great track. killer hooks. addictive guitar lead. that chorus has chilli pepper vibes about it in a good way and the funky guitar following is perfection of playing

Lots of great energy and gusto on this quality hard driving track.

powerful song........fantastic all round performance!

Sounds great 😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘 Swinging bluesy guitar riffs 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

epic guitar playing and finger work, I wish I had your skills and soul , I'm adding this to my monthly playlist "FRIENDS OF THE ROAD: OCTOBER, 2022"

Fantastic track gents! That chorus is amazing, and Jeff, you’re sounding like a beast on those vocals!

Happy New Year from The Welcome Parade!!

We hope 2022 will be the start of something quite exceptional for everyone.  I think we are all due a bit of a respite from the current state of affairs! 

Lyrics:
I can feel the fire living in the rain
Pay witness to the pleasure hiding in the pain

To hear the craziness of those that you deem sane
A circle left unbroken we'll travel once again

If not today, maybe tomorrow… 
If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…
If not to lead then maybe to follow…
If not to steal then maybe to borrow…

To feel as broken, as I seem to be
All surrendered out my friend, embracing my defeat

The mirror changes nothing except the point view
A gap, a hole,  a thing that takes my place,  takes my place with you

If not today, maybe tomorrow… 
If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…
If not to lead then maybe to follow…
If not to steal then maybe to borrow…

If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…



The Welcome Parade is proud to release our first two tracks of 2022

The Ready -  See "The Ready"

Not Today - This ones development followed a different path than what normally happens in our band.  As usual it starts on Skype...ends up discarded to the "we will get to that later" pile.  The melody however simply refuses to leave my(Jeff's) head.  I string together a rough rhythm guitar track and send it off to the crew and say in the email....this is what this is about for me and I am compelled to finish this. 

Thom sends back a written chorus....and what a chorus it is.  I do a quick performance and once I can hear the thoughts in real time... the verses slide right out of my head on to paper.   Jay moves to the Rhythm guitar, Jeff to lead vocal and bass,  Thom on the lead and aux & rhythm guitar work.

Normally in development the drums and bass get locked in first so everyone can grab on to the vibe once its all figured out.  In this case...the bass was the last instrument to be figured out.  It was a wonderful opportunity to play off my band mates with the bass.  There are times where I rotated to the speakers and imagine my friends in studio/stage across from me as I start digging deeper on the bass.  Something I don't always get to enjoy but something so seductive to feel! 

I hope one day the world looks at us and says...we got to get these guys together!  If not I am just very happy to have a couple of friends with a musical connection that exists as something so natural, it is difficult to keep the components separate, to realize where one ends and another begins. 

You guys rock and I am so glad to have you as friends and musical companions...rock on mi amigos!

2022

Not Today

Not Today (by The Welcome Parade)

Composed and produced by Chivicke
HomeStudio Productions ©2022
Image: Pexels

Coming Back Home

Notre vie n'est elle pas qu'un vaste mensonge dans ce que l'on a fait , ce que l'on fait et ce que l'on fera ? Où se cachent nos mensonges ?
Compositeur-Arrangeur : Philippe SEGUINARD  Auteur mélodiste : Guillaume DULER

Lyrics:
J'ai fait beaucoup de mal
Ma peau est si chaude
Abîme abyssal
Je survis en fraude
 Sculptez ma pierre tombale
Je déménage à l'aube
Dites à la brume de descendre
Dans sa plus belle robe

Where fate lies ?

Qui étrangle ce goût vivant
D'aller dans le présent
J'ai des preuves que les gens meurent
Assez de prières et de pleurs
Toutes les vies sont glissantes
Je crois qu'on ne s'aime pas.
On jette ceux qui nous détestent
On pardonne à ceux qui restent

Where fate lies ?

C'est quoi la règle du jeu
Solitaire de la mort
Des espoirs pour un peu
Je sais pas si j'ai tort
Pas même la pluie enfin
Dans des rivière perdues
Ne perd son chemin
Sa raison d'être son but

I've done a lot of damage
My skin is so hot
Abyssal abyss
I survive as a fraud
Carve my tombstone
I'm moving at dawn
Tell the mist to come down
In her best dress
Where fate lies?
That strangles this living taste
To go into the present
I've got proof that people die
Enough praying and crying
All lives are slippery
I think we don't love each other.
We throw away those who hate us
We forgive those who stay
Where fate lies?
What's the rule of the game
Solitaire of death
Hopes for a little
I don't know if I'm wrong
Not even rain at last
In lost rivers
Does not lose its way
Its purpose its goal
© Guillaume DULER / Philippe SEGUINARD  2022

Where fate lies  (feat Sylvie Tiret)   TRANSLATED

Well I almost scrapped this song but after 3 weeks writing words, and then realizing how fun it is to sing, i kept it. I'm trying to figure out how to add a little lightheartedness to my music, but i think this one just turned out creepy lol. NOTE:  I always felt a little uncomfortable with the words, i just really didn't like them, so I reworked the chorus and a few other lines, and rerecorded the vocals. It seems a little better now...
 

