ,.  
Zzzzerbot play the rest ,. Its his song !! https://soundcloud.com/zzzzerbot/oordinary

Zzzzerbot Collab 22

As  I once heard "I'm not complaining, I'm just making an observation"

© Joe Liberty 2022. All rights reserved

Just Getting By

Now in the land of milk and honey 
In the home of the free and the brave  
It’s a time of feast or famine  and your worth equals your pay 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why
  Work hard all your life but still just getting by
Still just getting by

Well now, do you have or have you not 
Its the question of the day  
And your answer will determine
 If you’re out or got it made 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why
  Work hard all your life but still just getting by 
Still just getting by 
Yea

¯\_(ツ)_/¯  solo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

The bills they just keep coming  
The prices they all rise
 World you used to know before  crumbles by and by  
The same olds never ending
 But the dream keeps you alive  
Till you finely you realise 
That that dreams a lie

Oh, do what you can hope for the best  
Who knows you might win lotto yet  
Life a gamble and you know it’s true  
When one man wins the others lose 
Your lifes defined right from the start  
So get in line and do your part  
Buck the system if you dare 
But it’s dog-eat-dog so just beware 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why  
Work hard all your life but still just getting by
 Still just getting by 
Sometimes you gotta wonder why  
Work hard all your life and still just getting by
Still just getting by
Bye bye, still just getting by
Bye bye, still just getting by 
Yea

JustGettinBy3

Mark Duffield: voice, lyrics, vocal and harmony melodies  @markduffieldcollaboration

Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mix

There’s something in the words you say
That makes me want to be with you
There’s something in the way that you love
That makes me want to see it through

When you are sinking
You’re not thinking
(Oh, yay, Oh, yay, Oh, yay, Oh, Oh yay yay x2)

When something isn’t right
(something, isn’t wrong)
When something isn’t wrong
When it’s taking you over
(taking you over)
You’ve got to be smart
(got to be smart)
You’ve got to be bright 
(got to be bright)
(Or you’ll live your lie)
When you are sinking
You’re not thinking

Hustle up now,
Carry your eyes
Don’t walk, run
Something wicked this way comes

There’s something in the words you say
That makes me want to be with you
There’s something in the way that you love
That makes me want to see it through

When you are sinking
You’re not thinking
When you are sinking
You’re not thinking

Never change your mind
Never change your mind
Always change your mind
Always change your mind
Never change your mind
Never change your mind
You should always change your mind
Always change your mind
Always change your mind

Words You Say (with Mark Duffield)

Thank you Laar for being so easy to work with and having accepted vocals recorded with a nasty cold! Say goodbye to those fairweather friends please.

Fairweather Friend

My Fairweather Friend ( collab LAAR)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Greetings all you fun and funky SC musicians. I don’t typically upload remastered versions of a song as a new track. I usually just replace the old with the new, and change the title to reflect the remaster. But this one is special, for a few reasons (and if you’re not much into personalized mixing details, you may want to skip this liner note).

First (and most importantly)… I thought I’d lost the ability to edit the original tracks for this song. The last time I opened it up in Logic (updating it for the 2018 album remaster), the siren voices were all messed up (automation in Alchemy can have odd results sometimes). I just assumed the original native file was broken forever, because I no longer had access to that version of Logic. I had to do the album remaster from my only existing mix… and it was definitely lacking.

4 years later, I’m so glad I took a chance on reopening the native file when I concluded this ‘Siren’ trilogy. All the sounds/automations were exactly as I had left them. Prior to this attempt, I just assumed the worst, and never tried again. Thankfully, I was wrong. :D

Second… the remaster turned out much better than I hoped; and the differences were so satisfying, I thought it might be fun to have both versions up (for a side by side comparison, for any interested musicians out there. Here's the older version: https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl/siren-rising).

So why does this one sound so much better than the original version? (And please take all of this with a grain of salt. I’m no pro. But I have discovered what works for me.)

Honestly, a tremendous amount of credit goes to having a much better understanding of Compression. For many folks, Compression is almost a dirty word. Just the title of the plug-in alone confused me at first. Why would I possibly want to compress my sounds, when I liked them as is? 

But it turns out (for me at least) that the different Compression options really shine when chosen specifically, and used minimally. As an example (and I’m not sure if your DAW offers similar options, but), Studio VCA works brilliantly with strings, female vocals and many of my favorite synths. But Studio FET works great on drums. Etc. And while some might cringe at the idea, I absolutely love what Soft Distortion does to most tracks as well. Used in mild amounts, Soft Distortion adds a phenomenal amount of spacial quality to the sound. I don’t use this one all of the time, but I bet I use it at least 75% of the time now (and Compression in general on about 95% of the tracks).  So there you go… I’m definitely a big fan of Compression… when used responsibly. :)

In addition, I’ve also learned a lot about EQing since I first did this song in 2017; so much so, that I was actually baffled by some of my earlier choices. So a large amount of the repair/update time for the 2022 remaster was spent on getting the EQing for each track set up more effectively.

