Name: Close The Gate by Alan Hamilton
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: 'Close The Gate' is an 'Alternative Fusion' track consisting of various genres. inspired by the 'Open Border' policy in my country, which is now becoming saturated with some very unsavoury people, most of whom having their own agenda and laws contrary to the Common Law of the indigenous people.

@swampy101: Thanks very much for this great feedback Grant.

a journey in different genres,  not a closed door in your music maestro Alan, it`s  an open door. I enjoy listening!

The 'Ruling Class' know exactly what they're doing. Inspired music, Alan!

I'm sorry your country is dealing with that.  It seems to be happening everywhere When "leaders". and fascist dictators make it so hard for people to live it creates criminals that wouldn't be one if they could take care of their families, so people leave and flood other countries.  Horrible things are now happen in America with fascist intended people crushing our govt for profit.  It  is heartwrenchin g to see.

Hey…. Thanks for dropping by. April 21st, fresh snow on the ground that hopefully will melt off by the end of the day. Yesterday, I was out transplanting some small Lupine and Columbine plants from out of the lawn. They grew there from seed that spilt from nearby flowerbeds. I put them into a rock garden I recently refurbished. I pulled all the rocks out, dug down to get all the invasive grass roots out, and rebuilt it with a few extra rocks. After that chore, I dug up several Spruce seedlings from the Spruce trees I planted here decades ago. Those little saplings grew up under a lilac bush, so I moved them out into open areas in the backyard. They probably won’t get to be 3 feet tall by the time I pass from this mortal coil, as I am old, but I plant them anyway b/c they’ll most likely still be here when I am gone. Ha. I have been transplanting a lot of volunteer flower plants into my neighbor’s yard, from my vegetable garden in preparation for Spring planting. They find their way into the garden, by wind, bird or however, and I just let them grow, but soon there’s more flowers than vegetables, so I find them new homes. Lastly, I replaced the wonky wheel and axle assembly on my old wheelbarrow, held together by hose clamps, during a snowy day last week, with a wheel from a wheelbarrow I recently got from a pile of free stuff (junk) out on the road, that a neighbor was tossing out. The barrow was cracked, but the wheel/axle were fine. Now I am ready to roll. That is how Spring is here in the mountains…. So several years back, there was quite a large pack of dogs that would freely run around our rural neighborhood. They lived here and loved being able to roam. When I first saw them on my way to the mailbox, they did not know me, and several dogs growled at me. (Rightly so.) Ha. It was a standoff moment for sure. So I just laughed at them. They were not anticipating that. So from then on, we’d have some fun whenever I saw them. Most of those dogs have died over the years. It was sad to see them go. So I included them in this song. I hope you like it. Mark

Going To The Dogs


I was struck by an article in the Guardian 10 years ago about a woman who used to hang out and work with the Rolling Stones in the 60s and the article was about adapting to old age while having nostalgia for such a potent time in her life. For this recording I had to change one word - 70 to 80. Musically it needed to be rhythmic but melancholic: something you got from major and minor seventh songs in the mid 70s as disco kicked in



YESTERDAY’S PEOPLE

Yesterday’s people used to party, party, party
Yesterday’s people were so cool so cool so cool

There was a girl her skin so fresh and fine
There was a guy as smooth as a dark red wine
They were out there in a happening era
Face to face so close and nearer
Photogenic and oh so bold
But that generation has all grown old

In 69 it was crazy zany time
In London town all that music going down
Young people travelling - free love happening
Beautiful people philosophizing
Mary Jane twilight in the Mediterranean
That generation they’ve all grown old

If you’re talking to an 80 year old guy
Remember he - was Mr cool way back in time
Try to imagine the face much younger
The yearning soul hormonal hunger
Suite Judy blue eyes young people dancing
That generation they’ve all grown old


Yesterdays People

Stoiker Bleiben

A work in progress, I intend on adding vocals eventually

Neo Blues

U-Deep Blue Bird

Another isolated track of a previously uploaded tune, in this case the strings section. Here's a link to the original full piano & strings version, with the description.
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/lives-of-our-days-piano-strings

And here's a cool version where the talented 'Big Al From the Grove'  added some sweet guitar to the strings:
https://soundcloud.com/user-543408605/lives-of-our-days

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

lives of our days (ISOLATED string section)

At last - Etta James cover

Update: Redelivered vox

Lyrics
(I genuinely hope they make your moment better. The fact that this has your senses now is improving mine so 🔆 thanks a googol 🔆)

Now they say
This is me!
To the moment I pray
It's my only deity

To the moment

But what of tomorrow?
What of yesterday's marrow?
I figure my past has future answers to borrow!

