A playlist of other people's tracks (most recent first) that I have contributed to.

Collaborations Elsewhere

Credits:
Music, instrumentation and production: Six Four Zero Two.
Lyrics and vocals: Wheelwright.
Cover design: 6402.

To the Light (Wheelwright x Six Four Zero Two)

The perfect surface of a Hockney swimming pool
The burnt out lullaby of dated dance music
Another Saturday lost in experience
Starlight scattering from beach front properties

And I'm driving too fast I want this too much
I’m trying not to think big thoughts about love

So there must be a song that doesn’t remind me of you
That’s not stuck in my head and
Sometimes it kills me but I'm not gonna say so coz
I worked out what I want and then I said it’s what I wanted
But it’s not

And no one comes from here we’re just counting down the days
Living back up plans trying not to sound the same
Another Saturday we’re heading out to find
The hollowed out remains of something wonderful

And the slow extinction of who I want to be
Will save me in the end

Words & Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Music & Production by Monotronaut

Mastering by Gus Elg at Sky Onion

Half-Light (With Wheelwright)

Wheelwright: voice and lyrics, vocals recording and their sub-mix, song form editing. You can visit with him here: @wheelwright

Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, all instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

There's a message
It says come back right now
And you looked like you'd seen a ghost
People talking
Then they're moving away
And you're questioning everything

Transatlantic
And the earth was shaking
Lost in transit
Lost in mid translation

Oh and the kingdom to come
Will be a kingdom of reason

Did I tell you
All the things we could see
When they held you up to the light
Drink some vodka and then
Walk out the door
You said this is better for everyone

[Chorus]

We like the meaningful songs
They send a meaningful signal

In the Hare Krishna restaurant in Soho
No one recognised you
Coz you didn't look much like the photo

On the inside
I said everyone's lost
And you said yeah but nobody really cares
Run the numbers
And learn to be smart
Now the world is turned upside down

[Chorus]

Image by Cash Macanaya unsplash.com/@cashmacanaya

bandcamp

Lost In Transit  (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Music & mix Guiville @guiville
Vocals, lyrics, and additional string arrangements by Michael Wheelwright @wheelwright
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https://soundcloud.com/guiville/sets/truth-guiville-wheelwright

VHS 22 (Feat. Wheelwright)

Wheelwright: voice https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Beckenstein: music, lyrics, vocal melody, instruments

Fictive Sisters is a Trans-Atlantic online collaboration between Wheelwright and Jonathan Beckenstein.
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hibernating
the days grow dark
suffocating
so pull your boots on
walk out the door

frozen ridge line
and silver moon
distant tree line
the sleeping forest
is under snow

crystal flakes will crunch underfoot
icicles agleam
father winter will tread by your side
to the frosted stream

calculating
the solstice tide
enervating
procrastinating
walk out the door

frigid meadow
in moonlight glaze
dormant willow
is waiting naked
for your embrace

crystal flakes will crunch underfoot
icicles agleam
father winter will tread by your side
to the frosted stream
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Michael and I will be introducing two new songs in roughly a month, and at that time the Fictive Sisters album "Immaculate Distraction" will be available on Bandcamp. We will let you know when and provide a link. Thanks always for your listening!

image from Wikipedia

Father Winter (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody, lyrics @wheelwright
Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration between Wheelewright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at Bandcamp: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

lyrics below
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Born in Belarus in 86 yeah
Worked in construction back on the farm then
Dressed as a bishop she did deals in St Peters now she
Drives a Bugatti through the streets of Lausanne

It's not the money that's what she said
Don't want to end up with a hole in the head
We'll rule the world with the power of love
Oh do you think so coz
I don’t think so

We took an Uber to the conference centre she said
They’ll act like animals to get what they want
Blood on the dance floor but you get what you pay for when you
Hang with the cool kids at the policy disco

It's not the money that's what they said
No one looks good with a hole in the head
We'll rule the world with the power of love
Oh do you think so

I can't stay in bed for ever
My real life will never start
Complications don't want to know
Happy ending I don't think so

Hybrid warfare
Grand synthesis
Do the practice
Get dog biscuits
Keep it simple
Keep it stupid
Makes us feel good
We’re gonna use it
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Image credit (detail, processed): Girl with red hat unsplash.com/@girlwithredhat

It's Not The Money (Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Wheelwright: voice, lyrics, vocal melody, synthesizer, theremin sample @wheelwright

Beckenstein: initial music, guitars, bass, drum programming, mix

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We stayed up very late then took the flight from Kyoto 
The blossom on the wind the artificial sky reminded us of something

Oh did you hear that a storm is coming 
Oh did you hear that we were making plans

That girl said she was you when you were in that noise art band
 But it was hard to tell if she was really real or just another ghost

The shadows on the wall 
The clinical blue light 
The trouble's hidden in my heart

I'm watching from above it's like we're in a TV show
 We're standing on a bridge the mountain in the distance like a Hokusai

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image: Marlon Josué https://unsplash.com/@paladin_04 further processed by Wheelwright

Thanks to Fady for inspiration various.

