Dig the shuffle and the bass line! Feels like New Orleans.

Right on, Frans!✌..nice Blues Shuffling with really smoking harmonica & guitar shredding!..sending tulips from Amsterdam!😊👋

Grabs your attention from the first note and to tell the truth my wrist was hurting by the end trying to play “ Air Drum “ to the rythm exceptional 👏

Each piece is an incredible show of strength!

🔥🔥Bloody Sick Frans🔥🔥
Wow that harmonica is killing it..
All the instruments are awesome Frans..
You the man 👏👏
👏👏👏👏Bravo👏👏👏👏

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Blues Harmonica. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Fender Electric Bass. Roland 880 Synthesizer Bass. Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Baritone Electric Guitar Rhythm. Trap Drum Set. Percussion Tambourine, Cowbell.

De Blues

Shuffeling

Coming together of a flute blues and alto sax improvisation with bamboo flute drones and techno beats (adapted from 'Call to Prayer' from the album 'Nepalese Dream' https://thewindscalebluesexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/nepalese-dream).

Nebulae photo by S Aldebaran (Unsplash)

Call from Beyond

A big thank you to Jeff Roberts and Andrew Borderick for playing on....."Just a Boy".

This sad and devastating local story has been on my mind for a long time.... I'm reminded about this tragedy nearly everyday as I run along the Mississippi Blvd and see the memorial. 

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Just A Boy
Written by TJG August-September, 2021


Thank you to Jeff Roberts (@jeff_roberts)for his catchy bass guitar work!
Thank you to Andrew Borderick (@andrew-borderick)for the fantastic B3! 
Thanks to Rene (@para-lia) for feedback on an early draft - always appreciate that. 

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Mix 1: September 23, 2021
Mix 2: November 9, 2021
Thanks to Eddie Cilettie for departing some of his wisdom about mixing ;-)

Verse 1
You move like a summer breeze
There's whistling in the trees
You're always on my mind
You were just a boy
Don't leave me alone

Refrain 1 - instrumental and hum

Verse 2
You know I hate Christmas Eve
It brings me to my knees 
You're always on my mind
You were just a boy
You were just a boy

Refrain
How they took your life
What a senseless crime

Verse 3
You said you were going for a ride
But I didn't say goodbye
You're always on my mind
Don't leave me alone!

Refrain
Well they took your life 
by surprise
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime

Verse4
And After all this time
I can't heal
and baby sometimes I can't feel....

Refrain
Yeah they took your life
Yeah they took your life
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime
How they took your life
How they took your life
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime
How they took your life

outro
You move like the summer breeze
and I hear you whistling in the trees....

Just a boy (ft. Jeff Roberts and Andrew Borderick)

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLn2ZVQhdXY&ab_channel=MeraKhai
Stream on your favorite platform (for good luck): https://smarturl.it/sadsongslowedreverb

sad song + slowed + reverb (burning will be just for you)

This was made on the occasion of being unexpectedly called back to full time work after some years of delicious semi-retirement.

Why Must We Toil

Song Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwlhqgr83U

Lyrics
Bough
By David Husted

V1

Underneath a funeral wreath
Rests a letter be-neath the sill to read, but I can't breathe ;
as the world spins around I break-down 

But the me that breathes,  is not the me that feels, 
The ache,  of a groaning tree
Let me be with that me;  where

I remember the

Ch1
warm breeze
Upon the bough with your warm heat
Held by a branch with those green, green leaves
Out on a limb
We kissed 
We lived
I'd give anything for this

V2
Patterns lock and dissolve,  shaped by a world that is gone
Chaos in the amethyst; reflecting 
Placed next to the beryl ring and necklace of pearls you see
Inside a coffin; they mean nothing at all without

Your eyes, and your smile, and your mind

Together here in this
 
Ch2
warm breeze
Upon the bough by your warm heat
Held by a branch by those green, green leaves
Out on a limb
We kissed; We lived

