My debut EP

(I've Got) A Long Way to Go EP

Check it out here: Bandcamp Page

It features four songs: Everything She Knew, I'll Be, Happy (a brand new one), and Chained to the Ground (an alternate version of the instrumental I wrote in memory of Elliott Smith).

And also, cover art by Zina Nedelcheva:

And Everything She Knew artwork by my friend Hanna Fazekas

Ilko Birov - Everything She Knew

This is the version without the soaring backing vocals (I jest). A demo of sorts.

Click here, for this is the link to the song on my Soundcloud

I'm leaving home now
Don't know when I'll try to get back
I'm gonna roam now
Might find myself in a year or two

I gotta tell you, that I'm awfully fond of the way
You treat me night and day
I want to show you, that I'm better off on my own
Truly better off on my own

I met some friends here
Really hope they don't pull one on me
'Talk a lot about nature
And how most people should try and be free

I feel like crying, but I'm awfully fond of the way
That you treat me night and day
Just wanted to show you, that I'm better off on my own
Truly better off on my own

na-na naa

I got into some trouble, with the law
I wrote to you, but you still didn't call
So later, when they say I'm ready
I won't feel so adventurous at all

I promise, I promise, I promise

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(I like the "na-na naa" part best)

Enjoy!

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Ilko Birov - Getting To Know One Another

Another simple piano piece.

Soundcloud Link

Ilko Birov - Our Game (Very rough demo)

Soundcloud Link

A tribute to Elliott Smith

Here it is: Chained to the Ground

I've often felt very inspired by his music and ambiance
and evermore so after listening to this: fantastic Elliott Smith rarities collection

Ilko Birov - Garbage Men

The song.

Garbage Dad
Garbage Son
Almost sundown,
work is done
Along the dumpsters,
one by one
Long forgotten dreams,
Boredom come. 


Like a lonely street.
Long forgotten dreams

My Cover of All I Have to Do Is Dream

Song is here: Recording

Enjoy.

Ilko Birov - Ice Cream

Check out my new ditty here: Ice Cream

My Cover of The Passenger

Molly Millions in the bus today

28.04.2012

And the slightly edited face

Bob Marley's Redemption Song

my humble cover

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the Book.

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

Redemption Song - Bob Marley

Miyamoto Musashi's 21 maxims

“1. Accept everything just the way it is.
2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
5. Be detached from desire your whole life long.
6. Do not regret what you have done.
7. Never be jealous.
8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
11. In all things have no preferences.
12. Be indifferent to where you live.
13. Do not pursue the taste of good food.
14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
15. Do not act following customary beliefs.
16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
17. Do not fear death.
18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
21. Never stray from the Way.”

― Miyamoto Musashi

Outlook

Wouldn't Mama Be Proud

It's All Right

Moving down the street
I miss the steps, 'tween you and me
You're in a hurry
It's taking you somewhere
If only I could go somewhere
too

I don't see many people
Just some faces, and I know
It'll be the same
Regardless of where Jane is
But she'll never know
that simple truth

And had I succeeded that last time
Had it all gone black, or blue, or gray
Hair bursting out like a grenade
In all fairness, it would still have been the same
Only in a place
unlike this one, I guess?

Ilko Birov - Monday Morning Groove

This is a link. Click on it to reveal what lays beyond.

Child

More

Pretty Boy Floyd

If you'll gather 'round me, children,
A story I will tell
'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.

It was in the town of Shawnee,
A Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in his wagon
As into town they rode.

There a deputy sheriff approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Vulgar words of anger,
An' his wife she overheard.

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
And the deputy grabbed his gun;
In the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down.

Then he took to the trees and timber
To live a life of shame;
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to his name.

But a many a starving farmer
The same old story told
How the outlaw paid their mortgage
And saved their little homes.

Others tell you 'bout a stranger
That come to beg a meal,
Underneath his napkin
Left a thousand dollar bill.

It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There was a whole car load of groceries
Come with a note to say:

Well, you say that I'm an outlaw,
You say that I'm a thief.
Here's a Christmas dinner
For the families on relief.

Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.

And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won't never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.

Ilko Birov - All of Yesterday's Worries (on Tomorrow's Table)

To the song

Enjoy.

(photo of this beautiful Vancouver skyline taken by my friend Niki Shirazian)