Pośród zgiełku.Linia życia(suplement) / IIn the midst of the hustle and bustle. Lifeline(supplement)

February 2023 DIAMC prompt was to write a song inspired by a name, which was to be included within the title. 

Yesterday I sat down, wrote and recorded, this song about - and for - my beautiful almost, almost always friend. We met when I was 9 and she was 10. 


Gwendoline

Northern lights watched late, from garage roof
Swung on swings with Walkmans, in our youth
Oh my darlin’, times were simpler then

There’ve been darker days, tears amongst laughter
Can’t stay kids for ever, and after
Oh my darlin’, growing up can hurt bad
 
I just hope that I always had your back

Wish I still took time and wrote more letters
To have and hold, with love from sender
Cos my darlin’, you know I’m really glad

All  these years you’ve been there for me too
The  lovely  things you say,  and that you do
Oh my darlin’, you’re the friend I’ve almost, almost, always had

Through all the good and bad
The happy and the sad
Lucky to have Gwendoline

If you need me darlin’, you just call
You know I’ll catch you if you fall
If you need me darlin’, you just call
You know I’ll catch you if you’re falling

© S Barr 2023

Gwendoline - Demo

8/3 2023
Hönö  Gothenburg
Photo: Skeneby

Edge

K2 and the Three - drums, bass & vocals
https://soundcloud.com/k2andthe3 / https://soundcloud.com/k2-kara

Cosmic Keanu - mix, guitar and vocals 

Mastered by Hobocop (OfficerMurphy)
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

We Can Work It Out - Beatles Cover (K2 and the Three & Cosmic Keanu) - An OfficerMurphyMix

Open Collab by https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea :
Earth & Sky
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/earth-and-sky
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/earth-sky-open-collaborations

This is my Version,.

Tea R. Sea - Earth & Sky ( 30 Grad Colours Rmx)

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Bake-Kujira-s-Woes-951581025

Crookedness

Flint Banjo Club

What started as a handful of selfdescribed “banjo nuts” getting together to play after a rough winter in 1967 became a band with more than 50 members

The Flint Banjo Club, is considered one of the best banjo and old time music clubs in the United States. They established a tradition in holding their annual Banjorama, the FBCs primary fundraiser

The club was founded in April 1967 by six banjo enthusiasts from Flint Michigan back when American manufacturing was prosperous and thriving union jobs allowed for workers to retire with pensions, healthcare, and social stability 

“…no doubt as a result of cabin fever resulting from the preceding relentless winter,” wrote C.O. Johnson, one of the original six founders, who was is still strumming away with the ensemble in 2014

The FBC collected a number of awards. Members had diverse professional backgrounds and most were retired. The club performed across the country, in concert at prestigious halls including the Whiting, as well as hospitals, schools and senior homes. The club has raised more than $50,000 for community projects and in particular, scholarships administered by Mott Community College

Since 1974, the annual “Banjorama” featured a variety of banjo and non-banjo old time entertainment

Flint Banjo Club - The Happy Sounds Of The Flint Banjo Club album cover
Genre:	Folk, World, & Country	
Year:	1978
Track list:
-Alabama Jubilee And Waiting For The Robert E. Lee Medley
-Five Foot Two	
-Sweet Georgia Brown	
-Carolina In The Morning	
-Nobody's Sweetheart, Now	
-Bye Bye Blues	
-Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home	
-The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	
-Whispering	
-The Pennsylvania Polka	
-A Shanty In Old Shanty Town	
-Battle Hymn Of The Republic	
-Coney Island Washboard	

In Davison town, gold was found,
A banjo club with a joyful sound,
With strings that twang and fingers that fly,
The Flint Banjo Club's tunes filled the sky

For over 50 years, they strummed and played,
Their passion for banjos never did fade,
From six enthusiasts, the club has grown,
To more than 50, a band of their own

