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Rocking Radiowaves: 20 Rocking new tracks from the SoundCloud community

Watchglass Tracks

Wow!

Doing this with https://soundcloud.com/florian-luethi-59518579 really managed to create very uncomfy feelings in the first place..... I am very afar from the point where i would call myself a Keyboardplayer or a "Keyboardist", but that is something i really want to achieve some day. Then there is this Swiss Army Knive of a man, playing in a Band, playing in a Bigband, reinventing old classics, playing the Keys like a young god - how can you keep up with someone like him.

He sent me the first stem back then , i think in April 2021... and said that he want it to be our thing. There was a  toiletpaperroll kind of instructions which came along with it and music sheets which i really cannot read. Thank you, goddamn! AHahahah.  It is also slow, has various changes in timing and there is also a short variation in a part with a bpm change. 

Adding this into my DAW and setting it up was one thing, finding the right key to jam along with it and trying to go JAZZ was a complete different take. Holy SH*T. 

I prelistened alot this two milestone versions out there:
Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yg7aZpIXRI and
Miles Davis Quintet - 'Round Midnight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgLt7LAZF0, and while doing so, i felt terrible feeble and developed some slight depression torwards the thing which Mr. Lüthi sent me. I was flatterned, that he thought i can keep up with something like that, but also frightened AF.

So i did listen to his version and i simply was not able to do it. I gladly was able to work on any music, but going 42 BPM, sorry, i fucking started going idle ... so slooooooooooow!!! (Remember : Dawn of Damn is 160 bpm - so this track here is a bout 4 times slower). After many months i finally set everything up and for another few months tried to play something to it - progress about to be aligned with those BPM hahah....

Late but nevertheless, the inspiration finally came and while i tried to line up with this jazzy thing, Florian wanted the FY - Mojo and Crazyness, so he completely changed the whole base for the song and bam bam bam - boomarang!! We both hope that you enjoy this new version of a classic which has been re-issued about 2000 times! We are pretty confident, that this version is quite different... :)

Thank you Florian for the possibility to do this with you and all your patience, your super cool uplifting attitude and positive and constructive critic! Also pretty happy, that he allowed me to collaborate with his unique drawing style. I really tried to adapt and went full drawing mode this time! This was so much fun!

All the best to all of you and a great 2k22 !
Yours,
CMD FY

FL: Base, Sub, Guitar, Beerbottle-Organ, Guitar FX, Drums, Pads, Coda and the THEREMIN!
FY: Trumpets, B3, Music-Box, Wolf-Keeper, Forest-Ambiance, Mix, Master

Check out this absolutely wonderful short video of the German Shepherd "Jedi" - who is kinda going nuts while listening to this one! -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSLrQv_Tlc

'Round Midnight

'Round Midnight - Collab with Florian Lüthi

Track The Magic Garden by Kat Nest WIP last updated 29/07

The Magic Garden

Ethereal, sparse but big. A haunting, eerie song of, well, love essentially, but as it may be experienced if you were just a ghost.
How could one keep interacting? 

No need to be afraid
A breath of air by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let you know I'm there
Hear me 
See me 
Know me
Trying to let you know I care
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Blow a stream in your ear
Pull a single hair
Oh you will know 
I'm always there
I'll think your thoughts as you do
I'll give you mine to think to 
And you will know I'm close 
Through all of time
A breath of air 
By your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let your know I'm there
See everything
Hear every sound
Get the feel of your surroundings
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Pull a single hair
I'll think your thoughts as you do
And you will know
A breath of air
A breath of by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
I'm just a ghost 
Behind your right shoulder

Copyright Gina Graham 2020

3 Just A Ghost

You know it's a lie... so far

Honest John:
https://soundcloud.com/john-palmer

Spiralizer + John Palmer - You Take It From Me

Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, 2022, all rights reserved. Electronica with analog triangle and tambourine.
Thank you for listening :)
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Lyrics:
I´ve never known a router
Guiding me the way 
I am just a signal
Sent out every day.

