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Ken Minty
by Ken Minty
singer/songwriter from Yarra Valley, Australia. Struggling as much with modern times as with times past. I guess that makes me a chronic struggler.
Episodes
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The Lobster Quadrille
In 2018 Dave (warfydave) Cooper sent me recording he had made, inviting me to contribute lyrics, vocals and steel guitar. Immediately on hearing the recording, the words to Lewis Carroll's “The Lobster Quadrille” (sometimes called “The Mock Turtle's Song) started running through my head. We...
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Hearts In Trance - The Reservoir Dogs
The Reservoir Dogs - a SC collaborative band consisting of Norbert (N.o.b.S.) Meyer, Tot., Andrea (Foresto) Martini and Ken Minty. We had done so many collaborations together we thought a band name would be appropriate. The song “Entranced Hearts” or “Hearts in Trance” - take your pick –…
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By The Light Of The Moon
Fans of nonsense poetry will recognize lines and images from two of Edward Lear's most famous poems: “The Owl and the Pussycat” and “The Jumblies”. I wrote the song in 2004 and have performed it occassionally as a solo acoustic number without ever really capturing the darkness the lyrics…
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Life In A Suburban Laboratory
A one chord song about striking out on your own before full adulthood yet well after childhood. Maybe a bit lightweight, but no less real for all that. Lyrics: o-oh hey, what is meant to be does anyone know what will happen to me o-oh hey, my will may be free but I am compelled by the vision I…
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I've Lied (Archie Roach cover)
This song was written by one of Australia's greatest songwriters, Archie Roach, in 1990 and was included in his first album “Charcoal Lane”. I have seen Archie live many times – he gives such great performances that I was a bit dubious about posting my own version of his song. I justify the…
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Let Your Hair Down Rock remix
In August 2019 I posted a track made with Adelmo Silva in the EDM genre. Adelmo did the mix. This is a remix of the same track with emphasis on the rock side. Except for the guitars and some of the percussion I have used the same stems we put down in the original mix (and have shortened the song...
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A Birthday Thought
Written for the 70th birthday of family friend Johanna. Lyrics: here’s a thought 'tween you and me about the world we share in the beat of these busy streets there's seldom time to spare memories of the past, strong now, fade at last we might forget the flavours of the potions we were sold but...
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Surfin' Rat
The lyrics to this song are a variation on those in The Riverton's “Papa Oom Mow Mow” released in 1962, and used most famously by The Trashmen in “Surfin' Bird” in 1963. These nonsense words create a deep and compelling rhythm which I felt would be very appropriate to this track - which is really...
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Requiem For A Rat
Guitars and Keyboard by Ken Minty Recorder by Marcia “WhistleWeaver” Phillips. To hear more of Marcia's exceptional music please visit: https://soundcloud.com/whistleweaver Many thanks Marcia for taking part in this project. Cover Art by Karsten Paulick from Pixabay Rat was the son of Rat, by Rat…
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Long Time Gone 7
Long Time Gone was originally written as a “swing” blues for a recording session with Bill Kavanagh's Blues Affliction in 2014 (SC link below). In keeping with my fascination for eccentric rhythms, I later thought I would try it in a 7 beat meter. The result was good enough that I asked Foresto,...
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Looking from Our Door
This song first entered my mind while I was comparing translations of the poetry of the remarkable Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao. The attraction I have to Li Qingzhao's work is twofold - firstly: the sheer power of her expression, which speaks to me through each and every translation (some...
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Life Of The Party w W.E. Bartolotta
This song started life many years ago as an instrumental piano boogie. At some stage I decided to add vocals, but only ever wrote one verse before other events intervened ,,, so ... the lyrics never got finished and the song never recorded. I have been a follower of the extraordinary vocalist…
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Blue Moon - Mixed Meters W ProgRockDan
Rodgers and Hart's “Blue Moon”, written in 1934, has been covered by so many great artists in so many distinctive styles that I shall not even attempt to list them. The song was written in 4:4 and all the versions I have been able to find are recorded in 4:4. Somewhere, and I do not remember…
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Bottle Of Whiskey
“Bottle of Whiskey”, my attempt at a drinking song, is one of a handful of pieces which paying (and not-so-paying) customers would actually request and sing along with. It is easy to perform solo because of the simplicity and directness of the lyrics. It is also easy to perform in a band, or...
