A big hit chords guitar play voice so great 

Billboard hear this. He Ed Sheeran listen to this. Great work Chris . Glasgows own. 

Wonderful collage of instrumentation and feathery vocals to convey a very human story indeed. Durge

Relax

Tandoori

Naked Sky

Phoenicis

Just playing the guitar with backing loops

AUTUMN CALLING

The sky is drowning, the fields are weeping
In the darkness mothers sleeping
I’m feeling lonely, like no one knows me
The gods foretold this, I get to own it
The cold stares of the angels
The long fall from the heavens
A last walk in the garden
Dark trail through the forest
Then oblivion

The rats are at the apples
The shadows are long
The stable is silent
All the horses have gone
Riding off to the sunset, leaving you all alone
Touch the grass for the last time
and now you have known oblivion

Oblivion

stay

SynCity

24 8  Maket

Prepared For Peace But Ready 4 WAR

method: some atonal fun with the plastic midi keyboard on a rainy evening
narration: the poem is quite some decades old - last century, millennium even, and all that. it was quite a different life I led back then. the original title is: "an antenna cast into the open" - this also was the first line when I wrote the poem .... but I skipped it for this version, jettisoning the poem into the imbalance that suits its sonification's atonal qualities. 
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

a fishing rod fishing the water
a probe probing deep space
to welcome that other me
out there - infinty bait

there's a mirror to wait
on you - twin travesty
of being tired and stirred by hoping
weak and strong forces that matter
in watching and running the race

infinity bait

Infinity Bait

This song expresses the passing thunderstorm from begining to end. It consists of three parts.
 
 I: Lotus pond
      Lotus flowers are out peacefully in moist air.
 II: The god of thunder and the god of wind
     The sky is gradually covered by heavy clouds. The god of thunder beats drums on his back and the god of wind blasts. They enjoy playing.
 III: The last raindrop
     The thunderstorm has gone. The last raindrop is falling and glittering in the sunshine.
 
 Thunder sounds in this track were not sampled but synthesized.

 Thank you.

Thunderstorm

"lua" do projecto svayam - em concerto meditativo no Chá da Barra em Oeiras (Associação Luchapa)
***
João Sousa - guitarra acústica, taças tibetanas, voz
(acoustic guitar, tibetan bowls, vocals)~
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svayam's "lua" - meditative concert at Cha da Barra, Oeiras, Portugal (a Luchapa association iniciative)

Nadi#2 (Chá da Barra, Oeiras @ 29DEZ'18)

First the track of the new album, Casa, on 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀. Check the new album at https://shanticoat.bandcamp.com/album/casa

☼ ENG
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗮 is the first 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 album recorded in studio.
This music project for meditation, relaxation, healing and inner jouney has been shared by João Sousa in live sessions for different audiences in different places.

Svayam is the reflection of an inner search, a journey from the abstraction of the senses to the celebration of the union between body and mind, and what lies beyond. His music echoes for union and equality of all beings.
The title of this work is Casa (Home), because inside of it exists many houses, many changes of earth, water, fire and air. In here, you can find different concepts of home, of body, of a place where there is no separations between the One and the Whole .
Casa lies in a timeless idea of ​​home, an intimate and safe space that we can access by simply closing the eyes, taking a deep breath, reaching a universal place and a desire to be the home.
Here and now.
In search of the Self, every place is home. ॐ ☮

☼ PT
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗮 é o primeiro álbum de 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 gravado em estúdio.
Este projecto de música para meditação, relaxamento, cura e viagem interior tem sido partilhado por João Sousa em sessões ao vivo para diferentes públicos em diversos lugares.

Svayam é o reflexo de uma busca interior, uma viagem desde a abstracção dos sentidos até à celebração da união do corpo com a mente, e o que há para além disso. Na sua música ecoa a união e igualdade de tod@s os seres.
O título deste trabalho é Casa, porque dentro dele habitam muitas casas, muitas mudanças de terra, de água, de fogo e de ar. Aqui estão presentes diferentes noções de casa, de corpo, daquele lugar onde não existe Um separado do Todo.
Casa reside numa ideia intemporal de lar, um espaço íntimo e seguro a que podemos aceder com um simples fechar de olhos, uma respiração profunda, chegando a um lugar universal e uma vontade de Ser a Casa. Aqui e agora.
Em busca do Ser, todo o lugar é casa. ॐ ☮

Casa

Pratyahara

Pratyahara | Casa (SCR002)

☼ PT (english bellow)
Os dias que correm pedem 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗲: de dentro para fora, de fora para dentro, do que não está certo, do que nos cega, do que nos oprime. Que este compasso seja o ritmo da tua libertação, que comece em ti e contribua para radiar em tod@s à tua volta.
Com este tema celebro o Verão, no dia do seu solstício, mas também o Yoga no seu dia internacional. ॐ ☮

☼ ENG
These days ask for 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 (portuguese: Liberdade): from the inside out, from the outside in, from what's not right, from what blinds us, from what oppresses us. May this compass be the rhythm of your liberation, may it begin in you and contribute to spread in everyone around you.
With this song I celebrate Summer, on the day of its solstice, but also Yoga on its international day. ॐ ☮

[SCR003]
credits
released June 21, 2020
☮ Interpretada, gravada e produzida por | 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 João Sousa
☮ Arruda dos Vinhos, 20/21 de Junho de 2020

Liberdade

Liberdade | (SCR 003)

Images on a mountain top

Guinevere

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

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 :)


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