Hi everybody,
As I have no official employment at the moment and have just released a single (which was written about what led to this situation) then I thought it was time to mention it in a blog.   I’m currently on a 6 month online course and waiting for PRS registration confirmation.   Better pull my finger out and start writing some good songs/tunes and collaborating with the vast amount of good musicians/singers that I am meeting while on this music course (via zoom meetings).   Would be good to collaborate with local musicians somewhen, as that would be more practical, but meanwhile I am just trying to complete my ‘2020 Vision’ album.  Will see what musical moves to make and where things are going in 2021.  That’s all for now and hope you like the song.
Colin
The Lost Connection

The purchase/streaming link is on the SoundCloud page, but also shared  at the beginning of the week.

Hello all,

Before COVID-19 came along, many changes were already occurring in my life. Certain interests were growing and other ones were disappearing. At the end of last year I had knee (and back problems) which continued into 2020 and momentarily after my 2 month furloughing period had ended. Due to these problems I decided to give up my 14 year golf membership and stopped skiing (although this was partly due to losing most of my savings to an online scam company – stupid perhaps, but I am one of many unfortunately). The only thing that I did carry on doing, relentlessly, is creating lyrics and songs and increasing my website content. Fortunately, though, I am feeling very physically fit at the moment and working hard… but more surprises are inevitably going to occur in the coming months.

After 30+ years of writing lyrics, 40 years of learning to play the keyboard and compose music, 3 years since I created this website and, over the last 8 months, have released 7 albums which I recorded over the decade (and the latter in the 1990’s). I never had any musical aspirations while recording these songs, so I never wasted too much time on perfecting them. As most know, I am not really a singer, so this made the turning of my lyrics into songs very hard.

Due to this changing world, I am going to try and focus even more on music and release more albums. I will now endeavour to spend more time perfecting the songs, hopefully, and may even write songs that are appealing to a wider spectrum of people. I may have to get my business head on and start turning the past-time into something more (but I guess that all depends on who’s attention I am able to gain).

I have written many lyrics this year and am heading for 1000 by the end of next year, if not before, probab;y. The latest song I am working on is ‘Two Shades Of Blue’. If you are interested in my songs and/or lyrics then please can you subscribe to this website and ‘like’ or ‘follow’ me on Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud (and ReverbNation, but maybe not for much longer). I may have to make this website more exclusive, rather than the ‘free-for-all to see’ one that it is at the moment. To anyone who does subscribe I will try to enable them to have free downloads of any future re-recordings of songs that they have already streamed/bought (and maybe more exclusive recordings if requested).

Well, that’s all I can say for now and I’ll carry on doing the best I can at work and in music, and let’s see what the future holds.

Bye everyone and thanks for reading this.

Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection

Hi all,
Well, now I have cleared most of my backlog of songs by releasing them on 6 albums (and thank you to all YouTube viewers) I am now starting to create a totally different style of music with a local guitarist.  His production experience is far greater than mine and, after two jamming sessions, some good ideas are starting to develop.  They may only be instrumentals but it is early days.  Good to start a new project and not be just a one man band anymore.  Hopefully tunes (and maybe songs) will be uploaded later in the year.  Due to a new hard-drive installed my recording interface no longer works so new one arriving tomorrow, although the recording taking place at the moment is using the other musicians keyboards and computer.   I may find time to continue to record and upload my own new songs and tunes though.  Thanks for reading this and hope our future musical creations can be enjoyed by some of you out there.
Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection

