I'M CRYING

Composed by Swapna Abraham
Lead Vocals: Swapna Abraham & Ram Narayanaswamy
Backing Vocals: Swapna Abraham
Arrangement, Guitars, Bass & Drums: Steeve Vatz
Audio Engineering: E. S Sreejith
Recorded at SA Recording Suite, Chennai
Mixed & Mastered by Arjun B. Nair at Sonic Island Studios
Angel: Gautham Vasudev Menon

Links to complete song on official website www.swapnaabraham.com

I’m crying
My tears they lose count of time
I’m trying
To move you out of the rhyme 
Alibi the golden past perhaps I dreamed 
You and I so real it seemed 
But now you’re lying
‘Cause you were desperate for me
I’m dying when every time I disagree
But don’t you know that you have left me all alone
You’ve left me so, now I’m turning into stone

Yet don’t forget the times we shared
The times we cared the times we dared 
The times we spoke the words of love
The times we hugged and stood above 
So when you cry don’t retreat 
And when you try don’t face defeat
Don’t ever regret the small amends 
You know that still we can be friends
I’m crying

Feels odd this crack of fate 
Twenty-one years too late 
So much has changed the meter
We meet again so much sweeter 
So all the crying seemed in vain
Had to walk through all the pain
Cause to trigger someone’s song
We stayed friends all along 
I’m crying

Oh…

I'm Crying For SoundCloud

Dive into an ocean of happy emotions with 'next to you,' a sonic journey through that one surreal moment. Created in Brooklyn, 'Eternal Waves' is a testament to elle j.'s ability to blend ethereal melodies with pulsating beats. 

For fans of ambient alternative rnb sounds, this track draws inspiration from artists like Umi, Jhene Aiko, Mariah The Scientist.

If you enjoy this track, don't forget to like, comment, and share it with your friends.

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next to you - elle j.

There are different kinds of love but it is romantic love, in all its guises, that is most often represented in pop songs. 'Coolest Kind of Love' is a song about a sister's love.

Coolest Kind of Love

'Trying' is a song about a troublesome love from a long time ago. Moral of the tale? Sometimes 'trying' isn't enough.

Trying

Apply The Bells || Lyrics

There’s so many who’ll nay-say 
And then fault on their own.
When there’s nobody casing
I might just be left holdin 
the pieces that you’ve thrown in,
Keeping me from hoping
I might just be picking up these grievances and throwing

In through the spaces are the ones that keep on choking
Inside these trenches be the ones that live in smoke and
dollars they be rollin’
I can’t keep on going
I can’t keep on teaching all these lessons that aren’t mine to

Live and learn, I’d like to
Keep that heart inside you 
Where it won’t ever blind you
I’ll be right beside you
See you on the other side, I’ll try to
Just be aware it might be too late to save me.

Will you be there, when I’m fading?
Will you be there, when I lay there?
Will you be there, when I’m falling?

Will you be there when I lay there?
Will you be there when I’m fading? (x2)

Written, produced, and performed by TABLÓMOTÏF.

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Apply The Bells

chanson new country avec un influence hip-hop,  https://youtu.be/YvFS06sbuNA?si=zpJmGQkmuAHbmuA4

No place to hide -Guy Fontaine

 Empty road - Guy Fontaine , , anglais, new country,ballade, https://youtu.be/B8t8Kq21hYc?si=l2v2OY3TaOPfZBvV

Empty road-Guy Fontaine

All Life's A Song - It was always for the love of God and the love of music...
My YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW_kXmtiofwGSA8Xy0cq78A

I love music, I believe in the power of music, I consider music a great gift from God. Singing and song writing have always been my best and favourite expression. I wish that those with this gift could bless the world with it and be blessed by it, such that they don't have to waste their time, energy and passion pursuing other and insignificant things. We will die, but our songs will live after us.

I'm privileged to have completed a challenge comprising four world records of composing [music and lyrics], producing [including orchestrating, singing and recording] and publishing two songs a day for 1000 days - 1000 Songs In 1000 Days (the songs of which are posted here and the composition is recorded live on the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/swapnaabraham1000songsin1000days/) and A Children's Song A Day (the composition is recorded live on the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/achildrenssongaday/). The evidence videos are posted on the daily video page of www.1000songsin1000days.com.
In addition to this I did in similar fashion a third song everyday for 100 days/1000 (the songs of which are posted here and the composition is recorded live on the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/100-Songs-In-100-Days-In-The-Anointing-1820241008232883/), five additional songs everyday collating lyrics from the Psalms in the Bible for 40 days/1000 (the composition is recorded live on the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/7-Songs-A-Day-For-40-Days-215882779357488/) and twenty additional songs on the 999th day/1000 (the composition is recorded live on the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/21-Songs-In-One-Day-1201682846657174/).

***Kindly note that the production quality of the songs made and published through the challenge is very basic as I am not a Sound Engineer. Thank you for your kind understanding.

Héé la gang ! J'm'appelle Guy Fontaine — auteur-compositeur-interprète passionné par le new country ,tentôt en français ou parfois en anglais,avec un mélange à l'occasion de percussions Hip-Hop, un style qui mêle mes racines traditionnelles aux sonorités modernes.

Je chante ce que je vis ou je m'inspire des gens de mon entourage : des histoires vraies, des émotions brutes, des routes qu’on prend et des gens qu’on croise. Ma musique est faite pour ceux qui aiment les choses simples et vraies, les paroles qui touchent, et les refrains qu’on fredonne longtemps après.

Chaque morceau est une part de moi, entre nostalgie et renouveau. Si tu aimes le country qui parle au cœur autant qu’à l’âme, bienvenue dans mon univers.

