This is such a good song! Very well produced too👏 such a calming effect.

The Smiling Grass Cells

A crack in your window and light’s made its way 
Into the hollow room tonight
Empty glasses lie sad on the floor
Last night was a cold long one
Tiny speckles of dust from our tango
The bedsheets have creased away

You, you

You have shattered all my walls
You have a hold on me
You have shattered all my walls
All defenses are gone, I’m lost
Wanna lie here alone tonight

You, you

You have a hold on me 
You have a hold on me
You have a hold on me

You, you

—-

Mix & Master: @sane

Walls (Sane | mix)

all my friends are ned all my friends are dead.

All My  Friends Are Ned - Laces out, Dan!

Paper lantern bright,
Floating in the dark night sky,
Guiding spirits home.

Cake Hate (naviarhaiku472)

A song that emerged from an attempt to write something in the style of The Divine Comedy (https://soundcloud.com/the-divine-comedy). Not sure I entirely succeeded but I still like the result! Completed with more than a little help from my friends @looseyleaf & @goat-screaming.

CREDITS:
Lyrics and main vocals by Unbuilt Boy and LooseyLeaf (@looseyleaf)
Music, piano, strings, guitar and drums by Unbuilt Boy
Mixing & additional vocals by GoatScreaming (@goatscreaming)

LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
This is a song for lovers 
whose tale is a story old as time 
Two souls meant to find each other
our destinies always intertwined

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Seems every road leads us to this place 
The choices we made, regrets and mistakes 
We’re circling round and round
and running out of space

[Verse 2]
This is a song for dreamers 
those who believed and dared to try
To get where the grass is greener
but found it was on on the other side

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Love is a drug, and life is a dance 
So never stand still or you'll waste your chance
'Cause if you wait too long you’ll miss
that moment a smile leads to a kiss 
So what are you thinking for
if there’s a spark we can’t ignore it 

[Chorus 1]
'Cause I’m someone who needs you 
who feels the same way you do
let me steal your heart 
It might last forever
if we can stick together
this is just the start
Or maybe we’ll break up
kiss and make up
Friends or enemies walking that line
'Cause this is our story
so help me write it line by line

[Verse 3]
This is a song for liars 
who feel the chill but won’t admit 
It's cold 'cause they lost the fire
when love burned to ashes in the pit 

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Memories are just the ghosts of the past 
like water and sand, they slip through the cracks 
Some things can never be replaced
the sound of a voice, the look on a face
So baby keep holding on
to what we have before it’s gone

[Chorus 2]
Now the tides are changing 
the stars are rearranging 
in the sky above 
Anchors lifting, drifting off
ships into the night
a life that never was 
But there was a moment 
for a blink of an eye 
I was yours, and my love, you were mine 
A potion so potent 
that we climbed to the top of the mountain
and jumped 
cause we knew in our hearts we could fly
But we’re out of time 
We’re out of time 

[Outro]
This is the song that lovers sing 
when they are running out of time

ARTWORK: Image by annca from Pixabay

Time (For Lovers) (feat. LooseyLeaf & GoatScreaming)

Witnessing the fascinating conjunction of Venus and Jupiter from my hostel window prompted me to revisit one of my early attempts at writing music for solo MIDI electronics. 

"Celestial Dance", composed in May 2019, is in three parts, each following the other attacca, without pause. The harmonic structure of the work is derived from the clash (conjunction!) of two diminished seventh chords, with their root notes a semitone apart. Pierre Boulez had used such a chord in Sur Incises (and Incises)  which piqued my interest in its sonority. The instrumentation albeit MIDI oriented (which allowed me to push the instrumental performance to superhuman virtuosity) is made up of the instruments Boulez used in Sur Incises - with the addition of an electronic piano and solo strings. 

