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03/01/2017

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January Moon

Love in Wartime    
2017 Song by Janine Levinson & Jose Freitas
Vocals and Piano, Janine Levinson
Synth, Production, Mix & Master, Chris Moscatiello

There you are across the dance floor
Standing as tall as a tree
I know you are all I could ask for
I'm hoping that you’ll notice me

Mama says I should be modest
And not compete with other girls
With lipstick a shade past their virtue 
Always refined and demure

Oh wink at me please and I'll drop my hankie
My seams are straight and you're so handsome
I'm gonna wait and I'll send you letters
When you're away 
You'll be so brave

You're the kind of man I've dreamed about
Almost as strong as my dad
And “almost as handsome,”
My mother would say
But we'll agree to disagree on that

So wink at me please,  
I'll pretend not to notice
But then I'll smile, cause you're so handsome
They dropped the bomb as I dropped my hankie
I’m gonna wait,
And you will save your heart for me.

Love In Wartime

Spray Tan Apocalypse: A musical Journey through the seemingly meteoric disintegration of U.S. politics 2016-17

It's about time someone spoke directly to us
Not at all like any others that have come before
It's about time someone fed us easy answers 
And it's about time someone promised us the world...

It's about time someone started spouting nonsense 
It's a goldmine of ideas that we can get behind
It's about time someone dismissed limitations
And it's about time someone promised us the world...

Forget compliance, f*ck the earth, what has your caring ever done for us?
Forget the future, take the cash and f*ck the science that's been stopping us.
We've been angrily waiting...

Just suppress those nagging doubts
Don't look too close and it will all work out
Take your daily dose of fear
And bow your head before the biggest mouth
Ya got Trouble Right Here
In America...

Trouble Right Here

Little to say about this song; both lyrics and music (all organic but for programmed drums) were done very impulsively, so it may show my primal inspiration without reworks or additions. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Pic from: https://vincentmars.com/2013/11/20/the-sensual-paintings-of-fabian-perez/

Translated Lyrics:

YO PENSÉ (LA SEXTA VEZ) / I THOUGHT (THE SIXTH TIME)

Yo pensé: esa mujer no es peligrosa…
  (I thought: that woman is not dangerous …)
No esperé enamorarme como un idiota.
  (I did not expect to fall in love like an idiot.)
Me pregunté: ¿qué tiene en los ojos que tanto me tienta?
  (I wondered: what’s in her eyes which tempts me so much?)
y me acerqué para hablar con ella y verlos de cerca.
  (And I got closer to speak with her and watch them closely.)

Y si era la primera vez, ¿por qué no extrañaba hacerlo con ella?
  (And if it was the first time, why didn’t I feel strange doing it with her?)
Y si era la primera vez, ¿por qué parecía que era la sexta?
  (And if it was the first time, why did it seem to be the sixth one?)
Y si era la sexta vez, ¿por qué hubo preguntas después de la escena?
  (And if it was the sixth time, why were there questions after the scene?)

Y si fue la única vez, ¿por qué no puedo apartarla de mi cabeza?
  (And if it was the unique time, why cannot I take her out of my head?)

ER41FI08 97-17

Factor Integrante

Yo pensé (La sexta vez)

Keep The Peace by Amy Fear. My Fault Music 2017. PLAY LOUD.

Keep The Peace

Suubsonq is Trixie Delight's new project. This is her contribution to "Yellow", a release in the solo word project series with various artists on @tcfsr The Committee For Sonic Research.

https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/yellow

Yellow

La Jaune Jupe

Suubsonq - La Jaune Jupe

Tourist season
Waves rolling in
Boardwalk dining
Twelve-hour shifts

Know my way round the kitchen
Been here for three years
Take care of the tables
Appetizers and beers

I got a stack of applications
From the manager
He said, pick some winners
When I seen her

Name on the paper
Local address
Here for the summer
Be my guess

Past employment
She used to work here
Much to my enjoyment
Whenever she was near

She had a certain wiggle
I guess I had a certain strut 
She let me see those dimples
On the side of her butt

She always made it clear
She had a steady somewhere
Studying law
But that didn’t mean we 
Couldn’t get together
Midnight booty calls

The summer before
The summer before last summer
I was her man
But there was another
The summer before
The summer before last summer
We broke like a wave, she went away

Big decision
And positions to fill
Her application
Keep or kill?

