A song about people in power, who lie just because they can

LYRICS:

It starts to build, the hate
So I fake taking a break
And I keep hearing bad news from mediocre buffoons who won’t apologize because they don’t believe in mistakes

This death is life
This black is white
If no one asks why
The truth becomes my lie

You’re ignorant in a foreign land
You’re pulling punches and you bruise your hand

If you want to part a man from his rich man’s plans
You gotta start with the part where his lies began

Belligerent Incompetent

I produce music using samples (or loops) just like for House Music in the 80/90s. House Music is often associated with electronic sounds. This track is here to prove the opposite using accoustic recordings 🙂.

Photo by Alexandre St-Louis on Unsplash

Rock Me - Unplugged

Recorded online on Soundtrap: https://www.soundtrap.com

28 weeks later ( remix )

The Mighty Oosh -

ALMA’S LIFE

Thursday
for Soprano and Piano
Duration: 12’
Text by Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds
Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Nancy Allen Lundy, Soprano, Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=889
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/thursday.fs.all.bound
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/thursday

PROGRAM NOTES
The text for Thursday was conceived and written by two close friends, Bridget Meeds and Kenny Berkowitz, both excellent writers who possess an acute and often exquisitely wry sense of humor. Each movement attempts to paint a literary picture of the central character by introducing various people who are related to her. The work has six short movements, each one representing a different character.

Winter Songs

Thursday - 1. Introduction

Wind Quintet
Duration: 18'
Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas; Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=909

PROGRAM NOTES
All of the movements of this wind quintet are connected and inspired in some way by American icons, surrealism, collage, post-1950s imagery and suburbia.

The first movement, Andante, begins with the ending and ends at the beginning. Some instruments mimic others and just when you think an idea might go in one direction, it goes in another. I gleaned many of my ideas from studying cinematic character development and the unusual forms used in many modern films such as the 1994 film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

The second movement, Suburban waltz-fantasy, contains quotes from 1960s-70s TV show themes: The Jetsons, All in the Family, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver. The movement begins with a waltz-like feel and two of the players mimicking “suburban chicken lady housewives cackle-gossiping across a backyard fence.” An obnoxious stray dog interjects with loud barking and then the movement takes off in a different direction. Some of the quotes are re-composed to sound like bird songs, others are textural and a few are so subtle that they are not easy to discern. Some of the parts even sound like they are mocking each other. This movement is a strange, surrealist collage.

The most immediate and obvious reference in the title of the third movement, Melting Clocks, is to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory in which there are images of melting or limp watches. I imagine a room full of clocks all ticking away, yet slightly inaccurately, the “baby clocks” a little faster than the “old grandfather clocks.” The middle section contains a few brief quotes form the first movement, and the “slightly melted” end of the movement brings back the cuckoo, but this time it melts as if it is in a house consumed by fire.

The fourth movement, Klezmeshugeh, derives its title from my combining the words ‘klezmer’—which is a combination of the two Hebrew words, kley and zemer, meaning ‘instrument of song’—and meshugeh, which is a Yiddish word meaning ‘crazy’. Essentially, this made-up title means “crazy instrument song.” In this movement, there are a few “wrong notes” that allude to the players pretending to sight-read. The end also concludes with a few thematic fragments from the second movement.

Wind Quintet was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas and underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Wind Quintet - I. Andante

Shadows

Another Collab track with Marko Smiljanić
Ogi on the Beat and Bass
Vocals and live instruments recorded by Marko Smiljanić 
Mixed by Ogi feel the Beat X Marko Smiljanić
Mastering by Marko Smiljanić

Marko Smiljanić - All My Nights R Lonely X Ogi feel the Beat

A few tweaks to the original to give it even more bite for inclusion in my album.

Charles Hardin

Sleep is the Brother of Death (Album Mix)

Another Moon

based in the north east of England indie rock ,acoustic rock , alt rock

The Mighty Oosh -

82 ( Ian Willis )