Category Archives: glass cage

Its All Too Much

The world keeps turning and getting further and further away from the one that I recognise or understand. Should I shut my eyes and ears to all of it? Maybe for a while, though it’s very hard. I do care about stuff but I can’t take too much more bad news to be honest. So I am just concentrating on recording and gigs and music. The day to day stuff. The mundane. So here is my latest recording.

Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of

Never give a sucker an even break. Indeed. We have its seems a school boy prime minster but he is no match for PItt the younger I venture.

“William Pitt the Younger was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800 and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806.”

Now that’s what you call young. PM at 24

Meanwhile elsewhere there can be no peace, we are told.

The world is broken it seems.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.


Francis of Assisi

A friend said,
Old age is said to be “a shipwreck”, and I do find it involves loss of what were once comforting certainties. I’m sure everyone experiences this to some degree. Its not our world any more, and we have to find our own way forward. Yes I think I will have to agree with that now.

And today its raining too. I am no longer running or trying to keep up. I just do what I do. Success or lack of it has in the last few month’s seemed to become a trivial matter of no importance.
I make my noises and I am happy if people like them too.

If you can follow your own star, straight on til morning, I think you will be happier for it

February, It Begins

Another month, amazing it’s so soon as I feel we have only just had one. A month that is.

I saw this:

This quote comes from the apocryphal writing known as the Acts of Peter:

“Unless you make what is right left, and what is left right, what is above into what is below, and what is behind into what is in front, you will not learn to know the Kingdom.”

(from Common Prayer)

Not sure what to make of that one at all. Sounds like a boss level of confusion though? But I will think about it and see where it leads.

I am trying to learn a lot of new material for 3 different acts and it is a little bit confusing, but hopefully it will help keep the brain plastic enough.

I am working on a track and experimenting a little at present so it may sound a little bit different if it works. I am using a bit more of the studios (AKA my spare music room) more modern tech in a hopefully creative way. Maybe I can fix it in the mix as they say. Its great to be able to just create when the muse strikes or even when it doesn’t.

Here is a song from this time last year for your aural delight hopefully 🙂

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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.
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    Just cause you are a bad person by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A stream of consciousness song.
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    I am So Empty Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Safe For The Moment by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A moment of pure joy letting go
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    jazz fusion world style instrumental
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    Simple acoustic guitar instrumental tune.
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    Autumnal Piano Piece
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    Wish You Would Let Me by Diana Stones Glasscage

When There Is A New Tune…

You know what must be done. An instrumental called “Last Best Hope”
Not much hope in the news today though sadly. The news media is now pretty much a continuous horror show with no redeeming elements. Trying to ignore it has not really worked for me too well.

Ernest people with good hearts protest and march and demonstrate and the law is invoked at every level but nothing changes. We may well march to show our anger against oppressive regimes and our empathy for those that suffer but the bombs stil drop and the bullets continue to fly. What should we believe in when there is nothing left to believe in? From the old (predominately rich white) men in suits and even the young ones there is no hint of change nor would it ever seem so.

This month I have been mostly beavering away in my musical cave doing a lot of recording with a few trips out to rehearsals and not much else. The days are getting noticeably a little bit longer now though. It’s got to help a bit you would hope. I have felt a bit post viral for a week or so now, but I am not aware of picking up any bugs. Weird.

  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Time Will Take So Much From You by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A Darker Green by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Its all about the mo0ney you know
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A violin and Rhodes tune for you 🎶
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    The Best That I Can Do For You Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    I Have No Faith Left by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just Because It Fits Maybe You Shouldent by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just a sleazy blues
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    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.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Tune in Gb
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A few thoughts on lost opportunities' in a pop rock setting ballad.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just cause you are a bad person by Diana Stones Glasscage