Name: Invincible by The KNM Collective
Duration: 4 min 53 s
Description: A dance track with guitars or a guitar track with electronic influences. It reminds of euro DJ mixed with stone roses smashed up with soft cell but at the same time sounds nothing like them! :D

This piece is based on the following:  I have long wondered at the percentage of "ambient" sound we suppress: infrastructure noises; highway traffic; fog horns; etc. etc.  That leads me to ponder the cost, if any, of utilizing a portion of our "energy" to continually suppress such sounds.   Finally, that in liberating and "redeeming" said disregarded, suppressed sounds, one can experience beauty and musicality.  This piece was made by my carrying a handheld digital recorder and perambulating a wide swath of my home neighborhood.   Moving through inhabited, to graveyard district industrial, to waterfront, underpass, basketball (that's the ghost of John Cage shooting hoops).  The buildings hum and the birds sing counterpoint.  I have managed, thus far, to suppress an overwhelming urge to start caressing, folding, manipulating, pounding these sounds into something else.  As they stand, however, many of them would be worthy of any electronic ambient composition and I wanted to present them in their natural glory.  Hence, while doing a minimal amount of trimming, snipping and constructing a coherence to the piece, I stayed away from reverb, looping, delay, compressor etc. etc.

A couple of things:  Some of the sounds are church services that I passed by.  I don't know the churches or the singers but I found them to be exceedingly beautiful and of great meaning to me.  It is with profound respect that I offer my thanks.  Similarly, I don't know who took the picture...it looked cool and appropriate, however.  Thank you!  

Hope you enjoy!!

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A dance track with guitars or a guitar track with electronic influences. It reminds of euro DJ mixed with stone roses smashed up with soft cell but at the same time sounds nothing like them! :D

Invincible

This is the first recording of my original song “Easy Going” which was written in March 2024. In terms of the production it’s deliberately arranged to bring back memories of mid-90s Britpop tracks from bands such as Oasis, Cast, Suede, maybe even Manson and the excellent Longpigs.

If I’m honest this is a song about the regrets of getting older and how quickly time flies. I’m almost certainly over halfway through my expected lifespan. More and more I get a real sense of the idea that with some things, I can just never go back to them. I look back at my mid-20s and I can NOW see that this was a fantastic period of freedom and pleasure, and that at the time I just did not notice. I guess that’s all part of growing up.

The Britpop style of the track is entirely deliberate because that thrilling period of British music directly coincided with my mid-20s and hence the whole song is based around that time, both in subject matter and style. That period of my life took place in Leamington Spa, where I lived at the time.

The song was written and recorded at my current home in Penarth, near Cardiff in South Wales.

*LYRICS*
You had a look, a look you used to wear
I used to know just what it meant, I swear
But now I’m not so sure
I guess we’ll never know
Can’t reverse time, can’t go back to then
No-thing is gonna bring you back again

Life’s not as long as it seems
Hold on tight to your vanishing dreams
Because

Easy going easy going easy gone
Easy does it easy did it easy’s done
Easy easy oh it’s just way too easy
Way too easy
Getting gone

We thought we’d made it
We thought that we’d arrived
That white apartment
Towered above the night
We lived in a movie
But we never knew
Frank in the bar and Ella at home
Gin in the fridge and your folks on the phone

Life’s not as long as it seems
Hold on tight to your vanishing dreams
Because

Easy going easy going easy gone
Easy does it easy did it easy’s done
Easy easy oh it’s just way too easy
Way too easy
Getting gone

Putting off a million things
This can wait, and so can that
The steady click click click
Of a metronome
The steady tick tick tick
Of your days

Easy going easy going easy gone
Easy does it easy did it easy’s done
Easy easy oh it’s just way too easy
Way too easy
Getting gone

Written and arranged by Mark CBH
Lyrics copyright (c) 2024 Mark CBH - Reproduced with permission

Easy Going

08 - LOVE DIMENSION (Pod Mix)
BPM: 82
SOUNDS LIKE: Thompson Twins
ISRC: CARI82400008
Written by Elyce and Benjamin Russell

Music Video: https://youtu.be/7a5yDpcfUWQ

About: "There's a little part of me that some people never do see." This is a song of hope - there's another side to humans that often gets overlooked in the rush to the future.

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Who are we? why are we here? what do we want? Listen and enjoy :)

Invincible

The KNM Collective

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