sends chill down my spine … wonderful chord progression, top harmonies

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Dedicated to my freaks in Mind Watching Your Elbow https://soundcloud.com/mind-watching-your-elbow 

I'm Seeing Myself to Hell with Greasy Elbows

Up again on SC. Have fun with it: Lyrics: Support us and buy our music @ shadowpainter.bandcamp.com

we have the choice to change this if you please
can't sell my mind it's certain don't believe
in any lie they try to tell
as even they can't really spell
it's sad

your hate just builds up these walls
they will fall down someday
you're reaching for the wrong hands
they'll bury you someday

Guitar and Vocals: Sascha Bücher
Bass: Philipp Löfflat
Drums: Nicholas Alan Taylor

Music written by: Sascha Bücher, Philipp Löfflat and Nicholas Alan Taylor
Lyrics: Sascha Bücher

Mammals

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Choice

This piece is dedicated to the loving memory of my Guitar Teacher  Enrico Farinelli may the stars play with him for ever.

Il Corriere Smarrito

The Incredible Philosophy Of Everything

Unknown album (09/12/2012 19:24:45)

I am the bomb

Dart Vader's dope (Arturia microbrute mix)

Imagine a beautiful melody, and you know how hard it can be... now imagine a second melody, A third and even a forth, completely different in structure and aesthetics, but still sitting alongside the first, without altering or deviating from the main song theme.
Put them together, and make them sound like something greater than themselves.

I've written this track for three acoustic Guitars, Violins and Organ. All their bassline's differ, but I kept the higher notes more uniform for structure.
I panned the violins far left and organ far right so it's easier to distinguish the separate melodies. There are also multiply melodies and harmonies in both the violins and the organ. I hope you can pick out the individual melodies and harmonies as they follow each other, before deviating onto their own path, while keeping the structure and progression of the song the same.

P.S.
I've copied the violins and organs at the end so you can hear the individual parts more clearly.

When I Think Of You

Photo Artwork:
Sayan Nath
https://unsplash.com/photos/l3NHCLojHds

Many thanks to a most helpful artist,
https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
in listening and helping me with improving my EQ technique.
I still have a long way to go, but I think I am getting there.

ALSO:
A very talented member of the SoundCloud Community:
https://soundcloud.com/arcaans
has done me the honor of producing a fine video for the occasion:
youtu.be/ecNxHF4g68Q

In working with this song,
I checked out some of the instruments that are used throughout India:
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/indi/hd_indi.htm
Some of which are included (or close approximations)
in Logic Pro X.

If the song comes out a bit westernized,
please understand, I am only a distant witness
many times removed from the culture.

Dream Of India

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade
By David Husted

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade Sun Drops    
Melting on an ocean's horizon   

I Wipe the mud from my knees
over madness
The windows are weeping as I lay dreaming 
Of stranded Islands
Empty and stripped clean


Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages 
Bubble gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

V2
Einstein and Heisenberg in parliament
Embers proliferating magic
Thriving through the time fields sucking information from the cosmos
Our very constitutions dust and water; 
Gold and oil on the alter now;  be a ghost to this chatter
Plot our lives in advance,……….     Of the rising sands

Ch
Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages now
Bubble  gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

Bridge

We will not Run
We will not run   

Ch 

The Chorus has a psychedelic vibe to it but with its own unique twists and turns.  I tried not to box myself into corners with my lyrics and used a very open ended process to my word smithing.  I felt know need to present you anything too "air-tight" in terms of story or arrangement.  This is what I love about song writing. I toss up ideas (the crazier the better) and see what happens.  Once I have a kaleidoscope of working pieces I gently mold them into forms that contain loose tendrils of cohesiveness and meaning but only just barely.  This is one of those song's I created with no preconceptions or creative borders and I just let my mind go where it wanted to.  Sometimes this works and sometimes it is a disaster.  In this case I arrived at something I liked enough to share with you.  

Never mind that Dave, what is the song about?  

