Kieron McKindle

Well, I suppose this demo of my mini-rock-opera is right for these times. Or these times are right for this song. I need to add vocals and some overdubs, but the mood of this piece absolutely fits the mood of the world right now.

I want to wish everyone a wonderful season of fun and adventure!

As we all begin our 'return to normal' and the music scene begins to ramp up again, I hope everyone will stay safe, happy, and healthy!

I'm sure everyone, like me, is ready to escape the cabin fever caused by the lock-down.

Monotony is no good for our heads and hearts, and music is a wonderful and uplifting spiritual escape.

So, get out and let loose! Dance in the moonlight!

I have been composing daily for the past year and a half, and will have tons of new music for us all in 2022, so, hang in there with me!

Peace and Love always!

Kieron
MidNighT Majyk

Hey everybody!

Well, most of us made it through 2020. My heart is broken for the millions we lost last year! Every single day seemed to last an entire month, with so much to horrify our senses so ceaselessly and senselessly. As most of you may know, I have a song called "Save the Children" which I produced back in the 1980s. I could not promote it last year due to all the loony Qanonesense clowns who would have twisted it into something horrifying by adopting it as their own. So, I went quiet to wait out the year and the fascist dictatorship that tried to steal my country from democracy. I was not quiet elsewhere as I fought as hard as I could and did everything I could to make the seditious Dominionists go away! So far, so good. But, we have until 2022 before we musicians and fans can get back into the mix and thick of things. So, I will spend this year developing my home studio and new projects to be released at the end of 2021 or early 2022. Just keep your heads down. Stay home; stay safe; wear a mask; love thy neighbor; make love; not war! Until the next time, keep on rocking! Avoid derivative pablum! Reject cult clones! Go skinny dipping in the autumn months! Peace & Love always! ALL WAYS!

The 'funny' thing about the version of "As You Seem" here is that it is a remix I did for a friend's film. It's not anything like what it is meant to be. Maybe it's the next song I will redo, once "Child of Dreams" is finished. Anyway, this version of "As You Seem" is the song of mine most liked by everyone on multiple sites. I suppose it's because it sounds like EDM, even though this version was done in the early 1980s on a Teac A3340s 4-track reel-to-reel machine. Go figure . . . But since you all like it so much, please share it again in order to prepare everyone for what is to come in 2019. Much Love!!! -Kieron

City of the Angels
Angels of the sun
Flowing youth, and music
You've got so much I want!

Children of the city
Dancin' in the streets
Let the music roll ya'
Let it move your feet!

'Cause I'm a space angel
Angel of, uh, rock 'n roll
I wanna touch ya'
Baby, let me touch your soul!
I'm a space angel
Angel of, uh, rock 'n roll!

(Solo)

Comin' back to rock ya'
Up from the skies
Just YOUR space angel
To sing you lullabies

Children of the cities
Dancin' in the streets
Let the music rock ya'
Let it roll your feet!

'Cause I'm a space angel
Angel of, uh, rock 'n roll
I wanna touch ya'
Baby, let me touch your soul!
I'm a space angel
Angel of, uh, rock 'n roll!

(Double-Time Boogie Interlude)

Space angel
Space angel
Space angel
Space angel

You say I'm such a fool, now
And that nothing is very real for me
All my love, all these words I sing
Our romance was everything that's me

Then you say . . .
I'm living my life around a . . .
Living my life . . .
Living my life around a . . .

Around a chance
Around a chance
I'm living my life around a . . .
Around a chance

After all that you mean
And all that I meant
After all we were to each other
You have a good laugh and . . .

Then you say . . .
I'm living my life around a . . .
Living my life . . .
Living my life around a . . .

Around a chance
Around a chance
I'm living my life around a . . .
Around a chance

A chance to be love
To know love, to see love
Above and below love
After all I've said from my soul, love . . .

You turn me away
You turn me away, love
You turn me away,
You turn me away, love
You turn me away, and say . . .
That I'm just your fool
Oh, such a fool . . .
I ain't nobody's fool
But then, tell me baby . . .
If I'm such a fool
Why do I love spending so much time
Down on you?

Around a chance . . .

In the deepness of the night
In the cool, thick misty moonlight
The willow trees, they moan and weep
And I shall never sleep

Through the cold, cold winter nights
Warmed only by my desires
And all the endless astral flights
In search of my true love's sweet fire

All this suffering, is it my reward?
They say a madman will never be free
Must I die by my own sword?
To die throughout eternity . . .

A long time ago, I was born again
In life; in love
I thought her sent from heaven
An angel from above
And it felt so good again, feeling so alive!
Until life took her away again . . .
With my love locked away . . . My renaissance died!

I gave them all my honesty
They took my trust, and never gave it back
I gave them truth, and bits of my dreams
They took my love, and stabbed me in the back!

They cut my heart out, and took her from me
They stole her away and tried to destroy me
They stole my heart, and tried to bleed me by the hour
Holding my love there, captive of the tower!
Captive of the tower . . .
Captive of the tower . . .

When your dreams are shattered,
And your faith is murdered
Your hope fades to wishing
That your life could be surrendered
Born again, to die again . . .
Born again, to die again . . .

