For my Grandma may she rest in peace

Artwork by Robert Steven Connett. Any unauthorised use is prohibited and would be considered unkind and foolish.

lyrics

Superman came and took my love away,
Took her right from me,
As we lay arms in arms,
With his charms,
Fly away to your home beyond this universe,
Keep her all safe and warm,
In your arms,
Use your charms and your power.

Don't ask me nothing that you can't answer for yourself,
Or you'll find me deep down in your hell,
Don't come round here anymore I can't stand your sound,
Or you might find me with my gun and an empty round.

Superman came and took my love away,
Took her right from me,
As we lay arms in arms,
With his charms,
Fly away to your home beyond this universe,
Keep her all safe and warm,
In your arms,
Use your charms and your power.

I will sit,
Staring at you,
Cry for a bit and then smile,
Once it's out,
I will stand up,
Then move about back through life,
What is it all about now?
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Birth & Death was an experimental exploration into improvised recording and songwriting, fuelled by red wine, one microphone and emotional events from people I knew. The most exciting part of it all, was when Robert Steven Connett, one of my Dad and mine's favourite artists, agreed to let me use his artwork for the release. People seem to enjoy the music I create, I know I do.

Also available in 12" Vinyl format here: https://elasticstage.com/jaystansfield/releases/birth-death-album

"Jay Stansfield is an amazing British singer-songwriter. Between his lyricism and composition, its hard not to love anything that he turns out. His music has a way with carrying emotion in its most poignant form. Whether its your first or fifth time listening to Jays music,  you're in for a treat. He also heads a band called ALL HAIL HYENA! Its an amazing band to rock out to on a Friday or Saturday night. --Rose Smith, Blog Editor @ TwentyTwoTwentyEight.com

Undoubtedly one of the UKs most underrated songwriters, Jay Stansfield has been at the forefront of several critically acclaimed acts over the years. - Louder Than War

Superman Thief

There is a man, some call him a creature, who preys on the weaknesses and fears of humans. He sneaks in to your home during the day when you are away and waits. He waits. He waits in the dark corners where children fear to tread and at the end of shadowy corridors where women keep away. His scrawny body covered in milky flesh is draped in soft black robes, his face absent of all emotion and his hair balding to the scalp with wispy long hairs that tickle your face as he breathes into your lungs, deep into your soul, with his icy and mournful breath merely centimetres away from you as you sleep. Some call him a myth. Some call him 'The Sadness'.

Artwork by Robert Steven Connett. Any unauthorised use is prohibited and would be considered unkind and foolish. 

lyrics

When you go to bed he will be waiting for you in the corner,
Watching as your eyes start falling to closed,

Oh they call him The Sadness,
His sorrow so deep and hollow,

Standing in the shadows he will come and kneel upon you and perform his artistry of torture in dreams,

Oh they call him The Sadness,
His sorrow so deep and hollow,

Opening your eyes you stare into the darkness of his dead face,
Body paralysed,
His fingers inside.

Oh, they call him The Sadness,
His sorrow so deep and hollow,

Oh, they call him The Sadness,
His sorrow so deep and hollow,

Oh, they call him: 'The Sadness'

credits

from Birth & Death, released January 9, 2015
Jay Stansfield - everything you can hear
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Birth & Death was an experimental exploration into improvised recording and songwriting, fuelled by red wine, one microphone and emotional events from people I knew. The most exciting part of it all, was when Robert Steven Connett, one of my Dad and mine's favourite artists, agreed to let me use his artwork for the release. People seem to enjoy the music I create, I know I do.

