Artwork based on a photograph by Muriel Gray - used with very kind permission

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Sanctuary

My May Favs

Yet another playlist where i showcase tracks by artists and bands that i've found on Soundcloud whose music has moved me.  HERE are songs that sound like they belong in a different era...  a time where there was a certain innocence.  if you like what you hear, visit their page and show them some love....  gracias!

TIME TRAVEL

Favorites 12

Rock 11

More: https://soundcloud.com/weightyre/sets

Manna LVII

Birdsong - My wonderful garden friend the merl (blackbird)Recorded February 2021
Also introducing the new gal Clara (Yamaha CG122MC)
Music, Lyrics, Guitar, vocals/harmonies - Taypen
Cover picture - Lizzie Pentland
Hope you all have wintered well!

BEGINNINGS

Caution:
Please don´t listen if you are driving a car (except on empty highways)
or if you need to concentrate on something else!

Illegal Money Transaction (The Final Attempt)

Morning sun 
I'll keep your light in me
And I won't let anyone darken you

On My Way

I have found another asset from Special Cecilia which I found very inspiring and very beautiful. 
Cecilia´s original can be found here: 
https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/aca-cecilia-destins-lies

I hope you will enjoy our collaborating again!

Below are Cecilia´s Lyrics:
Ici et là de par le monde il semble que l'on soient plusieurs
Appellés à répendre de la lumière, à l'encontre des ténèbres
Chacun à sa manière, chacun de son côté, mais nos destins sont comme liés

Beaucoup d'entre nous ont souffert et ont surmonté leurs peines,
beaucoup connaissent les galères et ont résolu leurs problèmes
beaucoup ont encore dur, mais on garde le coeur pur
les intentions honnêtes

Je suis le capItaine de mon propre navire,
je garde le contrôle, je veux pas qu'il chavire,
tant de monde à explorer, de choses à partager
surfant sur les vagues de la destinée

Destins Liés

Destins Liés |  🆂🅿🅴🅲🅸🅰🅻 🅲🅴🅲🅸🅻🅸🅰 & N.o.b.S.

Track 3 of the EP 'Quaint Love'.

Lyrics:

Just place a roof above me, start the rain
Before it’s all gone, before its all gone
Just place a roof above me, start the rain
Before it’s all gone, before its all gone

To think I would kneel down at your feet
Before it’s all gone, before its all gone
I ask myself why I kneel down at your feet
Before it’s all gone, before its all gone

All Gone

In this bar
Where some people come and go
They work to realize their dreams

Dream's Bar

What You Mean to Me

Your Moon

a new production in a more bluesy manner again ;)

No Nuts_Sandwichtunes

Inside  

Shadow of century

Thanks to POLSTEAM BELUGA for the help in the mix and for adding his unique touch to that song.

Cry or don't cry, but continue to feel what is life.

https://soundcloud.com/polsteam-beluga

Inside

Cry don't cry feat POLSTEAM BELUGA

Cry Don't Cry Feat POLSTEAM BELUGA

Just another simple idea I'm working on that will be on my new release.  With just the melody and no improv.

The Thought Of Losing You

Music and mixing : Agapite https://soundcloud.com/agapite/tracks
Vocal : Amanda Sanderson  https://soundcloud.com/phoebeelena/tracks www.facebook.com/amanda.sanderson.777158
Music, lyrics, back vocals, mixing and mastering: Lukowig  https://soundcloud.com/user-407534243/tracks https://www.facebook.com/Lukowig/ https://twitter.com/Lukowig
 
Last light
 
Clouée au sol
sous le ciel nocturne
tous les astres s'envolent
- désastre céleste -
j'espère une lumière
pour m'y baigner toute entière
 
juste une petite lumière
tremblotante et familière
une dernière lumière
avant de clore mes paupières
just a little light
before the night
a last light
before sleep tight
 
Rivée au sol
azur taciturne
où le soleil s'immole
par le feu de mes détresses
pour s'éteindre dans le noir...
Je souhaite apercevoir
 
juste une petite lumière
tremblotante et familière
une dernière lumière
avant de clore mes paupières
just a little light
before the night
a last light
before sleep tight
 
Greffée au sol...
Sous la voûte sans fortune
ton souvenir dégringole
ton regard de braise
croque mes chaînes mes lèvres...
Et j'entrevois dans les ténèbres
 
comme une petite lumière
tremblotante et familière
une dernière lumière
avant de clore mes paupières
just a little light
before the night
a last light
before the last night

Last light

Last light [ Agapite / Amanda Sanderson / Lukowig ]

Aurora v2

Stuck In '98

somewhere, clouds are openin'
somewhere, there is an old friend

oh, it's only temporary

when your gone, she knows you're there
she's made it thru the years
she said, why did you leave me
she said, why did you leave me so 
she said, why did you treat me
as she greets you hello

'memeber how she nabbed the mozzie takin' one for the team

oh it's only temporary

someday, could wake and return
Sunday morning glows with birth

oh it's only temporary

Michael Weber's Album

meeko p

The story I wrote for this track reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe, whose writing style was macabre fantasy and autobiographical.
The music and engineering was orchestrated ingeniously.

