Beautiful, hymn-like piece. The piano/drums combo works well.

love the melody, brilliant production and arrangement, great writing too, very sincere.

A thought provoking and effective lyric - and great performance Brian. Impressive song writing ……..

Absolutely love this. Great lyrics, vocal, melody, and instrumentation.

simple and effective , would work really well as a reggae version too

love how the piano guides this beaty ! a real shining light, with deep and meaningful lyrics, and a wondaful bed of complement to the instruments used, you have a great talent for writing, you blessed in many ways, a real thought provoker and relaxing vibe, has a subtle Bob Marley feel in the essence - love it bud ! thank you - shine

Brian Peters - The Song Man

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/urbanscapes.html

Urbanscapes

Improvised guitar

Unfortunately, more and more people of music are leaving us. Fortunately, great music remains. Tina Turner passed away a few days ago and that's what prompted me to do this cover.
Video can be watched here:
https://youtu.be/8zl_gyC0rdw
I invited Per (PJ Project) to collaboration. He accepted the invitation (thanks Per!) and added another guitar, bas, drums and mixed it all up. Here's what came out of it. This is placed for now on my YT channel.
https://youtu.be/KaHDTVOnZfY

Tonight, Tina Turner, David Bowie, cover

recorded to 8 track tape, mixed through a Seck desk straight to a cd recorder around 1999

Do What You Have To Do

Tex Mex Shaman (Stephen)--rhythm/ slide guitars/ riff/ mix and post production--@texmex-shaman
Llanpsych (Tez)--lead guitar--@llanpsych
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)--bass guitar--@josh-clary-1
J.J. Terrell-- Piano/glockenspiel--@j-j-terrell 
Mysterious Decibel--lead and high backing vocals--@themysteriousdecibel
K2 and the Three (Ken)--drums/ cowbell( I had the fever)maracas/tambourine/ woodblock/ low harmonies--@k2andthe3, and @k2-kara

This is a cover from Paul McCartney and Wings, from 1975 album, Venus and Mars, and this album was supported on their 1976 Wings over America tour. They always opened with Venus and Mars/Rockshow
     Ken sent Josh and Tez an email a few months back, about maybe covering this awesome rocker, after we released “Hello World." Before responding, Ken reposted his cover of "Richard Cory," a Simon and Garfunkel cover, sung by Denny Laine and Sir Paul on the Wings Over America triple live album. Stephen commented that “Rockshow” was one of the first songs he learned on guitar. Ken said, “Well, here’s your sign!" He freaked and invited Stephen to immediately contact Josh.
     We finished everything but the vocals by early June, but were stuck on lead vocalist. Several of the collective gave it a go, but nothing sounded right. Then came a late game idea. We had all been following and fans of The Mysterious Decibel for quite some time, so we asked him if he'd be interested in singing it. He was game, and really delivered what so many could not. He is a new, welcome addition to our mix. You'll also hear Stephen, who also accomplished the herculean task of mixing and producing this song, very ably play the entire song on the guitar, with Tez playing the ripping leads. 
  We hope you enjoy our labor of love that has been an entire summer in the making.

Rockshow (Eclectic Collective)

Osc Project - Empire Of Angels

Had a dream and just wanted  to translate it in music

Deep

I really love it when things come together quickly. Daniel contacted me two weeks ago, and suggested a collaboration. This song immediately came to me, and I sent him a recording a few days later. He then added his magical instrumentation and backing vocals. I am so grateful to him for his wonderful talent and input on this. Thank you, Daniel!

I also asked my niece, Judith, to provide the artwork. It includes a photo of my dad, and the sheet of his favourite song. Thank you, Judith!

In remembrance of my dad - this Christmas Eve will be 3 years since his passing. Thanks for listening.

