Generative ambient work on my modular synthesiser.

Modules used:
Moog Mother 32
Make Noise Maths
Mutable Instruments Plats
Noise Engineering Viol Ruina

(Post processing done in Reason 8)

beautiful mistakes

Lyrics:

We set out on the road
Several days ago
In my mind I thought of
His hands like melting snow
We passed the empty fields
The daybreak and the fall
Forests in the blood fog
Reminded me of: 

(?)

The people in the back
They spoke of sins of old
We pulled off by Arcadia
To sleep in fields of gold
And as the sunset loomed
She turned to me to say:
‘What’s beyond that concrete bridge
‘If we get there anyway?’

Et In Arcadia Ego

Lyrics:

Soft what nymphs are these
Who come for the rite of May?
Demetrius has turned
And wandered off away
So with your morphine lips
Speak solace to the waves
Capture paper souls
And rest them in your gaze  

Take me in your arms
Let time evaporate
The kindness in your palms
The comfort of your name

I know of anicca
How even armour rusts
The future is a haze
Naïve in all its trust
I blind myself to fear
I’ll never come to harm
In the static bliss
Of your embracing calm

Take me in your arms
Let time evaporate
The kindness in your palms
The comfort of your name

Sebastian I know
In the life beyond the grave
Forgiveness is undue
Yet your compassion is so great
Still I remember when
I grew numb to your words
But in the dust and ashes
I admit it was absurd

Take me in your arms
Let time evaporate
The kindness in your palms
The comfort of your name

Kindness

Lyrics [From the KJV Bible]:

[To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David]

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? (for ever?) how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, (having sorrow in my heart daily?) how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

(Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;)

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 13

Written and performed in collaboration with Calum Delaney (@caldelaneymusic on IG)

Lyrics:

Calum:
Do you feel the fire?
Do you feel the flames inside my head?
I'm feeling higher
So far beyond what you have said
Cut me off from the outside (outside)
See if I care
But I'm not OK
My eyes are always red
(Always red)

Sam:
And in the rain
Did you really have to lock me out?
The river runs
Even when it's all burned out
I should have known
What you meant
When you said (Oh)

Breaking at Dawn (with Calum Delaney)

pro animas defunctorum

Lyrics:

I don't wanna know
But I can understand
If it's gonna end
I guess I can't feel bad

Birdsong

Lyrics:

When I'm alone
You're all that's left
I'll sleep in a throne
With stars as my cloak

When you are gone
The clouds sing this song
The sun reaches low
(A wind on my throat)

Rain

Lyrics:

Sleep
Who needs it?
Midnight, stumbling
Tarmac at the dealerships
Streetlights
I'm alright
Cathedral bells striking out
Knuckles in a fistfight
    On a bench upon a hill
The train track rattles and you're never sitting still
I say:
'Tell me 'bout the poppies in the field.'
'Well scratch below the surface 
And you'll see jut how I feel.'

Rose, gold
Face back, eyes cracked
Story same as old
Millions,
Still they never call
I heard
All she ever wants is to dissolve
    He says he loves her but he's cold
Listen,
The drugs don't care at all.
He says he loves her but he's cold
Listen, listen
The drugs don't care at all

The drugs don't care at all
He doesn't care at all...

Flowers

Lyrics:

Thread a needle through an archive
All the fibres twitch
Bones formed in the ocean
Sound on my eyes

Scream in the sunlight
Voice in a fabric museum
I remember our first words
We spat them on the floor

Patchwork

May In June (with Stan Lawrence)

Again, creds to Stan Lawrence for the trumpet parts!

Lyrics:

Driving through a scarecrow town
Dove clouds overlook the Downs
Going left, going right till midnight
Dawn breaks so I turn off the headlights 
Terracotta families
Three floors, twelve rooms - won't you marry me?
I got everything seen before on TV
But if I take the highway will I be happy?

Will I be happy?

Take a side street, take an underpass
Get lost in a supermarket car park
Find a city you can live in
Get a job and a fucking marble kitchen
Take a risk, take a hike
Getting lost at the start of your life
Heading nowhere, but for something
Fuck it, choose freedom over nothing

Freedom over nothing
Freedom over nothing

Will I be happy? 
Will I be happy? 
Will I be happy? 
Will I be happy?

Highway [Explicit]

Creds to Henry Forrest for the sax solo!

Lyrics:

St. David came down from Heaven
Took me from station to station
With white doves in his eyes
Spinning mandalas
Broken glass bathroom Qabalahs
They spoke to me through the walls
The sky burned so bright with moonlight 
The stars quaked the temples my mind
And I stood with Peter on the rocks
Still still so still as the waves swept us up

In the sea you found a rose
Brought it up from the cove
Left it to drink in the steel sink
Set it alight in the gasoline night

I needed nothing more than I had then
The blood from your hands in the kitchen
Pulling the thorns out of your palm
The salt in your eyes pouring out calm
'Til even the waves had settled down
As ash from the flow'r slipped out the bow
All the paper boats melted in the bay
And from a hill you cast the crown away

Metaphors are wastes
(You are all saved)
Metaphors are wastes
(You are all saved)
Metaphors are wastes
(You are all saved)
Metaphors are wastes
(You are all saved)

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