Creppy and happy at the same time. Love it, well done.

Yeah, I'm hoping to not be too scared because I gotta listen to this! 😀 Right on, great rock n roll tune. Everything is spot on. … And I'm still alive. 🤘👍

Weekly

This first ever in my life cover song is dedicated to my sister Karrie whom this song always reminded me of me and her. This is also my favorite song from The Police. Hope you enjoy!! Thank you for listening! 😎

Your friend,

J.J.

Tea In The Sahara (Cover-The Police)

Greenlight - Produced By KEZI

B-Granada

Seth and Mike improvising under the Big Sky -

Flowers Need Water

Amazon

For those who hate the pigeons ability to convert any clean place into a dirty mess, I would recommend listening to Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

*** SKINNER PIGEONS ***

The Skinner pigeons displayed superstitious learning
when they learned to perform actions
unrelated to rewards.
In fact the trays that offered them delicious nutrients
were just opened by a timer
set to fire from time to time.
And so these birds would keep repeating senseless dances,
empty swingings, useless stances,
thinking they were in command.
Believing that they were the ones there in command.  

This begs the question:
What about success prescriptions,
secret methods, clever fictions?
Do they really lift our lives?
As we go forward pushing doorways, shouting orders,
firing people, building borders,
maybe we're not better than those helpless birds 
that swing their heads or flap their wings
thinking this entails the feeding
that is coming anyway.
The random feeding that is coming anyway.

Still we keep searching for the reasons of decaying,
for the meaning of our praying,
for the guilty butterfly.
We keep denying to be lost in mindless fighting,
running blind amidst the lightning,
waiting for the final strike.
We want the answers that will feed our understanding
that will bring us consolation
that will give a reason why.
We want the answers that will give a reason why.

Skinner Pigeons

Yellow

Yellow - Kokanostra

Long time ago in the Scottish Highlands. A tribe that lives in a rough and harsh surrounding, strengthened over generations by the unfriendly environment. The borders of the tribes territory are not exactly known. In particular, in the North, the saying goes that vast areas of unoccupied lands will belong to those that first dare to claim it. So a small troup of currageous military men sets foot to the Northern Frontier ...

Composition-wise: The piece explores the change of atmosphere when the same motive is played with different accompaniments. The same theme can be found for instance @ 0:00 ff,  0:23 ff and 1:05 ff. The accompaniment increases in intensity and rhythm for these three instances, ranging from a meditative intro over a – to my ears – tribal dance or chant towards a first  climax of the piece which might make a good soundtrack for a battle in the Scottish Highlands. The track then settles down to the second theme @ 1:33 which again is repeated with much more agitated accompaniment @ 1:55 ff. 

While the track is in general in 4/4, it raises the tension by sometimes breaking the metrum into more unconventional rhythmic structures. This holds in particular for @ 0:46 ff where the metrum changes to a succession of ¾, 4/4, ¾, 6/4, 6/4, 4/4, ¾, 4/4, ¾, ¾, ¾ and then reverts to the original 4/4. Also @ 2:09  there is in insert of a ¾ bar and at the very end @ 2:30, there is a 2/4 break just before the final chord. 

I did some Youtube Shorts in Case with more details on some composition tweaks that I used in this track:
Varying the Accompaniment: https://youtube.com/shorts/7HAWSz2Mg14?feature=share
Breaking the metric structure: https://youtube.com/shorts/tUvaq8D6nUo?feature=share
Ligature Bows: https://youtube.com/shorts/-WBf6Du040g?feature=share
Keeping the attention until the end: https://youtube.com/shorts/qnJl5BQ4yxU?feature=share


The track has been recorded on a Roland FP-90 and mastered in Cubase by adding  reverb, a Stereo enhancer and fiddling a bit with the EQ. 
The picture was created with Stable Diffusion. 

The track can also be found at 
Youtube (including the scores): https://youtu.be/FIQZc7JakvQ
Spotify: spotify:album:5YG7dpoBElKImcbmX7eWTU

The Northern Frontier

The Northern Frontier (Solo Piano)

Last year I thought I better write myself a Halloween tune. I never managed to finish it in 2022, but now it's here. It's a stupid (Stephen King-Like) little horror story. Hope you won't be too scared. Release on other platforms will be Friday the 13th of October 2023.

