AB Playlist 022 Part 2

On May 10, 1996, three officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Tsewang Samanla, Dorje Morup, and Tsewang Paljor, were part of a six-man expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  Delayed and facing a storm, the three decided to disregard orders and press on while the rest of the team turned back.  Around 18:00 the climbers radioed their expedition leader back at base camp to inform that they had reached the summit.  While credited with summiting, whether they actually reached the summit or not is to this date debated.

These two songs wouldn’t exist if not for the irony surrounding the perishment of one of the climbers, Tsewang Paljor.  The irony is that Paljor became famous not in life but in death and simply because of the fact that his lifeless, frozen body, which no person or entity cared to remove from the side of the trail for at least 19 years, ended up becoming a landmark and reference point to climbers, his humanity reduced to an almost comical nickname stemming from the mountaineering boots on his feet and their bright yellowish-green color.  A Google search today of the keywords “Tsewang” and “Paljor” brings up, as the first result, a Wikipedia article entitled not “Tsewang Paljor”, but “Green Boots”.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 1: Ascenso y muerte” is my reflection on Paljor’s resolve to climb, then the climb itself, then the summiting (or the thinking they had summited), and finally the descent and the exhaustion, confusion, and acceptance of defeat that probably came with it and the probable realization of impending death that frozen night as he lay curled up on his side, donning his brightly-colored mountaineering apparel, under a crevasse at the side of the climbers’ trail at 28,000 feet.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh” is an imagination of a summer day that Tsewang could have enjoyed as a young adult in his hometown’s capital, Leh, with friends and perhaps one or two love interests at hand.  An experience he might have remembered about during those few final minutes of his life.  

About the song names:  That isn’t me trying to be the most righteous of the lot.  Like, “look, I even include his military rank before his name, while everyone else just calls him ‘Green Boots’.”  I’m not trying to be judgmental or pretentious.  In fact, up until the last few minutes the songs were going to be called “Helado en altura 1” and “Helado en altura 2”.  “Helado en altura” translates roughly to “Ice cream at high altitude”, and is a pun because in Spanish “Helado” can also mean a frozen person, animal or thing.  So, for the cover artwork, I literally searched for frozen corpses in snow-capped mountains.  Not necessarily with those keywords.  And happened on Green Boots.  It was like the third result.  But ultimately, I felt it would be in bad taste to be so literal and use the pic and do the pun and all that.  In a way, the song titles are an atonement for my previous intentions.  And a pair of songs to honor a man who found very little dignity in death.  Some may point out the old adage that there “is no dignity in death”.  I’d say as so much else in life, that it’s a matter of degree.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and above all listen.  I hope you “get” the songs, and above all, enjoy them.  (No pun intended with “above”.)

Note:  from the information I had access to on the World Wide Web, Paljor’s body has not been officially identified or removed to this day.  However, it was last reported seen in 2015.  Its current location and state is, to the best of my web knowledge, unknown.

Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh

My place to stay

Cosmic Waves

Hope

Rise from the Depths

Story In The Clouds

For the ‘different’, people the ones who stood out, who didn’t fit in. The 'odd' ones who were picked on in school, distrusted as adults, stayed away from. Maybe you know them, maybe you are them. This is a song for them/us. 

Johnny and Mary found each other and in their own tiny world they allow each other to be who they are.

Delighted to share the guitar duties with the fantasitic Johnny Mc Farlane!  Thank you my friend.

Music & Lyrics by Finn Eces
Performed & Produced Finn Eces

Johnny & Mary

"On Dark Wings" is a song from 2003 that I recorded at the time with Marc Evers under the label "Travelogue". I brought this song back into the setup to make some changes and additions and to remix it.

"On Dark Wings"

Travelogue - "On Dark Wings"

I grew up listening non-stop to Ray Conniff, Bert Kaempfert, Henry Mancini and other easy listening orchestras. My parents had no mercy.

Here We Are Once Again (Musac Elevator Version)

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https://youtu.be/j8IB7_0wUjA
https://www.indiesound.com/track/118598

KRAE- 'TRUST MYSELF' FEAT KENNA-RAE VOCALS (PROD. MIXED & MASTERED BY DJ JOE STS)

Remastered track from the album "Time to Move On"
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Time to Move On

It's Over Now

Shuffling down the street trying to stay steady on my feet
Bobbing and a weaving to an off kilter unheard beat
Waiting for synthetic peace to overtake me
Pharmaceutical serenity to embrace me
Following the footsteps of my shadow trying to catch up with myself
Seems no matter where I go, me always shows up eventually
No matter how fast or far I go I never could outrun me..

