Funny Kind of Sad

I've been away from SoundCloud for a while working on my new album and several writing projects, but the album's nearly done, so I thought I'd emerge from my cocoon and post this song, which means a lot to me. It features my good friend Akmaral Zykayeva on violin. For the past ten years, I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Kazakhstan. I met Akmaral in Almaty, Kazakhstan about six years ago. She is a hugely gifted composer, singer, and violinist who records as "Akmaral Mergen" and also as "Mergen" (Mergen means "woman warrior" in Kazakh).
For this song, Akmaral wrote a beautiful six-violin arrangement, playing all the parts herself.
The photo on the cover is the view from my hotel room in Almaty on one of my trips. In the foreground is Almaty Opera House and in the distance are the snowcapped Tien Shan Mountains (the "Celestial Mountains"). Beyond the mountains is Kyrgyzstan. 
Main guitars on this song are my Taylor GC-5 acoustic and my 1966 Guild Starfire XII (electric twelve-string).
The cricket and bird sounds at the beginning and end were recorded by me with a field recorder in a wild area of southern Wisconsin.
(This song can be found on my "Twilight on Tunnel Road" album, which I'm happy to say won the Alternative Album of the Year award from the Madison Area Music Association.)
LYRICS:
"Let Me Go”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go—I can’t say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can’t bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don’t know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I’m making my way.
I can’t deal with you gone and I’m not okay.
Let me go.

I don’t say you should not go—closing off the future before you can know.
I just can’t get loose from your strings,
they’re wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can’t go on now,
without you I’m lost, I just don’t know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Let Me Go

keyboard / janvier 24
Picture : Freepik.com

Pour tous les robots qui remettent en cause leur programmation

葛藤や迷走を題材にしました。
（The theme is conflict and astray.)
２０２４年、最初の作品です。
（This is the first work of 2024.)

We make promises 
that are not kept.
To love us, to be faithful to us,
until the last day. 

I'm torn inside 
Was i really that blind?  
My memories of good days 
Make me sad today

Reality dulls 

How could it get so far?
What has happened to us? 
All the questions that torment me 
When the time is up 

I'm torn inside 
Was i really that blind?  
My memories of good days 
Make me sad today

Reality dulls 

My world is broken.  
My dreams conjure up madness.  
The wheel of time keeps turning.  
My heart has to accept this 

I'm torn inside 
Was i really that blind?  
My memories of good days 
Make me sad today

Reality 



Reality (Synth&Keys)

Made in #Ableton (February/March 2024)

Video;
https://youtu.be/D5fNEUs2COs

Genres;
#Electronic
#EDM
#Dance

Earth Memories

Saturday Evening

Trouble,
Has been on my mind
Trouble,
Has been on my mind

All I do,
Is worrying
All I do,
Is worrying

Now I'm looking back
At what I've done
And what I have become

The pressure,
Has been killing me
The pressure,
Has been killing me

Love,
Is all I need
Love,
Is all I need

Now I'm looking back
At what I've done
And what I have become

Trouble - Original song

Re-Entry 2024

backtrack is my own work, solos were planned to be EWI solos,
but, the good old REAL sax sounds best ! ... enjoy my humble in-one-go solo !
........... photo: Martin Denuell

just blues

The Dream Continues(See You In The Continuation Of Your Dreams)

様々な時代を音楽にします。
（Make music from different times.)

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