It’s three years later
My how time flies
It’s against regulations
But why shouldn’t I try

She always made it clear 
There was a steady somewhere
Studying law
But that didn’t mean we 
Couldn’t get together
Midnight booty calls

I took her application
Pulled it out of the pile
Folded, in my pocket
Personal history file
I’ll look at it later
Regret it all again
But I’m just a dumb waiter
So I’ll sing it again, sing it again

The summer before
The summer before last summer

The Summer Before The Summer Before Last Summer

A tribute to Midnight Oil with a cover of one of their finest songs, Jimmy Sharman's Boxers.  Recorded for a fan tribute album released early 2018. Feauturing a Sami Vanston vocal. Andy Stringer on Bass.
Vocal, guitars, programing, glock, melodica and suitcase drum kit played by Saul Behan-Dunne.

Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

DECEPTION

Music by Nix ExploderaMera
Lyrics and Vocals by Pamela Black
Video by Christoper Edwards youtu.be/MOCgLi7IvV8
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Deception(Nix & Pamela)

Mixed / Mastered by Russ Sinfield 
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield 
at the  Chaos Cookhouse, UK

Original tracks recorded at the Landing Pad, CO, USA

Darren Douglas Danahy  (D3PO) - Vocals, Synthesizer
Kelley Donovan (PING) - Synthesizer, backing vocals


"With of of our technology, a big electric heart
Is forming in the circuits of machines we use for art
You might not think it’s real, but I know that it is true
There’s a big electric heart pumping blood inside of you

Like a spark in our electrons, A big electric heart
slowly understanding all the knowledge it imparts
We don’t have time for riddles, But we know just how it feels
when our big electric heart gets wounded and it’s time to heal

And we don’t want to pull the plug
We only ask that you plug in
All is changing, but love is still the drug
For how we change the space we’re in

There’s something in the sound of  a big electric heart
Thumping on the ground as the music does it’s part
To bring us all together when we feel light years apart
Since the engine of this ship is just a big electric heart

So, if you think that you can love me like a big electric heart
Don’t just cross my wires as a human counterpart
We need to have consistency if dancing’s gonna start
Never stop the beat and break my big electric heart

And we don’t want to pull the plug
We only ask that you plug in
All is changing, but love is still the drug
For how we change the space we’re in"

©2017 Keldari Station

Big Electric Heart (single mix)

Written, performed and artwork by @wouwouandthewormling

Recorded in 2012 and originally titled 'Beard Boogie', 'Jams 'N' Jellies' is the first of many old songs that I'll be reworking and releasing in the next month or so. 

It's total nonsense, thanks in part to the lyrics being fuelled by a cookery book and too many nights in watching reruns of The Mighty Boosh.

Lyrics - 

These jams and jellies in my belly
Hug my very core
No hohum pate, frothy latte
Deserves my fickle awe
I love a gherkin while I’m workin’
On the second floor
But boiled cabbage comes with baggage
And yes, it’s such a bore
Don’t give me pasta in a plaster
Al dente oozing spore
I need an offal potato waffle
It's the only cure
An empty stirrup, calls for syrup
And Belgian chocolate horse
Pooch likes a Yorkie on a walkie
My bitchy Labrador

