Peter J Slack Musical BLOG

Win Again : Song Link double down like a clown you want to win again as things go we all know where it all will end there's a way behind closed minds illusion is a thin disguise copyright 2016, PJ Slack, SOCAN

Daddy's out Working in The Gold Mine Song Link : Daddy's out working' in the gold mine Mama's out working in the grape vines Making red wine So we'll all feel fine yeah yeah yeah yeah .. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah .. Daddy's out working in the gold mine making a dime so we'll all be fine yeah yeah yeah yeah .. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah .. I don't know when I'm coming home again Sooner is better You never know when the end may come yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah .. Sister's out working in the hospital She's a nurse you know.. Going to heal your soul yeah yeah yeah yeah .. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah .. Baby's out learnin' the A B C's going to grow up  Be like you and me yeah yeah yeah yeah .. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah .. I don't know when I'm coming home again Sooner is better You never know when the end may come   Words and Music Copyright 2015, Peter J Slack, SOCAN

Northbound Song Link : Northbound Northbound train , mountain high, hear the whistle blow echo through the trees now is a lonely sound that fades away But what I need to tell you I'm thinking far away I hold it close to the line but when I reach the stop and they pour me out of the train That's all right do it again Northbound train , mountain high, hear the whistle blow echo through the trees now is a lonely sound that fades away club car game  sipping whisky high watch the world go by never need to worry ' till you reach the final stop But what I need to tell you I'm thinking far away I hold it close to the line but when I reach the stop and they pour me out of the train That's all right do it again Words and Music Copyright 2004-2015 Peter J Slack, Socan

Freedom Calls Your Name Song link: Freedom Calls Your Name Well the it's certain that nothing is certain when Gypsy's your friend By wine and by fire, a travelling choir, a caravan song Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Well the last thing I remember is you were gone No one can hold you , no one controls you, the wind is your song Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Well you woke up and it was spring time, a time to move on Fly north across borders , don't take any orders, the wind is your song Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name Freedom Calls your name .... Words and Music Copyright , 2012 Peter J Slack, Socan

When I'm With You Song Link : When I'm With You Season changed again Can't remember when the last time Smiling faces beaming proud like a mountain top Souls just shining happiness 'till the end of days Chorus: When I'm with you all these dreams come true When I'm with you all the stars collide and fill the skies Never fear in that space A silent moon always drawing us and creating time [Chorus] Venture far away Days just seem to melt away What little time we'd love to have to enjoy ourselves Scent of youth only hiding under these older ways [Chorus] Copyright 2011 Peter J Slack, Socan

It's been a great deal of time since I last posted any music here.  This isn't for lack of making music however.  My server was attacked because it was using SSL and I had to take it off line and rebuild my personal system.  My music is back online and I will be posting some relatively new recordings that I have done.  I give you this tune, it is one of my favourites of my own instrumental pieces.  This is a meditation on Northern lights. Bed of Northern Lights (C) Peter J Slack, Socan , 2011

THE VALUE OF A MAN With certainty, many women ask this question every day and with equal certainty, most men either do not have the right answer or just simply do not answer such an obvious rhetorical question. Of course, every argument or position can be broken down or dissected until eventually a paradox that has no answer is encountered but today, I will refrain, step down from the cosmos, and will not attempt a cosmic all encompassing answer to this particular question. I'll propose here instead, words and song that form a very sensible answer that any man can feel free to use if presented with such a difficult question. He can memorize it because, in my selfish opinion, it's a very good answer! THE VALUE OF A MAN? The value of a man is not what he takes. Not what he holds in his hands but what he lets go free, and what he gives of his heart and when he lets it be. So give your heart and your soul. Set free the joy and the pain. The sparkle will stay in your eyes, let the rain fall down. To hold the light or the dark will only tear you apart. Give hope to your children near, let the rain fall down. The value of a man is not what he takes. Not what he holds in his hands but what he lets go free, and what he gives of his heart and when he lets it be. Warm Regards, PJ

ICEBERG My favorite digital bird landed on my shoulder the other day and told a story in well-formed mystic URL, of the news of the singing icebergs. Enchanted by such news and the recordings of their songs I went to sleep that night and dreamed I was an iceberg singing a song of my beloved mother earth. I had a heart beat that no one could hear other than the great mother who spoke to me through the ocean waves and the moon whose grip was steady like the rhythm of my pulse. As the sun rises only slightly on the horizon, the water that is my life-blood begins to flow ever faster through my veins. Only the icy waters of the ocean sooth the scorching heat of the mysterious glowing orb; my color, snow white, to reflect the full spectrum of harmful rays. The smaller life forms around me, oblivious to my presence used me as a perch for hunting and trapping their prey. The life surrounding me is part of my purpose, is part of my soul.

