V-Life is not in Vain

Band 4

Chrome City Fusion

A Bossa Nova tune about a dreamy trip. Hope you enjoy!

All The Stars

i grabbed the chance to work with the excellent stems from the great Insatiable Void !!!
Here is the original and the playlist
https://soundcloud.com/insatiable-void/sets/limited-remix-collab-by

Insatiable Void - Ancestry noxpox remix

Afro-funk II

The Angel on My Right Shoulder

The Lantern Fouling the Brittle Air, Listening to the Dog and the Echo

method: first, I created a shaman-monk-version (mostly ‚Gregorian‘ voice and jaw harp) on cassette tape (this is where some of the noise - especially in the first section - derives from) and zoom r20 with a vacuum-tube pre-amp for the voice ….. all of which I then treated like a field recording sample in Samplitude - sculpting it with vst instruments and effects. 
narration: it feels like I have sonified this poem a million times before …. which might be the case because I have lived through it that often - I and others I dearly care for …. but then again … I might have actually done so. it is also part of the cycle SONIC CASCADE published in  A SINGLE LOOP OF FORTUNES. Alternative titles are ‚TWO-PLACE‘ and ‚04s SAMPLE‘. For this publication, I simplify the title to  ‚SAMPLE‘.
Image: copyright jo richter. you see some of the instruments used in the shaman-monk-version, arranged with a bracelet as though displayed in a museum. 

poem / copyright jo richter:

two-place sleeps on the ground
and still doesn‘t know where it is -
all of its strings sound sound
in heaven-hellish bliss -
nothing, it says, goes amiss
that doesn‘t want to be found

sample

Song based on my Aunt Pat Brandstetters poetry.  This song is based on part of the poem My Sister Laura Ann.  Only part was used because the poems is longer than fits in a normal song length.

Here is the full pom:

My Sister Laura Ann
(November 2013)

Certainly, I was the biggest fan
Of my sister, Laura Ann.
Dark and curly was her hair
Her skin was so lovely and so fair.
Her eyes were as blue as blue can be
They were as colorful as the sea.

When we were little
We did quibble.
Our parents appointed me her ward.
She took that very hard.
She did protest and said,
“Little sisters are brats and pests.”
I definitely put her to test after test.

When Laura Ann was fifteen
And I was nine our mom
Became very ill.
For the next two years our
Communication was next to nil.

Then when Laura Anne was one month shy
Of eighteen and I was eleven,
We moved in together.
It felt like a gift from Heaven!!
Mom and Eddie were with us at first
But did not stay.
Very soon they each moved away.

Six baseball fields were across the street
For Laura Ann and me that was a great treat.
We played ball with the neighborhood kids.
I could not hit the ball at all.
Laura Ann was great.
She always made it to home plate.
Jones Park was a short walk away.
Summer Sundays we would go swim for the day.

Riding a bus across the Mississippi was 
Always a thrill.
Then shopping in St. Louis was 
Its own kind of funny day to fill.

We would find expensive dresses and 
        certainly try them on and not just one.
We made it a day for fun.

A favorite thing for us two
Was to walk up and down our street, Lynch Avenue.
We walked in a land of pretend
That for us would never end.
Sometimes we pretended we were in China wearing
Kimonos with an obi around our waist.
Other times we were in Italy eating delicious Spaghetti.

We rode on camels backs in Africa
And sauntered awhile
Along the Nile.
Paris, the Swiss Alps, Greece,
Oh! The fabulous places we traveled
And had seen
In that wonderful land of our great
Big dream.

We both worked hard
We played hard
When twenty-one and fourteen
Laura Ann left for Durham
And I left for Detroit
That time we cried very hard.
We have always felt our life together 
Was a Great Reward,
And definitely a time to treasure!

My Sister Laura Ann

Exclalone

I am Dan Lockhart/ProgRockDan.  I am half of the duo Dan X2.  I enjoy making music with my partner Dan Blackard.  I was born in East St. Louis, Illinois.  I was raised in a rural area near Edwardsville, Illinois.  I have lived in San Antonio, Texas; Bad, Kreuznach, Germany;  Kansas City, Missouri; Columbus, Georgia; Haverhill Massachusetts;  St, Louis, Missouri, and Indianapolis, Indiana.  I have resided in Carmel Indiana for the past 20 + years.  I consider this home.  I have a small studio in my home.  I go to it everyday and work on creating (writing) songs.  I play bass, guitar, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, piano, violin, and viola.  I use Cubase for my DAW.  I master using Izotope, Ozone.

You can find my other music on these sites:
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan-instrumentals

https://www.reverbnation.com/prdvocals
https://www.reverbnation.com/progrockdan1
https://www.reverbnation.com/daniellockhart4

My songs with Dan Blackard can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-106484228
https://soundcloud.com/user-590884876

https://www.reverbnation.com/dananddan5
https://www.reverbnation.com/danx2


I also have a collection Chistmas songs here:
https://soundcloud.com/prd-holiday

Here is a link to my Patreon Page.  You can find music that is only available to my patreon supporters on this page.

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=59878068

My Sister Laura Ann

Daniel Lockhart

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