To a First Love lyrics by Thomas Charlie Pedersen

TO A FIRST LOVE

You cry out with the lust of youth

and, sweetheart, so do I.

The heartfelt yearnings that we feel

we simply can´t deny.

And yet despite the joy we seek

and we know that we must wait

perhaps next year we´ll make the scene

when both of us turn eighteen

The first youthful yearnings. The desire for that first joyful embrace. Lets be honest it never turns out like any of us imagine. You have never kissed anyone and you imagine what its like to kiss, but it never turns out like you imagine.

I can tell you, it does get better with practice

What we feel as teenagers is intense, hormones bearly under control, still confused, the desire to go out into the big wide world, to make your mark.

Life is not a practice run! So decide to LIVE! and that can only happen if you do it on PURPOSE!

To A First Love can be found on  Day Light Saving Hours

THOMAS CHARLIE PEDERSEN - DAYLIGHT SAVING HOURS 

Tracklist: 

1. To A First Love 

2. The Meriwether Pull 

3. Movables 

4. Green Plateau 

5. The World Is Not Your Oyster 

6. Sad To See You Go 

7. Must Be The World 

8. The Witty Moniker 

9. Stay True 

10. Blood Moon. 

11. The Freewheeler 

12. At The End Of The Day 

13. Faithful Mistress 

14. Daylight Saving Hours 

Running time:37 mins 

Release date: February 7 2020 

I´m the lead singer and guitarist of the Danish alternative rock band Vinyl Floor. ’Daylight Saving Hours’ is my second solo effort. The album was made at an apartment in Nørrebro, Copenhagen and was recorded and mixed by my brother Daniel Pedersen who is also the drummer of Vinyl Floor. ‘Daylight Saving Hours’ continues the acoustic and minimalistic stylings as heard on my first album ‘Second Hand War’ (2016) albeit a tad more arranged this time. We’ve utilized strings, vocal harmonies, alternate guitar tunings and we´ve experimented with noise and reversed sounds during the recording. 

The project started out as demo recordings but I´ve decided to release these songs because I want to present them as raw as possible and because I want to preserve the feel of how they were written. Amidst choosing songs for my eponymous solo album I left out some songs with a more extroverted feel. Some of these songs have been included this time around, whilst others are brand new and have been written directly for this album. Unlike the first album - which was quite introvert and personal - the new album sees me writing mostly about other people with a strong emphasis on the lyrics and melody and a few lyrical wordplays thrown in for good measure. I write about the commitments of love, illusionists, otherworldly interference, melancholia, women in trouble and the different aspects of getting older (I´m turning 40 next time). 

The title ‘Daylight Saving Hours’ is a wordplay on the expression ‘daylight saving time’. These songs try to hold desperately onto the light in a world which just seems to be getting stranger and darker. I played all the instruments myself while Daniel contributed some guitar overdubs, arranged strings and added vocal harmonies to several songs.

Artist Feature Black as Chalk

Artist Feature

Black as Chalk

BLACK AS CHALK "Ouro"

In my hometown there once was a record store. A jewel well hidden within a small street offside the pedestrian zone. Depending on ones perspective, it made the beginning or the end of the city. The bearded owner filled its ridiculously small 25 square meters with a complete collection of handmade music’s history. The electronic stuff he left over for the hipsters in the central shopping mall. The bearded owner called his dark cave "Pop-Shop", albeit his collection descended down to the deepest trenches of satanic death metal. There was no subdivision within genres whatsoever – every piece had been stoically sorted by the alphabet. One who was searching for the new studio album of the untiring Rolling Stones as a present for father’s birthday unintentionally came across The Ramones or The Rollins Band. The way to Miles Davis was crossed by Dark Funeral oder The Damned. The chainsmoking and coffee drinking owner never commented on the buying decisions of his customers. He preferred to influence them by constantly playing rustic insider tips, whose cumbrous charme and dusky blue atmosphere spoke to everyone having a heart for rockmusic offside the common radio formats. 

