Listening December 2022

Spacebike

Captured the feeling off extreme anxiety an the thoughts it can produce

Anxiety

Hmmm this was inspired by, you guessed it, the trials and tribulations of LIFE!! My sink has been clogged for a while so I was inspired to write a song about it. WARNING: if no one has told you -- don't out coffee grounds down the kitchen sink :) but yeah i am really just out here trying to make it through 

Lyrics: 

my sink won't drain, it's clogged all the time
wonder if my landlord can fix it on the fly
working doubles just to make it by
nobody warns you how hard you have to try

at this life
at this life

23, don't know what's in front of me
worked so hard on a bachelors degree
just to spend my nights bartending till three
nobody warns you how hard you have to try

at this life x4
nobody warns you how hard you have to try

this life

This is a recording of me and two other 8th grade classmates performing live in front of the 6th and 7th grade classes at my grade school to raise money for The March of Dimes in 1975.

Ron Snyder - The Love Bug (Original Song) - LIVE performance from 1975 at 14 years old

Asperitas 2

Um trabalho que fiz há muito tempo atrás e que me surpreendeu grandemente em termos musicais.

Rever o passado e conseguir entender como evoluímos é muito importante.

MÚSICA Alan Menken
SAX SOPRANO Daniel Vissotto
SAX TENOR Daniel Vissotto
ARRANJO Inspirado na versão de Celine Dion e Pablo Bryson.
MIXAGEM Daniel Vissotto

Beauty And The Beast (Alan Menken) [releitura]

Connery's Gizmo

01 - 2nd try at Drifting By (mastered)

"Without You" is a sonic blend of late-night nostalgia and raw emotional pulse.
Driven by a jazz-rock groove, RnB undertones, and '90s synth textures, this track speaks of loss, memory, and resilience.
A haunting female voice floats through the mix—sometimes whispering, sometimes crying out—in fragments like:
"Crazy... feel the life... make me feel the way..."

It's the echo of a love now gone, suspended in the silence that follows.

This is not just a song.
It's a bedroom at midnight.
It's a voice looking back.
It's the absence that shapes presence.

▶️ Listen. Feel. Remember.

Music composed & produced by Michel Allard

Without You

Without you - KRT Production


First time in harmonic minor. Begins with the classic theme and superimposed chords on the 3rd and 5th on your right speaker. I had to give the mixer (unlimited revisions) some degree of freedom. I would have done it 1 sweep to the left  and 1 right. For each section some theory use. So 1st verse, the violins are playing lydian b3 cos’ the vocals sounded empty on it’s own and I wanted some ‘out of the box’ stuff. The chorus ends on D7 which is an outside chord. That was a chord I accidentally hit on guitar and when it returns to Eminmaj7 it’s a deceptive cadence. Double harmonic minor and whole tone on 3rd degree for the trumpets. The ‘through the gaps part’ I did on 5th improv. Wasn’t happy with the chorus I had written and just improvised over the chorus on Logic. That’ s some of my best flow. 2nd verse I did counterpoint for Bond motif. 2nd chorus, the first line you hear was taken from my original improv. It sounded more fitting as the start of a chorus. I had to write an extra violin line for the chorus to keep it aligned with my ‘every chorus line has different orchestration’ philosophy. The bridge has the drums in mostly half time as well as beginning in the key of G. First time I placed a secondary dominant in the middle of a phase cos’ usually I put it at the end. Then, a chromatic chord sequence. Last chorus I complete my strings cos’ I had violins 1/ 2 and I thought I’d finish it off with violas and cellos. It is polyphonic cos I prefer it when composers write lines that don’t match vocal melody.

I take each part of me apart
Like you didn’t feel me
Like the air was distilled by our heart and I don’t
Show a tell because my mind is withered down
Break a sweat because pieces don’t make a sound
The lies we keep lie razor deep like stains on last nights bed sheets
Could we ever leave this life behind my eyes don’t deceive me but my heart is blind

Every bullet has our nations name on it.
In the name of the crown, with the sound of it. ( to keep it accurate cos’ the queen is dead)
I have loved you for who you are and even if you didn’t know I’d always love you. (Kind of a letter to Vesper)
I have always been so sure of this, from the moment I saw you, I knew that I would kiss you.
And even though we fell through the gaps and everything 
Always made me sure that I would be amiss.  

Somebody won’t do it if I wouldn’t do it for your lies 

Every little bit of malice that we detest
Every little bit of sadness in our breath 
Shakes the foundations of what we build to its chest
Am I not a reader of obituaries  (Skyfall reference)
Am I not the protector of sanctuaries 
I’ll lift this orphaned past into a future of service to war (accurate to Bond’s orphan upbringing)

I’d drain the rivers dry just to taste something clean
I know that you will love me.  (Yes a proper Bond pick up line)

Yes, the most accurate Bond lyrics to date. Even pays homage to the bad old Bond films misogyny by saying ‘bitch.’ 
I really like Skyfall/Casino Royale.  I did ‘meet’ Daniel on Broadway when I was at NYU. Walk passed him and should have asked  ‘what was M16 doing on Broadway?’ but in NY the cool tradition is ‘leave celebrities alone’. I think he was good and some people point out the blonde hair but he looks more like a thug than previous Bonds which is closer to Fleming’s idea. People criticise Dr. Christmas Jones for not looking like a nuclear scientist but Pierce looks more like a model than a spy. Not that I know what spies look like. I wanted to criticise the writers for sticking Vesper in every Craig film.  I was watching No Time To Die with my sister in the cinema I was thinking, “Vesper…again?”.  I finally found out she sacrificed her life for him so to mope for all of his films is fine. I did not like the ending which I thought ripped off ‘Hero’ with Jet Li except they replaced  arrows with missiles. I noticed Daniel does swim well. Then, he did the Belvedere commercial and that kind of ruined a little of his Bond image for me. 


Vesper Lynd

In Memory of Chuck Pfrang

Ron Snyder - Vocals; Lead Guitar; Riff Guitar; Slow Rhythm Guitar; Drum Arranger; Producer  
Joe Storino - Vocals; Fretless Bass Guitar
Joe DeBrizzio - Fast Rhythm Guitar (right side)

You Did It Right (Chuck) - Snyder/Storino/DeBrizzio

L'impatience de grandir, la nostalgie de l'enfance.
Vidéo youtube : https://youtu.be/BeF8knbC_tA?si=gnsOlHDJxwXCxIPG
Une reprise que j'ai pris plaisir à réaliser.
Images : Sissi Lia

Plus tard quand tu seras grand - Aldebert - Cover

A farewell letter translated almost literally into music. Often one loves more than the other. It's about an affair. One falls in love, and only when he realizes that she doesn't really love him, even though he'd give up everything, he understand that he has to let her go.

Let U Go

This has the second-most drafts of anything I've done (eight) behind William Tell Should've Known, recently with 12 drafts.

This Male Hypergamy Stuff Is Hard

BLACKOUT - MUSE - DUO - (COVER)

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs ;  https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem ;  https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .

Asperitas 2

The Fall of Saigon

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