PHOTOS BY: Peter J Slack Hello World!!! GLENELG ALBUM TRACKS I am so very pleased to release to you all the GLENELG IMPROVISATION SESSIONS that took place at the end of July 2006 at he Glenelg community hall. These are the "best of" tracks that were recorded over the weekend during the emancipation picnic weekend. The spirits were flying high and these are some incredible ambient sessions captured for you on hard drive. The Players list for this weekend excursion is as follows: Nik Cherry: percussion, slide guitar, calimba Nick Hall; Guitar, Slide Guitar Phil Papineah; Percussion Jerry Prager; Harmonica, Chants Morvern McNie; Darbouke drum, egg JR Busby; Jembe Warren Campbell; Bass, Percussion, Frog Peter J Slack; Guitar, Bass Enjoy!!!! (C)opyright 2006, Players of Instruments

Good day once again fine people, NORTH AMERICAN DREAM I was considering this song for some time now and it sort of follows on the theme of relationships. The scale of this song however is much grander; it is a plea to mother earth that she is always there to tame our guiding social conscience with that of the earth conscience, or in other words, the relationship we have with the planet and beings we share it with. In a sense, the relationship we have with ourselves is embedded in the relationships we have with others, is part of the relationship we have as communities, and furthermore is part of the relationship we have as nations on the planet. The will of the earth is much larger than the will of all nations combined and follows a different set of controlling philosophies and balances. The earth can shift and change our lives in an instant and, with certainty; we will all live our lives out together on this orb and share it with all other life forms. The moral of this short tale; our controls and balances of social conscience aren't necessarily friendly with the free will of mother Earth. I suppose one can call this sort of a "stop and smell the roses" country/blues style....Enjoy North American Dream Follow me. We climb to the top put our heads in the fog. We shoot for the moon but we still hit the ground. Mother Earth please follow me Through this North American dream. Shelter me. We hide from the truth but we can't stop the pain. We say that it's right and ignore when it's wrong. Mother Earth please shelter me, From this North American dream. Frighten me You speak through the trees with deep love from the ground Your mind is a flash lightening strike to the clouds Mother Earth please frighten me, From this North American dream. Set me free. We go on our way and forget where we've been We live out our lives disconnected it seems Mother Earth please set me free, From this North American dream. Warm regards to all, PJ Words and Music (C)opyright 2005, Peter J Slack, SOCAN

Good day once again to all fine people, The Seven Rings of Saturnalia : Song Track I awoke the other morning to a news cast on TV with these spectacular and mysterious sounds of the aurora of Saturn that were recorded by the Cassini probe. This particular recording was in the radio spectrum and was slowed down 44 times to render in the audio range. I decided to overlay some improvisational tracks over top of these tracks from the physics lab at U of IOWA for you. The original recording can and spectral graph can be found here: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA I was excited to produce this particular track because earlier, and co-incidently, as part of the cat continuum project, I had simulated schumann resonance: SCHUMANN RESONANCE and inserted it as backdrop for a live performance of "Heal the Children" at the Hugh's Room. These types of planetary soundscapes seem to work very well for ambient and even folk tunes....ooppps!!!my secret is out!! :-) These are very exciting and inspiring times to have these more intimate understandings and connections unfold to further express our place in the giant milky way: more fuel for music making. Enjoy, PJ Space Cadet Music & Words Copyright 2005, Peter J Slack, SOCAN

