Connecting Frequencies Part 2

Approaching Midnight

Mise en ligne: 05/07/2020

Synthétiseurs utilisés en + des VST:
Roland Juno 106 (Nappes)
Roland D550 (Son synthé)
Yamaha DX7 II FD(Pads / cloches / whispers)

© Cyril MENDEZ 2020, All Rights Reserved.

Angel Time

Like a lot of musicians and songwriters, I've been using the coronavirus shutdown as a time to work intensively on a new album that's slowly been taking shape over the past few months. "Shelter for Your Soul" is the first of the new songs I'll be uploading in the weeks ahead. It features the fabulous Wendy Lynn Staats on violin. (Wendy is the multitalented drummer/ violinist/ singer for the Madison band Sunspot.)
Main guitars are my Gretsch 2420 hollowbody and my '66 Guild Starfire XII.
LYRICS:
Shelter for Your Soul
***Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

We don’t say words that we don’t know.
I can’t believe that you must go.
I understand you’re hurting now but you have got to realize
we never signed up for this show.

Chorus:
I’m hoping you can find your way to someplace whole—
find a little shelter for your soul.

We were so young when we first met.
Your eyes could light the world on fire.
You were so wild even then I knew that someday you’d be gone,
and that just stoked up our desire.

Chorus

Bridge:
I can’t take you there I know.
I was hoping baby that you wouldn’t go.
Now I lie awake through the night
remembering all our days together—I see you in the pale blue light.

Now I’m sitting by the fire,
feeling low as a flat tire.
I wonder if you’re working now or if you’re shacked up with some guy
a lonely rose among the briars.

Words & Music by Timothy Walsh
Vocals, guitars, bass: Timothy Walsh
violin solo and violin arrangement by Wendy Lynn Staats
Recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios

Shelter for Your Soul

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Shelter For Your Soul (early demo mix)

Music & Lyrics: Jan Schonander

When I was in 10th grade I asked my Belgian Spanish Teacher (Ms. Van Stichel) why the Spanish word “esperar” was used for both waiting and hoping. Maybe a sophomoric question (excuse the pun), but her answer has stuck with me through the years. She said “to wait is to hope”, and how right she was. 

I HOPE

I hope there’ll be a new beginning
I hope to tell right from wrong
I hope you get what you want
I wait, and I hope

I hope all manner of sins will be forgiven
I hope, I hope for my better angels
I hope, I hope for a wide open door
I hope, I hope you feel the same way
I hope we’ve got a lot left to live
I hope I’ve got a lot left to give

I hope you get what you want
I wait, and I hope

I hope to make a change for the better
I hope, I hope there is another way
I hope we can see it all clearly
I hope, I can open up inside
I hope we can find the time
I hope we can find a rhyme

I hope there’ll be a new beginning
I hope to tell right from wrong
I hope you get what you want
I wait, and I hope

I Hope

This track revisits an older piece that I posted  few years ago.  It is based on a midi recording of me trying to play the piano, but was heavily edited to cover up all the mistakes I tend to make.  I was never fully happy with the piece, even after the editing as the original sound quality, although full, perhaps had too much reverb that tended to lose some of the details.  

I have both edited the track at an individual note level as well as increasing the tempo in quite a few sections.  I have also experimented with a way of trying to give a greater spatial sense to the sound,  including the thought that the listener is also the player, or sitting right behind them.  

Any comments on the music itself or the sound production would be appreciated as always,  And as always, thank you for listening.

Behind a Cloud Revisited

Track 10 from the album "B Sides, Alternates and Other Songs" ......... a collection of 10 songs written or recorded during the making of my "For the Stars" album in 2019 but didn't make the album.......releasing one song monthly thru October 2020!

"You Don't Know Me" is another true B Side. It was written long before I statred the "For the Stars" album and I recorded it with the intentions of having it on the album. But my wife vetoed it (she's my "test" audience!) in favor of another song and I felt 10 songs were enough for this album. So here it is now!

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You Don't Know Me

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/them-hybrid-folkFrom the album “Them Hybrid Folk”- 

Please listen with patience- this is not just an a cappella track. There are surprising things in store on the journey Home. :)

Mood Exhibit - Hōm

Primary Gates

Was so lovely to sing and play piano on another gorgeous composition by wonderful guitarist David Dunham. Please check out his page for more lovely tracks @david-dunhamuser589535203
We hope you enjoy! 😊🎼🎧🎤🎸

Lyrics
Maybe I’m just a fool
Falling again
Like the autumn rain

Falling again
Like the orange leaves
At my feet

And maybe I’m not afraid
To fall
Like those orange leaves

I’ll fall at your feet
I’ll fall at your feet

Falling again
Like the autumn leaves
At my feet

You’ll fall at my feet
You’ll fall....

FALLING AGAIN by David Dunham (feat. Annie Smart voice/piano)

Rem sleep

“A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -  Leopold Stokowski

A member of Cellar Door which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

"The most powerful and magical language is music. The reason for this is that music is the original language. Music is not ornamented poetry, and poetry is not ornamented prose. Poetry is fallen music, and prose is fallen poetry. Prose is not the original language; it is poetry made practical. Even poetry is not the original language; it is music made speakable, it is the words of music separated from their music. In the beginning was music." (Peter Kreeft, Philosophy of Tolkien)

Approaching Midnight

Classical Glass