Radiowaves, 
I got lost in radiowaves

Sending out a signal
Does anyone recieve it?
It seems to me, my signal
Has the wrong frequency

Radiowaves, 
I got lost in Radiowaves

A little tiny star
That can´t stop it´s pulsation
Sending out vibrations
In search of affiliation

Radiowaves, 
I got lost in Radiowaves

Depending on transmission 2x

Radiowaves

i wrote this one with an old friend in mind who left me much too soon...............cheers for having a listen

You Know What I Mean

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitars played: Morris Nylon String in standard tuning
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
I thought it was time to start writing and recording some new songs, with a view to putting together a new solo album over the winter. For this song I have returned to my nylon string Morris guitar. Hope you like it!
LYRICS:
Sitting…. In my rocking chair
Rollin…….. with the beat
Pickin …..out a tune
Keeping time… tapping my feet

Maybe I’m getting old 
Maybe I’m getting slow 
Maybe things don’t seem like they used to do
Maybe, maybe not…. I don’t know 

Sitting….. in my rocking chair 
Close my eyes and see
All the places I have been
Just rollin … with the beat

Maybe I’m getting old 
Maybe I’m getting slow 
Maybe things don’t seem like they used to do
Maybe, maybe not…. I don’t know

My Rocking Chair

This song was born when I ate frozen blueberries 🥰🤗🐬🍉🌻🐶💖☕🌈🌟🎵

#NewOriginalSong #blueberry 

[Verse 1]
My eyestrain from VDT work
I can't get up ‘cause my eyes are tired
But I can't quit YouTube
‘Cause Vocaloid is my destiny
I'm about to explode, take off this fatigue  
Astaxanthin alone is useless
I need something more
Now I may have found

[Chorus]
Oh blueberries, help me with your power
Oh, blueberries, I'm dreaming now
Oh, blueberries, wake me up refreshed
Oh, blueberries, that's all for me
Now I may have found
Blueberry time before bed
I'm feeling fine all day long
‘Cause when I wake up, I feel great 

[Verse 2]
It may be too early
The effect is undetermined
But I'm ahead, that’s me
I'll take the cuttings in December
Mix peat moss into the soil to keep it moist
10cm branches, cut diagonally
Soak it in water for a few hours, then put it in
Wait two months in half shade

[Chorus]
Oh blueberries, help me with your power
Oh, blueberries, I'm dreaming now
Oh, blueberries, wake me up refreshed
Oh, blueberries, that's all for me
Now I may have found
Blueberry time before bed
I'm feeling fine all day long
‘Cause when I wake up, I feel great 

[Bridge]
I'm about to explode, take off this fatigue  
Astaxanthin alone is useless
I need something more
Now I may have found

[Outro]
Oh blueberries, help me with your power
Oh, blueberries, I'm dreaming now
Oh, blueberries, wake me up refreshed
Oh, blueberries, that's all for me
Now I may have found
Blueberry time before bed
I'm feeling fine all day long
‘Cause when I wake up, I feel great

Blueberry

Hello dear friends. It's been a long while. We've all been through hell some way or other and I wish you love joy and strength.
It was great having Brian visit us in Durban this past month (the old boy's leaving on Friday). Well while he was here I got him to do some backing vocals. And he was a big help with the mixing as well. Thanks Brian!

Vocals and guitars Johnny Minstrel
Backing vocals Brian Peters https://soundcloud.com/brianpeters-3



Legerdemain - words and music Johnny Minstrel 

Bring out your entertainers
the jugglers and the clowns
We’re in the belly of the beast
as the world shuts down
All is smoke and mirrors
I hear someone say
Living the illusion
till Judgement Day 

Oh legerdemain
Too fast for the eye to see and the brain to explain
Oh, oh legerdemain
C’mon baby 
Do that trick again

He’s gonna blow your mind
Mo Magic’s back in town
There’s always something kinder
Whenever he’s around
Today is like tomorrow
Uncertain and unclear
Spill your drink of sorrows
God knows that’s too much beer

Oh legerdemain
Too fast for the eye to see and the brain to explain
Oh, oh legerdemain
C’mon baby 
Do that trick again