Undiagnosed - Disembodied Imagination Feat. Gessica Jane Still

Adios, amigos

Mix original by FP M  socan/afm/apem member , all track reg ..

BURNT FUSE MIX 27 07 2019

Since lately I have not been able to settle into a creative frame of mind,
I felt that in order not to lose what little comprehension I have managed 
achieve in working this music software, I might stay in practice by taking a detour.

From early on in life I have greatly admired the compositions
of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Since I had the scores of his Brandenburg Concertos
[...... The Six Brandenburg Concertos
[...... and the Four Orchestral Suites
[...... in Full Score
[...... Published by Dover, 1976
[...... ISBN 0-486-23376-6
[...... Library of Congress Catalog Number 76-12016

I thought I would try to blend a little Electronix 
along with the Period Instruments to see how that might play out.

Before letting this piece loose on everyone, I had the privilege of being able to receive some much needed criticism on my technique from a wonderful performer and SC supporter:

Mr. Bouzouki: https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki

He was able to help demystify the application of side-chaining for me.
On a physical mixing board, I had done a lot of it, though I didn’t know to call it that, 
yet how it was accomplished on the DAW kept eluding me.

The problem that needed addressing was the excessive amount
of REVERB that inevitably accompanies my tracks.
Often the native effects for a selected instrument
had its own effects bus, which I was never able to see (until recently).
So if it didn’t have enough of or the kind of REVERB I was looking for,
I added it in-line, which ended up supplying too much of an overly complicated (and somewhat unmanageable) EFFECT.

Hopefully, I have trimmed enough of it off at this point
that you will be able to hear all of the notes from all of the instruments
without having to imagine that they must be there somewhere in the mix.

One final admission:
The only thing possibly worse than my sense of pitch is my sense of tempo.
I have never been able to sight read music,
so to play a piece, it is always necessary to just memorize it.
Even then, having a metronome means nothing.
So, for all of you that are in a similar situation,
thank heavens for DAW technology.
It has made the joy of music a possibility for the masses
of us who have the tenacity to claim it for a hobby.

Brandenburg 4 Movement 3

One of my only songs written and recorded without using any guitars, written and recorded using only my bouzouki and piano.

Cover art by Chris Syme, adapted from photos by Yianni Tzan (@yiannitzan) and Pablo Guerrero (@pablothewarrior) on Unsplash.com

Music and Lyrics by Atlas Cedar (C) 2019

(As my) life burned down
how i prayed for rain
falling down
from the tightrope...

i'm a fool

save your tears
don't you cry for me
I lost my way
to the right road

i'm a fool

slam the door
on the bright morning
sliding down
on the knife edge

i'm a fool

no sympathy
now i'm left for dead
take my place
on the night watch

Indifference Sessions

Buy on Bandcamp

Fool

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XPxpD330QwOEOOfmRZzwe
Buy: https://atlascedar.bandcamp.com/album/fool-ep

A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
http://trillionthtonne.org/

This song is the 'twin' song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi)on Unsplash.com

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2019
Original improv: 16th May 2019
Recording: 24th August 2019

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

Beyond The Billionth Tonne

🎧 Listen on Spotify

Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

Written and recorded 26-27 October 2019

For Megan

https://www.survivorsink.org/

Photography by Jake Davies
https://unsplash.com/@jakedavies

BRAND

marks upon my body
secrets i can't tell
symbol of oppression
cast under a spell

stole my independence
turned me to a slave
i won't be afraid again

bound me with your violence
scarred me with your brand
forced me into silence
i had to take a stand

call me by my name
i won't be ashamed
i won't be afraid again 

i am a survivor
i will break the chain
i belong to no-one
call me by my name

love hope bravery
free from slavery
i won't be afraid again

Download

Brand

What ever Happens

Spotify

What Ever Happens

Alone Time

Written and mostly recorded in a single day late last year, this song almost fell foul of the very defeatism that it is supposed to eschew... granted, the main reason for the length of the delay was beyond my control, but this recording is pretty much as it was the day the song was written. As such, there's plenty of rough edges and bum notes, but in an effort to retain the spontaneity of the original session I've left most of it as is. Hope you like it anyway!

