You have a true sound Thierry. Thanks for sharing

very cool track , big emotion , super vocal and intrumental performance !

Ca, ce serait un score parfait pour le générique d'une série TV tournée à San Francisco autour de 1977. Super ambiance digne d'un Dave Grusin. Well done!

No one knows who wrote the nursery rhyme London's Burning. Was it about The Great Fire of London in 1666, did they have fire engine in those days, who knows? (Maybe Joe Strummer).
https://youtu.be/iZOJ-HzbQUg

A big thank you to Jonathan who played both acoustic & electric and did the mixing. He is such a talent!

London’s burning
Fetch the engine pour on water
London’s burning
I tell ya what I think we oughta
Push that fan up to full throttle 
Fill up all our water bottles 
Think that we are in big trouble
Again 
 
London’s burning
Burning here on Friday Street
London’s burning
Listen to the angry heat
Thomas Faryner’s not to blame
It did not start in Pudding Lane
It’s driving cars and aeroplanes
It’s insane 

London’s burning
People jumping off the bridges 
London’s burning
Some are climbing into fridges
I smell smoke
It gets your throat
And it’s no joke

London's Burning (with Jonathan Beckenstein)

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Gary Reeves: Drums / Drum arrangement
Hans Albers: All instruments, backing vox, arrangement & production

Cover art by Jooinn.

This is a totally stolen idea gleaned from another one of those phone conversations with my brother Gary. We talk to each other every few days and normally end up sounding like two old men sitting on a park bench putting the World to rights.

I’m sure a lot of what we say has been said many times before (what hasn’t?) but one day, out of the blue, Gal says to me “ Sometimes I find things too difficult to deal with. I would love the opportunity to step off the world for just one second and clear my head a bit...” At the time I just accepted it as the type of thing we say to each other but two days after the phone call the idea of stepping off the world to escape the pressures of daily life returned when I was playing my guitar. The words “I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off” fitted with what I was playing and the start of a new opus was born.

Once a song seems complete, I generally record a quick demo and send it off to Gal to see if it has any potential. If he thinks it has, between us we try to put a better demo together to send to Hans.  If he thinks it’s any good, he’ll work on an arrangement and more often than not sends back something back that sounds way better than what we’d imagined.  

We might chip in a few ideas here and there (as Gal did with a totally new drum arrangement on this) but Hans is definitely the one that gives it most of it’s final shape and sound.  I love every step of the songwriting process.  It provides a kind of therapy and the creative process gives every day purpose and interest.  You could say it’s my way of stepping off the world for a short moment.
(Terry Reeves)

I’m stepping off the world
To give myself a chance
For a moment of reflection
Avoid the need to dance 
One thousand miles per hour
Never firmly on the ground 
Gravity with no connection 
Spinning fast head going round 

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world 

No New Year's Revolution 
Rotating much too fast 
Survival of the fittest
Fittest days are in the past
Step off every Monday
Not back until Tuesday week
One moment makes a difference
Like a lifetime so to speak

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world

Don’t want to give a reason
Good feelings are oppressed 
Try different constellation 
Laying down has more interest
Stepping off a single second 
With no single past regret
Not a care for single thinking 
Avoid joining one single thread

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off the world
Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world...

STEPPING OFF THE WORLD - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

Away

This song was written by Tez (Llanpsych)some years ago, I believe. he wrote it about a Loki-like trickster character. Little did he realize at the time that it applies perfectly to AI, too. So, with that in mind, we added the high harmonies to my vocals to give them a robotic quality. 
  Tez is also playing that ripping guitar you hear throughout. Ken (K2 and the Three, K2 and the Four) came up with perfect rocking drums for it, too, as always. He also arranged and helped me sing the oohs and aahs throughout, too. You'll hear me on the bass, organ, and vocals on this one. This is really Tez's song, though. We hope you like it.