There’s a video too: 

https://youtu.be/miimwlPbggo?si=hu0Ap7McEqzcjaIS

Your Last Halloween

Midnight Tides

Gear used:

ESP - LTD Viper-7 Baritone Black Metal 7 String Guitar
Ibanez EDB 605 5 String Bass
Bias FX 2
EZ Keys I & II
EZ Drummer 2
EZ Mix I & II
EZ Master I & II
Cakewalk DAW by Bandlab

Guitars & Bass performed by me.
Drums programmed using Cakewalk DAW Sequencer Tool.

Whispers

Whispers/死亡ささやき

Aside from musical satisfaction and $$$ - the motivations for artists to keeping going can be an addiction to the love from the audience.

SCREAMING AND THROWING UNDIES

Take my time with plug-ins
Connection satisfaction
Waving arms like a summons
Pointy introductions
And soon I’m ridin’ minor sevenths
Endorphins in my canal
I’m like a godly presence
As music funks it’s way around

But the pessimist inside – says shoot me your lovin’ arrows
Cause the deficit is – oh - the needing of something so shallow
Gimme screaming and throwing undies (love me love me love me)
Gimme screaming and throwing undies

Career or labour of love
Try and define it
Eyeing up those at the front
Is anyone buyin’ it
I’m phrasing out the words I wrote
Looking for misty eyes 
Reaching for a soulful note
Into clover wrap me tight 

Nature’s opium ride
Musicality
Bathing up here in spotlight
Dopamine alchemy                             Yeah I’m riding . . .

SCREAMING and THROWING UNDIES

Impulsive

While reconstructing Moza's 'What If We Could Do Everything?' https://on.soundcloud.com/3MGj1
   I came up with a completely different melody and arrangement. I shared it with Moza, and he recorded vocals for it. Feeling that this relatively grand song lacked something, I thought of incorporating rap. I had been impressed with Lemon Muzik's work as a track maker, so I invited him to join as a rapper. I really like his rap. Additionally, he provided backing vocals for the chorus part. 

This is a Christmas present from the three of us. Merry Christmas.

'What If'

"This song is dedicated to all the Hopeless
Who got the less hope.
What if? What if?
If you just open your eyes 
And spread your mind up in the air
And just listen to this song.
Uh uh uh"

So long, so hard to find the meaning of love
but now you're gone
that is the way it goes i don't know

"(Ayo Listen)
Get the things just right (i said)
Get the things just right (i said)
Don’t tease it, but grab the opportunity
Seize the day! Carpe D.M.
Boys B M.B.tious 
Until the very end of the day
Hey~ Ho~"
 
So long, so hard to find the meaning of love
But now you're gone
That is the way it goes i don't know

The seasons change, but my love remains,
Through sunshine and storms, through joys and pains.
Though you're not here, I'll break these chains,
And hold on to the memories.

What If We Could Do Everything? 

"What if? "
Putting this on your radar
Putting on your armor
Get your own phone number
Love never felt so good

So hard to see
Love knows no end.
 
Vocal,Lyrics, Composion by mozawa_* https://on.soundcloud.com/n3oEo
Composition,Sampling collage, Mixed by Synline
Rap.,Lyric,Chorus By Lemon Muzik https://on.soundcloud.com/LYEcb
Photo by Anbe

'What If' mozawa_*=Synline=Lemon

✍ All rights reserved by Rolf Joseph
🆔1027
💿I don't mean them
🎵Josillion
📅250807

Lyrics:

You
All the things you say to me
Do you mean them
Though
You don't mean them
Do you
No
I know

And me
All the things I say to you
I don't mean them
Though
I don't mean them
Do I
No
I know

I been walkin' through a world gone blind
Can't stop thinkin' of your diamond mind
Careful creature made friends with time
He left her lonely with a diamond mind
And those ocean eyes

No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you give me those ocean eyes
I'm scared
Never fallin' from quite this high
Fallin' into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes

I've been watchin' you for some time
Can't stop starin' at those ocean eyes
Burnin' cities and napalm skies
Fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes
Your ocean eyes

No fair
You really know how


🆔1027 💿I don't mean them

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

Your Last Halloween

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