Name: Alternatives To Despair (Part Two) by Neil March by Trust-The-Doc (Neil March) in Alternatives To Despair (EP) by Neil March [2020, Demerara Records]
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: Environmental sounds from which pitch can be identified are used for harmonic as well as ambient purposes and juxtaposed against notated music. New EP by BBC Introducing composer and recording artist.

BBC Introducing Composer & Recording Artis utilises recordings of environmental sounds (construction machinery, sirens, alarms, engines, cafe equipment, leaf blowers etc.) to create harmony and music that is juxtaposed against notated instrumental music and voices.

Alternatives To Despair (EP) by Neil March  [2020, Demerara Records]

I made this track for the project of Respira , amazing artist .
https://soundcloud.com/respirabreathe
https://soundcloud.com/naturetales
And this improvisation was inspired by the philosophy of ' Syakuhachi ' , Japanese traditional instrument .

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瞑想(B-side) , Meditative , or Improvisation for The Wind through Bamboo Grove

Are you sure about hitting it with a hammer?

Cowritten with Rhizoman in prehistoric times and given some new lyrics since I have forgotten most of the old ones, this little rocker is a about a real beach on Syros, near Poseidonia. Take the road left on Agathopes beach and find this magic place with golden Sands and Glittering sea and on most days, very little people. If she is there, give her my regards.

Greek Moon (Komito beach)

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Final track from the 'Alternatives To Despair' EP sees instrumental parts playing off against saws, sirens, hovercrafts etc. but with an air of melancholy that intensifies in the final section.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

Every note and every sound on this track is played by environmental sounds that have been recorded and fed into Audacity.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Three) by Neil March

Environmental sounds from which pitch can be identified are used for harmonic as well as ambient purposes and juxtaposed against notated music. New EP by BBC Introducing composer and recording artist.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Two) by Neil March

Alternatives To Despair (Part One) by Neil March

Eliza Lane

On this God-forsaken frontier
Winter’s cold and time’s are hard
I ain’t asking for permission
In my own back yard

I was hanging up my six gun
Washing away the Mark of Cain
I was building me a place to hang my hat
With Eliza Lane

If your eyes had ever seen her
You wouldn't need me to explain
How a man could gamble everything he's got
For Eliza Lane 

Then they’re flashing me their badges
To see how much a man could take
With their rules and regulations
Gonna make a big mistake

She possessed a grace and beauty
That could take away the pain
I found everything a man could ever want
In Eliza Lane 

Now they bring their Iron horse
I watch it glide across the plain
And I saw it turn its unforgiving gaze
To my Eliza Lane


It was always heading for a showdown 
To make the tragedy complete
My Eliza is not a stranger 
To men falling at her feet 

And they brought along a circus
I felt obliged to entertain
But they scattered when they heard the shots ring out
Down Eliza Lane

Even though she drove me crazy
There ain’t no prettier ball and chain
Than the girl I loved and had to leave behind 
In Eliza Lane 

Music, guitars and bass: Steve Wild
Lyrics: The Funeral Crasher

Eliza Lane

Linguaticum

abandoned farmhouse
off the snow-piled roof
gusts of ghosts

haiku by Michael Dudley http://michaeljdudley.com

picture by Shapelined https://unsplash.com/@shapelined

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One traveller,
Wakes another traveller,
At the sight of the sea.

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Composer/Artist (signed to Monochrome Motif Records); Arts Council & Lottery supported creative entrepreneur; tutor & module leader, ICMP; Fresh on the Net moderator & reviews writer: blogger: author, husband & dad.

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