Hello everyone,
Since December 2019, 6 albums will have been released within 10 weeks. ‘Lost Property’ was released in mid December and the 5 ‘Best Of’s…’ will all be available by the middle to late February.  They can all be heard on Spotify already, but 13 other online shops soon.  While preparing to release my collection of in-home recordings my laptop started to play-up. This hindered album cover creation and production process. Some of the songs were old recordings that had not been perfected and, therefore, I had to tweak the production (and add additional vocals) the best I could before finally releasing these songs. A few were amended in the first month of 2020, but the songs were created and originally recorded between 2011 – 2019. (although some of the lyrics dated back to 1989). The originally intended albums (The Beginning Part 1, 2 and 3 and ‘Under The Influence Of…) were segregated and spread over 5 ‘Best Of’s…’ instead. Only one album is ongoing and will not be released until the original recordings have been improved and when the story is more complete (if ever!).  ‘Love Music’ is a song that was featured in ‘Reality In Dreamland’ although recorded 21 years later than the story was completed (although a previous version had been recorded).

The last 2 months have not been easy, as I have had to try and design the album covers (making sure the design met the specification required), decide the playlist orders and amend song recording levels and mixes to make all approximately the same volume (and the same as other modern downloads) and lyrics audible and reasonably in tune. Unfortunately, some of the best lyrics may not have been on the best recordings and vice versa. Due to various problems with equipment over the years, I no longer have the master copies of the songs and, therefore, as re-recording them would take far too long. I have had to just release them regardless of minor faults.

If I do record any of these songs in future months, or years, then there is a good chance that they will be released as well. For now, excluding a few dozen songs I recorded over the last 10 years (excluding various collaborations), this is just a large demonstration of what I have managed to do as an amateur songwriter, who was (and is) very lacking in musical production experience, never been a singer/vocalist and never been a qualified keyboard player.   When you can’t get together with the right people you just have to do it all yourself.

There was going to be a ‘Something Else Before (The 1990’s)’ album but the old tape recordings do not sound very good compared to today’s production quality.  I may, however, release ‘Mask Of Reality – Reality In Dreamland’ despite the poorer sound quality.

Hopefully, the songs can be enjoyed on a lyrical or musical level, if not both.  I sense I will be taking a break from songwriting for a while, but I have started to collaborate with a local guitarist. Hopefully good sounds will be recorded soon!!

Thanks for reading and hope you like what you hear, if and when you get the time.   Due to the songs not being professionally recorded I can understand if people don’t like them.  This is not a money making venture, just me trying to justify my last 30+ years of writing lyrics and creating songs.

Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection

Hi all,

As you know, I released ‘Lost Property’ last month and now, this month, I have released ‘The Best Of…’ in 3 parts.  Some of the songs were not produced, or performed, perfectly and may have contained minor errors, but it was capturing my endeavours of the last decade.  There are many other songs yet to be released from this period, and some of which may actually sound better than ones featured on ‘The Best Of…’ albums.  This is because they either did not have so many ‘likes’ or listens, were insignificant in the grand scheme of things, or about sensitive subjects and best saved for separate albums at a later date.  95% of the recordings I am reasonably happy with considering the fact that were not professionally recorded, nor destined to be released in the first place.  While I am endeavouring to record new songs, with a 2020 Vision theme and hopefully collaborating with other musicians, I will continue to upload the older songs as previously intended.

Thanks,
The Lost Connection

Hi people,
This month I released the first album finally (Lost Property) which contained songs that were more self-orientated.   ‘Simple Man’ was recorded days before the release and could have been sand better but, nonetheless,  I feel good that I have released this first album now.  The recordings weren’t top notch, but they were as good as I could manage at this stage in time.  I am about to release the ‘Best Of The Lost Connection (2011 – 2019’ next and think I finally have the right songs included (32).  As I have such a large catalogue it has been hard deciding which songs to include.  Also, the artwork is quite a tricky job.  Once I have released the ‘Best Of’ album I hope to release all the other tracks on 3 albums under the title of, ‘The Beginning Parts 1, 2 & 3’.  I will be busy over Christmas trying to get these albums completed.  Anything written before 2000, although recorded in recent years, will be on a different album (Something Else Before).   There may also be an album titled ‘2019’ also, which will be the last of an era of very quickly recorded songs.  2020 will hopefully be a turning point and better recordings will start to be heard.  Thanks to anyone following and hope my future music will be liked even more and gain more followers.
Happy Christmas and a happy new year to all.
Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection.

https://the-lost-connection.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post

Hi everyone.

