I love this one, and always been touched by your voice

Why did it take me so long to get here ?.. No idea, but very glad I came eventualy, fantastic track Michael.

Brilliant (signed the anonymous Wheelwright fan) !

thoroughly charming, full of intelligence (musical and literary!), and just darned wonderful.   and the guitars at the end!!!

Addictive song 😎😎😎 Had to listen all over again 🔥🔥🔥

Beautiful, as ever... I love your voice and the way you use it.

This PL i dedicate to the more smoothin' groovin' and definately moooovin' songs and tracks i encounter, which i find somewhat "cool" and highly enjoyable and melodic, somewhat toe-tapping and beard twirling songs. Something between becoming maybe a touch funky ,spacey, slightly crazy n dreamy, 60,70,80s vi-bey, sexy, soundtrackalike and way toooooo much enjoyable to be NOT put on a list :). Lets call it .... the "grand" feeling, while listening to those. 

Too hard to start dividing all my otherworldly listen experiences right down to each artist , gotta collect em somehow, so please apologize if you might encounter something in this list which you did not exactly "expect" :)

Thank you all wonderful artists who keep constantly the bar so high and my feelings so excited!

smooothin groooooooooovin moooovin

One Moment

One Moment - With Dirk Ködderitzsch

Nannette's Minuet in Cm

Electra's Minuet In Cm

The October 2022 DIAMC writing prompt was about displacement, taking a character either fictional or real and putting them into an alternative reality. I imagined a world where Little Red was all grown up and off to the bright lights and big city, in search of Mr Wolf.

Demo, recorded in the spare bedroom of our holiday cottage in Ackergill.



Little Red

Little Red she’s grown up proper
Little Red, nothing’s going to stop her
She’s going to shine, like the moon
Mr Wolf, big man in the city
Mr Wolf sure likes them pretty
In for a surprise, Mr Wolf
You’d better watch that back
Look both ways
She’s coming for her due
Little Red

Little Red, headed for the Hood
Telling Granny she is going to be good
She may be lying, but honest she’s trying
Little Red steps into his bar
Mr Wolf greets her with a snarl
“Hrrrrrrrr, Babe, you’re looking swell”
Little Red flicks back long hair
Walks by, ignoring his stare
“Make mine a double on the rocks 
And wipe that look, off your face,
I swapped out that blunt old axe,
For some Mace
And I’m not afraid to use it,
Don’t need a Woodcutter no more.”

Little Red, now she’s a star
Mr Wolf, he’s gone and bought her a car
And a house, and a yacht, and a ring
He fell under her spell
Little Red, she played him so well
But damn, that girl could sing
Ahoooooo, Little Red
Ahoooooo, Little Red
Ahoooooo, Little Red

“Turned out there’d been a bit of a misunderstanding. Mr Wolf isn’t all bad, you know? Last I heard…he’d gone and bought Granny…a new condo”

Ahoooooo, Little Red
Ahoooooo, Little Red

"Turns out, it had all been a misunderstanding. Mr Wolf, well, he is all bad you know. In fact, the last I heard, he'd gone a bought Granny a new condo.

Ahoooooo, Little Red
Ahoooooo, Little Red

© S Barr 2022

Little Red - Demo

Economic Play

Taking Notes

Well hello my friend I will see you
with the summers and years realized
All those good times in disguise 
In our youthful eyes

And although we go I think that you should finally know
I'd never trade away those nights or live my life another time
Singin songs then like, "where were you while we were gettin high?"
yeah Ooooo Ooooo

Living out on the other side
you can feel our great divide
Cause the journey can be strange 
you reach your home and find you've changed.

But I can't explain it all 
why can't we all rise beyond our fall?
And that's just how it goes never understanding what we've always known.
But you can't deny it's there or pretend it doesn't lead us to dispair.
Ooooo Ooooo yeah

Well hello my friend I will see you
with the summers and years realized
All those good times in disguise 
In our youthful eyes

And although we go I think that you should finally know
I'd never trade away those nights or live my life another time
Singin songs then like, "where were you while we were gettin' high?"
Ooooo Ooooo yeah yeah

V5.71

We're Far Away

The End Of Another Glorious Day At The Laboratory

Blueprint for track that became 'Sandycove Milk'.

Inspired by wondrous music by Conin, whose track 'Kitty's Wake' reminded of the rich clay of Joyce's 'Finnegan's Wake'. This track, about the opening pages of Joyce's Ulysses, borrows coffee spoons, forever those of T.S. Eliot, in an effort to add sweet milk...drawn from the milk-well of honeyed Sandycove.  The lyric speaker is, notionally, Stephen Daedalus. For practical purposes, the lyric speaker is James Joyce himself. His aim? To hit Haines for a guinea [a pre-decimal unit of currency] before heading to France on a ferry. Whilst Haines still feels guilty (sheepish) about having fired his pistol at an imaginary cat he thought he saw in the fireplace in the Martello tower in Sandycove (now the Joyce Museum....a sacred...magical place, whose attendant Joyce scholars told me about the Haines' imaginary cat episode....it is all true...yet also dovetails eerily with the first chapter of Ulysses).

