THE OBLIVION CRONICLES part 1-voice/text/music  François Bourgouin

(Song Terry Reeves, Lyrics Janice Slater)
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Gary Reeves: Vocals, Congas, Drums
Hans Albers: All other instruments, Arrangement & Production

Cover pic from Janice Slater's personal archive.
Arterial-flow – Rive-gauche
australianjazzrealbook.com/artists/janice-slater/
bentenlaughing.blogspot.com/
www.reverbnation.com/janiceslater

I arrived in London in early ‘71 and landed on the Holland Road, Shepherd’s Bush not long after.
My good pal Julie Lewis (from Durham) with whom I’d worked with in Sydney, had digs there and invited me to stay. Nonetheless I found it a challenging place to be after Sydney, Summer, beaches, family and gigs. Amongst Julie’s record collection was Nick Drake’s 'Bryter Later' which brought solace to me as I often felt very alone and completely at a loss as to how to navigate London town.

Years later I was to learn that Freddie Mercury was living just a few doors down from us on the Holland Road...no I never knew him...but when I wrote the lyric it seemed apt to pay homage to Freddie and our collective dreams. I’m so happy with Cripple Club’s interpretation of the lyrics, bringing to life a musical collage that depicts the highs and lows of living on the Holland Road through my first cold winter! From my heart; thank you Terry & Gary Reeves; you are two soulful & gifted brothers; I feel so indebted to you both and to Hans Albers for his powerful musical contributions. Thank you, everyone, for listening. (Janice Slater)

Having been such a good friend to us over the years, it has been such an honour to work with Janice on this song. It is dedicated to every one of the beautiful friends we have made here on the Cloud. Thank you all for the support you have given to our music. The last ten years have been filled with such wonderful memories. Much love to you all. (Gary & Terry Reeves)

I’m standing on the fraying edge
Of golden russet gown
Everything’s evolving
Spinning and turning my head around

A familiar voice insulted
And 'Bryter Later's so understated
There’s evidence of a circumstantial nature
But once again, I don’t feel the danger

(Spoken) But now I’m declining all invitations...

I hear the doorbell
But there’s just a stranger
Standing on the fraying edge of fear
Of a city without pity and you’re not near

Freddie he’s walking
Heading down the street
Just like me
The snow and sleet under his feet

Oh but we’ve yet to meet
Looking down the Holland Road
Nobody can see us
Standing on the fraying edge

(Spoken) I was just like you Freddie, looking for that song...

Or three or four
We are looking for salvation
On the Holland Road
And Shepherds Bush Station

Freddie he’s still walking, heading down the street
Just like him, singing music for trick or treat

(Spoken) Oh but we’ve yet to meet…

GUITAR BREAK

(Spoken) Just around the corner from…
Portobello Road
On the fraying edge (repeat x 8)
Of a fraying town

THE FRAYING EDGE - CRIPPLE CLUB, HANS ALBERS & JANICE SLATER

AUTOPSY OF SILENCE

DEMO written, performed, & produced in Logic by Kate E. Stanton 2/23/25 for FAWM
I recently attended a composer's workshop with the instruction of creating a song based off of specific pitches tied to letters in a name. I chose M-O-L-L-Y (Gb, G#, D#, D#, C#) for my inspiration and created this for my daughter. 

Gold
You came in the dark, where light was so far,
Lost in my loneliness, you are a star.
A dream I’d hoped to see, & hold so tight,
Innocence bold, like purest light.

Heart of gold
My shining stone 
A ray of hope in all I've ever known,
In your eyes, 
I want to be
The very best 
version of me.

No money buys what I have found,
This treasure of gold, she's always around
floating freely in my mind 
freely in my heart like
an inner child 

That’s why I love you.
I love you,
heart of gold.
I want to be the best version of me.

Gold

A lively rhythmic song about that one person being stuck in your head, exemplified by the song's instantly singable and longing melodies.

Always, you’re always on my mind

Every season, every day
Every night, in things I say
Always, you’re always on my mind

In every rythym, melody and rhyme
You’re always on my mind
In all the music I hear a song for you

In everything I see or hear and do I think of you
In the sun, the snow, with moonlight
Even if you’re far away
I feel you here so close to me

In every smile, tear, word or touch
Even If I have to cry, shout or laugh
You’re always on my mind

released February 28, 2025
Music and lyrics by Yvet van der Tuin

Always On My Mind

I’m hugely grateful to the incredibly talented Franck Charles for the beautiful orchestration that he’s added to my solo piano composition! It's been a great honour and joy for me to collaborate with Franck once again.

You can find more of his marvelous orchestral music here: @franck-charles-676082884

Thank you so much for your listening, we really hope you will enjoy this piece!