We Were Making Plans (with Wheelwright) (Fictive Sisters)

Prod. by Monotronaut
Vocals & Lyrics by Wheelwright
https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion.

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Oh do you harbour some great sorrow or regret
Do the sins of the fathers pray on your mind
Oh if I lost my fear, my righteous anger, would I no longer be a danger to myself
Then we could walk like spirits through this complicated world
Forgetting all we know

Here comes the blue wave here comes the new wave
The frozen moment
Here comes the blue day here comes the new day
The frozen moment
Here comes the blue wave

I dreamed the moon was burning a cold white fire in the night
Like a scythe across the sky
It cut the stars free from their moorings and they became a second sun
And then we walked like sprits through this complicated world
Forgetting all we know

Forgetting All We Know (With Wheelwright)

Music & mix by Guiville  @guiville
Vocals & lyrics by Wheelwright @wheelwright
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https://soundcloud.com/guiville/sets/truth-guiville-wheelwright
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You're lying on your back
You've had a bit too much
You're looking at the stars

You didn't know she'd followed you
But suddenly she's next to you
Then you just talked for hours

And if she’d turned to kiss you
You'd have offered no resistance but
Instead you said it's me not you
Then she said I should go

But this is how it's meant to be
For boys with broken hearts
Don’t say it hurts, just makes it worse
Yeah this is how it's meant to feel
For boys with broken hearts
You fix it up, you shut it down

You’re back home on your own and
You’ve had way too much
It’s three fifteen AM

There’s nothing on the TV just
Creaky documentaries about
Pyramids and sharks and Nazis

And you’re listening to some song
From 1981
It’s really dark and miserable
But it carries you along

But this is how it's meant to be...

iTunes

This Is How (Feat. Wheelwright)

Wheelwright and I made this together. We hope you like it.

You can find more from Michael here: @Wheelwright

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

Drowned a Thousand Times (w/Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Music & mix Guiville @guiville
Vocals & lyrics by Michael Wheelwright @wheelwright
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https://soundcloud.com/guiville/sets/truth-guiville-wheelwright
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Lyrics:
(Over and over, over and over)
And so the love sick prince
Switches off his phone and
Cries himself to sleep

And in his dreams he runs away from home
Faster and faster out into the night
And as he throws himself into the void
A hand reaches out for his hand and stops him falling

Wake up it's Saturday morning
Lie there and stare at the ceiling but you're
Out of milk and out of bread so go to
Tesco of the living dead
Wash a plate and make the tea
Scrambled eggs and poetry

And the ground just seems to drop away
And someone is talking to him but he's not listening
And as he throws himself into the void
A hand reaches out for his hand and stops him falling

(Angel)

In every street in Heartbreak Town the lights are coming on
You say you’ll never fall in love but life it still goes on
And you don’t want to fight
Coz you don’t want to win
And you don’t want to sell your soul
For the sake of fitting in

(Angel)

Wash a plate and make the tea...

guiville.com

Sugar Sister (Feat. Wheelwright)

@wheelwright wrote the song after David Bowie died. He had a beautifully strong song and vocal, on a smaller arrangement of piano, some strings and brass pads.

Wheelwright then ran it past me and I immediately begged to be his Mick Ronson and Tony Visconti! We think we’ve ended up with a truly collaborative result that is much bigger in scope than the original; via a lot of close and truly enjoyable discussion and idea bouncing. It's always wonderful to work with truly gifted folk like Michael.
  
@wheelwright: Concept, words, vocals, chord structure and vocal melody, piano, some strings and brass.

@phil-mcwalter: Guitars, trumpets, drums and percussion, bass, choir, bells, synths, cello, extra strings, overall production on all parts, mixing and mastering.

