Cool melody...Nice strings...Great track!

Fantastic composition and performance. Really like some of your transitions like at 2:04 and 6:02. Superb production!

@user-464398331: Thank you so much, Jordana, for your generous feedback! I'm glad my "Nostalgia" touched your spirit - that's the value (and purpose?) of music!...

Purple Rain

He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
(Él no es una carga, es mi hermano)

Fue escrita por Bobby Scott (música) y Bob Russell (letra).  ￼
   •   Russell estaba gravemente enfermo (linfoma) al momento de escribirla, lo que aporta carga emocional a la letra.  ￼
   •   Se basó en una frase/idea que circulaba desde comienzos del s. XX (una niña escocesa cargando a un hermano menor: “He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother”).  ￼
   •   Primero grabada por Kelly Gordon en marzo de 1969.  ￼
   •   La versión más conocida es la de The Hollies, grabada en junio de 1969 en los estudios EMI/Abbey Road, con voz de Allan Clarke y piano de Elton John como músico de sesión.  ￼
   •   Fue publicada como sencillo el 26 de septiembre de 1969.  ￼
   •   Alcanzó el nº 3 en el Reino Unido y el nº 7 en EE.UU. con la versión de The Hollies.  ￼
   •   Fue re-lanzada en 1988 en el Reino Unido tras aparecer en un anuncio comercial (cerveza Miller Lite) y entonces alcanzó el nº 1 en UK durante dos semanas.  ￼

Significado y contexto
   •   El título expresa la idea de que ayudar a alguien que consideras “hermano” no es una carga (“no es pesado”) sino un acto de solidaridad.  ￼
   •   Ha sido adoptada como lema de fraternidad y ayuda mutua, por ejemplo por la institución Boys Town en EE.UU. fundada en los años 40.  ￼
   •   Marca un cambio clave para The Hollies tras la salida de Graham Nash, reafirmando su momento creativo.  ￼

Letra en español 

El camino es largo,
con muchas curvas y desvíos
que nos llevan a quién sabe dónde.

Pero soy fuerte,
lo bastante fuerte para cargarlo.
Él no es una carga,
es mi hermano.

Así que seguimos adelante.
Su bienestar es mi preocupación,
no es una carga que soportar.
Llegaremos,
porque sé que él nunca me agobiaría.

Él no es una carga,
es mi hermano.

Si estoy cargado de algo,
lo estoy de tristeza,
porque no todos los corazones
están llenos de la alegría
del amor por los demás.

Es un camino largo, muy largo,
del que no hay retorno.
Mientras avanzamos hacia allá,
¿por qué no compartirlo?

La carga no me pesa en absoluto.
Él no es una carga,
es mi hermano.

Es mi hermano.

He ain’t heavy he’s my brother

Thicken

I present to you my cover of the truly AWESOME track MADNESS by the very brilliant MUSE. Given many of the influences of MUSE has been some of the music of the 80s by band like Depeche Mode i have given this cover a more 80s feel.  ENJOY XXXX

Released in 2012 on the album The 2nd Law.
Written by Matt Bellamy 
Produced , arranged and performed by Me :)
Buy the album here - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-2nd-law/551989940

MADNESS (cover)

https://soundcloud.com/jean-marie-romana
DownTempo flow... Isle of the Dead! 

Peace

Carry Me, Sea Horses, to the Isle of the Dead - Jean-Marie Romana & Assá

This song was written by one of Australia's greatest songwriters, Archie Roach, in 1990 and was included in his first album “Charcoal Lane”.   I have seen Archie live many times – he gives such great performances that I was a bit dubious about posting my own version of his song.   I justify the posting on two grounds: one, this is not one of Archie's best known songs, and, two, I have done this song many times in small venues.
	 If you wish to hear what this song really should sound like, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wy9sxcxOFU for Archie Roach's original version.

