Acoustic Prog Punk. Energetic acoustic songs melding steel and nylon guitars with percussion and sometimes augmented with synth & sampled noodling. A bit different in character; a simple yet full uptempo sound with piquant lyrics.

OtherPeoplesChildren

Lliam Greguez:  Vocals, Steel & 12 String guitars, Lyrics, music, DAT recordings, sampling & computer manipulations, production & engineering.  Drawing by Aaron SpaceJam

Acoustic Homemade

Summer of '17 Assorted SC Greats

Cloud Occlusion - 24

A little over 1 week ago Laser Beam challenged me to write a happy song or happy love song, and I've never been able to manage a happy song without it being total shit, so I really thought about what actually made me happy right now, and it was my buddies here on Soundcloud. I have never felt so much love coming to me virtually or otherwise in a long time, so I thought I'd write a song with all (or at least as many as possible) people I've connected with through SC. I managed 56 around which I've tried to make a story for this song.
There are many more, but including everyone would mean a book, not a song. I AM grateful to everyone though, for all their support and love. So this This IS A lalaLOVE song for you.
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This track is part of the 'Hear I Am' 4 track EP available here:
http://lolademo.bandcamp.com/album/here-i-am

YOu can buy this track here:http://lolademo.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-a-lalalove-song
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This IS a Love Song
(C) 2014 Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved
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Like a LASERBEAM shining into me
Can't tell you just how happy it's making me
I've got a HEADCHARGE Triple 7 heaven
Floating on a cloud with AN DI YI
Life can be heavy and it's some kind of WEIGHTY TREE
Now with my SPLINTERED FINGER I call on GLUTTONY
Kill who you want but don't you KILLWHITY
Oh life is SWEET, sweet like MELI

Chorus:
I lalaLove You

With a DYSLEXIC SOUL I turn on FRENCH RADIO
IT burns ASLOWFIRE through to the ABSTRACT DAWN
I drive too fast sometimes WHEELRIGHT and left
TRAVELLING WAVE high low with CAPTAIN LEST
Through ATLAS CEDAR it's a WONDERTRACK
SOFIA's magic forest yeah I'm never turning back
I'm DONEOFIT this FUCKED UP GENERATION
MSBESSIE she's ok
Love didn't kill her today

Chorus

SHOOT THE WENDY BIRD she gives me VERTI GO
THE COMA DOLLS on my mantel say it's time to go
FLOXYDE your peroxide blonde you know ROSES ARE BLUE
Tell Mr. TAYLOR I've got love and I've got it for you too
Take an EXCURSION into ECHO COSMIC
THE FISHERMAN threw in his line and now he's pulling on you
Ooh Ooh
Before we SCREATCH to a halt

Chorus

There's a MAN ON THE GRILL with a MELODY HEAD
He has a SU DA NYM they call him PSYCHOSPAIN
Don't STONE THE CROWS for their MOUNTAIN SONGS
It's only EVOLWEEVOL bringing on the storm
ABANDON THE INSIDE and BLANK AWAY
Today is not the last there's another on it's way
Life isn't like chocolate it's an INCONSISTENT JUKEBOX
No matter how much WHOLE WHEAT you eat
You can never get too much
ANDA and JOHN DONALD
JULIE and CHIARA
ESBEN HANSEN get out your YAGAS
PSYCHEEVIL in the stream will he find his way to GUIVILLE
It's a raging river
A push up a steep hill

Chorus:

Oh I love love love you
Yeah on yeah
I love love love you
Ash Wednesday
I love love love you
Yes I mean you MIDI PUNK
ALESSANDRO
it's A BEATING ROSE
You know that don't you LIAM?
It's love
Love
Love
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Here are the names and links to everyone mentioned in the song:
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An Di Yi
https://soundcloud.com/andiyi
Ash Wednesday
https://soundcloud.com/ashwednesday
Killwhity
https://soundcloud.com/kevin-petersen-3
MsBessieBell
https://soundcloud.com/msbessiebell
The Weighty Tree
https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree
The Screatch
https://soundcloud.com/bobby-brady
Echo Cosmic
https://soundcloud.com/chris-pendergraft
Midi Punk
https://soundcloud.com/midipunk
Man On The Grill
https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill
Liam J Boyle 
https://soundcloud.com/liamjboyle
laser beam
https://soundcloud.com/laser-beam-2
French Radio
https://soundcloud.com/french-radio
Steph Sweet
https://soundcloud.com/steph-sweet
Tante Meli
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli
Abstract Dawn
https://soundcloud.com/abstract-dawn
Dyslexic Soul
https://soundcloud.com/dyslexic-soul
Splintered Finger
https://soundcloud.com/fraudstein
Michael Gluttony
https://soundcloud.com/michael-gluttony
Psycho Spain
https://soundcloud.com/jose-manuel-melero-rodriguez
AsLowFire
https://soundcloud.com/aslowfire
Wheelwright
https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Travelling Wave
https://soundcloud.com/travelling-wave
Captain Lest
https://soundcloud.com/captainlest
Atlascedar
https://soundcloud.com/atlascedar
Wondertrack
https://soundcloud.com/wondertrack
Sofia Deville
https://soundcloud.com/sofiabenedicta
Doneofits
https://soundcloud.com/thedoneofits
Fucked up generation
https://soundcloud.com/f-ed-up-generation
Shoot The Wendy Bird
https://soundcloud.com/shoot-the-wendy-bird
Verti go
https://soundcloud.com/verti_go
Coma Dolls
https://soundcloud.com/comadolls
Floxyde
https://soundcloud.com/floxyde
Roses Are Blue (Rose has since got a new page. See link below)
https://soundcloud.com/bluecherrykiss
Kelvyn Taylor
https://soundcloud.com/kelvynt
Excursion
https://soundcloud.com/excursio-n
Evolweevol
https://soundcloud.com/evolweevol
The Fisherman
https://soundcloud.com/the-fisherman
Melody Head
https://soundcloud.com/melodyhead-1
Su Da Nym
https://soundcloud.com/su-da-nym
Stone the Crows
https://soundcloud.com/stonethecrows
Mountain Songs
https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs
Yaga Yagas
https://soundcloud.com/the-yaga-yagas
Abandon the Inside
https://soundcloud.com/jo-hennes-1
The Blank Aways
https://soundcloud.com/the-blank-aways
The Inconsistent Jukebox
https://soundcloud.com/barry_snaith
Whole Wheat
https://soundcloud.com/whole-wheat
Anda Volley
https://soundcloud.com/anda-volley
John Donald
https://soundcloud.com/johndonald19
Julie Elpick
https://soundcloud.com/joolselphick
Chiara Gala
https://soundcloud.com/chiara-gala
Psycheevil
https://soundcloud.com/psycheevil
Guiville
https://soundcloud.com/guiville
The Beating Rose
https://soundcloud.com/thebeatingrose
Alessandro Priarone
https://soundcloud.com/alessandro-priarone
It
https://soundcloud.com/samantha-hubbs

This IS A lalaLove Song (Lyrics - Please read descrip and visit my SC buddies)

Another Star in the Sky by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars, keys, synths, percussion
Dave: Plank, drums
Lucy: cello