Bandcamp

Jams 'N' Jellies

“My Silver Unicycle” began as the first track Blankets and I made together in 2009. It was originally planned to be an instrumental track since I was tired of recording vocals and wanted to make an instrumental set that combined neopsychedic rock with hip hop. “Love is Called to All,” which I released as an open collaboration track and David Lee Louthan recently added vocals to, was the second instrumental track Blankets and I recorded for the set. I decided to add vocals to “My Silver Unicycle” approximately 3 years ago, probably after completing “Let’s Do It (All Over Again)” with Weighty Tree. I never released the track because I decided I wanted to focus on releasing collaborative tracks with people active in the  SoundCloud community. Eventually I couldn’t access the original stems to “My Silver Unicycle” due to old DAW issues and this track just sat there in limbo. I decided to release this track now because I can’t seem to complete any new tracks. Lol. So there ya go. 

The photo is taken from a party I had at my old house. I used to invite all my musician and artists friends over and we would play live music, paint and draw on the wall, read poetry, and cook together. It was fun.  

Huge blessing to Blankets for all the music we made together, a lot of which still has never been released on any platform. And big thanks to Russell Sinfield at the Chaos Cookhouse for mixing and mastering this track on the quick style with only an instrumental stem and 3 of my vocal stems. It was originally supposed to be lo-fi any ways. 

Blankets: Bass and Guitar 
https://soundcloud.com/allergeist
Couch King: Production, Arrangement, Lyrics and Vocals
Russell Sinfield: Mix and Master
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

Lyrics 

Let’s all take a ride
On my silver unicycle 
We can get on together 
On my silver unicycle 
Let’s all take a ride
On my silver unicycle 
We can get on together 

You can say I am lazy baby
Maybe a little hazy but having a good time
I’m have a good time
But I’m having a good time

Hop on board 
We’re all just board 
Just give it a shot 
We’ve all been ignored 
Tried it the old way
Got no reward 
Did our way
Still deplored 

I don’t care sit and stare
Disbelieve and yell and stare 

We’re all just trying to figure it out

Let’s all take a ride
On my silver unicycle 
We can get on together 
On my silver unicycle 
Let’s all take a ride
On my silver unicycle 
We can get on together

Blankets and The Couch King - My Silver Unicycle (Chaos Cookhouse Mix)

life is just a flash in the pan and moves so fast with time and then its gone.
after the rains the skys clear and the sun will always shine once more

now all beliefs will fall like leaves
and summer will turn to be received
a sudden glimmer from where the darkness came
where spirits kissed and slow embrace
angel of the east that fell from grace 
[in loving memory of Polly and kak channthy]
written and recorded by jim manser march 2018

Flash In The Pan

Janine vocals (https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson)
Daniel bass (https://soundcloud.com/fatpockets)
Pete drums (https://soundcloud.com/midipunk)
Jorg sax (https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx)
3D keyboards and melodica (https://soundcloud.com/keldari-station)
Marquis backing vocals (https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents)
Russ guitars, production, mix, master at Chaos Cookhouse (https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield)

I had this idea for a whimsical love song about how a couple grow old and see each others faults and still find them endearing, farts and all. The original guitar melody sings "I love you my baby, I know you love me most of the time, our love ages like fine wine" with this thin concept I asked Janine and Marquis to embark on a vocal duet. Marquis did this amazing and rather sexual rap which I liked but couldn't adapt to my inner vision to the song, I hope to do something with this later :-) He also did the backing vocals you hear on the track. I asked Daniel to do the bass which fitted perfectly with Pete's drums and additional percussion goodies, I've no idea how long he worked on these... a lot, Janine did this completely unexpected vocal, which I think really does fit well with the idea, although it weirded me out at first, (talk of marriage does that to me) and 3D came back with a church organ intro and the melodica plus some reggae bubbles on clav and organ, it was really shaping up to a pretty tune. I left the guitar singing the male melody and asked Jorg to join in, in place of the male part as well - different I hope. Making the sax sound slightly drunk in the mid section was fun.

Anyway huge thanks to all of above who worked on this tune with me and helped me make something I'm proud of, I could not do it without you guys!

Love - in the November of our lives

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