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Extracts from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

“Son,” said my mother,
   When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
   And not a rag have I”.
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
   Nor thread to take stitches.”
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody will buy,”  
   And she began to cry.
 
…

Men say the winter
   Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
   And food was dear.
 
A wind with a wolf’s head
   Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
   And sat on the floor.
 
All that was left us
   Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody would take,
   For song or pity’s sake.
 
…

Looking nineteen,
   And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Leaned against her shoulder.
 
Her thin fingers, moving
   In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
   Wonderful things.
 
Many bright threads,
   From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp-strings
  Rapidly,
 
…

There sat my mother
   With the harp against her shoulder
Looking nineteen
   And not a day older,
 
A smile about her lips,
   And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp-strings
   Frozen dead.
 
And piled up beside her
   And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
   Just my size.

The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver

Art Expressed in Music – Renoir's Charm
February 2024
Duration: 3:00
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Luncheon of the Boating Party 
Remix of “Afternoon in Paris” by John Lewis with original composition 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 to December 3, 1919) was a French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. Renoir mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vitality, emphasizing the pleasures of life despite the financial worries that troubled him. Several of his masterpieces date from this period including Luncheon of the Boating Party.  Renoir had his first attack of rheumatism in 1894, and, as the attacks became more and more frequent, he spent more and more time in southern France, where the climate was better for his health. About 1899 he sought refuge in the small village of Cagnes; in 1907 he settled there permanently, buying the estate of Les Collettes, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1910 he was no longer able to walk. Although his infirmity became more and more constraining, Renoir never ceased to paint; when his fingers were no longer supple, he continued by binding his paintbrush to his hand.  Several months before his death, Renoir was able to go to Paris, where several friends wheeled him for the last time through the Louvre to view the masterpieces that he had venerated throughout his life. Renoir died in Cagnes-sur-Mer on December 3, 1919 at the age of 78.
For strings, piano, harp, accordion, clarinet, alto flute, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Renoir's Charm

This track was recorded in memory of the RV Trip which I took with my beloved son in 2023. 4 weeks visiting the western part of Canada und the US. We saw some unbelievably beautiful places und we were driving and driving and listening to our favourite tunes for hours and hours. 7500 km in total. 

Written in 2024 -Improvised L-guitar, excuse the flaws.

Driving to Nowhere Land

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No Rush Collab cgmaness and TexMex Shaman

Brian Butts - Guitar, Bass, Djembe, Keyboards, Master Mix
Jeffrey Colon (Bastacho) - Recorders https://soundcloud.com/jeffrey-colon-3?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Apophenia

Bandcamp

Nomad (feat. Bastacho)

🎧To enjoy the sounds and FX on this track, turn it up. I compressed the hell out of  it to infuse sound and textures. It was a lot louder but SoundCloud may have turned it down. Peace fam!!!✌🏽🎧

Something Like That 145 BPM

This is my rendition of an old, irish folksong. 
My instrumentation:
irish bouzouki
greek bouzouki
acoustic guitar
harmonica
electric bass

Danny Boy - Irish folk song

360°

Lyrics and Musik: Stefan van Walsum
All Instruments, Vocals and Arrangement: Stefan van Walsum
Mix and Mastering by Nandi´s Cavern Studio, Germany

Holy Rock and Roll

Holy Rock And Roll

Lucky Little Boy   Conover/Wiggs
In the evening
when the sun goes down.
I pull you close to me
and I’m so proud.
That your the Girl
I know that can’t be found by
Lucky Little Boy’s like me.

I can’t be fooled by you,
but I believe in me and you.
Somehow and Forever
I Do, I Do

In the evening
When the sun goes down.
I pull you close to me
and I’m so proud
That your the girl
I know that can’t be found by
Lucky Little Boy’s like me.

And when the children are asleep
We will reflect upon this night together.
All the roads we drove.
All the blessings showed.
All these things and more
opened up the door
For a Lucky Little Boy

Original guitar and musical composer. Chris Wiggs
Please enjoy the original track here:
https://soundcloud.com/chris-wiggs/dusk-until-dawn
Arrangement, Lyrics, mellotron, vocals and production. Bruce Conover
Production and final mix by Matthew Warnick/Bruce Conover
Bass and drums Matthew Warnick
@chris-wiggs
https://soundcloud.com/matt-warnick-58962582 
Conover/Wiggs
Mastered at Abbey Road by Sean Magee
http://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/sean-magee
© 2017 Conover/Wiggs

Lucky Little Boy)))  Conover/Wiggs

I just don’t know
What is it that you bring to this.
I just don’t know
What is it that I offer. 

