A Cloud of Ravens is an important transitional album for me.  It's the last recordings I would do with Nick Ryan in Denver Colorado (we may work together again but we hardly ever hear from each other due to life circumstances) and as it was, Ravens was recorded in Denver but I was in Omaha and had to drive back and forth - - actually a pleasant task, especially when I took my son Max with me the last time early summer, saw old Denver friends and well, for lack of a better term, said 'goodbye' to Denver and 13 years of my musical and personal life.  A Cloud of Ravens is mostly comprised of 'album versions' of home recorded stuff.  

A Cloud of Ravens (2010)

thank YOU !!!

Hours

Bury This Whole Town - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZxJ5oMrTM


Two Dakotas (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Railroad Ties - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLWAZA6q6E

Lyrics:
When you've got it down
You pass in to the rain
Mist growing morning fogs
Breathing out again

Passed by all those doorways
Faces poking through
Each dusty window
The street in silence grew

Dust under those fingernails
Boots are worn through
Each step that we take
A distant rider follows through

Thunder comes
Thunder comes
In the long swift sun

Thunder and lightening pass
Like old time friends
Each lit up diner full
Passes in the end

Silence of the whispering field
Waves to me now and then
Each dusty window
Is breathing out again

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Long Swift Sun - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Burning - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

A sequel to GBH kind of.  Thinking of  Serge Gainsbourg's Cannabis soundtrack. 

Actually fell down the rabbit hole properly making this one.   It's quite sad.  Sorry.  I'm very cheerful in real life.

It's a bit of a slow burner but it gets there eventually...  

I'd also like to thank @musicaserj-ii - who very kindly complemented the mood which is something he does more properly truthfully.    So many wonderful sounds up in this cloud...


1967 - Closing Credits

3rd Track from Album Random Noises and Organised Sounds by The Koolaid Electric Company.

Going Blind

7th Track from Album Random Noises and Organised Sounds by The Koolaid Electric Company.

Alright

4417

however too much gmo msg leads to astral nitemares

2. The Demon's of Tormance eat Silver Cords for Breakfast

time to go outside and leave the snookeer table behind for the land of the South

3. Journey beyond the velvet green starkness in search of Krag's Rizla papers before returning home

Burning embers

I'm Michael Trenhaile, songwriter hailing from Omaha Nebraska, member of The Doneofits.  Reflected on this page are home and studio recordings of my own music for the last ten years, songs that survived extreme life changes and 30 something year old trials and tribulations, short bouts of extreme alcoholism plus living in both inner city and middle class shit holes in both Denver, Colorado and Omaha, Nebraska.  I'm big into lyrics and words so feel free to also check out my Scrawls tab (my poetry and 'rant' blog) just below.  Enjoy tunes and check out The Doneofits on Soundcloud.  Also, everything on this page is downloadable.  Feel free to start your own collection as I will be adding more tunes as time goes on.  : )

Burning - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Michael Trenhaile

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