Name: Variations on Swallowtail Jig / Nonsense by Travis Damron in Hydration
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Description: Learning the mandolin is very fun!! Me jamming around on 'Swallowtail Jig'

Hydration

All Instruments By Splintered Finger
Composed Arranged & Produced By 
Splintered Finger

Its A Real Strange Planet

Learning the mandolin is very fun!! Me jamming around on 'Swallowtail Jig'

Variations on Swallowtail Jig / Nonsense

Made a collab song together with music friend Ferensick  

Music, guitar, vocals and lyrics:   @ferensick
drums and percussion https://soundcloud.com/sinth-2 

Lyrics:

All those efforts to hide
Show my exposed side
I'm behind that mask, behind that wall
You go left and I dodge right
As long as you're chasing me, it's alright
At least I can choose to be alone
It's when no one's left that I'm on my own

Thank you very much Paul for your great inspiration :)

After Glow - Sinth & Ferensick

Videoclip http://youtu.be/TnZrYder5Zc

https://oorlab.bandcamp.com/track/autumn-child-with-pleudoniem-mark-hoogslag


Lyrics
Autumn Child

I bet you gonna go,
never coming back.
I heard it all before
but that's no problem
taking the road of relief.

Autumn child lying in the sun
waiting for time to turn around

I bet you gonna see
that Paris sky line rising
above the river Seine,
that flows on by
Take in that morning renewed

Autumn child
lying in the sun
waiting for time to turn around
don't sell your soul for a short kind of fun
Why don't you try to turn around.


Autumn child
lying in the sun.


bandcamp

Autumnchild feat. Mark Hoogslag & Pleudoniem (Album Forest run)

Fairfield Four with groove from Tumblin by Little Dark One.

My God Called me this Morning (Fairfield Four mash)

Hey all, here is my first new song of 2015.

This is a strange one to kick things off. It falls under the category of what I describe as ‘fever dream’ music.

“The God In Me Just Evaporated” is a strange mix of blues, electro, disco, post punk and maybe a bit of ambient for good measure. It came about pretty organically as bits and pieces started to merge together to form a picture.

The song was inspired by my home country of Australia. I don’t often write about Australia as everywhere else always seems a lot more exciting to me – you know, the grass is always greener. Anyway, what you quickly discover about Australia is that once you leave civilization (i.e. Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane etc) and venture into the outback it can become a pretty terrifying place. If something can bite you, poison you, eat you, break you or generally scare the hell out of you it resides down under. Make no mistake, Australia is unforgiving. 

Importantly, there is a real sense of isolation in the Australian outback. I’ve been around and to me it is different to any other desert or landscape anywhere in the world. It is alien. It feels like nothing has ever existed out there. It feels like a land before time. I’ve heard someone describe as being older than God.

With that in mind, I was also inspired by the brilliant 2005 John Hillcoat film ‘The Proposition’ and its idea that God does not exist in the outback – that the land sucks any belief out of you (i.e. the God in me just evaporated). I actually sampled the film. You can hear Guy Pearce and the beyond incredible John Hurt conversing. I tried to write lyrics that reflect the feeling of their conversation.  I don’t know... You’ll get the idea. It is more about mood.

I think the music does a good job communicating vastness. I also give my old Guild 12 string a workout which I haven’t used in a while. Think I’ll end up using it a lot more this year.

I like this one.

Hope you enjoy!

The East Village Vampire
  
   
  
LYRICS...

Mr Lamb:

"Russia, China, The Congo... Oh, I have travelled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea.

But nothing! Nothing could have prepared me for this God forsaken hole."

East Village Vampire:

I am lost in a shroud of stars
I am lost and on my own
Feel it leaving me behind
Soon the land will claim my bones
Because there's nothing out here to find
No there's nothing but sand and stone
And those birds circling the sky
Will never point the way back home
See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn

Charlie Burns:

"Do you pray Mr. Lamb?"

Mr. Lamb:

"Good lord son no I do not!

I was in days gone by a believer, but alas I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just evaporated..."

The East Village Vampire:

I feel all God leaving my soul
I feel the city lights fading away
And all memory of you will dissolve
but the scars will always remain
And the land is looking for blood
And it knows that's what it will find
And those birds keep circling the sky
See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn

See them turn and turn and turn
See them turn and turn and turn



The God In Me Just Evaporated

The Chipmunks play Tom Petty on a 16 speed turntable

Refugee

Spanish Jammin'

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

Variations on Swallowtail Jig / Nonsense

Travis Damron

Recent comments

John Laurence

Related tracks