Such a classic sound and your sensitive voice breathes like a gentle wind around these thoughts. So glad I’ve finally stopped by to catch up a little.

Ive seen a few other comparisons here, let me add Cat Stevens as a strong comparison for me, both playing & singing (which are both fabulous).

Great voice & music, I could hear a little Nick Drake in the voice. Awesome song, perfect performance

This is absolutely gorgeous!! Beautiful vocals and guitar!!!

Heartfelt and intimate as always. Beautiful, effortless voice!

very nice harmonic song with your soft voice and guitar playing!

DIAL OUR FIRE AND THUNDER TONIGHT !!

Hello Folks!

Been quite some time, but being slow, doesn't gladly result in no productivity at all. Haha! After my Collab with @texmex-shaman (thanks again brother for this awesome experience), i was rummaging unfinished projects and thought about "whats next?". I found plenty of stuff which craves for my attention, but too close on the timeline with our first summer vacation at my parents in laws place.

So i came to the usual little drill , like "What equipment will i take with me" ,  "How will it be?" (in terms of my usual unique work and creativity flow) , and "Will i be able to do anything in the usual FY style at all?"...... turns out it was a fast super week there with a lot of various ventures, activities and wonderful weather!

I also used the possibility a few times to take the chosen stuff (i did go for the minimal setup as minimal can be) out in the garden, sat down summerstyle with a cold alc-free Radler and just worked in my DAW with self-built synths and a Studio One "Impact XT" drum preset which i manipulated and bent into the way i wanted it to be. Comparable with the first track you build in the Andrew Huang course, i went full electronic and after that week i had like 90% of it!! 

I have to thank my dear friend TexMex Shaman who did pre-listen ALOT and also encouraged me to build that intro (which took me quite a while to find the right samples, shape them and do some automations and stereo field sweeps - awesome process to push myself into this).

Going mad with the Visual was also predictable... most of you who know me by now, would've expected that, i guess? I love that process, like you have that music and it creates an audible image in your brain, but adding something as close as you want it to look like with a cover, is a complete different and somewhat relaxing process to me. 3 weeks of alot of work and manipulations. So much new stuff i did learn!

I want to thank big big time Chris Ainsworth on Flickr to give me the permission to manipulate his wonderful pic of an restorated "Tron" Arcade Machine!! (https://www.flickr.com/photos/53643381@N00/)

We're soon at the end of this summer and 2021 feels already passing way too fast and there is so much music to listen and also to continue working on. 

Love this SC community! Thanks for being out there and all this exchange!

Yours,
CMD SF

PS: If your'e interested, i start sharing the hq arts on my google drive for those who want to see more detail to the "vision" of my creation here!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IwcIXWLFPQtvPHYCKoOLpmme0Px0fzMh?usp=sharing

Thunder Runner

A new collaboration of Freddie M, Steven W. Davis and Jason Sands with the great singer and songwriter Karla Lynette. We thank Karla very much again for her great work and professionalism.
Here you can listen and see her soundcloud page: https: //soundcloud.com/karlalynette/tracks

Tonight In Gonna Wait For You- MTM (Feat. KARLA LYNETTE)

This is my second collaboration (that was actually completed in July, but this is me just getting round to uploading to SoundCloud now.) which features satosii and Rylei Nathaniel. It all started with a sequence bass guitar melody from Rylei and a beat and a guitar from satosii. Vocal chops, piano, synth  and the finished melody was done by me and we ended up with two versions.

Version one: Dial Up (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRCYnsCAZQL/)
Version two: サイバーパンクな夏の夜 (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKIgQQA6rO/)

Videos for both versions are made by Rylei Nathaniel.
You Tube video made by Decan Usmic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNKdFYc8G0
This song is slightly different from my usual genre, but I hope you find it uplifting. Many Thanks for listening and for all your support!

Dial Up (Feat. Rylei Nathaniel and satosii)

Photo: Physically choreographed charcoal art by Heather Hansen

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)
August 19, 2021 All Right Reserved

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

Speaking of things that you don’t understand
It’s a crying shame
Lingerin’ too long like an overplayed song
it’s a fools game

Over and over we go
Hoping for reason to take control
Try not to let it all go

Tellin me this and you’re tellin me that
to ad nauseam
I’m goin my way and you’re going yours
To the bitter end

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)

To Wivresse, these three Piano Fragments :
1 - Chartreuse verte (0 - 1:40)
2 - Tip-Toes (1.40 - 2:25)
3 - Prayer to the Aesculapian Snake(2:25 - 3:20)

Piano Fragments - Dark Waves Of Bliss

Strat Jam

One of my party-pieces is to recite Robert Burns' ode "To A Haggis" from memory.  In 2024, I have publicly recited it 4 times in the course of the week that contained Thursday 25th January.

"But mark the rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread!
Clap in his waly nieve a bled; he'll mak it whistle
And legs and arms and heads will sneid
Like taps o'thristle!"

My tune is a little celebration of the Burns Night season in the UK in the 21st century.

Taps o'Thristle

Just a demo cover to see if we 'get the love'....  TTFN

The Islander (cover)

Marc M : paroles et musique
Marc M : voix, guitares et programmation

VOYAGE AU BOUT DE L'ENNUI

Rembobine ta nuit électrique
Peuplée de rencontres excentriques
Au gré des hasards magnétiques, il est temps.
Oh, Dance music !

Quand sur le dance-floor hystérique
S'invitent des sons mécaniques
Et s'agitent les corps frénétiques, on t'attend...
Oh, Dance music !

Voyage au bout de la nuit,
Parfum noctambule et velours cramoisi,
Comme tous les oiseaux de nuit
La boule à facette éclaire mes envies.
Voyage au bout de l'ennui,
Tristesse funambule et couleur vert de gris
Tel un papillon de nuit
Mes ailes se brûlent au lustre du samedi.

