Jayl - UK Singer/Songwriter/Performer/Producer/Poet. Savage, Evoking, Eventual, Diversity - Purism. A Fusion of Gothic Trance, Rock, Dance, Pop
On the 22nd December 2002, the music legend Joe Strummer died. It is over 2 years since this event so I want to remember the great man at this time. Joe represented honesty and raw quality ... he was savage, evoking, eventual and diverse ... which is what my work is all about too ... I love to create, I love to make music, I love to sing and I don't GIVE A SHIT! I care nothing for genre's or labels or the bigotry, pomposity and hypocrisy of the mainstream music industry. Joe Strummer taught us all genuine artistic principles ... from The Clash to The Mescalaros, Joe always stayed true to his roots. The Clash were a real garageband, playing in squats and hovels and garages.
That's how my brother and I started out - playing in freezing cold basements on guitars with 5 strings, distorted microphones and amps made out of old record players .. but we did it for the love of it. We cared not if we were shit - we learned our instruments and we dreamed our dreams. And we're still here now, lucky enough to be doing what we love - making music, writing lyrics, making art, performing and even teaching as well ... what a true privelege this is.
How many people get to work at what they really love? And to work with brilliant and talented artists and musicians as well ... this is a genuine honour and makes every day an awesome experience. Even the grey days. After all, these days are all part of the movie!
Joe Strummer's final album "Streetcore" came out last year and it is truly inspirational ... check out this lyric ... "We're going on through yes never to know what is true ... and so the new century came ... and somehow fame had forgotten her name ... we're pushin through ... on this fantastic Ramshackle Day ... this is the Ramshackle Day Parade." So why are we still here, without major fame, without major fortune, without major recognition? 'cos this is WHAT WE DO ... dead simple - we're pushin through and this is what we do - and we fuckin' love it. We are a part of this Ramshackle Day Parade!
And now we have the Internet, we have Mp3's and Midi, we have Cubase, Soundforge, Dreamweaver and Reason ... we can experience an event to inspire us in the morning, write a song about it in the afternoon, record it in the evening and have it playing to the world by midnight ... and now we have this immense new website - www.soundclick.com to host our work .... and wow! ... this site is FRESH! There are some fantastic artists, music and visuals on this site. This is where the music industry should be looking for new talent ... come on industry ... put away your fear .... in the immortal words of Rage Against the Machine - "WAKE UP!"
Most importantly of all - thanx to all of you around the world who have bought my work, come to my gigs, signed my guestbooks and forums, tuned into my radio broadcasts, checked out and downloaded my mp3's ... You who are reading this message ... Your love and your support make it all worth it.
Jayl
Lyrics
Never be afraid of silence.
Never be afraid to see what it looks like… you know…it looks kinda' blue..
Like the eyes of an eagle or the dream of the sky.
Focus there, prepare to dare, do not care… for the narrow stare.
Those who mess and refuse to give, they really don't know who their dealing with,
Illusion grand, they won't see me 'til i'm there….
'Cos I was born in white on a hot summer night,
With the moon glow full with a venomous pull,
Everybody dreamed and everyone knew 'twas savage.
Little boy lost in a childhood frost,
But he grew real keen and he grew real mean,
Everybody dreams and everyone knows it's savage.
Fire inside like a burning bride,
Where the tide subsides and the leopard cub hides,
Everybody dreams but everyone knows it's wild.
Pounding on my brain like a runaway train,
Are the voices of the people that I left in the rain,
But everybody dreams and everyone knows it's savage.
Born to be real, be a prince of the feel,
To be hot on the heel of your own big wheel,
Everybody feels and everyone knows it's savage.
Never in a rush to escape from the crush,
To escape from the brush to a girl who's lush,
And everybody dreams and everybody knows she's real.
Beast in the corner, beast on the stair,
Beast in your emotion, beast in your hair,
Beast of burden, feasting beast he's savage.
People we saw they were there in the war,
They lived in it's midst through the black and the blitz,
And everybody dreams and everyone knows it's savage.
How do you do can I walk with you,
Take a tea with you, go to sleep with you?
Everybody sees and everyone knows it's savage.
Refugee from the northern sea,
Does your blood run free, will you ride with me?
Everybody knows Snow White, she ain't no savage!
Roaring fire, real live wire, you make me wanna dance the latest trance,
The new romance!
Mean…like a carousel Queen your turning round, ya motion found,
Your body glows, electric flows…the beast he grows.
The beast he grows, you gotta grow, I love your show…
"Your blue babe! "
Roaring fire, real live wire, you make me wanna dance the latest trance,
The new romance!
Mean…like a carousel Queen your turning round, ya motion found,
Your body glows, electric flows…the beast he grows.
"Hey hello!"
Every hour, every second we've been grappling with the phantoms in our hall.
( Knowing Me………….….)
( Dead or alive, dead or alive, dead or alive! )
( Knowing Me……………..)
Every morning, with a warning, they're dissolving into shadows on the wall.
( Dead or alive, dead or alive, dead or alive! )
( Knowing Me……………..)
( Dead or alive, dead or alive, dead or alive! )
( Knowing Me……………..)
Limitless maze of life, don't know which way to turn,
Each direction could be wrong so don't leave me to burn.
Ordered by the ocean, commanded by the current,
Crazy panic, hectic race…..and loving every moment!
Screaming blue murder, never heard her voice of reason
In the season of the war.
Falling shower, seizing power, in the reign of time
Temptation plucks a flower….the beast he cowers.
( Do we know each other, do we know them all?)
( Never be, never be afraid, never never never never never be afraid!)
( Do we know each other baby, do we know them all?)
( Never, never be afraid, never be, never be afraid!)
Do we know each other baby, do we know them all?
All the beasts entwined as one, won't catch them when they fall.
(Never, never be afraid.)
Accumulate wealth with a miracle stealth
But Death with a call will make you leave all
But everybody dreams and everyone knows it's savage.
Dying in black on a dirty dust track,
The question really is "Are you gonna turn back?"
But everyone dreams and everyone knows it's savage.
© 2005 - Jayl - Task Evolution