The death of new-birth
Borne away again; hidden somewhere . . .
Oh, my heart is . . .
Captive of the tower!
Searching for the cask of love, somewhere in this tomb . . .
This tomb of still-life: The graveyard of my dreams . . .

Video teaser from old (failed) Kickstarter attempt. Just a short clip from a much longer video. I recorded the backing track on the keyboard and then played guitar to it live in my living room using an old video camera. I shall redo this in the near future using all-new equipment/technologies.

CeLeSTiAL TiTANiUM has exceeded ONE MILLION PLAYS; all thanks to EVERYONE OF YOU! Obviously, we are very excited by reaching this milestone here on N1M! Thank you all so very much!!! Of course, there are songs and videos out there that reach these goals in mere days and hours, but we are delighted that our music has been listened to so very many times! Now, onto TWO MILLION!! Thank you ALL!!!

Progress Update: 2018 Remake - "Child of Dreams"

So, I've moved into/onto a 5 acre farm in Jacksonville, Oregon. Deep in the Applegate Valley. It's gorgeous here! The Applegate River runs through the forested landscape, and when it is not raining or snowing, I am out on the property reworking/rescuing it from years of neglect. Other than music, remodeling and landscaping is at the top of my list of things that make me really happy and excited!

And when the weather is too wild to play outside, I am in here, by the fireplace, making music with my new StudioOne3 DAW, and kick-ass JBL Studio Monitors.

Six weeks ago I had hernia surgery, but now I am back to full physical fitness, and feeling great!

I have been working on this new version of "Child of Dreams" for a couple of months now. Laying down the basic tracks (Guitars, Bass, Vocals), composing and arranging the extensive orchestrations, and learning this new DAW, which is simply amazing!!! It is limitless! Down the Rabbit Hole!

The song is really taking shape now, but it's going to be a few more months before it is finalized, mixed, and mastered. I chose one of my hardest songs to learn this new DAW with on purpose. When I am done with this one, everything else will be easy as can be. As soon as I can, I am going to send this to an amazingly GREAT drummer in Canada to put the drums on, and then I will enter the mixing process. I am already 36 tracks, and this will probably be 50+ tracks total to mix. The biggest project I have ever done!

As most of you know, the new music marketplace demands the release of a new song at least every month, posted on every site imaginable. Spotify being the top of the list! For this purpose, I am not going to release the new songs until I have a backlog built up (think Double or Triple Album/Playlist) so I can be consistent with my releases. I have a lot of work to do this year to set everything up so as to make the most of my new studio here. This wonderful "Applegate Studio" I have been waiting all my life to have.

I will release a rough, reference mix here on N1M for all of you who follow me so graciously, but again, it's not going to be for a few more months. After that, there will be streaming elsewhere, and websites where my music and merchandise can be bought, if you want to help me move forward with more and more music over the coming years.

Sorry to be such a tease, but the music business has changed drastically, and I need to do this all correctly so I can continue to eat and keep a (new) roof over my head.

The demo I am linking here is one I did on my old ProTools setup a few years back. I liked ProTools, but hated Avid! The demo here is called "No More War!" and will give you an idea of where I am going with my new StudioOne3 DAW. "No More War!" is long (almost a half-hour!) because it's episodic. It's the soundtrack to a visual piece telling the story of war's aftermath in the 21st century.

I wish you all the best of luck in all that you are doing, and I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for your kind consideration for me and my music.

Peace and Love Always!!!

KKMcK

As promised a year ago, my new studio is now taking shape. To learn my new StudioOne3 DAW, I decided to remaster this song in preparation of redoing it entirely. So, here is the same old demo redone with all this new technology. It's just part of my new learning curve, but being that right now it is #1 in Oregon; #3 in the US, and #56 in All Genres in the US, I wanted to test the waters with this old demo. What is to come is going to blow you all away!!! You just wait and see!!! Once the new version is posted, this old version will go into the "extras" files you will all be checking out after I am dead.

The lyrics are under the song.

Stay tuned for a ton of new shit to be revealed over 2018, and finalized in 2019!

Love ya all!

-KKMcK

When I don't sleep at night
I hear their voices in the rain
I fear the children cry in vain lord
I feel their pains from so far away

Little fingers reach out clutching
They reach out for love
Bleeding tears from sweet eyes dying
Nightmare in search of a disguise

Well look at you and look at me
And look at a world where so few are free
Of a childhood so silent and tortured
Oh lord won't you set them free?

Wounds take time to heal
Though mostly never do
Only stay concealed
Like the light that won't shine through

And the tortured dying soul jeers out
At life afoot, seen like time through the years
Wading through the tears like a spirit of the seas
Trapped and suffocating in the shallows

Do you want to save yourself;
Save this world we're in
want to free the human spirit,
Then we must all save the children

Save the children, save the children
Save the children, save the children
Save the children, save the children
Save the children, save the children

Free them from the ignorance
Of the limitless fools
Those who should not have been parents;
From the wiles of the sickly few

Save the children;
Their majestic innocence
If you wanna save the world that we live in
Save the children

Lead them to the truth
With reason and logic
Balanced on the scales of time
Free from superstition and sin

Save the children, save the children
Please save the children, save the children
Won't you please save the children
Save the children, save the children
Save the children, save the children
Save the children, save the children