	The cover image is by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

Lyrics:
	Sitting here in a lonely old guest house
	I'm sure that my life is all through
	Scratching fleas and watching a grey mouse
	and making love to the memory of you

	For without you I'm weak and uncertain
	And I feel so naked and cold
	Like a window without any curtains
	My innermost feelings unfold

	The drink I just had
	It wasn't as bad as the first
	But drinking won't do
	When it's only for you I thirst

	For your kiss it quenches all burning
	It's sweeter than the sweetest of wine
	Now you're gone I find myself yearning
	For the love that I left behind

	Nobody can heal the pain that I feel inside
	And if I said I'm strong and I'm never wrong
	I lied

	Nobody can heal the pain that I feel inside
	And if I said I'm strong and I'm never wrong
	I lied. I lied.

I've Lied

I've Lied (Archie Roach cover)

This is for my beautiful granddaughter Aliyah, who has just learned to crawl. 
 

Acoustic and Electric guitars: Jonathan Beckenstein @jonathan_beckenstein
Song, keys, bass and everything else, 2020 Janine Levinson

Birdwatching 

Point your eyes up to the trees and keep your ears wide open
Stand right next to me and keep your mouth closed
Stay light on your feet and hear the whip a whip a whistle
Stand right next to me and keep your mouth closed!

I promise you it’s worth your time  and now the part that matters
Is the language of the flying things, the words you can’t imagine
Telling stories from the tops of trees 
Of feathers web and worms and swarming bees!      
When we go birdwatching
            
Your binoculars are key keep them aimed up at the trees
listen carefully and keep your mouth closed!
It’s difficult at first It could be bells or wood or metal
As you open up your ears I know you heart will follow

Oh, little one, it’s worth your time and now it’s all that matters
Is the language of the flying things, the words you can’t imagine
Telling stories from the tops of trees 
And riding currents on the breeze
When we go birdwatching

Cackle caw whip and chatter           
Chip and chirrup crow and clatter
Chitter clack rush and titter             
Pip and thrill hoot and twitter
Tweet and clang flutter flap                
Chirp and hum, flicker, quack 
Whoop whoop whoop,    
Trum trum trum trum trumpet!!!

And from far off chickadee I hear a chirp and then a sizzle
I’ll stand right next to you and keep my mouth closed
We’ll listen and resist the urge to join in with a whistle
Looking up into the trees, we’ll feel the wind blow

I promise when you grow up you’ll remember understanding
The language of the flying things, you won’t have to imagine   
The stories from the tops of trees 
The questions answered only by the breeze
When we went birdwatching 

They sang Aliyah
They sang Aliyah

Birdwatching -  with Jonathan Beckenstein

Track 6 in "Tender Snow" (2020) by Alex M: composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro X, 3 and 17 August 2020, and mixed in Logic Pro X, 17 August 2020; posted on SoundCloud on 18 August 2020 (before the release of the album as a whole).

Duration: 8:15 minutes
Tempo: 96 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: F sharp minor

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording:

1. Guitar - Acoustic
2. Piano - Steinway Grand Piano
3. Bass - P-Bass
4. Drums - Acoustic - SoCal
5. Strings - Cinematic - Viola
6. Studio Horns - Single Instruments - Studio Trumpet 2

Nostalgia

A.A. Vox 2

BBC Radio Essex DJ Juggy Sohal played "Don't Ask Me" and interviewed me afterwards, I was speaking from a pitch black river bank as we were packing up after a day's salmon fishing...  a slightly surreal experience!

Original music track is here: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/dont-ask-me-baby-with-janine-levinson-rick-medlock

BBC Radio Essex Interview with Phil McWalter + 'Don't Ask Me'

ORIGINAL MUSIC BY : Francois Pierre Morin/FPMORINSTUDIO

MY SMALL TOWN 16 11 2020

I have always admired music, of diverse styles. Like most of us, I have tried learning to play a few instruments at a basic level in my teenage. But it is only now, in the 21st century, that modern software allows anyone to fool around being the composer, the designer of a whole composition, simpler or more complex, organising together the parts of the various instruments - and to hear the results of this experimentation or inspiration instantly! That is how I have recently begun enjoying the distraction of attempts at composing during my leisure, discovering an amazing dimension of life, and art, perhaps the most intangible, heightening and hypnotising one, and the closest to the soul... (21 August 2017) ... Forgot to mention: music is for sharing - that's why we are all here! (4 September 2017)

Nostalgia

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