Also available in 12" Vinyl format here: https://elasticstage.com/jaystansfield/releases/birth-death-album

"Jay Stansfield is an amazing British singer-songwriter. Between his lyricism and composition, its hard not to love anything that he turns out. His music has a way with carrying emotion in its most poignant form. Whether its your first or fifth time listening to Jays music,  you're in for a treat. He also heads a band called ALL HAIL HYENA! Its an amazing band to rock out to on a Friday or Saturday night. --Rose Smith, Blog Editor @ TwentyTwoTwentyEight.com

Undoubtedly one of the UKs most underrated songwriters, Jay Stansfield has been at the forefront of several critically acclaimed acts over the years. - Louder Than War

The Sadness

Artwork by Robert Steven Connett. Any unauthorised use is prohibited and would be considered unkind and foolish.

lyrics

Failing again,
Feels much harder this time,
Lose your mind to paradigms,
Choose to use kinder lies,
They penetrate me so deep I'm tenderised.

Rode that train to Georgia in my mind,
I had all my senses I was fine,
Should I lie? Or could I break my bones?
Trading pheasants for lions,
Cold, alone, with sex on my mind.

You've lost the way,
So sorry to say,
Do the world a favour,
Step on in to the light,
Underwear removed just for tonight.

Rode that train to Georgia in my mind,
I had all my senses I was fine,
Should I lie? Or could I break my bones?
Trading pheasants for lions,
Cold, alone, with sex on my mind.

credits

from Birth & Death, released January 9, 2015
Jay Stansfield - everything you can hear
license
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Birth & Death was an experimental exploration into improvised recording and songwriting, fuelled by red wine, one microphone and emotional events from people I knew. The most exciting part of it all, was when Robert Steven Connett, one of my Dad and mine's favourite artists, agreed to let me use his artwork for the release. People seem to enjoy the music I create, I know I do.

Also available in 12" Vinyl format here: https://elasticstage.com/jaystansfield/releases/birth-death-album

"Jay Stansfield is an amazing British singer-songwriter. Between his lyricism and composition, its hard not to love anything that he turns out. His music has a way with carrying emotion in its most poignant form. Whether its your first or fifth time listening to Jays music,  you're in for a treat. He also heads a band called ALL HAIL HYENA! Its an amazing band to rock out to on a Friday or Saturday night. --Rose Smith, Blog Editor @ TwentyTwoTwentyEight.com

Undoubtedly one of the UKs most underrated songwriters, Jay Stansfield has been at the forefront of several critically acclaimed acts over the years. - Louder Than War

Sex On My Mind

Artwork by Robert Steven Connett. Any unauthorised use is prohibited and would be considered unkind and foolish. 

lyrics

Crushing me,
In a state,
What a date,
Roadkill,
Here am I,
Asking "why?",
Paradise blackout,
No one knows what it is that separates us all,
If we did we would all be dead on arrival.
(Dead on arrival)

Taking my dignity,
Disembowelled,
Lick me,
Run around,
Stealing dreams,
Thievery,
Suck me,
No one knows what it is that separates us all,
If we did we would all be dead on arrival.
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Birth & Death was an experimental exploration into improvised recording and songwriting, fuelled by red wine, one microphone and emotional events from people I knew. The most exciting part of it all, was when Robert Steven Connett, one of my Dad and mine's favourite artists, agreed to let me use his artwork for the release. People seem to enjoy the music I create, I know I do.

Also available in 12" Vinyl format here: https://elasticstage.com/jaystansfield/releases/birth-death-album

"Jay Stansfield is an amazing British singer-songwriter. Between his lyricism and composition, its hard not to love anything that he turns out. His music has a way with carrying emotion in its most poignant form. Whether its your first or fifth time listening to Jays music,  you're in for a treat. He also heads a band called ALL HAIL HYENA! Its an amazing band to rock out to on a Friday or Saturday night. --Rose Smith, Blog Editor @ TwentyTwoTwentyEight.com

Undoubtedly one of the UKs most underrated songwriters, Jay Stansfield has been at the forefront of several critically acclaimed acts over the years. - Louder Than War

Dead On Arrival

Artwork by Robert Steven Connett. Any unauthorised use is prohibited and would be considered unkind and foolish. 

lyrics

*some garbled, old fashioned, silent-film intro induction*

These morning winters going long,
Fools bruise me with ice,
Give me your hair,
Give me your hair.

