Extraordinary soundscape - severe, deep & nicely varied. :)

very evocative , very powerful!! well done 👌

Yes!!! I love this direction your has taken lately (or sorry if I never noticed before).  Such a wild ride on an eclectic journey.

https://youtu.be/3fHo4B1x_BY

Seems to be an endless repeated theme for me ~ running away to the countryside, and in recent years this has been the Australian wilderness, from the deep south to the far north.

Dedicated to, and featuring Gary Reeves (aka Mountain Songs) on drums and cymbals (remixed) at the start. Banjo, lap slide guitar (acting as bass), beats and vox by myself. This song is for Gary, who has been a wonderful musical compadre for many of us around the world, via this  Soundcloud Village.

Respect and acknowledgement to the Traditional Owners of the lands, waters and skies in this video, both in Australia and New Zealand. Particular thanks to the Yolgnu people of Gapuwiyak who made me feel so welcome during my short visit to Arnhem Land last year.

Looking Up & Down      Song, recording, audio & video July 2023 - Chris Okunbor (APRA)
I was chained to the city, thinking I could fly,
I gazed at the heavens as the clouds rolled high.
Long, long days working to the plan,
I changed my way of living and I left that town.

Now I'm higher than the mountains, looking down below,
rolling miles above cotton candy snow.
Way beyond the city, just going with the flow.
running to freedom to a place unknown.

Got a window seat, got a beer in hand.
Feeling in my heart for this ancient land.
Well, wild rivers snake,  jeweled seas shine.
Djerimanga Songlines are spinning out my mind.

Higher than the mountains, and the madding crowd,
cruising miles above cotton fields of cloud.
Way beyond the city, going with the flow,
running to freedom, to a place unknown.
To a place unknown.

Looking Up & Down

Looking Up & Down  ~ a song for Gary (video link in notes)

Talvipäivänseisaus

Collaborative work with Ansound soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Narrow But Cozy [with Ansound]

A collaboration with one of #Ha Kékong's field recordings...1 track of mandolin doubled, with one track of Ha's doubled and the second turned into a midi track

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Mando Whispers To A Train

Marco Lucchi : piano 
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6 marzo 2024
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Dell'aurora

Anthocaris cardamines

Primavera per me non è la donna
botticelliana dell'Allegoria.
Primavera è per me questa farfalla
fatta di grazia e di fragilità!

Oggi, lungo il sentiero solatio
dove sosta la lepre alle vedette,
un orecchio diritto e l'altro floscio,
tra il grano verdazzurro, lungo il rivo
costellato di primule e d'anemoni,
tra il biancospino, che fiorisce appena,
ho rivista l'Antòcari volare
e il cuore mi sobbalza nell'attesa
senza nome che tutte in me resuscita
le primavere dell'adolescenza....

Ma primavera non è giunta ancora.
È la quinta stagione. Un chiaro Marzo
canavesano, inverno già non più,
non primavera ancora. È l'anno vecchio
tinto a verde d'Enrico l'amarissimo.
Se cantano le allodole perdute
nella profonda cavità dei cieli,
non s'odono le rondini garrire;
lasciano appena il Delta o la Gran Sirte
o riposano a Cipro ovver vïaggiano
sul cordame d'un legno tunisino...

Ma l'Antòcari vola e il cuore esulta!
È la farfalla della novità,
la messaggiera della Primavera,
la grazia mite, l'anima del Marzo.
Essa avviva la linfa nelle scorze,
il brusio, il ronzio, lo stridio,
risuscita l'incognito indistinto.

Oh! Messaggiera della Primavera!
La Terra attende. Il cielo che riempie
il frastaglio dei rami e delle roccie
sembra intagliato nel cristallo terso;
il profilo dell'Alpi è puro argento;
pallido è il verde primo, il pioppo è brullo,
la quercia ancor non abbandona il fulvo
stridulo manto che sfidò l'inverno;
allieta lo squallore la pannocchia
pendula verdechiara del nocciòlo,
la nubecola timida del mandorlo;
tiepido è il sole, ma la neve intatta
sta nelle forre squallide, a bacìo.