THE EYES OF JUPTIER:Song Track One of the most startling and immense systems of weather and inexplicable demonstrations of stable atmospheric dynamics is the great red spot of Jupiter that was first observed more than 300 years ago. It is assumed that it was Cassini who first observed the Great Red Spot, however, it is unlikely that when Cassini made the observation that he considered whether the spot could be observing him. If one accepted the gaia hypothesis as addition or otherwise fitting with our clinical definition of life, then there would be no need to further question the existence of extra terrestrial life because we could simply begin to investigate the other planets in our solar system as conscious living systems. Possibly the most difficult psychological hurtle for the human race would be to accept a view that we are conscious beings that make up part of a larger conscious being that is the earth and that each degree has free will that defies logic. For sake of this hypothesis, put aside the notion that life and consciousness has to follow a strict clinical definition of what we can observe, dissect and calculate to consider and compare the larger living system of Jupiter with that of earth. One of the observable traits common to living planets with complex internal workings is its weather system. Collectively, life on earth contributes to the creation, the content and the shape of our atmosphere. In this respect, the human race through the observation and understanding of the universe has shaped the weather systems by applying this knowledge and understanding to lifestyle and to the taming of nature. A gaia theorist could postulate that, in part through our actions, the earth weather system is an evolved complex system that has a memory and is aware and conscious of the universe; the earth can observe and store information of the surrounding universe through us. A planet like Jupiter would not be able to sustain our forms life given the immense gravitational field yet there is potential mechanism that could shape the weather patterns on Jupiter through external universal influences: the great red spot. The great red spot of Jupiter is still a mystery to scientists yet is it possible that it is part of the living system of Jupiter itself much as we are to the earth? Is the great red spot an example of the inexplicable properties of life and free will? Consider the great red spot as an engine that drives the rest of the weather patterns on Jupiter and then apply the butterfly effect discovered while attempting mathematical weather modeling; a small perturbation in temperature or pressure within the great red spot will have immense consequences to the unfolding patterns of the surrounding weather system. A small blip in the spot would be amplified to some degree on the resulting eddies and vortexes around the spot. Is this Jupiter's eye to sense the surrounding universe? Words and Music (C)opyright 2005, Peter J Slack, SOCAN

I've been working a bit in the studio lately and some songs are coming to fruition. :-) A new song can be found here: http://www.pjslack.net/lifedoessing.mp3 Life does sing The breeze that brings the tree that sways sum of the motion that nature brings ..nature brings The music heals intention fields All of us caring in harmony ...harmony Forever young our brilliant sun shining its light that creation rings ...creation rings As we grow old stories time told time is the song that life does sing ...life does sing Beginning ends the mystery climbing each limb of the knowledge tree ...the knowledge tree Words and Music Copyright 2009, Peter J Slack, SOCAN I wrote this while on holiday with my family, it is part of the project I am working on called "The Love Network". I tend not to tell stories but rather summarize and embed messages in my songs. The production is minimalist with no overdubs; as if I have come to sing for you by the fireside. I am currently inspired by the work of Rene Thom and his book on Morphogenesis and I am also having fun playing with hyper-spectral imaging data from satellites and looking at things in new ways, like a kid in a candy store :-). This song was written for an occasion; to open the Fresh Water Jamboree in Guelph that my good friends put on every year. Peace to all,PJ

(Image: "PROPHESY" created by Zappha) It's been a while since I've published any new music tracks. Please find here a new song track entitled "Deep Inside": http://www.pjslack.net/deepinside.mp3 I've begun a new music collection project entitled "The Love Network Voyager". The theme is intended as an exploration of love within social networks of people. Today we experience light speed communications between people from all over the globe, it seems almost a natural extension of ourselves to be able to do this. We have always been naturally blessed with light speed processes in our brains to enable memories of our life to be recalled, and with senses that can view the light from the very beginnings of the universe; we sense and recall the memory of the universe and all time. Social networks perhaps mimic these senses,experiences and structures in some way, as if creating a toy universe inside a real universe where we can explore, create, be together. Since I was a child I have always been fascinated and addicted to communications, it somehow made me feel closer to understanding a larger picture that I could be a part of when I was able to communicate with other people in remote locations in real time. The popularity of social networks,cell phones etc. and the addictive properties, I feel, is an interesting and important topic for study in the form of a music collection. I feel it is also important to expose the positive aspects rather than things like; a guy driving his car while texting someone on his crackberry. I had a notion this summer to pack up the recording gear and make pieces of a song in different locations. The recordings took place around a camp fire in my back yard in Erin and in my studio, at a mule farm in Tara, atop the Greystone Inn in Orangeville. This features the voices of friends Kiera Merriam and Lisa Watson and is an improvisational, electro-acoustic / new age genre piece. With great admiration for you all, PeterJ (music copyright 2009, Peter J Slack / SOCAN)

Sal Noguera's show Songwriter's Spotlight airs on http://www.erinradio.ca/ every Sunday from 8 to 9 p.m. and features local talent from the town of Erin. Sal also dives into what the songs mean to the artists and the complicated depth of songwriting. Sal Noguera is the owner of Erinwood Studios, a multitrack demo/project studio. Sal has been a musician for the past 35 years and has been involved in radio since 1974. This charismatic man can be seen at the Bushholme Inn every Sunday jamming with friends during the Open Stage from 1-5p.m. So tune in to the Songwriters Spotlight and explore what Erin musicians have to offer. Sal Interviewed me in April of 2008 and the show is posted here with his permission: http://www.pjslack.net/peterslackshow.mp3 Copyright 2008, Peter J Slack, Erin Community Radio