Lyrics: sTL after Eliza Cook
Music: Leto Spectra

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The worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain
In the field that is stored with its millions of slain;
The charnel-grounds widen, to me they belong,
With the vaults of the sepulchre, sculptured and strong.

Cities of splendour, where palace and gate,
Where the marble of strength and the purple of state;
Where the mart and arena, the olive and vine,
Once flourished in glory; oh! are ye not mine?

Go look for Carthage, and I shall be found
In the desolate ruin and weed-covered mound;
And the slime of my trailing discovers my home,
'Mid the pillars of Tyre and the temples of Rome.

Cities of splendour, where palace and gate,
Where the marble of strength and the purple of state;
Where the mart and arena, the olive and vine,
Once flourished in glory; oh! are ye not mine?

Daughters of earth, if I happen to meet
Your bloom-plucking fingers and sod-treading feet--
Oh! turn not away with the shriek of disgust
From the thing you must mate with in darkness and dust.

Oh! the worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain,
Where monarchs are voiceless I revel and reign;
I delve at my ease and regale where I may;
None dispute with the worm in his will or his way.

Worm's Noble Domain [A Capella E.]

Worm's Noble Domain [Electroswing E.]

Sam's troll poem from Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, the book, and The Tolkien Reader, sung by Synth V Solaria, Weina, and Kevin, based on my a capella solo of it. 

art by Pauline Baynes

The Stone Troll, words by J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't care about nothing (Remastered) (Remix) - ST

Teče voda, teče - H-dur / 444hz

Why do many Churches of Christ sing in church? In this Quick Question episode from South Main Church of Christ in New Lexington, Ohio, Tom Sheppard, who currently serves as one of three elders, attempts an answer.

Quick Question: Why do we sing in church? (Tom Sheppard)

nrec Hyperballad Master

Greetings to the SoundCloud community! Gratitude to you all for your artistry and culture of kindness. 💕 

Due to life circumstances, I've had to step back from singing, but have decided to pull this song from the vault. 

I've been sitting on this one for more than a year, held back by the usual crippling perfectionism. I've decided life's too short to waste time hiding art, when it might possibly bring joy to someone else, so here it is in its imperfect glory. All vocals sung by myself - but I take no credit for the wonderful writing and arranging - please see credits below:

This is an amazing SATB choral arrangement of "I Love You" by Billie Eilish. Credit is due to both Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell for the words and music, as well as Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh for the choral arrangement. I came across it years ago, while working with a (fabulous) high school jazz choir. I fell in love with the crunchy harmonies, but had trouble deciding what colours I wanted for the instrumental part, which is part of the reason why it's sat in the vault for so long. 

In this particular choral arrangement, the instrumentation calls for piano, but here, I split it into a digital electric bass line, and electric piano. I kind of liked the funky, ethereal sound of it, but I wasn't sure if there was something else that might sit better against the SATB vocals. I'm curious, and open to hearing suggestions for other instrumentation options. Folks who know me know that I've got some experience with singing, but I am out of my league when it comes to arranging and recording, so I know there's always room for improvement.  

In this era of auto-tune, I would encourage listeners (and myself!) to embrace the imperfection of real, un-corrected vocals. Art doesn't have to be perfect to have value... right? I hope to convince myself...  🙃

Lyrics: 

It's not true
Tell me I’ve been lied to
Crying isn't like you, ooh
What the hell did I do?
Never been the type to
Let someone see right through, ooh

Baby, won't you take it back?
Say you were trying to make me laugh
And nothing has to change today
You didn’t mean to say "I love you"
I love you and I don't want to, ooh

Up all night, on another red-eye
I wish we never learned to fly
Maybe we should just try
To tell ourselves a good lie
Didn't mean to make you cry, ooh

Baby won't you take it back?
Say you were trying to make me laugh
And nothing has to change today
You didn't mean to say "I love you"
I love you and I don't want to, ooh

The smile that you gave me
Even when you felt like dying

We fall apart as it gets dark
I'm in your arms in Central Park
There's nothing you could do or say
I can't escape the way I love you

I don't want to, but I love you
Ooh

I Love You (Billie Eilish cover - SATB choral arrangement)

[FREE]
Sample : Destiny
A capella : Boldy James Moth of Sundays
91 BPM

Sunday.

We have lost our way

Classically trained soprano Merina Dobson-Perry is a working artist and the owner of South Winnipeg Studio, a private voice instruction studio.

All are welcome at South Main Church of Christ in New Lexington, Ohio. We are located at 7 Smith St., Route 93, south of uptown New Lex., south of the tracks, top of the hill, behind the white house with the red roof.

nrec is the idm / contemporary singer song-writer incarnation of Enrico Tiberi

artistically rooted in triphop, electronic, classical and experimental music, the project explores the concept of the inner research that derives from the experience of the other self, expanding languages and at the same time summoning their ancestry, embodying the tension of connecting tribal and post modernism

I've been songwriting and composing since 1967 as an amateur in the positive sense of the term, composing on any tune that comes along in my head, a few times using clairaudience as a compositional aid.
Cockos and Spitfire have been an immense help in putting together the colors of my vision for each tune.
I was introduced to SoundCloud by a local historian's daughter who has since graduated to Spotify.

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