Once is Not Enough -- January Edition

Игрок (Gambler) 
      1. В этот грязный бордель занесло меня как-то,
    По туману в трущобах загнавши коней,
    Я  не глядя летел, уходя от погони,
    От картёжных моих самозванных друзей.
    Я  не глядя летел, уходя от погони,
    От моих никогда не трезвевших друзей.

2. В день, когда проиграл я все деньги и саблю,
    Что вручил за отвагу мне Суворов отец,
    Ветреностью своей боле не позабавлю,
    Понял я, что игре наступает конец.

3. Знать в тот вечер шальной отвернулась Фортуна,
    Что хранила меня от французских штыков,
    Но, разбив до конца месье Наполеона,
    Пал сраженный похмельем с его коньяков.

4. Не боялся в бою я ни пушечных ядер,
    Ни замерзнуть в снегу, заплутавши в лесах.
    Лишь хранил на на груди я платочек графини,
    Долгожданную встречу лелеял в мечтах.

5. На привалах в степи, где делились гусары
    Славой многих и лёгких любовных побед,
    С упоением внимал я напевам гитары
    И хранил данный мною молчания обет.

6. Три целковых, мадам, это все, что имею.
    Не сочтите за лесть, вы - вне всяких похвал!
    А без платья и титулов та же графиня
    С вами вряд ли сравнится, я бы прямо сказал!
    А без платья и титулов даже графиня
    С вами вряд ли  сравнится, я бы прямо сказал!

7. Сожалею и сам, но раскланяться должен,
    Уходя в никуда, проклиная рассвет.
    Слез моих больше нет, реки с ними иссякли,
    Нет поместья отца, и любви больше нет.
       Вам спасибо за ночь. Всё напрасно, прощайте!
          Боль излечит мою у виска пистолет.

Украинский Ковбой

Игрок

Игрок / Gambler

Words and Music by Roger Whittlesey. All sounds by Roger Whittlesey.

I Don't Want To Know

Written, Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Mike Luv

ML- Semi-Generative Patching in VCV Rack

Urgency

Spinning Out Will & Nikerty

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Composition created in August 2023 and edited in October.

11 native instrument tracks from MS2 and the Xewton forum.

2 Sunrizer Tracks

2 digital tracks D1

3 Flowtones tracks

1 Xpad track

1 Korg IM Track

2 imini tracks (Arturia).


Cover art. Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

DAW. Music Studio 2

hardware: ipad.

Mix and sound. My new studio/music car.

Thanks for the comments and the time to listen to it.

Paco.

Ad Infinitum

Sometimes it's good to climb the hill and look at life from beyond the daily grind.

Passion for the Beyond

I wrote this track in 2009 together with a Drum Beat by A. Meloni thinking to a complex behavior behind human dualism, what emerges in any human culture is the profound complexity we are one but we are many ones at the same time, Evils or Angels ? It depends 😏.......

A Due Act

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Reworked this, just on instinct.

@rick-4-1 Cov Drums
@phil-mcwalter The Other Cov Stuff (inc vinyl mix)

Fun and games

Spotify

Fun and Games

A real joy to have Karin-Maria Brunner join me on this song. She has really done an amazing job with my basic track. My grateful thanks and deepest appreciation to you, Karin-Maria. (@user-53145152-479345033)
https://soundcloud.com/karin-maria-brunner

K-M: Epic pad, Vintage synthesiser strings, harp, violin, viola, cello, crash, bass, processing, mixing and mastering 
Me: vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards

Promise Me (Brian Peters)

It's hard to believe
Takes courage of man to admit it
There's a memory within me
The sound of your name recalls it

We're living in days
Dancing too close to the heat
There's pockets of fires
Scattered all over the streets

*Promise me baby
You won't let another come between our love
Promise me baby
You won't imprison the dove*

They tied up the servant
They killed the messenger
Made a home explosive
Marked it ‘return to sender’

There’s a crack in the conscience
A finger of light in the skies
There’s bug on your telephone
Your windows are full of eyes

