An often misunderstood track, but I don't want to ruin it, make up your own mind as to what this is about.....




The Tempus Collective - "Sunday"

A piece me and my good friend Stevo knocked out one evening after a few beers, meant to get round to progressing it but the moment has passed and I think it will now remain on the shelf as a monument to a great tv show...

Stranger Strings - unfinished demo

Bit of a departure from our usual sound. It's sometimes good to shake it up a bit so we enlisted the help of a few rappers on this track. Don't take it to seriously, we were just tryinig to have a bit of fun with a new genre.

 Special thanks to the Slum Village boys for the vocal stems and Mark Cowan for his outstanding efforts on the guitars.

Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming
All guitars courtesy of Mark Cowan.
Additional vocals by Slum Village
Recorded & Mixed in January 2017.

The Tempus Collective - And Then..... (Ftg additional vocals from Slum Village)

This was the first step I took into the cover version of Where Is My Mind that later Kevin and I would turn into a full blown Tempus version. 

Solo Greebo - Where Is My Mind (instrumentle demo)

WLRN’s Edition 16 podcast focuses on the money behind the medicalized transgender movement and the impact that the movement has on the lesbian community. 

We were inspired to these topics by the canceled Left Forum panel that was set to explore them in detail. Our interviewees were all involved in that panel, and WLRN is proud to give them a platform after Left Forum silenced them.

Mary Lou Singleton is a lifelong women’s liberation activist. She practiced as a homebirth midwife for 20 years and now works as a family nurse practitioner. She has served on the boards of directors of the Midwives Alliance of North America, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, the Stop Patriarchy Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and the Women’s Liberation Front.

Jane Chotard is a former attorney whose specialty was regulatory healthcare, including Standards of Care and Informed Consent. She participated in the formation of California Lawyers for Human Rights, as well as the Women’s Committee at GLAAD in the 1990’s. Currently, she is the mother of two teenage boys and works in the area of Contemplative Care for those facing end-of-life issues.

Taylor Fogarty is a Brooklyn-dwelling freelancer who writes about feminism, politics, and anything else she has an opinion on. She also tweets a lot: @theloudlesbian. You can check out her website at www.taylorfogarty.com

WLRN staff member Nile Pierce wrote this edition’s commentary, exploring how and why the powerful men in the US-based pharmaceutical industry profit from the transgender movement.

This edition’s music spots are Fleetwood Mac’s “Little Lies” and Ali Bee’s “Look How the Money Rolls In.”

Photo credit goes to Alix Dobkin for our featured image of two lesbians in the 70s, Louise and Liza Cowan.

As always, this month’s podcast was sound mixed by our resident audio magician in chief, Jenna Di Quarto.

Edition 16: Money Behind the Transgender Movement and Impact on Lesbians

The Unwinding Coil was a big production and there were lots of wee bits of added polish to make it, this is how it sounded before it went into the El Greebo production pit, even tho it's raw, it still has something about it that stands out i think and I really like this less complicated instrumentation and less clutered vocal (there are no backing tracks at all) so just thought I'd share with you guys.

The Tempus Collective - "The Unwinding Coil" - Stripped bare mix

Slightly more upbeat track from us this time, but as usual the subject matter is of a depressing nature, no one likes it when you send a love letter but get "No Reply"....

Thanks to Wargames79 for his bass playing skills and Amy Burnett for lending her vocal talents to this track.

The Tempus Collective - "No Reply"

Yugen

“”to be so mysteriously faint and profound as to be beyond human perception and under- standing.” 

“a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe… and the sad beauty of human suffering”

“To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.”

Zeami Motokiyo.


Yugen
(A Song For Pamela)

The morning sun it hides,
Behind the drawn blind,
It cuts the air,
Like broken shards,
In a dusty room.

We embrace the day,
With open arms,
And celebrate,
With childish charm.

The still un-woken mind,
With thoughts of you in time,
Remembered dreams,
Of roses in a stream,
Like tears in the rain,
Like roses in a stream.

So scared to lose,
What has been found,
So scared of living,
With my feet upon this ground,
And the flowers scattered on the stair,
And the roses drift from here to there.

It was all we ever had…..

Relieved the night has come,
Relieved the day has gone,
Love is still here,
And love it is still here,
To greet the new days dawn…



The Tempus Collective - "Yūgen"

A track about the cruelty of war and the world's obsession with it, also the needless cruelty to innocent lives that get drawn into a conflict they often do not want to be involved in.

A Return to the Fray.

1st Verse:

They wanted to be strong,
They wanted to be, oh so strong,
They wanted to be free,
They wanted to be free, just like me,
But they failed,
They were failed - failed by me.

Chorus:
Does anybody know, Does everybody fear,
Did anybody feel - like I feel,
Does everybody share, Does anybody Care,
Did anybody bleed - the way I do.

And they gave - but did they really have to go and stay, 

2nd verse:

They say it breaks no law, to take an innocent to war,
I cant save this child, from life's disease,
We didn’t have to stay, There must be another way,
Bring us back now, Give it back now,
Take me home.........................

Chorus:
Does anybody know, Does everybody fear,
Did anybody feel - like I feel,
Does everybody share, Does anybody Care,
Did anybody bleed - the way I do.

Does anybody know, Does anybody care,
Did everybody feel - like I feel,
If every soul thats here, could shed a silent tear,
Could Everybody bleed - the way they do.


The Tempus Collective - "A Return To The Fray"

 Here's a new ad I voiced for Carlton Bingo with rather funky music!  Hear it on Smooth Radio.

Carlton Bingo - Free Bingo Day Radio Ad   {Upbeat, Bright, Soft Sell}

Inspired by the Danny Boyle film Sunshine, and chords borrowed from the mighty John Murphy.


Carlton Bingo - Free Bingo Day Radio Ad {Upbeat, Bright, Soft Sell}

Scottish & English Voiceover Artist

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