my listenings during this month

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in copertina Harold Budd

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2021)

Henrik delivers his follow-up album on Ambientologist, Kval, strengthening his crossing of medieval evocation and meditative ambient cello.

A story of choices, necessary suffering, and being human.

CDs and download available here: https://bit.ly/3n8EFnx

Kval

Henrik Meierkord - Suddig

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly (Chattanooga 27 Feb 2006)

Good Morning 2021

A Happy New Year

When, 
10,000 years ago
In cities far apart
Two people shared one heart
And put their trust in all the

Words
Across the wires that drift
Four thousand hours a year
A balm for lonely nights
Across the ocean they did

Fly
In cheap seats in the clouds
Burning up all the hours
Then a taxi to the street
An Eastside walk up in the
Heat
 
Why 
Why can’t we
Fall, in love, again
Let’s 
Let’s try to see
Things differently
Let’s not pretend

She
Laid out on satin sheets
Gold bracelets on her feet
Naked beneath a shawl
The headboard banging on the

Wall
Young lovers that devour
And tread upon the flower
With little care or shame
And Never asking Who’s to

Blame
And When are you coming home
This food is getting cold
We sound so very old

Long Distant Longing

Marco Lucchi : toy harp, piano and analog synthesizer

6 gennaio 2021

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Will there really be a "morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Man from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "morning" lies!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°21 (+ piano + analog synth)

I'm putting up new original material on my Spotify channel https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PtcG937rHfQWJwv0Zi4um?si=t1ppLngORgmuqz9qeoDOzw 
Mostly original tracks, a few covers here and there. Thank you for even getting this far. Thoughts, opinions, suggestions all welcome. It's pretty lonely out here toiling over every sound wave and grubby plugin. Any feedback is appreciated and if you've got a track you want me to hear send it over - what comes around goes around etc. A huge shout out to Len Rice for all his production suggestions on this and other tracks of mine - a true expert, check him out https://soundcloud.com/lenrice
One day I hope to get some collaborations going and a far off dream is to re awaken all these tracks in a live environment with a live band and maybe even a live audience. For now the dream keeps me going. Thanks for listening.

I'm trying to use as much real instrumentation as possible: a Taylor and a Norman acoustic guitars, a Fender Strat Roadhouse that goes out of tune if I even look at it, a cheap Vintage mandolin that hurts to play and listen to, an 80 year old zither banjo that screams 'I was never destined for this' and a borrowed Aria Pro II bass that a friend can never be bothered to take home on the bus. Synths are a plasticky Roland FA06 and a fun but dumb Korg minilogue. Throw in some Native Instruments software primarily for smoochy piano and strings, a £15 melodica full of tramp spit, some harps in impossible tunings, and a box of percussion and assorted prehistoric flints (are you really still reading this??). 

All recorded on Logic Pro X on an ancient iMac that is going to explode any minute and take my entire oeuvre with it. And most likely burn the house down.

Long Distant Longing

C h r i s t i a n T W a l s h