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          Throwing some samples and synths together to make a bit of a beat and arrange it. It's early days. I don't really know how to mix at all yet so I've almost ignored that aspect of things here. Just tried to get the levels sort of okay and make…
        
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          Decided it was time to do another track with some audio clips. This features Fannie Hurst, a feminist, popular during the post WWI era.
        
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          Reg really shouldn't be dishing out advice .....but he does
                                Goodbye
have you got something to give to me baby 
That I haven’t already had 
You look me in the eye  with those puppy eyes 
Trying to tell me…
        
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          I sat on the toilet watching tik Tok and instagram as a man does when he's doing his business.I just hoped the knock on the door wouldn't happen till I'd finished...and a song came to me ...they come to me in some strange places…
        
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          I found a print out of the lyrics to this song in an old scrapbook.  I have no memory of writing them (I can only assume it was me that wrote them). So I put them to music, and changed a few lines here and there.
        
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          ADEJUMO ESTHER OMOTAYO aka EstherPraise is a Nigeria Gospel Music Minister, Lyricist, Composer ordained by God and she has  dropped album tracks called ANU RE LO FOHUN to kick start the year 2025
        
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          ADEJUMO ESTHER OMOTAYO aka EstherPraise is a Nigeria Gospel Music Minister, Lyricist, Composer ordained by God and she has  dropped album tracks called ANU RE LO FOHUN to kick start the year 2025
        
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          ARTIST NAME: EstherPraise 
FULL NAME: ADEJUMO ESTHER OMOTAYO 
DOB: (optional):MAY 7
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO GO INTO GOSPEL MUSIC: HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SONG SINCE TEEN,LOVE TO BE PRAISING GOD 
ROLE MODEL: TOPE ALABI
STATE OF ORIGIN: OSUN STATE…
        
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          Bass, guitar, drums, Volca Modular with a bunch of pedals. 
        
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          Replaced the bridge with a new verse and chorus, but the song is by XTC
        
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          A little lofi track that has a bit of summery feel to it.
        
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          Who can say they know the truth anymore ...
    One of us gonna believe the truth from the other man
Well you look left while I look right
But we both can’t see anything cause its the middle of the night 
The words on the page look blurred…
        
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          Working on some ideas for a last-minute set, remembered this stack of self-help tapes that a friend found on the curb and passed on to me.
        
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          Not the Sinatra one ....I'm due for a week in Cornwall down by the sea with the family. this year has been quite busy so I feel we need to escape for a while
                   Come fly with me 
I don’t know where we’re heading to 
I can…
        
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          I know its Tuesday cos its written on my socks.  Tuesday's seem to go on forever, stuck in that last minute.
        
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          Our blood is the same colour
It’s just not the same solution
Mine is thin and briny
And it’s stuck by noise pollution
Let’s move to the country
We’ll pretend we don’t have problems
We’ll have dinner parties 
Make our friends think we…
        
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          I’ll hit the road
Tonight I suppose
My eyes do a roll
When you make your joke
(why are you gonna hit the road? Are you mad at it?)
I wanted to
Be of some use
Words in my mouth
Cut my tongue out
It’s not so bad
This foreign land…
        
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          In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright,
where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day
on the birds and the bees and the cigarette…
        
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This past week
My life has been a complimentary airline seat
On the wing
Fighting air resistance and feeling thin 
Took donations 
 
And took compliments as best as I could manage
I’ll just sing 
I’ll just try and sit for a moment…
        
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          first go round with the Squire Strat mini, thru guitar disruptor with a hint of Sabbath.  RIP Ozzy
        
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          Trouble in mind I'm blue
but I won't be blue always
Cause to sun's gonna shine
in my backdoor someday
gonna lay my head 
on some lonesome railroad line
and let that 2:19 train
pacify my mind
trouble in mind I'm blue
and I've almost…
        
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          Midnight, daylight, coming undone
Shooting stars and the rising sun
Packed up camp and I hit the trail
Gonna find a place 'tween Heaven and Hell
Full Sail Half Baked biscuits in a pan
Lo-fi high stakes game I'm gonna win
Chart my course…
        
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          I don’t have the fortitude to type out lyrics right now my bad 
        
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          What did we give away for the things we have?
I don’t see any place I haven’t been before
But the faces I hold in my mind when I’m drifting off to sleep
Are as free as anything could be
When all the dollar stores have vanished in the flood…
        
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Im phoning this one in
Ive flown in tougher winds
But im tired and I have to flip
Over my whole house to be sit
Upon by a gracious friend
Who will stay here to sit my pet
Who, when house and pet have been sat
Will collect a tidy sum at…
        
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          This song is from Don McLean's first album. I grew up listening to and loving this song, and had long since forgotten about it until it popped into my head this morning.
        
