Best of the Cloud  01 07 2020

July 2020 faves

Final instalment of the songs that provided ear candy for the cat during April 
"Time For A Trim" by Wheelwright was officially the cat's favourite song during April and we spent a fair bit of time going through his impressive list of songs - if you like British band "Elbow" (this cat does!!) - you'll love Wheelwright.
Also we just came across Richard Monaghan towards the end of the month -please check out his excellent EP "90's Kid" - https://soundcloud.com/richardmonaghan/sets/90s-kid

The Cat's Favourite Soundcloud Songs April 2021 - Part 3

Baby One More Time !

Tears drop down like a waterfall
Years go by like a hurricane
And I am here 
Hopeless waiting for a change
That won't never come

Ashes

Little to say but... enjoy !!

https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson: original instrumental theme on keys and drums, vocals.
Ruizzoidman: lyrics, vocals, bass, guitars, production.
Mahatma Ghandi: speech at Inter Asian Conference, 02/04/1947

Lyrics:

A renaissance is needed
in this present we’re living.
Now is the time (2)
Recognising one another
as a friend, as a true brother.
Now is the time (2)
We need empathy…

By sectarian politicians
humankind is being confronted.
Now is the time (2)
Troubles they want us to see,
people live them more easily.
Now is the time (2)
We need pragmatism …

We’re all part of minorities,
the red haired or left handed.
Now is the time (2)
No more talk about left or right,
no more minding if black or white.
Now is the time (2)
We need global thinking …

A renaissance is needed
in this present we’re living.
Now is the time (2)
Love flows freely in every heart.
Revolution inside each one.
Now is the time (2)
We need empathy…

It's The Time (with Janine Levinson)

Words and music by Janine and Fady.

Janine has an unjust amount of talent. 
Please check out her page and enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Artwork by Janine Levinson

Whats Eating You Brother? (By Fady and Janine)

Dirk marchait sur le tapis
Il entra dans une pièce étrange
L'animal, avec sa trompe
L’entraîna au sein du losange

Bienvenue
Isomorphisme accompli
Espérons que nous trouverons le temps
De partager nos sentiments
 
L'animal le relâcha,
De l'autre côté de la pièce
Dirk le remercia
Il sortit dans le froid soviet

Amitié
Entre les peuples ! Levons nos verres !
Espérons que nous trouverons le temps
De partager nos sentiments

Bienvenue
Isomorphisme accompli
Espérons que vous trouverez le temps
De partager nos sentiments

Dirk

Espérons que nous trouverons le temps

Raw Times

open.spotify.com/track/17aFKeX5A0…ieTIGGdVEcSrD6og 

Available on spotify, deezer, itunes music and more !

Woman Of Empire

Postcard From A Hot Spot

Huge thanks to these Valuable Friends:

Mrs J Levinson - Chorus Backing Vocals Choirmaster @janinelevinson
Mr R Medlock - Drums & Master of Rhythm Design @rick-4-1
Mr J Beckenstein - Guitar Solo Past Master @jonathan_beckenstein
Mr P McWalter - The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

The home-made shaker: Thanks to Meena Pathak for the glass jar and lentils.

KEEP SAFE

So you point out the sky
The beauty
The money
The jobs
Your dreams may have gone
But you show them the pictures
Painted
In the clouds
It’s hard to tell them
How much you love them
So you just ask them 
To keep safe

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

And loving them
Is loving yourself
Harder than expected
And hard to show
But sort of expected
And not easy
You want them to outrun you 
But you don’t want them to run too fast

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

Don’t miss the last bus
Don’t walk home alone
Saturdays we’d watch the football
We never really watched the football
I’m just imagining we had a better time
Than we did
I’m walking home alone now…

We did our best
You build a home
Now they’ll have to do the rest
We did our best
You build a hope
Now they’ll have to do the rest

But they don’t see it at the time
You build a home
You build a hope
But something’s always going wrong
Going wrong
They don’t see it at the time
They don’t see it at the time


© April 2020 Phil McWalter

Keep Safe

Spotify

Dark Sci-Fi track in two parts. The first part is an epic theme, the second part is an ambient/atmospheric extension !

PICTURE : Lightning work by William Ordonneau (Ubisoft Mobile), a 3D artist I made the track for => https://www.artstation.com/willow
Scene from the upcoming video game THE PIONEERS : Surviving Desolation => http://thepioneersgame.com/

Music composer : Johany Berland

Creative Commons L1

Third Rama (Dark Sci-Fi extended theme)

Among the Willows

Great to work with Julien Apelian (Audio Colors) @audio-colors on a new fun(k) track again after a long time. 

Julien Apelian - synths, clavinet, drumprogramming & production
Mirko Borach - bass

© 2020 Mirko Borach
All rights reserved

Future Funk (feat. Audio Colors)

My wife happened to walk in as I was working on posting this and saw the title  and I got in trouble. Of course, it wasn't about my lovely wife. Be careful what you title your work, I guess. In reality it's just an instrumental track about this mortal coil of ours. Always, always, always love working with the hugely talented Mr. Gary Rees!!! @gary-rees-since-87

Your Spark Is Gone | Belial Pelegrim & Gary Rees

Loading Full 2020

I have a lot of material finished now that I was going to inflict on the world earlier in the year but then the stuff that has happened and is still happening happened. A lot of my new tracks are a bit on the heavy/morose/miserable side, but this one about fear of haircuts is relatively cheery - and haircuts are kind of topical at the moment - so there is that.
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Your hair is growing
With some profusion
Soon it will
Cover your eyes
I foresee problems in
High wind conditions and
Risk of entanglement in
Branches of thorny shrubs

I know you don’t wanna hear it
But we all
Know when it’s time it’s

Time for a trim, it's time for a trim, time for a trim
Time for a trim, it's time for a trim, time for a trim
Time for a trim, it’s time for a trim, it's time for a trim
We all know when it’s time for a trim

Your hair is growing
With great profusion
Soon it will
Obscure your vision
I foresee problems
Problems at bath time and
Risk of entanglement in
Open machinery

I know you don't wanna hear it [etc.]
[Repeat chorus]

It's time for a trim it's
Time for a trim it's
Time for a trim it's
Time to face your fear

It’s alright for girls they
They know the secret language of haircuts (but)
I just don't want to look stupid
All I really want is the same as whatever it was you did last time

Mm I think it's time for trim
That's now clear to everyone

I know you don't wanna hear it [etc.]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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The picture (detail) is from 'It Was Time for a Trim' by the incomparable Kelly Puissegur.

Time For A Trim

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Get Away For A While

;-Le Temps Passe-;

A jolly mess around. Mixed in Garageband. Mastered using BandLab.com.

General Purpose Transistor Radio

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