Daniel Lockhart: strings, violins, added vocals, harmonium, slide lead guitar, hollow body guitar, accordion 
Me: vocals, acoustic guitars, bass
Judith Joshua: artwork
video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V2VyqmvdRo&index=1&list=UUDAJEffE-Nk6zs4eYTrNEgg

Birds of Heaven (Brian Peters)

Not another story
Of princes, crowns and glory
Kingdoms rise and fall
To a Jester’s call
Where Man does not belong
There’s a chapel here
A burned-out tabernacle here
Where a Sliding Stone
Makes a passing home
For the birds of heaven

Now the Archer’s leaving
The arrow’s arc receding
Bleary harmonies
Set in broken keys
Are rolling out a song
Thru’ the fallow fields
Spins a Piper’s reel
And Time is gain
On a rusty chain
For the birds of heaven

There’s an open door
Fading lines along the shore
And flying high
In a bluer sky
Are the birds of heaven

Birds Of Heaven (w Daniel Lockhart)

I Couldn't Run * Acoustic

vid link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Tw7pYMhAQ

Wonders Will Never Cease (Brian Peters)

As long as I can make amends
And turn an enemy into a friend
As long as I in love defend the peace
Wonders will never cease

As long as I can take a stand
And hold a fallen brother by the hand
As long as I can see that man increase
Wonders will never cease
-
I’m calling you
There’s a better way
I’m calling you
There’s a better way
-
As long as I can heal a wrong
Uplift the weak and purify the strong
As long as I embrace the very least
Wonders will never cease
Wonders will never cease

Wonders Will Never Cease

This song was written coming up to the 19th anniversary of Stephen Biko's death in detention. I'd visited St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, where the last hanging took place, and that prompted the title. I'd also been musing on the death of Saint Steven, the first Christian martyr. All of these various ideas informed the lyric.

Vid Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlGdpXHuUc&feature=youtu.be

Saint Stephen(Brian Peters)

There’s a wicked wind behind me
And it’s coming on down
And it’s breathing air reminds me
There’s blood on the ground
And I’m sleeping on an old lullabye
And I’m reaching between earth and sky

Now there’s a wall between us
You’re on one side
You have already seen us
There’s no place to hide
And I’m standing at the wrong end of the line
And I ain’t got a dime
-
Some people never wonder about things they’ve seen
Some people never worry, some people never dream
-
Well the shadows of the evening
They come to me now
And they’re calling Saint Stephen
To come on back down
There’ve been twenty hard years on the plough
And plenty of tears have been sown

I can feel Saint Stephen
He walks like a ghost
And his nails are uneven
His eyes they are lost
And he’s looking for a home in the world
And he’s caught between heaven and earth

Saint Stephen

Pravinand and I were in his front garden, overlooking the roads of our neighbourhood, when these first lines came to me. I went indoors and started composing this on his piano, before taking it home to finish it off.

vid link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PfVsJq7UY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUDAJEffE-Nk6zs4eYTrNEgg

When The Healing Starts (Brian Peters)

There’s an asphalt highway burning
All the numbers are lost
No friends and no enemies returning
To the snake on the cross
And I am on the assembly line
Like a body of spare parts
And I’m waiting for the time
When the healing starts

The spirit touches the water
Once in a very long time
There’s fumes in the heart of the city
Cars backed up over a mile
Old men with broken bodies
Lovers with broken hearts
In restless dreams where God is
When the healing starts
-
Wise men, they follow their conscience
Children, they follow the rules
Me, I’m just in between them
I’m always somebody’s fool
-
The neon ladies are sparking
The suicide’s out on a ledge
Two hundred feet to the parking
It’s the thin edge of the wedge
Lies don’t hurt nobody
Truth don’t hit the mark
Everything’s now under study
When the healing starts
-
Temptation’s ‘round every corner
Prejudice over my back
Pride is on my shoulder
Deceit won’t cover the track
-
I’ve seen your face on the cover
Of some mag on a newspaper stand
Everyone’s got to go somewhere
You did the best that you can
Now the power pylons are falling
The streets are deserted and dark
I’ll see you in the morning
When the healing starts

When The Healing Starts

https://open.spotify.com/track/5DPqWGNMo4WMjY4CHI9tQ8?si=176ef7f7e1bb48e0
In the palaces of the otherworld, through the autumn, the signal sounded - everything disappeared, only the forest and night remained...
В чертогах иномирья,сквозь осени врата сигнал пробил - исчезло все,остался только лес и ночь...
МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

...