If an album like "Ouro" would have existed at that time – the bearded owner had played it up and down all day. Even more, the four-piece from Göttingen would have motivated him to start one of these days, at which he not only played whole vinyl albums, but mixed different songs together using his second turntable. The immense variety of "Ouro" offers a lot of opportunities for that, though the album is deeply routed in different traditions of rock history while at the same time outstretching its branches in manifold directions. The beardman would have let the album fixed on the left turntable while mixing in newer and older classics from the right one. The craggy garage rocker "Snake Handler" would have started a pogo moshpit with The Stooges or MC 5 right in front of the club stage. Single notes and shreds of code would have risen up into the blue smoke over the turntables during the whispering and crawling of the spooky "The Commuter", joining the soundscapes of The Notwist. "Take My Place" would have shown the very early Placebo who’s the leader of the pack and inspired them to write "The Bitter End". Corresponding to the sparse acoustic ballad "Letting Go", Johnny Cash would have shown up between the shelfs. A very special favour Black As Chalk would have done to the enthusiastic DJ by delivering the tight lumps "In This Gloom" and "Helmet Off", because their sound offers every musical missionary the chance to present the secret masterpieces of Noiserock the curious customer, spanning from Dinosaur Jr. over My Bloody Valentine to the early works of Blackmail vorzustellen. If someone asks… 

The bearded owner wasn’t a cheerful man. His voice grumbled, his eyes examined everyone with scepticism and his face showed marks of a life in which unicorns only exist to be shot by poachers. But did it happen that a customer pointed at a turntable and asked for the record, he smiled like a child. To the surprise of the customer he would not only have drawn "Ouro" from the shelf, but additionally three more albums which Black As Chalk had wrenched out of their souls, their instruments and the gritty, rainy alleys of their age-old hometown with its historic half-timbered houses. If Black As Chalk would have been on tour, he‘d also pushed some tickets over the counter; real tickets, printed on paper already yellowed from his smoke. 

The bearded owner always had to fight with his store. Even in the mid-90s, as the sales of physical sound carriers reached its height and the beardman also sold CDs in his self-furnitured shelfs. He didn’t lived from the music, he lived for the music. The same is (for now) true for Black As Chalk, who sold a guitar in order to pay the recording of their third album and who now abolished the piano on their fourth effort. But this time the reduction was not due to the money, but rather serving the sound and aesthetics. 

The motto goes:
Less is more.
Meager is more intense.
Smaller ist bigger.
The bearded owner of the old record store would have approved, murmuring.
(Oliver Uschmann)

Kurztext für Veranstalter etc.

Black As Chalk

Rustic and sensual. Sparse and spooky. Furious and lucid. Black As Chalk are wrenching a sound out of their souls, their instruments and the gritty, rainy alleys of their age-old hometown Göttingen; which combines the clashing impact of Noiserock with the atmospheric poetry of original Indie-aesthetics. Timeless melodies hide deep in the apparent chaos of the garage. Versatile compositions strike their roots into the depth of rock history while at the same time outstretching their branches in manifold directions of the best musical neighbours. 

This is their latest release

Hey guys ive just added your latest release to my indie songs list

Why not give them a listen and make your own mind up?

Among their related artists are Tupelo Highshots

They are featured on :

Coming Soon Desert Places

Track list

Oboe and Piano
Oboe and Piano 2
Oasis Rest
Desert Winds
Desert Ride
Desert Heat.

Morphius Due out early April

Listen to excerpts 

Track List 

Morphius
Non Tradtional Scales
Call me Tuba
Andante Strings
Prelude 

Since this post was first released there have been two more tracks added!

The Guardian

and 

Neo's Salvation

As most of you will know both Morphius and Neo are characters from The Matrix. Those are two names which popped into my head whilst composing these two works so I named them Morphius and Neo's Salvation in honour of the rabbit hole. 

I hope you will play the short video I made and leave some feedback.

More from Sedai

Sedai's adventure with music began quite early. At first it was a fascination with the emerging electronic scene and rave scene. Access to it in the 1990's was limited in Poland. He listened passionately to MTV and the German VIVA 2 TV Channel  and wanted to create similar sounds.

From the first payouts He bought the first Roland mc-307 groovebox, Then his first PC computer. and so started to create. Without any musical background he learned everything by himself as the internet was in its infancy and there was limited access to information.

