Produced by  Khairil M Bahar & Peter Brown
Engineered by Khairil M Bahar at the Hub
Mastering by Lemang Music
Cover Illustration by Peter Brown
Album design by The Studio of Pius Eugene VN
Photography by Albert Ng, Wong Horngyih, Tang Chun Cheuh
copyright Lemang Music & Peter Brown 2015
www.lemang.com

BLUES  A new album by Peter Brown

Every track (1-14) features Peter Brown on lead vocal and acoustic guitar.  Additional musicians listed below.  Thanks to all these fine musicians

1. Gotta Make d’Music

A response to playing music commercially in a small country in S.E. Asia (but could be anywhere)

Electric guitar and guitar arrangements, electric bass & drum program:  Khairil M Bahar. Rap & backing vocals:  Peter Brown.  Solo lead guitar:  Rithan Vijay

2. If You Leave Me (I’m gonna go on drugs)

A light-hearted look at a love falling apart

Electric guitar & guitar arrangements, electric bass & drum program:  Khairil M Bahar.  Harmonica:  Peter Brown

3. Nit Head Blues

Can’t get rid o’ dem biting insects

Harmonica:  Peter Brown

4. Lesser Being

Get those damn cyclists off the road – it’s my road in my Merc

Keyboards & backing vocals:  Markiza.  Bass:  Khairil M Bahar.  Percussion:  Zalila Lee

5. Blues

When you’re really down, pick up that guitar and get down to it 

Keyboards:  Markiza.  Lead acoustic: Khairil M Bahar.  Slide, backing vocals, harmonica & silly remarks:  Peter Brown.  Bass:  Kevin Theseira.  Drums:  Theo Graham-Brown

6. Ain’t Easy

She doesn’t recognise LOVE when it’s staring her in the face

Keyboards & backing vocals:  Markiza.  Lead and scittery rhythm guitar:  Khairil M Bahar.  Slide: Peter Brown. Bass:  Kevin Theseira.  Drums:  Theo Graham-Brown

7. Contradictions

When everything in your rel is opposite to what it should be 

Keyboards & backing vocals:  Markiza.  Lead guitars:  Julian Mokhtar & Khairil M Bahar.  Cello Florian  Antier.  Bass:  Kevin Theseira.  Drums:  Theo Graham-Brown

8. Golden Moonbeams

Take a bow leaning over that parapet 

Keyboards & backing vocals:  Markiza.  Lead guitar & guitar arrangements:  Ihzwan Omar.  Electric guitar:  Peter Brown.  Bass:  Kevin Theseira.  Drums:  Theo Graham-Brown.

9.  Sad Tomorrow

Not the same as love

Keyboards, vocals:  Markiza.  Slide:  Peter Brown.  Drums:  Paul Millott.  Percussion:  Zalila Lee

10. Open Mic

Rejection stares you in the face – yet you still keep going there to play 

Lead guitar licks and solo:  N. Rama Lohan.  Harmonica:  Peter Brown

11. Jaded

Jump in – no, better not

12. Poverty

You need the chastening spirit

13. The River

Keep it flowing

14.  Insurmountable

What makes it all worth while

THANKS TO…

God Almighty, parents (genetic input), wife and musical partner Markiza, elder step-brother Ernest Hart, Richard Graham-Brown RIP, Theo, Nafisah & Rashid, Incredible String Band, Bread, Love & Dreams, Nick Mason, Incredible String Band, Bread Love & Dreams, Rafique Rashid, Dave Russell, Phil Davies, Soft Touch, Khai Bahar, Wong Lip Kee, Alda Tan RIP, N. Rama Lohan, David Sherwood, Joe Siva, Sandy Monteiro, Rafil Elyas, Reza Salleh, Brian Gomez, Edward Gomez, Saiful Freezailah, Steven Patric, Alex STMRock Wong, Jason Lo, all the fab musicians who played on this album and all who have encouraged our music.  So many thanks…

Tracks will be appearing soon on www.reverbnation.com/peterbrown4
thanks for the pic Albert
LYRICS

Golden Moonbeams  
by Peter Brown     c. Lemang Music, 2015


When you hit rock bottom and your grounded in this life

And all your relationships seem to end in strife

And the darkness gathers round and your thoughts become unclear

And you want to go somewhere where no-one else is near

 
chorus: Golden Moonbeams on my wall tonight

In my despair I lay awake all night

Thinking of dying, such a sweet delight, such a sweet delight

 
And the World is rotten, yeah, it's going to the dogs

You feel you are just one of seven thousand million cogs

People killing people 'cause they don't like their beliefs

You feel you want to make a stand, you want to bare your teeth

 
chorus:    
Golden Moonbeams...etc.     
And you're so alone, you can't seem to love no more

You want to get back to the way you were before  

You want to do so many things but what you can't decide

You're stand at the edge of the road but you just can't get a ride


chorus:    Golden Moonbeams...etc.  

Open Mic  by Peter Brown 

 

c. Lemang Music 2015

Everybody's playing for free  

As you go down to the bar  

The beer is costing far too much  

And we didn't come by car  

 

There are more guitars than people  

As you try to find a seat  

So many other singers and  

instrumentalists to greet  

   

You sit there nervous in your seat

While impatience starts to burn

So many acts to get through

Before you can do your turn

 

And the singer sounds like Bono

Mick Jagger or Thom Yorke

The audience isn't listening

His voice is drowned in talk

 

'Cause everybody's playing for free

'Cause we're playing our own songs

Some of them are boring

Some are far too long

 

And the singer sounds like Dylan

Jeff Buckley or Nick Drake

The guitar playing so familiar

Who's that for goodness sake?

