Silent Nemesis In The Mirror

The Grand Spiral Galaxy
June 2022
Duration: 2:30
Listen to the Cosmic Soundscapes Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/cosmic-soundscapes
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for the tinkling star bells
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released May 30, 2022 features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located approximately 53 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major. The “arms” of grand design spirals appear to wind around and into the galaxy’s nucleus.  A grand design galaxy’s spiral arms stretch clearly across the galaxy through many radians and may be seen over a considerable proportion of the galaxy’s radius.  Close inspection of the grand spiral arms reveals dark dust lanes and bright star-forming regions along the inner part of the spiral arms. 
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The Grand Spiral Galaxy

This is my first collaboration with Clive / @winkandwoo 
We decided to make a song after he commented on the artwork for another one of my tracks (Metaplasticity) where he said it looked like a 'chewing gum sea'. I suggested it was a great song name so went for it. I am super happy with the results, hope you'll enjoy it too!

Lyrics :-
What is reality?
With these marshmallow clouds
Lollypops are all around
The trees are candy canes
There is sherbet on the ground
We swim so far
In the chewing gum sea
We swim so far

Chewing Gum Sea - Winkandwoo & tea are sea

c r u m i u s. (collab) Thoughts. Inspired by Led Zeppelin. Vocals:: E

Hiya Listeners 😀

I'm so delighted to have Georg Boehme (on Sax) joining Tim Elliot and I on Telecaster and Upright Grand Piano respectively, for our new Improvised Collaboration of 'Under The Waves'. 😊   
                                                             
With the Three of us involved now, the track is re-named as                     'WithUnder The Waves'
as it brings to mind What Drifts With and Under the Currents beneath the  Oceans, Lakes , Rivers and Streams of our amazing planet. 
May it bring to consciousness an aspect of the tonal flow that moves in harmony with what lives within it. 😉

I trust you will enJOY!  

Cheers! 😊


© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot & Georg Boehme 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 
℗ Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Georg Boehme 2022

Arranged and produced by Anomon
expanding upon the original track by Tim and I called 'Under The Waves' @ https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/under-the-waves

Pic by Pxfuel :  a Luminescent Jelly drifting with and under the Waves.

Withunder The Waves * Anomon, Elliot & Boehme

Coup Fatale (Belial & Libby)

Coup Fatale (Belial Pelegrim & Libby Laksmi)

Out of the Box October 2022
Let's go, let's blow... Ride, ride, ride ...
Play me!

Jazz Cowgirl

If you like this, you might also want to check out Frank Mehl's beautifull remix.
https://soundcloud.com/user-92853963/the-girl-with-mechanical-heart

The Girl With The Mechanical Heart

_F R E E__D O W N L O A D_ but if you want you can buy the digital title in high quality at the following link(which of course would make me even more happy): 
https://crumius.bandcamp.com/track/cello-freak

Cello Freak

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Blueprint for track that became 'Sandycove Milk'.

Inspired by wondrous music by Conin, whose track 'Kitty's Wake' reminded of the rich clay of Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake'. This track, about the opening pages of Joyce's Ulysses, borrows coffee spoons, forever those of T.S. Eliot, in an effort to add sweet milk...drawn from the milk-well of honeyed Sandycove.  The lyric speaker is, notionally, Stephen Daedalus. For practical purposes, the lyric speaker is James Joyce himself. His aim? To hit Haines for a guinea [a pre-decimal unit of currency] before heading to France on a ferry. Whilst Haines still feels guilty (sheepish) about having fired his pistol at an imaginary cat he thought he saw in the fireplace in the Martello tower in Sandycove (now the Joyce Museum....a sacred...magical place, whose attendant Joyce scholars told me about the Haines' imaginary cat episode....it is all true...yet also dovetails eerily with the first chapter of Ulysses).

The reference to Haines having consumed Absinthe is a narrative fiction, invented to offer an explanation for his dangerous behaviour. No peer reviewed evidence capable of demonstrating Absinthe has hallucinogenic properties, exists, to my knowledge.


Lyrics

[chorus]
Gotta learn me some Italian
Gonna get me a guitar
Gotta learn me some Italian
Gonna get me a guitar

Hellenise me now
She come and go
talking bout Michelangelo
there will be time
there will be time

do I dare to eat a quiche?
I shall wear enchanted trousers
and float upon the beach

I’m still dreamin
something happened last night

Haines downed a snot-green bottle of Absinthe
started shooting at his Schrödinger's cat
in the fireplace
looks real sheepish this morning
gonna hit him for a guinea [a pre-decimal unit of currency]
and get outta here
gliding on the Emerald sea
to Paris
with Haines’ guinea in my pocket
when I’m at sea

gonna go uptown now
hitting the top deck of this here Martello
gonna watch the mailboat
glide on an Emerald sea
gonna rest my shiny elbows
on the jagged granite
just leavin the harbour

and here comes stately Buck
bearing a bowl of lather
crossed razor and mirror as well
holding the bowl aloft
and intoning...intonin

Introibo ad altare Dei
sacred chalice
sacred cross
and now I’m lookin at the sea
Thallata...sweet mother
Hellenise me
mailboat clearin the harbour
rage of Caliban inside me
cos of Haines....[firing a gun inside the Martello tower when drunk the night before, at a giant cat he imagined was sitting near the fireplace]
sweet Thallata
buttercups on the quilt
powdered musk and gauds of amber beads
calm now like the sea
there will be time
there will be time

Jazz Cowgirl

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