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.
Stratocaster solos recorded by Dan Davies.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Another Star in the Sky is dedicated to George’s father, who passed away around the time of its creation.
* He never heard it.
* In the evening of the day when Mr Davies senior died, the sky was cloudy and only one star could be seen.
* Another Star in the Sky was almost named Another Scar in the Sty due to an outburst of mispronunciation.
* This would have been appropriate in some ways, because George (bass) and Dave (drums) were playing in a kick-ass folk band called Pyg at the same time.
* Pyg’s live performances could be a bit hit-or-miss, due to some of the dynamics within the band.
= Some of Pyg’s songs can be heard in the Archives section of the Wud Records website.
* Another Star in the Sky is based around the acoustic guitar part.
* It is in 6/8 time at a sedate 75 BPM.
* The key is G# minor, and it ends on a B major.
* Lucy’s cello copies the acoustic’s melody.
* George’s son Dan helped with the recording of the Stratocaster solos.
* Dan took up playing guitar that day and has now become a fabulous and accomplised player.
* No real horn players could be found at the time, so those parts were played using MIDI.
* The horn parts are actually quite amusing and rather scrappy.
* One of the guitar parts was made by setting the old Marshall to the most horrible sound possible, with maximum overdrive, presence and treble, and no mid or bass.
* The idea for this came from a track by Tindersticks, called Vertrauen II, from their second album.
* Dave was wincing as if to say “This just isn’t gonna work!”
* The part was dropped back in the mix and treated to a little reverb and it was “just right”.
* The idea for the simple yet distinct piano came from a piece George used to play on piano as a boy of about nine.
* It was from Forest Fantasies by Walter Carroll.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/another-star-in-the-sky

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/another-star-in-the-sky
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/pyg-2/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Another Star in the Sky

Flicker: Another Star in the Sky

Taylor guitar recorded in a round castle tower. Samples from the mountain, including the Barred Owl. Hope and Janice added backgrounds to the bass and perc. Can't wait to go back and sit in that knarly pine.
Also on track:  Vanessa Walters: Dümbek,  Dave Edwards: bass
Hope Johnson:vocals,  Janice Marie Johnson:vocals
Birds of the woods

I cannot speak my mind is tied
With thoughts and dreams and hopes untried.
From a gnarly pine on a mountain high
Nothin out there but countryside

My dream would be to go where I will, 
To walk where I want, to try any hill.
But fences keep me sitting still
It's mine, stay away, the voice is shrill

What I say would be half a truth,
Too many parts, too aloof.
There's me and them and us and you,
But the shields are up, there's no getting through.

Nobody knows the culture we missed
We traded for things with lies and tricks.
When we could have been learning this lands' ways
We thought we knew it all so we walk in a haze.

Lliam - Countryside

OPC is 
Lliam Steel string, voc, Malcolm - Nylon string, voc, 
John - Bass, Beva - percussion
Recorded live to 2-track

It makes no sense trying to balance my head
The heart runs cold, the mind has lost control
	Hunger, reaching out beyond reach
	Frustration is all that's left to eat
Makes a whole lot of difference and no difference at all
When you're reaching for the high place, and all you do is fall

Is this a joke or a curse gone wild
In truth no hope, dreams that pass in a while
	Hunger, reaching out beyond reach
	Frustration is all that's left to eat
Sucked on in and left without
Time to take the plunge, or stumble on in doubt

You alone are left and it's either or or
Big deal, does it matter at all
	Hunger, reaching out beyond reach
	Frustration is all that's left to eat
Desires and perceptions got me tangled up inside
I've gone through the gamut, is there one place left to hide?

OPC - Hunger

OPC is 
Lliam Steel string, voc, Malcolm - Nylon string, voc, 
John - Bass, Beva - percussion
Recorded live to 2-track

The waters of Long Island Sound  were home and life to me
I'd fish on gentle buoyant swells rake oyster from the sea
clams I'd dig from the muddy shore    where kingfishers were angling
A seaweed coast on the Island of Shells   called Seawahakie.

And you can see the sun sparkle on the water
waters that give life to everything around
The marsh lands and bays are a heritage that nurtures
the deep quiet waters of the Long Island sound.

This arm of the Atlantic Ocean  glaciers dug 20 miles wide
The Quinipiac, Connecticut, and  Housatonic  flow into its tides
From the river called East to Orient Point;  110 as the seagull flies
For 5,000 years   cared for by the Lenape.

