Listen to a lush and immersive dusck chorus captured in the East African savanna. Long version at https://youtu.be/pjsDqXcreDw

Dusk in the African savanna

IN the SHADOW of MOUNTAINS

Another Lockdown Project from 2020
An acoustic pop cover of Being Boring (Pet Shop Boys).

Lyrics by: Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe.
I came across a cache of old photos
And invitations to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said, with quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In my 1920's
When you're young, you find inspiration
In anyone who's ever gone
And opened up a closing door
She said we were never feeling bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end
When I went, I left from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said If you're not careful
You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for
In my 1970's
But I sat back and looking forward
My shoes were high and I had scored
I'd bolted through a closing door
And I would never find myself feeling bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
You could always rely on a friend
Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In my 1990's
I never dreamed that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams
You'd be sitting somewhere here with me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought make amends
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
You could always rely on a friend
And we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought make amends
And we were never being boring
We were never being bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We were never being bored

Oli Boli - Being Boring

Being Boring

Being Boring (PSB Cover 2020)

My weekend project for my Last Song.
A tribute to the Poems ans Lyrics of Leonard Cohen.

It seems my lyrics needs a little explanation.
In my head the connections are clear, but even my wife has not quite understood what I was getting at.

"Man with the Hat.., how he knows so much about the past, the present and the future"
"The Future".
- Give me back the Berlin wall
- I've seen the future, it is murder
- You never will, you never did
It was the last song on "Natural Born Killers" and probably the moment
when I first noticed Leonard Cohen as a really cool artist. When we got married in the USA in 2010, we rented a Mustang
Convertible for our honeymoon and drove it through the desert. We were often greeted with Mickey and Malory. That was quite amusing.

"twenty years of boredom is just a blink of an eye"
"First we Take Manhtten"
- They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom

"the holy dove..."
"Hallelujah"
- "And I remember when I moved in you and the holy dove she was moving too and eery single breath we drew was Hallelujah"
this is obviously a very erotic allusion. In my imagination, the dove is now "pregnant" and must hatch the egg. She will raise it full of love.

"how many miracles ..."
"Waiting for the Miracle" First song on "Natural Born Killers"
- But i was waiting for the Miracle
- I've been waiting night and day

"His songs of hope are not like songs of people in danger..."
In connection with the Ukraine conflict, my father just told me how he sat in the air raid shelter bunker during Worl War II and sang together to drown out the sirens.
They were certainly not poetic songs, but they served to spread hope. Today, when he listens to the news about Russian War he remembers how scared he was by the sirens.

"especially now, on a Wednesday"
this has no relation to Cohen. My wife reported to me last Wednesday walking down the street. An ambulance came across the redlightning crossroads at high speed.
She was trying to warn a woman who was carelessly walking across the street with her cell phone to her ear.
Instead of thanking her she was insulted in what tone she was talking to her. In the context of the sentence: "would you rather die? On a Wednesday of all days?"

"Everybody knows..." song with this title.
Means that many people are not interested in this kind of lyrics. They are only concerned with the now.

"Lost for so long...rise like the phoenix from the ashes"
- 1996, Cohen was ordained as a monk until he returned in 2001 with "ten new songs"

"With wine and cigarettes..."
"Tower of Song"
- I was born with the gift of a golden voice
- he started smoking again at 80 finally live it up and stop worrying about the consequences shortening your life by much

"Without any choice he reaches our hearts"
"A singer must die"
- And all the ladies go moist and the judge has no choice

"..come to that hotel in New York.."
"Chelsea Hotel #2"
During a visit to New York we of course also visited the Chelsea Hotel. In the lobby hung some artworkds painting by Leonard Cohen.
Lyrics of "Chelsea Hotel #2"
- "While the limousines wait in the street."
- "Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,"
- "You just turned your back on the crowd" (This line appears later in my lyrics)

"the lock of hair, one of his sleeping enemies"
"Famous Blue Raincoat"
- "Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair "
- "Well, your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free"

"has falling to the ground ..."
"I'm Your Man"
- "Ah, but a man never got a woman back Not by begging on his knees"

"As he looked at her, she started to cry..."
During a concert in Las Vegas, a lady boarded the stage, fell at his feet and gave him a rose.
The security guards panicked, but he took the rose and just smiled charmingly.

"He is the keeper of truth..."
"A singer must die"
- "you keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty"
- "Your vision is right, my vision is wrong"

Other  lyrics are freely invented by me but inspired by him to create a framework for this song..

Oli Boli - Man With The Hat

Man With The Hat - Swinging Leonard Cohen Tribute

Este miércoles 27/03 tenemos el agrado de recibir en Marciano Radio...a una gran exponente de sonidos voladores y psicodélicos 

Natalia Miranda AKA DJ Natu Miranda

Oriunda de Rancagua, Chile. Natalia da sus primeros pasos en la música electrónica a fines del 2016, cuando comienza a trabajar junto al colectivo “Keep Wild” y participar junto a ellos en la organización de sus fiestas y presentaciones. su afinidad natural con la música...genera q al poco tiempo de ingresar en la cabina....todos experimenten una sensación de admiración y amor por la música, de manera instantánea

Sus mezclas recorren desde lo más fino del Deep house hasta lo más intenso del techno, con Sesiones q la hacen establecer una conexión muy especial con su público

Sus residencias más destacadas han sido :
Boston Grill & Bar (Machali, Chile) [2019-21]
Sheraron Miramar (Viña del mar) [2020 - Act]
Tiendas LIOLA (Santiago de Chile, Rancagua) [Actualmente]


Su experiencia de vida, la llevó a vivir entre Argentina y chile...donde se adentró en la cultura rave...de ambos países 

DJ Natu Miranda representa el amor más puro por la música y su conexión con los sentidos

MARCIANO RADIO EP 27 (DJ GUEST SEDANOSAURIO)

James' Trio Album 1997

Gerrit de Boer - guitar
Sebastiaan Kaptein - djembé, drums
Digmon Roovers – guitar
Toon Roos - soprano saxophone
Wijnand Hulst – cello

Recorded by Roy Dackus at ‘Het Singelhuis’ Groningen
Additional Home-Recording by James’Trio
Mixed by: Peter Brusse at Q-Point, Hilversum
Produced by: Roy Dackus, Goldfish Records

James' Trio (Jamesz) - In The Threes

Sentient beings [of my own mind]*
are numberless;
I vow to save them.
Delusions [of my own mind]* are
inexhaustible;
I vow to put an end to them.
The Dharmas [of my own nature]*
are boundless;
I vow to master them.
The Buddha way [of my own
nature]* is unsurpassable;
I vow to attain it.
* 2nd time round

Shujō muhen sei gan do
bon‑no mujin sei gan dan
ho mon muryō sei gan gaku
butsu do mujō sei gan jo.

The Four Buddhist Vows

This is a compilation of several tracks available on the Rhythm of Kubah album which is downloadable in mp3 or FLAC format from https://wildambience.com/albums/rhythm-of-kubah/

Rhythm of Kubah

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Brad Stock - Falling In Grace

I love to sing with my guitar. Love to play my guitar and sing.

I practice Zen too, so sometimes I combine traditional Zen Buddhist chants with music, other times just sing a folk song or a popular song that resonates with me.

The Four Buddhist Vows

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