Well there’s nobody here
Anymore than somebody there
Guess I’ll meet you in the ether
On some dodgy cable line
And if you see me turn the corner
Wave a hello or goodbye
Who knows where I’ll be going
And who I’ll be next time
Who I’ll be next time 

Bring out your entertainers
All the world’s a stage
Just looks a little smaller
In this virtual cage
So, throw in a coin dear missus
I promise you a thrill
Not stealing from the masses
Or teaching how to kill

Oh legerdemain
Too fast for the eye to see and the brain to explain
Oh, oh legerdemain
C’mon baby 
Do that trick again

Rumours From Paradise

Legerdemain

Legerdemain     with Brian Peters

Our first new song as Watchglass reunited. This started as a single idea that came to me through pondering another duo, Moon and Aries, who make music, separated by half a planet and yet not separate at all in their vision and shared passion. We hope you enjoy!  
PS Mark made a YouTube video for this one and we would love for you to stop by and let him know what you think. He's a quiet achiever but he's really proud of this and ought to be so.
https://youtu.be/sm6s5wXZqbw

It's not every day
It's not every lifetime
Something like this comes along
Hold it close
Feel it breathe
You have each other now.
She's come back to you.
There could be worse things
And better still to come.

Copyright Gina Graham 2022

If you love me keep me

Eons Romance

This song came about because I thought I'd try my hand at making my very own real-instrument percussion track, just for fun and to see if Mark could flesh it out... I think he may have had a go, bless him, but, even if my tapping and shaking didn't make the cut, we got this reggae-style thing as the end result.

I'm just trying you must see
To fit the pattern
Your routines
I'm just trying as I ever do
To fall into step
Inside out you oh oh oh

Watching stitches
Shades of green
Making time move rhythmically
It's been two hours 
An inch apiece
And thank god good love
Coming back to me

This is the roar of the roller coaster
Living breathing
I'd rather be riding than us flat-lining
This is the heady
Fall arrested
Sooner or later 
You come to the rescue
You're the rescue

Make with mind 
As with my hands 
The coffee scene
The waterfront
Walks along while dreaming of
Comfort days with you

Copyright Gina Graham 2022

Every Conversation in June

The Rollercoaster

Buy me if you love me

The Rescue

I fell in love with this song when I first heard it sung by the beautiful Christine Anu. I taught it to my primary school class when we did indigenous studies. It is an ode to a different kind of Australian dream. This version has a very different feel to the Warumpi Band’s original and Anu's take on it. But I think we captured the yearning in the song. Hope you enjoy!

Six years I've been in this desert
And every night I dream of the sea
They say home is where you find it
But will this place ever satisfy me

For I come from the saltwater people
We always live by the sea
Now I'm out here west of Alice Springs
With a wife and a family

My island home
My island home
My island home is waiting for me

In the evening the dry wind blows
From the hills and across the plain
I close my eyes and I'm standing
In a boat, on the sea again
And I'm holding that long turtle spear
And I feel I'm close now to where it must be

And my island home is waiting for me
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home

My Island Home

My Island Home (Watchglass cover) The Warumpi Band, Christine Anu

This song is actually one long outro.... at least that's how it began.

So I said
Give me your sorrow
It is a beauty
That I want
And though it makes you fail
And asks for everything
I'll only tend it lovingly

oooh oooh ooooh 
oooh oooh ooooh

And with your smile
A tender twilight dawn
Step in the past
With hands to make
As we're returning
Give me your sorrow
There is a beuuty I will make

oooh oooh oooh 
oooh oooh oooh

So I said Give me your sorrow
I'll only tend it lovingly
As we're returning
Give me your sorrow
There is a beauty I will make.

Give Me Your Sorrow

From our 2017 debut album which will be released properly one day soon. This song is the story of making a rough time all better again, but then there is the matter of John, and who is he in the song? I thought it was most obvious when I wrote it and that everyone would get the reference, but so far no-one has mentioned the connection or had an "aha!" moment. Perhaps one of you will. ;-) 

Pictured is Yoshi who was our first and amazing cajon player whom we greatly missed when she left for Japan. 

