Still rediscovering my youth compositions on old tapes, and trying to save them as best as possible!

Bachal In Empty Space (For Dominique)- Bruno C

Get Funky

Very fun to create a new piece with a same base but this time worked by another lovely fellow 
open collab offer by https://soundcloud.com/muterial
original track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails
music by https://soundcloud.com/mzrpklps

full playlist: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

my vocal contribution written below

salt and sugar look the same
could be mistaken but that's okay
mistake do happen yeah
mistake do happen every day
every day of life

all those things I didn't mean to break
all these things I didn't mean to forget
I didn't mean

straighten your shoulders, girl
take a deep breath or wash your face girl
but don't get stuck girl

to brood about
linger over
crying over failures again
cry on your grave
flowering your grave
carry your cross
to the death
flowering your grave
while you are not dead yet

Love and pain don't feel the same
but sometimes you're lost
and feel love is pain
mistake do happen yeah
mistake do happen every day

secrets that I forgot, yes indeed
dreams that I gave up, not really meant that
people that I forgot, on purpose
houses I will not build up, on purpose

Cannot see the world as it is
through filters
greed, hate wrath
whatever it is
it affects your judgment
don't brood about
try to by wise
instead of crying over failures
that happen every day
take the lesson with you

Open Collabs 2023

Salt & Sugar

Salt & Sugar (Kaerian and MZRPKLPS / Muterial Off the Rails Open Collab)

Action Pulse

PATERNITY


if you’re going down
down onto the sea
don’t leave without me


boarded up the house
threw away the keys
blown down to my knees


once we lived as a family
splendid circle of three


fifth of bourbon won’t
kill the memories
what you meant to me


memory of a family
partner, kiddo and me:
rocky beach and light house beam
counting rabbits in sunset dream


once we lived as a family
splendid circle of three


if you’re going down
down into the mud
don’t leave without me

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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright and David Weiss for early listening 
and encouragement.

Paternity

Cast of Characters:
cgmaness-- @user-419254289-15129531 –- Chris-- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums, composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)-- @josh-clary-1: – piano, lap slide
                                       
 This song began by Chris writing it with his acoustic guitar at the beginning of last summer. He passed it along to me, who added the piano and slide parts. Then Chris got it back and added the rhythm section of bass and drums, along with some electric accents. It's been a few months since we've released a collaboration together, not by choice, but because of our busy lives. We have been working on this one for about half a year, trying to add and cut other elements into it. We ended up deciding to put out a simpler version, which is what you hear here. It's been a long time coming, and is our final offering of 2023. It's been a great year of sharing music with all of you out there in SoundCloud land. I appreciate all of your ears, support, and sharing of your talents. We hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed making it. Happy new year 2024!
P.s. Everyone should check out Chris's slightly different version on his page. It features him singing, and is a very cool treat indeed! Chris is in my top three creators on the whole Cloud. If you're not familiar with him, do yourself a favor and check out what he has on offer.

Between Stations (with cgmaness)

Written Performed And Recorded By DMc.Music November 2023.

Shake That Thing (Lyrics)

Do The Shuffle Do The Twist
Foxy Lady Ooh I Can't Resist
Do The Shimmy Do The Slide
Move In Closer Take Me for A Ride
When You Shake That Thing
You Make This Poor Boy Sing
Come On Come On

Do The Monkey The Mashed Potato
Jump Back Jack See You Later Alligator
Do the Boogie Do The Stroll
Listen Baby It's Time To Rock And Roll
When You Shake That Thing
You Make This Poor Boy Sing
Come On Come On

When The Sun Goes Down
And The Lights Go Out
Now You Belong To Me
Are You Ready To Twist
Are You Ready To Shout
Shake It Up Baby
Come On And Satisfy Me
Come On And Satisfy Me

Do The Shuffle Do The Twist
Foxy Lady Ooh I Can't Resist
Do The Boogie Do The Stroll
Shake It Baby It's Time To Rock And Roll
When You Shake That Thing
You Make This Poor Boy Sing
Come On Come On
When You Shake That Thing
You Make This Poor Boy Sing
Come On Come On

All Lyrics Written By DMc.Music @Copyright2023

Shake That Thing (Brand New Track)

Quando il primo giorno
Lei entra in classe
Io vado fuori asse
Io vado fuori asse
Lei si siede tre file davanti alla mia
Io vado fuori asse
Io vado fuori asse

Perché lei
Non cammina
Ma sospende in aria l'esistenza sua
Non respira
Trasporta vento in questo mondo in cui
È così difficile parlarsi al giorno d'oggi sai
Per paura di guardarsi troppo in fondo
Agli occhi
Agli occhi

Perché lei
Non cammina
Ma sospende in aria l'esistenza sua
Non respira
Trasporta vento in questo mondo in cui
È così difficile parlarsi al giorno d'oggi sai
Per paura di guardarsi troppo in fondo
Agli occhi
Negli occhi

Gennaio

Piano piece, imagining life in the big city. Inspired by taking a recent trip to New York. I think of this loosely as a three part theme and variations. The middle section is inspired by Rachmaninoff's Moments Musicaux No. 1. There is much exploration of the harmonic major scale, as well as major and whole tone elements.

Metropolitan Reverie

#RNDOriginal #rednemesisdog :- ‘Original’ musical evolutions and experiments using a Polyend Tracker and/or Polyend Mini. With samples from: #teenageengineering #polyend #ep1320 #polyendtracker #akaimpkmini #stylophone #hawaiiangosling #polyendmini The Lift Music Series are usually palindromic and can be played forwards or backwards – up or down. Much of the time I find myself wanting both order and chaos in the music.

Bright Town

Rich, pampered girl from Abilene, Texas meets a trail-worn cowboy with a checkered past, and they head north to avoid her family's scrutiny. It's a doomed relationship from the start, of course, and only lasts until the snow breaks.  Abilene comes calling - she heads back home, and the cowboy does what all cowboys in trouble do (at least in the songs I listen to) - he splits for the border.  True story?  Maybe...
 
The timeline in the song is a little convoluted - begins in the middle and then back to the start, then to the end and back to the middle etc.,..   But you old cowhands will figure it out.

Female voices are Julia Avery and Madison Carr.
 
And the winter would pass......

When Abilene Calls

Thank you for visiting and listening. I appreciate your comments and messages. Please feel free to say hello! - Steve
General life - info / bio - - -
I began my musical education with listening as an infant and at the age of 7, in 1958, composed my first piece of music which was a brass quartet.

Early influences were guided by the musical taste of my Mother which was often Tchaikovsky and other romantic composers, with an occasional diversion to Big Band and pop music of the late 40's and early 50's.

The Boys Club Band, Grade School Choir and High School Band were a great education in basic orchestration and harmony and in the mid 60's, and self taught as a guitarist, I began live performance, which lasted until 1999.

Music and technology have always been my main interests and as those two elements continued to merge through the late 90's to the present, they have led me to the point where I now can successfully realize my earliest childhood dreams of musical expression in composing for full orchestra.

Special thanks to Mom for the great listening experience, brother Greg for the continued guidance in music from a formal perspective, and brother Lew for the technological expertise.

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Steve Karl