Orbiting Glow In The Dark Rubber Eyeball

Something to relax to or maybe cook to, your choice. Enjoy my friends.

Written, performed and recorded by Greg Hurley

Relax

Original instrumental by Mahan Mahan  https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan

Mahan sent me this instrumental track entitled "Janinerator."  Hmm.  I wonder who he really intended it for...   Anyway, I sang over it, totally unsure. It's really different for me. But here it is. Thank you Mahan!

Look the Other Way

Life before was just a bore
Sitting in a café with my
Laptop, looking at the door
And sipping on a latte as        

My head was swaying back and forth
To the rhythm of a mixtape
And my heels were tapping on the floor 
Waiting for my big break

I was thinking swiping left and right
On the faces on my cell phone I’d be
Looking up at mister right
Til’ you stepped into my safe zone

Look the other way
(hey, how are you?)
Look the other way  
(love your picture!)
Look the other way
(in your latte)
Look the other way
(goes my finger)
(I’m a terrible person )

And I’m Falling up
I’m Flying down
The floor is rising up
And I am falling down 

Memories get in the way  
When I go into that weird place, I just
Lock my heart and lock the door
And hide inside my suitcase

And my head is swaying back and forth
In the hallway of a stranger
With my necklace lying on the floor
Even now It feels like danger

Look the other way
Look the other way  
Look the other way
Look the other way
I’m a terrible person

Look The Other Way - with Mahan Mahan

Lost File

This is a song that I thought was about someone else, but it's more likely just about me. 

lyrics

Looks like you've got everything you want
there ain't a single thing left that you need
you're flowing through life like the sea
boy you don't see the woods for the trees

I wouldn't decline no invitation 
to go smacking your head against the pavement
flick through warning signs but you don't read
boy you don't see the woods for the trees

keep pushing all our worries around
try to bury them deep underground
you better keep that spade close at hand
so we can dig out your head from the sand

when I burst into your surgery seeking remedies
you called the alarm
now I've swallowed all the pills you prescribed
I'm telling you I want to be discharged


Keep giving all the people your time
your family said you've got an altruistic mind
but they won't tell you when you're so sick
or that you're life's greatest fucking hypocrite

I know I don't got too much education
but I deciphered your charm from fabrication
I used to bite at the slightest provocation 
now I'll just growl and consider each situation

I may not have everything I want
but I got from you what I need
You ain't got nothing left for me
boy you don't see the woods from the trees

recorded at home on my tascam 8 track

Woods For The Trees (I'm Alright Jack)

I found myself scribbling furiously in my little spotty book.  

Messed about with a couple of simple chords and picking patterns and thought I'd grab a quick one-track take to see if it all hung together.

I was quite chuffed - it seemed to fit - got all the way through on one live take too, albeit with plenty of clangers, twangs, tangled fingers, buzzing strings and missed chord changes.  That's pretty darned good going for me.

Every subsequent attempt to improve was, of course, rubbish. 

So here you have before you my flash/bang song writing and recording effort in the raw - no edits no eq.  If it was beer or bread, then over here it would be labelled "artisan" and would command a price premium.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Enjoy.  :)

The End of Time

Not far now, for us to go.
Down our evolutionary road.
Lights flickering out, truth be told.
Not far now, for us to go.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.
Following the neon signs ahead.
Grip my hand for comfort, ancient friend.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.
	
Gauge our progress on the ground.
Bible parables everywhere are found.
Pestilence, poverty, injustice all abound.
Gauge our progress on the ground.
No archangels lead our cause.
The thieves that rape the game steal ever more.
With their plague of fixers, liars, cheats and whores,
No archangels lead our cause.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Can’t defer the descent into night.
Close our eyes, imagining the light.
Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Nowhere now, for us to go.
They’re digging up our evolutionary road.
Lights have flickered out, it’s turning cold.
Nowhere now, for us to go.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

When our universe collapses back to elementary birth
When truth, faith, hope and charity intertwine
To fuse a light too bright for any darkness on this earth
I’ll be smiling there to greet the end of time.

