Your notebook is very deep. And appealing. I'm loving how you are fitting some passing dissonance in the guitar in support of this super catchy vibe and melody. It really ups the energy level.

The vocals are refreshing and the performance has a sense of speed and is cool ✨🎶

Five guitars.

A companion piece to: https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein/billy-i-am-ruined

Billy I Am Ruined, Too

A peppy little tune written for my fourth granddaughter 11 years ago (she just turned 13) but newly arranged and recorded.  A distinctive feature heard throughout this song is the falling 3rd interval that sounds like I'm calling out her name which I do from time to time whenever I get to visit.  Hopefully it will put a little spring in your step:)

Calling Abby

The River

For your viewing pleasure, there's also a video you can watch here: https://youtu.be/2q5D_e7MJrc

This one had a weird ride to the finish line. This song began when Graeme tried and failed miserably to play a piece by Erik Satie on the piano. Failed to play Satie but did get a demo out of it originally called "Three Fishermen".
Gina wrote lyrics and added her wonderful vocals before Graeme decided to re-write the music to the first half of the song. But we got there in the end! 
Says Gina about the song - The lyrics were inspired by Australian well-known artist, Julia Stone, her song, "Dance" and its Official Video. "My Colours" is about the simple effect of one person upon another and the joy created thereby.

9000 Things To See

Keep Me Forever

My Colours

Some people say
That life is just a game
Seek your fortune
Adventure and fame
Is there a meaning
To all of this?
Or does that question
Just prove my ignorance?
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
If you don’t play
You can never win
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
If you don’t laugh
You can never win
Quite a trip 
Quite a trip its been
You can try
You can never win

You can’t win
If you don’t try
You can’t win 
If you don’t cry
You can’t win
I wonder why?

You can’t win
If you don’t try
You can’t win 
If you don’t cry
You can’t win
I wonder why?

Quite A Trip It's Been

Sometimes I feel a little bit blue

A mellow track summing up the feelings of the past year :)

Better Days

A happy collaboration with SuZanne Ledwith and Nic @nic_nic_nic: 

Lyrics, main vocals and additional guitar: Suzanne Ledwith
Demo, rhythm guitar, bass and additional vocals: Nic
Someone once said, he felt trapped in a horizontal line and I thought that was really great song line.

In Happy Dreams (with @nic)

A song in which we channel our inner Portishead........

I guess it was just my own world
After all
Having you as the other part
Was nothing more
And nothing less than illusion

Oh you really fooled me good
Oh so good
Good, as in pleasantly 
And good as in sublimely
Good as in nothing wanting
As in I thought you were just too good to be true

CHORUS
Who was the one
Who always said forever and ever
Don’t forget
Who was the one who always said
We were a perfect fit
Who was the one 
Who had no doubt 
The future lay right ahead of us
Who was the one who said
That we were all that we needed
Don’t forget (x3)
It was I all along

Having you as the other part
Was nothing more
And nothing less than illusion

Oh you really fooled me good
Oh so good
Good, as in completely
And good as in oh so very cleverly
And good as in I was good and gone for you 
As in you had me hook line and sinker good

Repeat CHORUS

Oh you fooled me good
Oh so good
As in your disguise was crafted with care
But I had no idea 
They made those costumes
In such a slim fit

Slim Fit

Suhno Lateef Ahe, Vol. 55

Aon Ko Janyan Pand Kech

I recorded this 7 years ago.
Another Notebook Track

Changing

Am collating some old loose ends from the last two decades.
So using this at this time as a scrap book of short music with little production.
Ideally would like to distil into a collection with a beginning and end, so that I can concentrate on producing manifestations of now.

I appreciate all forms of music so finding this tool for impressions and expressions is priceless.

These are notebook tracks

Changing

Karitzis

Recent comments

樂天則

Brian Peters

Jonathan Beckenstein

Irina

Related tracks