Does all this silence give you space
To turn things over
I hope you get it bright side up
It was never meant to fall apart like this
O babe we were never really s'posed to

You know I feel with you
You make me laugh 
I make you smile
And there's no need for goodbye
I dig you out you lift me high
Oh high

Can I keep on running with you
Close by me
I never meant to say goodbye
I want you with me
Through all of this
Oh babe
We were never really s'posed to

You know I feel with you
You make me laugh
I make you smile
And there's no need for goodbye
I dig you out 
You left me high
Oh high

He told her in the beginning she was a gem.
They had a good thing going
Don't ruin it
But they gave a little more and more and more
Hey John is yes always the answer?
Look at this mess.
They said no first
And then yes yes yes.

Watchglass

Dont Blame John

The Butterfly & The Baobab

Jeremy J. Saks - The Butterfly & The Baobab

A morte, o casamento do feitiço com o feiticeiro.
É a única liberdade, a única herança deixada pelo Deus desconhecido, o encoberto, o objeto semi-identificado, o desobjeto, o Deus-objeto.
- Sample Cut Collage Mix - 
Gilberto Gil - Objeto Semi Identificado+Brian Bennett - Solstice.
prod. Lubraxx
Cafofus Records 2017.

Deus Objeto

The future is an electric Global Freeway - invoking the bombastic spirit of wonder & constant movement in transport & supply chains. Never ending, end to end Global International Trade. Technology with innovation in a constantly changing world. 
... It’s a fantastically inspiring world and a great time to be alive ...

Tous les vingt ans, on aperçoit
le monde qui change de visage.
Avec ses hauts, avec ses bas,
tous ses succès, tous ses naufrages.
A vos yeux, ce sont des gamins
mais, bientôt, arrivera l'heure,
où, à la force de leurs mains,
nous bâtirons des jours meilleurs.

Vous avez eu le rock, le twist,
la télé, le disco, le punk.
Pour nous, c'était plutôt Dream Team ;
Shaquile O'Neal et tous ses dunks.
La génération Internet
a déjà repris le flambeau ;
elle va refaire toute la planète
à grands coups de jeux vidéos.

Vous nous aviez dit qu'on aurait
un Éden pour notre génération :
des animaux dans les forêts,
des bouquets d'fleurs sur tous les balcons,
des poissons dans les océans,
des oiseaux sur le toit des maison,
des diamants pour tous les mendiants,
assez de blé pour les moissons.

  Y'a plus q'nos jeux ;
  douces fariboles,
  qui rendent heureux.
  Y'a plus q'ça qui nous console !

Nos seules armes seront des joysticks ;
plus d'révolver, plus de fusil.
Pour tout le monde, travail et fric.
Fini la haine, fini l'ennui.
Mais, avant ça, on compte sur vous
pour leur préparer le terrain,
pour commencer un monde plus doux
que la soie et que le satin.

  Cessez vos guerres
  pour des chimères ;
  nous, on espère !

Vous nous aviez dit qu'on aurait
un Éden pour notre génération :
des animaux dans les forêts,
des bouquets d'fleurs sur tous les balcons,
des poissons dans les océans,
des oiseaux sur le toit des maison,
des diamants pour tous les mendiants,
assez de blé pour les moissons.

Copyright © by LeBAROUF.
Paroles et Musique : Sébastien BONNEAU dit SeBB
Tous Droits Réservés (SACD).

Crédits :
Basse : Yann DANET
Guitare : Sébastien INIZAN
Batterie : Vincent LASCOSTE
Chant : Sébastien BONNEAU.
Mixage : Matthieu REALINI
Enregistrement : Studio "RED BOWLING BALL" - 78390 Bois d'Arcy.

Notre Génération.

Jarred  Kimberley Galpin
October 1975-March 1976
Available for Purchase on Bandcamp

Song For Jarred Galpin

#203 Classic rock music.

