Cypress Tree

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a song by Rums & Bumbletons:

Delphi Finn (drums)
Dick Syn (guitar)
Stone Catcherye (vocals)
Aaron Silver (bass)

• What Eve Wanted
is this old building on fire
is this the remnance of a perfect pile
a bag of bones
a dream to hold

is this a trigger for hire
is this the ruins of a man in love
a push to shove
a seed to suck

Eve, believe in me
please, we bleed the same
as sure as apples are to snakes
I won't forget you

is this mistake & desire
is this the sentence of a guilty man
is this here woman a liar
is she safe distance from a man in love
a fly to frog
or me to song

Eve, believe in me
please, we bleed the same
as sure as apples are to snakes
I won't forget you

Eve, we tread the sea
please, do see the shame
as sure as Autumn is to rake
I won't forget you

is this old building a fire
is this the fuel of a far off love
a shutterbug
a fateful hug

Eve, believe in me
please, we bleed the same
as sure as apples are to snakes
I won't forget you

Eve, we tread the sea
please, do see the shame
as sure as Autumn is to rake
I won't forget you

is this old building on fire
is this mistake and desire
is this here woman a liar
is this what Eve would have wanted

What Eve Wanted

My first ever recorded guitar instrumental, guys... well, some years ago :) Come as it was played originally, with some subtle 2016 remastering. One day I played this light piano back loop and then improvised the tune with my Cordoba Nylon String guitar. Added few lines of bass, flute, strings, and percs in the Logic Pro. All played on M-Audio Axiom Pro keyboard connected to Mac. Cordoba guitar (on the cover art) recorded through MBox2 interface, I think, or maybe embedded Macbook mic. Track comes from the older hard drive, with as-is guitar impromptu recording, meaning a vintage feeling. Meaning extra charm, right? 

I posted the track celebration celebrating 5,000 SC plays. Way beyond 3 Million by now somehow, woah! Thank you!

In My Mind (Original Cordoba Mix)

Written and recorded 7th/8th November 2015

Cypress tree
I lie beneath
Alone we both must stand

Clinging to
The barren ground
In an unforgiving land

Minaret
Of evergreen
Symbolize my plight

Silent and 
So solitary
As migrant birds take flight

Cypress tree
I lie beneath
Alone we both must stand

Minaret
Of evergreen
Alone you understand



Finally, I got round to finishing another collab. This lovely track was made by Adrian Crossen (https://soundcloud.com/adrian-crossen), go check out his music!

The track is a bit different from my usual music, as it's spoken word(ish). Tell me what you think :)

Life And Death Of A Sea Turtle

Wished Rain

This is from a cassette-demo. Two Lyres and seven Horns

Lyre and Horn

Snow Globe (demo)

Piano improvisation by @peterkappus
Lyrics and vocals by @atlascedar

The lyric was inspired by my trip to New York City in September 2015, where I visited One World Trade Center shortly after the anniversary of my cousin Richard's passing, on the day after what would have been his 41st birthday. It was an overwhelmingly emotional experience for me - seeing Manhattan for the first time, standing in the rebuilt World Trade Center and remembering my cousin five years on since his passing. I had a single malt whisky in memory of Richard and a Hudson Baby Bourbon for the great city of New York.

I heard Peter's fantastic piano improvisation for the first time yesterday and immediately felt the need to compose a short lyric and vocal parts to go with it. For some reason the music instantly brought back memories of the day I spent in the new WTC, paying my respects to the victims of 9/11 and honouring the memory of my cousin. 

You can check out the original piano improv here: https://soundcloud.com/peterkappus/one-minute-piano-improvisation-sep-28-2014a

Lyric:

September
I can not hold back my tears anymore
I'll remember you
On this beautiful morning

As the tower came into view
Like a mirror in the blue
Reflecting only you


In memory of Richard

September (Peter Kappus & Atlas Cedar)

Original version found here:
https://soundcloud.com/keldari-station/lucky

I realize just how lucky we can be
all i need is to look around and see
in such a little time, we've come so far
before we've come to grips with who and what we are

I understand just how lucky we must seem
sometimes I cannot tell my real life from my dreams
though I can see that for you it's much the same
why must we insist on always playing this game?