Rendez vous au bar sulfurique
Bercé d'un esprit romantique
La caresse d'une nuque exotique me surprend
Oh, Dance music !

Face à face, envie cosmétique
Maquillage d'un date organique
Ouverture, fracture volcanique, juste à temps
Oh, Dance music !

Voyage au bout de la nuit,
Parfum noctambule et velours cramoisi
Comme tous les oiseaux de nuit
La boule à facette éclaire les envies
Voyage au bout de l'ennui,
Tristesse funambule et couleur vert de gris
Comme un papillon de nuit
Mes ailes se brûlent au lustre du samedi.

Voyage au bout de l'ennui

reversal

The word callous here is about  stubbornness and the refusal to Change or except. Not the ones on feet or hands.🤣🤣🤣✌️

A callous removal

Ozone (2021) Anthology CD1 Track 11

Tempo 155
Tuning 432Hz


This is the first proper rebuild of Scribe in 10 years. It's now Melanin. Since I was trying to sing about racism, I just realised it should be more straight forward to see that. So hence the new name. In fact, I've decided to completely remake it and I'll put it on this years album. The artist BeART {New.Album here... https://on.soundcloud.com/Mwa2J } Is releaing a remix of the original, Scribe,.tomorrow 🥲 The first time ever... Thanks brother Go BeART 🇧🇪🌍🇮🇪

Artwork is by ADW. Multiple artists were commissioned to cover some temporary walls near my gaff. The cover for this song got the best one. Thaaaaanks
The artist .... I think.... http://adwart.com/

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference which builds human skin colour tone! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin to me! We're all the furking same.

Martin Luther King empowers the piece obviously 💫🤘🏿🤘🏻💫

The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a bigoted NBA team owner.
The good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves the footballer, picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands in Barcelona's Nou Camp Stadium... This is the mercury mould. The racist gesture from that fan who threw that banana is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment. Hopefully the person who threw it took on board what he did and changed... 

Apparently the amount of melanin changes over long periods of time in our skin depending how long our descendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there and onto their skin... In turn evolving with those environmental conditions. That's it! Apart from that we all eat, drink, shit, piss, eat and so on... If we're lucky

Now that I think about it. It surprises me that I haven't heard this done before. (I'd love to be wrong 🔗 ?) Singing about the only scientific difference that gifts us with different tones of skin. How much melanin in you? Drill it into the kids!

Lyrics

A magic slur,
This  biggot must go!
It seems he don’t like ‘em too dark,
All monkeys roam free.
The Sun, relatively!
In this mercury mould a banana thrown.
It seems these don’t like em too dark,
Good Dani, Let’s eat!
All colours seep just melanin skin deep.
All colours leak just melanin
Why oh why do you take just your side
Won’t you learn that you’re no different.
Living with how the past framed their thinking…
Why oh why? Won’t you learn?

Let it rain
Pave the way
With Luther light
We learn tonight
You want the truth.
If this sits loose with you.
Oh what to tell our youth…
Here’s a clue!
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
For all of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for ‘the force’
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…

	“Sweet land of liberty at thee I say…”

Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride
Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride

Acoustic guitar and additional keys by Simon Culliton (My bro..)

Heavy lyrics at the end I stand together with my Dad, Cedric 👨‍👧My hero😘 He made me the good person I am so we stand together, Louder and Stronger against bullshit racist thinking

The messed up opening is my attempt at pretending Martin Luther King is popping into the song from another realm 🤯🤘🏿 Empowering the tune...He obviously articulated the problems associated this scourge the best so have a listen and read him.

I say FUCK RACISM and FUCK YOU if youre a racist. You'll burn out 🧘🏻

Melanin (Extended Demo)

Gently Weeps (2023) Anthology CD2 Track 17

Synesthesia is main motif for this song, first because of original lyrics, then as I felt like adding it more flavor with female vocals*, & finally when I recently watched some paintings about this matter**.

*Great vocal performance by https://soundcloud.com/maraoldfield is most notorious matter in this piece, where riffing parts toggle with bass-guided proggy ones.

**Due credits to https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling for ad hoc painting of the song’s artwork.

Letra  /  Lyrics:

QUIERO SABER SI HACE CALOR  /  I WANT TO KNOW IF IT IS HOT

En verano, insoportable,  /  In summer, unbearable,
todo está lleno de ruido.  /  everything is full of noise.
El invierno, silencioso,  /  The winter, silent,
que congela los sonidos.  /  which freezes the sounds.

No quisiera quedarme sorda  /  I don’t want to get deaf
sin saber cuándo hace frío.  /  not  knowing when it’s cold. 
No quisiera quedarme sorda  /  I don’t want to get deaf
para saber si hace frío.  /  so as to know if it’s cold.

Los días soleados  /  Sunny days
acompañan al estío  /  go along with the summer
y cuando llega el invierno  /  and when the winter comes
el cielo está oscurecido.  /  the sky is darkened.

No quisiera quedarme ciega  /  I don’t want to get blind
sin saber cuándo hace frío.  /  not  knowing when it’s cold.
No quisiera quedarme ciega  /  I don’t want to get blind
para saber si hace frío.  /  so as to know if it’s cold.

ER24CH04 ©1995 ®2015

Quiero saber si hace calor (Vocals by Mara​Oldfield)

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

Gone With The Flow

get the album

Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

(Don't follow me here, best on my main page ;)

I am amazed at the level of talented artists encountered on this site.  Sharing and providing feedback is such an effective way to nurture the creative process.  I am so inspired by many of you.  My songs consist of mostly live instruments and voice.  An organic approach to song writing with a few surprises in the mix.  Please feel free to comment and download if you like!  Todd

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)

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