Name: Country Lane by Annie Smart in Best of the Cloud 01 07 2020
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: A wee folk vibe for this new one. 😊🎶🎤💕

Love this! So chilled.Makes me think of a summer drive through the countryside!

Elegant uplifting folksy track ... wonderful atmosphere

Nice one great track good job Annie.😎👌🎶👍

Best of the Cloud  01 07 2020

In memoriam, the bombing of Guernica, Spain, April 26, 1937. A lamentation in music.

And in 2024, for the injured, displaced, and departed around the world as invading forces of tyranny rain down death and destruction upon innocent people.

I literally cried as I updated my old composition about the bombing of Guernica. 

Originally composed in GarageBand, I finished the first version of this song on April 26, 2013, not consciously aware that the date was the anniversary of the atrocity committed by fascists against civilians during the Spanish Civil War. I had had ambitions to create an animated short about its history and Picasso’s famous painting when I could afford the technology. So my first step was to use available resources and create the music, which I did 11 years ago. I have yet to produce the animation. Maybe someday. The cover art gives you an idea as to how I envisioned the graphics for the animated short.

This Guernica composition is my first attempt at composing neoclassical music. As a girl I would sing and hum made-up symphonies as I conducted an imaginary orchestra. I’ve got hundreds of improvised concertos, sonatas, fugues, and arias deep in my memory banks that sometimes creep into my contemporaneous music.

This week, as the anniversary of Guernica approached, I imported my old music file into my current DAW and refreshed it, adding French horn, the first instrument I played as a young student. I also added audio of propeller planes recorded live in March and April 2024. And I pushed the previous violin and cello parts to the limit, so if you hear a screeching violin or a groaning cello, it’s intentional; war gives millions of reasons to scream and wail. The composition’s 8-chord structure is repeated as if to state the obvious — we, humans, have yet to contain our violence individually and collectively. We witness and experience the horror of mass murder and war around the globe. Every. Damn. Day.

I realize my song probably isn’t going to be a favorite for listeners, not my usual chill music. But I’m also a firm believer in the idea that sunlight is the best disinfectant. With this music about Guernica and the history of 1937, I am reminded how far we’ve come, and yet, how little we’ve changed. But change we must, and I believe humanity will change for the better. The question is when.

Guernica

Live Reflexion#008

Dedicated to the scientists, engineers, conservationists, activists, first responders and all citizens who are working around the clock to solve the climate crisis or to help in humanitarian missions due to earth changes. 🙏

Inspired by a midnight encounter with an owl. Special thanks to Paul Paploviante @paul-racle and Jörg @joerxworx for their generous support and inspiring music from which Night Owls was derived — based on an original composition by Paul and remix by Jörg. You can hear similarities in the melodies of Night Owls to Jörg’s saxophone, and Paul’s solid chord structure and guitar in Spanish Nights and Silent Nights. Listen to the songs here: 

Spanish Nights
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/paploviante-rnb-silent-nights-2-guitar-plus-tenor

Silent Nights
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/paploviante-rnb-wip-2

I'm working on lyrics for a future vocal remix.

Synth guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, and ambient sounds with hip hop and Latin beats at 93 bpm. Owl audio recorded live just after midnight on January 5, 2024. Subway train audio recorded live in February 2023.

Barred owl image by Terren, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barred_Owl.jpg

Night Owls

Zeitenwende

Frescoes

It's just not funny anymore, the conspiracy theories..the hate filled blogs and social media posts..the absurd rhetoric that passes for political discussion these days
It is hard enough for people to get along as it is (for reasons that are not clear to me) but this background noise is making it impossible to survive.

To quote John Prine "it don't make no sense that common sense don't make no sense no more"

lyrics

superman is made of steel
batman has his batmobile
spider man is fast as lightning
yea their powers are really frightening
but there is one who tops them all
Someone more powerful I can't recall
Someone with no thoughts at all
we call him stupid man

super eyes that can clearly see
to the tip of his pointed nose
super ears that clearly hear all the voices in his head
nerves of steel.no remorse no sense of fear at all
since he doesn't;t know what he's got
he is not afraid to lose it all

there is no truth he can't defeat
by stomping it with his feet
there is no lie that's so far gone
that he can't embrace and sing its song
lizards in the White House
democrats drink baby blood
the moon's not. real its a laboratory
the earth is as flat as can be

King Kong pounds his mighty chest
Godzilla roars out his fiery breath
but stupid man can top them all
he bellows out his rage to all
cause someone told him this was bad
and someone told him that was worse
he doesn't take the time to think
his eyes are shut so he doesn't blink

don't bother him with truth or facts
things for trivial pursuit
He 's busy saving the world from everything that's not like him

so fight on fight on stupid man
until there is no one left but you
then you can learn to fear yourself
and bring an end to this crazy talk

Mighty stupid man

Thank you, David Dunham, for mastering my piano tracks. I appreciate this help very much.
Listen to David's beautiful music here: @david-dunhamuser589535203

Reverence

Annealing

Dream of Life

This is another one that's been under development for a while. Kind of a weird fun vibe to it I thought.

Melancholy Mollusk

open.spotify.com/track/17aFKeX5A0…ieTIGGdVEcSrD6og 

Available on spotify, deezer, itunes music and more !

Woman Of Empire

Dark Sci-Fi track in two parts. The first part is an epic theme, the second part is an ambient/atmospheric extension !

PICTURE : Lightning work by William Ordonneau (Ubisoft Mobile), a 3D artist I made the track for => https://www.artstation.com/willow
Scene from the upcoming video game THE PIONEERS : Surviving Desolation => http://thepioneersgame.com/

Music composer : Johany Berland

Creative Commons L1

Third Rama (Dark Sci-Fi extended theme)

Among the Willows

A wee folk vibe for this new one. 😊🎶🎤💕

Country Lane

My wife happened to walk in as I was working on posting this and saw the title  and I got in trouble. Of course, it wasn't about my lovely wife. Be careful what you title your work, I guess. In reality it's just an instrumental track about this mortal coil of ours. Always, always, always love working with the hugely talented Mr. Gary Rees!!! @gary-rees-since-87

Your Spark Is Gone | Belial Pelegrim & Gary Rees

The Merging Of Two Souls

A female composer, singer, musician, pianist, piano teacher, choir leader (Heart of Scotland choir), song writer living in Bonnie Scotland! I have grade 8 piano with distinction and an LTCL piano diploma. On band camp too! 
I also have a duo with the wonderful @wane-of-summer
Follow us @user-949559825 (Passion Arcade) 💕
I teach online piano and singing via video if anyone is interested just message me!

http://francoispierremorin.com  Home of storytelling , 
 I do play Music for the love of it, playing guitar,  percussionist  ,composing  on a computer and Guitar, Piano, creator of mood and sound design

Country Lane

Annie Smart

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