Bough

the secluded Inn

Many thanks to NASA for the Hubble telescopic 'Ultra Deep Field' image....revealing the hundreds of billions of galaxies looking back into 14 billion years of existence.
Improvised conversations:
1.  Soprano sax duet (closest)
2. Clarinet quartet (mid distant)
3. Clarinet quartet (far distant)
4. Clarinet - distorted quintet (finale)

Deep Field Conversations

This is about the consequences of bullying. Morgan was 13, bullied at school mercilessly and relentlessly, until she committed suicide. When I read about the case years ago I found it distressing and later was moved to write this song. Don’t have a personal connection to what happened, I just found it really sad.


They found her in the morning
The sadness in her eyes remained
They had taunted and they teased
And broke her
She died in her sleep
Alone.

She fought them off as long as she could
They wore her down until the pain took…
She begged everyone
Rescue me from this pain.

They found her in the morning
The gladness in her heart erased
The tragedy of Morgan
Will haunt them
Each night as they sleep
Alone.

She fought them off as long as she could
They wore her down until the pain took…
She begged everyone
Rescue me from this pain.

Morgan can you tell us where you are
(The) life you lost was beautiful to us
Morgan can you show us what to do
(Your) life will shine a light for us from you.

Morgan
We miss you
Morgan 
We miss you
Morgan 
We miss you
Where are you, today?
We miss you.

Morgan can you tell us where you are 
(The) life you had was beautiful to us
Morgan can you show us what to do
(Your) life will shine a light for us from you.

Morgan

SEARCHING YOU
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Theme composed during the last three months.

An authentic dream to have shared this work with these formidable musicians. Thanks to both.

Dan DT. Digital Voices
Loue Ghazi. Synthesizers, guitar and part of the percussion
Midisound. Synthesizers, guitar and part of the percussion.

Vídeo by Loue Ghazi.

youtu.be/YS2I8-qlfGQ

Mixing and editing Loue Ghazi

Cover art, by Loue Ghazi.

thanks for repost, likes and comments.

Paco.

Searching you (Loue Ghazi, Dan DT & Midisound) - See video link in descrption

Dedicated to those who chase the creative muse
Lyrics:
You'll know it when you feel it
I'd walk into burning buildings just to see it
Yeah, you know it when you feel it
My muse, she never stays around for long
The paint splatter
The ego destruction
The angle of the light
To try to capture the image
In your mind
Yeah, that's right
That's Robert Johnson there at the table
He knows a guy...
Who knows a guy...
Who gets things done
Because every showman knows
You gotta leave a little bit more
For the back row
You will know it when you feel it
The angels, they've got it all wrong
A beautiful sequence of mistakes
It's a beautiful sequence of mistakes

You'll know it when you feel it
I'll walk into abandoned buildings
Just to see it
She never likes to stay around long
She never likes to hear my love songs

And that's why I don't write love songs anymore...

You'll Know It When You Feel It

Straight-up Blues in A

Greetings.. Thanks for listening..Born in Holland, came to the US when I was 10 years old.. I've Been playing, composing, writing, arranging, recording, mixing, mastering, engineering, producing music of all genres..Playing electric guitar, Slide, Dobro, Nylon Guitar, Bass, Accordion, Flute, Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Vibraphone, Harmonica, Drums & Percussion since I was 10 years old, self taught.. many different styles and genres to choose from. These songs are the representation of a lifetime's work! 
Superior recordings.. using the best Microphones, Neuman U-87's, Dynamic Microphones, Ribbon Mics, Shure SM-57 & SM-58, and a variety of dynamic and condenser microphones used in these recordings with today's latest software, Pro-Tools, Mastering Labs,  Reaper, Audacity and various hardware and software products from Germany, Australia, France, and various places from all over the globe. 48 Channel Mixing console, Various outboard effect units...Thank you for listening!

Shuffeling

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