Name: In A Round About Fashion by Alan Hamilton in Daily Drops
Duration: 7 min 25 s
Description: 'In A Round About Fashion' is an uptempo Jazz Fusion Track

So full of musical ideas, it just flows....

This one is a total pleasure to listen to Alan. So much going on and to take in, I admire all the work you put in to this one. Bravo

Fabulous music, arrangement and performance 😊🎶

Wonderful contrasting scenes but effectively linked together by the energetic rhythms  driving the whole thing.. Brilliant Maestro!

What a ride! Stunning musicianship, composing, and audio production🔥always unbelievable twists and turns, making us always wanting more of your music my friend.🔥🔥🔥

Daily Drops

It was one of those horrible Low sky/rainy/ cold winter mornings . And I just thought " i really live too far from the sea ". Light isn't it ? :))

Trop Loin De La Mer (Too far from the sea)

And2End

This is the second collaboration I’ve worked on with the very talented Mark Spruce (Original Spruce).  

This is a folk song exploring the boundaries between this world and the spiritual world and tells the tale of an encounter with a Robin in a churchyard. 

Lyrics by Mark Spruce
Music & performance by James Whiteman. 

Best with headphones. Hope you enjoy it. 

Take care

James 

Lyrics:

Sky light Grey 

I stood in the church yard
Cold winters day
My back to the beach tree
Sky light grey

On the branch above me
Cock robin perched 
He sang then stared intently 
I returned his gaze

He repeated his song
And looked again
I smiled and nodded
Like we were friends 

I turned so slowly
As he moved to another branch
Eyeball to eyeball 
Repeat performance 

We both stood still
Locked in our game
He moved on once more
To repeat his refrain

I turned one eighty
When he landed behind me
My smile got wider
My heart got lighter
Watching each other
I'm absorbing this experience 

Then he came closer
We had circled the tree
A mystical moment 
This bird and me

You said your father
Would return
In the spirit of a robin
Watching over us one day

As I stood in that churchyard
Lost in that moment
I felt your father 
Came back to say

I'm here, I'm still here
I will always be here


Mark Spruce copyright Feb 2024

Further info:
The first collaboration is on the Original Spruce site called ‘Old Brock’ (music and performance Mark Spruce: lyrics James Whiteman).

Sky Light Grey (Collaboration James Whiteman & Original Spruce)

Vidéo : https://youtu.be/WSOxYXMCH5I

The tragic fate of Ophelia from Hamlet (Shakespeare ) as told by Muette .
Translation after the French text

La blanche Ophelie 

Texte : Muette
Chant : Julia
Musique: Alain Illos

Que faites-vous mes morts,
Les bras croisés,
Quand la blanche Ophélie
De l'aurore à la nuit
Porte sa croix,
Vous faites quoi ?
Quand son ventre se tord,
Que ses pleurs la noient,
Que faites-vous mes morts ?
A quand la joie
Et à quand les renforts ?
A quoi sert qu'on vous prie ?
-Vous n'avez plus d'oreilles -
 Parler ou se taire : c’est pareil !
A quoi servent les mots dits ?
Que faites-vous mes morts,
Les bras croisés,
La regardant passer
Jusqu'à frôler vos bords ?
Et toi, tu sers à quoi,
Fixant celle qui se noie
Les mains blessées
De vouloir attraper
Toutes ces branches inutiles
Qui cassent quand les saisit
Dans le courant qui file
Notre blanche Ophélie ?
A quoi sert d'être mort
Si tu ignores encore
Ta fille au teint de cire
Qui dans l’onde s'enfonce,
Une couronne de souvenirs
En guise de réponses.

The white Ophelia

What are you doing my dead,
Arms folded,
When the white Ophelia
From dawn to night
Carries her cross,
What do you do?
When her belly twists,
When her tears drown her,
What do you do my dead?
When will there be joy
And when the reinforcements?
What's the use of praying to you?
-You have no ears -
 To speak or not to speak: it's all the same!
What use are words spoken?
What are you doing my dead,
Arms folded,
Watching it go by
Until it brushes against your edges?
And you, what are you good for,
Staring at the drowning one
Wounded hands
Trying to catch
All those useless branches
That break when you grab them
In the flowing current
Our white Ophelia?
What's the use of being dead
If you still don't know
Your waxen daughter
Who in the wave sinks,
A crown of memories
By way of answers.

La Blanche Ophélie  avec Julia  (translated text)

Surprised by the rain in the depths of the forest, in the pyrenees, I returned soaked to the skin, but with this picture and some inspiration.