Too much stress will kill you every time,
Don't be so angry or you will explode,
Into shatters of shadows and doom and gloom and death and steel.

Doing so much thinking you are losing all your hair,
Stop or you'll go POP! and spill your troubles everywhere,
Doing so much thinking you are losing all your hair,
Stop or you'll go POP! and spill your troubles everywhere.

"Hello my name is Mr Stansfield and I am 33 years old."
"Hello my name is me."
"Stop. Ok again."
"...but especially I love Meerkats."

<End of Tape.>
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Birth & Death was an experimental exploration into improvised recording and songwriting, fuelled by red wine, one microphone and emotional events from people I knew. The most exciting part of it all, was when Robert Steven Connett, one of my Dad and mine's favourite artists, agreed to let me use his artwork for the release. People seem to enjoy the music I create, I know I do.

Also available in 12" Vinyl format here: https://elasticstage.com/jaystansfield/releases/birth-death-album

"Jay Stansfield is an amazing British singer-songwriter. Between his lyricism and composition, its hard not to love anything that he turns out. His music has a way with carrying emotion in its most poignant form. Whether its your first or fifth time listening to Jays music,  you're in for a treat. He also heads a band called ALL HAIL HYENA! Its an amazing band to rock out to on a Friday or Saturday night. --Rose Smith, Blog Editor @ TwentyTwoTwentyEight.com

Undoubtedly one of the UKs most underrated songwriters, Jay Stansfield has been at the forefront of several critically acclaimed acts over the years. - Louder Than War

Losing All Your Hair

"A Prototype of Chaos & Love" is a long-form piece that I played on a number of my original and customized instruments (the Experibass, Expericello, deconstructed piano, custom trombone, flutes, metals and cymbals, prepared guitar and violins, bells and objects). The sound of some instruments was processed post recording, but their unique nature was kept intact.

It’s improvised and chaotic, but also delicate and warm, a sense of tonality emerges in different sections, but it doesn’t last too long.

When I recorded it, I left myself feel the intensity of each sound and the effect of different instruments under my fingers. There were no visual cues in my mind, just sounds taking my full attention.

This piece creates an intense and visceral experience; it’s likely going to push your tolerance for unfamiliar sounds and uneven musical structures.

The art cover is made with a chaotic “painting” that I assembled by using pieces of instruments and materials.

A Prototype of Chaos & Love

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Hans Reichel is an experimental musician who uses both traditional instruments and instruments of his own making. This piece involve an instrument he created called the Daxophone. It involves a specially carved and shaped piece of wood with on old school horn "speaker" along with a tiny amplifier that he bows with a fiddle bow. He has variously shaped pieces of wood that he uses.

Hans Reichel - Dachsman Meets The Blues EwEcu - CUjXg Youtube

For the moment I can again play tracks. If this lasts, I will continue with Soundcloud, but will also check out various alternatives.
Playful experimenter with music, sound, noise, words. Lover of all kinds of music. NOTE: Any material by Apio Ludd, Miss Anne Thrope or any of the Intentional Multiple Personality Disorder sound-players is open to sampling, distorting, experimenting with, playing with, etc. All we ask is that you give us a link to whatever you create by playing with this material (we might be able to learn some things from you in this way). Thanks.

Diego Stocco is an inventor of unusual musical instruments, music sound designer and composer.
One of his most recognizable instruments is the Experibass, a mutated double bass for which he invented a playing technique called “Sticcato”, creating an intense combination of tonal and percussive timbres. With this instrument, he was invited to be a featured soloist on the soundtrack of "Sherlock Holmes" scored by Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer, the video games "Assassin's Creed" and "Darktide" with BAFTA-winning composer Jesper Kyd and as a composer and performer of his piece “Thunderous” for the film "Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire”. As a composer, he produced the music for the video game "The Conduit” and the film "Chernobyl Diaries”, where he experimented with more strange instruments and sonic approaches. 
The music and sound design elements from his Sonic Artifact label, specialized in horror, thriller, western and sci-fi genres, is distributed worldwide by BMG Production Music and have been placed on dozens of film trailers, films and TV shows.