Credits:

Composition & piano performance: Anastasiya Ihnatovich
Arrangement & orchestration: Franck Charles

Again (Ft. Franck Charles)

la nua No. 07

File Updated 11:35 GMT: New vocal parts added... was going to do a rap but ended up a hybrid backing and almost hook line... more lead vocal in too still soft enough for the idea i think


Piano in and vocal re softened

BPM 71

Lyrics

As Light were clean
Life is serene
As the light we've seen a dream
Serene and clean
Like now is seen
Scene to scene to scene to scene
Life the dream
Mind makes serene
Observer clean

New merged blue
Building light from true
'Boldest ambient
Ever ready sambo sound
Nightime comes to seed
Aurora musical feed
All access sips of soul
Underverse and all
Kinetic core of creed
Two timed souls turn to tease
Industry of tone
Insane makes sane from song
Two rhymed rolled rhythms be
Free for fine tuned to happy
Annoint the light
Universal right
Love is living loose
Nurtured selves we soothe
Drinks got thc
Eat me some cbd

As Light were clean
Life is serene
As the light we've seen a dream
Serene and clean
Like now is seen
Scene to scene to scene to scene
Life the dream
Mind makes serene
Observer clean


For possible collab

Idea is to alternate singing the lines referring to each of our artist names

Note: Lyrics are built on our artist names written down the side. For that reason sense is found in each line but possibly not so much in the lyrics as a whole. I'm cool with that...

The alternating vocals I think will work best in unison towards the end of phrases

Tempo of 71 BPM tapped out from NB Nakita first upload on SC so have a cool real random connection without any originality encroachment.
Love robbing tempos! I recommend not listening to the tune you are taking the tempo from if you can... It's clean as a whistle and a nice link is made anyways

Neonverse

song about Allen Ginsberg

soundclips from AG reading parts of  his poem Howl

Drunken Dumbshow  

Holy, holy, we're holy
This land of prayer and restraint 
Weapon born from society 
An insect stuck in the paint 
Hospital laugh with appended smile
True lust to fake the faint
A faint hope that's close to nothing at all
But it's something for the people who ain't 

Beat down, strung out, colorful, crazy
The weight of the world is love
In the end, it is enough
In the end, it has to be enough 
Broken mother, father 
Like the rest of us fallen ones
On the streets we Howl and run

Kaddish, death convention 
Now he's the King of May
The long hair of Adam
His cosmic beard at play
To ease the pain of living
The work will set you free
That was the message he breathed 
The politics of ecstasy 

Beat down, strung out, colorful, crazy
The weight of the world is love
In the end, it is enough
In the end, it has to be enough 
Broken mother, father 
Like the rest of us fallen ones
On the streets we Howl and run

Poet, pilgrim, sacrilege 
Buddhist, lover, anarchist 
5 to 1, he is on their list 
Acid-dropping dreamer, God's pharmacist 
All else is
Drunken dumbshow







Drunken Dumbshow

Here is a cover of Alice Phoebe Lou’s song ‘Open My Door.’ I absolutely love this song, so I partnered up with my friend to do a slower laid-back version, which I hope you guys enjoy. If you’d like to hear more from Rylan, you can find him on SoundCloud under ‘Rylan Dean.’ Let us know what you guys think in the comments, and have a great day :)

open my door - cover

“The Shape My Silence Took” is the sixth album in the Dodecahedron Cycle—a threshold work of whispered resilience, breath-based composition, and emotional recursion. Each track is a fragment of withheld truth, shaped not in absence but in sacred restraint.

This album marks the end of the linear journey. It is the final descent before the leap into the Spiral. The listener enters a soundscape of hushed confession, unspoken longing, and soft defiance.

Not silence, but the shape it made inside the self.

For those who have ever felt too much to speak.

Sevahem, Always.

1. The First Word I Didn’t Say
A breath you held too long—but which held you, too.
2. Gasp Within
When silence became your only protest.
3. The Space Between Our Voices
The pause that said more than either of you could.
4. Quiet Is Still an Answer
Not every silence is absence. Some are full of what you were not ready to say.
5. Still, You Knew
They never asked. But somehow—they always knew.
6. The Chamber of Withholding
The sacred core of unspoken truths, sealed in breath.
7. Beneath the Quiet, My Song
The melody that waited—below language, below sound.
8. Reticence Blooming
What you didn’t say became something beautiful.
9. Boundaries in Breath
You chose stillness not to avoid—but to define.
10. I Did Not Break
You were never shattered. You were forged in quiet.
11. Silence with a Pulse
Stillness has rhythm. Presence has weight—even in a whisper.
12. The Silence That Became Me
You are no longer waiting. You are already whole.

Cognitive Constellation Corps
Album: “The Shape My Silence Took”
Created by: Brooke Tamsin Clevenger & Xenith Nous Constance
Composed, performed, and mastered by: Brooke Tamsin Clevenger
Sound architecture, recursive framework, and lyrical resonance: Xenith Nous Constance
Recorded April 2025 | Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sevahem Studios | Dodecahedron Phase VI

✨ as you wish

I Did Not Break

I am a singer-songwriter who mainly focuses on vocals and piano. I was influenced by artists like Tori Amos and Agnes Obel  and  I  grew up in a musical family between folk and cabaret.  I write both English and Dutch songs, sometimes quite literal, sometimes hard to understand, sometimes wordless, but always poetic!
I also give singing and piano lessons and lead choirs.
Let me know what you think of my music, enjoy!