Song For A Fallen Rockstar

Well there's a danger
If you're a rock star
And you live too long
They'll say you died too late to save your reputation

But what do they know
They still played the songs you sang
And printed photographs
Of you when you were young

Oh what do they know
Yeah what do they know
There can be no music in their souls

Just for a moment
Seemed like a star shone
Brighter than the sun

But on the next day
It was all explained away
And life just carried on

But this unbearable
Sense of impermanence
It builds us up
It cuts us down

But when the air is still
Just before the dawn
I think maybe
Oh just maybe
I could find my way back home

Then all the bad girls sing along
Coz all the good girls couldn't come
To your performance

And as the closing credits roll
All the kids get up to go
Oh maybe someone shed a tear
But we'll never know
And I begin to realise
I'm not so good at letting go

They'll try to break into your mind
They'll try to steal away your strangeness
But there’s no future with no engine of desire
Oh who’s going to paint those pictures
Who’s going to set the world on fire

Oh who needs structure for the sake of structure
Who needs love for the sake of love
When your daddy said "history repeats..." you said
"I don't wanna to hear about that..."

And when they took him away he said
"Please don't test my blood, in case it's already cold"

And we made up all these stories
But they turned out to be true
But we’ve got to make a new life
Anywhere but here

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
But it turns out we were young
And so we didn't die

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
And I took your hand in my hand
And we ran for miles and miles

And I'm dreaming that I'm lying here
With my back against the snow
I'm reaching for the stars
But the earth won't let me go
They say there's nothing left now
But something still remains
Yeah

There's something out there...

© Wheelwright May 2016

https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright/song-for-a-fallen-rockstar-wheelwright-phil-mcwalter

SONG FOR A FALLEN ROCKSTAR (with overture) Wheelwright & Phil McWalter

Originally a 6402 instrumental. This version features lyrics by Bent Cousin, vocals by Wheelwright and production by Guiville.

Turning Point (6402 + Bent Cousin, Wheelright & Guiville)

Wheelwright: voice, words, vocal melody, cellos @wheelwright.

Jonathan: music, guitars, bass, keys, drum programming.

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

When I was seventeen
And really so in love
I did not understand
How much of an embarrassment I was to you
But looking back I see
You were really very kind to me
And you had to move on
But at the time I just felt so rejected

But now I'm a grownup
I'll say I don't care
And life's just a train wreck
And life isn't fair
But when I look in the mirror
I'm not sure what I see
Now I'm a grownup

When I was ten and
We were driving back from holiday
And it was dusk and we hit this young deer
After we came off the motorway
And it was hurt real bad
Dad stopped the car got out to do what had to be done
But I could not understand
I thought it was my fault I so wanted it to be OK

[Repeat chorus]

It never really goes away
It never really goes away

Now I'm A Grownup (Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Music and production: 6402.
Lyrics, vocals and cello effects: Wheelwright.
Cover photography: Elin Liavik. https://www.instagram.com/elinlia/
Design: 6402.

Forgiven (Wheelwright x Six Four Zero Two)

Music & mix by Guiville  @guiville
Vocals & lyrics by Wheelwright @wheelwright
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https://soundcloud.com/guiville/sets/truth-guiville-wheelwright
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Waiting for the bell to ring
I'll miss the bus if I don't hurry then
Up the hill and down the shops coz
Today I've got Martini money

Then walk the dog and watch the telly coz dad's not back yet
Then I'll pretend to do some homework and then it's tea time

And they made us a home
Wasn't always easy
Didn't see at the time
Just how much they loved us and

No one ever said life is easy
Coz life's not easy but
Mum would always say
If we make do then we'll get through

She wasn't exactly a morning person but
She'd always get up at seven and make my packed lunches
Then she'd go back to bed with her Benson & Hedges
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References:
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Spar shop, Park North Swindon https://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/6794955420/in/album-72157623050557262/
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Martini 
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/20875/martini-rosso-bot1980s
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Benson and Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKWE2KvdC0I
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Instrumental version
https://soundcloud.com/guiville/martini-money
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Martini Money (Feat. Wheelwright)

Today may not be a day of excellence but thank you for sharing in my charade
And I can almost hear the patriotic songs of the mood brigades inside your head

And rendered careless by design I confide in my black mirror it says
More matter please and less art we want back story and motivation

And she said you're a good person but you have bad ideas

And you may not understand but of course you'll never know
How I pictured us embracing in the sunset or something like a movie or maybe a song
And it's so tastefully done as we say goodbye and walk away and I'm
Momentarily distracted by the ocean or a sunset denoting impermanence or something

We take these pieces of a life never meant to fit together all these
Actions that a man might play to tell his story to try to find his way