La Primavera non è giunta ancora,
ma l'Antòcari vola e il cuore esulta!
La messaggiera della Primavera
è timida, sfuggevole alle dita,
coscïente di sua fragilità;
quasi non vola, s'abbandona al vento
e visita la primula e l'anemone,
la pervinca, il galanto, il bucaneve;
il vento marzolino fa tremare
petali ed ali dello stesso tremito
e l'occhio mal discerne la farfalla:
l'ali minori, marezzate in verde,
chiudono come un calice l'insetto.
Insetti e fiori; mimi scaltri, come
v'accordaste nei tempi delle origini?
Le pagine di pietra dissepolte
attestano che i fiori precedettero
gl'insetti sulla terra: fu l'anemone
che alla farfalla ragionò così:
«Sorella senza stelo, come sei
fragile d'ali e debole di volo!
Salvati dal ramarro e dalla passera:
rivestiti di me, tingiti in verde
ai lati, in bianco a mezzo, in fulvo a sommo,
e con l'antenne simula i pistilli!».

E il fior primaverile alla farfalla
primaverile diede i suoi colori:
dolce alleato nella vita breve....

E la caduca musa marzolina
sa che deve sparire con l'anemone,
sparire prima della Primavera...

Visita i fiori, intepidisce il regno
per le grandi farfalle che verranno,
poi, giunta al varco della vita breve,
congeda il Marzo, volgesi all'Aprile:

Aprile! Marzo andò: tu puoi venire!....

- Guido Gozzano

Esatonale [5]

"We proudly present": Andy McLean on tenorsax. accompanied by Michael Spielmann on piano and bass playing one of my elder compositions.

For more stuff played by Andy look at https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

Abschied 1992 - with Andy McLean on sax

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Desert Shadows

Sand Storm

Retro pop, my lyrics, Peter's music/vox. Copyright 2024 Jay Rich and Peter Davis. Lyrics below:

            Ninety-Nine Degrees

V1:

Volcano, furnace, you're a blend
Excitement round you is never-ending
I'm stoked up, my fire is lit
You're like Clara Bow so oozing "It"

V2:

I'm entranced, it's like a spell
With other men the same as well
I advanced, could not retreat
And found myself swept off my feet

Ch1:

The temperature is soaring
Over ninety centigrade and more
My throat is tight my pulse is racing
Being round you is so bracing
I'm light-headed, what you said
Has made me weaken at the knees
The heat is reaching ninety-nine degrees

Bridge:

Force of nature, what a taste of the dark side of life you were
Many days have passed since then
And still my senses in a stir
You're like a burning building
One that's blazing up in flames
My temperature's been raised
Right through the scale and out of range
My life was on hold
And I'd known icy cold damped down to freeze
But you amped it up
To fully ninety-nine degrees (ninety-nine degrees)

*****Break*****

Ch2:

The temperature is soaring
Over ninety centigrade and more
My throat is tight, my pulse is racing
Any time now, I'll be shaking
I'm light-headed, what you said
The way you made those guarantees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees


Ninety-Nine Degrees (Peter Davis music/vocals)

A part of me lives in the seventies, even if I was just a small fart back then. In some way I felt the world was better then, people was looking forward, education, evolution and the future. Now people seams to seek towards the middle ages, what happened to the dreams? 
 We used to meet, a couple of friends. We mainly sat down, played music and didn't say many words, just listened to the music and felt the world was a great place. Maybe some of my best memories.

I Said It Was Rain

Marco Lucchi & idematoa - Omnia florent - reimagined by Wilfried Hanrath

Born in México City in 1955, started playing at an early age. In Mexico, I played with bands like "Batallón de San Patricio", "Atrás del Cosmos", "Queso Sagrado", "Syntoma", " Broken Heart", "Decibel", "Bardo Thodol", "Kathmandu Ensemble". In New York City I played with Bands like, "King"s East", "In The Service Of", "Fist of Facts", "Desire", "Dense Undergrowth"," "Matahari", "Like Wow", "Devil's Breakfast", "Muse Mob", "Atlantis 3000", "Monster", "Zenith", "Andromeda Crash" "Night Shade", I also collaborated with Hector Zazou, Harold Budd, Elliott Levin, Dennis Charles, and many others. For many years I also wrote Jingles for a lot of products like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mc Donalds, Toyota, Kodak, Payless Shoes, Rothman's, Salsa Tabasco, JC Penny, Liberty Science Center, American Heart Association, MCI, Reebok, AT&T, Fanta, Play Movil, etc, I also made music for Viacom writing music for cartoon networks, Bravo TV, Chanel 1, and MTV. Also wrote music for Bill Moyers (PBS)and also for Fax TV in Germany.

Desert Shadows

Carlos Vivanco

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