Very Pj Harvey and I love it this is fantastic Nyla so cool 👍

great raw rock n roll sounds great voice lots of passion.  Could almost feel a live vibe.  Awesome work Nyla

Absolutely phenomenal!! Love this!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥

High Desert

J-Starfish Polka

Cover
Original by Leonard Cohen (1984)
(I got help with the guitar backing)

Hallelujah   (Cover)

Rhythm of the Night

This song has had a facelift, I originally wrote it back in 2001, then I rewrote parts of it in 2020 during the pandemic, then I recently touched it up a bit and produced a video for it. It's a little weird but I tried to convey the feeling when you're starting to lose your mind and life becomes harder and harder to deal with, it's a bit Grungy. I had to edit it down because it was like 6 minutes long! If you watch the video when I post it on YouTube, it will all become clear! It's a bit disturbing so listen with an open mind! This is not for everybody, I've had this buried for like over 20 years. This audio is from the video that's why it's so noisy.

“DON’T KNOW WHAT?”

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY MIND?
ON THE VERGE AND BORDERLINE,
DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL WORTH GOING THROUGH?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?             
      
DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REALLY TRYING TO SAY?
NOTHING'S WRONG I'M OKAY, 
DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THIS FUSS IS ABOUT? 
I'LL WORK IT OUT,

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
I'M SEEING THINGS I AIN'T SUPPOSE TO SEE,
WHY DO I HAVE TO CHANGE,
INTO SOMEONE I DON'T WANT TO BE?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
         
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY HEAD?
SUICIDAL THEY ALL SAID, 
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY BRAIN?
CAN'T STAND THE PAIN,

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY LIFE?
GETTIN' HIGH MAKES IT ALL RIGHT,       
DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO LIVE OR DIE?
CAN'T STAND THE LIES,
          
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
I'M SEEING THINGS I AIN'T SUPPOSE TO SEE,
WHY DO I HAVE TO CHANGE,
INTO SOMEONE I DON'T WANT TO BE?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?  
  
DON’T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY MIND?
ON THE VERGE AND BORDERLINE,
DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL WORTH GOING THROUGH?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO? 

BY JIM VALDES © 2001/2020

AGE OF CORONA

"DON'T KNOW WHAT?"

Starting out...I used to think about
the number of days I have to survive
'fore I can jump a train...
thumb a car
or just start walking....
and if I don't leave today...
if I can't save my life this way
then...what am I doing
and I'd been dreamin of another life
where shame ain't at its core
a life where the stitches of my wounds
don't show no more
 and I hop a train...
thumb a car...and lord
I just keep walking....
turns out...leavin yesterday
just like the day before...a generation steppin
like a first tour in a foreign war
O
bodies in the street yea
bodies keeping score and its working out this way...til this lion learns to roar
and if I don't leave today
if I can't save my life this way...
then...what am I even doing
yea
hop a train thumb a car and just keep walking

A Foreign War

Eloge sensuel de la rousseur (Damga/La Gazelle)

spring sunshine

Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/13cx2mxMJjgDzlWu7oIMve

Other streaming platforms:
https://emubands.ffm.to/journeyfaraway

Journey Far Away

Who We Are

This song was written for piano by Hitoshi Yasui, chairhouse of Tokyo, who was generous in allowing me to arrange and record it for guitar. It is from his "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" project. His mission “is to create gentle, calm, peaceful, beautiful, relaxing piano music and share it with all human beings." He writes, records and posts one beautiful piano composition each day. This song, "ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums", is number 1371 from september 16, 2017. His original piano version can be heard here:
https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/ayant-servi-pour-plusieurs-parfums-1371-by-chair-house-09162017

Thanks to Hitoshi for his daily musical watercolors and thanks for allowing me to adapt this for guitar. Please visit and listen to his original piano music @chairhouse.

chairhouse guitar

ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums

Ayant Servi Pour Plusieurs Parfums

🎶🎶🎶***YO YO YO LETS GO***🎶🎶🎶

we’ll just refer to my recovery pieces as ‘the grumble series’ til I get my range back…whew…think I should quit smoking...or nah?



🤟🏼Working on new patterns and techniques in composition, production, and performance of both instrumental(classical/acoustic guitar) and voice- pieces are built (loops and beats)..on BandLab @nyla_k00  and Soundtrap (new)

I have removed the (amp) tag for consistency in distribution- acoustic pieces I perform will be tagged as ‘acoustic’ (apologies for page reorganization)

TBH, I aspire to be a guitar 🎸 but I’ll settle for being able to play competently what I hear when I write...(one day, Alice...to the moon)

I study under Duncan L. Wood and am grateful for his guidance and patience. Most of my influences are Folk/Blues/Indie, but inspiration arrives in many forms so HT to Hip Hop, Rap, Classical, especially Chamber trios. Current tracks are first cuts and I may update them in the future with cleaner versions, thank you for listening as I learn.

A Foreign War

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