Day Body/Brett Bixby Collaboration as Telecourse. Album available on Spotify etc.

Thin Wall - Telecourse

Slide Step



Hey now, watch your slide step
You could easily go astray.
You think, you think you take a straight course
But in fact, you're just going around and round

Hey now, take a look at my sidestep
Two four, you can make it up
as you go along
One two, I can see that you practised
No worries, you know I will tag along

Hi there, can you hear me?
Trying to get in touch with you
The slide step that you've been taking
Sure led you away from the beaten track.

Oh lord, finders keepers,
If only things could be simple as that
Use the side door, that's wwhat they said
But still, we're left out in the rain

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the Forest of the Night

(last two lines from   William Blake's poem "The Tyger" 1794)

One leg dancing

Slide Step

bandcamp

there's a party tonight

Jouer et improviser

I climbed up towards the hill
between the gutters and cars
but I ran out of steam

So I just crumpled myself
into a neat little ball
and then I rolled down the street

I saw you wrapped up in
all of the tangled balloons
in a broken parade

But you just held your head
way up high over the clouds
and you'd pretend there's no rain

In my own mind
I'm mistaken
You're my only friend

I popped all the balloons
and now you're finally free
so we started to dance

I wished away the clouds
down on my hands and my knees
licking the rain off the plants

You're My Only Friend

phosphorescence

When Tom approached me with this piano melody, the initial arrangement and the title to which he hoped I’d add lyrics and vocals, I thought it was almost unnecessary as the piece already said everything required. Shortly afterwards, Jussi had added sublime guitar which offered a hopeful balance in the mood. Knowing what Tom was referring to without discussing it openly I wrote these words from a similar position of experience. I contrasted the first verse of a woman at her peak with the second verse of a woman in decline to heighten the emotion. I found that the spoken word approach allowed more emotion to flow from both the music and the words. Tom had the great idea to ask Hidefumi to complete the song with a phenomenal solo. Thank you to everyone who helped make this come together, and a very special thanks to all of you for listening.

Music composition, piano and other instrumentation - https://soundcloud.com/tom-r-gnier
First guitar and guitar arrangement - https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Lyrics and vocals - https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett
Final guitar and guitar arrangement - https://soundcloud.com/boon-suzuki

Image of a painted door in Funchal, Madeira - Douglas Corrance (https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCorrancePhotographer)

She knows just what it feels like now.
I think she’s losing it, I think she’s losing it. 
When she is almost ready, 
She will lose her reserve 
And her inhibition too.
Then she’ll lose herself in herself and then she’ll be free,
To be what she wants, what she wants to be.

She knows not who she feels like now.
I know she’s losing it, I know she’s losing it. 
As if she's gone already, 
She has lost her reserve 
And her inhibition too.
Already lost herself in herself and now she’s elsewhere,
Knows not what she wants, nor who she used to be.

She's Losing It - Tom Régnier/Jussi Welin/Mark J Bennett/Boon-Suzuki

I Believe In You.

Green Tuesday

Free somebody

Burning Giraffe

Une des mes passion "la musique", elle nous emmène dans des mondes très surprenant. C'est pourquoi j'adore faire des compos avec mes amis et les jouer en live, elles sont là pour vous surprendre, on s'y amuse. Elles sont à milles lieux de ce que l'on peut entendre ailleurs, c'est mon univers à partager avec tous. 
Alors bonne écoute, donnez moi votre avis ;-)

I Believe In You.

YvonF