This track is featured in my newest compilation mix: NRG Never Dies 8, which is now available to stream right here on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/zee-dj/nrg-never-dies-8

85000ft (DJZee Mix)

"Blackbird," a timeless song by The Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"), was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Performed as a solo piece by McCartney, the song draws inspiration from the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and the civil rights movement in the Southern United States. This heartfelt arrangement for classical guitar, authored and performed solo by João Campos, captures the song’s delicate beauty and poignant message. Created for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 25th of April, this rendition showcases intricate guitar work, offering a fresh yet respectful take on a beloved classic.

Blackbird -  Paul McCartney

out on bandcamp and streaming platforms!

clarinet solo by @blackbirdmusics

artwork by naovel

Desires ❍

Written / Performed by @blckbrds
Produced by CJack (FKA @sectunit)
Engineered by @tumaggz

SNAKES AND LADDERS

Written / Performed by @blckbrds
Produced by @veinnnn
Engineered by @tumaggz

GOD I$ WHATEVER I WANT

Written / Performed by @blckbrds
Produced by Scottzilla
Engineered by @tumaggz

VALUE MEAL

Written / Performed by @blckbrds and @tumaggz
Produced by @veinnnn
Engineered by Tumaggz

IMMOLATION DANCE (w/ Tumaggz)

SHATTERED BROW OF OZYMANDIAS

Written / Performed by @blckbrds
Produced by Aragoth
Engineered by @tumaggz

ST. PETER'S BASILICA

Blackbird

I

Blackbird cackling in the courtyard,
Wisteria growing all twisted against the wall,
My true companions for the past two weeks –
Memories, that’s all.
You want me to take you back
Like a shark attack,
No baby, I don’t need another chance
To suffer and rise again.
I don’t intend to take any advice
That sets me up for sacrifice,
Somebody else can save your world.
Went walking in hell by the fiery sea,
Met some people a lot like me,
They’re still there with people like you.
Can’t think of anything I’d rather do
Than forget everything you put me through.

II

Mamma would you send me
Some of that Baton Rouge coffee.
No one out here ever makes it that strong.
I want to wake up and face the day clearly,
Been half asleep for way to long.
He wants me to take him back
Like a shark attack,
Oh no Mamma, I don’t need another chance
To suffer and rise again.
I don’t intend to take any advice
That sets me up for sacrifice.
Somebody else can save the world.
I went walking in hell by the fiery sea,
Met some people looked a lot like me,
That ever happen to you?
There must be something you’d rather do
Than talk about the things
I’ve just been through.
Blackbird singing in the courtyard.
Wisteria — blooming — against the wall.
Blackbird singing in the courtyard.
Wisteria blooming against the wall — Blackbird.

Three Pawn Shops

Blackbird

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Blackbird (feat. Terry Martin)

Recorded at the legendary Blackbird Studio (Nashville, TN)

LYRICS:

VERSE 1
We're all searching to be free
But we always disagree
Every open door ain't always what it seems
Superficial things we see
Are the farthest from our needs
While our comforts tend to keep us from our dreams

PRECHORUS
Are we ever gonna wake up?
Find out what was meant to shake us?
Be filled with wonder just to take us above?

CHORUS
We replace our communion with content
Our distractions keep us missing the present
Got so much to prove
Can't seem to get through
Know that lifelines always have two ends

VERSE 2
Our affections sold as likes
While distractions have us tied
And our hearts deceive and slowly drift apart
All these stretch marks on our pride
While our egos override
We’ve forgotten how to love and rectify

PRECHORUS
Are we ever gonna wake up?
Find out what was meant to shake us?
Be filled with wonder just to take us above?

CHORUS
We replace our communion with content
Our distractions keep us missing the present
Got so much to prove
Can't seem to get through
Know that lifelines always have two ends

INSTRUMENTAL

REFRAIN:
What's holding on / to the other end?
What do we find / on the other end?

Produced by Aaron Hayes & Jae Jin
Sound Engineers: Cade Gallagher, Aaron Hayes, & Jae Jin
Assistant Engineers: Jericco Vera & Darren Halik
Musicians: Aaron Hayes, Laud Vaught, Jennifer Jeon, Khoa Le, & Jae Jin

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Lifelines Always Have Two Ends

Nearby the Blackbird (2025)

This work grew out of a curiosity and interest in going visiting and travelling sonically alongside blackbirds. It was created with a series of early morning field recordings made during a two-week stay in Graz, Austria in 2024.

The title draws inspiration from the documentary filmmaker and feminist theorist, Trinh Minh-ha’s concept of “speaking nearby,” which embraces a mode of relationality that listens and responds, not by speaking "about" the other, but by sounding "with" them in sonic proximity.
This work invites listeners into a reflective space, as it explores the complex (im)possibilities and (mis)understandings that emerge when sounding nearby another voice; in this case the voices of blackbirds.