Well this could be my lucky day
(I've never felt so lovely)
I'm seeing things in a different way
(there's only stars above me)
My luck has changed, I hope it stays
(is someone looking after me?)
I've come so far since yesterday
(am I the only one who sees?)

When we're raised inside a culture of complaints
instead of what we love we turn our focus to the things that we hate
if we gaze on everything that brought us here
we can finally pull the future that we wanted near

Now I see just how lucky that I've been
all these years when I felt so stuck between
where I want to be, yet feel left outside
when for my whole life I've been on the inside

But this could be my lucky day
(I've never felt so lovely)
I'm seeing things in a different way
(there's only stars above me)
My luck has changed, I hope it stays
(is someone looking after me?)
I've come so far since yesterday
(am I the only one who sees?)"

Lucky EP

keldari station - Lucky (David Burdick Remix)

Third installment of "Space Is The Place" soundtrack series.
1)Space Is The Place     https://soundcloud.com/matt-byron-2/space-is-the-place
2)Rob Goes To The Cosmos   https://soundcloud.com/matt-byron-2/rob-goes-to-the-cosmos
3)Determination


Determination Vol. III

all these years
and i can't face another one alone
just a simple twist of fate
our promised land denied

i've always known
things would never be the same
no-one left to play the game
now i long for yesterday

it's just another one
a journey 'round the sun
it's not so wonderful alone

i have changed
i don't think it's for the better
i am so much older
and nothing makes no sense no more
now i need saving
from myself

For Richard

Photo by Will van Wingerden on Unsplash.com

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Around The Sun

'Alba' has a triple meaning - firstly, it's the Gaelic word for Scotland; secondly, it is apparently the name of a kind of love poem about secret lovers who must part company before they are discovered, and so that's what this song is about. Thirdly, it also happens to be the name of someone I used to work with in California, though I would hasten to add that this song is not about her!

The song started off life as a simple two-track improvisation called 'Our Love', and this version is as close to that original improv as I could make it. It's a two-track guitar piece, with one piece played in the chord of D on the 2nd fret, and the other is played in G on the 9th fret, with corresponding piano parts added.

I recorded the song previously and posted it here on SoundCloud as 'Orion', but I was never happy with how different it was to the stripped down 'acoustic' original, hence I set about re-recording it - about 2 years after I originally wrote it.

Lyrics:

alba
one night of heaven
until the dawn
alba
our love
is secret
so let it go on

alba
our love's 
forbidden
i'll lie
with you

our love
is sacred
so let it go on

our love
could last a life time
our love
was it ever enough
alba?

alba
we come together
in love once more
alba
i'll always love you
my sacred truth
alba

alba
our love's forever
i love you
but i can't face a lifetime
without you

Credits:
Written and performed by Atlas Cedar; recorded 26-27th June 2017
Artwork created from Creative Commons license photographs:
Main photo: freestocks.org (https://unsplash.com/photos/rNPfyRYqjHY)
Background: Kelly Sikkema (https://unsplash.com/photos/X7dy114KWs4)

For Megan

Alba

Inspired by my recent trip to Japan, the Gion district of Kyoto is one of the most amazing places I've ever had the chance to visit.

Photography by Sorasak at Unsplash.com
https://unsplash.com/@boontohhgraphy
Used under Creative Commons license

Lyrics:

sunlight failing
my heart is sailing

on the streets of gion
i met you

dream on
dreamer

my life's
clearer

on the streets of gion
i need someone  like you
in my life

Gion

The working title of this song was 'Libya' and I wrote it shortly after watching a harrowing documentary on the plight of migrants trapped there. The whole song only took about 8 hours to write, record and mix - compared to most of my other tracks these days, that's incredibly short - however it is always much, much easier to finish a song if I have a pre-conceived and clear idea of what the lyric and music is about, and in this case it was straightforward. Thanks for listening and please share if you like it!

Photography by Kylo
https://unsplash.com/@kylo8
Used under Creative Commons license

Lyric:

land
light
crossing
so that i might live
somewhere

drifting
blind
leaving
so that i might live
somewhere
clinging
so that we might live
anywhere

believe in
somewhere i might live
out there

dying
so that we might live
somewhere

Night Crossing

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 :)