Well, after churning out songs for the last 8 – 30 years I am about to release virtually all of my recordings.  It’s a bit crazy because I am releasing songs which would normally be featured on an album titled, ‘The Unreleased Demo Recordings’ by a band that has been around for 30 years already and had avoided exposing their amatuer recordings until their credibility was already established and the end of their success was edging nearer.

Being as unorthodox as I am, I am doing it without any prior musical success.  Many of my recordings will never be replicated in exactly the same way so I’ve decided to reveal what I did in my spare time for the last decade (and as far back as the 1990’s).  Some recordings I do still have and, therefore, vocal improvements can still be made and have been made.

Over the last year year I have been trying to create ideal playlists and, more recently, artwork that will enable me to release what I have recorded.  As I am a conceptually orientated kind of songwriter I have had to spend lots of time creating playlists and including the right songs in the right order and on the right albums to be, also.

As most recordings are in-home recordings I have not bothered to spend lots of money on the cover artwork.  I have tried to create the artwork as quick, quirky and basic as I write and record.   Once I have cleared my backlog of old songs I would like to think future recordings may be a lot more professional, but possibly not lol (but that depends and who decides to listen and like I guess).

My first release will be ‘The Best Of The Lost Collection 1 & 2’.  This is songs which I put a lot into but all data (and master recordings) have been lost.   ‘Lost Property’ is songs that are a bit more personal or relative to me maybe.  This will begin with a new recording of a very old song.   ‘The Beginning Parts 1 and 2’ contain songs written or recorded between 2011 – 2014 mainly. ‘ The Beginning Part 3 (Reaching The End)’ contains songs written and/or recorded over the last 5 years.  There will also be an album containing new recordings of songs written during the 1990’s and (on the second half) recordings from the 1990’s (‘Something Else Before (The 1990’s)’).   Between 1994 – 1998 I wrote a story, ‘Reality In Dreamland’, while I was calling myself, ‘Mask Of Reality’.  This, despite being  of a poorer quality (like all 1990’s tape recordings) will also be released.  There are one or two more albums that maybe released, but that is yet to be decided, which are, ‘Under The Influecne Of…’ and ‘2019‘).  I may even re-release ‘The Lost & Found’ recordings again sometime (with additional songs now.

Why am I doing this?   The reason is because people are confused as to why I have written and recorded so many songs and never done anything with them.  The reason for that is simply because I couldn’t find the people needed to help me sing, record and perform them and had to rely on myself to do it all (which was a long process of progression and improving enough to finally expose my musical indulgences).

Right, update over and onto the finalizing the playlists before handing them over to DistroKid’.

Thanks for reading and glad to see more and more people are starting to visit my website and listen to my songs.  I’m just an unknown, ageing songwriter, with no musical background hardly, who enjoys creating songs and expect nothing in return, but perhaps it’s time to change this frame of mind…..?

The Lost Connection

Hello all subscribers and any other readers/listeners.

As I have been off work with back, and other related problems (which is ongoing) I have managed to record and write some new songs.  Also, moments ago, I finally realised why my website could not be accessed (a plug-in called ‘Coming soon’).  Now that has been deactivated anybody should be able to view new lyric listings and additional lyric/song links.  Sorry if you have tried to access my website for the last 3 months, but hopefully you can now and will be able to for the foreseeable future.  If I go pro then restrictions maybe incurred for copyright sakes but, for now, all is free and easy to view/hear.  Thanks for reading and more songs to come, hopefully.

Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection

PS.  30 years+ of songwriting, over 900 titles, nearly 250 tracks on Soundcloud (nearly 200 of which are my songs) and over 150 of which I have recorded on my own.    10 hours of songs and tunes (but not all good recordings unfortunately).