New Video/Music

[Steve M.]

Posted a new video to youtube. The music is me trying to keep time (drum) with a friend. There are no lyrics and the music is completely freestyle. Apologies that I don't have any actual music recording gear, just my phone.. it's also (outside of being scrunched up audio) a bit squeaky and, being hearing impaired myself, it must be very squeaky to those who can hear.

The video itself is a compilation of images from Israel's recent butchery of Gaza's Palestinian population. As a warning, it pulls no punches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPhTdOGVk0&feature=share&list=UUyMz0P-I59fw0mgyWiVeuGA

 

[Aya]

The video was a painful to watch. I think you did a great job conveying a message and put together for the world to know the current situation in Gaza.
And I think the music blends well with the pictures in the video, too.
Thank you for sharing. :)

 

[Steve M.]

Thanks Aya, the feedback is much appreciated. :)

The music was done late May or early June. My friend and I haven't got together to dinker with more music since late August, but I'm still beating on the drums off and on, mostly for the exercise. It's an electric Yamaha 5 piece with an added symbol and bass amp.
Salutes!

 

[Steve M.]

New video, Brett Dennen - I asked when

"Well, I dreamed I went out awhile, I heard promises become fables forgotten
I saw bridges stretching out across the water, towers pushing taller
I knew my reality was clearly defined, By the fences put up around my mind
I watched them thicken into walls over time, Taller than any borderline
I saw civilizations deemed insignificant, I saw peoples history tattooed on their skin
I saw families taken from their land, Dynasty shattered and stolen
And I asked when is the revolution, I asked when is the revolution
And all the burdens the centuries accrue, That get passed along to every generations youth
And all the allegories told in leau of truth, I watched them grow wild and spread like a flu
I saw the rise of an untamed industry, And I watched machines paint a paper economy
I saw my own self stand right in front of me, And I didnt do a thing
I saw poisons pushed in the street, prescription pills mingling in the mezzanine
With a whole wealth of doctors and pharmaceutical companies, Still poor people were dying from disease
And I asked when is the revolution
I asked when is the revolution
I asked when is the revolution
I asked when is the revolution"

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bXI2qF97rVw