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A selection from the show Goodbye with Joe Frank and Lester Nafzger
Music composed by Joe Frank; musicians Todd Tragar on guitar, Tony Merrill on bass, and Joe Frank, vocals.

Joe and Lester from "Goodbye"

drums by Lege Kale


I could let you have it
you could be my habit
you could be my woman, right
I dont want you half in
anytime I know
you're living in a hole
anytime I know

I could let you have it
you could be my habit
you could be my woman, right
I dont want you half in
anytime I know
living in your head
theres a backdoor

my little one
she is so bad
bad as the sun

well she break me then i fall
I dont know the half of it anymore

I could give a fuck about you
she can get whatever she need
everytime that she look at me
I feel weak in the knee
wanna try to be fancy, love
I could give a fuck about you
you know that I do my girl
feel it when you come in close
you always hit on the nose
never know how you could know

treat me like one
treat me treat me like a
I dont know the half 
why would you want her
treat me like the queen 
slap your knees 
like you been laughing 

chorus

I could be yours if you wanted

tell me

Habit

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Christmas in New York : from Road to Hell

Music and lyrics by Marie Abou Khaled, co-produced by Marie Abou Khaled and Zeid Hamdan, with additional arrangements by Marc Codsi and Jérémie Régnier.

Artwork photo by Mohamad Abdouni, art direction Melanie Dagher.

Lyrics:

اتطلَّعْ فييّ منيح
شو يعني
ما بَقْ بدَّك؟

أنا اعْطِيت كل شي
ومحيت كل شي
كِلْ حالي
كِرمِـلَك

اتطلَّعْ فييّ منيح
اعطيني لحظة
تا لاقي بنظرة
خَطّ الرجعة

إذا راح كل شي
أنا ليه 
عم بسهر كِرمـِلَك؟

كِرمـِلَك

ما بَقْ بدّي بَلّغَـك
ما بَقْ بدًي إهلَـكْ
ما بق بدّي خزق حالي
كل ما تقلّي وقلّك

ما بق بدّي ناقش
ما بق بدي فتّش
وأهم شي ما بق
بدّي نرجع نبلِّش

ما بق بدي إلمح وجّك على ايَّ شاشة
ما بق بدي اقرا اسمك وضلّني عذّب حالي
ما بق بدّي حِسّْ

Kermelak

A Joe Frank "celebration" of Memorial Day from the show I'm Not Crazy.

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Ode to War

A selection from the show Obsessions by Joe Frank. Appears in the CD compilation: Joe Frank Best of Monologues Vol 1

Obsessions

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Internal Debate from Best of Monologues

Thanksgiving : from Pilgrim

reflections in the water - Single

reflections in the water

Kim G. pyse er en tydelig svett dverg,
 en vimsete klyse og et sykelig spekkverk.
 Keiko har våkna og vi disser en svett nerd,
 den bleikeste måka, motbydelige fettberg.
 Får seg aldri fitte. Ingen damer liker’n. 
Spettet hans er mindre enn den aller minste spiker’n.
 Lite sympatisk, kortvokst og simpel.
 Syter dramatisk, bleikfeite insel. Det styggeste trynet.
 Sy på deg duck face. Gå og tygg deg i trynet.
 Hold kjeften med duct tape. 
Vennlig tips: Ikke snakk med jenter.
 Hold deg i mørket med en sjukt svær genser
. En feitere mann har jeg aldri sett.
 Verdens teiteste mann, holder aldri kjeft. 
Kim Kakemonster: Hold deg unna Oslo.
 Still deg ut i monter. Ikke nevn meg på Facebook.

Sludder Vs Kim Gangsta

smoked in the circus

Smoked In The Circus

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

9-2020.mp3

What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

A Strange Year - Disc One - (Album Sample)

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