Stupid

ONE DAY YOU WILL BE MINE -

A few things to say. I composed this song in 1982, fresh from reading of 'War and Peace'. Now I find a certain youthful verbiage in the lyrics, the song (naked and raw) has a 70s style. The recording of voice and guitar (live) is a few years old, rather sloppy, with bad mixing and excessive application of echo in some places.
To try to rescue it from its obvious banality, and to hide some of the errors and flaws, I've been arranging it these days using some vocal sampling as well, hoping to make it somewhat interesting.

Cover image: Louis-François Lejeune, "Visiting a Bivouac on the Eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1st December 1805" (1808). Musée de l’Histoire de France, Versailles.

English lyrics (rough translation)

The French counted the stars under Austerlitz
there had never seen so many fires lit in just one night
memories suspended in the winter, as cold as their hands
they had never been so pale, so skinny and far away
the emperor was dreaming or perhaps not sleeping
a woman he was waiting for in that night 
a war that was not waiting for him

the soldiers sang the cannons were silent
inside the chariots at the bottom of the plain 
the stars chased each other
the emperor drank, drank or maybe got drunk
a woman killed that night
a woman who smiled
the drunken emperor was looking
at that woman he did not know
Paris shrouded in a circle of smoke that was moving away

Paris woman dressed in black
Paris bride then already withered
Paris daughter of old Europe
Paris already betrayed
Paris bride dressed in dark
Paris woman then already grown up
Paris daughter of old Europe
Paris already lost

The French counted the wounded under Austerlitz
there had never seen so crosses hung in just one night
Suspended fragments of anger, hot as their hands
they had never been so pale, so alone and far away
the emperor was sleeping now he was dreaming
a woman who appeared that night 
a war that resembled him

the soldiers were silent the cannons smoked
in the hearts and at the bottom of the plain the voices hid 
the emperor drank, he drank now he got drunk
a woman he loved on that night
that woman frightened him
the drunken emperor was looking
that woman he recognised
Paris at the centre of a circle of light that drew closer

Paris woman dressed in white
Paris young frightened bride
Paris mother of new Europe
Paris already betrayed
Paris bride dressed in white
Paris woman then already grown up
Paris mother of new Europe
Paris already lost

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Music and lyrics by Michele Ansani (1982).
Posted on Soundcloud: 2024, July 2.

Austerlitz *

Happy to be back on SC with a new track, a new collaboration with my great friend and music inspirer Tom Régnier. Tom suggested we cover this popular French classic from the 70's, originally performed by Michel Delpech, and he created a wonderful arrangement in the purest Tom Régnier style. All I had to do was to sing and add a few guitar notes.

Arrangement, piano, keyboards and other instrumentation: https://soundcloud.com/tom-r-gnier
Vocals, guitar: https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2

J'ai mon rhumatisme
Qui devient gênant
Ma pauvre Cécile
J'ai soixante-treize ans
Je fais de la chaise longue
Et j'ai une baby-sitter
Je traînais moins la jambe
Quand j'étais chanteur

J'avais des boots blanches
Un gros ceinturon
Une chemise ouverte
Sur un médaillon
C'était mon sourire
Mon atout majeur
Je m'éclatais comme une bête
Quand j'étais chanteur

Un soir à Saint-Georges
Je faisais la kermesse
Ma femme attendait
Planquée, dans la Mercedes
Elle s'est fait jeter dans l'Indre
Par tout mon fan-club
J'avais une vie de dingue
Quand j'étais chanteur

Les gens de la police
Me reconnaissaient
Mes excès de vitesse
Je les payais jamais
Toutes mes histoires
S'arrangeaient sur l'heure
On m'pardonnait tous mes écarts
Quand j'étais chanteur

Ma pauvre Cécile
J'ai soixante-treize ans
J'ai appris que Mick Jagger
Est mort dernièrement
J'ai fêté les adieux de Sylvie Vartan

Pour moi, il y a longtemps que c'est fini
Je comprends plus grand-chose, aujourd'hui
Mais j'entends quand même des choses que j'aime
Et ça distrait ma vie

Alexis Roche's Album

Quand j'étais chanteur (cover) with Tom Régnier

Some nice old Style with a big Sax Pervormance By my Friend Joerxworx
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics 178 // Aktuelles Sport Studio // Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Timing 6/8
Tempo 170 BPM
Tuning 432Hz A & Drop D
Roots F / D

Note: Wrote this song after working out this song https://soundcloud.com/neowakan/lullaby-etude-rec?si=561558aeeb38406db91ecba2062ea37a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
It's a cracker and defo a song worth holding onto. That's what had me in drop D...

