A little song I wrote for St. Patrick's Day to pay tribute to a bar I used to frequent by the name of Lydia's. She has been gone for a few years now, but the memories live on!

Oh, Dear Lydia!

Despair is just the beginning

Don't Let Them Go Away

It’s autumn, somehow summer got behind me 
Yeah it’s autumn, you know always it has to be
Looking through a mirror to our misty mountain springtime; sweetest love I ever saw
Sunny, funny, honeybee smiling face; now I love you more.

Seasons leaves are turning, but they’re not falling to forget
Yeah it’s autumn, but it’s not nearly winter yet
Looking through a mirror to our hazy crazy springtime; wildest love I ever saw
Sunny, funny, honeybee smiling face; you know I love you more.

It’s autumn, somehow summer got behind me
Yeah it’s autumn, you know it always has to be
Looking through a mirror to our dreamy crystal fountain; deepest love I ever saw
Sunny, funny, honeybee smiling face; yes I love you more.

Autumn

After The Rain

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XPxpD330QwOEOOfmRZzwe
Buy: https://atlascedar.bandcamp.com/album/fool-ep

A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
http://trillionthtonne.org/

This song is the 'twin' song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi)on Unsplash.com

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2019
Original improv: 16th May 2019
Recording: 24th August 2019

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

Beyond The Billionth Tonne

🎧 Listen on Spotify

Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

Something a bit more jazzy and optimistic. Hopefully everything will get easier.

Easier & Easier

This upload is a bit different. I made this song with my wife - It is sung in English and Korean. A happy child like summer song to cheer us all on through any difficulties. We made this little song for her Korean online community, and for everyone who suffers from dyshidrosis. 

My wife used to suffer a lot from this skin disease until she learned to live with it well and has almost no symptoms anymore.  Many years ago she created a Korean support space  for people who suffer from this condition.   She managed this community unsalaried all this time until now. I could not be more proud of her! 

You can find a short interview with Helen here:

https://www.eatmy.news/2020/05/believe-in-yourself-and-live-with.html?fbclid=IwAR1_dCrxqJjuTCGsAHG6sihoFgT3h41LwABMxB5n1iXgXb4eWME3sScSpCo


Lyrics:

Wake Up - did you hear the news?
All your cats have left without a trace
Wake Up - Don't you be confused
Surely they just found a better place

Summer's coming back again
But it's nothing like the last year
Someone tell the birds to tune it down
Summer's coming back again
But it's nothing linke the last year
Please don't let the sun disturb my frown


Wake Up, did you hear the news?
All your friends have joined the other side
Wake up, don't you be confused
In a year or two you will be fine
I cannot do anything if you are not around me
All I ever needed was your smile
I cannot do anything if you are not around me
All I ever needed was your smile

Cats Have Left (feat. Hyekyoung)

Through The Galaxy

Somewhere in Space

Bellsandbleeps

Stupor

You. Cut Short.

Well it looks like this site has changed quite a bit lol. I guess the best thing to do is hit "TRACKS",  SC gets to choose your top tracks(which could be your worst loI)
I love the community that I have found in Sound Cloud. How great is it to show our music to each other? So wonderful to have built relationships with many of you. I look forward to hearing new tracks very much but miss them on the stream no doubt, PLEASE send me your track if you got something you are proud of, I would love to hear it!!!  I have been broadened musically each time I press play and appreciate more than words the feedback I have received on my tracks. I will reciprocate to anyone who spends time here because after we start commenting on each others tracks, we are no longer followers but friends. The amount of followers doesn't matter in the slightest. What matters are the friends who care enough to share in each others creations.  Hey, I know I have a weird sound and I can be hard to listen to but when I recorded it  I was alive, I felt it and I did it!! :)

Don't Let Them Go Away

Chet Guida