Original Composition & Performance : Chris Dargay

WaterSnake (TL) *raw demo

Fingerstyle playing has been a passion for me for over 45 years, having fallen in love with it when I first heard a college friend play with his fingers instead of a pick.  It was mesmerizing and I determined then and there I must learn how.  This song is the first I wrote using fingerstyle and has followed me around now for over 40 years evolving as I learned more playing technique.  I think it is still evolving, but this is where it is now; shades of light and shadow, good times, difficult times, hopefully full of the Grace of God. It is a musical portrait of me.  Performance note:  only one guitar used, the Taylor JKSM, standard tuning, no overdubbing--strictly solo fingerstyle.

Places I've Been

Some fresh new blues rock with the exceptional  Lou Taverna joining me on guitar.  He's got fire and so much groove too.
Check out and follow Lou's sweet gallery of originals:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Climbed to # 7 in SoundCloud's Hot & New Jazz and Blues category.

Feelin' It - Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

B-Day Boy | Music by BBright | Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Listen to the amazing music of BBright here: https://soundcloud.com/wolfgang-schwarz-01051902

B-DAY BOY - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Baby you know I love you
Ahn, Oh
Hey-Ee-Hey
Oh, Wah-Oh

Baby you know I miss ya
I need you tonight
I feel your body
You make me fly

Outta my mind
Out of my mind
Out of my mind...

Need you near 
By my side
Hold me tonight
Hold me tonight
Baby hold me
Ahn-Hahn
Oh-Ho, Ho-Ho

Yeah, Yeah-Heah-Heah
Yeah-Heah, Yeah-Yeah...

Oh-Ho, Oh-Ho
L-O-V-E, Luh-uh-ove
L-O-V-E
Can't get enough 
Can't get enough
Of, Y-O-U-Oo
Ah-Huh-How
Ah-Huh-Huh
Ohn-Ohn-Ohn
Heh-Ee-Yeah

Need you everyday in my life
Holding me tight
Every, Every night
Baby you and me
The best thing that ever could be-ee
Beautiful, you're takin' me
Outta my mind
Out of my mind
Ah-Ah, Yah-Ah-Eind

You're takin' me
Takin' me
Out of my mind
Out of my mind
Out of my
Mind...
Baby, Oh-Ohn

Tinga-Linga-Ling
Gonna hear me sing
Tinga-Linga 
Ling-Ling
Ling-Ling



Cover Art Design - Photos (Self-Portrait, Gold Heart) & Graphics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Original Music Composed & Produced, Mixed & Mastered by BBright, (Wolfgang Schwartz) in Germany

Music/Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA



B Day Boy - REKHA IYERN [Fe] & BBRIGHT M1Basic -3.8db

B-Day Boy

B-Day Boy - Music by BBright | Music & Lyrics REKHA - IYERN [Fe] & BBright | 80's Dance

Chris: Lyrics & melody arrangement/vocals/Brauchli lapslide/audio engineering
Martin: Bass, rhythm, main guitars, shruti, instrumental arrangement & recording.
Another collaboration re-imagining the tradition, with Martin Kirwan…we’ve made this one a free download if you enjoy it. Martin has composed and played the instrumental on layered guitar tracks and shruti, and I've re-arranged the lyrics and vocal melody. As always, I'm blown away by his beautiful playing and imaginative blending of cultural sounds. https://soundcloud.com/tradladsaughrim

This gem can be found in Buntings Ancient Music of Ireland, and the "literal  translation from the original Irish" was undertaken by a Miss Mary Balfour, (there is a slightly different  translation in my 1897 book The Minstrelsy of Ireland). 
The original Irish song was believed to have been collected by an agent of Bunting's associates the McCrackens - a man called Patrick Lynch...who collected over 200 songs from singers around the Mayo area in the early 1800's but this man was never acknowledged in the publication. 
The original tune was believed to have been first published as "Ye Trugh" by Neal in 1724, but Bunting got it from Charles Byrne at a harpist's gathering around the 1790's.

"Arise from thy slumbers, oh fairest of maids!
With me wilt thou wander to Truigha's green shades,
Where sorrel and bright rowan berries abound,
And nuts in rich clusters the branches have crowned.

A bed of fresh ivy to rest thee I'll bring,
The blackbirds and thrushes around us shall sing,
And there with unceasing attachment I'll prove,
How soothing the cares of affection and love.

In my contemporary arrangement I've made the English lyrics flow a bit better. 

Photo by Chris Okunbor

An Seann Triuca

An Seann Triuća (The Old Truigha) Trad. arr. Okunbor & Kirwan. Free download if you like it

Close To You - With Dirk Ködderitzsch

I set out to make a light and sensible track. This happened instead.

This track has a short video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CakT6T9gyhg/

Senseless

Thanks, as always, to @rosindust on violin, it's our eighth piece together. Together as friends. 
Peace.

Here all our collaborations:
https://soundcloud.com/francescocartocci/sets/grazie-tatiana?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Composition and all arrangements: Francesco Cartocci

Enemies - with Rosin Dust

Another jam over one of Sebastien Zuninos cool backing tracks, thank you Sebastien for allowing me to take your backing tracks and add my DNA.

https://sebastienzunino.bandcamp.com/

Cloudy Skies

Thistledown

Oh it's a rainy day, turning my heart upside down

Raindrops, raindrops, pitter patter all over this town

It's just a day, just a day

But these blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown


And what are we to do, is this deva vu

Cos I think that i've been here before

And it's all the same, with another name

We don't get what we have asked for

It's just a day, another day

These blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown

It's just a day, a rainy day

These blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown

Thistledown

Just a little short acoustic jam I put together to give some more meat to the Judgment Day album. I drew inspiration from Led Zeppelin and Genesis.

Mountain Man

Chris, hailing  from North West  Tasmania in Australia, is a singer-songwriter who pens originals, and  plays vintage music the way it used to be.  Her mashup of  Folk, Blues,  &  Americana  draws on a lifetime of  encounters with places, people, and the magic of nature;  echoing  a multitude of  global grassroots traditions. 
Traveling around carrying her “band” like a pack pony ~ lap-slide, banjo, uke, as well as a few plain ole guitars, she  regularly performs in Australia and Europe.
Growing up in Merseyside, England, Chris was exposed to the vibrant music scene of the late 60’s and 70’s,  and her music is has been influenced by  traditional folk, country blues, and  world music .
In 2016 she represented her State at the International Blues Challenge & National Women in Blues Showcase in Memphis,  and her second album,  “Wailin’ & Raggin’ the Blues” was  a   finalist for “Best Self-produced CD with the Blues Foundation , USA.  Her third album, “Twisted Roots & Twisted Highways” was  a finalist for Blues & Roots Radio Album of the Year in 2018.
www.chrisokunbor.net

An Seann Triuća (The Old Truigha) Trad. arr. Okunbor & Kirwan. Free download if you like it

Chris O (2)