Wow your vocals and songwriting skills are really good! great work man!

@forceten-digital: Thank you my friend.  It is really  appreciated.  I like this song a lot also.

Sound like early solo McCartney. really nice job

But, what if?

Been a Long Time is a track that has been recorded in Nashville, and Brazil!   Thank you Snowman Dave!  I love the way this track progressed & turned out!

Been A Long Time

HELP ! (Lennon & McCartney) - FlyingPenguinMan
Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3V3Ssy7ztg

Help! I need somebody
Help! Not just anybody
Help! You know I need someone
Help!

When I was younger so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But ev'ry now and then I feel so insecure
I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?
Help me, help me

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HELP ! (The Beatles Cover )

Now in Japan, red leaves are at their best. Seasons go fast. They will wither soon with cold gusty wind. We Japanese always feel ephemerality of such beautiful scenery. The more it is fugitive, the more we love its beauty.
In this picture, which was taken by my friend, through the window of red leaves we can see Lake Biwa glowing under the setting sun . Seeing this, we imagine that those tree will be covered with snow in a month or two and the lake will show us another beautiful scenery.
I thought this picture would best reflect the atmosphere of my new song.
Thank you, Mr. Masanori Kozawa for your nice photo.　https://www.instagram.com/fo_galaxy_999/

Through The Red

Recorded in Nashville and new vocals added in Brazil.  A love gone bad is something we all have in our lives. Enough said! Enjoy, let me know if you like it.

Um Longo Tempo

Recorded in January 2018, this song is about the fun of planning life's adventures with a newfound partner. Instruments include a PRS electric guitar, Fender Jazz bass, Yamaha Motif6 keyboard, and sampled drums.

Time To Set Us Free (Original by Ben Buttrick)

TRENTINO SUITE 4th Movement

Fun to work on our second EP. Here is a little demo track of a song that will likely be on the album! A song about the perks of sharing love, hope and misunderstanding with someone. Thanks for listening, let us know what you think!

Concede Defeat

The Race

Written by Barry Skinner, Vince Wylie. Produced by Ian Bentham

Ian Bentham's Album

Gotta keep believing

This piece - a piano quintet in five movements - is named after a small town in northern Italy, nestled in to the alps. The first movement is a very short introduction. I hope you enjoy it.

A little backstory on this music - before covid, I'd made plans to travel the world in early 2020 to celebrate having finished graduate school. I was fortunate enough to be able to do some traveling in January and February before covid stopped everything. I came back to the US early, cancelling the rest of my plans.

This music was written in Italy - I started writing this quintet before covid's first cases were reported there. And I watched, from the standpoint of a tourist, as Italy's cases got higher and higher, and as other nations began to have outbreaks as well. I finished writing this piece of music just before leaving - which was just before the lockdowns started. 

I tend not to think of my own music as being "about" anything. But, listening to this music now, it does make me think of many things - of how great it felt to travel in such a beautiful place, of the freedom of traveling in general (and the hope of returning to it someday, in a world where it's accessible to more people), of how humans can show strength in the face of adversity particularly when they help one another, and of the difficulties as well as the introspection, and the hope, that this year has brought to the world. 

I hope you enjoy it. Soon I will upload its companion piece - another chamber piece written after I got back to the US, but intended to go alongside this one as a sort of sibling.

Aosta

Courmayeur - Movement 1

I pray that I might accomplish
That which leaves a mark.
To etch my name in stone,
And  thus state with a profound voice
'I once lived.'
For fear of being forgotten.
- from the poem "Fear of Being Forgotten" by Keane Douglas Wren

What's Not Forgotten

Eureka moment!  A bright idea
So challenging in these times
Well full steam ahead as the coast looks clear
Out of reality
Loosening mentality
Its going to be a long year

CHORUS
Out of the blue sky and into the red
Out of the blue sky and into the red
The rain is teaming
The people screaming
The pilots off his head
Out of the blue sky and into the red

Well the history books curse on many a name
Yet morality isn't a crime
I'll remember you as society's stain
Out of reality
Loosening mentality
Its going to be a long year

CHORUS

Out Of The Blue Sky

Hi folks - I was inspired to wright this song some days ago when we lost the electrical power for an hour!

Some of us take it for Granted

There are things - that we are used to
and which we always demand and must exist for ourselves
it is however not all that can enjoy the 
facilities that are provided for some of us on this globe 

I can remember - the times when power was lost
it was a moment of horror and we could not do a thing
but there are people in the world who would be happy to
be able to get some light before they prepare their morning meal

It is not all who can drink water from the tap
without suffering from serious problems from the gut
furthermore we can enjoy the hot water from the 
shower every morning before we go to our daily work

There are some of us - who can - enjoy food in excess
and to a limit when we realize that a diet is required
there are however some folks who only can eat 
once a week and the children must go starving to bed each night

Swedish
Vissa av oss tar det för Givet

Det finns saker - som vi är vana vid
och som vi alltid kräver och måste existera för oss
det är dock inte alla som kan njuta av
faciliteter som tillhandahålls för vissa av oss på detta jordklot

Jag minns - de tider då elkraften förlorades
det var ett skräckmoment och vi kunde inte göra något
men det finns människor i världen som gärna skulle kunna
kunna få lite ljus innan de förbereder sin morgonmåltid

Det är inte alla som kan dricka vatten från kranen
utan att lida av allvarliga tarmproblem
dessutom kan vi njuta av det varma vattnet från
duschen varje morgon innan vi går till vårt dagliga arbete

Det finns några av oss - som kan - njuta av mat i överskott
och till en gräns när vi inser att en diet krävs
Det finns dock några människor som bara kan äta
en gång i veckan och barnen måste svälta till sängs varje kväll

Some of us take it for Granted

Version 2 with harpsichord at first, then grand piano, as suggested by MrBouzouki

Image from Pixabay is of Karlsruhe, Germany

Been A Long Time

ALLEN HOLMSTROM

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