I absolutely love this one. that distant guitar...feels like I'm walking in a dream. Nice work.

Nice photo. Whenever I'm in Aus the sky's normally BLUE. Really interesting song both melody/chords and presentation. Commendable   Steve

@niklaus-b-1: love how the deep vocals play off those high dreamy sounds!

7-BIT HORSE
A river rusted the heavy metal under my skin
I got a magnet heart and its stuck with every nail and pin
I got 20 eye balls and 19 are blind, a rubber tongue that reeks of insecticide.
I got nobody close but I wish 
I had a creepy post-terrestrial lover of mine own

Mah’ fuzzy brain buzzes like the flies up in the attic
My voice is like a busted TV that’s haunted with the static
my face slumps like a seven-bit horse a’thrice mangled by a tractor off course -
and all the squirrels have left holes where the bugs n’ the beetles
like to munch down on my circuit boards.

I want a lover like a dreadful halloween bride. 
we’ll get a married in the ruby orange mellow of night 
and make the love underneath the big blood moons 
drippin’ down the mountain hide of June
we’ll roast fat raccoons on an iron spit. 
and suck anti-freeze from the tire pits.

The rain it rusted the copper gums under my fangs. 
I got one good back but the other’s got inscrutable pain 
I got 25 arms and 19 are shot, a rubber tongue that reeks of lichen and rot.
I don’t got nobody close but I wish 
I had a creepy preternatural lover of my own

I want a grisly abominable valentine
we’ll get hitched in the blood hot eventide
we’ll do the jelly underneath the bent scuff moon
inside a crevice full of eyebolts and screws 
and we’ll boil up a dead skunk in wiper fluid
and sip a little turpentine

Deathcrux

7-bit Horse

Ahhhhhhhhhh!
The Atwood Machine like to make strange cover versions of songs they love.

Heart Of The Sun (Roger Waters runs through The Atwood Machine)

Crimson Teeth is the 9th track from the album 'Advice to the Wayfarer' (2014). All parts written and performed by Rowan Galagher.

Lyrics:

I wont be your collateral damage
As you grin and bare your crimson teeth
Gone are those who rushed into the reeds
They’ll be alright
If you see the signs to the art

That could make a difference this time
And you have tried to turn the tides
Lost are those with quickly silenced cries
They’ll be alright
If you see the signs to the art

And cameras they’ll be 
The first of many steps 
‘Til there’s no one left
A life we cannot lead 
‘Cause it’s fraying at the seems
But I care about it

And we’ve become cautious men
But it’s gone in minutes... taken

It carries me through the colder night
And you have wished for brighter lights
Visceral but doomed to be denied
They’ll be alright
If you hold on tight to the art

Crimson Teeth

Recorded by Peter Hughes and Big Dumb Boy at Bedrock Studio, Berrara. Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar: Big Dumb Boy. Resonator Guitar: Aaron Kestle. Harp: Peter Hughes. Bowed Double Bass: Johnny Yunken

Born Stubborn

I wanted to write an untraditional love song telling about the feeling of total abandon and utter and almost desperate love. And I used this song to propose to Líney, who is now my wife.

Part of my album Ölduslóð (way of waves) and basically one of the pillars of the album, a wonderful duet with Markéta Irglová. 
Recorded and produced by Mio of Greenhouse Studios fame.


While The World Burns (Feat. Marketa Irglova)

From KING OF THE OPERA's debut album NOTHING OUTSTANDING

The Halfduck Misery

Raindrops


The raindrops are falling down your face, 
Oh how I miss your warm embrace. 
The dust in the carper that I inhale, 
Tastes gray and dry from where I lay.

Get off the ground and make a sound.

The raindrops are falling down your face, 
Oh how I miss your warm embrace. 
I can feel the taste that you left in my mouth
It’s like fine red wine, a bit bitter a bit tart.

Get off the ground and make a sound
Oh, get off the ground and make a sound

The raindrops are falling down your face, 
and yes I do  miss your warm embrace. 
But as blue and the purple clouds murk the sky
the smell of the rain makes my blood alive.

