On first listen Iggy Pop's Lust for Life doesn't sound particularly original. The drumbeat a lift of You Can't Hurry Love and the layers of additional percussion suggest the Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.

So what's the secret of this rock classic? In short, Iggy Pop's lyrics and performance. There's something joyously lunatic about the ecstatic delivery that propels the song along at super high speed.

I hope my cover captures the spirit of the original & if not, listen to the original - link below.

Written by Iggy Pop & David Bowie.

https://youtu.be/vYZ-n8L0AaI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_song)

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 1 May 2021

Times Winged Charriot

Lust for life (Iggy Pop cover)

Published on SC 13 November 2021

Pic: Broadway Tower, Cotswolds, England, UK. By Geoff Descartes

In the comfort of your own mind

85% Dark Chocolate

The title is from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(novel))

Walter Tevis is a great writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis)

Pic - based on Icarus by Henri Matisse (https://www.matissepaintings.org/icarus/)

Published on 7 January 2022

Anthean

1972: Icarus Descending

Work in progress

Hand tailored silk suit

Homage to Pink Floyd & Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, Cheshire, North West England.

Original track - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM

Lovell Telescope commentary adapted from - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell_Telescope

Pic: Lovell Telescope, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, England (https://www.jodrellbank.net/visit/whats-here/lovell-telescope/) by Geoff Descartes.

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 10 April 2022

Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd cover)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjj7rHNtqeAAxU8SkEAHbxzAH8QFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSky_burial&usg=AOvVaw39FTlegOO5C2LaYQG7tfg5&opi=89978449

Evelyn Waugh. HUH! What is he good for?

Published on SC 1 August 2023

Sky Burial

Plush

An adaptation of Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine with a Philip Glass feel.

Published on SC 1 July 2024

Oberon, Miranda & Titania (Pink Floyd cover)

Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No

About the song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart

Some other cover versions on Soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/r17595/r-plus-love-will-tear-us-1
https://soundcloud.com/uschi-hans/love-will-tear-us-apart
https://soundcloud.com/psychicrites/love-will-tear-us-apart
https://soundcloud.com/hannibal-the-cannibal-87584391/love-will-tear-us-apart

Pic - cover of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, 17th century political theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

Love will tear us apart (Joy Division cover, German language)

The Anubis Gates is a 1983 novel by Tim Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anubis_Gates

Published on SC 7 Aug 2024.

Anubis Gates

Cover of Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer.

One of the most original bands of the late 1970s.

Original https://youtu.be/eauZzwt8Ci8

About Talking Heads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 3 March 2023

Situationism

Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)

Pic - The Veiled Virgin, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England. (https://www.chatsworth.org/)

Mastered using SC's mastering feature.

Published on SC 22 August 2023

My love will put you in hospital

Jess (remaster)

I’m a man in search of his true self (remaster)

A cover version of John Cale's cover of the song made famous by Elvis Presley. John Cale knows how to cover a song!

History of the song - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_Hotel

John Cale version https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAHF7b326ydg&ved=2ahUKEwjd2cCgq7WFAxV0VEEAHWw4Bj4QtwJ6BAgOEAI&usg=AOvVaw0B0s5UcCxxnvthEhUMGQ-Q

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 3 June 2024

International Freaking Out Day

Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis / John Cale cover)

1935. “Schultz's last words were a strange stream-of-consciousness babble spoken in his hospital bed to police officers who attempted to calm him and question him for useful information. Although the police were unable to extract anything coherent from Schultz, his rambling was fully transcribed by a police stenographer."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz)

On the Road to Wigan Casino (ESO7)

The Last words (of Dutch Schultz) (remaster)

Adventine A

Adventine B

This is part of an impressionistic interpretation of the 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick. (Track 14 of 23, published on SC 16 January 2020)

Music: Yankel Muromachi ¦ Words: Philip K. Dick

Information about the novel & full listing can be found on the playlist https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said

I hope you enjoy.

E.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Shuck (remaster)

Body of Water (remaster)

Say Hi to the Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe.

Words from the poem To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

Full poem & bio - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/17/to-his-coy-mistress-andrew-marvell

Cover pic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_To_A_Marriage

Times winged charriot (remaster)

Infinitango / Pange Lingua single

Pange Lingua (remaster)

Shock & panic (remaster)

Waiting (remaster)

My attempt to evoke a mix of anxiety and optimism about a significant change of circumstances.

Instrumental, a bit in the style of late-1970s Vangelis with a hint of late period Kraftwerk.

Life in another city (remaster)

Erddigan Tro’r Tant (remaster)

The title is from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(novel))

Walter Tevis is a great writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis)

1975: Rumplestiltskin (remaster)

This is part of an impressionistic interpretation of the 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick. (Track 19 of 23, published on SC 1 February 2020)

Music: Yankel Muromachi ¦ Words: Philip K. Dick

Information about the novel & full listing can be found on the playlist https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said

I hope you enjoy.

E.

My Reality Leaks Back (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / Flow Tears mwen, polisye a te di)

Gregorian chant, traditional arranged by Jim Paterson, disarranged by Yankel Muromachi.
Sheet music - https://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/gregorian-pange-lingua.pdf

Pic: Stained glass, Victoria Baths, Manchester. http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/

Original photo - Geoff Descartes

Published on SC 30 August 2020.

Pange Lingua

Published on SC 17 July 2020

Some days, don't you wish you could reboot yourself?

I reboot therefore I am. 
I am therefore I reboot.
I reboot therefore I reboot.
I am therefore I am.

I think that just about covers everything.

I, Reboot

Say Hi to the Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe.

Words from the poem To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

Full poem & bio - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/17/to-his-coy-mistress-andrew-marvell

Pic based on opening line “Had we but world enough, and time"

Published on SC 14 February 2021

Times winged charriot (To His Coy Mistress)

Pic - The Brigg, Filey, North Yorkshire, England by Geoff Descartes.

Published on SC 2 July 2021

North Sea

Folk-dance based on a Welsh traditional tune adapted from an incomplete manuscript, arr & generally messed around with by Yankel Muromachi.

Pic: Central Park, New York, 1996 by Geoff Descartes

Published on SC 24 December 2020.

Erddigan Tro’r Tant (Welsh traditional)

Pic. Filey Beach looking towards Flamborough Head.

Published on SC 1 September 2022

A Walk on the beach in the direction of Flamborough Head

Welcome to the load-bearing wall of sound.

Music: No boundaries / Knows no boundaries. I don’t look anything like my profile photograph; I'm actually slightly shorter and a figment of my own delusions.

I’m also known as the wild man of transcendental meditation.

संगीत: कोई सीमा नहीं। / कोई सीमा नहीं जानता।. मैं अपनी प्रोफ़ाइल फ़ोटो की तरह कुछ भी नहीं देखता; मैं वास्तव में थोड़ा छोटा हूं।

Музыка: Без границ / не знает границ. Я совсем не похож на фотографию своего профиля; Я на самом деле немного короче.

الموسيقى: بلا حدود / لا تعرف حدود. لا أبدو مثل صورة ملفي الشخصي ؛ أنا في الواقع أقصر قليلاً.

音乐：无界限/无界限。我看上去不像我的个人资料照片；我实际上略矮一些。

(Translation by Google)

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