The reference to Haines having consumed Absinthe is a narrative fiction, invented to offer an explanation for his dangerous behaviour. No peer reviewed evidence capable of demonstrating Absinthe has hallucinogenic properties, exists, to my knowledge.


Lyrics

[chorus]
Gotta learn me some Italian
Gonna get me a guitar
Gotta learn me some Italian
Gonna get me a guitar

Hellenise me now
She come and go
talking bout Michelangelo
there will be time
there will be time

do I dare to eat a quiche?
I shall wear enchanted trousers
and float upon the beach

I’m still dreamin
something happened last night

Haines downed a snot-green bottle of Absinthe
started shooting at his Schrödinger's cat
in the fireplace
looks real sheepish this morning
gonna hit him for a guinea [a pre-decimal unit of currency]
and get outta here
gliding on the Emerald sea
to Paris
with Haines’ guinea in my pocket
when I’m at sea

gonna go uptown now
hitting the top deck of this here Martello
gonna watch the mailboat
glide on an Emerald sea
gonna rest my shiny elbows
on the jagged granite
just leavin the harbour

and here comes stately Buck
bearing a bowl of lather
crossed razor and mirror as well
holding the bowl aloft
and intoning...intonin

Introibo ad altare Dei
sacred chalice
sacred cross
and now I’m lookin at the sea
Thallata...sweet mother
Hellenise me
mailboat clearin the harbour
rage of Caliban inside me
cos of Haines....[firing a gun inside the Martello tower when drunk the night before, at a giant cat he imagined was sitting near the fireplace]
sweet Thallata
buttercups on the quilt
powdered musk and gauds of amber beads
calm now like the sea
there will be time
there will be time

Martello

Here's a jazz original.  I'm joined by the wonderful Sam Mendez, Georg Boehme, and Al Schulman.   Such a great sound with both the flute and Bari ranges and timbers and Al's showing off on such fine rhythm guitar and soloing.  Sam is no longer with us and never got a chance to hear this.  This smile's for you Sam.

https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

Your Smile - Sam Mendez / Georg Boehme / Al Schulman / Jamie Rhind

Love And Strife Of Strings *(N°1)

Urban folk/pop
On the edge of infinity
 
As the smoke files the air
She’s gonna blast off outta there
She’s boarding her space ship
Going out into orbit
She can feel the sonic boom
From her bedroom
Reverberating/evaporating memories
Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On The edge of infinity

Alice in her wonderland
Lucy in the sky with her diamonds
Where dagger words are popsicles
That twist into rainbows

Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On the edge of infinity

Bridge
love activates an energy
With exponential gravity
On the edge of infinity

She feels her heart explode
With unbounded love for those
Who misunderstand her
in misguided anger

Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On the edge of infinity



Beauty of the Brave

On the Edge of Infinity

On The Edge of Infinity

The Walrus Of Love

Produced by Sule Heitner
Written by Kathryn BERRY
A Patrón or Two
A couple of hours past Saturday night
You slip your hand between my thighs
As you lean across to grab a light
Sunday morning has arrived
The sheets are as tangled as your hair
Yesterday’s bad decisions, they are everywhere
Black mascara crease
Poster child for 90’s heroin chic
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two
The lights are dim, the curtains low
My body aches it needs u so
I can hear you breath
My muscles are weak
It’s a couple of hours past, I don’t give a fuck
I’m ready to jump
Risk that mess we might need to clean up
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two
Bridge
You got me falling and breaking and taking and starting again
You got me hiding and faking and hating then making amends
Ya, I still come back to you
After a Patron or two
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two x3

A Patrón or Two

Instrumentation and composition by https://soundcloud.com/user-936947521 
Vocals and lyrics by conover
Guitar solo by https://soundcloud.com/matt-warnick-58962582 
© 2020 Conover/Beelaard

Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.
from the moment you arrive.
It's been such a long time
Since I've held you

And they we drive along the ocean with your hair undone
and your suitcase strapped firmly on my back. 

And so we drive and drive and drive and drive
And so we drive and drive and drive and drive
And so we drive and drive and drive and drive

Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.
from the moment you arrive.
Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.........

Pull the car around Beelaard, Warnick & Conover

Dont' Give Up

Fly On

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
You can rely on
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

And love it's such a cheesy song
But we've all got to sing along
Yeah love is blind it's plain to see
That love will never let us be

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
Someone who isn't me
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

[Repeat chorus]

[Repeat verse]

[Repeat chorus]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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The picture (detail) is from 'The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death' by Russell Oliver.
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20210317 Yet another attempt at a better mix
20210301 Uploaded another attempt at better mix
20210228 Uploaded attempt at better mix

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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):
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(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

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