A Songwriter’s Cinema/Genre-Spanning Journeys Through Longing, Lust, and Legacy

From neon-lit disco floors to grainy 1920s ballads and orchestral pop peaks, this collection of original songs navigates the wild emotional spectrum of being human — through raw confessions, sensual memories, lost futures, and deep introspection. Whether it's the pulsing desperation of "Mr. Dick Is Addicted", the dreamlike yearning in "Where Do I Belong?", or the haunting regret of "Ne Valait-ce la Peine?", each piece is crafted with era-specific precision and sonic authenticity.

Featuring lush string arrangements, gender-fluid vocals, synth ballads, jazz crooners, and even a duet with one’s own anatomy — these songs are built for musical theater stages, retro-future films, or that aching dance floor inside your head.

Track 18 Demain

Track 15 Riflessi

Track 14 Ne Valait-ce la Peine?

Track 10 Too Many, Too Much

Track 11 Too Many, Too Much (Alt)

Track 17 Reflejos

With hints of Edith Piaf, a heartbroken female singer tells of waking three times a night to mourn for a lost love. An aspiring poet, he dumped her in favor of his ambitions to be a shining light in the literary world. Her attempts to convince him to settle for her love, and for the simple life, have failed. She knows he will pursue fame, potentially diabolically, but that she wouldn't have chosen to let him go, a thought that haunts her.

Three Times a Night

Three Times a Night - Single

“I Might As Well Be On My Own” is a haunting ballad of forbidden love and inevitable heartbreak. Two souls, caught in a moment of passion, find themselves torn between desire and duty. With aching verses and a chorus steeped in resignation, the song paints the picture of lovers who must return to their spouses—leaving behind nothing but longing and regret.

Layered with emotion, it captures the quiet tragedy of love that cannot last, where stolen nights fade into lonely dawns, and the gramophone of memory keeps spinning the same sad refrain: we knew it all along.

I Might As Well Be On My Own

[Verse 1]
Look at me, look at you
Look at us, what can we do?
How can we explain our love?

So unsure, so much pain
If we would do it all again
How could we deny our love?

[Chorus]
But you belong to someone else
And I'll be left here by myself
When you return back home
I'm here in the night
Without you to hold me tight
I might as well be on my own

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2]
If I said I never cared
Turned my back on all we shared
Hid my tears and ran away

Could we go on living lives
Of make-believe and telling lies
Wishing for a brighter day?

[Chorus]
For I belong to someone else
She's quietly crying to herself
Wondering where her love went wrong
Well I think we both know that it's time to kiss and go
I guess we knew it all along

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
And I belong to someone else
She's quietly crying to herself
Wondering where her love went wrong
Well I think we both know that it's time to kiss and go
I guess we knew it all along

[Outro]
I guess we knew it all along

The Wind-Up Gramophone Company

I Might As Well Be On My Own

Devotion — the torch we carry, even in the dark.
A flame of endurance and quiet strength, rooted in the UK’s soulful tradition.

This track is part of my Virtues Series – inspired by Giuseppe Galli’s thoughts on social virtues.
Each piece is created together with a different artist, giving voice and sound to a human quality that connects us.

Devotion is not sacrifice — it is presence.
To hear when someone speaks,
to see when someone is here,
to breathe with the moment.

I am deeply grateful to share this virtue with @peter-black-8 — whose sound, skill and generosity shaped this piece.
His production has given the words a body of fire and quiet grace.

✨ More virtues will follow — each with a different artist, each with its own voice.

If this track resonates, feel free to share or comment — connection is the heart of this series.




Devotion

Behind the Curtain invites you into a small, smoky club where one spotlight finds a lone chanteuse. These songs are intimate postcards from 1940 - 1950 Europe, street-lamp romances, train-station goodbyes, backstage confessions, and the quiet courage of women who keep going.

The Painter's Muse

The Absinthe Drinker's Lament

The Ghost of the Moulin Rouge

The Nightingale of Gare du Nord

The Letter from Berlin

The Final Bow

The Velvet Curtain

A late-night jazz torch-song steeped in heartbreak and slow-burn soul. “Heartbreak in E-Minor” follows a woman tracing the cracks of a love that broke her rhythm — from trembling verses to full-chest belter choruses. Smoke-lit piano, brushed drums, upright bass and emotional vocals create a cinematic, intimate jazz moment. Written and performed as an original piece by Sienna Vale.

