Name: Old Ford (demo) by Charlie Williams
Duration: 4 min 45 s
Description: Americana-esque crime ballad about alienation.

Composition for wind orchestra and guitar electric solo

Nasara

It might be surprising as you're listening to the bagpipe : this tune is neither Scottish nor old…
Composed in 1982 by Michael Korb and Ulrich Roever, two German musicians, it has become very famous and is now part of the Scottish repertoire.
This « Highland Cathedral » is the true nickname of St. Columba Gaelic Church, located in Glasgow.
Here’s my own arranged version of this bagpipe standard.
Music : Michael Korb & Ulrich Roever
Performed, arranged and mixed by Éric McLewis (April 2023)
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Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître en écoutant la cornemuse, cet air n'est ni écossais ni ancien…
Composé en 1982 par deux musiciens allemands, Michael Korb et Ulrich Roever, sa notoriété lui a valu d'intégrer le répertoire écossais où il a même postulé en tant que candidat à l'hymne national!
Voici donc ma version de ce standard avec quelques arrangements originaux.
Musique : Michael Korb & Ulrich Roever
Interprété, arrangé et mixé par Éric McLewis.

Highland Cathedral

Robot Heart

Wound so tight
Time stands still
Please come back to me
Life’s too small
To Collapse in its wake but You were my everything

This paradise is lost without you and I’m falling down...

My robot heart
It beats for you
I bleed but I’m Holding on
I’m Holding on
I'm holding to you

Lost your light
And here in the dark
Reminded of everything
And In my mind
This prison of why
A dream of the afterglow

This paradise is lost without you and I’m falling down....

My robot heart it beats for you
I bleed but I’m Holding on
I'm Holding on
I’m holding on to you

Cuts so deep
To wake from a dream
In this bed alone
Your scent on the sheets
Like so many things
Long faded and gone

This paradise is lost without you and I’m falling down....

My robot heart it beats for you
I bleed but I’m Holding on
I'm holding on
I’m holding on to you

2023

Robot Heart

Written By:  Fuzzy Grubb; Jeremy Brizzi, James Seguin, David Homuth, and Sam Fiorenza.  

Shine

We drove past last night, just to see it shine
Right there for everyone to see and it’s all mine
I felt the soft twist, nerves messing with my mind
Another twenty-four hours and we’ll be under lights

Before tonight, did you know my name?
Shine.  Down on me.

Soft twist turns to nails.  Everything’s sped up.
Some people forget but I can’t figure how.
By the time they draw the curtain, I’ll be ready to play.
Five words live in me – ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE

Before tonight, did you know my name?
Shine.  Down on me.

Sweat displays my ecstasy, every drop like a dream
Living for the hope that you’ll feel the same, that you’ll feel the music in me
I’m alive now, so alive now, step inside and take a ride through my mind.
Take your time, fantasize, step inside, I can feel you shine!

Down on me.
Shine.  Down on me

Did you step inside?  Did you get to unwind?  Did you let it all go and lose yourself in the night?
Did you live the dream?  Did you live it through me?  Did you let it all go?  Did you set yourself free.

Did you get to?  X3 
Shine.  Down on me.

Shine

SHINE (Fuzzy Grubb - 2003)

Esta canción está inspirada en María Fauro, la señora que limpiaba en la empresa  donde yo trabajaba y de la que tengo un entrañable recuerdo por su bondad y su coraje. Está dedicada a ella y, por extensión, a todas las mujeres de la limpieza, porque creo que no se valora su trabajo como se debería.

Hemos grabado dos versiones: en la de Carmen París se siente la fuerza y el coraje, mientras  que en la de Ana López Lorente destaca el cariño y la ternura. Y las dos están repletas de una entrega y sensibilidad que consiguen emocionar. Destacar, además, el piano de José Mª Berdejo, el chelo de Pablo Baleta, las guitarras de Nacho Abril y los “polvos mágicos” del ingeniero de sonido Juan Miguel Sánchez, del estudio de grabación Sin/Con Pasiones.

Para ver el video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAj3gxkoExc

SEÑORA MARÍA (Versión de Carmen París. Para escuchar la versión de Ana López Lorente  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/senora-maria-feat-ana-lopez-lorente?si=8b319bf6318f449caa2593e6a0ec4c22&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Siempre agarrada a la escoba
cual si parte de ella fuera
siempre con cubo y fregona
día y noche compañeras.

Sus manos limpian el polvo
con destellos de ternura
que relumbran en sus ojos
rebosantes de amargura.

Estribillo 

Y es que no ha sido la vida
aquel camino de rosas
que soñara siendo niña
entre blancas mariposas

La vida a veces regala
sueños de miel al destino
pero otras muchas se ensaña
y de hiel riega el camino.

Señora María:
guerrera en la desgracia
que siempre se cobija
en su humilde morada.
Señora María:
¿dónde mana el coraje
que la mantiene viva
y le da tanto aguante? 
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Al despertar la mañana
la saludan las estrellas
la brisa besa su cara
ya marchita primavera.

Estribillo


Always clinging to the broom
as if part of her were
always with bucket and mop
day and night companions.

