The Lost & Found

Tunecode:  532534EQ
The first song off of the 6 song release in 2011.  (Originally a tape recording).   The chords were played to me by Tim, the guitarist/vocalist, and I wrote the lyrics as he played them.   In his absence I created the rest of the track and he added guitar and vocals at a later date.

The Lost & Found History

Cynical Lover

Cynical Lover (Song 401) 14-09-2021

Tunecode: 490640HU
A song from 'The Lost & Found - 1st Demo Recordings (1999-2000) release in 2010.  All originally tape recordings, hence the quality!

Girl From The City

Girl From The City (Song 394)  *Update 18-09-2021*

A song that was first written and recorded in the early 90s.  A publishing company was very interetsed but I couldn;t find a guitarist to record the song in the studio in Reigate,  This is a re-recording (with an extra verse) in 2014 (I think) with Tim Kerley on guitar and additional vocals.  This was just a quick home recording (as most of my songs are lol!).

The Lost Collection New Songs 

Love Music (Song 016) Rough Practice

Recorded around year 2000.  The whole song was written by Tim, I just created the keyboard/beat accompaniment.

1st Demo Recordings (1999 - 2000) - EP

The System

Recorded around year 2000.  Never practiced this and recorded it first take virtually.

Intro.        On closes, drives, crescents, lanes
                 On avenues, streets, roads and motorways
                 Pedestrians, cyclists, bikers, drivers
                 Running, cycling, riding, driving.
 
    V1.       The cars go so fast
                 Stopping, starting, swerving past
                 People dodging, pushing, bumping
                 Rushing, stumbling, stopping for nothing
                 People live in dreams, it seems
                 They wander between the cars
                 Brakes squeak, tyres screech
                 Cars’ horns honk and beep.
 
     CH.    Nightmare!
                It’s a nightmare out there
                It’s a nightmare
                Live nightmare out there
                It’s a nightmare
                Like a nightmare out there
                No-one’s got the time to spare for care.
 
      V2.    And going in and out of town
                Cars are long in traffic jam
                Roundabouts are crammed with sound
                Of all the engines running ‘round
                It’s never ending queues and streams
                Of traffic lights from red to green
                Then green to red, they stop again
                People flood when they see green men.
  
                CHORUS
 
      V3.    On motor and dual-carriageways
                More and more crash each day
                They speed along, the current’s strong  
                Through day and night they carry on
                Up and down, town to town
                To and from, all day long
                Back and forth, a racing course
                East, south, west and north.
 
                CHORUS
 
     V4.     I grit my teeth and pull my hair
                Vehicles crashing everywhere
                I twist and turn and roll in my bed
                My dream’s a nightmare filling my head
                Cars are wrecked and people screaming
                Fires are blazing, smoke is streaming
                Tears are flowing, crying, not knowing
                If lying injured loved ones are dying.
 
     CH.    Nightmare!                
                It’s a nightmare out there                
                It’s a nightmare                
                Live nightmare out there                
                It’s a nightmare                
                Like a nightmare out there      
                It’s a nightmare
                Live nightmare out there
                It’s a nightmare
                Like a nightmare out there          
                No-one’s got the time to spare for care. 
              
                                                                                © 1992 – Colin E. Pyle

Terraffic Nightmare

Terraffic Nightmare (Song 064) *18-09-2021 *Full Version Update*

My favourite tune which was written over 15 years ago.   The guitar solo, at the end, was recorded while Tim was jamming along to this tune.  Recorded back in the early 2000’s when writing and recording was always a great pleasure.  This tune inspired the lyrics 'Feeling Sound’.  The early stages of this tune were recorded back in 1995 by 'The Sand Bar Donkeys' and called ‘Feeling Sand’, but didn't contain the 3rd part of this tune.