See related research: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3569959/3569960

Nearby the Blackbird

UNsere Version des Songs „Blackbird” von den Beatles - Live aus dem Gemeindezentrum St. Marien Grasdorf am 7.9.2025

Blackbird ( Beatles ) - Live aus dem Gemeindezentrum St. Marien Grasdorf am 7.9.2025

Please visit www.themusicofalexthode.com for more information.

Repertoire:
"Feathers" — Poppy Ackroyd
"A Night on Bald Mountain" — Modest Mussorgsky
"The Bird and the Worm" — The Used
"Piano Concerto No. 2: Mvt. II" — Dmitri Shostakovich
"The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" — Paul Dukas
"Blackbird" — The Beatles

Percussion by Scott Taylor
Sound design by Michael Spooner

Commissioned by the Katy High School Marching Band (Katy, TX)

In the Company of Crows

Bandcamp: https://blackbirdsamuelwright.bandcamp.com/album/those-who-give

Bpm180

Lyrics:
Verse 1
One step closer
Feels just like you’ve known that 
This is how it has to end

Cold emotions
Feels like you control me
And I’m who’s suffering 

Feel the world on my neck
I want you to let me go

Chorus:

We’re all we’ve always been
A Sacrificial gift

The joy of offering
Unto you’re ugly self

Verse 2:

One step closer
Feels just like you’ve known that 
This is how it has to end

Feel the world on my neck
I want you to let me go

Chorus:

We’re all we’ve always been
A Sacrificial gift

The joy of offering
Unto you’re ugly self

We’re all we’ve always been
A Sacrificial gift

The joy of offering
Unto you’re ugly self

【Synth V Natalie】Those Who Give【Synthesizer V Metal Original】

late night longings, saudades demais- recorded among dreamless nights and the moon's pale light  

Black Bird- The Beatles (Cover by 4FTER DAWN)

written / performed by @99zedxo, @blckbrds
prod 99zed and Zepelin
Engineered by 99zed

99zed x Blckbrd - DOOMCLOCK

"Forever Shining"

In 1976 brothers Tony and Chip Kinman founded the legendary Carlsbad punk band The Dills, who in just four short years crammed their music CV with highlights. Before they disbanded in 1980, The Dils had recorded classics like "Class War" and Mr. Big" opened for the Clash and appeared in Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke. The Kinmans went on to form Rank and File, who are considered by many to be one of the first cowpunk bands around. Rank and FIle's rootsy stomp and melodic muscle powered them through three perfect albums--Sundown, Long Gone Dead and their self-titled 19897 swansong. The Kinmans had an uncanny ability to read the cultural room before anyone else--they were hardcore before it hit the suburbs and they were cowpunk before it was cool and with their next band Blackbird, they were techno metal before Korn and Linkin Park shirts at Hot Topic. The Kinmans went on to play in bands like Cowboy Nation and Ford Madox Ford and sadly, Tony Kinman died in 2018. Which brings us to KInman's self-titled Kinman's new album. A stirring song cycle filled with acoustic numbers, Tex-Mex techno, the undulating rhythms and "Me And Tony" a streetwise tribute to a life in music with his brother, Kinman's new record sounds like nobody else. It's filled with unexpected sonic flourishes, heartfelt emotional ruminations, great storytelling and devastating beauty. It's bold and brilliant work. 

https://intheredrecords.com/collections/chip-kinman/products/chip-kinman-s-t-lp

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Stereo Embers The Podcast 0471: Chip Kinman (The Dils, Rank and File, Blackbird)

Tribute to The Beatles' beautiful track from 1968 - The White Album.  Thanks to Neil Candelora for his incredible guitar and foot tapping.  Check him out on YouTube.

Blackbird  - Beatles Cover (ft. Neil Candelora)

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Hello listener -  I am singing and writing my way through intense grief.  I record everything myself in GarageBand: singing every harmony, playing acoustic rhythm guitar, V-Drums, and percussion. I use outside stem tracks wherever I want extra instrumentation. This is a true DIY process — heartfelt, handmade, and on a shoestring budget — but I’m learning and improving with every track.  I've been going through intensive mixing and mastering training so that I can get all my songs out of DEMO mode.

My signature sound is acoustic-driven songs with a 3-4 octave range layered with rich three- and four-part harmonies. I move between genres depending on the mood of each song, but I always stay true to what feels honest. I’m a throwback rocker-hippie soul who writes straight from the heart — vulnerable, real, and unfiltered.

I spent years performing covers in Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area, covering artists from rock, jazz, pop, funk and metal. After a long break to focus on family, life brought me to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Surrounded by forest, ocean, and the distant silhouette of Vancouver Island, I found a peace I had never known. I bought myself a Johnny Cash Martin guitar and started recording covers that helped me heal.

That process reopened a creative door I thought had closed. My poetry and life stories turned into songs, and over the next year and a half I wrote what became my first 30 songs.

When I perform live, I use a Roland Cube EX amp, my Johnny Cash Martin guitar, a Shure mic and in-ears, and a MacBook Pro running through a Scarlett Solo for my backing tracks. Technology is what makes this OneWomanBand journey possible, and I’m deeply grateful for it.

