Showing posts with label Joe Matera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Matera. Show all posts

2/1/25

Love & Valentines

Love We Need You Here Tony Moore slow, acoustic with ambient sound, keyboards, electric guitar build up, like a Pink Floyd ballad, It's a prayer to a higher power, "love remove the fear... don't leave us lost and alone." 


Love Will Blind a Woman  Suzahn Fiering gentle acoustic song, sort of young Joni Mitchell tones, "Love will blind a woman though she knows it ain't right" about a gal smitten by a charming guy, 'even tho' she knows it ain't right" https://open.spotify.com/track/3SPPgUVPHOGOoCSC2l9ahE?si=ae6bb27a0f4b43a4


Tell Me, Elliott Murphy rock, song, electric guitar, male vocals like Lou Reed, "tell me" is the hook. The guy is fighting not to end a relationship, and find ways to stay close to his soon-to-be- ex lover



Made for You Phoebe Legere upbeat female vocal, made for you, can't you see I was made for you. From "Toxic Avenger"

 
Chasing Leaves Joe Matera instrumental, guitars and keys including synthesizer, treated guitar, ambient, midtempo, repeated themes with a little variation.


 Fallin’ In Love  Jenn Cristy  seductive female vocals, R&B, funky bass & drums, has majestic piano solo, similar rhythms to "Tighten Up" foreplay, losing myself in the music of love, "baby we could fall in love" 


A Rose for Your Stone The Kings  male vocals, Americana with horns and accordion, spaghetti western sounding, a winning gunslinger returns home to find his true love is dead, all he can give her is a rose for her (tomb) stone   


Love Killer  Jaclyn Bradley   lush, slow tempo, dream pop alto female vocals, ambient, Madonna tones, theme of loving and losing, love killer, let it all hang out, I'm here for the dream of love

Love the Bodies We’re In  Jaclyn Bradley  female vocals, acoustic guitar, gentle tempo, intimacy, song on self-love and intimate connection "love the bodies we're in" "crawl into my bones, give me your skin"


2/3/22

New Music Winter 2022

What’s a Place Like This Doing in a Girl Like Me  Val Kinzler


Uptempo & edgy, spoken word female voice like Kathryn Hepburn meets Tim Curry, spooky music.  haunted woman inside of a MAN-made hell, graveyard full of rights gone wrong, weak from being strong. dr. jekyll, watch me hide. dismember me. 

Well, Well, Well  John Roy Zat 

Male vocals, upbeat violin about surviving it all.  "Well, well, well, I've been down in the well... my own private hell" and coming out of it.  "I rise up now to dance w/ the sun" 

Inside Looking Out Joe Matera  

Tenor male voice w/ best elements of rock & roll British (Yardbirds-y/Spencer Davis/Hollies tempos) meets modern rock instruments and electronica as rock instruments. Analyzing the situation.  hook: "Lost in Transit, Inside Looking Out"   

Valentine’s Day Michael Veitch 

Slow tempo, male singer w/ falsetto, acoustic instruments, setting a winter melting mood, comparing to a true love who blooms "from beneath the ice and snow

One Good Man  Cornelius Eady

Male vocals. percussion, John Henry's hammer, one good man shook people up, against the odds, mock the devil straight to his face, Resist.

Halfway Normal World Dean Friedman

Slow tempo, piano, tenor. covid-related, wanting to hang out friends again at the movies & at home, diner, ballgame, , throw a party and sound effects from ballgame, "I wish I could get back to a halfway normal world."

Save the Monarch John Hall & Dar Williams 


John & Dar Williams duet on this hymn-like singer-songwriter song, guitar/bass/drums, environment, Monarch, emperor, queen, king--animals with royal names that are endangered species 

12/10/20

Winter 2021 songs - Seasonal & New Music

 

Mask  Phoebe Legere  Rock and roll, female vocals, going out with parents, and wearing a mask. “I love my mask, I love my mom, I love my dad.” 



Everybody’s Single Ezra Doner  male vocals, countrypolitan--everybody's single tonight a flirtatious song about a guy going to a bar after his “sweet darlin’ wife got tired of married life.” He went to the bar “to do some drinkin’”...and some flirtin'! Ezra’s songs are on SoundCloud under pseudonym Oliver Duplass.

 https://soundcloud.com/oliverduplass/everybodys-single-tonight

Only One  Joe Matera Male Tenor, rock & electric guitar like Nils Lofgren, The Heartbreakers “No one sees your struggle and how careful you are when you ultimately make it.” Multi-faceted songwriter/guitarist Mr. Matera is playing with pop and rock legends for future releases, hosting music segments on Australian radio, and writing for Guitar World and Goldmine magazines. 


Storm Surge  Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius  hard rock/orchestral prog-power ballad with bold baritone/tenor and strings, flute, rock guitar. Storm Surge is about anxiety, a storm that’s raging inside of us. Queensryche-ish.  Special guest leadsinger is Michael Sadler from Saga (Canadian content).  

There She Is  Firefall male tenor vocal, hooky jingle-like, horns, guitars, classicrock, yacht rock, 1970s sounding, Inspired, his little angel lifting him up, good fortune, cloud 9, looking so pretty, head over heels.  

 There She Is | Firefall (bandcamp.com)

Santiago  Sharon Katz   female vocal in English & Spanish, "land meets the water" it is about Santiago, Cuba. Spanish guitar, horns, traditional festival music. Sharon is working with border children and migrant workers in Tijuana and San Diego.


Home Orleans Packing the childhood up and setting out. male singer, a gentle version of the prodigal son, childhood, grownup, becoming a child. "when I need someone to talk to" Orleans’ upcoming EP, of new music in 2021, will include Home.