And so  Sedai was born. He liked to work with others. So co-created several projects. One of them was Satellite Addiction- with a vocalist and a guitarist. This project was very important to him, because it resulted in the first, and so far, only CD, recorded in the studio and subsequently released. The project was discontinued as Emilia, the vocalist, became  a mother and focused on a career as a psychotherapist. 

https://satelliteaddiction.bandcamp.com/releases

Another project is Seboom. it is a project he co-created with his friend and guitarist Remik and other musicians who support them on stage from time to time. It has been going on for years, but with large breaks.

When they can meet, they create and record new ideas. They've recently made a soundtrack to the silent movie of 1920 under the title "Genuine, the tale of a Vampire". They played it several times and was received enthusiastically by the audience and will therefore continue similar themes .

He also makes music for performances, exhibitions and other projects. A few years ago he began making music workshops for kids and youngsters.

In the near future he hopes to cooperate with musicians from different music styles and genres and finish his debut album.

new album out soon ACROSS THE RIVER !

TRACK LIST 

HIRAJOSHI BRASS BAND 

SPEEDY GO SLOW WINDS 

LIGHTENING BOLTS

TWO TONE PIANO

THE WEST WIND

Musical Artizan's Legend Released OUT NOW

Released on 7th FEB 2020

Track list

Symphony in brass

Limited

My Desert Rose

Orphelias Revenge

Experimental One

RELEASED ON JAN 31ST 2020 Dominant Aeolian OUT NOW

RELEASED 31ST JANUARY

OUT NOW

Track List 

Sphinx Hunter 

Iron

War

Immortal

Homecoming 

Hirajoshi wind orchestra largo

Geez Geezer

Alien Aeolian

David Sweetlow Release The Times We Live in.

David Sweetlow

David SweetLow is an English singer/songwriter and producer now based in Sapporo, Japan. He plays his music live around the world but mostly in Japan, Spain and the UK. 

David has worked with many of the great producers in the UK and the USA and has had 2 chart topping successes in the UK and Europe as a member of the bands “Tonight” and “Yen”.

He has written songs for Cliff Richard and worked with Gary Numan, Alan Tarney, Andy Hill and Gary Langan from “The Art Of Noise” and many more.

He has been signed as an artist to “WEA Records” Polydor Records” IRS Records, Miles Copeland’s record label and “Akashic Records” in Japan. 

His music is based around the acoustic guitar and is influenced by Americana/Country/Folk and singer-songwriter genres. All his work is self produced.

David's listeners are truely Global.  

At heart David is an Essex boy having lived in America, Spain and now Japan.

His top listeners are found in the United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.

His latest release is The Times We Live in. Released August 1st.

If You want to purchase his music here is the Purchase link

Follow his Youtube channel here

His next Gig is on 21 February 2010

 Click here for more info

Here are the Spotify links for his artist profile and his latest release.

Here are some of the playlists he can be discovered on

Introducing Anna Belle and Tokyo

Anna Belle is a synthpop/R&B artist based in Nashville, TN. Her artist concept centers on creating all of her content independently including catchy songwriting, analog-esque production, exciting performances, and carefully conceptualized videos. Anna Belle has completed a total of 900 commissioned recording projects and also hosts a music livestream show viewed daily by thousands internationally. In 2018, she was featured on the regionally syndicated late night show The Mystery Hour and performed at Playlist Live Orlando 2019. Last April, Anna Belle released her first EP entitled "The Past" along with a self-directed music video which now acts as her flagship demonstration of her artistry-- retro, soft, and soulful. She is due to make her first national TV appearance with Celebration of Music on PBS this summer.

Susan Moss

Susan owns and manages Moondream Music Group take a look at her website here Moondreams website.

MoonDreams Music is singer/songwriter Susan Moss, whose first release was Carousel Dreams - A Collection of Lullabies, a multi award-winning cd of original, ethereal, dreamy style lullabies on her independent record label, MoonDreams Music Recording Group. Susan wrote all the music on the album, and co-wrote three of the songs with former MoonDreams partner and lyricist Donna Martin. The music was recorded with various session musicians. Carousel Dreams won a Parents' Choice Award as well as iParenting Media and NAPPA awards. It was also reviewed as a parenting pick in Parenting Magazine, and the School Library Journal. Diamond Dreams is MoonDreams Music's second release, a single in the style of soft rock, written by Susan Moss. It was recorded and produced by Dean Bailin, award winning guitarist and producer, who played on the Rupert Holmes 70's hit, The Pina Colada song.


her latest release a new mix of tropical breeze called stoneygate goa beach remix has already taken listeners by storm.