I've seen my own worst enemy
Every night just staring back at me
Through the mirror with such animosity
And baby, it drives me crazy
I don’t understand what’s with this guy,
He don’t know that he’s alive
He combs his hair on the wrong side

I don’t expect you to understand,
But I’ve got these hammers for my hands
I like to start with everything
and smash away what I don’t need
and scattered all around are the pieces off of me
oh baby can’t you see what this done has to me

It’s a strange strange situation 
I need a little information
If it’s real or just imagination
Don’t say it’s so, I can’t believe 
Its down to you and me again
Up against the world my friend
Who can say   how this will end
 
It’s 3am and you’re slamming doors
Cause ‘I don’t speak your language anymore’
While I’m on my knees picking pieces
Of me up off the floor, 
I can’t lose much more, these pieces could be the last of me,
I wish I could see the way you see
is there anything left in this debris

Hammer Hands

When you need a little funky groove to get your feet moving... Transformation!
Logic Pro X
2022 Copyright/Sound Recording/All Rights: One Stop. 
For Licensing Contact:
Rainier Daze
Rainierdaze@gmail.com

Transformation

This song is a result of trans-Pacific cooperation at it's best. my his friend Mikey McFaffington, of Geelong, Australia, sent me some guitar chords and a smoking sax riff. I took them both, added an arrangement, bass, organ, guitar, and a beat. This is the result. We hope you like it. You can find Mikey on here, too, under his name. 

Far and Wide (with Mikey McFaffington)

noxpox - caravan of shadows

"Ballad of Captain Morgan"

BALLAD OF CAPTAIN MORGAN

„Gefrorene Herzen“ (27.02.2023 )

Eine Fortsetzung meiner Musikreihe „Musikzyklus“ in loser Folge :
Anthologie „Gefrierende Momente“ „Frost Musik“
Zerberstende, fragile Klangräume.

Gefrorene Herzen oh wo sind all die verlorenen Herzen.
Ich wandle auf Feldern wo einst Schlachten gefochten.
Keinem wurde je ein Siegerkranz geflochten.

All die ungezählten Herzen sind nun kalt und in Wintertagen erfroren. 
Die Vergessenheit hat sie einst hier begraben.

Die Seelen sind zu Raben geworden und rufen nach ihren gefrorenen Herzen die einst auf diesen Feldern begraben.

Die blühenden Felder sind in ein schwarzes Gewand getaucht.
Es sind Raben die ihre verlorenen Herzen klagend betrauern.

Sie werden warten auf den Frühling.

Diese Komposition widme ich den verlorenen Seelen aus zahllosen Kriegen dieser Welt.

Vielen Dank für Eure geschätzte Aufmerksamkeit.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music
Weitere Frost Musik : Titel u.a. https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music/frozen-piano


Musik :  Björn Cloppenburg  Alle Rechte vorbehalten
Foto	:     Björn Cloppenburg
Es wurden für dieses Projekt virtuelle Instrumente der folgenden Firmen verwendet: 
Orchestra Tools Arkhis
Genises Choir
Westwood Instruments Violin Untamed
Soniccouture Gesonic II
Have Instruments Nordisk Kontrabass
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"Frozen Hearts" (02/27/2023)

A continuation of my music series "Music Cycle" in loose order:
Anthology "Freezing Moments" "Frost Music"
Bursting, fragile sound spaces.

Frozen hearts oh where are all the lost hearts
I walk in fields where battles were once fought.
No one ever had a laurel wreath braided.

All the countless hearts are now cold and frozen in winter days.
Oblivion once buried them here.

The souls have become ravens, crying out for their frozen hearts that were once buried in these fields.

The once blooming fields are bathed in a black robe.
It is ravens who lament their lost hearts.

They will wait for spring.

I dedicate this composition to the lost souls from countless wars in this world.

Thank you for your valued attention.
SOUND CLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music
More Frost music: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music/frozen-piano


Music : Björn Cloppenburg All rights reserved
Photo:  Björn Cloppenburg
Virtual instruments from the following companies were used for this project:
Orchestra Tools Arkhis
Genises Choir
Westwood Instruments Violin Untamed
Sonic Couture Gesonic II
Have Instruments Nordisk doublebass

Frozen Hearts

MMXXIIIIIIIVKNDLNGCT

Deep Lights

News: Well a lot I could say...but going through some issues right now.  So I am on occasionally...though a lot less than  I would like.   You are always my peeps and  I love you clouders as brothers and sisters.   Peace and love my friends!

Member of: 
The Welcome Parade (https://soundcloud.com/thewelcomeparade)

Musician, Songwriter, Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Producer and general noise maker.   If you don't get that..that's on you!  

Tainted Icarus has a protest/grunge/rock type of feel.   Sharing a similar vibe and feel of great bands like Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Cult. 

Slogging it out my home studio and trying to understand the deep sorcery that is Music Recording, Mixing, Mastering.    Jesus if someone had told me how damn complicated the topic was... I might have reconsidered.   

I keep it real, listen to your music and comment.  Be supportive of myself and others and I have your back.  I stay out of the rampant game playing and focus on finding real people making music. Is that you? If so pull up a chair and PM me.  

It takes me a while to make the rounds.  If you are releasing a new track and want me to stop by sooner... send me a PM.  

Relax and enjoy a tune...or make one.  No need to run around in that haze of fury.  Peace and love!

Not Today (by The Welcome Parade)

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