Well crafted song, it's a pleasure to include it in our Christmas and Holiday music group.

It's never too late...   Good stuff as always...nice textures all around.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend

How the sounds were created might best be described as follows: 
- Recorded 5 polyrhythmic guitar tracks (in 3, 4, 5 and 7) live, over the entire duration of the track ~3.5 minutes
- Disguised them, only allowing each to come to the fore occasionally
- Added up-front metallic sounds, single hit percussion and a bassy pad
- Mixed those ingredients to allow different aspects to shine in turn.

Thanks @disquiet and @tobiasreber for this inspiring prompt!
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THIS LITTLE PIGGIE WENT DISCO DANCING

Video of this being performed here: https://vimeo.com/909526148

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L-Amp [disquiet0631]

New Single "Candlelight".
Streaming smart links here - https://courteousthief.co.uk/candlelight

Candlelight

From the album Limitation https://armaturesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/limitation

Check out the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTgCOTNyHk

Limitation

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"Thank You For Last Time," Project Blackbird’s new single, sees the band’s shapeshifting sound subtly moving in a dub-flavored direction. Echoing elements of spy-fi movie soundtracks, the band creates swirling grooves beneath a blanket of vocals that recall ‘60s French pop.

“It was just two words in my head: time, fiction. That was the jumping off point,” notes vocalist Ming Nagel. “I went back to Iceland a few years ago (after first going there in the '90s), and culled some of the lines in the verses and the spoken word part from a poem I wrote during that second visit. There’s a phrase in Icelandic that basically translates to ‘thank you for last time.’ It’s what Icelanders say when they bump into old friends. On the surface, the song is a love letter to Iceland; it’s an incredibly mysterious and inspiring place. On a deeper level, it’s about the elasticity of time and the process of grappling with getting older and meeting your past selves.”

As the song unfolds like a slightly funkified casual Sunday drive, a dreamscape travelogue emerges, adding an air of mystery that hints at multiple layers of meaning beneath the surface. It’s otherworldly and earthbound all at once, defying time and creating new musical fiction.
(Night Train PR)

Lyrics:

to everything that I adore
in this isolated world:
fates and furies, nights unfurled

time – fiction – time – fiction

mounds of graymoss in the fields
reptiles swelling to reveal
cracks of their tectonic scales

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

I head to sands that are still belted by a sash of volcanic boulders
it’s strange to be back again - 20 years on and feeling much older
like looking in a mirror through a hazy lens, backwards over your shoulder
later we search for the cottage, on the coastline where I stayed

waters rich in alkaline
write a somnolent slow sweep
dreams tilt on the edge of sleep

time – fiction – time – fiction

each departure is a loss
each farewell is something gained
time stealing itself from time

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

here it stands – Bakkasel, my age
I know that both our stories have changed
I walk past expanses of green and unused foundations
everything is dying or in a state of gestation
the corrugated slopes bleed into the sky like an impressionist painting

Credits:
Music: Varley / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel

ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – bass guitar / JON READ – keyboards, trumpet / MING NAGEL – vocals

Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).

This is the first single from Project Blackbird's forthcoming (2024) album, True Names.

Thank You For Last Time

Dedicated to everyone who has lost someone close to them.
Mixed and mastered by Manu Arteaga.

Recently deleted MASTER

back to the roots
back to original Kinshasa

Mapeka - is about Politique ya mabe - Bad politics
The word mapeka can be interpreted all kinds of ways
Like all Kinshasa slang
It’s the stance of someone showing off
The strut of a big ego

In this song it’s the arrogance of evil politicians
Mocking their audacity
With a raucous kind of chorus calling out ‘mapeka ya politicians’

And in typical Kinshasa style, band leader Matondo shouts out the instrumentalists as they begin playing pure fire start to finish.

Credits:
Mulele Matondo - band leader, bass guitar, vocals
Jethro Massamba - guitar
Shyam Shah Uday - guitar
Yves Bampelenga - drums
Serge Kadima - congas, percussion
Anna Chai - saxophone
Jessica Booty, Kolawole Ganikale, Fleur Marshall - backing vocals

Recorded by Nikolay Georgiev at ICMP, London
Mixed by Ross Halden
Mastered by Mark Beazley

Mapeka

Mapeka by Matondology Riot

Here's a little song I wrote about going home for Christmas. It's included on a six-song holiday CD from Bellwether Squares...the new pop-rock project I'm doing with Jaime Lewis-Gollihare. We record in our living room...as well as our hallway, bedroom, closet and even the bathroom on occasion. (But never in the kitchen. The fridge buzzes too loudly.) We wanted to create a lonely-yet-hopeful holiday song that even folks who don't particularly like holiday music could enjoy. I'd like to think "It's Not Too Late" manages to do that. If not, I've got a song about a guy being chased by disasters that you might be interested in...
https://www.facebook.com/BellwetherSquares
https://bellwethersquares.bandcamp.com/

BELLWETHER SQUARES - It's Not Too Late

The House of Jed is the solo project of drummer Jarrod Gollihare. He lives in a glass and cement box overlooking a river and some factories. That's also where his studio is. He writes pop songs about comet strikes and pretty girls and other natural disasters with good beats. He plays in several other bands, but in *this* one he gets to call all the shots and make all the sounds...for better and worse.

BELLWETHER SQUARES - It's Not Too Late

The House of Jed

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