I have to thank Susan for her awesome support of unsigned artists one of my own songs is consistantly ranking high among listeners. Thanks to one of her playlists Awesome work Susan your a God send.

As homage to an artwork I found on her website here is something for you kids to colour in. This is one of my very own works so enjoy colouring Susan.

Albums due out in April 2020

Saving Shanaz

Saving Shanaz is a collection of piano solos and duets

Desert Places

 Desert Places is a mix of Guitar & Oboe, Piano & Oboe and Piano & Cello 

Artist Feature Steven Alexander

This is Steven Alexander

Steven was featured in  IGGY Magazine.

Heres what they had to say :

Despite the multiplicity of genres that exist today, pop music is a safe bet. Everyone should put a little pop in their life whatever the mood, day or situations. It is in this state of mind that we are pleased to announce Steven Alexander's Wait.

Steven Alexander, whom we have just discovered, offers us here a song of great quality, a pleasant listening experience in your day, which will fill beautiful melodies with your dose of daily musical consumption. Wait will not leave you indifferent and will undoubtedly give you the desire to dive into the musical catalog of the artist certainly young but very promising for the months to come.


Source : https://www.iggymagazine.com/steven-alexander-publie-une-nouvelle-parenthese-musicale-intitulee-wait/

  

Top Tracks and Latest Release 

Top Featured Playlist 

Among his related artists are the Sex Pistols  Led Zeppelin and Death and Motorhead

Artist Feature Vilnes

V I L N E S is the artist name of the Norwegian indie pop artist Eivind Vilnes. His first single ‘Demons’ was released in October 2018, and labeled “ 2 minutes 40 seconds of indie pop genius”. One year later Vilnes was awarded Best Male Artist by Radio Wigwam. The single Play With Me was presented on the New Music Friday Norway by the Spotify editorial team, and selected as the single of the week by NPS. ‘Story Unsaid’ was playlisted by NRK P1 for 12 weeks during the summer of 2019.

In his early twenties Vilnes enjoyed some recognition with earlier bands. One morning he got a phone call from a major Norwegian festival telling him that they just had to play at the festival. After the conversation Vilnes enjoyed his morning coffee and life in general. But he could not escape the idea of “having to play”. Do I have to do this and do that? Anyway, he keeps his guitar within reach, and before he even knew it a new song was popping into his mind. Eager to know if other could like it, he brought his guitar and entered the streets of Bergen to present his new song to anyone passing by who might enjoy a new song. They did, and Vilnes is still writing new songs all the time in his free spirited way, but nowadays the phone calls are answered by his manager!

Vilnes was born and raised in the Fjords of Norway in the small village of Atløy.

'Vilnes EP' is Vilnes latest release. He has listeners from across the globe from Oslo and Bergen in Norway to Buffalo, Dallas and Chicago USA.

Artist Feature Datz Dem

Artist Feature
Datz Dem

Joshua Houston, aka ILL SON and Edward Porter aka FOCIST P are self-styled multi-talented entertainers from Niagara Falls, NY and Atlanta,GA respectively. Known to the world as Datz Dem they're artists, producers, song-writers, authors and actors. They've been recording for several years, and their student mentality allows them to continuously grow and create great music. Datz Dem brings to life music that is void of profanity which allows them to be listened to by all ages. No denying their pedigree as they've performed with several internationally known recording artists. Their talent also crosses over into film and television and they have several popular productions to their credit including hit shows Tyler Perry's 'Meet the Browns' and BET's 'The Game'. Datz Dem are all things to all people, embracing all aspects of entertainment to stamp their brand on multimedia entertainment

Datz dem has over 10000 listeners

Latest release Earthquake

Featured on :

Their listeners can be found in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and other locations in the USA.

They come from Niagra Falls/Atlanta.and have a style of their own. check them out on their website.