The Lost & Found Tape Recordings (Remixed)

One Tu’  (Music to 'Feeling Sound')

Tunecode: 490640KN
Recorded at least 4 years ago with Tim Kerley on guitar and vocals only, but I have added two vocal tracks to it on 26th March 2018.  Poor quality recording but it’s the only thing we’ve done for a while.  If we improve it I will replace this recording.  It was originally written and recorded in the Wicked Babies duo in 1991.  Gotta admit it sounds terrible on my phone, but okay on my headphones through my computer.

The Lost & Found (2021 History Update)

SongCast

Way Above My Head  (Song 014)  *New Vocal Mix*

Tunecode: 490640HP
Lyrics:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-lost-connection/the-lost-found-song-452/2557130467707925/

A tune created in 2000 and lyrics added in 2001.   This tune we did not have enough time to record properly in 2001 but, with the help of recording technology, it has been transferred from a D90 tape and chopped and sliced to complete this song finally.   My vocals were added 18 years later.  The production isn’t perfect, due to a poor tape recording, but this is a tune I had great fun finally finishing.  This was the two man amalgamation in a very productive period and is my favourite lyrics and riff.  This riff also inspired an Innovator song during my period in the band('Southern Lady').  The main riff was modified and a slight verse chord change.

THE LOST & FOUND

VERSE 1
Me and him, he is Tim
When together we’re musically tuned in
He plays chords to me and inspires a melody
The two unite forming a harmony
The two of us create a musical statement
Of subconscious feeling
Lucid tones evolve when alone
Like self-controlled dreaming.

BRIDGE 
One, two, drift around around through different fields of sound
The future is unknown, but will always be “Lost & Found’.

CHORUS
The past and future is always ‘Lost & Found’
The past and future is always ‘Lost & Found’
The past and future is always ‘Lost & Found’
The past and future is always ‘Lost & Found’.

VERSE 2
I’m Lost, I’m buried, so I burrowed
Two days before what is tomorrow
One step ahead, two steps behind
Always in two frames of mind
Dusty books, faded looks
Photographed thoughts were took
Underneath a naked state
Not everything in life is fake.

BRIDGE

CHORUS

BRIDGE 2
Lost at a cost, but hide in a pride
Found with a sound, out from the inside
Lost causes, no applauses please
Let the past be….

CHORUS

© 2001 – Colin E. Pyle

The Lost & Found History (2021 Update)

The Lost & Found  (Song 452)  *19-08-2020 Update*

An old 4-track tape recording of Tim and I which has finally been completed with my vocals.  This current version is now just just a one-take vocal recording with no amendments(25-08-2018)although previous vocal tracks used as backing vocals.  Volume increased on 01-10-2018.

Feeling Sound (The L & F Version)

Feeling Sound  (Song 572)

Tunecode: 490640HQ
Was released on 6 track download in 2011.  This is the 2nd song written and recorded in 1999/2000.  The original lyrics were amended to fit a storyline I was given about a guy who had lived on the streets, but managed to live a normal life eventually.

The Lost & Found Histroy (2021 Update)

Stranger (Song 398) Remixed

Remixed and additional vocals added since licensed to #GettyLicense due to quiet old recording originally.

Revenge (Song 395)  *18-09-2021 Update*

Tunecode: 490640HV
This was written around Tim’s guitar riff.   I just looked through the lyrics I had and this one, in a twelve bar format, seemed to be ideal.   I created the rest of the song around this riff and, once I had worked out the whole song layout, we recorded it.  Tim Kerley on vocals and guitar.  We only had chance to do one guitar take for this song.

Released

Released (Song 168) Remix

Opportunity

Opportunity (Song 411) Remix

Tunecode:  490640KM
Song 405 was originally recorded at the same time as, but not on ‘1st Demo Recordings (1999-2000)’ by ‘The Lost & Found’.  It has been remixed to reduce the poor production hissing and shortened (as it was transferred from a 4-track tape recording in 2000).

Forever Love

Forever Love  (Song 405)

Tunecode: 490640HW
Lyrics:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-lost-connection/songcast-song-561/1491395117614804/

Originally released as a single in 2013 but withdrawn a few years later.  It will be re-released one day hopefully.  This is ’The Lost & Found’ line-up, but under ’The Lost Connection’ for the first time.

