Composer: Horace Silver
Improvised Piano Performance: Ralston Van Der Schyff

Instrument: Edelweiss Sygnet Baby Grand Piano.
Recorded live, unrehearsed and unedited at The Harrods Tea Rooms, Shanghai.

High Tea At Harrods

Peace

TIP THE ARTIST

Night Like This

Elsewhere jets cut the cumulus silently
The heart beats a path up this hill so rapidly
They soar in circles till they roost at the last sight
Tracing out the minutes ticking down in civil twilight
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
Hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
I’ll be lost in you
Now watch you
Erase the streetlights of a town I really never knew

And I can see her watching me watching her
Lookout for a signal on the sea as the scenes blur
Just when you think you might really own this real estate
accumulate and aggregate and watch the years accelerate  

White whales gassed up long cars and longer cars
Descended from sky gift of gods of the tiki bars
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
A hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
See you cry for me 
Watch you
Erase the buildings of a town that could never be

That’s me escaping on a contrail (a contrail)
Twenty four exposures on a roll (right outta here)
And that’s me escaping like a swallowtail (a swallowtail)
Twenty four and seven in row (woah)

And I can feel you watching me watching you
and watching me watching you watching me missing you and missing me missing you
 
And I can feel it from the window seat
And I can feel it from the row 
I can feel it thirty thousand feet and
I can feel it from below 
I can feel it from below
I can feel it from below

And she can see me watching her watching me
These ideas they do not fall too far from the apple tree
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
A hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
I’ll be lost in you
Now watch you
Erase the streetlights of a town I really never knew

Hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know
There’s just no way to know

Cumulus

The ballad of songbirds and snakes (Tribute to Hunger Games)

Cinematic

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes

A remaster of the original from 2022.

LYRICS

A telescope watching the world from a distance.
A world it can't touch, or effect in any way.
Something moving there, then something moving different.
One thing reappears, then one thing goes away.
The watcher, unseen, seeming largely indifferent.
The times, relative to the distance, he says. No point knowing what time or day.

The light from the sun is a few minutes old dear.
The light from a star could be as old as a dream.
They might look at us and just see a reflection.
Because, one of these nights, there'll be a blinding light, as our watcher observes our demise.
Don't you lose hope, as you gaze to the heavens.
The only now is right here and what's there is yesterday. 

We can't see the end, and there can't be a beginning.
Oh, we can't be the centre, but to the observer, that's exactly how it all seems.
Wherever you are, in this storm on the ocean.
You are right, at the centre of the known universe.
So don't listen to them, when they try to tell you.
That a stars just a point of light in the sky.




 


Star Song (Reprise)

Low-Flying Aircraft

#ambient #dark #soundscape #sounddesign #melody #midi #instrumental

GLIMMER

Unseen

Quarantine Songs #1

April 6th (2022 Mix)

Neev - SeaWall -  Radio EDIT

A silver national guitar shimmers. Bottle neck floats across strings. Glass on steel through a busted out speaker cab. A harmonica through a bullet mic like some kind of banshee wail in the night. The bass line conjured from the foot pedals of a resurrected church organ. This is Arrow in the Sky's 'bog-blues'. A foot stomping boogey-hymnal. If T-Bone Burnett ever got lost down the cross roads of Westmeath. Featuring Jason Cooper 'The Cure' at his most Bonham-esque. How are you gonna be my Jesus in my time of need? How indeed? Happy Easter from Arrow in the Sky.

Time Of Need

Arrow in the Sky is the songwriting partnership of midlands-based singer Conor McCauley and multi-instrumentalist Brian Murphy. 'Time Of Need' is the third single from their forthcoming album 'Arrow in the Sky'.

Time Of Need

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