Get off the ground and make a sound
Get off the ground and make a sound.

Raindrops

'Cherry Tree Carol' from Arborea's forthcoming album 'Fortress of the Sun' on ESP-Disk' 
ESP5002. CD and Digital Release April 30th. Vinyl Release June 4th.
news.espdisk.com/archives/1276

Lyrics Traditional. Music by Buck Curran and Shanti Curran

Produced, Recorded, Mixed by Buck Curran and Shanti Curran
Mastered by Harris Newman

Cherry Tree Carol

Part of my as yet unfinished Requiem mass.

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Lacrimosa (Kim Guy)

Climax. Pushing through to the other side. One of those tracks where I really feel that this bodymind was just a vessel for the vision to pour through, to manifest.

Track 13 of my acapella-avantgarde-ritual-noise album Ihmineläin - Lähde (2008). One of my personal favorites.

To absorb the whole 14 track album: http://ihminelain.bandcamp.com 
Support Ihmineläin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ihminel%C3%A4in/361385217228740?fref=ts 
Also have some http://oletustila.net

Ihmineläin - Puhdistautuminen

Combining 60s psychedelia, folk noir, art rock, baroque pop and gothic post-punk, The Mad Pride has been described as haunting and ominous like Syd Barrett and David Bowie collaborating on a Tim Burton film soundtrack. Comparisons are often made to Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, Erik Satie, Opeth, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, baroque and minimalist composers. It is the solo recording project of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rowan Galagher. 

Since 2009 Rowan has released 4 original albums and he is currently working on his 5th. He has moved from avant-garde psych-folk experimentation to cinematic soundscapes and enjoys splintering off towards art rock, cabaret, psychedelia and folktronica. Opting to record at home, Rowan has embraced his social isolation and evaded the less palatable facets of the music industry such as gigs, self-promotion, the illusion of profitability, Spotify and the obsequious quest for appropriate stage banter. 

With an uncompromising commitment to emotional authenticity and a wider goal of positive social change, Rowan is driven to make honest and progressive music. He is constantly pushing the boundaries of conventional genres and seeks to forge a new platform in the contemporary musical landscape. It would appear that he is succeeding at this as, aside from the aforementioned artists, Rowan's music has also been compared to Jacques Brel, Mr Bungle, Danny Elfman, Jeff Martin, Muse and David Sylvian.

'The Mad Pride' is a reference to the mass movement known as 'Mad Pride'. "Mad Pride activists seek to re-educate the general public on such subjects as the causes of mental disorders, the experiences of those using the mental health system, and the global suicide pandemic."

"If you mix the elements from Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Syd Barrett and Radiohead, you’ll get this music, in the most creative way." 
- acuvi - acuvi.org

“Psychedelic 60s gone noir cabaret with 80s goth production: watery guitars, icy keys and vintage Bowie-esque vocals.” 
- Delarue - New York Music Daily

“I recently came across some incredible stuff… The songs bear some resembles to Syd Barret, Tom Waits, Nick Cave or Cohen, this is interesting stuff for sure… I’m posting this because I think it’s worth it.”
- Netanderthalian – Grateful Breed Blog – A Psychedelicious Corner

"The Mad Pride is a good example of Folk Noir (“dark folk”) that also plays with some late 60′s dark psychedelic folk melodies. Galagher has been compared to Syd Barrett and the comparison is apt." 
- Matt Coleman - The Music Court Blog

“The variety here is amazing. The songs run the range from soft, almost acoustical to moody and experimental enough to be the sound track to a Tim Burton movie. They each push the limits of their genre. Be sure and listen to them all as they are very different and there is sure to be something you really like.”
- Jane W – fanrealm.com

“Rowan Galagher’s music is amazing. One minute it has you thinking “Pink Floyd” the next something entirely different. There is an ebb and flow to it that makes The Mad Pride beautiful to listen to.”
- Paddy – Only Australian Music Blog Archive

“Touches of the fragile detachment of Radiohead and a spectrum of dramatic emotion all take up residence under an ominous sky."
- Mr Atavist – Sunrise Ocean Bender

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