To Erika, Rachel, Brooklynn, Rylie, and Lukas — you are forever in my heart. This music is the legacy of love I leave for you. I used to sing silly songs with you every chance I got. Since losing you in 2019, writing and performing is how I manage that loss. I will never stop hoping to see you again.

Thanks for listening.
Peace. 🌿

Eric Dahl is a songwriter with ties to the state of Washington on both sides of the Cascade mountains. He was born in Colville in the northeastern corner of the state. His father was a teacher from Spokane who soon moved with his family to western Washington. Dahl’s mother is a native of Leavenworth with relatives in the Wenatchee Valley. Eric grew up in Kent and south Seattle, but thanks to his maternal grandfather and uncles, he worked in the Leavenworth fruit orchards and hiked from an early age in the Cascade Mountains to the high lakes. Later he studied and published poetry at Whitman College in Walla Walla, the University of Washington in Seattle, and at Oxford University where he was awarded the Isis Poetry Prize.

somewhere between the sand, sea, and stars — when the storm clears
this is 4FTER DAWN

O programa "Ambientes" que apresento sugere reviver o espírito de variados géneros da música, espanhola dos finais do séc. XIX, baladas sul-americanas, temas tradicionais Ingleses, melodias francesas, passando por temas dos anos 60 e 70 até à suave evocação das Valsas Brasileiras, Chôros, dos temas de Jazz e Bossa Nova e toda a sorte de peças do repertório da Guitarra Clássica bem como várias transcrições e arranjos. A interpretação dos temas apresenta-se com uma concepção instrumental erudita que cultiva o som quente e elegante que caracteriza a sonoridade da Guitarra Clássica, instrumento no qual realizei estudos superiores na vertente da performance musical.

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The "Ambientes" program I present suggests reviving the spirit of varied genres of music, that goes from the late XIX century Spanish guitar scores, South American ballads, traditional English, French melodies, themes from the 60s and 70s, to the smooth evocation of Brazilian Waltzes, Choros, themes of Jazz and Bossa Nova and all sorts of pieces of the Classical Guitar repertoire as well as several self-made transcriptions and arrangements. The interpretation of the music is presented with a classical instrumental conception cultivating the warm and elegant sound that characterizes the classical guitar, an instrument on which I developed my higher education in the field of the musical performance.


I write songs and sing them. 
jaejinmusic.com
📧: management@jaejinmusic.com

sound lover, electroacoustic musician, pianist & artist researcher; composing, improvising and experimenting.

currently interested in response-able sympoietic sounding practices with humans and more-than-humans, including practices of material agency with instruments.

please use headphones or loudspeakers in order to reproduce all audio details.

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 

𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬/𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬/𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬  

Welcome to my world, feel free to listen & most importantly, enjoy the music!
I would also like to thank you in advanced for the likes, follows, re-posts & comments, your feedback is much appreciated.

Also, Check out my second Megamix tribute to Australia's radio station & CD compilation: "Wild FM", featuring a MASSIVE 50 plus tracks from the 90's & 2000's:

https://soundcloud.com/zee-dj/tribute-to-wild-fm-megamix-2-50-tracks

Once again, my work is dedicated to all the true loyal listeners & followers, who continue coming back to support my work & the NRG genre, thank you!!!


𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:

𝐉𝐏𝐑𝐚𝐫𝐭
𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐮
𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐲

#NRGNeverDies

Alex Thode (he/him) would first like you to know that not only is the “e” at the end of his last name not silent, but that he is also a composer and arranger most known for his work in the pageantry arts. He resides in Waukesha, Wisconsin with his cat, Buzz. An alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Alex composes and arranges for marching bands across the continental United States.

Alex's clientele have been Bands of America (BOA) Regional Champions and Finalists, UIL State Finalists and Area Champions, and WGI Winds World Champions, with Finalists in every classification. He has also had the privilege of having his arrangements performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Tournament of Roses Bandfest.

In addition to his compositions and arrangements for the pageantry arts, Alex also composes symphonic band and chamber percussion works.

In his free time, Alex enjoys watching movies and believing he’s a professional film critic, hiking and pretending that he’s athletic, traveling to National Parks — of which he’d eventually like to visit all — and acting like he’s Marco Polo, playing piano, guitar and a variety of kalimbas, and being with good company.

hey guys I am a dorm room producer who produces everything from Trap to Metal. This is were I upload my demos so most of the work here is unfinished and still being worked on.

⪢ urban scavenger ⪡

contact: flupvolta⪡at⪢gmail.com

St. Marien Klanggarten ist ein Mitmachprojekt der St. Mariengemeinde in Grasdorf bei Hannover. Jede/r Interessierte kann hier einen Song eigener Wahl unter einfachen Tonstudiobedingungen singen und aufnehmen oder per Instrument bei der Gestaltung der Musik mitwirken. Bei Liveveranstaltungen werden fertige Songs präsentiert.

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