Try not to screw up - Will & Nikerty

A dystopian scenario! There has been drought for many decades. A generation or more has only experienced rain in old movies on the TV. Enter the Rain Dreamers, mystics with the power to induce mass hallucinations of heavy life-giving rain. Do they bring hope, or is it just a dream? One way, perhaps rather fancifully, I've imagined climate change may play out.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
― Paul Valery (French poet and essayist)

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
― Cary Kennedy (Democratic politician)

Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness.
― Isaiah 45:8 New King James Version

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
― John Updike (Author)

Lyrics
The blinds are closed, the A/C’s on
It’s burning up outside
The streets are empty, no one’s there
We’ve all been told to hide
It hasn’t rained in many years, the land’s a dusty haze
Nothing there to tell you it’s
Where cattle used to graze

You love the sound of heavy rain
Pouring down to flood the street
But you’ve only seen it on TV
When divided lovers finally get to meet … Love, sweet love!

But I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
Yes, I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
I’ll dream up some rain for you
Out of a sky of cloudless blue (sky of cloudless blue)

I’m going north, they'd like some rain
They want me there they say
They wanna feel it trickle down their backs
Like a streamlet on its way
To feed a river heading down
To join a sea they’ve never seen
And they’ll pay me well for my mystic spell
Even if it’s just a dream!

They love … They love the sound of heavy rain
Tipping down to flood the ground
But they’ve only seen it on TV
When the hero saves his girl from being drowned … Go, man, go!

But I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
Yes, I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
I’ll dream up some rain for you
Out of a sky of cloudless blue (sky of cloudless blue)
I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer
I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer, dream, dream, dream . . .
. . . Rain! Rain! Rain!

Track credits
Music: Michael Sellers & Sergio Aguilar
Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Vocals: Michael Sellers & Chris Curtis
Guitars & bass, keyboards: Sergio Aguilar
Drums: Juan Herrea
Production, musical arrangement, mixing & mastering: Sergio Aguilar
Cover design: Michael Sellers
Cover photo: Image from Pixabay

Urban Tales

Rain Dreamers

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Rain Dreamers ft Chris Curtis

First version here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/ulysses-and-the-sirens
For the final draft I employ the same audio file, just adding a bit of guitar, percussions and vocals.
Lyrics and sirens song courtesy of Mainstream Eurodance.
Cover picture: John William Waterhouse, "Ulysses and the Sirens" (1891), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Lyrics

Baby I loved you 
more than words can say 
I need you 
like fire needs a flame 
now I'm breaking I'm waiting 
to hear you say my name

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2017-2022-2024).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, August 5.

Ulysses and the Sirens (final draft) *

Title track from the 2024 Album Vision:  https://www.terrywigmore.com/wigmore-allen-gibbons

Vision

I had a vision (x4)

I had a vision, when I was a boy
This was my kingdom… I drew it like a child…
But never stuck to my aim… and so I missed it by half a mile…
There’s a wide-winged bird, a circling…or could it be two or three
I could save it all the bother…and then it wouldn’t bother me, see
This is my vision…This is my vision
I had a vision (to find that common ground)
I had a vision (with friends that are benign)
I had a vision (to find that common ground)
I had a vision (with friends that are benign…)
I entrust this mystery to you
For my fate is in your hands
So let’s push on…so let’s push on…
I had a vision…

(INST)

I had a vision…
I had a vision (to find that common ground)
I had a vision (with friends that are benign)
I had a vision (to find that common ground)
I had a vision (with friends that are benign)
I had a vision (it was a real beauty)
I had a vision (all laid out for me)
I had a vision…I had a vision…a mystery!

Wigmore: Music, Production
Allen: Lyrics, Vocals, Bass, Guitar
(c) 2024

Visions

I Had A Vision

Tes yeux
Ta voix
Le son
De tes pas

Je me demande
Pourquoi
Je suis pas
Avec toi ce soir

Sans tes bras
Autour moi
On se vois plus
Je me sens nu

Je t'entends pas
Je t’écoute plus
Je n’en peux plus 
Je m’en fous

Je reste
Tu sors
Je me mens
Tu m’ignores

C’est qui
L’autre   
C’est moi
Ou le paramour

Regarde
Ton corps
Il est fixé 
Dans la photo du

Premier moment où
On se voit
Où on se touche
Où on s’entend 

Je la touche
Je la repare
Je la copie
Je la remplace
Connaitre toi
C’est le meme
De connaitre
Un corp mort

Echanger l’un
Pour l’autre
N’est rien
Que poursuivre la vie

La bouffe
Le sexe
Se trahir
S’epanouir

Paramour part II

Montage, photographies et narration : 
© 2024, Chartrand Saint-Louis
Lien vers la vidéo : https://youtu.be/CA1RGMHDnYY

Musique :
© 2024, duo piano-guitare, titre : "Soleil couchant", par Chartrand Saint-Louis et Albert, 2:15 min.

Mixage, révision et sonorisation par Albert

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Cette narration partage un extrait de l’œuvre originale pour le plaisir de transmettre et faire connaître. L’œuvre originale demeure la propriété de son auteur. Référence complète :

« Il avait plu la veille et le soir le ciel avait été très nuageux. Au loin, les collines étaient couvertes de jolis nuages lumineux qui changeaient de forme pendant que vous les observiez.

Le soleil couchant, avec sa lumière dorée, ne frappait qu'un ou deux amoncellements de nuages, qui semblaient aussi solides que les sombres cyprès. Comme vous les regardiez, vous deveniez tout naturellement silencieux. 

Le vaste espace et l'arbre solitaire sur la colline, la coupole lointaine et le bavardage qui vous entourait – tout faisait partie de ce silence. 

Vous saviez que le lendemain matin il ferait un temps délicieux, parce que le coucher de soleil était rouge. Et il était ravissant. Il n'y avait plus un seul nuage et le ciel était très bleu. 

Les fleurs jaunes, l'arbre couvert de fleurs blanches contre la haie sombre des cyprès et un parfum de printemps remplissaient les terres. La rosée était sur l'herbe et, tout doucement, le printemps émergeait des ténèbres. »

– Krishnamurti, La révolution du silence, Stock, 1990, p. 139-140

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Version instrumentale : https://soundcloud.com/chartrand-saint-louis/evanescence-par-chartrand-saint-louis-et-albert-mixage-revision-et-sonorisation-par-albert

Soleil couchant

"Soleil couchant", par Chartrand Saint-Louis et Albert (musique et narration) [lien vidéo]

un essai de percussions et claves : un peu d'Afrique pour chauffer nos froides saisons

parfums d'afrique

KISSIN' ASS FOR CHRISTMAS

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Diddledig

Six new songs from Biggs Dixxon.

Piano and vocals: Biggs Dixxon
Production: Tom Berry @37741600

Ask Your Buddy Jesus

these are short songs ,poems more than musical songs really,that are meant to emphasize the lyrics that address what I think are critical issues for all of us : our relationship to each other/the planet/ourselves.. so please have a listen and let me know your thoughts. nothing fancy/cell phone recordings/take care be safe
I am now on Spotify.com ,Apple music,U-tube,Deezer as Dave Scamurra .please visit

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