Groovy, Jazzy, Funky, Kool - part 2

We lean in like it’s gravity
Quarter light, shared vacancy
Skin remembers before the mind
Lonely hands keeping borrowed time

We don’t ask what the feeling means
Just trace it out in between the seams
Two warm bodies in borrowed air
Calling it love ‘cause it’s standing there

Is it love or the need to feel
Something warm that confirms it’s real
Is it touch or the fear of night
Holding whoever’s within our sight
Tell me why we’re closer now
Not by fate, but by here and how

We choose with our eyes half-closed
Hearts on autopilot mode
Same late trains, same corner store
Same tired thoughts we ignore

We don’t weigh it like diamond rings
Or engines built for decades of springs
We fall faster than we decide
Just to know someone’s at our side

Is it love or the need to feel
Something warm that confirms it’s real
Is it touch or the fear of night
Holding whoever’s within our sight
Tell me why we’re closer now
Not by fate, but by here and how

Late night talk in a dim same room
Future shaped like a quiet assumption
No great fire, no grand sign
Just two lives slowly aligning

We don’t ask if there’s more ahead
If somewhere else is a better yes
We settle into borrowed certainty
Calling comfort destiny

Sometimes I think in a different street
Different timing, different face to meet
Same heart maybe, different hands
Different map than the one I’m on

But thought drifts out, then circles back
To this warm weight in the dark I have
Not the best of what could be 
Just what keeps choosing me

Is it love or the need to feel
Something warm that confirms it’s real
Is it touch or the fear of night
Holding whoever’s within our sight
Tell me why we’re closer now
Not by fate, but by here and how

Maybe there’s more in another frame
Another life with a different name
But we don’t live in the endless spread
We live in what’s near, in what’s said

Hands meet first, the rest aligns
We call it meaning after the sign
Love arrives the quiet way
Not chosen first, just found midday

Love

Living in the fast lane

Honey in the Dark

Classique

Something Special

Sensual Journey

I Can't Help It

Chapter 8 Let's Get Together

Skool Boyz

Nothin' Like a Slow Dance (Vocal Version)

The Best Of

Where Is The Love (Radio Edit)

Janine wrote this lovely song some time ago (lyrics below). Recently she sent it to me to produce, which was a great gift to me. I believe many of you already know Janine's work. If not, please visit her here: @janinelevinson It will be a gift for you, too.

Janine: song, voice, electric piano (Janine Levinson 2017)
Jonathan: guitars, bass, drum programming, synth, organ, balalaika sample, mix.

LOVE IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

Love is where you find it 
But never where you're looking
You give up expectations 
And then you feel it sneaking up behind you 
Looking for you

Love is all around us
But never where we've sent it
It's certain to surprise us 
If we let down our defenses -It’s a mystery 
Who will it be?

The sky is blue because that's how we see it
The world is round because we all believe it
The ground is warm - we know because we feel it
But love is manifested when we're no longer looking to receive it

Love is a surrender to an unexpected vision
It’s not what you were thinking 
And sometimes it requires a decision 
Just to give in

The future can’t be known; we don't control it
We find the road the moment we don't own it
We get the love when we don't try to force it 
And it's so unexpected,
We may not recognize it when we see it

It marches to its own drum
Like the tide, it goes and comes
Strips us of our pride and then
Comes back flooding in again

Love is where you find it 
But never where you're looking
You give up expectations
And then you feel it sneaking up
Behind you
Looking for you -for LOVE

art: Janine Levinson

Love Is Where You Find It (Janine Levinson)

"𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘."   Aldous Huxley

My name is Paul James Kirrage and this is Project Huxley - a space where music and new AI technologies come together to explore new creative possibilities.

Project Huxley is a showcase of my experiments with the generation of music using carefully crafted prompts, handwritten lyrics and AI tools to creat structured music of different genres, blending human inspiration with artificial intelligence to produce unique compositions.  All lyrics are my own as are the various creative choices that define the music design process. 

Prompts are carefully designed to provide detailed descriptions of musical elements, including instruments, rhythm, structural components, time signatures, music theory principles, and chord progressions. By incorporating precise terminology and nuanced explanations, these prompts guide AI tools such as UDIO and SUNO in generating insightful suggestions which I then polish, craft, stretch and develop into full pieces of music. 

As we enter this Brave New World of musical creation and production, I have chosen to name the albums and songs after the writings of Aldous Huxley. See if you can recognise the references :)

Browse through albums below and visit their dedicated pages to discover genre-based experiments and the prompts used to launch the process.

Something Special

Will Downing

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