Rain Forest

'In A Round About Fashion' is an uptempo Jazz Fusion Track

Walking The Straight And Narrow

In A Round About Fashion

Hi, here my last new before the summer break, fun, dance, entertainment 4 all 🎧 🔊😎
Hope you enjoy, I wish you lots of fun!
Friendly!
CJ


CJR-Music originals | more info also here: https://www.cjrogersmusic.com

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I’m a huge fan of Heart House and the New Kindness! When he asked me to record drums on this track, well I jumped to it!! I thought it might take a while, but the inspiration was immediate… it’s a first take! I gotta figure out how to link to his account, but my oldest will help me, ha! I REALLY dig Ben’s style, and voice!! Hope you all enjoy it!! Please leave a review, if so inclined! Thank you all for listening and critiques!!

https://on.soundcloud.com/ixB575UmtHx5bkrQ9

Lyrics

This ghost in the corner
Is making my life hell
Cupid, should I wait much longer?
So long since love I’ve felt

Locked in love’s waiting room
Stuck inside waiting for you
I’m locked in love’s waiting room
Let me out
Let me out

I want my heart to break
So I can feel the pain
Of losing you one time
Trade in this single life

Let me out

© Heart House Records 2024
© K2 and the Three 2024

Written, performed*, recorded*, produced* and mixed* by Heart House Records
*Drums performed, recorded, produced and mixed by K2 and the Three
Mastered

Locked In Love’s Waiting Room-Heart House and the New Kindness/K2 and the Three

This song was wrote a few years back in an acoustic form. 
Mike has transformed it into a beast with his mighty skill set, production skills and most of all his patience .
He really is too modest because he never blows his own trumpet and needs to take full credit for his graft. 
So I am telling you when you listen remember who made it happen.
Nat as added her amazing vocals and always gives a song a different slant, which I love.
Leave both these wonderful people to their own devices and they deliver beyond all expectations on these collaborations. 
It’s a song for all that simple sibling rivalry and for the musicians who have been in bands with their elder brothers  or sisters.
You have to either leave or your sibling as to leave because something always gives. 
Arguing, fighting and always competing for your creative edge to be heard.
I experienced this when I was younger with my older brother but it was the best thing for both of us to part ways musical. 
It allowed me to grow as a singer/ songwriter and gain my own identity. We both went on to establish the things we wanted to do. The experience I gained from constantly playing live with him was invaluable.
It always felt that when I left for a while  I was always playing to him in my head wanting him to just recognise how I had grown and doing my own thing but I don’t think he ever did. 
It was always me more than him and he probably never realised. We never let it put a wedge between us and always got on after and still do.
There are many that have never made up I would imagine and should because life is too short. 

For My Audience Of One 

V1
A creation from the same mother
(Playing rock stars with your elder brother) 
From the council estate to touring Europe 
(You tried to the USA and became a standing tourist )
When your private life takes to the stage
(And the in fighting gets a little harder to gauge)
When your milk chocolate
you  just eat yourself
(And  little old you as been left out to melt)

Chorus 
Everything  is done 
For an audience of one 
And that audience is you 
And sadly it’s true x2)

V2
(And now you don’t even
 talk at all no not anymore )
Just word salad rants and Twitter x squawk
(Your just letting go from your blind panic) 
I’m Living a better life feeling super Organic

Chorus 

Middle 8 

(He left you in the blue hour
the glorious sunset turned sour
Waiting for your new sunrise
To blind those blue 
……Adriatic eyes)

Chorus…….

Outro
Everything is done 
For my audience of one

For My Audience Of One ~ Fox, Brownie & Daniels

Thanks to all who stopped by this track and listened. A friend with a heart to heart is a connection no matter where you are. Friends who have spent much of their lives together, even more so. I hope you share many seasonal memories with your friends. Summer is not over yet. I hope you have a wonderful and memorable experience.

Now We Are

Baby I’m different, try me I’m dope. Ty.

Do_You_Think_Im_In_LOVE

Mist Covers The Mountains

Once I wrote a longer description here: a love song in 7/4 ¿or 14/8?

Silvia II (Lo que siento por ti) /  Silvia II (What I feel for you)

Es de difícil clasificación  /  It is difficult to be classified
dentro de las variedades del amor  /  among all varieties of love
lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  what I feel for you, what I feel …

Sólo sé que no puedo vivir sin ti,  /  I only know I can’t live without you,
no puedo ver sentido a mi vida si no estás aquí.  /  I can’t find sense to my life if you are not here.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

Cuando todo va bien  /  When everything goes fine
lo que me une a ti es tu forma de ser,  /  what joins me to you is your way of being,
es muy fácil ver  /  it is very easy to see
todos tus encantos de mujer.  /  all your woman's charms.

Una idea que no puedo soportar  /  An idea that I cannot bear
es verte en brazos de otro, en otro lugar.  /  is seeing you in other one’s arms, in another place.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

No puedo imaginar  /  I cannot imagine
tu voz susurrando a otro compás.  /  your voice whispering to another compass.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

Cuando algo va mal,  /  When something goes wrong,
puedo contemplar tus defectos con claridad.  /  I can behold  your faults with clarity.
Cuando algo va mal,  /  When something goes wrong,
sólo quiero escapar a otro lugar.  /  only I want to escape to another place.

Grab it !!

Silvia II (Lo que siento por ti)

SLT Collective - Moonlight

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos

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AI is not an option I use or intend to in the future. All of my music is composed, played and produced using the following equipment:
Cubase 14 Pro on Windows PC
Arturia instruments (full suite) some FX
Native Instruments - Instruments and FX
Toontracks -Superior Drummer 3 and Percussion
Korg Triton Synth
Roland RD800 Piano
Native Instruments - Komplete Control S49 and S61 keyboards
Icon Mixing desk
Yamaha & KRK active monitors
Congas and various  LA percussion instruments.
Various String libraries including: Spitfire/ IK Multimedia/labs/Orchestral Tools and The Crowhill Co.
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.


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