Very moving and a beautiful tribute to the memory of those murdered at Babyn Yar.

Words and music K.Gennery
image not my own

Best not dare go near your mind
you won't be held responsible
for the darkness that we may find
guess that makes you unsavable

Sway and swagger don't really matter
cause I believed in you

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

Immerse yourself in pityfull play
I don't understand you at all
guess youve always been that way
set up the height then nudge us to fall

Prim and proper don't really matter
cause I believed in you

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

Everything I said and done made no difference at all
All the things I tried to do, could not get through to you
you shut out the voices you'd hear
except for the ones in your head I tried my best.

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

somethings cooking

From the '17 CD "Autumn's Soul". Played on a Tony Vines Artisan guitar in dropped D tuning, capo #2.
In composing this tune, I definitely had the feeling of someone waiting for a loved one, not knowing if that person would arrive. Wondering, hoping......never sure. An image of a lonely train station as the setting for this uncertain and fragile moment. 
Thanks for listening!

WHILE I WAIT FOR YOU

Time Cycle

Keeping this up in the interests of national security...

 in honor of the toxic human being who would sacrifice everything for the sake of his own brittle ego  (if you disagree please don't bother telling me--we inhabit different cognitive universes, and I wish you the best in yours)

This Jeremiad just gets truer by the day 

hazy yeah I have a memory
bought with a ticket by the back gate it's coming to me now

if no one can name the deed there's no way to come back to me
there's no room in my house for back stabbers

I could be the one you need with the greatest of ease
you're gonna see a plan work out
you might be the one to bleed but don't you love me
you're gonna be free so have no doubt

I keep a list of all the things they've done to me
and a payback posse with a violent creed
you oughta know better than to fuck with me

I need a girl that keep her legs open and her mouth shut
don't say you didn't sign right there on the line
you'll be kicking and screaming but your ass is mine

who's that waiting there over by the dim light
I can feel the stare but I'm not scared
somebody's gonna bleed but don't you love me
you're gonna be free so have no doubt

I'm gonna burn this house down tonight
it's always been about me

Burn This House Down (explicit)

A couple of months ago I had the chance to jam with a couple of friends on guitars at a dinner party. We played a few Stones covers, and the vibe was ok. Then suddenly someone named the Velvet Underground, so I started strumming and singing a classic number we used to perform pretty often when we were young, "I'm Waiting For My Man". I could really feel it, and when I got home I thought it was worth trying to record it. In the past we used to cover the Live 1969 version, but this time I tried to blend it with a couple of other renditions, namely the 1972 Transformer Tour performance and an acoustic demo recorded in 1965. Quite obviously, I ended up adding to this bizarre jumble my own touch. I completed most of the tracking in about a week, but it took me a long time before trying to record vocals. It somehow sounded dull and trivial to my ears, so I had lost interest in finishing the song. Then a couple of weeks ago I felt inspired and I did the vocals. I also added an organ and a Cretan lyra parts, to make the ending section sound a bit more exciting.
Hope you'll enjoy this studio jam, I think it sounds quite unusual if compared to the rest of my stuff, but at the end of the day it's not so bad to listen to.

Teth Sin : acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar, vocals, organ, drums, Cretan lyra

Original composition & lyrics by Lou Reed
Arrangement, mix, mastering, photo & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

I'm Waiting for My Man

I'm Waiting For My Man - VU Cover By Teth Sin

This collaboration came about when I was commenting on a track from @cosmic-ratzzz, saying how I was very inspired and influenced by his incredible music and style - both solo, and the over 100 (!) songs he & @Joerxworx have worked on together. Then suddenly, Ratzzz offered to send me a track he created - a complete backing arrangement (bass, drums, clav, synth, keys, some sax, effects, etc.) - and suggested I add something to it. I was apprehensive cause his stuff is top notch quality, but I took a stab at it, and this is what came out. My part is the 2 lead horns - sax & muted trumpet (both played on keyboard), and Ratzzz did everything else. 

The title comes from the fact that Ratzzz made it so easy to work with because of his incredible talent and a fully baked track to solo over. I tried to leave some space and work around what he was doing and I think it turned out quite nice for a first try.
The image is a bit of a mashup I did of both our SC avatars.

Thanks Ratzzz for your generosity and amazing music; hope you all like this!

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve.   :)

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here's some pictures I took: www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/
my best photos on 500px (safe site): 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos

Eazy Breezy (with Ratzzz & mistermark)

Orchestral Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra about the main emotions of our life.
The 4th and final part concludes with a combination of all Joy, Fear, Love and a Viennese waltz.