It has something to do with the excruciating beauty of a sunrise.  It has something to do with love.  It has something to do with how quickly time moves forward.  It has something to do with how impermanent everything really is (including us).  It has something to do with how lucky we are to be the tiniest spark of a flame witnessing this miracle before us for the most minuscule parenthesis in time.  It has something to do with stepping out of my self imposed cage, and yet not running away and hiding.  It has something to do with staring this beautiful, wild catastrophe of existence right in the face and enjoying the ride.   Far Out Dude. Now go put your favorite tie dye shirt on, grab a cup a coffee and listen to my song : )!   Groovy Man…..Will Do!  

May your corners curve like lemonade.

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade

Lothlorien

you on my mind

This is the 2nd composition in my ongoing collaboration with artist and photographer Helena Whitten.

Helena uses the technique of slow-shutter exposure to capture the beauty and fragility of life in unexpected places. In her own words, "When the shutter on a camera is left open, there is the opportunity to capture a substantial segment of time. The action is then trapped in a two-dimensional image and can be viewed in its entirety, in an instant. The shutter rises like the curtain on a stage. A drama is played out and then the curtain falls. In that time, I see an opportunity to tell a story."

"The events and figures are almost living and breathing, they want to persist in the present and into the future. But the paradox of slow-shutter work is that these figures, with their disappearing arms, legs and heads, inescapably become ethereal and ghostlike, barely there and slipping away.

This photograph was taken at Poltimore House and is titled, "Forgotten".

To see more of Helena's stunning photography and our collaboration, follow our Instagram accounts:

www.instagram.com/helewhitty/
www.instagram.com/giftsfromcrows/

The Empty Mirror

Finally, after some years giving the guitar a go and trying to make a living as janitors, HMS are back. With a slightly melancholic and reflective track about everything that counts in a more or less unhinged world.

Seasons End

Part of the 5-track Jazzcapades EP - latin flavored vocal jazz tracks - initially composed by Gregor Theelen (2014) - featuring exciting vocal performances by Lieve Geuens @lieve-geuens in her own phonetic language.

Arranged and produced by Peter Heckmann for Rose Records and Publishing (2020).

Mix / master by Peter Heckmann - track licensed through Anthology Records.
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dDkR4KY1DZl3kCNF0dijp

Jazzcapades

Caribbean Summer

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Caribbean Summer (feat. Lieve)

Original track - https://youtu.be/PjzmXmaUu1U Al an Haw ksh aw : As tral Pla in
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MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming

Loop Diggers Midnight Wax Challenge 7, Track 1 - A S T R A L _ P L A N E

kinda funky - a bit 2021 meets the 60s lyric video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WySRs9v515E

Nothing better than having good musical chemistry with someone.
Didier on the instruments :) :)
Camo on the pipes :)
https://soundcloud.com/blindsessionproject

we go back to square 1, it's on us all and it's been said and done
we jump up to square 2, reciting promises, they're meant for you
we look to square 3, to break the monotony
we look down at square 4 and pick the pieces off the floor

can you see me, can you hear me, can you feel me, do you know what I'm sayin'
in the same time, in the same place
at the same time, in the same place

say there goes number 5 and all that jive
look to number 6, throw down those drum sticks
7, close your eyes and feel the light
well there goes 8 and then comes 9
9 is for cats, I don't have time for that
10, we hope to see you again, we don't have time for more
.....sorry 11

no time 4 11 - blind session 'n camo

My daughter Tara doesn't really understand the concept of a public payphone. ...and I suppose there is no sense in having public payphones in a post covid world. This is a song to go with the pic I took of the last payphone in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Last Remaining PayPhone In North Hollywood

Music fan and hobbyist musician.  I love to listen to everything and there isn't enough time in the world for all the music there is to hear.

The Mental Straights is my musical ramblings on a plate. From dirty fuzz pop to anarchic and wacky , to punk to funk. But all laced with the same DNA.
And it's all old school...no computer trickery, just play and record and go. 
www.thementalstraightsuk.com
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I am the bomb

THE MENTAL STRAIGHTS

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