I love this moment at :56 with the electric guitar!  I also like the acoustic bluegrass sounding fills like at :43 and :48 nicely interacting with the walking baseline.  Is there also a mandolin I hear?  I didn't see it listed.

Just a phenomenal song!! I can tell every note was thoughtfully placed- Reminds me of jim Croce in the most wonderful way

Great versatility in these musics & a creative approach to folk in this one, very nice!

i had time to listen to this lovely track!! xx

written & sung by gil chasin
arranged & produced by kid otari
flute & guitars by naldo
keyboards by guillaume pearson
Recorded on tape at the Laundry Room, Oakland California
8-channel 1/2" Otari MX5050

cover art by milt kobayashi

Now What RU Going 2 Do

Hands

Frosty Roses © 2023 Nadia Cripps, Andrea Brennan and Hannah Busse
Nadia Cripps (music, piano)
Andrea Brennan (lyrics)
Hannah Busse (vocal music, vocals)

Lyrics
It was Spring when you planted me roses
In the yard where the sun shone bright
I watered and tended them every day
They were the light of my life

Petals so tender and vibrant
Scent so sweet, it melts my heart
Like the gentle kiss from my darling's lips
And the promise we'll never part

Seasons turn even if we aren't ready
And cold grips til you give up the fight
A love life taken too early
Like frosty roses covered in white

Petals once tender and vibrant
Faded sweetness that breaks my heart
Like one last kiss from my darling's lips
The broken promise we'll never part

It was Spring when you planted me roses
In the yard where the sun shone bright
Like you, they were the light of my life

Frosty Roses - 50/90 collab

As each November approaches I try to make my own little Remembrance-time tribute.  Seems more relevant as each year passes...

Following the huffing and puffing empire lunacy in the summer of 1914, the next four years would see 40 million casualties, half of them deaths and of those, half were civilian.  

40 million.

40 million tales of poignancy, pain, grief and human tragedy, through times that can often seem littered with coincidence, symmetries …. bookends and mirrors.

In the Military Cemetery of St Symphorien near Mons rests John Parr.  At only five foot three inches and several years under age he (amazingly) managed to enlist in 1912 - hoping to see the world, and get the advertised “two square meals” a day.  He was the first British Army casualty, killed in the battle of Mons aged just 17, his body left behind, fate unknown until much later in the conflict;  the army unable to answer his mother’s letters of enquiry about her “silent” son.

By pure coincidence, John lies just a few yards from the last British soldier to die in the great war.  George Ellison served for four long years including at the same first battle of Mons as John, and most of the famously grinding, attritional infantry battles of the conflict.  His working life bookended by military service, George had first enlisted in 1902, leaving the army in 1912, just as John joined, he became a coal miner, re-enlisting at the outbreak of war to dig mud not coal and fight from trenches he helped excavate.  George was killed just 90 minutes before the armistice took effect at 11:00 on the 11th day of the 11th month.  The futility of the conflict was cruelly illustrated by the fact that George’s war had started and ended at exactly the same place, Mons in Belgium.  They had literally gone nowhere.

As a postscript to progress since "the war to end all wars" the human race is currently reckoned to be engaged in 7 major wars, 15 significant ongoing conflicts and 21 “minor” conflicts (the latter defined as up to "only” 1000 deaths per year).  By way of another macabre bookend, the longest of these has been going on, unbelievably, since the year .... 1918.

As always, this simple ballad is offered as a live one mic one take effort - please excuse the fluffs and gaffes.
_______________________

Bookends and Mirrors

Sun turned cold ‘cross every sky in the summer of ‘14
The Good Lord shook his head, and he placed it in his hands
Braided declarations flying, whose like was never seen
Lunatics in feathers stockpiled lead, bagged their sand.
Slapstick Mephistopheles, unleashing of his flame
Spiral minds lobotomised in the waltz of the insane
Simple lives unknowing of the mud that would become
A mirror in the resting place of two Holy Mother’s sons.

Signed the line, five years young, fingers crossed behind his back
Chance to see the world, grab a future, two square meals.
At 17, John’s angels sung, first to fall in dawn’s attack
Abandoned and forgotten, deaf to all his ma’s appeals.
Never knew the miner, his bookend pal to be
Fighting down the line, many battles that he’d see
Full four years in trenches, George’s hell lived through them all
Cruelty was smiling wide at England’s last to fall.

In service time they travelled nowhere, nothing to achieve
Embracing 40 million weeping mothers left to grieve
The crime of puffing chest bravado beggared to believe
Hall of mirrors seeping others’ blood of the innocent naive.

Now John and George lie facing each to seek their mirrored peace
Raise my eyes and brim a tear for the lessons never learned
Pray God, don’t ever let them know man’s insanity but increased
The war to end all wars a mere sequel oft’ returned 
By comedies of leathered fools stuck on infinite repeat
Bemedalled and bejewelled, they prosecute their moral defeat
But here, on sallow turf twixt heroes, broken mirror in my broken hand
Met by my own broken eyes, I still fail to understand.
_________
Photo by Michael Yuan on Unsplash

Bookends and Mirrors

Intermezzo In F Minor

Time And Space

2024-07-26

The Little Tree Tells

fast hyped freestyle beat

Space Sirens (2018) Anthology CD4 Track 09

HeARTistical MuSiC & SoNG
Music >  Wayfarer > https://soundcloud.com/wayfarerb
Lyrics Vocals & Mix  > Special Spacial Cecilia
CLIP > https://youtu.be/CML36yahFxg

THRoUgH EYeS oF an ARTiST  (New CLIP see link below )

01 - SA - LCOT - Space Chatter_HCT - Ghouls on Hovercrafts
02 - SA - WE - A Simple Start
03 - SA - Albion One - All Combinations - Brs_Str. hight Trem
04 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Moment of Decision
05 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Elven Choir Sustain Vowels
06 - NI - Noire Felt
07 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Exquisite Pulse

Don't Worry

kid otari is a collaboration of naldo & guillaume
https://soundcloud.com/naldeau/tracks
https://soundcloud.com/guillaumelecompositeur/tracks
our NG-Xp experimental instrumental music here:
https://soundcloud.com/ng-xp/tracks

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