Now the harbors are becoming    lifeless liquid poison
Our wastes breed bacteria    which suck up the oxygen
Toxics dumped by industry or plastic dropped by one person
It's a life supporting body    or a dead sea question

My life is filled with gull cries and   a constant muffled pounding swoosh
Music that is passed by    in a modern rush and push
Don't forget how we're dependent  on the health of plants and fish
If we take care of the waters    rejoicing in its gifts.

OPC - Deep Quiet Waters / Two Headed Calf

Rock ballad styled after glam rock and psychedelic ballads

Satellite Head, Pt. 1

Malcolm on nylon & Lliam on steel string Acoustics, Beva on Perc . 
Written by Malcolm Lucard
Recorded by Mike Grace

In a beatup barrio of bricks & linoleum down by the locked up water 
Dirty Eddie & the coffee brewing of a young unwed daughter 
The police & the drug lords of Panama City were snoring 
When nana heard the helicopters, tanks & troops scream by the door 
As the first explosions of dawn caught fire on the roof 
She ran to the window but the word she heard were foreign 
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori 

Bullets bolted the doors on the poor peoples part of town 
Beat out to the streets by flames where they were instantly run down 
Joan of Arc would’ve been proud to see them jump from the second story 
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori 
Sweet & noble it is to die for your country 
but the first strike attack is always meaningless oratory 
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori 
Yea ya think you’re really brave, you’re a soldier & a fighter 
I’ve seen bombs make your M16s seem like a cigarette lighter 

In Medellín they missed the general, but they killed 300 more 
Innocents where the bus to kingdom come sometimes pulls out without warning 
So up and coming coke addicts could maintain their sick euphoria 
The button pressed a nation of hope began to rise 
screaming ramparts anthems of addiction soared across the sky 
South America shuddered as the rain started falling 
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori 
Sweet & noble it is to die for your country 
But there’s no time for honor in this upped up allegory 
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori

OPC - Dulce Et Decorum Est

Free To Download!

Massive thanks to Kyle!

https://soundcloud.com/kyle-egret

Nothing To Lose (feat. Kyle Egret)

Watch the video at
  https://youtu.be/rTsye_1p3s8
This track was included in Jul's Progkast Episode 9, September 2016, 
on SoundCloud at
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-9
as well as iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Player FM
and broadcast on Undiscovered Rock Radio, October 2016
  http://undiscoveredrockradio.com/

December 2016: Jul's Progkast - 12 - Top Ten 2016
 - in at number 10 in the top ten songs played on Jul's Progkast in 2016 as voted by listeners.
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-12-top-ten-2016
and played on Undiscovered Rock Radio December 2016.

Played on Prog Rock Nation, KTAL 101.5FM, July 2018.

Played on Eclectic Storm Radio 12th December 2018
  https://youtu.be/E7m37nhrhCs

Mixing up the drums, adding electric guitar for lead. With children voices and keyboard on top of the Acoustic. One of my do everything constructs.

Where do they get it from?  They get it from us.
Why do they do these things?  They learn them from us.
How do the children know  how to hate, who to hate?
They're watching us.
How do the children know  how to love, who to love?
They're watching us.
They're watching, and waiting,
and wondering, and wanting.
How do the children know, They're learning from us.

Other People's Children

Children Know

Lliam - Children Know

Inspired by the results of using vocal clips on Air, Icons continued in the same vein. A house/trance mashup with gratuitos use of sine falls and a synthesised ‘bye’, it concludes with a melancholic, repetitive synth that reminds us of Soft Cell and laments the recent [at the time] loss of two icons; Bowie and Prince.

Revelation

Icons

Insight from MoNH, and Bronx zoo.
A steel string, nylon string, synthesizer and some percussion celebrating one of the most magnificent animals on earth. Band called Other Peoples Children.

Elephants; they eat plants.  It makes no sense why we can't advance.
Beyond the greed that dooms them, we should leave some room for the elephants.

