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How To Keep It All Together

The world is rumbling on toward destruction as ever, its difficult to ignore and hard to understand and exhausting and depressing to think about.

I am lost in a bit of a fog. I have stuff happening which is good though. I do feel very tired quite often, much more often that I use to. Is it just age related? I am OK when I am out and about doing stuff but often on a day at home I just seem to run out of energy. My home is comfortable and I have everything I need here plus my music room/studio which I do use quite often. But just recently I seem to be doing a lot of staring into space. I still have boxes of stuff packed from when we moved 6 years ago that I can’t face sorting out.

This is song from 2022 that needs a bit more love I think. Why not give it a listen and see what you feel.

Elephant Shelf in their heyday in Brighton at The Joogleberry Playhouse.

Remember, don’t take yourself too seriously.

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On Recording and Related Matters

I have decided to become better acquainted with some of my older recording gear. I have a need for more than 16 tracks so a good old fashion sub mix and bounce was required. It worked like a treat though. The next step is vocals. You can edit but everything is done with the time code and you ears for cutting and pasting, rather than on screen (no pretty waveforms). It works a treat but just requires a little more forethought as I haven’t worked that way for a while. I had to do this because I was just 3 tracks short for the vocals which I had not planned for properly. I think I need to take a little more time over some of the material now perhaps?
Sometimes whilst keeping plowing on it is possible to lose sight of the goal because of being so immersed in the process . So when the muse kicks in again I will get back on the case with the track.

I have just managed to write some lyrics for the new number, that I hope will work. In a day or to it might be ready.

The last appearance of the full Delta Ladies’ line up at Walthamstow Folk Club in 2019.

As I expect you know: “The feast day of Easter was first a pagan holiday of renewal and rebirth. Honored in the early spring, it praised the pagan goddess of fertility and spring known as ‘Ostara’, ‘Eastre’ or ‘Eostre’.”

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    Just Do as I Say Not What I Do by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    How Do You Think You Will Keep Us Safe by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Dreaming I Was Reborn by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A simple rock song written a while back that I decided to re-record recently
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    One Step Forward by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Surrealist Holiday by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    And Why Not by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A mellow Orchestral trance instrumental with Violin
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    Dont Tell Me I Am Cute by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Time Will Take So Much From You by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A Darker Green by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Its all about the mo0ney you know
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    A violin and Rhodes tune for you 🎶
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    The Best That I Can Do For You Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    I Have No Faith Left by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Just Because It Fits Maybe You Shouldent by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Just a sleazy blues
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    Sometimes you have a revelation and you can’t keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. So I did. Go me. A very recent recording inspired by those moments of special sharing twined with enlightenment.
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    Tune in Gb
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    A few thoughts on lost opportunities' in a pop rock setting ballad.

Lonely Mostly

Sometimes it just gets to you. Today it has. I feel cut off from everything that I don’t experience though the medium of a screen. Its difficult. I can see why people turn to drink I think.Its very quiet here. The usual tricks are not working at all. Its very quiet here. I should be Ok as I have stuff going on and new musical buddies and a few musical positives have happened. So I should be on an up at present, but I am not at all. The evenings are getting lighter but my mood is getting darker.

Here’s an instrumental from August 2023 for you.

Driving Home To See You Again