beautiful song you got here Annie, and the way you sing it is just right for the thoughtful lyrics, nice work

so enjoyable listening to your very calming sound!

very nice & pleasant, might need of post processsing to get more clarity

this is polished and has honest lyrics. I like the chord pattern too. Your voice sounds doubled or maybe it is just really nice effects. well done ..

you have a very relaxed positiveness in your writing

Very very nice, Annie.....easy, articulate combination of strumming and picking. Vocals are very easy on the ears!

March 22

California by Keri Johnson

I fell in love in the sunshine state
left my heart in the falling rain

I only wanted to believe the dream
the dream that you loved me, loved me

And I'm leaving tonight, California
ah ah ah, ah ah, ah ah ah

Driving thru like a run away
every mile takes my breath away- but it's too late, too late

The smell of jasmine still permeates
summer nights that I can't escape- memories of us, of us

So I'm leaving tonight, California
ah ah ah, ooh ah, ah ah ah

Keri Johnson's Album

California

A song about mixed feelings around coming home.

Lyrics:
Home for three days just a short stay
Just enough time to do my washing and
Phone a few friends for a few words
Catch up on all the sleep I’ve been missing then
Write a postcard to a friend in pain
Home for three days—I’m back again

Home for three days, take a bath and shave
Shake the dust from my body and
All the thoughts of foreign ways
Laid to rest in my memory
Listen to an old song with a close friend
Home for three days—wish they’d never end

Home for three days and my turn
To wash the stairs and sweep the alleyway
Join the dole queue, pay the fuel bill
Find my room’s in such a state again
Grey and chilly skies, nights drawing in
Home for three days—where to begin

Home for three days, back in old ways
Troubles resurfacing, walls need plastering
Home for three days, happy anyway
In three days time, I’ll leave it all behind again…

Win Hill

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Home for Three Days

Here's A track featuring the wonderful vocals of Special Cecilia.
Here are the original vocals;

https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/vocals-oh-why-oh-why-life-could-be-so-wonderfull

You can find more of Cecilia's work here;

https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia

RiZLiX Ft. Special Cecilia - The Treasures Of Life

Happy New Year. Wishing you love and light. <3

Image: Magnus Jonasson on Unsplash.

"Something Good"
Music and lyrics: Annie Ray

When you feel like
Even the dim light's 
Slowly going to fade
When you don't see the sign
To buy you more time
And tears have gone to waste

Remember why you began
And keep your eyes on the end

You'll find something good
Just like you knew you would 
You'll find some way to make the tears go away
You'll find something good

When you feel alone
Nowhere to belong
And the only way is down
When you feel the night
Is winning all the fights
Nothing but clouds all around

Remember why you're still here
And keep the stars in your dream

You'll find something good
Just like you knew you would 
You'll find some way to make the tears go away
You'll find something good

The road is full of sticks and stones
But you'll never be alone

We'll find something good
Just like we knew we would 
We'll find some way to make the lights want to stay
We'll find something good

Something Good

Water Sign II

The sunset over the hills of west Austin piecing together this song in my head while delivering food, weaving up mountains feeling strangely nostalgic for unfamiliar places somehow brought all these musical epiphanies together. Kinda crazy what a change of scenery can do.

Tool Boxing

Written and produced by Jana Hermann
© 2022 Elektrikana Rekordz

Sweet Clarity (2022) ER TK-175

The final track from the new solo album 'Automatic Karma Situation' in collaboration with the Verulium project, full album on bandcamp:

amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/auto…-situation

Thanks to all for listening and for your much appreciated support! :)

Automatic Karma Situation

The Old Water Wheel

Here's a very tentative new thing. 
This piano version is more stately and atmospheric while the alternate demo version is more fun and probably catchier. Both versions have their charms - we'd be really interested to hear which version people prefer!

You can hear the very different demo version here ---->> https://soundcloud.com/cat-came-back/clay-boombox-demo-version

You won’t hear me ask you if it’s right
I know what it’s like the other side
You won’t see me kiss the day goodnight
I will meet you only in the light

No more losing ground
Not for us
Not this time around
Take in everyone
That we can

She was trying to guide it to her dream
The clay was unaccustomed to her hands
She had yet to find the surest way
To make perfection from the falling clay

She was just trying to make good things come true
With parts and pieces bending upside down
He just knew he’s found the surest way
To keep from getting caught in falling clay

Clay (Piano Version)

Recombinant version of a tune from happier days......
https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/helix?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

(Headphones recommended)

Double Helix

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Bioluminescence

Sortilegio

Belle on flute
ocean on ocean sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik23YWBJo30

I'm goin' down to the ocean right now
Headin' on down's like paradise
The sun hoverin' over the ocean
Waves that rumble upon the shore
Timeless tales of the sea
Reminiscing all the way
You don't need apologies
You can do most anything you want and it's ok
Anywhere you wanna go
You can decide the destination
Wash upon the shore
The wave around the bend that follows

ocean song

Here is one of my favorite compositions from Mal Waldron titled Soul Eyes. I recorded this around 1999 as well with overdubbed guitar on my 4 track 
Photo by Joshua Lasky

Soul Eyes

"Elegy"

われは指にするどく研げるナイフをもち
葉櫻のころ
さびしき椅子に「復讐」の文字を刻みたり。

萩原朔太郎『純情小曲集』より

"When the cherry blossoms had fallen, I carved the word "revenge" with a sharp knife on the back of a park bench."
Quoted from "a collection of short poems of pure mind " by Sakutaro Hagiwara (Japanese poet; 1886-1942).

art work: Sebastiano Rizzardo via Pixabay

Elegy

Album of music inspired by the rich culture of Brazil, AI-generated and including genres like samba, axe, pagode, sertanejo, frevo, pop, rock, baiao, brega, among other songs. From different parts of Brazil, different periods. From songs for parties to songs for revolution.

Kids - Alegria No Arco - Íris

Lyrics:

Been let in on the nearest darkness
You search within my eyes for lies
She was your lover when you had no one here
She was your outcry
You are written in to my very blood
You are written in to every cell
And if you ever did betray me
It's written in there as well

Ah you are my love
Don't ever you doubt me
Let doubt never shadow your face
Your face... so dear... to me..

I want to know where was my instinct
When your life was crumbled there in your hands
And you hid all of the rubble from me
Sinking in that quicksand
When you're let in on the nearest darkness
And you find that it has tilted your mind
Find me there inside the darkness
With my words I will bind... You to me...

Ah you are my love
Don't ever you doubt me
Let doubt never shadow your face
Your face... So dear... To me...

You went away - 
Her name never mentioned - 
Role was implied... 
Her role was implied..
Her role was implied..
You know your place 
on the brink more and more 
these days these days
It's treacherous but you 
join me anyway.. 
You gave me so many miles,
I gave you miles of my own
You said, "That's how you see me now.."

- Ah you are my love
Don't ever you doubt me
Let doubt never shadow your face

Your face
So dear
To me... 

Let Doubt Never Shadow Your Face

I have been writing songs on and off over the last 30+ years. In that time I’ve filled a couple of exercise books with quite a bit of music. I do my best with a very simple recording set up, the songs are all recorded using my 29 year old Washburn guitar and GarageBand on my iPad with a cheap mic in my front room, usually with a cup of coffee. And some biscuits.

I sing, write songs, and play music. All songs home recording. I welcome collaborations. Thank you for listening!

Honored to have collaborated with these talented artists:
https://soundcloud.com/betterlater
https://soundcloud.com/user-909885014
https://soundcloud.com/tumbian
https://soundcloud.com/jeremiah-jones-942071178

Something Good

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