I love the melody in the background during the whole song. Beautiful song. The pad at the near end very good

Very good song, with great lyrics! well done :)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDM3VADoGud/?igsh=ZDk2OGhrYWNqc3o2 91 Year old man describes Ireland with a poem. So beautiful ❤️

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it is in fact no Gretsch $ Its a Harley Benton... :-D

Improvised L-guitar, excuse the flaws.

Demo Songs 2024

Funk with New Friend Gretsch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sax2yyZKDU0

ー歌詞ー
酸の雨に濡れる景色
身を焦がした溶ける影

死を描いた歪む意識
弧を描けば過ぎる影

人、闇溶け、散弾銃が笑う

人皆唾を吐き重ねてゆく
笑う同じ穴の貉
辿る先には死の穴

睡蓮が血の池に咲き乱れ
空を喰った
朽木の枝を突き刺して
蟻の巣に潜り込んだ
この世は全部真っ黒な修羅だけが
生きる世界
この世に真理等は無い
修羅だけが笑う世界

愛していたのに両目を潰した

人、闇、紛れ込み
罪重ねる
笑う同じ穴の貉
辿る先には死の穴

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LLAMADO

enjoy your summer.

https://youtu.be/HPd3z3hMtSA

summer squall

Words and Music by Roger Whittlesey. Arranged by Whittlesey and Audric Jankauskas. Guitar and synth by Jankauskas. All other sounds by Whittlesey. ©2024

Dear Reader, 

What is existence? Who made time? Is there a governing force? These are questions that cannot be answered with any certainty. Humankind has spent thousands of years creating stories to answer these questions and there are as many answers as there are cultures. 

When something good happens, there is a tendency for some to thank a deity. But what about when something bad happens? Some will say that this event was the deity's doing too, and that it is all part of some grand plan. 

I prefer not to twist myself into a pretzel attempting to apply logic to what are leaps of faith. And so, I follow science as it attempts to get closer to truth. In this song, I apply—in a whimsical way—a religious trope (Say Amen) to what is my secular belief. I encourage all to follow their own beliefs, whether sacred or secular. I cast no aspersions no matter what your beliefs, so long as those beliefs do not impinge upon the beliefs and freedoms of others. 

My special thanks to Audric Jankauskas for joining me on this song. His immense talent as a guitarist may be known to those of you who have heard him play on several of my other songs, but you should also know of his great musicianship, arranging and compositional skills. Audric added those beautiful angular lines toward the end of the song, which I think are so cool. 

This has been a great summer for me. I've had the opportunity to collaborate with at least 12 other musicians—talented players and singers from all around the globe. The autumn approaches, but the music will continue—I still have much more music that I am eager to release. 

Thank you for your continued support.

All My Best, 

Roger Whittlesey
August 2024

Say Amen

Tempo 86 bpm
Tuning 415.30Hz A ⬇️1️⃣ semitone from 440Hz
Timing 4/4

Dm / Gm / F / Am  //  F / Am / C / Edim  //

Lyrics

Gazing through the green,
It's an age old Irish scene.
I hear one day it was ice.
Frozen snakes
Their old bridge could not survive. 

So we set up camp where the water ran best
And waited it out with our inuit treasure chests 

Fish and Deer and Wolf and Bear
Limited cheer
There was no divide
Just the will to survive
And wait for sunny pastures here 

Now we're the Island
Less Earth extremes were finding
'Oh but that bit of rain'
No yearly hurricane
Texan tornados?
You 'aint going to find them 

Welcome to Ireland
Got culture
Keep us shining





Notes

In this song I explore life on Ireland during and coming out of the last ice age. Apparently the ice never fully covered the land and a large band of green remained habitable from east to west. It appears to be accepted that a land bridge existed back then between Ireland and Britain. So early humans and animals could have more freely migrated here. it also suggests that during the melt the land bridge was cut off. this is likely the reason we don't have any exotic creatures like snakes etc... this is a poignant point for me, finding out why snakes actually aren't here... vs being parroted to when I was younger that Saint Patrick got rid of them... so much of religion limits the mind even when it's a seemingly harmless tale. I guess the source of this tale is the church attempting to be super natural in the eyes of its masses and in turn adding to its indoctrination of everyone in the past...


I also love the idea of focusing on Ireland well before any modern societal divides evolved on the Island. I love England as much as any other country... But I think it's bullshit that in 2024 we're still talking about some imaginary line that divides north and south. We are an Island and that's what this song aims to remember before religion fucked things up for a while!

Ireland

Force Majeure (2001) Tangerine Dream Cover

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Don-t-Leave-1011397509

For Those I Love, I Will Challenge Myself

Written 2002

Why go beyond this face 
To no longer replace and only embrace this soul
It kinda likes it…
You’ll find it might fit...