Waterhole's a must.  When the water's all gone; dig with those tusks.  
Bring the water on.  Lots of creatures of the land depending on the elephant.

Elephants in a family.   Tusks are for defense, not for mans' vanity.  
Every piece of ivory that you buy pulls their teeth, makes em die!   

Elephants, walk on tipytoe Gentle and magnificent, mighty when they bellow.
Silently they go their way  listening for friends far away.

Face of joviality, cheeks you wannna hug. Each such personality, stifled without love.  
Here's a creature who's mighty glad for a place like earth to stomp its pad.

Other Peopl's Children

Elephants

OPC - Elephants

Two acoustic guitars, some synth doodling and a bit of percussion.

THAT 'SOUND SUCKS ALL THE FUN OUT OF WAKING' 
That sound; solemn and desperate.  
The determination of man; relentlessly stubborn.   
Call it the waves crashing or the pitiless sand.

You get what you want and it's nothing at all.  
Still you find yourself waiting all over again.   
If there's nothing worth waking for there's nothing at all.

Took too long today, took too long these past ten years.  
Not  that we're in any hurry, just should have been there already.  
Fucked up makes fucked up if you are or if you're not.

You get to the point where the influx of things that go right 
have got to pile up good   before there's a turn of the tide. 
Wanting the hope real of immunity other than death.

Other Peoples Children

That Sound

OPC - That Sound

Acoustic guitar, Upright Bass &  various Samples.  Percussion is actual rhythms of a stream dripping. Harmonies are Matt Turk

Amazingly they did ban cars from the park in June 2018

Got to keep the cars out of Central Park 
Cause life can't breathe fumes.
Got to stop relying on fuels that exhaust
And you can't start too soon.

I would rather breathe  Gas from leaves
Than fumes of cars, incinerators and factories

Outside my window; blowing horns, burning gas.
Inside my window; plug your ears and wear a mask.

Lliam - Park Road Blues

Special thanks to Fat Pockets for the great track work. Very fun project we're proud to be a part of. Check out more of Fat's music here:
https://soundcloud.com/fatpockets

Bugaboo (Fat Pockets and Skiprope Opus Collab)

This track is inspired by 70s funk and disco, merged with modern electronica. I am not quite sure what tags would do it the most justice. Suggestions are welcome!

Dark Beach

Electronic Dance Composition

Inspired by funk bassline and House groove

City Of Empires

Lliam - Steel string acoustic
John Asrelsky: bass,     Carol Thomas: vocals  
Pepito Pareja : Chirango,     Malcom Howard: Banjo  
Barred Owl of the mountians

Soft as sunshine on the outside,
Resilient, strong within.
You're the warmth that makes it alright,
You're delight is my heaven.

	Joy when we're together

With life you are connected,
You feel earths' pulse and beat.
Neither of us perfect,
but with you I am complete.

Joy Together

Bandcamp

Lliam - Joy Together

Lliam Greguez is a macro ice photographer who captures freezing moments of a mountain stream and a creative arts therapist who, before C-19, used music to engage chronically ill children in five hospitals around New York City.

He also unlooses his experimental tendencies with five albums - a pair of Acoustic, a pair of Electric, and one Ambient. 

The acoustics are: Other People’s Children in English and La Yola in Spanish, the latter written by Dominican artist Luis Días. Each showcase uptempo acoustic music that could be labeled anti-pop with a unique essence accompanied by deliberative lyrics.

Then the two rock albums also contain one by Luis Días and one by the trio "Any of Several Weasels" reveling in the electric guitar sound. Luis' album is driven by Caribbean rhythms, while AoSW fuses punk and progressive.

Meanwhile, the "Look of Utter Disbelief" explores synth, sampling, and guitar improvisations.

Be sure to check out Lliam's website for a taste of his ice photography and stories from working with hospitalized children.

OPC - Hunger

Swivelable