Superbly smooth and dynamic piece...love the mood as well 🔥🔥🔥

Stunning scales, love every second! Superb musicianship!

I just belive in fortune. “Nornerne” stitc.

Lovely composition/arrangement/production. Sounds like these are getting harder to come by. Thank you for making them.

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered using Logic. 
Guitars played: Taylor 714CE in DADGAD Tuning
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.

Acoustic guitar instrumental.

Reunion

Well, my good friend Paco dropped me a note to say he had a piece of music to which I might like to try and add something, were I so inclined.  Always a good day when that happens.

Now, I can't honestly recall the precise sequence in which the neurons fired inside my skull to yield the result we have here, but we are where we are as they say.

Don't go looking at me for rationale.

Thank you, Paco, as always my friend, for inviting me to come out to play, and for mastering the end result in the midst of untold techno-horror grief.  I hope your DAW world resolves itself very soon.
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Socrates at Sundown

I lie bewildered, here, in my sphere of cubes,
On crushed silk cushions sprawled.
I sketch the cool Palladian dudes
In charcoal, on Aleutian walls.
They think I know what thoughts are theirs,
And beg to trade their graceless airs, 
But I left them there to climb their stairs
Ever downward through Athenian halls.

They say my knowledge is remiss,
The diabolical's back in town.
Seems ignorance is bliss
For this philosophical clown.
I'm seeking emptiness of mind,
That's where I hope to find
That old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

My associate, Plato knows the game
Survives through pretty dialogue
He suffocates but bestows his shame
On city states whose statutes fog
The heads of people in their ranks
Attentive on the Eridanos banks
Dispensing death by way of thanks
As justice shreds its cogs.

Deep mental grasp of social structure
No need to ever write it down
Accused outcast for youth's corrupture
Where the bleeding of democracy is bound
To seek the causal end of time
Of Aristotle and Nietzsche's kind
The men of Athens rendered blind
Killed that old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

Socrates At Sundown (with MidiSound)

STANDING ALL ALONE - Mar 2014 / Remixed Mar 2023

The days that go by, I sometimes wonder why,
I didn't take you, and be with you.
You knew my imperfections, all on the wall for examination.
Just to be with you...

So many times I think of that day,
where hurtin's in your eyes, and I can't shake it away.
Somehow I've got to move on, 
I've got to prove to myself, that you're not the only one.

and here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again.
and here I stand all alone, once again...
Firing up the engines, to head out and try again.

I remember that side-long look you'd give me, 
and I'd do whatever I could...
just to be with you...
Endless nights, and candle light,
we're just kissing, being together, and now...

Here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again. 
Here I stand all alone, once again.  
Can you hear me?  I want you to hear me.

There will be a day, after all this misery, 
that I can climb back up, 
and not have to think of you.  
That new girl, she'll take my arm,
and we'll walk the streets; her charm,
I that think this will more than do.

But until then...

Here I stand all alone, once again.  Once again.
Here I stand all alone, once again...

Standing All Alone

Don't Squeak Unless You Are Squoken To (acoustic guitar instrumental)

Brylcreem

'A Fortunate Affair' is a Smooth Jazz Track
My thanks to Freddy Bence for his photo used in the cover image.
https://soundcloud.com/fjbence

Light The Candle Please

A Fortunate Affair

Gaming music Final Fantasy X-2
Song: Kuon Hikari To Nami No Kioku / Memories of Waves and Light
Composed and arranged by Takahito Eguchi and Noriko Matsueda.
In a version from Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.
Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
Piano and Cover design: Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli

Love and Friendship
BY EMILY BRONTË
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree—
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He still may leave thy garland green.

Love and Friendship. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

White Raven (Follow the white raven and go through the enchanted door)

Recorded / Mixed: Audacity: Tam Jennifer
Keyboard: Roland E-X20 
Mic: Rhode USB mini 
Music/Lyrics/Vocals: Erin Jennifer

My first SoundCloud song!

Lyrics

I saw a stranger in the mist
Across the river nearby 
and I wish that you were on my side
Though we cant be friends ever again

I think about you everyday
The pain not going away
And you'll just make it worse like a on-going curse 

I saw a stranger in the mist
Across the river nearby 
I saw someone that I used to know
And it hurt

But I know
That everything matters to me
And though I shouldn't 
Every part of me cares about you
Even if you won't feel the same

© Erin Jennifer, Tam Jennifer, 2023

Stranger In The Mist (with Tam Jennifer, 2023)

I had three songs I was making in Reason Compact, then I realised they were all part of the same song. The first was inspired by painting the words in notes: "The Cat Will Meow" (which ended up in the middle section), the second inspired by a cat meme about a neighbour's cat meowing at the door (with the notes starting at 0:50), and the third with notes inspired by the Ol Long Johnson autotuned meowing (around 2:55). I combined all the songs into one very silly synth pop tune that I call "The Cats Will Meow: お寿司ください！" (meowing for sushi)

This one was fun to make~ hope you enjoy my custom-made meow-synth, also used in my 1st Cat Song "Too Many Cats". 
https://soundcloud.com/masha-solo/too-many-cats-ft-galina

I made the art using Canva.

ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Original cats:
Ol Long Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c

Neighbour's Cat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cg5VWCwDzOW/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D

I was inspired by this sushi for cats video for the title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcYabz3hYg

Cat Music

The Cats Will Meow: お寿司ください！

A salsa style jam with Miezo ...
HX Stomp, 2i2, Logic
Studio A (pit)

That Cuban Sandwich Is Spoken For - 4_27_24, 18.02

Now retired from a life 'on the road' as a freelance keyboard player, I compose and record in my home studio, situated in the Carrick Hills in Southern Scotland. My music is mainly instrumental in nature and is a reflection of my life experience, sometimes real and sometimes imagined.
My influences are many and I have quite probably been shaped by listening to the very many "giants" of music, both players and composers. From classical to contemporary jazz and everything in between. My main instrument is the keyboard, whether that be piano or synth. But I also play banjo, flute and percussion. I have a special relationship'with bass, whether upright or electric and use virtual and synth basses from numerous sources, but mainly Trilian by Spectrasonics.


https://music.apple.com/us/artist/alan-hamilton/119498445/see-all?section=full-albums
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2j38dJ8YVPX2nVQcUjaAYx
https://music.apple.com/us/album/time-travel-and-other-journeys/1651782098

A Fortunate Affair

Alan Hamilton

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