You can’t grow while running from this
Down clenching your fist,
Your hot head is too mystical
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it

Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
There really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

I know to look to this place
Search every last little trace
Find why all’s interlaced with the cold
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it.


Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
there really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

📜The Other Side

Written 2014

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin! We're all the furking same. The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a biggited NBA team owner. the good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands. the racist gesture is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment.

apparently the amount of melanin changes Iver time in our skin depending how long our decendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there. That's it! apart from that we all shit piss and whine

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

Horns by Simon Culliton

📜Scribe

Locked Away Thoughts

“Crown me in silence…
Dress me in sin…
And pierce my faith again…”

They said pain would purify 
But it only made me colder.
Wrapped in thorns they called divine,
As the blood slid off my shoulder.

Their scripture kissed with acid tongues,
Their prayers stitched in disguise.
I swallowed light, they called it truth 
But all I tasted…
Was lies.

Thorns on my head, blood in my mouth,
Lies like nails, driving doubt.
I wore the crown they made for gods 
But felt the steel of every fraud.

You preached of grace while burning books,
Guilt turned into gold you took.
I knelt in fire, I begged the stone 
But heaven stared with hollow bones.

The choir weeps in perfect pitch,
While sin drips from their holy switch.
A lash, a lie, a kiss, a cross 
What’s salvation if I’m the loss?

This is not redemption — this is rot.
I gave my soul. They gave me… what?
A crown of thorns. A book of rules.
A grave dug deep. A world of fools.

Thorns on my head, blood in my mouth,
Lies like nails, driving doubt.
I wore the crown they made for gods 
But I broke it off with spiteful jaws.

Thorns… blood… lies…
“And none of it was mine.”

Thorns, Blood, Lies

California Girl

The photo used in this tune is my actual wall in an old apartment I lived in. I had started fully using hard drives so ze CDs went on the wall in the shape of a head with a line of them also making a wave through it... Awww miss the old physical albums but sure we're spoiled now with detail



Written 2015

Colour me in
Fill in your own meaning
Welcome the world after the wonderful you
As you’re winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
You’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Covered in sin
I let the werewolf win.
This strenght straddles the world
No further fools.

As your winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
Who’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Colour me in.
Colour your sin
Two minutes tamed time
Now the fear is thin

📜Fill

Written 2015

The shivers in this song refer to the rush of a feeling you get through your back and body when some idea or someone has inspired you. A flow of nerve energy I suppose. I associate relating these feelings to reading shaman texts in my late teens and early twenties and when I was first going.... What the fuck is that? Those words gave a solid answer back then for me 🌿🌎

When the world wakes up from fear I believe we will revisit all these old cultures ways of life and truly embrace the truths we may have missed. There was possibly a less insular approach to imaging their own existence back then. Found, inside each of us and discovered in maybe a simplicity muted by the noise of the modern world.

Lyrics

Some shiver should sharpen this world.
We’re putting shape to the shamans soul 
Aligning old paradiso
These inner movements in you

Each shiver comes raising your game
Fruit truths trapeez to being again
They  align what the sorcerer say
Shiver inner movements in me

Hold me close
That me is you
An inner party of proofs
Yearning for your truce

Let me know
Of your fears or your foe
Gotta talk to that soul
Shiver inner movements in all

The shaman shiver
Gifts your shine deliver
Emotive river
Feel the shaman shiver
The spirits spine
Good quiver
Ease wisdom hither

The Shaman Shiver

This is my bro's favourite song of mine. He's my best friend


We're keeping it real...
Where could we go?
I know!
I can only be me
You can only be you
For each just one vision
Their life long live tv
Be gone superstition
Truth to keep this life real

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

If your highest values are still Romes imagined lies
Then your God is a lie
They have these mind diets and false beliefs
To control the eyes of the weak

But this is modern life
And we have real visionaries
Who gobble up ologies
The passed soul
Philosophise be a plato
The truth in time answers infinitly
This evolutionary rhyme where hope springs discovery
The perfect solutions
Intellect to all sentient beings
The final freedom of our inner liberty
Some day they’ll realise how the truth can free
Some soldered light born in string theory
The strings of you and all the beauty bowed all through

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

We're keeping it real

Keep It Real

Howdy,

Welcome to TBD.

All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs.

Thanks for all of your wonderful support.

Peace and Love to Everyone,

Carl Culliton



What playing music does to your brain

https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng?si=KJt33NWjUo63ieAm



A nice David Bowie Interview here:

https://youtu.be/JRtZc_Nmo5w?si=1g1Wag87NdEumAc4

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