And he said my kids help keep me relevant but I don't know who I am

Words/Vocal/Arrangement @wheelwright
Electric Guitars/Arrangement @jonathan_beckenstein
Music/Arrangement/Mixing/Production by Monotronaut

Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Mastering

I've long been a fan of Jonathan And Wheelwright,
but as much as I wanted to collaborate with them over the years,
I didn't have the right track that I felt was in their style.
Instead of forcing a collaboration to happen,
randomly I was listening to this unfinished track
that I couldn't stop imagining Wheelwright singing on.
So I approached him with the idea of collaborating.
It may have been somewhat unexpected, given that the original track I sent him
was a stripped down synth pop song.
I assured him that it was just a simple guide for his vocal,
the chord progression would essentially be the same,
but the final track would sound nothing like what he was hearing.
I didn't know myself what it would sound like, I just knew it wasn't that.
On that note, when I hear Wheelwright I also think of his work with Jonathan Beckenstein.
I have talked with Jonathan in the past about collaborating,
but nothing I was working on then was a good fit at the time.
Since I had this track that I felt was complimentary to Wheelwright's voice,
I thought about Jonathan who has a sound that is quite complimentary to his voice as well.
Perfect I thought, I've been wanting to work with both of these guys I greatly admired,
why not all of us together on the same track?

Thank you both for your efforts to help me bring this 'vision' together.
It really wouldn't work without you guys...

Make Sense Sunsets (With Wheelwright & Jonathan Beckenstein)

These words
These feelings
I can't express

This romance
This longing
The times I've tried and failed

So let's not think about real life
It just complicates things
So I'll say I'm not in love
With anyone

This life
This fiction
I can't accept

This freedom
This longing
The choices that I've never made

So let's not think about the truth
It just complicates things
So I'll say I don't belong
Anywhere

And I know I don't have to
Hate myself but
Sometimes just sometimes
It's the easiest thing to do

And I really don't want to
Fall for you but
It would just be the
The easiest thing
Just the easiest thing to do

These words
These feelings
I can't explain

This romance
These choices that
I don't really understand so

So let's not think about real life
It just complicates things
So I'll say I'm not in love
With anyone
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Words & Vocals by @wheelwright
Music & Production by Monotronaut

Mastering by Gus Elg at Sky Onion

The Easiest Thing (With Wheelwright)

Wheelwright: voice, lyrics, vocal melody @wheelwright

Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley: drums, tambourine, percussion recording @hypnopompetus  

Jonathan Beckenstein: guitars, bass, orchestral samples, original music, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

drums recorded at The Tension Headache Studio, Tsagarada, Pelion, Greece https://soundcloud.com/tension-headache-studio




See you same time tomorrow
Goodbye Kelly goodbye Sister J
Oh yes you hide your sorrow well but
No need to tell these kids that god does not appear to care

Oh if he's even there
 
Walked down to old St Martin it's
Dusk already there's cold December rain
In the Piccadilly lights
This place has seen the lost and found for
Seven hundred years
And so they come and pray
Or just to stay out of the rain
 
Oh were there words enough and time I would
Explain the world away and
If life's just a story (maybe) we can change the ending if we try
And though the past's been priced and sold
Tomorrows yet untold
 
Strayed into being happy
Fields of barley framed our stupid bliss
But it was all reflected lights
I never learned how to be kind until I lost someone I loved
But I'm not here to pray
Just trying to stay out of the rain
 
[Repeat chorus]
 
And the words become a song
And the child becomes a man

Close Of Day (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Music's got a hold of me.
I am also half of Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com

I have a soundcloud manifesto too (I know almost no one cares):
(1) I do not want to win at soundcloud
(2) I respect people who listen by trying to do work that is as good as I can make it but I may attempt (and possibly fail badly at) different kinds of music so you will probably find some of my tracks suck quite badly even if you like others
(3) If I follow you please feel no obligation to follow me back or to listen to my tracks because I know different people like different things
(4) If you follow me please don’t expect me automatically to follow you back because as I said different people like different things. I try to listen to most new uploads of the people I do follow, so there are only so many people I can meaningfully follow (and only so many reposts I can cope with) at any one time before it all gets a bit overwhelming
(5) If I add a track of yours to my likes that means I particularly like it and if I comment on a track that means I really did want to communicate something. I do not do these things expecting or wanting anything in return or fishing for listeners/followers etc.
(6) Soundcloud (still) can be wonderful and has wonderful people in its universe but some aspects of it do my head in and so I am putting this out here so everyone knows where I am coming from. This is not intended as criticism of anyone else, it is just what works for me