It’s the day of the aliens
Night of the UFOs
They took all the war brides
The baby boomer girls

There’s halls of illusion
Perverted sex on the screen
Young minds in confusion
Old men with adolescent dreams

The prophet is dishonoured
Especially in his own home
I’ve been reading Borges
Listening to Leonard Cohen

There’s sex on the telephone
A hundred iniquity dens
But the women are sexless
There are no real men

There’s blood on the doorposts
The angel of death is near
Speak softly, darling
Even the walls have ears

There’s a place in the hills
It’s like the top of Masada
It’s the gateway to paradise
Or the scene of a murder

Well, the world’s getting smaller
It’s like a one horse town
But the circle gets faster
As it spirals down

And the more things are changing
The more they are the same
And I sound like my daddy
I guess he felt the same

Promise Me

From the Album: "The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost" (2023)
Lyrics:
It's a nitroglycerin bomb sniffing skirt
That's a lollipop night stick
She only hits you where you need to hurt
A Marie Laveau shotgun shack
Don't ya know there's gambling in the back?
In a shotgun shack
I'm reading the tea leaves  by the smoke stack
We've all been bitten by the maharishi's baby teeth
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(And I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm gonna have to lay real low for a while
My trouble follows me
I'm waist deep in the marsh
That's been thickened up with
Gumbo voodoo mule skin starch
I hear the Hellhounds on my tail
And I don't know what their motivation is
Maybe it's the Mississippi hog maw fizz?
If you think you know me
It's because I'm the guy that shows up
And all the trouble begins
Hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm down at the racetrack
I'm sleeping on a mattress made of blister packs
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

Oh, I'm up on the rack
The executioner is sharpening his ax
He says: the world is ruled by fools
"And I'm sorry, man, but I don't make the rules."
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
Wherever I'm going
I'm looking forward to what the cool weather brings...

Hotter Than A Sacramento Summer

What if the stars
And cars
The oceans and hills
The moon
And houses
Were all just 
beautiful dust
What if all these things 
Had just
Grown too huge for us
Now impositions
Making all the rules
Where once it was said
By you 
By me 
By us
What if the stars and cars
The oceans and hills
The moon and houses
were all just 
Beautiful dust
I love to gaze up high
I love to drive real fast
I love to dive deep in 
And climb up hillsides
I need shelter from storms
And from the night
And i love to watch the moon
Mocking in her flights
What if all these things 
Were only beautiful dust.

Copyright Gina Graham 2023

Beautiful Dust

thats been fun: Ableton live 11 - some jazz loops, a sax improvisation in one go + video plugin (Zwobot v2.9) - The visualization on youtube: https://youtu.be/lj4M5yI1Jwc?si=W_m43XCVG-4Ik61K ... done all very spontanously in Ableton's session view ...

Sax rmx // plus VJ session / link in description

The colorful symbols are my message to everyone... 🌍 ☮︎ 👍 🍀 2024 for a better world...!

City ​​Blues

Loop Dreams sees ventoux^ developing his synth-heavy but organic sound with a particular nod to the Brazilian music he loves so much. There are fragments of tropical vocals, flutes and guitar, a bit of 7/4, a reworked version of the Roy Ayers classic This Side of Sunshine and a collaboration with Parisian experimental soul dup SaturneVille.

Hummingbird

Transcendent Ascension Rite

Haida Gwaii 2025 Guitar Instrumental

There is so much talent and variety here, and most of the people are pretty cool too. I love being part of this community. Listening to your music and being heard in return is enough.

Still reading? OK I'm gonna muse a bit. It's hard to fully convey how much this forum has meant to me. There are people I've never met that feel very much like old friends -- and in a very real way they are.
If I follow someone I make every effort to listen to and support their efforts. It's certainly not a transactional relationship but I do tend to limit my follows to people who engage in mutual listening and engagement. If you listen and leave a comment I always try to listen to *your* music when responding! If you follow at random without any feedback I hope you get something out of that too... ; )

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