And finally, I had the opportunity to give the full mix a healthy rebuild. After 5 years, you’re undoubtedly going to have a very fresh perspective on a piece. And I realized a lot of the sounds simply weren’t in their optimal positions in the stereo field. I also reconsidered where sounds faded in and out, and how intensely they did so… and I updated all of that as well. 

And there you have it, the story/history behind one of my all time personal favorites. I’m so glad I had an opportunity to revisit this one (while leaving all the original instruments true to form), and I hope you enjoy all the latest sound enhancements as well. I’m excited to hear what you think of my ’Siren Rising (2022 Remaster)’. :D

WTF! The Musical

Siren Rising - 2022 REMASTER

I had the great pleasure of having the ultra talented artist RICO polish up my song A BEAUTIFUL DAY , i think you will like it as much as i do , Thanks Rico , go visit his music :-https://soundcloud.com/ricochet8888

A Beautiful Day (RICO MIX)

A BEAUTIFUL DAY (RICO MIX)

And if you might like to purchase it, it is available on my first Album, called A Lover's Curse
http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/a-lovers-curse

"Fire walk with me. Dale cooper is dreaming about dwarves talking backwards to this." Tristan Narbrough

Dancing Bears ( lyrics included for Trixie Delight )
Another married man with a clandestine plan.
So tiresome and boring I can't keep from yawning
All the gold in my eyes
You think I'm a dancing bear?
You'll tell me what to wear?
Tell me what to sing and what nuance to bring?
Here's mud in your eye.
I'm not your dancing bear.
Your control-freakery puts the creeps on me.
Sly vibes aside, it's your soul I despise
And your misogyny.
You think I'm a dancing bear beneath my binary hair?
With one eye on the shot
And you think that you rock.
You're a dinosaur.
I'm not your dancing bear.


A Lover's Curse

Dancing Bears

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Ascend

Trombone

My extreme gratitiude to Marco for adding such magic to my peculiar song. I love theremins! Grazie Marco! :) 
Our EP is available here https://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/mindspies
Listen to his outstanding music here @drunkeninstrument 
Marco Abba: theremin, analogue synth, mix and backing vocals
steph sweet: lyrics, vocals, midi mix and seagulls, master

Entities
I was born kicking.
This crescent scar still branding me.
A reminder of all that’s been.
A reminder of mortality.
Salt-water entities, all the armies of all of the seas.
Salt-water entities, all the atoms of all of the seas.

I can wait and I can float,
‘Til the girls come swimming by, proud as pretty pearls.
Cell servitude, forever doomed to be
Forever on the land and never of the sea.
This rock is mine, for me to watch the waves,
To be singing my lament to the dead men in their graves.

I was born kicking.
This crescent scar on me.
All the armies of the oceans.
All the atoms in the sea.

©steph sweet 2017 All rights reserved.

Entities

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My latest LP, Edie, stream it free and ad-free www.stephsweet.co.uk/media
or sng.to/stephsweet
Edie Review " Thankfully Steph is still ploughing her particular esoteric furrow and has just released her new single Edie which is as good as anything she's released to date. It sounds like a darkly psychedelic theme from a long forgotten  left field spaghetti western and it's absorbing and utterly enchanting. If the Velvet Underground had been commissioned to do the title track for the Good, The Bad and the Ugly, this is how it would sound." The Devil Has The Best Tuna 13th May 2022

https://besttuna.blogspot.com/2022/05/StephSweet.html


https://www.stephsweet.co.uk  

Gigradar "British singer-songwriter Steph Sweet freely admits she’s a “refined taste” but it’s difficult to not be intrigued by her feisty, often contentious approach to pyschy acoustic indie-rock meets punk brand of music."

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"Steph Sweet has brought an interesting and new sound to this area.
With powerful vocals, and swirlly and crunchy guitar riffs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a late 90’s britpop, yet grounded somewhere more in the early 80’s. “All The Things” is dark, broody, a little strange, but also interestingly an ear worm that will grab you and not let go." 

" If the Bronte sisters formed a freak folk band then it'd probably sound something like this." 
Paul Kerr - The Devil Has The Best Tuna

" Placed somewhere between Devandra Banhart and Joanna Newsome, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist  -  vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards  -   combines a talent for bewitching songwriting, with a dreamy, lo-fi alt-gaze delivery."
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