As per usual, a work in progress until the last day of the corresponding month.
To get on these playlists, you have to make music that I like. 
That's the only criteria.

MTD Mixtape August 2022

Easy listening Folk singer songwriters

The Rooms

About magician's assistants

I am the girl
in sequins and pearls
I live my whole life
As your prop

With a sleight of hand
I'm at your command
I am your girl in the box

That's how things go
In this magic show
I never know what you'll pick
And it's hard to see
which victim I'll be
Until we perform the trick

So I step inside
Go for my ride
And fold myself up in knots
Then you saw me in half
While I try not to laugh
I am your girl in the box

I spin on your wheel
As you throw your steel
And the colors pass by in a swirl
And if you're remiss
If you happen to miss
Will you find some other girl?

When I'm in this chest
I cannot rest
Because things are not 
What they seem

But your magic is too strong
So I play along
All the while I scream
I am the girl
Who tumbles and twirls
Never escaping your locks
My life is mis-made
I live in my grave

I am your girl in the box

Girl in the Box

Sad song where there's no way out because something mistaken for love ties you down. 
When someone kills their partner's dreams at every turn, it's because they don't respect them and are not happy with them as they are, and want to change them to fit their own preferences. It's not loving, it's controlling and taking advantage of someone's good nature.

I'm Not The One For You

Two Shy People In Conversation

Collab with Entheogenic Psychonaut.
I sent Josh a DADGAD electric guitar track, he put vocals and instruments on it and then I did a remix - this is the result :)
Great vocals and melody!!

Check out Josh’s SC page here

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cWZpPoToWhSV2pAE7

I'm Gonna Get You - with Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)

Written by João Gonçalves

All instruments by João Gonçalves

The Way (Demo Version)

Unfortunately, Schmitty and Nekbhet were busy eating a snack during the time of this recording.

Syntania: mooing, snorting, neighing, braying, vocalized boat horn
Midori Cullnough: backing vocals
Brian Ordbon: cowbell

Additional Personnel
Schmitty's dog: barking

Song For Cowbell And Voice

This is a magical collaboration with folks I've admired a while.   Finally got a chance to make something happen.  Thanks to STONERJAZZ for asking me to play on his cool bossa nova track.  Hope you enjoy! 

STONERJAZZ - https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679
Janine Levinson - https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Uziel - https://soundcloud.com/user-455619833
Jo Richter - https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures


lyrics
Wretched light so aptly said libra ish in their balanced dread
Wretched light of another day ln the soup out there
the falling down and getting up, it's "Showtime" Fossi said
As he popped amphetamine in the shower scene
Or so it's said by some writer of his dreamy technicolor happenstance
That made the cut.

Could it be scorcery that I see
Through jaded glasses full of gin
Or just a conjury of collected clarities'

So sweet the experiential meat
Dark or light the gods prefer
Is not what we do not do for us
But them.

The guillotine of thoughtless bliss
Takes the Serpent's head
And tiny lights appear around my bed.

Chase the monster south for 14 winters and a night
It grinned across the canyon with a monstrous delight
I thought I saw you yesterday up on the ridge behind my house
It might have been the way you turned your head to speak
But the wind you know it blew your words away
What you said I couldn’t’ say
You know it really doesn’t matter anyway

Know-Ware - STONERJAZZ, Janine Levinson, Uziel and Jo Richter

Frog In A Pot Of Water (Dear Liza)

When you have fallen for a good friend but are afraid to tell them for fear of rejection or an angry reaction.

Fantasy Lover Remastered.wav

The Flight Full Track

The Syndicate

It S All Right Here

Sugar Plum

Blood on the streets (part1)

Time goes by, make the best out of it.

Second To Last - Lyrics

Now and then time can be
Such a silent thief.
Can we outrun it if we please?
The odds are stacked against us.

And sometimes time can be
Such a sneaky, nasty thief.
It says “run” while you have speed.
Pay no heed to what it says.

Sometimes there’ll be days when the sun won’t shine.
No need to search for it, or read between the lines.
Some days you must simply look inside.
Then you will see a light and come back
Starry eyed because you’ve found that
You’re full of love.

Whenever I think on
All these moments past,
I wish that I could make them last.
Chance would be a fine thing.

There is no need to rush,
Take all the colours in.
The light that shines from within
Will lead you through the dark.

Sometimes there’ll be days when the sun won’t shine.
No need to search for it, or read between the lines.
Some days you must simply look inside.
Then you will see a light and come back
Starry eyed because you’ve found that
You’re made of love.

Then you will see a light and come back
Starry eyed because you’ve found that
You’re here to love.

Music & Lyrics by Ortwin Wendt
Vocalist: Sam Ford

Enlightening Snapshots

Second To Last

Bio https://linksome.me/the-rooms

The Rooms is a collective project that started in suburban Lisbon more than a decade ago. It evolves through numerous and constant collaboration, musically and visually.

The majority of its years based in Macau, South East Asia, it has been able to gather from time to time local and international artists and musicians inside a room, located on the high rise industrial buildings down by the city´s docks. 

The Rooms is an audio visual colective of individuals. It lives on numerous and constant collaboration. It crosses worlds, connected, interconnected, interwoven, intertwined, present, and alive. It feeds on cultural fire, references, history, language, music, dance, film, and art.

 It's cinematic.

We're back to the outskirts of Lisbon. Deep in its industrial and production tissue. Where factories meet residential areas and social housing flats. Gas stations and warehouses. Empty fields abandoned or unfilled. Blocks and boxes locked in cold cement amidst the perpetual hum of super highways and city orbital roads.

A makeshift territory to shelter multitudes.

Where we'll be pressing on,  grinding away, hammering on organical mechanics, aiming to continue to do the best music and visuals we can. Inspired by the raw, coarse, rough, and unpolished ways of the worlds that surround and live inside us, we'll be tailoring some new fabric soon. 

The Rooms music is a fruit of love and a soundtrack for the times we are living. Between the dark and the light is where we meet and play. 

Thank you for your ears