As one of the Principal Sound Designers, Diego created numerous iconic sounds for the core libraries of Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Trilian, Bob Moog Tribute Library and the flagship synth Omnisphere. His approach to listening and psychoacoustic microphone techniques allowed him to discover musically playable sounds in a variety of common objects, such as light bulbs, a clothes drying rack, a leather hat, and a number of odd instruments created by combining pieces of furniture and parts of appliances with traditional instruments. One of his most extreme sampling session was the Burning Piano, a piano sampled while it was on fire. He later created his own Sonic Extension for Omnisphere called Twisted Trees, where he built original sculptural instruments inspired by forest trees and the random motion of elements of nature.

Diego explored the sound of nature and trees with a series of musical videos, starting from Music from Sand, Music from a Tree, and Music from Nature. In these works, a lighter, playful and more abstract approach to sound appears, where he let the unconventional sounds inspire the composition. He also built instruments that can be seen as imaginative little places, like the Magical Butterfly Valley and the Miniature Forest Piano, where the listener is invited to listen to the instruments as if they were played by butterflies and birds.

Diego also created a unique approach to Convolution processing with his “Rhythmic Convolutions” sets, where he takes sounds produced by a variety of objects, materials and interactions to create original Impulse Responses that transfer both their rhythmic and spectral profile to drums, synths and any instrument with fast attacks. Occasionally Diego teaches workshops and masterclass where he shares his imaginative approach with other musicians and sound designers.

Affecting and a tad bonkers with a 60's pop sheen and melodic sensibility from the north of England.

Сabaret band «Serebryanaya Svadba» is a vivacious musical and theater group formed in 2005. A dashing company of guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, violin, concertina and drums treats the audience with an unusual mix of French chanson, Dixieland, country music, Russian folk music and Latin rhythms in the manner of cabaret orchestra. In all concert adventures the musicians are accompanied with numerous suitcases packed with circus and kitchen utensils, bottles of various shapes and content, lingerie, as well as by a merciless Hound of the Baskervilles with fiery eyes, Leech Woman, robbing men blind, Ghost the Motorist, a romantic middle-aged Lady and a Man who got used to whisper. One after another, they immerse the audience in the theatrical chaos of mood.
 
In the band repertoire there are songs in Russian, French and German. They sound ironic, paradoxical, life-asserting, with elements of buffoonery and puppetry.
The concert geography of the band is as wide as the "authentic" French pantaloons. The whole Belarus danced to the Serebryanaya Svadba’s songs. And not only Belarus ... Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Warsaw, Vilnius, Paris, Vladimir, Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Krasnodar applauded the musicians. The cabaret band went on tour to Germany, the Netherlands, Siberia and the Urals, Ukraine. It took part in music and theater festivals: the Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Warsaw (2006), Empty Hills (2007, 2008, 2010) in Moscow, Metafest (2007) near Samara, Cap a L Est (2007) in Nantes (France), Jazz Koktebel (2009, 2010, 2012) in Koktebel, Ethnomecanica (2008) and Stereoleto (2012) in St. Petersburg, Slavianski Bazaar (2010) in Vitebsk, theWorld Next Door festival (2012) in Kerch, the Jula theater festival  in Munich (2009, 2010), the Festival of Contemporary Belarusian Music "Mozhno" in Moscow (2008, 2009) and Minsk (2010-2011), the Color Festival in Crecy-la-Chapelle (France, 2012).
In the bank of the band’s musical experiments there is music to cinema novelties and surprising theatrical performances.


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