Their Banjorama, a yearly delight,
A fundraiser held through the night,
With Picks and Sticks and Mel Collie too,
An evening of music, for me and you

With diverse members and awards galore,
The Flint Banjo Club has a history to adore,
They've raised funds and brought joy,
To many communities, girl and boy

So come one, come all, to Davison town,
And hear the music that won't let you down,
For in the Flint Banjo Club, there's gold to be found,
A treasure of sound, that will astound

https://youtu.be/lGN86Z6QEeU

https://youtu.be/MZ9xl4mdabQ

JTS

GOLD IN THEM HILLS

Gold In Them Hills

Made with some loops from the inimitable and sorely missed Jens @senfsuck
Catch the rainbow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoAeyQEtzI 
Percussion, drum, voice and music loops - Jens
Guitar, bass, keys - Nick

Always keep some senf in your Chuchichäschtli!
Ciao for now!
Be good

Nick

Senf Abuse - senfsuck and Nicholas Ridiculous

There's a time in a 90s club when tracks simply merged and merged and merged

Holiday

Combining childhood and later relationship memories with the early sounds of electric piano: first heard on Help!  "Chalking up belief" references 'Chalking up the Hurt" in the great Michael McDonald song 'Real Love' from the time when he created amazing piano based pop-rock, now termed Yacht Rock. And the song title 'Your Gold Teeth ii is of course piano based from the highly influential Steely Dan and makes a nice rhyme with 'room.'

ELECTRIC PIANO

Out of the womb into a musical reign
Feeling it grab like the first light of day
Bro old enough to procure some Help!
Takes to my soul like the face of the girl

Electric Piano you are chalking up belief
A silky emotion walking you down the street
Electric Piano you are black and white devine
Your sound is forever it’s the girl in the back of my mind

Song of first strike is ‘Tell me what you See’
While I yearn for the girls who are awaking a dream
Sometimes the song is then a soundtrack to pain
When desire returns it’s a permanent state

Electric Piano . . . back of my mind

I hear she’s quit Uni left a ghost in her room
Now I bury my soul in Your Gold Teeth part 2

Now she has an aura in 1975
This is my soul being eaten alive
Her face a portrail of a red Cilla Black
Electric Piano you do leave me so bad

Electric Piano . . . back of my mind

ELECTRIC PIANO (you are black and white devine)

This is a remix of the awesome track "Broken Mirror" by the fellow musician and great musical mind @faet. Here's the link to the original track: youtu.be/UHZA_AbVr3A?t=420 


In this track I used several samples:

- The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke, read by Lucy Perry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRJgpVd5IWE). The addition of this sample was inspired by the demo of Mutable Instruments Clouds by Luftrum1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLj-YBy4Aa4)
- Piano-ology: Improvisation in D minor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76kHMEtvHww)
- Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai Live Improvisation in D minor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNEEXJsWR0)
- Adagio in D Minor by Zeforah (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXvJXRNqnc)and John Murphy - Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor), the addition of these samples was inspired by Adagio D Minor - Lord of the Rings vs Sunshine Version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FayHOZISUQI)


Headphones are recommended and since the result is highly dynamic, turn the volume up! Why? Because the Loudness War is for losers!


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fæt - Broken Mirror [MAB Remix]

Mrs. Audio Boy is a proud member of Project:Music (@projectmusicsounds) and MintFam (@mintfam), and is a German-based project, which creates experimental electronic music by the process of conducting jam sessions, improvising during these sessions, recording them, and then using best parts from those sessions to create so called "Jam session sections" (manually, no AI whatsoever). These are generally raw sound clips that are mostly left unprocessed apart from using a simple cross-fade in order to tie two or more clips together. Only very rarely some simple effects like filters, compressors or noise reduction are applied. 

In doing so, the special one-of-a-kind moment is pursued; thus, the created sound is highly inimitable and unreproducible. Most of the tracks can be downloaded. If you use them, please give a shout-out to Mrs. Audio Boy!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!