Photo by Usukhbayar Gankhuyag on Unsplash

The End of Time

Primordial Path

herobrine (dead cats ep)

shall i simplify?
i did not see the lights
shall i simplify?
i saw the entire room
i saw it shape around you
ecstasy
we have met previously
ecstasy
but in different bodies
ecstasy

ॐ

in a major
written, performed, recorded and premixed by viola moonshape in december 2018
mixed and mastered by brahma in july 2021
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

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gibson es335 > vox ac15 > shure sm57 > tascam (track 01)
gibson es335 > tascam (reverb) (track 02)
yamaha reface cp (rdi + tremolo + a delay) > tascam (track 03)
yamaha reface cp (clv + phaser) > tascam (track 04)
vocals > shure sm57 > tascam (reverb) (tracks 05, 06)
yamaha reface cp (wr + wah) > tascam (track 07)
gibson es335 > line 6 dl4 (reverse) > tascam (track 08)

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cover by brahma
photography by viola moonshape
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

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Shall I Simplify?

The Music Video

Shall I Simplify? (video on youtube)

#204

This is the conclusion of a twisted cops and robbers story that began in Part 1.  You can find Part 1 here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-106484228/whereabouts-unknown-part


Lyrics;
Hound dog hot on the scent
To where the thieving fox went
He's chasing down that miscreant
And he never will relent...
Put the foot on the floor
The hound dog is at the door
Runs out the back real fast
But his escape won't last

The law man
had cuffed his hands
Cuffed them tight
and read him his rights
He'd caught him just in time
To commit a perfect crime
Their whereabouts were unknown

Temptation leads to mighty sin
No one's around to turn him in
For pocketing a cash advance
A fortune made from circumstance
 
Put the foot
on the floor
Their both inside
And he's locked the door

Makes him talk
And finds the stash
He's gonna carry out all of the cash

Throws it in his car
Lights up a cheap cigar
But you can't leave a witness
When he knows who you are

The fox is still lying there
Somewhere deep under the stairs
Price was paid
I'm afraid
Buried for all time
Victim of a perfect crime
Whereabouts unknown

Temptation lead to might sin
The hound dog's never seen again
Good guy goes bad and that's the spin
For him a new hunt will begin
His whereabouts unknown

Have you seen this man. We're searching for this man...

Whereabouts Unknown

Whereabouts Unknown Part 2

This  is a song Mwayi "Lady Pace" and one of my projects called Trisektor wrote while she has been stranded here  on Bowen island  during  covid,, we've done  about six now,  and its lookin like we might have time to do a few more , before  she can get back to Malawi,

Waiting For A Sunset

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ed my beacon
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taylor 914ce
lowden f-25
gibson es-335
takamine ef360sc
fender telecaster
furch om 24 sr
furch d 40 12-string
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pianos: 
yamaha clp-575
yamaha clp-440
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microphones:
neumann u87ai
neumann kms 105
shure sm57
shure sm58
sennheiser mk 64
sennheiser mk 66
telinga pro-8 parabolic
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bass:
fender squier precision bass
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synths:
korg minilogue xd
yamaha reface cp
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drums:
roland td 4k2
korg wavedrum wd-x
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software instruments:
garritan abbey road studios cfx
spectrasonics trilian
arturia pigments
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amps:
vox ac15c1
acus one-ad wood
roland kc-110
rotel ra-12
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monitors:
bowers & wilkins 683 s2
genelec 8030a
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headphones:
sennheiser hd800s
bowers & wilkins p7
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loopers:
boss rc-505
boss rc-1
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effect pedals:
line 6 dl4
electro harmonix deluxe big muff π
electro harmonix pitch fork
proco rat 1986
proco rat 1988
strymon bigsky
boss eq-200
chase bliss audio warped vinyl hifi
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universal audio apollo twin quad
universal audio satellite tb3 octo
zoom h4n
logic pro x
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Shall I Simplify? (video on youtube)

Viola Moonshape