 

He sings of his ex-girl friend

She sings of women's rights

Dreaming of being on MTV

With her name so clear and bright

 

She wants mummy's attention

She wants to be daddy's pet

With her mix of Jewel and Lisa Loeb

And Alanis Morrisette

 

I've only got ten minutes

Two songs to make my mark

One man and his acoustic

Always sounds so stark

There's no time for stage patter

The jokes fall down like lead

They're doing a brisk trade at the bar

They're sure not in the red

 

Three hours’ worth of singers

Performing their own songs

But how many can you recall?

Sad to say not one

 

Yes, everybody's playing for free

'Cause fame is our intent

The pub owner is doing well

But we don't get a cent

 

Plodding, strumming guitars

Bashing out the chords

Nasal, reedy vocals

God, I feel so bored

 

And they are bored by my stuff

Yet the pageant carries on

Like some religious ritual

Of an age that's nearly done

 

We dream of scoring five stars

In the Q magazine rating

We want to get back at parents

For their underestimating

 

So Tonight we're all playing for free

But now it's time to leave

Say cheers to all my buddies

Catch you next time, I believe

 

 

 

Jaded 
by Peter Brown c. Lemang Music 2015

 
Taking the plunge

How would it feel

If I saw you in a room

And I knew it was real

For one brief moment

I followed my heart

But then it would die

And we'd fall apart

 
But I'm taking the plunge tonight

Hope it will be alright


Taking the plunge -

Would I know what to do

If I thought you were magic

And my love was true

But right now I'm sad

'Cause my loving days are through

So I sit at the poolside

And I let you slip through

 
And I'm taking no risks tonight

Wish I could feel alright

 

            Wish I could feel

            Like a man that's real

            I could hold you in my arms

            Lift you off the floor

          Instead of just waiting

            Til you open that door

            You will never open that door

 
Wish I could love you

The way you deserve

'Cause you are a beauty

And it's you I would serve

But right now I'm jaded

And dried up and parched

So I stand in the shadows

Under the arch

 
And I shy away tonight

Wish I could feel alright

Yes I shy away tonight

Wish I could feel alright

Poverty  
by Peter Brown   c. Lemang Music 2015


Lost Love, hungry and cold

Feeling so weak when you want to be bold

Feeling evil when you want to be good

Nothing goes like you think it should

 

Give it to me

I want some of your poverty

You have the eyes to see

 

The World is alive but so unsafe

You’re just a sweet and tender waif

Who has no umbrella to keep out the rain

But there’s dry death behind my brain

 

Give it to me

I want some of your poverty

You have the eyes to see


We are raised in sorrow ands pain

Maybe never to love again

Care worn and weather beaten

Of the tree of knowledge eaten


Give it to m,e ... etc

  <>

Will I ever see you again?

Will I ever wash away the stain?

Will your tight arms ever hold me?

Will your warm, fresh smell enfold me?

 

Give it to me

I want some of your poverty

You have the eyes to see

 

The River  
by Peter Brown c. Lemang Music 2015

 

It’s a Strange Old World

And I’ve spent a long time here

And I didn’t know where I was going

And I’ve lived and I’ve loved

And I’ve laughed and I’ve shed tears

And All the while the river was flowing

 

            And it flows through the plains

            Where the flowers smell so sweet

            And it washes the earth away

 

And each new moment

Is a new life complete

And myself says ‘I can’t stay’

 

Well I roamed on alone

Through many ideas

And many new places I have been

And before the journey ends

I’ll have made many friends

And many new people I have seen

 

            And the river flows on

            Winding slowly to the sea

            And loses itself in the waves

 

And illusion opens to a new eternity

My memory never can save

 

<> 
We are all moving on

Through a pageant of dreams

A drama of diversity

And nothing is ever exactly what it seems

And no-one is ever really free

Through streets of coloured lights

Where the music plays so loud

And the dancers throwing shadows on the Moon

And the glamour and the sites

The excitement and the crowds

Is it real when it’s over so soon

Sad Tomorrow  
by Peter Brown c. Lemang Music 2015

 

If you knew the way I feel better than I do

You would not be able to put things right

When I’m with you and you don’t respond I know it’s true

Nothing now can change my dark to light

 

It’s a sad tomorrow, sad today

Sad tomorrow so we play the game

But it’s not the same as love

 

Death is gradual so the organism slowly dies

Waking up like lead in the morning sun

You see it all so clearly and you wonder why those lies

Led you to embrace what now we shun

 

It’s a sad tomorrow, sad today

Sad tomorrow so we play the game

But it’s not the same as love

But that’s what we became

 

Underneath you know the answer

Icy cold your heart does play

Two people can’t approach each other

How can love lead us astray

I love you but it’s all decay

Yet I need you more than love can say

 

It’s a sad tomorrow, sad today

Sad tomorrow so we play the game

But it’s not the same as love  x 2

 

Not the same as love

Not the same as love

Not the same as love

Not the same as love

Not the same as, not the same as,

Not the same as love

Not the same as, not the same as,

Not the same as love

Not the same as, not the same as,

Not the same as love

Not the same as, not the same as,

Not the same as love

Not the same as, not the same as,

Not the same as love

Insurmountable  
by Peter Brown

2013 c. Lemang Music

 

Pretty Flower, delicate leaf

How will you know when it’s time to leave

Blue skies, tender dawn

Darkness gathers when the day is done

 

Insurmountable, insurmountable

Your love is insurmountable

Insurmountable, insurmountable

Your love is insurmountable

 

Without a right, without a hope

How will we ever learn to cope

Guide me with your light so pure

Give me strength, make me sure

 

Insurmountable, insurmountable

Your love is insurmountable

Insurmountable, insurmountable

Your love is insurmountable