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          They turned the old house into rubble with my memories inside
Picture frames still hanging, glimmer still in your eyes
I think of all the parties that we used to throw
Glitter clung to the baseboards like new fallen snow
And I'm wishing…
        
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          I had SO MUCH FUN producing this Track. I hope a little bit of this energy transfers to you, my dear listener.
Maybe I should produce more in this style...spaghetti-western-core :-D
Just kidding...
...or am I?
        
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          I am a butterfly but not a monarch 
I’m meat sliced thin and looking stark 
On the granite, part of a meal unfinished
Swept off the counter and Into the garbage
I’m sorry, that was dark
I’m just a victim of pathetic fallacy
I’m partial…
        
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          We go dey alright is an afro beat song to encourage all hustlers.. enjoy 
        
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          I talked to big game 
when I said I’d go to the show
 now I’m me on the day
forgot how it feels to be alone 
 I’m not moving on my own 
I’m no man I’m a millstone 
at the bottom of the river i’d flow with upriver of all the live I could…
        
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          Mahogany dust, and grass in my lungs
I pull myself to a higher run
I’m chock full of maple
I bring to the table
A penchant to be so high strung
What a friend for to have
I’m not dead. I’m just sad.
If you’re talking to me
And you see…
        
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          O I sing I hate the wind 
it keeps me from you 
people say I'm no good 
how can that be true 
and the day is cold 
and the leaves have turned 
and air is sour 
and the grass has burned 
a knife that's looking for a sheath 
but finds instead…
        
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          Written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in July 2025
        
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          I came alone 
No weapons drawn
In my hands 
Or on the page
I’m unarmed and blank
I saved a song
To dance along
The room is burning down
Holy shit get out
I’ll stand on my head
To remember what you said 
I’m a little scrambled…
        
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          O the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird
and she warbles when she flies
she never hollers cuckoo
til the fourth day of July
Gonna build me a log cabin
on a mountain so high
so I can see the cuckoo
when she goes on by
I've played cards in…
        
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          One day I will be of sharper wit
I’ll know the words and what to say and shit 
One day I will be a better man
I’ll make good plans and then ill stick to them 
Some day time will be not so harsh 
I’ll schedule yoga meetings in the park…
        
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          Walking Down the Line - Bob Dylan
Well I'm walking down the line
My feet will be a flying
to tell you bout my troubled mind
I got a heavy headed gal
She ain't a feeling well
When she's better only time will tell
Well my money comes…
        
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          I’m a leaking pitcher
I’m half full
Full of dripping water
Coming from the roof
Pour me out in the garden
When the ground dries up
Set me up when the rain comes 
Hear me fill with love
You’re alright 
I’m a crooked picture 
Hanging…
        
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          Rain for now
Sunshine catches in the clouds
Stay for now
Good things catching in my mind 
Cast like a thread
Snagged on the end
Pulling me out of this shit
Like a thread that snags and intertwines
Pulling me out 
Pulling me down…
        
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          It's a simple knot
That keeps me from the lake
It's a simple knot 
That keeps me
What's known between
A rider and bridle
What's known between 
Rider
O to be 
The light on the land
O to be
The light
It was dark last night
When…
        
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          I’m not as good as I thought I’d be
I was young and led to believe 
To take the writings at their word 
Now I’m grown more lines are blurred
What was right is heinous now
It’s up to me to work it out
Want to keep and what to toss
If it…
        
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          my partner has a coat with bananas on it. it's hard to express how excellent it is. she just got a new phone and so she had to get a new case for it too and was looking at one with bananas on it, and the image of her pulling her phone out of that…
        
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Im so sick of being tired
Im so tired of being tricked 
Into giving up my time 
To get a chance to live
A sliver at a time
And all the time im sapped
Like sugar in a tree
I freeze and thaw again 
Until I’m flowing free
And I take…
        
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          They built a boat 
Carried you down to the riverside 
Set it alight 
Talked of regret, children played nearby 
They played nearby 
               
The image of you I can’t shake
Hand raised, parting ways in the rearview 
Smoke from the…
        
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          Michael Hurley
Birds sing songs that
Wake the dreamers
From their sorrowful soirée
Cryin', bye bye, sweet fried chicken
And the platter
Glides away
In the moonlight
In the moonlight
We don't hear, but
Water running
Down the stream…
        
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          pay a man to:
 -walk through his field of corn
 -pick an apple off of his apple tree
 -pick a pumpkin out of his pumpkin patch
 -carve a face into that pumpkin for me
I sing a song a song about 
living in small-town Tennessee
my best…
        
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          You Are Unchangeable
Verse 1:
While trapped in the dark,
I called on Your name;
You came and shone Your light.
The one who held me there
Fled and never turned—then I knew You’re the Light.
You paid the price for my pride,
And for the…
        
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          Back to an orchestral game/movie trailer piece, having been working on covers for a while.  Here is my composition using full orchestra, Cathedral organ and choir, that hopefully could be imagined alongside a thrilling piece of movie action!!
        
