Really nice track. Cool vocal and gorgeous guitar playing. Best Regards 😉

Pete Seeger wrote this song based on a 1938 poem by the Welsh poet Idris Davies, who lived in the town of Rhymney, Wales. The poem was written in protest of a pay cut the British government imposed on the coal industry as an austerity measure after WW I. Pete turned it into a protest about mine safety as is evidenced by his changing the line "who robbed the miner" to "who killed the miner". The Byrds then turned it into one of the most quintessential (and best) folk rock songs ever recorded, releasing it on their 1965 debut album "Mr. Tambourine Man".
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"The Bells Of Rhymney" (Seeger/Davies)

Oh what will you give me 
say the sad bells of Rhymney
Is there hope for the future 
say the brown bells of Merthyr

Who made the mine owner 
say the black bells of Rhondda
And who killed the miner 
say the grim bells of Blaina

Throw the vandals in court 
say the bells of Newport
All would be well if, if, if, if, if 
say the green bells of Cardiff

Why so worried sisters why 
say the silver bells of Wye
And what will you give me 
say the sad bells of Rhymney

Oh what will you give me 
say the sad bells of Rhymney
Is there hope for the future 
say the brown bells of Merthyr

Who made the mine owner 
say the black bells of Rhondda
And who killed the miner 
say the grim bells of Blaina

The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" Columbia Records 1965

“The Bells Of Rhymney” (Byrds cover)

Played with parlor -style steel string acoustic guitar.
Tone captured with matched pair small diaphragm condenser microphones.
Recorded in an one take and only little bit of equalisation and reverberation has been added.

Dschingis Khan (Comp. Ralph Siegel)

Original Composition & Performance : Chris Dargay

WaterSnake (TL) *raw demo

Counterfeit Relics (You Should Not Have Did)

Ilari I. (I-la-rI) Rantala - Lead vocals, bass guitar & lyrics
Olli Lehtonen - Guitars, harmony vocals and percussion sampling.
Composed by Ilari I. (I-la-rI) Rantala
Produced by Olli Lehtonen
Cover art by I-la-rI
© 2022 A/D. All rights reserved.

Perditus Amor

For this track I used volca drum for the lofi beat as I've often done lately. Many of the synth lines are made with the minilogue xd, but I also tested out a modern wavetable vst (vital), a type of synthesis I haven't yet experimented with much. You can hear it in the deep resonant line that comes in for the final minute or so. I'm looking forward to further experimenting with it!

The photo is from a  strange national park in Utah called Goblin Valley  that has a lot of interesting rock forms. I spent some time camping with friends there years ago, though I didn't take this particular photo.

Image Courtesy: Greg Willis (www.flickr.com/photos/gregw66/4058207685/), Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic | Flickr

Alien Landscapes

I was going through old files on my computer and found this - looks like the master copy is lost and all we have is this lossy MP3 but we might as well wack it up onto Soundcloud for posterity.....just me on pokey rudimentary piano, Gina on gorgeous vocals and the drummer we use while our demos are still in the very early phase of the creative process, the ubiquitous Mr. G.Arage-Band.....who is always upset 😡 when we replace his parts in the final versions of the songs........🤣
This version has different chords to what we ended up using in the finished version.
If you want to hear the "official" version you can find it here ----> https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile
And if you really want more, you can find the cute remix which we quite like here --->  https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/smile-zen-heartbeat-mix

Smile (Simple Piano Version)

Galaxy Next Door

Beautiful melodies to end your day - close your eyes, relax and think about what is important to you and then go to sleep.

This is me on the left age 2 with my older sister age 3 beside me. My younger sister would have been 5 months old.  August 1956. We had a wonderful childhood. Great memories.

Old Memories

Daydream

No one comes back,
when they're lost in the lack, 
of a need to have something to prove.
I can't believe, 
that you offered your sleeve, 
with a heart that is bleeding for two.
Both sides are compromised,
Brain dead lobotomized,
Hammered and bolted tight,
Nothing behind the eyes,
Check the pulse, no signs of life,
Excavating all the time to prove, 
Just to prove.

Excavated Proof

A duo of musicians from Turku, Finland.  A/D are: 
Ilari I. Rantala (I-la-rI) - Lead vocals, bass guitar & lyrics.
Olli Lehtonen - Guitars, keyboards & synths, harmony vocals, lyrics & other instruments.
All songs composed by A/D

Art & logo by Ilari I. Rantala (I-la-rI)

Perditus Amor

A/D

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