This was written in South Africa in 1987, a few years before the release of Nelson Mandela - really digging into the archives here! It was one of a handful of songs co-written with Pravinand (@johnny-minstrel). I had the first verse and an inkling of a melody, and Pravinand finished it off. We were very chuffed by the end result. Hope you like it.

The Prisoner (Peters/Maharaj)

The empty space he feared
Was fixed between his ears
To live is but to bear
The scourge of twilight years
He lost the strength to fight
He lost the will to live
For all that was his right
They took away from him

He cannot move his arms
The iron weighs him down
His feet, they cannot dance
He feels no joyful sound
He alone must grieve
The toll of passing years
He alone must feel
The loneliness and fears

His eyes reflect the pain
A man should never bear
How long will he sustain
To hurt for what is fair
And in the dark he prays
No one hears his heart
Except the one who made
Man from dust and blood

The Prisoner

Stonerjazz, Uziel, and me have joined forces once again for another adventure in our fantastical concept album universe 'the land of Zed'! This time we are also joined by a new collaborator, Zed a.k.a. Francesca from Italy. It is just coincidence/synchronicity that her name is the same as the title of this series, but after crossing paths on soundcloud and listening to her music, we thought she would be a good fit!

The lyrics for this one pick up on a thread of the story that we left hanging at the end of episode 2, 'Johnny and the Holy Din' ... but there are call-backs to nearly all the other songs in the series too if you listen closely.

Check out the whole story (so far) here: soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/land-of-the-zed

Words and vocals by Stonerjazz @user-911083679

Vocals by Uziel @user-455619833

Atmospheric background synths and samples by Zed @zed4209819

Beat, synths and mix by me @tea_are_sea

Artwork by Lotus Crab https://lotuscrab.artstation.com/

Lyrics:

Through some inexplicable and somewhat puzzling magical circummstance beyond understanding as we know it; an opening opened amongst the craigs and mists and the protruberances high in the mountains of southern Zed.. And out of the dank and dark and stink of the stank stepped a warrior so fine with a golden accordian that did shine like the sun.

And the musicians all trapped in the sky screamed and they cried for they had lost all their hope and their mojo was gone and they were prepared to die. They were prepared to die..

So Johnny sat down on the ledge in front of the cave so incredibly brave with legs dangling in space and began to play a tune so sweets that even the red parrots and monkeys started to cry, and Roy the despicable despot was Shaken to his shoes and said: 

"Hey Johnny, can you play me some Blues??"

All of Zed did head for the byways that led to the mountains that day.. The Azzure eyed twits and all of their brats, the crows in their leathers with beads in their feathers, the Rats in their custom made chevys from mars. Though sadly the Trout had to stay but needless to say, there was a grand party that day when twenty two hundred entered that cave with visions of home, songs in their brains, and hopes in their hearts...And No one suspected the Evil that lay deep in the guts of the southern mountains of Zed..

Johnny Plays The Blues (Land of the ZED #6) - Stonerjazz | Uziel | Zed | tea are sea

Title of song by Martin Hirsch
Lyrics by Tony Harris (That inspired Glenny G listed below)
Vocals, Music Production/Mix by Glenny G's One Man Band 

ELVIS, THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL
DISCOVERED AT A YOUNG AGE
THAT HE HAD MUSIC IN HIS SOUL
AND LOVED BEING ON THE STAGE

HE WOULD GATHER AROUND THE PIANO
AND JAM WITH FRIENDS AFTER CONCERTS
THE BACK UP SINGERS COULDN'T SAY NO
HE REALLY APPRECIATED THEIR EFFORTS

(CHORUS)
IF I COULD JAM WITH ELVIS FOR ONE NIGHT
IT WOULD BE A DREAM COME TRUE 
IF IT ONLY LASTED TILL DAYLIGHT
WHAT A NIGHT THAT WOULD BE
OH, WHAT A NIGHT THAT WOULD BE

WALKING IN TO SUN RECORDS
TO RECORD A TRACK FOR HIS MOMMA
PUT HIM IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
TO RECORD HIS FIRST HIT SONGS