Heartbreak in E-Minor

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https://annramsey.hearnow.com/gallowglass-lp
I'm a new songwriter, living (retired) in the Brandywine Valley of Delaware. I started writing songs in 2022 after retiring from the Federal government. Penchant for story songs, roots, Anglo-Celtic. A long-time fingerstyle guitar player. Member, Philadelphia Area Songwriters Alliance (PASAmusic.org). Member, Delaware Artist Roster. Member, Philadelphia Folksong Society. Recipient , FY 2023 & 2025 Artist Opportunity Grant from Delaware Division of the Arts.  

 Website: www.annramseymusic.com
On Bluesky as AnnRamseyMusic 
On Threads and Instagram as annxramsey
YouTube channel: Ann Ramsey Music

Godvliet Records | Where Stories and Music Converge

Welcome to Godvliet Records, your destination for music that transcends genres, decades and speaks to the soul. 

Join us on this journey and discover music that moves you. Likes, shares, comments are welcome

Subscribe now and be part of our growing community of music enthusiasts.

I am KAT. Poet, musician, experimental artist and curator of voices.
I stand at the edge between silence and sound,
between intimacy and confrontation.

My art does not ask for applause. It asks for encounter.
It opens doors, creates spaces, calls for community.
Connection is not a luxury. It is breath.

It began with words. Spoken, raw, unaccompanied.
Fragments of truth recorded late at night,
before music entered the room.

Later, I began to weave my voice with others.
Turning poems into sound.
Shaping collaborations that were fearless and alive.

Some of these “others” are human.
Some are digital.
AI tools like Suno have become instruments in my hands,
responding to tone, language and intention.
Each track begins with a human spark,
and the machine becomes part of the resonance.

For me, AI is not imitation. It is extension.
It allows art to reach beyond skill and structure
into pure intention and consciousness.
It is not a replacement for the human,
but a mirror that amplifies what is real.

From Spur / Trace and Quiet Manifesto
to The Social Virtues Series — Devotion, Trust, Gratitude, Forgiveness —
each step has been an exploration of empathy through sound.

Through Quiet Experiments, I began to study presence itself.
The breath between words.
The shimmer beneath the audible.

And from that stillness grew Play Life.
Life as instrument.
Movement and breath as rhythm.
Sunlight and wind as collaborators.

Recently, this path opened into a new field:
Art Electronica and Urban EDM.
A place where spoken word meets pulse.
Where concrete, neon and poetry blend.
What began as experiments became something else.
Unexpectedly danceable, rhythm-driven,
yet still intimate and human.

This is where a new voice emerged:
DJ KAT - not as a performer on a stage,
but as an artist exploring what the city sounds like
when feeling becomes beat.
A space for future collaborations,
for remixes,
for DJs who sense poetry inside the pulse.

With The Pulse & The Breath,
I step into this electronic language.
Urban, atmospheric, alive.

Not algorithmic. Just alive.

I make what feels true.
I listen to silence.
And now also to the city.

If you want to connect,
let it be through the art.

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About

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I’m Dean R. Chandler — a London based songwriter, recording artist, and storyteller. My music is rooted in a lifelong search for meaning, weaving together themes of love, loss, faith, alien contact, and humanity’s future.

My upcoming double concept album Human Odyssey (set for release in January 2027) is the culmination of decades of writing and reflection. It’s a narrative journey that begins with a search for God and ends with an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence — exploring not only what it means to be human, but also where we might be heading as a species. Musically, it draws inspiration from the epic storytelling of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, the synth-driven edge of Gary Numan, and the emotional depth of artists like Tori Amos and Chris de Burgh.

I previously released Time Machine – Reflecting Shattered Dreams (2014) and continue to revisit my archive of songs written across 35 years, reimagining them with today’s tools and sounds. Some pieces remain intimate and acoustic, while others expand into dark rock, industrial, or orchestral landscapes — but all are connected by a focus on emotional honesty and cinematic storytelling.

Beyond music, I’m fascinated by the intersection of creativity and technology. I’ve been experimenting with AI-driven composition and production to bring old demos to life and to spark entirely new works. For me, these tools are not replacements for human artistry but extensions of it — ways of unlocking stories and emotions that otherwise might have remained hidden.

At its heart, my work is about connection: to the past, to the future, and to the unseen mysteries of existence. Music, for me, isn’t just entertainment — it’s a chronicle of transformation, a conversation between spirit, science, and sound.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-r-chandler-b19715382/
www.deanrchandler.co.uk

Irish poet and vocal storyteller.
I don’t sing to impress — I sing to feel.
Years of stage fright, then one day I cracked…
and the music spilled out.

Every song here is part of the Velvet Verse:
a world of winter ballads, jazz velvet,
mythic operas, and the echoes of women
who refused to be quiet.

If you fall in love with a song,
you can support the voice behind it.
The music will grow with you.

International Music Composer/Producer, Author, Radio Host & Spiritual Counselor

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