Eileen, My Nana and Aileen whom I've started working with musically are inspiring this song...
Slated for 2025 Album

My Nana gave me my first ever piano lesson. I remember it like a video. in this song I used the speed finger thumb cross over technique she showed me early on. I think of her "Everytime" I do it 😊

-try add slide guitar for a change on final take

Lyrics

So she answers,
All the time,
Gone from here,
But still shining down.
It's her presence,
Everyday.
A photograph,
Eternal memory
With you Eyes so Lean
You see my clean... 

The perfect human form
Words can't describe that
Warm, Beautiful, Kind ,Brave, In tune, In time,
Such care
My favourite line 

Call your clean
Prove and grieve
Presence is forever when you remember 

Remember her
Remember him
Remember them
Feel their good clense

Remember her
Remember him
Remember them
Remember everyone

Eyes so Lean (Demo)

From the Inktober 2024 drawing challenge I add some musical colors to the drawings. Each day of October a new drawing needs to be created and posted. see my playlist “Inktober 2024 short tracks”

Inktober 2024 18. Drive-Valentino

Lyric:TheZuZa
Vocal:TheZuZa
Choruses: TheZuZa
Arrangement: TheZuZa
Music prod. INGO Beats (contract)
Artwork: hand-painted with acrylics by TheZuZa
Audio Language: polish

Album :
https://on.soundcloud.com/B1fGCWV8rkUbvNs26

Playlist:
on.soundcloud.com/L6FruuRXWSz3Rajs9
on.soundcloud.com/pJMG9
on.soundcloud.com/jn1rK
on.soundcloud.com/9STj7
on.soundcloud.com/W1RvH
on.soundcloud.com/YUrGB

Lyric after translation :

White Lady - Neon Dream

Such empty eyes. You have such empty eyes.
In the mirror, I see that face every day.
Maybe it smiles, or maybe it tries?
Again, I can barely see; something blurs my sight.

Oh... and? Ah...
Tralalala...? Tralalala.
Oh... and? Ay!
It doesn’t leave me. Doesn’t say: Bye bye!

Oh... and? Ah...
Tralalala...? Tralalala.
Oh... and? Ay!
It doesn’t leave me. Doesn’t say: Bye bye!

My head spins around.
From the overload too.
My head buzzes like that.
As if someone wrote me sentences backward.

Words sound strange.
Soaked as if with me.
Words tempt like that.
Someone definitely wrote me these sentences backward.

The syrup smells odd; it’s not levodopa.
Napoleon probably kicked someone's butt again.
I sit quietly in the corner. I sit here alone.
Conan seems to shout... Get up, White Lady!

Oh... and? Ah...
Tralalala...? Tralalala.
Oh... and? Ay!
It doesn’t leave me. Doesn’t say: Bye bye!

Oh... and? Ah...
Tralalala...? Tralalala.
Oh... and? Ay!
It doesn’t leave me. Doesn’t say: Bye bye!

My head spins around.
From the overload too.
My head buzzes like that.
As if someone wrote me sentences backward.

Words sound strange.
Soaked as if with me.
Words tempt like that.
Someone definitely wrote me these sentences backward.

My head spins around.
From the overload too.
My head buzzes like that.
As if someone wrote me sentences backward.

My head spins around.
From the overload too.
My head buzzes like that.
As if someone wrote me sentences backward.

Words sound strange.
Soaked as if with me.
Words tempt like that.
Someone definitely wrote me these sentences backward.





Biała Dama- Neon Dream (Prod. INGO Beats)

Cast of Characters:

David Marconi — @david-marconi-917184705 — electric guitar, bass, foundation synth plus midi percussion and assorted traditional voices, production, mix, and composition
Elpiverse — @elpiverse — Elpi -- vocals, vocal composition and production
Ron Lewis — @ron-lewis-779503933 — synth 
TexMex Shaman --  @texmex-shaman –Stephen– sitar and mastering
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – talking drum
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- synth flute and ambient synth
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 5-string fretless bass
AliasZen (Elpi's husband) — artwork (created with the help of AI)


This song began with David, who wrote it on the guitar, synth, and bass over a programmed beat he created. He and Josh met more than two months ago and decided to do a collaboration, based on mutual enjoyment of and respect for each other's music. Dave had this song pretty much fleshed out, although it was still a skeleton when he offered it to Josh, who, of course, got the rest of the Eclectic Collective involved. 

  Dave asked us all to compose our own parts for the song, so we all got to work right away doing that. We all realized that the first order of business would be to get a real beat on this, so Ken accomplished that task with some dynamic, Eastern inspired drums and percussion, which he plays throughout the song. JJ then stepped in and added his best eastern flute magic. Stephen was next with the perfect-vibe sitar you hear in the first two sections. 