A bowl of pills for breakfast so I can stand my fellow man
Turn that violence inward, aggression on the deferment plan It helps me with the rage but leaves me in a mental cage.
 Always on the outside looking in, detached never really part of the scene I'm in. That's ok. Invisible is better anyway. Better not to matter any. Just floating along above the fray. Easier to call my own play that way.
Have no need for socialization. Best friend is isolation.

Off Kilter

'MY WAY HOME' Re-Mastered Aug 2020
Written, Performed & Produced by Andrew Borderick
Re-Mastering by Soundcloud
Copyright 2014/2018/2020 AB Music All rights reserved.

YESTERDAY WAS FOREVER,
COUNT THE WAVES IN THE LONELY SUN,
I GUESS THE RIDE, IT'S BEEN THERE FOR ME,
AND NOW, THE TIDE, SWIMS AWAY,

THE CHILL OF NIGHT HAS SHADED ME,
ONE MILLION STARS IN A HEATWAVE NIGHT,
THE FADE OF DAY, IT;S A PEACEFUL SCIENE
YOU TELL YOUR THOUGHTS TO YOUR NEXT BEST FRIEND,

I'M NOT ABOUT TO SIT TO LONG,
IT'S LOOKING LIKE A BORING VIEW,
WE DANCED TO THE STARS, 
IN THE SUMMERTIME,

I THINK OF LIFE AND I THINK OF THE WORLD,
COUNT THE WEEKS, BUT ONLY DAYS HAVE JUST BEGUN,
THE TEST OF TIME, SOMEDAY, I'LL CALL ON YOU,
JUST TO FIND , MY WAY HOME, MY WAY HOME,

I'M NOT ABOUT TO STEAR TO LONG,
IT'S LOOKING LIKE A BORING VIEW,
WE DANCED TO THE STARS, 
IN THE SUMMERTIME,
(break)
I'M NOT ABOUT TO SIT TO LONG,
IT'S LOOKING LIKE A BORING VIEW,
WE DANCED TO THE STARS, 
IN THE SUMMERTIME,

YESTERDAY WAS FOREVER,
COUNT THE WAVES IN THE LONELY SUN,
THE TEST OF TIME, SOMEDAY, I'LL CALL ON YOU,
JUST TO FIND , 
MY WAY HOME, 
MY WAY HOME,
MY WAY HOME

MY WAY HOME

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Para Lia - 'Wait'
from the album 'Soap Bubble Dreams'
paralia.bandcamp.com/
words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2019
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

can i keep my eyes closed today
cause i lost a piece of mine
and i feel somehow faceless today
i'm blindfolded and i need you by my side 

one sunny day i met
an old friend so pale and thin
i had to get rid of him
before it gets under my skin

and it paralyses me so

wait a while my love down in the shade before we walk
into the fields mile by mile hand in hand until the end of our time

before the sunset ends
i wan't to fill my bag of life everyday
till someday the one eyed god
may walk over our graves

but for now i ask you to

wait a while my love down in the shade before we walk
into the fields mile by mile hand in hand until the end of our time

and we step into the unseen

Wait

Para Lia - Wait

Hello Soundcloud, thanks for the Listens, Likes and Support. Im from Melbourne Australia, I have been playing guitar for many years now and played in two bands during the 80's & 90's (STOLEN CAR original) & (STORM cover),both bands never released any material. Since 2010 i have been writing songs and tunes and recording them in my music room (3rd Bedroom), i play Guitar, Bass, Keys, BFD2 Drums(programmed)and Vocals on all of my songs which i class as Demo's, I love all types of music but Hard Rock, Rock to Alternative appeals to me most.
ALL SONGS POSTED ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE OWNER.
Thanks again to everyone listening out there in the world, always looking forward to new material on Soundcloud,
Character Picture By, Rianna Borderick 2017
All artwork by Andrew Borderick
CONTACT : andrew@netec.com.au
Regards 
Andrew Borderick. (March 2017)

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