IMAGINE GOING BACK IN TIME
JAMING WITH ELVIS AND THE BOYS
AT HIS HOME CALLED GRACELAND 
WHEN HE WAS STILL IN HIS PRIME

(CHORUS)
IF I COULD JAM WITH ELVIS FOR ONE NIGHT
IT WOULD BE A DREAM COME TRUE
EVEN IF IT ONLY LASTED TILL DAYLIGHT
WHAT A NIGHT THAT WOULD BE
OH, WHAT A NIGHT THAT WOULD BE

ELVIS DIED WAY TO YOUNG
AND I LIKE TO THINK THAT HE
IS JAMING WITH THE ANGELS 

2021 © Lyrics by Tony Harris

If I Could Jam With Elvis For One Night - Collab by Tony Harris & Glenny G's One Man Band - Original

track created with Logic Pro x.  spiced a bit with soundtoys and Moog plugins.
The vocals, Drums and almost all the synths are stock Logic Pro x patches.
Yes, the 4th wave is here ! ;)
The Fonts are from a cool app called Graffwriter. The doll is from the Squid Game. the Background pic is from my Apple TV screensaver, The photo Art is by me :)

4th wave

This is my contribution to the now closed open call
 of a great project by Paul Amlehn
(https://soundcloud.com/paul-amlehn)

noxpox - Realm Of Anti-Logic

Part 63 of 266
Chapters released every weekend. All TAFFETA tracks are created within seven days.

I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds within the scope of the Taffeta project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

If you want to hear everything that has come before:
The TAFFETA Albums are available for free on Bandcamp.
Released in 15 part/chapter increments:

TAFFETA Volume 1:
belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-1

TAFFETA Volume 2:
belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-2

TAFFETA Volume 3:
belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-3

The TAFFETA Playlist is always kept up to date:
soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 63

So honored to be in collaboration with 1234567890 (Peter) and Debra Buesking on this track that first started out as an instrumental lament in a Celtic style.   It is no overstatement to say that Peter is one of the finest lyricists/poets on the Cloud.  More of his music and poetry can be heard at soundcloud.com/user-264930040.  More of Debra's brilliant creativity and playing can be heard @debra_buesking.

"And so to this…a song of sorrows.
Impassive moods shimmer grey from misted hollow yesterdays,
Stolen for the bleak tomorrows strewn upon our stony ways.
In enfolded dusks we watch in thrall as snows upon the migrant fall.
A massing stream of human husks, a currency, tragic traffic monetized,
Laundered of their simplest dreams. Kindled fading hopes bestride
Whose futures market crashed it seems, for his sickly child beside.

But thence the Noel star aglow; sapphire blue flashing light of hope,
Above the seething forlorn lines is surely set to rise.
As if upon the migrant three we know, kings mimicking the trope.
Man meets man’s humanity in heartfelt care, lives to de-commoditise.

And when trafficker before the final audit bashful, fain appears,
Rancid cash in offshore banks o’erflowing billowed surplus well.
From credit to the debit side we glance, and see a soul in deep arrears;
The ledger to be set aside, replaced with first class trafficked seat to hell.

When the Virgin Mother’s tears ease at last of speared pain,
When satan’s armies’ magazines vast of vice are finally spent,
When welcome arms cross razor wires, compassions fall as softest rain.
Christian helping hands of hope aspired shall end this fair lament.
…and so to this…a song of hope.

And So to This  (1234567890; Poem and Narrator, Debra Buesking, Piano & Synth; David Dunham, Guitar)

Let's Make A Connection

Hey Ive done a new collab with the excellent @specialececilia! Here is the original 
https://soundcloud.com/user-883466627/we-are-one-vocal-special-cecilia
Here is the remix 

https://soundcloud.com/ricochet8888/we-are-one-love-shack-mix-cecilia-rico-2

enjoy
Dx

WE ARE ONE**Cecilia & Ricø **

Free Download

How deep is your love (CARL DAVID Remix)

Stefy - Tu Remix 2005 (Extended)

Thankyou for checking out and enjoying my tracks!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Music is the universal language of mankind."

Info: there is a uli steingruber acc on soundcloud with 3 followers or so.. this is not my account. Some individual ripped my photo from FB and faked my acc. So do not follow. ( yes i contacted sc about this but they did not resolve..)

4th wave

Uli Stonedigger