My contribution to the @couch-king-presents open biscuits project. All versions can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents/sets/soundcloud-buiscuits-open

The king's incomparably excellent vocal track is here: https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents/the-couch-king-buttermilk-1/s-8k6Vc

Kitchen sink mix because I had three ideas - couldn't decide which one to use - so skrunkled them all together.

Buttermilk Biscuit - Kitchen Sink Mix ft. Couch King Presents

Started out as an attempt to do ambient, but I can't do ambient and end up with things like this instead (same thing happened with Brian Eno's Fridge) - these usually go in the bin - but think this one manages a bit of atmosphere - others may not agree ;) Mixing/mastering still need work. Picture is Brighton's (almost completely nolonger existing) West Pier from 1973 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Pier,_Brighton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_809050.jpg

Ghost Pier - Instrumental

It's a made up Bond theme. Have had several attempts - this is first one I think is passable. Know I don't have the voice for it, but hopefully gets the idea across. Mixing/mastering very difficult (orchestral stabs are world of stress, vocal is still not mixed right) - still working on that. Not sure to call it Let It Burn or The Devil May Care. I am a big fan of Bond themes/music and am hoping the new proper Sam Smith Bond theme (which is imminent) is a good 'un. Many thanks to @jonathan_beckenstein for his very helpful advice on an earlier version of this song and to @faerytale for her encouragement!

The Devil may care
To walk by your side
Your soul may be lost
But your heart’s open wide

You’d lay waste The Earth
You’d pull down the stars
A love that’s so pure
Is a love that destroys

What use a world that always turns away
When life’s so torn?

So let it burn
Yeah let it burn
Just let it burn

The Devil may care
To raise-up your pride
He’s seen through your eyes
Seen the tears left un-cried

And as your passion spins out of control
It’s like you reached out for the sun
But then it’s gone

So let it burn [etc.]

The Devil may care
To walk by your side
He’s seen through your eyes
See the tears left un-cried
A love so pure
A love that destroys
What use this world
When life’s so torn
So let it burn

The picture is a detail from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News070712-X1.1flare.html

Made-Up-Bond-Theme: Let It Burn/The Devil May Care

This track is based on https://soundcloud.com/agitationphi/nebelleben from hypnotic lo-fi pedal-virtuoso-extraordinaire @agitationphi. There was something epic and inspiring to me in the original track - started getting lyrics first time I listened to it. Thank you Sanja for being so nice about what I did with it!

Somewhere out there in the slums they built a shrine to poverty
But no one was that interested so they’re gonna take it down again
There’s plaster saints with empty space exactly where their hearts should be
Oh the blood, the pain, the loss, the lip-gloss and the ecstasy

I'm ready for the fall
I'm so ready for the fall

A procession with platforms, so much velvet, gold and flesh
But they’re fools just like the rest of us, searching in the right place for the wrong things
Mystery oh mystery, the beauty the futility
Oh please don’t leave us unsupervised for fear we might get what we want

[Repeat chorus]

So where’s my motivation then? Where’s my exclusive funeral pyre?
What would you then have me do once I’ve extinguished all desire?
For the birds will sing just as before their lovely chorus for the damned
And if I died they’d peck my eyes out just as nature planned


The picture is 'The Cup of Mystery' by Odilon Redon http://www.wikiart.org/en/odilon-redon
Sanja's original track is licenced according to the following: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Mystery Oh Mystery (Agitation Φ & Wheelwright)

The wonderful vocal performance here is by @emily-germain (https://soundcloud.com/emily-germain/she-moved-through-the-fair).

This is a very well loved traditional song - and I am probably a fool to mess with it - but it is a song I have known and loved from being a tiddler.

The spoken parts are from two readings from Christina Rossetti's poem 'Song' here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PAABJ0hH84 and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVlMB5cnFRo

Many *many* thanks to Emily for being so kind to let me use her beautiful vocal track - and also thanks to @jonathan_beckenstein, @guiville and particularly @chris-okunbor for their very helpful feedback on earlier versions of this track (and also thanks to Gui for the excellent picture :)

I would love the mixing/engineering to be better, but I have reached the limits of what I can do.

She Moved Through The Fair ft. Emily Germain

Grew out of pick-and-mix experiment with new DAW based on modified canned MIDI guitar loops.

And so the brothers came together
Hand in hand down the aisle
Tell your mother fetch the shotgun coz
This is a real situation

Yeah this in not a movie
This is a real situation
This is not a movie, no
This is a real situation

My co-defendants were in finance
Back in 1323
Oh we designed a wind-up Jesus
We got sent down for blasphemy

But that was just a movie
This is a real situation
Oh that was just a movie, whereas
This is a real situation

This is a real situation
This is a real situation

Stuck in a lift with your friends made of wires
Dreaming their dreams of electrical fires
Non-player armies sweep across the plains
Heroes and heroines who can't remember their own names

There are no street fights under our street lights
Just the interminable prairie stretching before me, yeah
But that was just a movie
This is a real situation
A real situation

Picture: "Never Escaped My Mind" by Kai McCall
http://kaimccall.com/

(I changed the picture on 02/04/2016 - previously it was "Horse & Cassette" by Super Future Kid http://www.superfuturekid.com/ )

This Is Not A Movie This Is A Real Situation

I like to imagine Brian has a walk-in fridge – an IMAX fridge. It’s immersive. Getting milk is like a pilgrimage to a Tibetan monastery. Mix/mastering nightmarish but some over-cooking in the loudest part is intentional. Think it’s a bit long – will probably cut down. Started as pick-and-mix getting-to-know-you experiment with new DAW.

Music For Brian Eno's Fridge - Instrumental (draft)

Diabolical was working title, but may keep it now. Arrangement and mix probably still too dense in places + master is overcooking - will fix.

I wept in the cathedral
The day I lost my faith
A young man came up to me
With a smile upon his face

He said I’m pleased to meet you
I'm sure we’ll meet again
You remind me of my brother
He said I know you’ve guessed my name

The story is they cast me out
And then I fell
But you should always doubt the stories
The victorious would tell

They don't see that good can come from bad
They don't understand the harm they'd do
By always doing good
He said they never understood me

I waged a war in heaven
But war was not my cause
I burned for their perfection
And the keeping of their laws

My brother how I loved him so
They turned his heart around
But I saw the sorrow on his face
When he struck me to the ground

[Repeat chorus]

They don't last for long down here
Before their faith is lost
Look what happened to that carpenter
When you nailed him to a cross

He should have taken my advice
And ruled you like a king
But he offered you eternal life
And then you tried to bury him

[Repeat Chorus]

Picture: "Somewhat Damaged" by Alessio Radice  http://www.alessioradice.com/

Diabolical

Arped orchestrals + pick-and-mix from new DAW. Started out as companion piece to Diabolical but went in completely different direction. Have already edited it down once, but is probably still a bit too long. Mix/mastering still distorting in places - will fix.

Bee Singularity - Instrumental

This is a lab for @wheelwright. I don’t really know why I’ve ended up with two pages.

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