Her hands clean the dust
with flashes of tenderness
that shine in his eyes
brimming with bitterness

Chorus

And it is that life has not been
that path of roses
that she dreamed as a girl
between white butterflies

life sometimes gives away
honey dreams to destiny
but many others show
and gall waters the road.

Lady Maria:
warrior in misfortune
that she always shelters
in her humble abode.
Lady Maria:
where does the courage flow
that keeps her alive
and does it last that long?
-------

waking up in the morning
the stars greet her
the breeze from her kisses her face
already withered spring

Chorus

SEÑORA MARIA (Feat. Carmen París)

London

SONGS OF HOPE FOR A NEW REALITY.

This work consists of three songs.
 
The first song is for a baritone voice and represents that it is sung by a character who is a journalist and tries to give an overview of the many global crises and conflicts that are currently haunting us and causing "perplexity in an uncertain world".

The second song, for a contralto voice, represents that it is the reply given by a female character who is an anthropologist, to the previous journalist arguing that we can only save ourselves if we start from approaches based on ethics and anthropology to build a "critical conscience of our species" that allows us to create a new global reality where all human beings have a dignified and comfortable life.

The third song is a fugue for four voices (for soprano, alto, tenor and bass) and represents the well- meaning people who have honestly understood what the situation is: it is only possible to overcome this "perplexity in an uncertain world, creating new global reality for all.

At the end of this introduction I attach a PDF with the lyrics of the three songs. I put the original version in English and also its translation into Spanish.

The music has an initial inspiration in what we could call musical styles of modern popular music, but with the aim of reaching a final composition of a more abstract and artistic nature. Regarding the musical production, as is usual in my works, the score of the different musical parts is performed by computer software, specifically in the instrumental parts I have used the synthesizer (granular and spectral) called Padshop 2 and also samplers from the VSL (Vienna Symphonic Library) that, although in this library the instruments have acoustic timbre, I have given them an electronic music treatment. But the most peculiar part is the one corresponding to the voices in which I have used the VOCALOID 6 software that has a singing synthesis technology that produces singing voices that are very realistic and with the ability to articulate words and that has been, initially , developed to sing in the Japanese and English languages.

As for the textual content of the lyrics of the songs, I have written it myself and I wanted it to start from the current global reality and to have, as far as possible, a projection in the general interest. I have been inspired by various texts that I have read lately and, especially, the book "El porvenir de la humanidad”  written by Eudald Carbonell i Roura, a Catalan archaeologist and anthropologist who has a long and important professional career.


Lyrics of the three songs    /    Letras de las tres canciones:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1llYNK9VUjN-zuf9jmWaPbnqsQmExWQhR/view?usp=drive_link	



Esta introducción en castellano:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10da1T3vm8U3H2Eh0AgOBbAwz27Iv4WZp/view?usp=sharing

Aquesta introducció en català:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uaq06MVT-_6ovqsne6KgW-iBGZcT58KZ/view?usp=sharing

Songs of hope for a new reality

Midnight (Joe Satriani)

Written, Produced, Engineered, and performed by Orlando Melodic artist TylerMichael



Lyrics:
Let me speak something To existence 
About time i think you really wanna listen
Baby we could really go the distance
Do or die I don’t wanna get it twisted
But baby you won’t live life without me
All this time when the odds were stacking
Hold me down when the mass surrounding
All I want and that’s never changing

All I want is you girl
You got all of my interest 
I give you all of me girl 
God I hope you listen 
Take you into my world
And my dreams come to fruition
Girl you’re all I’m needing a there’s nothing 
That could stop us bae from going the distance 
Oh I
Could never fold
For you I’d 
Do the unknown 
Baby I 
Just need you home
Baby I
I need you
I need you
I need you

Let me speak something To existence 
About time i think you really wanna listen
Baby we could really go the distance
Do or die I don’t wanna get it twisted
But baby you won’t live life without me
All this time when the odds were stacking
Hold me down when the mass surrounding
All I want and that’s never changing

Existence

Perfect Worlds
© Andrew Dolphin
Photos displayed on a digital wall 
Like a fairy-book tale 
Come to life
Laughter and smiles cover up those truths
There’s a crack in the screen
Leaking tears 
Screenshots of life 
Hide those troubles away 
Show the world that today
All is fine 

Living their perfect lives
In their perfect worlds
Wrapped up in silk and
Adorned with pearls
Nothing could be further from the truth 
Than their perfect worlds

Under the hood there’s a secret that lurks 
For they’re crying inside 
Pretty please
Telling the world what they don’t need to know
The rush that they crave is
Like a drug
On with the show 
To the fairy tale end
They can make a new friend
For a day

Everything’s fine 
In their avatar worlds
Make all of their dreams come true 
Build up those walls 
And ring-fence the script
No-one would ever see through
But glass is as clear as the lie

Perfect Worlds

Americana-esque crime ballad about alienation.

Old Ford (demo)

Just stumbling through and writing songs. I record many and perform them live as much as I can, and they are mainly acoustic. 

I have a synthpop project here: https://soundcloud.com/alphacrater

Message me for bookings or collab ideas.

Old Ford (demo)

Charlie Williams

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