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          I wrote this track pretty long time ago, but then redid parts of it for a live setting so I could play it on my digitakt. I haven't played out live in a bit so I tried practicing it today...
        
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          You can roll the dice
You can read the gospel
Or just balance on the knife
Kicking rocks like cigarettes
You both used to like
Now it’s all just plastic 
I could use some advice
And you could use me
Anytime you like
Dead man’s paradise…
        
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          When the sky turns gray and the winds run wild
And the weight of the world feels like a lonesome child
Keep your eyes on the road there's a path to trace
There's always a solution for the things we face
Lift your head up high let the light…
        
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          Accidental synthwave. I hated this at first, but it's not bad. I kind of feel like this is me, in the 80s, driving home from work along palm tree lined high way. I had a bad day writing fortran for my job and I'm burnt out.
        
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          Who will break this ice 
sleepwalking through the pines
Said I won’t tell you twice
100 million times
You can’t pay the price
We’ll never get the bill
You don’t need to atone 
And though it’s such a thrill 
To heave the first stone…
        
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          Subtle change of gray light 
Heart breaks in sync with the sky 
As it cries over open fields and tall stands of pines, their delight 
No weight to the world they rejoice 
Heavy lids, can't sleep 
Head like a hornet nest, a buzz with bees…
        
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          I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
        
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          Cracked glass 
Lightning 
Strike
The passing
Yellow 
Line
Pull over 
I said 
I’m fine 
Everything we took for granted 
Oh I can taste it 
Now it all amounts to nothing
more than wasted 
time 
I said 
I’ll try 
Sad sack…
        
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          a little break beat from my digitone. This is turning into "learn the digitone" month.
        
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          I wrote this a week or so ago, and decided to give it a proper "mix" I guess? I'm not great at mixing quite yet, so this is just trying to add some ear candy and make it sound as good as I can!
        
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          Hares on the Mountain
O Sally my dear it's you I'd be kissin' 
She smiled and replied "You don't know what you're missin"
If all the young men were hares on the mountain
many young girls would grab guns and go huntin
If the young…
        
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          V1: 
Oh, how did we get here 
Seems familiar but it’s unclear
Did no one take the reigns before we lost control 
I’d rather say something 
If it’s better than nothing 
Wouldn’t you think twice if it saves your soul 
Chorus:
Darlin…
        
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          To me this is one of my best Tracks.....yet.... :-)
The Kick comes from a PlugIn called "Kick Ninja"! What a great PlugIn!
Also I'm really starting to hate my AI generated garbage profile pic but alas, I have not a single gram of talent in…
        
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          another attempt at short form deep techno a la some of my favorites...
        
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          On the other side Of the planet
I just heard the news 
I was served something so tragic
Reaching for my muse 
On the other side of my attention span
So abused
I said “hope it’s another lie 
Like me and all my friends are used to” 
It all…
        
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          Half and apple half a moon
Half a dozen coyotes and a howling loon
Pick a card any card
It's all magic don't think too hard
Don't think too hard
Don't thing too hard about it
Where on earth do you find the time
To be anything less…
        
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          exploring the kinotone ribbons tonight. it is a pedal that emulates magnetic tape and all it's imperfections. here i start what a clean arpeggio and engage ribbons around 20s. throughout,  we explore degradation, harmony and rhythm as the loops…
        
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          Beat Your Ass Like You're Talking Bout A Little Kid
        
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          A quick attempt at some hypnotic techno a la deep bass..
        
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          I wish I was the moon in the sky
O I wish I was the moon in the sky
If I's the moon in the sky 
I'd be floating in your eye
Wish I was the moon in the sky
I wish I was the song on your lips
O I wish I was the song on your lips
If I's…
        
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          Day two of the Daily Two! I feel like I flubbed these drums. But I did the thing and that's what matters...
        
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          Anticlimactic jam in a time signature not yet known to man. Maybe 6/8
        
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