wonderfull ambient chill Vibes... so powerfull track...

Inspired by the annual Galaxidi Islands regatta for vintage sail-wooden boats.

Composed by: John Sideris 
Formulated / performed by: ΠΕΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΧΡΟΝΟ (drums: Antonis Kondoglou)
Recorded & Mastered in: 9800 Studios, by Antonis Kondoglou

Apoplous

Artist: Gareth Wood
Title: Grenade in the Head
Album: Sweet Nothings

https://www.youtube.com/@garethwood8233

Grenade in the Head

5 Star Semi-finalist in the 2024 UK Songwriting Contest

Mysterious Ways

Mysterious Ways (Graham Williams)

Made of glass (demo)

Classical French comedy music. Thierry Clua Juin 2024

Pignon

A Portuguese Cyrano, how would he be?

I have an older version (not published here in SoundCloud) with a faster tempo. Here I tried to slow it down to see if it still works.


Nascido para vencer,
senhor do meu nariz.
Mas tu podes crer:
Nunca serei nada neste país
à beira-mar plantado.
Já não escapo do meu fado.
Só me resta ser feliz.

E as melodias, e os sonhos desta arte
seguem-nos,
seguem-nos por toda a parte.
E ao partirmos com as lembranças,
com o talento, com a esperança e o sentimento
de uma nova madrugada,
é um novo dia, cheio de versos, de poesia,
e a suave companhia de umas tágides anafadas.
E as doces brisas, e os furacões da sorte
levam-nos
levam-nos para além da morte.

Porque a vida eterna é esta:
Que te conheçam a ti só
por único Deus verdadeiro
e a teu filho, a quem enviaste.

E, ao repousar na terra,
os corpos unem-se às raízes
e as vidas áridas e estéreis
crescem lindas e felizes.

Nascido para vencer, senhor deste país.
Mas tu podes crer: Nunca serei dono do meu nariz
na face mal plantado.
Já não escapo do meu fado.
Só me resta ser feliz.

Nascido Para Vencer (2024)

He dreamed of writing the great American novel
But when he tried to write his wheels just spun and spun
So he started doing book reviews to pay the bills
He became the literary equivalent of Atilla the Hun
Brutally criticizing, trying to find things to hate
He became a critic because his work was second rate
It takes years of work to write hundreds of pages
Each author thinks they’ve written a book for the ages
He skims though each manuscript in less than ten minutes
Reviews don’t pay that much so he has to set time limits
He pushed himself to the limit, day after day
100 pages per hour going down motorway
Words, words, words, words, words, words
Words rebel – stretch and widen
they hide between the lines
they crowd, they crowd, they become too vague
darken him, irritate him, push him - out of the margin,
The words all swirl together and he mutters to himself
He sits at his desk for hours. It’s not good for his health
He says if you don’t like my reviews, you can tell me to go to hell
To hell, to hell, you can tell me to go to hell
Sometimes if a good book made him jealous and it got under his skin
He’d write a bad review, try to send it to the discount bin
And every day his reviews grew more and more over the top
Like a shark in bloody water, he was unable to stop
And then one day he was overrun by a train of syllables going counterclockwise
And question marks appeared as the words blurred before his eyes
The words on the page now felt empty
He’d expended all his rage
The meaning of words was inverted
He was trapped in a hopeless cage
He viciously pointed out the flaws
Of all his contemporary peers
He burned his bridges and when he fell
his victims erupted in cheers
Words, words, words, words, words, words
Words rebel – stretch and widen
He said if you don’t like my reviews, 
you can tell me to go to hell
Now he works as a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman and that’s not going well
To hell, to hell, he told them to go to hell
He saw the trainwreck coming but he ignored the warning bell

The Ballad Of The (former) Literary Critic [lyrical collaboration with Michele Ansani]

Mal Gezittert

lately ive been digging through the deep archive. I came across this demo that was recorded,... somewhere....  It is a song demo played on my Brazilian Quattro..  a ten string jazz instrument. It was wicked hard to play because the strings were real close together and heavy steel. I think I must have recorded this in haste. It was sent to someone in france ... a lady named Bernadette..  I have done a ton of writing...  these tracks just keep popping up on old thumb drives and even in old emails sent back in forth to various people over the last 25 to 30 years.
The tuning on the quattro is bizarre... Id tell you what it is but I really dont have the instrument any more... it kind of exploded.. So... not having the instrument any more.. if me, or someone else ever develops a lyrical concept I suppose I could work out a guitar version .

I NEVER post instrumentals... but maybe I could share some of them...as som many of you here are posting instrumentals. 

The recording is not so good... if its really that bad just let me know and ill yank it down. My hearing is very poor..so I really dont know what it sounds like.

There is a really bad clam toward the end..  like I just dropped a lit stogie down my overalls... other than that im not too embarrassed..

Quattro - Take 2

Sands of Time

Artist: Gareth Wood
Title: O So Sorry
Album: Rites of Passage

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrDNDmcts9myiPBrryFrYDg
https://garethwood.bandcamp.com/

O So Sorry

"If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worthwhile." - Tom Lehrer

Gareth Wood is an independent and self-produced multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer from Manchester, England. His debut album 'Juvenilia' was released on August 21, 2017. Gareth's second album 'Low Key' was released on July 20, 2018. His third album 'Rites of Passage' was released April 17, 2020. Gareth released a fourth album of instrumentals entitled 'Sweet Nothings' exclusively on YouTube on December 27th, 2022. On April 2nd 2024, a fifth album was released by Gareth called 'Exposure Therapy'. All albums can be found in full on both Bandcamp and YouTube. 

All songs written, performed and produced by Gareth Wood.

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