To the moment
To the moment

But now they are answers
Brought to present in solution
Taught to ones self,
Fear is mind pollution
Chemicals in brain figured, not dithered
It ejects us from our now
In fear our energy is withered

The moment
The moment
The moment
The moment
For the moment
The moment
Just the moment

Lament the moment
It's your sanity enrolment
Fear is relegated
As it's never an opponent
Lament the moment
Now, in today

Fear mind profanity of old self
We've sent presence to present... hold it
In now, fud can't even get a shelf

We're in a moment
Be the moment

Now I say
I am me
To the moment I pray
One singularity

One moment
Now
Here
How
Water clear
Light
Sound
Now



(unsed lyrics. Intended for the end....)
it's near
Come over here
Comb over fear
Love is presence
Wow

File Updated 27/04.'25 @ 18:08 ~ Added tremolo acoustic, a thumbed rhythm acoustic, strings (violin cello and basses) slight vocal improvements and started thinking about a mix which needs a lot of work

File Updated 27/04.'25 @ 14:44 GMT ~ Vox found more vigour and I extended it by one phrase and very nicely that brings us to 161.8 measures exactly given where I killed the audio file. That wasn't on purpose either... Nice and golden ratio like and given how the project started with a GR tempo relationship... Nice one universe. I appreciate you having my back!

This delivered the tempo of 97 BPM 🤷🏽‍♀️
https://digitalcitizen.ca/2018/01/02/the-golden-tempo-is-97-bpm-beats-per-minute/
This person had the bright idea of representing the GR by a count every 1.6 seconds. If you count a minute with these gaps you get 97 apparently. Sounds round about right but I didn't test it. They seem to have taken some liberty with rounding so... They use 1.666 secs per beat... It should be 1.618033 per beat and they also rounded their result .. maybe you'd get the same whole number anyways (TBC)
Might work this out properly for a other song haha 

Instrumentation & order used 
// 432Hz Tuning fork / Acoustic Guitar / Vocal /  Electric Piano / Piano / Drums (Scientific method kit on logic with 11 varied sections following the Acoustic) / Spacey Keys Lead //

Note: Get good at falsetto with this song it's on a plate...


This one is about living in the moment. I've only really begun to start being able to appreciate it although I've heard and believed we need to live like that for years. I've never been able to control it for various reasons and a lack of emotional intelligence. So it's relatively simple to spell the ideas in a song but the real power comes from living it and I believe it's becoming less and less of a battle for me... It absolutely still comes and goes and my mind does wander places I dont want it to at times I don't want it to but I have given myself tools to force myself out of that and back into the moment.. Just wrote this so I'll add to this iver the next day or so and make it whatever light I feel is there for a moment...
We all came from a moment! a la big bang! A singularity! The zinc spark moment starts it all until it's lights out for our last moment... They are the obvious ones but it's the rest that we control and we're not always fully present in them... tbc

just made today so should be nice when I get this fully expressed. Another few musical moments to lock in 🤓😆

The Moment

'Close The Gate' is an 'Alternative Fusion' track consisting of various genres. inspired by the 'Open Border' policy in my country, which is now becoming saturated with some very unsavoury people, most of whom having their own agenda and laws contrary to the Common Law of the indigenous people. 

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Close The Gate

My latest composition with vocals, piano, bass, percussion, erhu and synths. 
Mastered by my lovely Sander. 😊❤️🎶❤️

Not A Moment Too Soon

Please note: Didgeridoo samples by Jeamland!

The Earth Love II

Wild Nothing

AI is not an option I use or intend to in the future. My music is composed and produced using the following equipment:
Cubase 14 Pro
Arturia instruments (full suite) some FX
Native Instruments - Instruments and FX
Toontracks -Superior Drummer 3 and Percussion
Korg Triton Synyh
Roland RD800 Piano
Native Instruments - Komplete Control S49 and S61 keyborads
Icon Mixing desk
Yamaha & KRK active monitors
Congas and various  LA percussion instruments.
Various String libraries including: Spitfire/ IK Multimedia/labs/Orchestral Tools-Berlin Free Orchestra
Orange Tree Samples - Guitars and Flute
Musiclabs Guitars
Spectrasonics Trilian Basses
Soundpaint: Strings/Brass/Wind/Guitars/Percussion/ and a multitude of other things.
Various FX from a multitude of companies.
Various Programs from the Spitfire Original range
My trusted "Drum Stool"
Fridge (for Guinness)!!!!



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, organ 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

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