🎸 Merci d’écouter, de partager, et de faire vivre la musique avec moi.

A triple release from Paula Wolfe, sees her work as fresh and as relevant as ever.

This summer and autumn sees a triple release from Paula Wolfe, comprising of a complete reworking of her first self-produced EP Find (Sib Records 2000), her debut album Staring (Sib Records 2003) and a remaster of her highly acclaimed second album Lemon (Sib Records 2008). 

You might well ask, why would anyone re-work their early releases? Shortly following the release of her third album ‘White Dots’ (Sib Records 2019), hailed ‘exquisite’, ‘glorious’ and ‘addictive’ (* * * * MOJO), which saw ‘The multi-hyphenate in excellent form’ (Folking.com) and compared to many of our greats (Travellers Tunes), she had her early recordings remastered with the intention that the full catalogue be re-issued before the fourth album.
However, she couldn’t access the original files. Part of that first generation of female artists who, in the late 1990s, embraced the arrival of digital recording software to find their own voices and develop their own sound, she had recorded the first two records onto disc on a digital 8 track using an early version of the software Cakewalk. Attempts to remaster from the CDs were unsuccessful, so she decided to re-record all the songs.

What then started out as a ‘straightforward’ re-recording, soon morphed into a complete reworking. Although it took far longer than envisaged, it developed into an insightful, important period of work, with Paula publishing a paper about the very creative and technical processes that have come to define her work as a self-producing singer-songwriter.

Somewhat ironically, the title track of the EP Find is actually about songwriting itself - or rather - the pull at the end of the summer to return ‘home’ to the craft. Many of the songs on those first two records, though, are stories based on her time living in Manchester in the north-west of England throughout the 1990s. An era of hardship for many, her characters often find themselves on the edges, living out their marginalisation. They also speak of her own troubled loves from that time, thus combining storytelling, a key feature of Wolfe’s later work, along with the confessional. What is striking is that these songs, based on particular events, from a particular time in a particular place, feel compellingly relevant.

An example from the EP is ‘Poolside’, a faithful account of a scene witnessed around a hotel swimming pool in Crete, where glaring inequalities are marked by two young women of a similar age, doing exactly the same thing - sunbathing - in exactly the same place but in drastically different circumstances. On one side of the pool a young female Russian sex worker is ‘selling her skin’ with a client sitting beside her ‘flicking through a porno magazine’. On the other, a young British woman is ‘reading The Times that Daddy somehow managed to find. Only 23 but she’s doing very well at the BBC’.

This sets the tone for the debut album that followed. The title track ‘Staring’ is a biting critique of the entitled sharp-elbows of the privileged, ensuring ‘a narrow-eyed determined stride past those who might be better than you’. In contrast, her depiction of the everyday lives of young people, on the other side of the track, details living out the tedium of underprivilege and poverty, drawing on her experiences at this time from her then-day job of teaching English in some of the most deprived areas of the North West.

‘Joy’ sees a disaffected joyrider trying to goad his friend into joining him on a spree, ‘what d’you mean you want something better, this is it for lads like you and me’. ‘Skinny’ presents a pale young girl ‘hanging round on the corner’, bored with her gossiping friends, living an inward life, avoiding the scary local gang and being hungry. ‘Leanne’ charts the challenges of a school day for a troubled little girl who ‘hides her head in her jumper when she’s sad’ and Oldham Street witnesses the streets, of late 1990s Manchester, turn dark and wild at chucking out time.

As dark as some of these stories are, Wolfe’s production, on the other hand is upbeat with the songs benefiting from her new string, brass and woodwind arrangements performed by a small team of local session players she recorded in her house, while she provides all the guitars, the bass (which she taught herself to play as part of the project), the synths and beats and, of course, her signature vocals.

There are songs also about love. Although romantic love, in all its guises, is most represented in pop songs, the EP includes the ‘Coolest Kind of Love’, a celebration of the love between sisters. A brighter note can be seen also on the album in ‘Wind’ where momentary blissful love is felt when watching, with her then-partner, a spectacular summer storm on a beach, feelings all the more urgent for their transitoriness, ‘you were never quite as beautiful as you are today’, she sings, ‘let me keep this feeling, just for a day.’

Having garnered widespread praise throughout her career for ‘hitting the mark on both sides of the desk’ (Fatea Magazine), this project sees Paula’s skills as composer, arranger, producer and mix engineer, in addition to those as a songwriter, musician and singer, ever evolving as a self-producing artist, demonstrating that the plaudits remain as well deserved as ever.

It’s worth noting that following those early recordings, Paula has also developed a significant side hustle as a leading academic with an international profile in music production and gender. Her award nominated book Women in the Studio (Routledge 2020), was published alongside the release of the third album and, since its publication, has become embedded in the curriculum in degree programmes worldwide, supported by guest lectures and talks from Paula at over 40 universities within the UK, Europe, Canada and the US.

This reworking project, therefore, has seen Paula developing a new area of practice research with her latest publication forming the blueprint of her new book on self-production, a practice, that she has long argued is an art form, distinct within music production, and which continues to offer creative empowerment for those artists marginalised by their gender, their colour and their class.

A singular artist and academic, Paula Wolfe continues to forge her own path, shaping the discourse that follows.

FIND (re-worked EP) OUT NOW: 'Extraordinary' 'Psychedelic' 'Beautiful'
'Poetic' 9/10 IndustryMe.com
Joy (single) OUT NOW
STARING (re-worked album) OUT NOW
LEMON (remaster) OUT 29.11.2024

TABLÓMOTÏF is a singer/artist/producer from Sydney, blending cinematic alt-pop with electronic grit and big vocals.

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