A lament and funeral march for a ravaged planet.
This was a track I did a couple of years ago and it was the basis for the collab with the turtle project track 'Rest your Head'. This is just an instrumental doodle.

RIP Mother Earth

Improvised music produced entirely on the iOS platform using an iPad Pro.

Where The Wind Blows

Here's a tribute track for 90s Eurodance group Sash!  The lyrics are a bit cheesy, but that's the point.

I created this track in Nanostudio 2 on iPhone 14 Pro Max.  Vocals were recorded and processed in Cubasis 3.  Mastered with Grand Finale 2.

Cheers and enjoy.

JWM - Thank You For The Music (Radio Edit)

Took a roundabout way to finally find you
The endless meandering and bumps in the road
But oh when I did, I finally discovered
What being in love means and what it’s like to strike gold

No flash in the pan, no two year wonder  
The decades stretch on, we’re not news anymore
Still I reach for your hand as the TV drones on
Unhearing, not watching I’m lost in the glow

When I say you’re beautiful you think I’m blinded by love
Well I know it’s not true, if you stood in my shoes
You would see the love that I feel everyday 

When the demons creep in, when worry takes over
When my complex mind it seems to explode
You restore the peace, my strength and my rock               
You say everything’s OK and I know that it’s true

My choice of long words, the world’s worst romantic
You forgive the sceptic, poor excuses, the cynic
But my heart is so true and I’ll do right by you
We still fall about laughing we can flourish and thrive

When I Say You're Beautiful

“Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

Live improvisation using Cigar box guitar, electric bass, mountain dulcimer, Roland S1 synth, Cloudbusting  electronics, looped in AUM by someone who can’t play any of these instruments.

Show Me Heavy

Abyssal Plain ( https://soundcloud.com/abyssal-plain-341399457 ) and I collaborated on this track.
He provided a beautiful chord progression in Scaler 2 and the XinematiX sounds.
I added ThumbJam Cello, a couple of Decent Sampler sounds and the SWAM Alto Saxophone.
The BBC provided the Blackbird 🐦‍⬛

In Ireland in the nineteenth century, blackbirds were supposed to hold the souls of those in purgatory until judgement day. It was said that whenever the birds voices were particularly shrill, it was those souls, parched and burning, calling for rain. The rain always followed.

#288 The Holder Of Souls

V1
Hey, I just heard our song on the radio
Was it really oh so long ago ?
Living it up every night
Watching the city come to life
Living life on the edge of a knife

Do you remember that time we went to Spain
Sitting at the back, smoking on the aeroplane
Girona's lights they burned so bright
Lighting up the Spanish night
Sipping Cointreau in the pale moon light

Ch
We didn't think of the future
But it crept up before too long
No way of hitting the rewind
I just remember that song

V2
So the years flew by and we worked it out
Good times bad times, no need to scream or shout
Laughed so much that it made me cry
Cos you always had that look in your eye
Found it hard to say goodbye

Ch
We didn't think of the future
But it crept up before too long
No way of hitting the rewind
I just remember that song

Bridge
Memories are made but fade away
One by one to make to brightest day
Each one packaged in a special little parcel
The wind picks up and blows them all away

V3
So I'm happy that I've lived that kind of crazy life
Where I've made mistakes that anyone might
Understanding all it takes
Weeding out all of the fakes
Always time, never too late

Chorus

Hitting The Rewind

Where you gonna go?  Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cos there's no one. Like you. Left.

In celebration of international talk like a pirate day, here's some appropriate accompaniment!

Trumpet Hornpipe

V1
There's a secret, hidden in the past
Yes a secret, that was never going to last
As you cowered in the candlelight
Heavy footsteps, before a fight

Chorus
Was there a consequence ?
Nothing makes any sense
Gather up all the knocks
And put them back inside the box

V2
The secret was hidden for so many years
And the secret had caused you so many tears
Only the brave can relive that again
What was the point of digging up the pain ?

Chorus

Break

V3
Was that secret really hard to tell
Hid it so long, you can never tell
Walking alone in the barren land
Secrets are hard to understand

Chorus

Secret

Another previously unheard track from 4 years ago. Still in the doldrums here. Sorry for not listening to all your fine music folks.

Two sides of the same coin. A song of two halves,night and day.

I love the end of the day
When the blue sky darkens
And the light fades away
The sky recedes 
And the colour grows thin
The world opens up
To let the universe in

Sharp edges soften
Become almost blurred
Darkness is birthing
A whole different world

When I Say You're Beautiful

Marshall