Photography by David Marcu
https://unsplash.com/@davidmarcu
Used under Creative Commons license

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2020

Lyrics:

How much is too much?
How much is not enough?
How late is too late?
How soon is soon enough?

Better wake up!
I've come too far to give up
Better wake up...
I've come to far to give up

Too soon for the end
Too late to start again
So hard to make a change
No way to stay the same

Better wake up!
I've come too far to give up
Gotta wake up
I've come too far to give up
Better wake up!
I've come too far to give up
Better wake up...
I've come too far to give up

I've Come Too Far To Give Up

So They set out to Recover the fabled Crystal Bone from their 
Ancient Fiefdom,  but Found instead only a vast Open World of
Infinite Longing.  Some amongst the Pack still Wait for their Return,
even as many Long Years have Passed.  But Others say They surely 
have Found the Crystal Bone and are Keeping it to Themselves.
Those who once knew Captain Rover say that such a Thing is
Quite Unlikely,  as He was a Grand Fellow.  But Who knows . . .
maybe They are Nestled Away in some faraway Hidden Land,
even now,  Chewing on it.

Written and Produced by Tottery in Abledog.
Track photo by Anne Geier Photography.

Captain Rover's Lost Expedition

Written and recorded 15/16th August 2020

My first post-lockdown 'one-weekend' song...

The lyric is based on my experience of visiting the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto in 2018, a magical day that I will never forget.

Photography by Chris Syme

Lyrics:
At the foot of the mountain
I contemplate the journey I'll make
To be enlightened
To be enlightened

I never doubted
That this would be the fate that I'd face
Gateway to Heaven
Now and forever

At the foot of the mountain
I find I'm in a dream-like state
Tranquil and silent
Into the silence

Foot Of The Mountain

This song was inspired by watching videos made by Mark Horvath (invisiblepeople.tv) who is raising awareness of issues relating to homelessness. Please check out his work and his Youtube channel and social media:

www.youtube.com/user/invisiblepeopletv
www.twitter.com/hardlynormal

The Tenderloin area of San Francisco has almost become synonymous with homelessness, poverty and destitution. Some who live or have lived on the streets of the district call it "the tender life", despite the harsh reality that it is anything but...

The current pandemic has taken a heavy toll on a vast number of the most vulnerable people in society, but sadly the economic devastation that the pandemic is causing is only likely to massively exacerbate the homelessness crisis, not just in the USA of course, but everywhere, not least as government measures to protect people from eviction come to an end.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/a-true-emergency-covid-19-pushes-homeless-crisis-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin-to-the-brink

Lyrics:
Help me
For I am on the street tonight
I'd help myself
But I just cannot seem to light...

...the darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Tell myself
That everything will be alright
But I don't know
Where I will call my home tonight

The darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Rescue me
I'm sick and tired of being alone
Sanctuary
I need some place I call my own

The darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Written and recorded 22 & 23rd August 2020

Artwork adapted from a photograph on piqsels.com (royalty-free)
https://www.piqsels.com/en/public-domain-photo-oertq

Invisible People

The Tender Life

Uploaded for Layla's Birthday. 
Wild Orchids "When I think of Love"
c.1993 Robyn Youlten & Chris Scheri 
Robyn Youlten - Vocals.
Choir &Strings, Cellos & Bass parts arranged and played by Chris Scheri.
        Acoustic guitars- Robyn Youlten. Recorded and Engineered by Chris Scheri at Studio7

When I Think Of Love

Suncatcher

Hi, I'm Chris and I am a research scientist by day and a songwriter in my spare time. I joined SC in 2013 and I mainly record acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies, but also like playing electric guitar, bass, keyboards and using drum loops.

My musical influences include Syd Barrett, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon, and increasingly fellow SoundClouders; My favourite bands include Yes, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Rush and Steely Dan, and I also listen a lot to The Beatles, Elton John, The Who, Van Morrison, Genesis, King Crimson,  Jethro Tull, Sparks, Stevie Wonder, The Grateful Dead to name but a few...

Anyway, please feel free to get in touch - I can make any tracks (in whole or in part) available if you want them for collaborative reasons, or if you just want them for your mp3 collection :)