TONIGHT!
2R
...

МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

МЫ ИДЁМ ПО ГРИБЫ

...

ANGST!

...

THIS IS MUSHROOMS SIGNAL

...

TONIGHT!

tHIS IS MUSHROOMS SIGNAL!

...

ANGST!

#2.5

Dolbania - The Mushroom Signal

During Apartheid-era South Africa it was quite common for the regime to use the death penalty as a way of eliminating or scaring off opposition. That history has largely turned me against capital punishment. This is dedicated to those prisoners-of-conscience who made the ultimate sacrifice!

vid link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxWnkrqlxI&feature=youtu.be

Death Row (Brian Peters)

See yourself in the water
Feel the grains of sand beneath your feet
Whirling up in form superior
Enthralling me with majesty

Natural is and natural let it be
We live or we die beneath the sacred tree
Life is just a mist
Soon it’s time to go
Spare my little kid
Waiting on Death Row

To each his own and all for all
Provided we can live in honesty
Perversion comes to turn the mind
Away from man’s equality

Natural is and natural let it be
We live or we die beneath the sacred tree
Life is just a mist
Soon it’s time to go
Spare my little kid
Waiting on Death Row

Death Row

big thanks to .47 seconds / Tomas Horn for an inspiring open collab https://soundcloud.com/tomas-horn/sanskritual

Sanskritectural

Sanskritectural - .47 seconds | ollora

Hello everyone! I've been here since July 2012. 
I hope you enjoy these songs. Thank you for listening!

A playlist: https://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel/sets/brian-peters-the-song-man
My Kids: https://soundcloud.com/levana-and-jehan-peters

Those I've collaborated with, or who have covered my songs:

http://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel
https://soundcloud.com/john-hollingum
http://soundcloud.com/cindyeichardt
http://soundcloud.com/johnson-ramm
http://soundcloud.com/jordan-cannady
http://soundcloud.com/riccicoughlin
http://soundcloud.com/sunnidayz
http://soundcloud.com/pau-14
http://soundcloud.com/philipbridle
http://soundcloud.com/kobe-akita
http://soundcloud.com/experimentator
http://soundcloud.com/vladaroo
http://soundcloud.com/hebikjoudaar
http://soundcloud.com/rustystringz
http://soundcloud.com/chrisscheri
http://soundcloud.com/van-gabriel
http://soundcloud.com/spaghetti-hillbillies
http://soundcloud.com/deephod
http://soundcloud.com/tolu_lope
http://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik
https://soundcloud.com/the-searchers
https://soundcloud.com/fernando-gonzalo
https://soundcloud.com/jrcros
https://soundcloud.com/emerfox
https://soundcloud.com/krum41
https://soundcloud.com/joakimlartey
https://soundcloud.com/ofemi
https://soundcloud.com/chrisliving
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1
https://soundcloud.com/textosh
https://soundcloud.com/sciencebase
https://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband
https://soundcloud.com/hilary-dirlam?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0
https://soundcloud.com/the-celturian?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0
https://soundcloud.com/raging-rausch
https://soundcloud.com/user-996383829
https://soundcloud.com/user-53145152-479345033

I'm a singer-songwriter from Durban, South Africa. Having being raised in the church I was advantaged with a ready-made audience. Their kindness, patience and ecouragement gave me the confidence to improve my songwriting and to take it quite seriously. At times when the lyrics had a touch of controversy, they never thought it scandalous, which further encouraged me to write on social issues, love songs, and songs with just a story. 
By my mid-teens I was heavily influenced by the hippy gospel songwriter Larry Norman, which may explain why into my 50's I still have long hair! Through his music I learned that songs do have a greater purpose. 
As a young upstart I was blessed with a kind and forgiving congregation. Today I'm blessed with a very tolerant family and a bunch of great friends. I love what I do!



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