I received an invitation on a BBS to go and do something new
So here it is... I present to you! 
I'll try to keep it simple and keep it straight but all the while I simply over-complicate
But that's just me, and what I do
So its time for re-reflection and adjust my style I know I want it now but Ill wait a while
I need a reason for believing something new
You do your thing and I'll do mine as we walk across the path of time
I'll meet you at the end point, Oh what a view!
I've swam through the ocean a million times, went up and down the highs and the climbs
But I know I'm gonna fall for you
It's been a long while, a long journey and all the while I'm looking at me
Saying what to hell am I gonna to do?
(Aye!!!)
I want to do something new 
I want to do something different

Synth Vocal: (I will do whatever you want me to do)
I will do something new for you

Narration: "The next piece of music I'd like to present is an interpretation of my musical life over the last two years..." 
(A salad of musical nonsense) 

I have never done that before. I have never, ever, done that before
(Clarinet solo)

Look ahead, go with the flow
Where the journey takes us, we don't know
Searching for the new, looking for the lost
The birth of something that's never existed before
Never existed before

I wake up from this dream and I find that there's no escape! 
I look for the new so I can return home.

I have no doubt there will be more droughts, floods and raging fires.
The world is changing way beyond control; there is nothing we can do
Climate changes everyday. 
There is nothing we can do
The rain will come and wash us all away
The rain will come and wash us all away

Wake UP! And smell the coffee; it's a brand new day!
And I'm still breathing, and seeing and thinking in every way




Sometimes I often think about the things I've never had
Sometimes I often want the new but I know I cannot have
And I feel at peace 
And think that that's ok.
Grandson: "Hello!"
Granddad: "Can you hear yourself?"
Grandson: "Yeah! And I can hear you!"
Granddad: "Can you hear me too?"
Grandson: "Yeah!" :) 

I Love to make things in my shed. I love to create, "something new" in my shed! 
I Love to make things in my shed. I love to create, "something new" in my shed! 

As I grow old. New horizons don't seem to be so shiny
And as I wonder why; I look ahead and want to cry
Things that are close to me begin to turn to dust
What do we do? What do we say?
Expectations of loneliness, a breakdown in trust

The idea is like a wasp flying in your head
Irritating and annoying you until it's laid to bed
Get out of your box and move away from your comfort zone
Approaching the new angle until it's landed home
I don't kill wasps I nurture ideas and train them to behave
And show them who is boss!
Stay on track; don't lose the way 
Listen to what the idea has to say
Has to say

It's hard to break free; from the shackles of your comfort zone.
You've just gotta put the headphones on and do something new.

Row you boat across the water and decide what you want to see
Fly your kite up in the sky and let the string go free
Close your eyes and dream a little 
For me

I've got something new. I want to share it with you
I'm going to keep it simple and down the line
I did a few things for you
I'm glad I shared them with you

Oh! No!
Moving MIDI dots in your DAW. 
You could find something new and exciting.
Moving MIDI dots in your DAW. 
Could result in a 
"Car Crash!!"

Granddaughter: "What is it called?"
Granddad: "a harmonica"
Granddaughter: "a harmonica!"
Granddad: "Good Girl!"
Granddaughter: "is it a B one?" 
Granddad: "it's a B, Yes it's in B" :) 

You're dancing with your brand new shoes to the twelve bar blues
Comfort zones are ok if you just want to play
Do what you want 
Do what you do
Enjoy the twelve bar blues
The twelve bar blues

Thank you for lending your ear. 
I wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Glad to be with yas! 
Alan x

Doing Something New For The VS Planet

The Box (DAT)

The Silicon Invasion

Its Virtual

Santa likes his beard

It's Xmas

VS2480

Techno Cuban

Summertime

Summertime where the temperatures are rising
Clouds dissipate, the sun stops hiding
Tapps aff, and lay in the sun, 
put the shades on and let that skin burn
All the time you're wondering why 
The wasps and the bees are having a good time
Because it's summertime, it's summertime, 
Everybody! Its summertime!

Feel the heat of the sun on your face, 
You know it's great to be in a place 
Where the sun beats down 
You feel the heat on the ground, 
You know that you do, 
What you do what you do? 
You're doing the barbeque!
And what you doing it for? 
Because you want to! Yeah! 
Cause its summertime! 
Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Cut the grass, paint the fence
Cut the grass, paint the shed,
Its summertime!

Children with their water pistols playing on the grass
Bugs and beasties landing on the ground
Birds catching thermals flying high in the sky
Its summertime!
Boom box blasting as the beer flows cold
You know you'll never grow old
Cause its summertime
In the summertime

You are doing all the jobs that you don't want to do
Because you're good lady told you to
In the summertime

The smell of burgers and bird song is in the air its summertime!

Summertime

WaftKwerk

Ego Limit

I feel like I'm in someone else's head and I don't know what it is that they've said.
Feel like I've been here before but without you I know that I need more.
I'm tired of trying on minds for size exposed to thoughts and feelings that just feed lies.
Wrestling with my conscience behind my eyes: The pictures always changing as my thoughts run dry. 
I'm getting hungry for the food of the new located in a restaurant hidden from view.
I want to travel distances to get me to you located in a book store hidden from view.

Hidden From View

Just a wee test tune on my new DAW software

The Village Shaman

Techno Trip

Kontakt1-Atmospheric Project-01

Reflections

Now that you see

Space and Time

A bass and drums recording that has been sitting on my PC for years is developing into a tune :)

Only you will know

The Man with the Orange Face

Building orchestration around a microphone test on my 44 year old acoustic guitar. The Kimbara was my first ever acoustic guitar.

Kimbara Test

An instrumental using the free Blueprint plugins for Kontakt

Bluepoint

To Sing Like the Blackbird

MUSIC (1993) Remaster 2025

Parental Influence

merry xmas 2014 funk style

XMAS TIME IS HERE

Event Horizon
We are guests in this place that belongs to them and our time in this world is limited
We are taught to walk around the circle, we are learning to be controlled
We dare not test the authority in the fear of what they will do to you and me

(Am I awake? Am I alive? Am I who I think I am?) 

Eventually we approach the event horizon where life deflates and light cannot escape
I don’t want to be imprisoned in a black hole

As the event horizon is coming into play, we are drawn towards the window
Like a broken branch floating down the stream
Theres no control to change

Going with the flow 
looking at this show
Where will I be?
What will I see?


Event Horizon

That's what we do
(Elliot Smith (drums), Matt Gibson (Guitar), Andrew Bowman (Keys), Alan Smith (Bass & Vocals))


Dream away I said, to all my friends that day
And all the time we wondered through 
We knew it would never be said.  

And all the reasons that come and go
And all of the seasons through to snow
We reach out and touch the sun, touch the sun again.

So we begin our tale, tell it like it is
We wake up cold and damp and never give in
We've got our love to give; we've got our love to shine
We've got a thing to cross; it's called 'the thin line'

So we walk away 
Understanding some thing in our brain today
Were we go and what we do and what we show and what we find out of you?

That's what we do,
That's what we do,
That's what we do,

We shine like a light bulb without any electricity 
Causes there are no more light bulbs: 
Nowadays it's LED's
Technology is waking my eyes, Technology is heating my pies

 
And all the time we dream about the things that we see
And all the time we're blind to the very things that we dream
Don't hesitate; don't live your life dreaming of anything
Don't take it away from me because I ain't got anything to give you 
I say
I say, I say
Will you hold out your hand for me please, and take me away?










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