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Adelmo, Ken Minty - Let Your Hair Down
As always, a pleasure, and an education, in working with EDM specialist Adelmo Silva. The music is straight from the mind of Adelmo, the lyrics from me. All electronic instruments (including percussion) are Adelmo's, the vocals and guitars are mine. The excellent and imaginative arrangement of…
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Ghost On The Road
One of my great failings (and I have many) as a writer of money making songs is that the kind of music I most like to write is not commercial. This song is typical. And what is the song all about? Well ... I'd tell you my friend ... but … but ... Lyrics: ghost on the road ghost on the road ghost…
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Pride Of Man (Hamilton Camp cover)
Written by singer/songwriter Hamilton Camp in 1964, this song was most famously covered by Gordon Lightfoot (1966) and Quicksilver Messenger Service (1968). Perhaps not as well known as other apocalyptic protest songs of the time, such as “In the Year 2525” (Xager & Evans 1969), “It's Good News...
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The Squirrels Of Carduchia
This song, a companion piece to “The Valley of Falling Pianos” (https://soundcloud.com/kcm069/the-valley-of-falling-pianos), leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It does not specify, for example, the consequences to a house of having a family of 6 ton squirrels living in the attic, nor does it...
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Heart Of Snow - W Tot., Foresto, & N Meyer
It has been my very great pleasure to work on this track with three talented musicians, to wit: Foresto, on electric guitar, who has a unique and arresting free style Tot., whose percussion is at once precise, restrained and immensely clever and Norbert Meyer with a driving and captivating bass...
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Into the Alternate Universe
I composed this fugue some years ago partly as an investigation into the properties of the 9:8 meter, and partly to check out some of the tools available for writing digital music. There are no vocals, the instruments are all synthesized and the instrumental parts are all largely constructed…
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I Gotta Getta
In December 2017 I collaborated with Adelmo Silva on “I Gotta Getta. I sent him vocal and rhythm guitar tracks, and Adelmo took it from there. I promised at the time to post the original song “in a week or so”. Well, it's been a long long week. The rhythm guitar and lead vocal tracks are the ones…
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Can't Get You
This lyrically lightweight song has been with me most of my musical life. There have been many versions and rewrites, but it survives essentially intact from the day it was written. At the current time it is largely just a vehicle for instrumental improvisations … it's main reason for being is…
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Falling Apart w Dave Cooper
Collaboration between Dave(warfydave) Cooper and Ken Minty. It is unusual for me to post another track so soon after the last one (6 days in this case). Dave originally sent me a rhythm guitar and vocal scat for this song. Using the ideas I heard in his scat I put down some lyrics. We passed the...
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Take This Image
Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) was found guilty of heresy and burned at the stake at Rouen in 1431. Her story needs no retelling. The first two verses of the song are from the standpoint of her executioner, Geoffrey Thérage, who was haunted by his part in her death - according to Pernoud, Thérage...
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The Curse
Album: Eyes of the Overworld Involves some layering of rhythms using piano, bass, several guitars and, need I say it, percussion Lyrics: this is my curse: revenge is a cord that binds me along this path waits my adversary fate comes in many flavours, passions and pain the curse won’t be lifted...
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The Cape of Sad Remembrance
Album: The Eyes of the Overworld A dark and exotic love ballad. Lyrics: a dark-eyed lass, forlorn enchantress, dwells on the Cape of Sad Remembrance, waits at night on a lonely beach, for that which comes in from the sea her lover’s gone and he won’t return while the sea still stirs and the sun...
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The Song Of Love
This piece was written specifically for use at “jam sessions” which are (or once were) common in the Yarra Valley. The structure is simple and most musicians grasp at once what is happening. Lyrics: on a secret morn in the hours before dawn he slips to the dock with a silent song then sets off to...
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The River
A ballad based on a poorly remembered story from my childhood. Lyrics: I was born in the granite mountains on a bed of glacial scree where the cougar stalks its prey and the eagle screams there the ice-cold crystal river begins its journey to the sea through great dark brooding forests of mortal...
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singer/songwriter from Yarra Valley, Australia. Struggling as much with modern times as with times past. I guess that makes me a chronic struggler.
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