Name: Relentless by Steve Matthews
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Description: Some new acoustic guitar stuff is under construction, but meanwhile here’s a very different beast, called 'Relentless'. About the relentless assembly line of life.

powerful driven tune nice work - great guitar

Damn! I hate to sound cliche, but this ROCKS!!!

Great playing and imaginary composing - have pity on me!

Fabulous energy in this one as well as haunting themes and ambitious structures/transitions that truly thrilled me! Thanks for sharing Steve

Amazing! Love the prog feel and the harmonized guitar parts. Gives me a Porcupine Tree vibe.

The album was released on Ma 19, 2019 on all well-known streaming providers. It includes music from different countries.

Musikalische Weltreise

Fahrt mit dem Wikingerschiff

Ian Greaves vocals @ipg1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/modern-times

Special thanks goes to @r-u-r-pl for his endless patience and absolute hears. Advices - priceless.

Modern Times - IPG1 vs kavvka (New Soul Project re-edit 2024)

❤️🎶The music unites us all❤️🎶
I am a singer-songwriter, composer, entrepreneur, musician and sound designer. I have a home studio and have produced most of my songs and instrumentals there.
I love the exciting diversity of the Soundcloud universe. Here I always discover new, creative music creations and meet many nice people from all over the world.
Thanks for listening. I appreciate every feedback and every new follower.

Greetings
DestKorn Germany / Paderborn

Sadness

One by One

All guitars, bass and final mix by Neno J.
Original music, arrangement, piano, drums, instruments; J.J. Terrell
Check out Neno J. https://on.soundcloud.com/zH9vq3MzzExrnDjQ9

Enlightenment (Collab with Neno J.)

Some new acoustic guitar stuff is under construction, but meanwhile here’s a very different beast, called 'Relentless'. About the relentless assembly line of life.

Relentless

Dad & me making music together. took us over 40 years but we did it! This was recorded around 2014 or so I think. 

dad - acoustic guitar
me - voice

We tried this in 2 takes. The 2nd take had a bit louder, stronger sounding vocals, but the singing wasn't quite as subtle and soulful as this one, which is the 1st take. Even with the funny botched ending, this was always my preferred of the two versions. Unfortunately the vocal recording on this 1st take was too quiet (gotta find a better way to record singing than in the basement with my phone mic!). But after looking for years for a way to bump up only the vocals, I finally made use of one of the many AI tools popping up these days for isolating instruments from audio recordings. The tool I used is called 'Splitter AI / vocal remover', but there are others out there. Finally, I was able to isolate the vocals & guitar into separate tracks and make the voice  louder. 

(Song by John Denver)

I'm happy to be sharing these examples of my family making music from back in the day. :) Here's the other song we did around the same time. This is a very special song in our family, and I was super glad I got to sing it with my dad playing.  

Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/blue-eyes-crying-in-the-rain?si=29d81db0b84147ab9c54e6a0062a498f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

Back Home Again (cover - take 1) [collab with dad]

Special thanks to SilverBella for her a cappella....

SUPERSPREADER.   feat SilverBella

This song was partially inspired by a book I read by James Salter called A Sport and Pastime. I enjoyed it but would not say I LOVED it.

My music composition work and writing is often very "in the moment". It captures my fleeting moods and/or fragments of things percolating through my world and mind at the very moment of writing. This song is indeed a perfect example of that pattern. 

Crumble Like Sand
By David Husted

Try to portray 
a modicum of restraint
Draw the line 
and then abandon it

Sketch an outline of privilege, smells like
Tobacco, sweat and perfume
Penetrate with slow designs
Bitter whiffs of soured minds

Clarify the latitude
Describe the amount of elbow room
Tastes sweet as fruit 
Moored against the moon

Can gold remove the mortal hour?
Brushed against vanities power 
Opportunity smeared 
Against the clean and bared. 

And I am hoping you  can  open MY EYES
In life can love be bought with gold?
Dark fragrance of free  
I fall to my knees, breathe    

little bit of leeway in the design
Indulge the stroke let color's bind
I feel you

To Express the un-expressible (just throw it out)
Expose, the tender flesh of truth (to owe your time)
My throat is hoarse, scraped from screaming  (come sow your doubts)

Woe

“Oui"
“that’s the best right there” 
Downs us both
crumble like sand

“Oui "
“that’s the best right there” 
Downs us both
crumble like sand

Crumble Like Sand

Les Chateau

Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
And we had to pick these two
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
You’d think we could find somebody new

You say you really want to exercise your right to vote 
But if either of these guys was captain of a boat
You’d be afraid to set foot on that ship
You wouldn’t take that trip

Commercial jet pilots retire at 65
Cause after that age they’re afraid they’ll nosedive.
But there’s no age limit for the president of the USA
It’s perfectly okay

What are you supposed to do when both choices stink
You’ve got two glasses of Kool Aide
You’re not sure which one to drink

They get up on stage and we watch them a debate
Instead of rising to the occasion, they punch below their weight
We keep hoping that one of them will say something profound
But they let us down

They get asked hard questions and their answers are simple
Preventing World War three it’s like popping a pimple
And those budget deficits will magically disappear
We’ll be in the clear

Every four years we’re told that the situation is so dire
It’s like the country’s a giant gallon of milk 
And it’s about to expire
They say a broken clock is right two times a day
You never know we might pick the wrong guy and things might not turn out okay

What are you supposed to do when both choices stink
You’ve got two glasses of Kool Aide and you’re not sure which one to drink
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
And we had to pick these two
Three hundred thirty million people in this country 
You’d think we could find somebody new

Two Bad Choices

Contemplation (For three guitars)

I like Soundcloud because it's a friendly community for sharing our music. When I like your music, I say how it affected me, maybe something about how you wrote, performed or produced it. I have musically diverse interests: pop/rock songs, jazz-rock fusion/prog instrumentals; acoustic guitar. Main instrument is guitar, I'm not a keyboard player or singer, but hopefully I can do enough there to make my work sound ok.

Relentless

Steve Matthews

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