Season of Mind - 4. Coda

Some just want to live - others simply destroy without regret ! All these ideological justifications are just pretexts for the perverse lust for power. It's just sad. - Of course you can only say something like that with words, the music only reflects feelings.

Wastelands

Helsinki is a totally unique combination of quirky urbanity and peaceful nature that gives silence and space to feel more, hear more and experience more. It offers you the freedom to have it all.
 Helsinki is part of the solidarity album "Twelve cities" for the Homeless Entrepreneur foundation. Is the seventh song linked to a humanitarian project aimed at helping "homeless people". 

Helskinki will be part of the soundtrack of the report to be presented in the European Parliament through the organization Homeless Entrepreneur.
https://www.homelessentrepreneur.org/en/solidary-projects/twelve-cities

My profile:
https://linktr.ee/guillemsbenet_piano

Helsinki

Dedicated to all those who mourn, who are oppressed and/or affected by wars.

Written 6th October 2021.
Flute, Violoncello, Pipe organ with pedal board.
Earphones are recommended for listening.

https://youtu.be/00_cS56w4aU

Revised 22.01.2024.
Engraved in Dorico Pro 5.
Performed by Noteperformer 4 plug-in.
License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

During the Covid pandemic, which claimed the lives of so many known and unknown people, I composed this music on the 80th Memorial Day in 2021 in remembrance of the victims of the horrific mass murder at Babyn Yar. One of the many grave German atrocities that must never be forgotten. 
I expressed my grief through the music. The musical motifs of the flute and the cello symbolize the simple, painful question "Wa-rum?", ‘Why?’ in a short and simple tonal composition.

Mourning: Pipe Organ, Flute, Violoncello Op. 12.1.3

As the holiday comes to an end I thought I’d create a calming duet between the Duduk and winds.  The strings remain ominously busy, perhaps as a sign of what is to come.  What do you think?

12 Jun 24 Purpose Renewed

Welcome, thank you for visiting my profile! 

Support Channel https://soundcloud.com/tilman-fricke-support

I'm a (former) cellist, soprano recorder-, piano-, etc. -player. The violoncello has inspired me since early childhood. 

1977: Several years soprano recorder solo lessons, private teacher.
1981: Some years private cello lessons with her husband, cellist of Alte Oper Frankfurt/Main.
1985-1991 Cello lessons at the conservatory of Akademie fuer Tonkunst Darmstadt, music theory, ear training courses, 2 years piano lessons ibid. 1st and solo cellist in school orchestra, family chamber music and other occasions, bass in school choir, cornet in my father's car, etc. ... 

I particularly like to think back to the first student exchange between Hungary and Germany in 1989, after the borders were opened, in which I took part twice with the school orchestra of my high school in Szeged in southern Hungary shortly before my ‘Abitur’. Later, I travelled there again privately with my cello.

I grew up in Southern Hesse and began composing in Darmstadt, just before my father was diagnosed with an orange-sized glioblastoma, shortly before Christmas in 1989. 

His passing at the age of 48, nine months later, came at a time when I was preparing for my Abitur in Music and Biology. For finger tendons health reasons, I had to consider music as a hobby after school instead of starting a professional career as a cellist after Gymnasium. Since 1993, I have lent my piano to a family for life, so to speak, with whom I have no contact today. 

After school and then 15 months of diaconal inpatient geriatric care as an alternative to military service, I briefly studied at the tax office authority, but left it soon to pursue a career as a music retailer, specialized in classical and Orff etc. instruments, sheet music, and sound carriers. After IHK and practical examination in Bonn, I managed a ‘one-man’ music store branch for four years. Then I transitioned into the book trade.

Married since 2003 and nowadays living in Baden Wuerttemberg, I'm currently on disability retirement after a shoulder surgery 2014.

But music still lives in me, and I love to compose. You will hear Noteperformer 4 or other software-plugins within Dorico Pro 5 instead of recordings. I use Dorico since September 2023. Prior to this, I used the German Capella program for many years, then also MuseScore for a few months, and, traditional, paper and pencil. 

All of my compositions are available as PDF file sheet music, unless stated otherwise in the description, for noncommercial use upon receiving a personal and confidential request. 

I feel blessed through music, that's why I share it for free. 

The cello works I love the most are the concert pieces for cello and orchestra by Max Bruch, especially Kol Nidrei, which I was taught at the conservatory, and I love the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who took lessons also with Max Bruch. And, of course, I like many more composers and genres/styles as long as they touch my musician's heart...

All photos on my profile and tracks were taken by me.

Mourning: Pipe Organ, Flute, Violoncello Op. 12.1.3

Tilman Fricke

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