Hello World (The Transatlantic Trio)

written by Netta&Mcgill
a little song about appreciation and sticking together............thanks for listening and merry christmas


you're the blue up in my sky
the twinkle in the eye
aint no mountain seem too high
when you are by my side

you're the no and i'm the yes
you're the answer i'm the guess
everything just seems a mess
without you by my side

sometimes the days aint long enough
to do what we gotta do
and get on with what really matters
like taking care of me and you

my island in the sun
a place to hide when i'm on the run
i could easily come undone
without you by my side

cool me down like summer rain
seek me out when i'm lost again
among enemies you're my friend
who stands right by my side

like a dusty road that never ends
the long goodbye, to part as friends
just know that we'll meet again
and we'll walk side by side

Side X Side

Look -  if I've told ya once, I've told ya a hundred and once: - ya can have the right notes in the wrong order in the right timing, or ya can have the wrong notes in the right order with the wrong timing, or the wrong notes in the wrong order with the right timing or the....

OK - I will admit, that getting none out of three is an achievement even for me but hey - it's live, one mic, one take, no edits and my voice has gone AWOL.   That's what ya call "art".  Hell, stuff like that goes for top dollar.  Sometimes....

(No metronomes were harmed in the making of this ...er...art).
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Exasperation Blues

Well I’m callin’ time on frettin’ ‘bout this world of crazy stuff
Got myself much better things to do
Like checkin’ out the colour of my belly button fluff
Bid them news stream channels my sweetest fond adieus
Seems everything’s a Broadway Farce
……I can’t be arsed
Just happy with my geetar playin’ Exasperation Blues.

Can’t be faffed with billowed tracts of personal pronouns
A simpleton like me is good with easy “how’dyado’s?”
Hysterically inflated rainbow painted ethics clowns
Well they used to boil my blood, now they just amuse.
I’d have liked to have got them “Stop Oil” guys
Fixin’ potholes nine to five
But I’m just happy with my geetar playin’ Exasperation Blues.

So let it flow, that’s how it goes, we’re on perdition’s road 
Hang on to what floats yer boat, and never let ‘em get yer goat
Just sing along with me, bemused, in any key ya care to choose
Blessed by heaven, down to earth, Exasperation Blues.

I heard that upcycle is good and bad’s called CO2
Defying them naysayers with their theories on trees
Power stations burnin’ wood, man we ain’t got a clue
Diggin’ up the Himalayas for driving their EV’s
So I’ve got myself a ruddy horse
Powered by sumpin’ green of course
Ridin’ happy with my geetar playin’ Exasperation Blues.
No need for profanity
Just twelve bars of sanity
Hallelujah, for Exasperation Blues.
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Photo by Dan Cook on Unsplash

Exasperation Blues

This world of ours is nuts.

So, in an act of utter lunarcy I have decided to marry the moon and bugger off somewhere else.

Herewith my serenaded pledge of love and proposal of marriage.

I have every confidence.

Goodbye everyone.

Goodbye.
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Selene

Now every sun has set
Dark as it can get
No dawn will bless my crescent dreams
Of touchdown on your crater lips
Sweet penumbrally eclipsed
Selene
Entrust me to Tranquility’s sea of moondust for infinity
Phase my mind with dark-side thoughts pristine
Selene

Unpick your tidal lock
Let that planet run amok
Let’s spin away to astral pastures green
Helium-3 wedding isotope
We’ll solar system-atically elope
Selene
Ultimate caesarean birth, father Theia and mother earth
I adore your ellipsoidal slight scalene
Selene

Your pert axial tilts will carry me, ah won’t you marry me?
We’ll wax and wane as one, making moonlets, the stars between
Selene
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Photo courtesy of NASA

Selene

I took the freedom to transform these old lyrics of the sweet Irish tune into a totally different melody 
In the end It turned out to be a sort of hybrid mixed with Irish and Norwegian folk fusion
Raise your glasses friends🍺

Over in Killarney

Do you watch the same spy movie sometimes ?

Spy Film - Demo

Having a little fun with this instrumental experiment. Dont you worry ….just make sure to get out of the noise

Oh no..not me

Another file I found and re-mastered. It still sounds like crap, but it is what it is. This song is copyrighted by: The Box tops.

The Letter (Cover)

Composer since my youngest age ... I'm interested in all the music from the moment they transport me and give me emotions ... I play a dozen instruments and compositions, here, are played on the keyboard or with the real instrument because I'm not a programer except for a paid work...
I am above all a melodist ... I work very little texts is another job that also takes time!
There is no finished product here, these are only tests or covers for fun. I think I said everything to introduce myself, so good listening ... and it's nice to have read so far !

Away

Thierry Clua

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