This one is called 3 strings.  It's about changing priorities in a relationship..😁


Lyrics;
Baby sings the blues
And it's breaking my heart
Baby sings the blues
And it's tearing me apart

Want to stand beside her
And do my thing
But my electric guitar only has three strings

Driving in my car
On a summer day
Im driving in my car
and hearing my baby say

You know I love ya baby
And I want to wear your ring
But your electric guitar only has three strings

When I was young and full of soul
I'd play my favorite songs
I thought that's all I'd need
For me to get along

But my eyes were opened
The first time I saw you
But the way you spend my money
There's not enough that I can do

Working every day
In the burning heat
Working every day
just to make ends meet

Feel so good when I get payed
But the she takes everything
And my electric guitar still only has three strings

Baby sings the blues
Almost every day
Baby sings the blues and I gotta get away

I promised her a better life
And all that love can bring
But my electric guitar only has three strings

3 Strings

the title on this song seems fitting today as an american inauguration takes place. hopefully a turbulent, stormy era is subsiding and a new beginning is unfolding on january 20th.

the orchestration is by guillaume pearson, guitar arrangement by naldo. the full title of the original song by hitoshi yasui of chairhouse is: "the sweet breath of spring played amidst its branches". his beautiful piano version can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/the-sweet-breath-of-spring-played-amidst-its-branches-2448-by-chair-house-08272020

more of guillaume's songs & cinematic orchestrations:
soundcloud.com/guillaumelecompositeur/tracks

the cover art is Fandango by Milt Kobayashi

Sweet Breath of Spring

Loud and clear folks: Watchglass do NOT use any AI in any part of their song creation. Neither pitch correction or autotune are used on Gina's vocals. All nuance and emotional expression are preserved. All songs are 100% humanmade!

Hello, thankyou for stopping by! If you had a listen and liked what you heard, the best way to help us forward in the great sea of music would be to follow us on Bandcamp if you possibly can.... really depends on whether you have a Bandcamp account. If you can't then we still very much appreciate a show of love here in the form of likes, comments and re-posts... thank you very much for these :) 
Watchglass are a duo who like exploring 
musical directions and having fun making songs and albums. We have been working as a partnership since 2017, or most of the time since then. Gina is the singer and lyricist. Mark is the guitarist and everything else and makes the songs and is the one who Gina will forever hold responsible for showing her she could not only sing well enough to front a band but also write passable, and sometimes even excellent songs. 

We have 5 albums which earned acclaim from Chief Editor Bandcamp, Joseph E Keyes:

Every Conversation in June 
(Featured in BandCamp's Best of Spring collection 2023)
“The album plays out like one long, slightly spooky fairy tale…A magic spell drifting in from lands unknown, Every Conversation in June is a quiet marvel.” - JE Keyes, Chief Editor Bandcamp Daily

Beautiful Dust
“...delightfully enigmatic pop songs built from enchanting melodies and eternal optimism.” - Ben Salmon (Bandcamp Daily)
“..as hushed and evocative as a ghost story whispered around a campfire.”- JE Keyes, Chief Editor Bandcamp Daily

Raw Colours 
“It’s another irresistible album from a band that gets better with each go-round.”- JE Keyes, Chief Editor Bandcamp Daily

Longways Conversations
After listening to this album one of our fans took a dive into our back-catalog and had this to say:
"I’ll get around to writing something more formal, but I have been listening to Watchglass almost exclusively the past few weeks. I’m genuinely apologetic - songs like With a Trice, How Will You Know Me, what it means to believe, just to name a few, deserved a tonne of superlatives from myself, and I said nothing until now. Really, please pass on to Mark that his arrangements and production doesn’t go unnoticed - I delight in hearing something new each time.
You guys are seriously talented, and works class, really, and the new album is incredible. Let’s push it out there.

With a trice - that makes me teary. You’re such a nuanced singer and you guys are an amazing duo."

Wheels in an Elsewhere
"Another gorgeous new LP from Sydney's watchglass, this one branching out slightly into what Jon Hassell once called "fourth world music.""  JE Keyes Bandcamp New and Notable



All available on Bandcamp.