call to arms

method: mostly real instruments through pedals, mostly parallax, vo1 and vt4; only bass via vst --- contact microphones on plastic cheese wrappings do tally as real instruments, don't they?
narration: actually, beyond the surface drama, this is quite a funny poem ... don't tell!
image: based on 'lost place' images taken by myself, layered, copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

gasping, we stood in the carpeted entrance hall
Dr Malström, the psychiatrist , and I
enchanted by an automaton's hapless ritual
of smiling while fuses shorted and lit up to fry
 
on the wall, there were vials holding noses and lips
peculiar animal shapes - this is the I about to die
a hoarse voice boomed from a lectern made of Freudian slips
as I beheld Malström rouguishly melt down and liquefy
 
giving in to the succulent pull of the corridor
the most vivid, amazing realizations rushed by
each one more compelling, more truthful, more
enthralling, more eagerly willing to make me comply
 
when I passed a sinkhole, a pipe, in dad's slippers
girls roping skippers, all skinny dippers, cast in a die
to be cast, least but not last, my flippers
aghast, beast beached on Mars, all oceans run dry
 
settled into a nutshell, crustacean, my mind
grew a finely elongated stalk to carry my eye
which did not blink for millenia, utterly blind
for seeing affirms what it yearned to deny
 
time to be back, some voice broke through
as alien as familiar, neither brazen nor shy
just factual, stating the obvious, giving no clue
of the workings behind it, but real enough to de-petrify

gasping we stood

Original by Gasolin 1976

Vocal : Janne Hennie

This Is My Life W/ Janne Hennie

A joyful foot tapper that delves into deep waters of bitter/sweet nostalgia. 
The theme conjures up undercurrents of primal emotions of joy, passion, excitement and happiness, leaving you with a sense of freeness. 

Recorded at home with Mark Benton and features Tom Chadd on keyboards, Alfie Bernadi on pedal steel, Phil Parker on slide guitars, and Jools Owen (Bear's Den / Willy Mason) on drums and percussion. Mixed by Steve Baker in Brighton.

Nostalgia

F-Frozen Drone

Black Madonna (Instrumental)

Octatrack Session

Composition and electronic keys, piano,flutes and drum loops -zdcom.

Message=there are times when we are alone and mentally soar way up into the sky, as it brings a calmness and peace around you.
I hope this musical arrangement and mental picture of the Eagle, gives you the platform of peace and calm to assist you as you sour with me.

Loneliness-

Merry Christmas 2023 to everyone!

Singing and guitar by the wonderful @diamondlajolie
Chimes and snow walking by Boxy

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Christmas Song (Featuring diamondlajolie)

Sound of the Rain

An instrumental portrait of St. Louis shaped by river wind, red-brick warmth, and the quiet gravity of the Mississippi. The album blends dusty Americana with gentle brass, upright-bass pulse, and shadowed acoustic guitar, carrying the mood of old neighborhoods, steel bridges, and slow riverboats drifting past the Arch. Each track moves with unhurried weight—sometimes soulful, sometimes reflective—rooted in the sounds of alleyway drums, distant horn lines, and late-evening air. A warm, atmospheric journey through city memory, river history, and the calm glow of St. Louis after sundown.

Midnight on the Mississippi

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