  Josh came next to add his five-string fretless bass to the mix, augmenting David's high, staccato bass with his deep, low tone bass. Then, for the third section, where David's Gilmore-esque guitar solo resides, Josh drops out, allowing for Dave's awesome bass playing in that section. However, Josh does come in again towards the end, in the final section, too. Also, in that section, Tez dropped an augmented, harmonic, electric fire, complementary guitar part. Then, David's frequent collaborator and friend Ron added some well blended, ethereal synth to the first section, too.

  Once we had the instrumental parts pretty much laid down, we began to discuss getting a woman to sing on this, as David was inspired by The Great Gig in the Sky, by Pink Floyd, and we all agreed. Who we found to do it actually blew all of our minds. JJ, being familiar with her music, contacted Elpi first, and we were all lucky enough that she agreed to do it. Having heard Mediterranean music all her life in Greece, she tapped into what her husband said were her "ancient Greek roots," for her spectacular vocal performance. She finds all the modal notes and places them perfectly throughout her sections. 

  But before we were done, Mark came through with some really striking talking drum parts in the first two sections, too. Once we had everything in the can, David took over, both with some masterful editing and production, and with the balanced, dynamic mix. The mix was a formidable task, but he did it with considerable skill, also taking everyone's opinions into account, which is a talent in and of itself. When he was done with the mix, he turned it over to Stephen for the mastering, which the latter did to everyone's satisfaction, as always.

  This is the first song the Eclectic Collective has done with David, Elpi, and Ron, and we all hope it's the first of many, as we welcome them into the EC family. They all have some wonderful music on their pages, too, so do yourself a favor and check out all of them, as well. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed creating it.

The Siege : by David Marconi featuring Elpiverse, Ron Lewis & The Eclectic Collective

Wrote this as an appreciation for the senses we have and also a hat tip to the people who have synesthesia, a condition which routes senses to different organs with an alternate wiring of nerves in the brain from birth. I found this fascinating when I discovered it so the idea got some love in an ickle song...

Looking at my notes below I must have been playing a bit of 'Ben Howard' stuff at the time as I appear to only capo 4 of the strings and he is one of two musicians I've seen doing that. 'Nick Mulvey' is the other if I remember correctly and both are definitely worth a good listen to for the rest of your days :)
Nick Mulvey & Ben Howard

On the Capo thing and incase you havent ventured it. This is where you capo a number of the strings and leave a couple open. It opens some incredibly original doors as it's not a widely used technique I'd imagine...

Lyrics

DADGAD (DOWN SEMITONE)
CAPO 5 (So Capo 6th/5th/4th/3rd & leave 2nd and 1st open)



Listener, you hear!
Lucky to have the waves so clear.
Observer, we’ve seen
A life of moments mined with clarity

Do you feel for your distance?
Do you smell for a smile?
Can you taste some vision?
What missing senses must be like...

📜Sense (Acoustic)

[Verse 1]  
You didn’t say it’s over  
You just turned down the sound  
Like a page that won’t flip over  
I’m stuck in what we found  

[Pre-Chorus]  
No final fight, no goodbye  
Just silence screaming why  
I refresh your last seen  
But you’ve gone behind the screen  

[Chorus]  
Ghost me gently, make it art  
Fade away without a scar  
Leave a space that feels like air  
Like you were never really there  

[Verse 2]  
Photos pixelate and fall  
Voicemails vanish in the call  
You’re an echo in my thread  
A memory I never read  

[Bridge]  
No fireworks, no slamming doors  
Just a heart on “do not disturb”  
You disappeared like morning mist  
And left me wondering if we even kissed  

[Final Chorus]  
Ghost me gently, let it die  
I’ll stop asking reasons why  
Haunt me softly, don't be cruel  
At least let me forget you too  

Ghost Me Gently

Inspired by Inspiration. Inspired by your existence.♥️

New release ?🎶 Shhh... Something’s about to happen. 🤫✨
I'm a songwriter, arranger, singer, publicist,abstractionist.
In my songs, you'll find a piece of my soul and a part of my heart.
I love music and its various genres. Diversity allows me to evolve. 
I'm open to sounds I haven't heard before. It enriches me and stimulates my imagination.
To all my fans, I’m not looking for fake promotion or attention. 
I’m an artist, and a true artist doesn’t need it. I’m not seeking applause, but understanding.
Thank you to those who stay with me in their genuineness.

Be ready for surprises...
Always with love.🥰😊

Biała Dama- Neon Dream (Prod. INGO Beats)

TheZuZa

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