Celestial Dance, for electronics (2019)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
485
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/04/19/naviarhaiku485-the-rain-is-over/

2023-04-20

The Rain Is Over  (Naviarhaiku 485 )

a work by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

giugno 2023

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Ardeola Ralloides

Brothers and sisters stopped to rest up their feet
Dipping their blisters in those fresh Alcove springs
They laid down Sarah and they prayed her god speed
Consumption took her before she could be meat

They couldn’t stay long, there weren’t no time to grieve
Bess get to climbing, Wasatch Range is real steep
They reached the Salt lake in the late summer heat
They lost some wagons when the mud started to weep

Forlorn hope is fading
Unclaimed frontier and buried gold
Mr Hastings he was too hasty 
His new route was too dangerous and bold 
And hell followed

Mad about the natives John was pummeling Reed
But Reed pulled his hunting knife and he plunged it real deep
Hardkoop too weary for the pace they would keep
Got left by the trail and that’s the last he was seen

The Paiute raided again down at Humbolt sink
Wolfinger stopped to cache away all of his things
The Wolfingers had riches they weren’t gonna need
So Joseph shot down Karl and left his widow cash free

Forlorn hope is fading 
Unclaimed frontier and buried gold
Mr Hastings he was too hasty 
His new route was too dangerous and bold 
Oh no

They took a break at Truckee Lake in mid November
The snow that fell that night wasn’t due until December
No going forward, there weren’t no turning back 
They had no other choice except to start to set up a camp

It wasn’t long before they run out of food
They ate the dogs, they ate their shoes, they even ate the rug too
Some of the stronger members well they set out for help
But within ten days they started eating themselves

The Indian guides Salvador and Luis
Said man this ain’t natural, ain’t no way we can do this
So the group shot them dead and ate em’ day after Christmas
By then it was normal, they didn’t ask for forgiveness

Back at the camp they didn’t fare too much better
They started eating people once they ran out of leather
The harsh winter span, it had taken a toll 
And when it was over they’d eaten 21 souls

When a rescue party finally reached the undead
They found Lewis Keseberg and they found him well fed
Mrs Donner needed for help for the man that she wed
Mrs Donner looked for help over in the wrong shed

Forlorn hope is faded 
Unclaimed frontier and buried gold
Mr Hastings well he never made it 
To his new route that was dangerous and bold

Manifest, destiny, drove them from Springfield
Too hungry to ride that Oregon trail
That hunger, it doomed them, to their nightmare ordeal
Because they were destined to fail

On Donner & Bitten

For the recent disquiet junto challenge, in response to the beautiful track by @FakeGenious:https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0636-drma

2 of 3 - minor (disquiet0637)

[Verse]
어느 날 저녁
어쩌다 보니 기타 소리에 푹 빠졌어
그 멜로디가 나에게 속삭이듯이 다가와서
목이 메지는 그 사운드로 내 맘을 뒤흔들어
한 마디도 말하지 않아도 느껴져 그 아름다움의 무게

[Verse 2]
타인의 노래에 두 손을 획책하며 난 꿈틀대어
목청을 초조하게하는 그 기타의 솔로에 몰아들어
감정이 터지듯한 슬픔과 눈물이 쏟아져 나와
마치 세상에 혼자만 있는 것처럼 느껴져버려

[Chorus]
얼굴을 녹이는 기타 솔로
내 마음을 사로잡아 미치도록
한 줄기 빛처럼 펼쳐져
이 세상을 물들이는 그 멜로디

기타 솔로의 서사

"a delicious combination of low-fi grunge, mixed with angsty alternative and pop rock" - wedistribute.org Mixtape #1

I'm an amateur songwriter/lyricist and bedroom musician from the UK.

This profile has all of my completed tracks, works in progress and various other random ideas that will probably never go anywhere but I like to keep around...

My main instruments are piano/keyboard and vocals, plus some occasional guitar when I can't find anyone else to play it for me!

I do a lot of online collaboration with other musicians (mainly through Bedroom Bands on Reddit), which is always fun - it's a great way of finishing songs of my own and I also sometimes contribute vocals and lyrics to other people's projects. I'm always open to new collaborations, so if you like what you hear here and fancy working on something together, let me know!

Stuff I've featured on: https://soundcloud.com/unbuiltboy/sets/featuring

Works in progress: https://soundcloud.com/unbuiltboy/sets/work-in-progress/s-stwZa

Current likes: Louis Cole, KNOWER, Lawrence, The Last Dinner Party, Divorce, Greta Isaac, Orla Gartland

Influences: Eels, Mansun, Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five, Spacehog/Royston Langdon, Supergrass, The Divine Comedy, David Bowie, Radiohead, Weezer & Tenacious D

Time (For Lovers) (feat. LooseyLeaf & GoatScreaming)

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