Léo Pensette Remix of muterial open collab Off The Rails, posted here at formution ...

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Ectoplasmica

Ectoplasmica - muterial | Léo Pensette

The Flying Guitar Player

Good Times for a Change

Comin' Around to Me Again

What if you knew?
What if you knew everything there was to know at the beginning? 
What if you knew the roots, how deep they went, the flaw of their grasp?

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"We’re put on this earth to do a job. And each of us gets the time we get to do it. And when this life is over and you stand in front of the Lord… Well, you try tellin’ Him it was all some Frenchman’s joke."

The Gardener

Gardener Song

This is a song about making the most of what time we have. It could be about your kids growing up and getting ready to leave home, getting older, your parents getting on, taking the dog for a walk...don't wait, dance now...

And Lauren, my eldest, is singing with me...a very special and unforgettable moment for me...

As always, thank you for your visit and time....



Lyrics
Intro
Ooohhhhh
Come talk with me
Chorus
You've gotta think about it
You've got to, reconsider
You've gotta think about everything
V1
As time goes by we move to an older place
The body grows weary but the mind is just as strong
And we both know, we don't have a lot of time
So let's dance now
Bridge
Don't waste this time away, time away
Come and hold me every day, hold me every day
Let's dance now

Break

V2
La la la la la lala la
La la la la la la la la
Come on and spend a little bit of time with me
Walk with the breeze
Listen to the rustling of the leaves
Life can be good
Just open the door a little
Open up the door
Draw the blinds open
Enjoy the world
We'll move into the twilight
So let's dance
Dance into my arms
Dance into the twilight
Let's dance..........now......

Dance Now

The Fae

Thalassino alati

Firestations – Many White Horses

'Many White Horses' is a collection of sea-soaked acoustic songs and instrumentals, interwoven with field recordings and lyrics drawn from the immediate surroundings of a sailing expedition, all brought together with warm, textured production. It marks Mike Cranny’s first solo endeavour, playing a variety of instruments and self-producing, albeit one enriched by Laura Copsey’s contributions on flugelhorn, flute and vocals.

The album was conceived and largely written at the beginning of August 2024 on a sailing yacht (Sail Britain’s “Merlin”) in the Inner Hebrides. This was the location for a week-long art residency with seven fellow artist-explorers all keen to capture something of the essence of being at sea and viewing the land from the sea. The voyage, through high winds and waves, took in the mysterious Isle of Rum and the coastline around Arisaig, before Mike and Laura continued the journey for a further week; travelling around the Ardnamurchan peninsula, across the Isles of Mull and Ulva to end up off-grid on the remote Isle of Gometra. 

While the music, with its focus on quietly hypnotic, hushed acoustic instrumentation, may at first appear something of a departure from the last five-piece band Firestations album ‘Thick Terrain’, it remains closely related and recognisable by Mike’s song writing style. It also occupies a similar space to the ‘Sunken Versions’ – quieter and slower songs (featuring on the ‘Automatic Tendencies’ EP series in particular) that focus on the more meditative, stripped back side of the band.

The title track ‘Many White Horses’ was the first song to be written, making use of an aging sea-warped boat guitar that Mike discovered could only be played in an open tuning, with a capo higher up the fret board. Mike says: “The limitations of this guitar proved to be a gateway to other songs – the chord progressions and melodies had to be simple to avoid tuning nightmares, and where I might have ordinarily decided that a song was too straightforward, on the boat I didn’t have a choice but to persevere with simple song ideas. It turns out that limitations can be liberating”. The first single from the album ‘A Weight Starts To Lift’ was written a bit later and shows Mike exploring the possibilities of the open tuning “maybe the trickiest fingerpicking I’ve ever attempted”. 

The communal living conditions on the boat and the camaraderie developed through the everyday routine, and in other artist’s processes, made for a fertile environment. Laura, as expedition leader, provided a series of creative prompts, shaped by archipelago poetics. Moments and provocations that filtered into lyrics and rhythms included a collaboration with a square meter of earth, seeking out an audience on a micro scale, and reading laminated sheets of poetry in the sea. Field recordings and found instruments also give the compositions a strong sense of place and carry the listener across rough seas and onto remote islands.



Biography

Firestations (Lost Map Records) span genres from shoegaze to alt-pop and harmony-driven psychedelia. Their second album, The Year Dot, released in 2018, was followed by sonic collage album Dream Home in 2020 and the Automatic Tendencies EP project in 2020-21. The latter took the form of three EPs over a six-month period, each including alternative “sunken” versions by the band as well as covers and remixes of the band’s tracks by other artists. Thick Terrain, released in 2023, saw Firestations return to album format with ten tracks ranging from hypnotic sci-fi landscapes to addictive dream-pop jangles, exploring ideas around identity, conflict, progress and sanity. Bandmembers are Mike Cranny, Laura Copsey, Martin Thompson (aka Bit Cloudy), Tom Hargreaves and Neil Walsh.

Firestations - A Weight Starts To Lift

Imagining what is would be like to sit in a room as a child with one of the masters of the early electronic days. watching as they turn knobs and dials to get sounds, and passing the passion of music down to the next generation.

Dad’s Electronic Music

bad vegetarians

Do You Wanna Kiss?

Tamar Berk is a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who crafts emotionally raw indie rock and power-pop gems. Her songs dig into identity, nostalgia, and self-reflection—wrapped in catchy melodies and lo-fi sparkle. Her fifth studio album 'ocd' is out now!