If we could answer 
questions just like these.
I just can’t see
What is it that we offer…

All we are  
Is all that we can be…

When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl
When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl

All we are  
Is all that we can be…

When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl

I just don’t know
What is it that you bring to this.
I just don’t know
What is it that I offer. 

If we could answer 
questions just like these.
I just can’t see
What is it that we offer…


When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl….. 
All We Are Is All That We Can Be
All We Are Is All That We Can Be

Repeat and reach for the stars*   

Music bed track composed and performed by Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, micro edit arrangement and final Mix by conover @conover

All That We Can Be  (Conover/Steen)

And How are we today? 

special Guest on guitar is Hans-Michael Albers
Music and vocals by conover

Roll down the windows let me pull over.
Let's take our time now since we've got older.

So why should we rush things
We have the rest of our lives
The rest of our lives

Roll down the windows let me pull over.
Let's take our time now since we've got older.

So why should we rush things
We have the rest of our lives
The rest of our live
repeat but don’t rush

Shaded and crisply dressed
Highway patrol man coming up to our little car
And then looking inside of our little window
And with his leather clad hand signaling for us to
roll down our little window…..

Good morning Officer
And how are we today?

How are we today? how are we today?
How are we today? how are we today?
Here we go……………

I highly recommend that you roll down the windows and pullover from time to time while driving down the path of life.
Save Driving

And How Are We Today? Conover/Hans-Michael Albers

Music by Conover
Guitars by Hans-Michael Albers
BreezeWay copyright 2015

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BreezeWay  Conover/Hans-Michael Albers

Please read the whole story is below the lyrics
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play

The sky is dark but don't you worry
Ever thing will turn out right

Dear Prudence
Won't you come out................
to Play

The sun is up
The sky is blue
It's beautiful
And so are you....

Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play


The sky is dark but don't you worry
Everything will turn out right

Dear Prudence.................
Won't you come out................
to Play


Remember Play?

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, percusion and Mix by Conover @conover

The details:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-real-dear-prudence-on-meeting-beatles-in-india-20150904

History:
Background on the original Beatles session :
Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 28-30 August 1968
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Barry Sheffield

Released: 22 November 1968 (UK), 25 November 1968 (US)

John Lennon: vocals, backing vocals, guitar
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass, piano, drums, flugelhorn, tambourine, handclaps
George Harrison: backing vocals, lead guitar, handclaps
Mal Evans, Jackie Lomax, John McCartney: backing vocals, handclaps

Available on:
The Beatles (White Album)

Written by John Lennon in India, Dear Prudence was about Mia Farrow's younger sister, who refused to leave her chalet at the meditation retreat in Rishikesh, and had to be coaxed out by Lennon and George Harrison.

 
Prudence Farrow had become infatuated with meditation, locking herself away from the rest of the group and falling into deep states against the advice of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Dear Prudence is me. Written in India. A song about Mia Farrow's sister, who seemed to go slightly barmy, meditating too long, and couldn't come out of the little hut that we were livin' in. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she would trust us. If she'd been in the West, they would have put her away.
We got her out of the house. She'd been locked in for three weeks and wouldn't come out, trying to reach God quicker than anybody else. That was the competition in Maharishi's camp: who was going to get cosmic first. What I didn't know was I was already cosmic. [Laughs.]
John Lennon
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Prudence later confirmed she was more fanatical in her pursuit of enlightenment than those around her.

Being on that course was more important to me than anything in the world. I was very focused on getting in as much meditation as possible, so that I could gain enough experience to teach it myself. I knew that i must have stuck out because I would always rush straight back to my room after lectures and meals so that I could meditate. John, George and Paul would all want to sit around jamming and having a good time and I'd be flying into my room. They were all serious about what they were doing but they just weren't as fanatical as me...
At the end of the course, just as they were leaving, George mentioned that they had written a song about me but I didn't hear it until it came out on the album. I was flattered. It was a beautiful thing to have done.
Prudence Farrow
A Hard Day's Write, Steve Turn

Dear Prudence  (Conover/Steen)

Hans-Michael Albers  and Phil Brown are features on guitars


Music composed and performed by Bruce Conover

Show Me Your Hands (Conover/hans-michael.albers/ Phil Brown)))

This song is about not wanting to feel anything anymore. The weight, the pain, the endless emotions.it’s easier to feel nothing than to feel everything at once ( this is only the instrumental version but i have some lyrics so coming out soon)

cut out the pain (instrumental)

If there was only two traits that came through in my music, I would hope that it would seem to be effortless and inevitable.
The Kind Place Studio

Show Me Your Hands (Conover/hans-michael.albers/ Phil Brown)))

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