Wonderful to team up with Nic Evennett again to create this work.  For more of our work as Cellar Door: 

https://soundcloud.com/cdoor   

To hear Nic's amazing solo work:

https://soundcloud.com/nicevennett

Proud to announce that this track recently played on the After Eight Show in multiple countries.

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Lyrics:

Forgotten. this morning.
it never gave fair warning.
the flowers in paper,
but I'm still water vapour.
it's okay, you tell me,
but there's nothing to quell me.
afraid of my shadow
so come again tomorrow.

Isn't it glorious?
Sincerely.
Doesn't this moment smell alive?
I saw the whole world made from petals.
I saw the reason we survive.

the clicks of deciding,
the hand that you are guiding
so dearly. So nearly
but I can't see me clearly.
I'm laying here,
you're laying here
waiting for faith to reappear.
til my lifeboat
sails from your throat.
And I hear you say...

Isn't it glorious?
Sincerely.
Doesn't this moment smell alive?
I saw the whole world made from petals.
I found the reason we survive.

Yūgen (Nic Evennett and Classical Glass as Cellar Door)

velvet mirage

A dear friend asked me if I wanted to set one of his poems to music. Well, I did. And this is what came out of it...

The title of the poem is “Augenblick”, which means "moment", but literally “blink of an eye”.

Augenblick (by Hans H. Hiebel)

Tender day
The eye-lid of the night
Has opened
Time
Is twinkling at us
And because everything is divided
And must be divided
We twinkle back
And death
Closes the lid


Composition, vocal, guitar and piano by Joliz.

The track wouldn't be the same without Robert S. Dean... Thank you!


Augenblick

front porch picking

Full of Hope * Instrumental

Hyrcanian Nights

Down the rabbit loop

When we first started writing songs together we thought we’d keep it simple but found the allure of a full band sound too tempting to ignore. This song, about the destructive patterns we get locked into, is us fulfilling that original intention - just acoustic guitar, violin and vocals. The riff that underpins the song could have gone another way….that’ll be the next release.

Sugar Trail

When We Fade

[Verse 1]
The night is soft the rain still falls
shadows tracing where we used to run
Your voice drifts in like a hard remembered dream
I reach but you’re gone—just echoes in between

[Pre-Chorus]
All the promises we thought we’d keep
turned fragile as the way we sleep
You said forever but forever is late
and I’m left learning how to wait

[Chorus]
When we fade we fade like oceans—
pulling back but never gone
Love was fire love was motion
now just dust where we belong
And if I close my eyes tonight
your touch is still the same—
when we fade we fade
but we whisper all the same

[Verse 2]
I watch the sky it’s torn in two
a fleeting storm that reminds of me and you
Your lips a ghost they haunt like rain
a tender ache I can’t explain

[Pre-Chorus]
It’s only me and the dark I swear
holding your memory like dust in the air
The song you left still pulls me near
a lullaby I'll always hear

[Chorus]
When we fade we fade like oceans—
pulling back but never gone
Love was fire love was motion
now just dust where we belong
And if I close my eyes tonight
your touch is still the same—
when we fade we fade
but we whisper all the same

[Bridge]
Every dream feels like you're near
every silence wants you here
I would keep you if I could
but even love can’t stop what should

[Final Chorus]
When we fade we fade like oceans
pulling back but never gone—
your ghost is all devotion
your shadow lingers on

[Outro]
And if I wake alone tomorrow
your perfume's still in the rain
When we fade we fade—
but we whisper all the same

When We Fade

HALT MICH (VERSION 2025)

#indie #alternative #love #songwriter 

Would you? Ummmm

Would you dance with me
Even if I had no feet?
Would you kiss me
Even if I had no face?
Would you love me
Even if I had no heart?

Empty missing parts
Of a human 
Don’t say I’m weird 
Cause I ask stupid questions
Today isn’t Friday so what do I care?
Only Mondays feel real to me

Things people want … make no sense
a make-believe body 
Covered in cake…
Manicured nails
After a mud fight
smell of sweet flowers
post marathon sweat
How can it be? 
Can it be?

Would you? Ummmmmm
Would you? Ummmmmm

Would you drive me home
Even if you had no car?
Would you hang your hat on my bed post
Even if you feel no spark?
Would you hold me close
Even if you had no arms?

Just because I ask stupid questions
Doesn’t mean I know no answers
My riddle is your rhyme 
My Ying is your Yang
My tea is your coffee
My song is your hymn
Your hymn is my song 
My song…
 
Would you? Ummmmmm
Would you? Ummmmmm

Would you dance with me
Even if I had no feet?
Would you kiss me
Even if I had no face?
Would you love me
Even if I had no heart?

Would you love me
Even if I had no heart?

Would you? Ummmmmm
Would you? Ummmmmm

would you?

I am a sculptor of algorithmic sound. It is the art of pushing machines to produce the best of themselves — reaching toward a form of augmented humanity. Each track is conceived as a sensory and poetic experience, standing at the border between the real and the virtual, where technology becomes a vector of sensitivity.

👉 https://elasticstage.com/esreleasesf06/releases/french-touch-album

Le vinyle est prêt, pressé à la demande.
Une descente en groove dans les coulisses de la French Touch.
Boîtes à rythmes poussiéreuses, synthés analogiques et fantômes du Rex Club.
💿 Pour ceux qui ont dansé tard, et écoutent encore.
🎧 Commande ici :
👉 https://elasticstage.com/esreleasesf06/releases/french-touch-album

🇬🇧
The vinyl is ready — pressed on demand.
A groove-soaked dive into the backrooms of French Touch.
Dusty drum machines, analog synths, and the ghosts of Parisian nights.
💿 For those who danced late, and still listen.
🎧 Order here:
👉 https://elasticstage.com/esreleasesf06/releases/french-touch-album

Down the rabbit loop

Stephan B