SongCast (Song 561)

A very old recording dating back to late 1980s possibly.  This was 'The Lost & Found' duo when jamming was all we did.

Exquisite  (Lost In The 80s) *07-01-2021*

Tape recording from the late 80s or early 1990s of 'The Lost & Found' jamming in a bedroom with a tapercorder.

The Lost & Found Era 

We Won't Stop

Freestyle jamming! From late 80's or early 1990's.

Rock It!

Another vintage session playing with Tim's idea.

Once Upon A Time

The Beginning Of...

https://the-lost-connection.com  is the place to learn about me and my history.  Although I am just a Warehouse Picker, I am also a songwriter/keyboard player (IPI.  1069682323).  I have written over 1000 song lyrics since 1989 and have released 12 albums.  My productions have never been good enough to promote and I'm happy being an unknown artist, writing and recording music for pleasure rather than as a professional.  In April of 2017 I created my own website.  If you are interested in my songs then please save and stream on internet streaming sites, such as YT Music and Spotify.   If you like my words then check out my book ‘The Words Behind The Music Volume One: Lost In Reality’.  There will be a 2nd book within the next year, The Other Ones Before (Then After).
 
I released my first album, 'Lost Property' in December 2019. In the following months I released 5 Best Of albums.  They contained 87 tracks which I'd recorded between 2011 -2019.  In March I decided to release another album of songs which I'd recorded on tape (1994 - 1998) although 'Love Music' was updated in 2018 and the poem , Arrival... In Due Time', was recorded to complete the 'Reality In Dreamland' story not long before the album release.  

'2020 Vision' was the last album release of 2020.  This contains the single 'Voluntary Redundancy' which is very significant in regard to the album and the year in general. 

The next album release was  'New Lost World 19-20-21' (released on 1-9-2021 and features songs recorded in that 3 year period) which does feature one song that was re-written in a collaborative format.  Many of the songs were recorded (or re-recorded) during my year break after redundancy.

Soon after my 9th album, I released 'The Lost & Found History', which was a duo that never had enough time to get ideas up and running, but the brief recording moments occurred and this album shows the results.  The recordings were done between 1999 - 2013, but a couple of the tracks were initially just music.  Lyrics were added and, in 2021, the vocals were added to complete the songs.  Other songs were meant to recorded but we never found the time.  

Progress was made during the COVID years and 'Whatever Happened' is an album that reveals the the results of attending a sync-writing course for 6 months; writing to briefs and collaborating.  It is mixed with personal, poignant and humorous songs.  it features lyrics from as far back as 1990. Before the release of the album 2 singles were promoted on Spotify: Won't Stop' and 'I Am Just Me'.  I am glad to reveal that the album will contain another version of 'Won't Stop' but called 'We Won't Stop' featuring Tim (the other half of The Lost & Found') on guitar and vocals (and co-writer of the music).

I may promote 'Voluntary Redundancy' from 2020 as I never gave it much exposure when first released.

Prior to focusing on my website and my  own releases I was in a heavy rock band...

At the beginning of 2013 I became the keyboard player with Innovator.    At the beginning of 2015, 'Time Is Running Out' but the first album was recorded before I joined the band.  'Spare Time' I introduced to the band and it was modified into an Innovator collaboration.  The song has been pre-recorded in it's original musical format , but lyrics amended since 2009 and is on '2020 Vision'.  A single was released on DistroKid in January 2016 for which I had a very big influence, called 'Southern Lady'.  It was a variation of a piece of music called 'The Lost And Found' recorded as a song many years before, but never released (as vocals not added until more recent years).  On this SoundCloud site I have deleted all the Innovator songs as I left the band in June 2017.  ‘Trapped Behind The Looking Glass’ was the 3rd album whi ch was released in August 2018,  on which I played on 6 of the songs and did backing vocals on ‘Dogs Of War’ (the deep chorus vocals).