Always a lovely break from the everyday.  Beautiful.

Soslaya

Spring time (Guitar solo)

Haunted by the prospect of being accused of cultural appropriation,i must haste to point out a few argumants to my defence. Firtsly i will never make any money on this song,nor did i compose it for such a reason. Secondly i have the deepest respect for all native american tribes,their traditions and connection to nature and the spirit within.Had their culture prevailed the onslaught of western values we might still live on a planet untouched by human made climate change,industrial pollution and the specter of nuclear annihilation hanging over all our paranoid heads.Its such a paradox that western culture has brought us both human rights and a severe disconnect from nature,including our own nature within. 
Thirdly i have allways had a fascination for chanting of various ethnic origin,wether from native american tribes,or some buddhist monks chanting mantras.As an inborn eclectic i borrrow elements from wherever i find them and merge them into my mold of funk,jazz,pop,rock,elctronica and you name it.
But its all done with the utmost respect from my part,so if anyone should feel exploited i ensure you it was never my intention.
Most of the chanting within this song is from The Hopi nation,and the striking image to accompany the song is a cave painting of the ANT PEOPLE as described by the Hopi themselves. Oh..and the spoken words are from using a TEXT TO SPEECH online app.(Never done that before.)
Ray Ryeridge April 2023.

Opener of eyes

OPENER OF EYES

Rodolfo https://soundcloud.com/rplanes first shared this beautiful piece with me 2 years ago, which has had a gradual development since I first wrote the lyrics back then. More recently Ce Mastro https://soundcloud.com/cemastro added some exciting backing vocals which transformed the chorus and then even more recently we invited Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to contribute some lovely sax that we believed was just what the song needed. Rodolfo's song has such a feeling of romantic innocence yet with a wonderful rhythmic flow, that I hoped the words might feel from a simpler time. We hope you all enjoy our song of innocence (and inexperience) which thankfully is a work of fiction. Thanks again to Rodolfo for sharing this magical piece and his great skills as well as Ce and Dave's unique gifts to make this one happen. 
We thank you all for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix.
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals
Me - Lead vocals and lyrics
Dave McKeown - Sax solo and fills

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/almost-lovers

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear 
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro & Dave McKeown) Now Available on Bandcamp

Habanera

Soft morn breezes whispers
secrets of the day
Promising fresh adventures
along its way..
With shining hopes
of a bright beginning
The new day turns into
gentle reminiscing..

Embrace this day
with light and hope
We face with all our might
troubles to cope..
For life is but a journey
a magnificent ride
We looked in wonder
the tears we cried..

~SEC

Youtube piano and movie performance:
https://youtu.be/QUAWB8qmyI4

Streaming:
https://gyro.to/MorningBreezeinDPianoSolo

Morning Breeze in D (Piano Solo)

Another "dusty track" waiting my new PC. Awesome sologuitar by my friend  Boon Suzuki a talented Japanese guitarist you can find here
(@boon-suzuki)

My trouble and my Joy - Boon Suzuki guitar solo

Happy Happy Birthday Debbie!!!!!https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
I wish you the best day dear Debbie. :) 

Music: Jean-Pierre Dubois.
In a version from Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.
Piano and Cover design: Debra Buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you for sharing music and friendship dear Debbie :)
Thank you to your friend Jean-Pierre for this music, and for your beautiful piano-version. So sensitive and pure.
It was just for me to sing in it, with the lovely poem from  Christina Rossetti 
(5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894).
Poem:
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter".

A Birthday. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

If you have driven the country roads you have seen them..faded and old, behind the tall grass and fallen fences...and they all have a story to tell.

Forgotten Places

A song about doubt, fears and holding on. 

It has been mastered by Ryan at RCD Audio. 

Lyrics:

This washed out, mid week Morning

This morning you said you loved me
Where the hell did that come from?
I’ve been waiting months for some affection 
Now this just trips off your tongue!
On this washed out, midweek morning, 
There’s hope again! 

My routine has been disrupted 
As I’m thinking about your words
For weeks I thought that it was over
But now it seems a future’s there for us  
on this washed out, midweek morning, 
Confusion grows

And doubts intrude where trusting thoughts reside
I know I can sense it
I’m sure there’s a reason
For you to have this change of mind  
On this washed out, midweek morning 
I Feel so unsure 

And I could dig a little deeper
Yeah I could really shake that tree 
But i don’t want confirmation 
Now you’ve said you love me!
On this washed out, midweek morning 
Let’s move on! 

And doubts intrude where trusting thoughts reside 
I know I can sense it
I’m sure there’s a reason 
For you to have this change of mind
On this washed out, midweek morning, 
I’ll ignore to love 

James Whiteman Copyright May 2023

This washed out, midweek morning (RCD MASTER)

Diary 2 - 19th May 2024

What Was I Made For? (Piano Quartet) (18 April, Pre-save): https://gyro.to/WhatWasIMadeFor

New Romance in Time Piano EP
https://gyro.to/RomanceinTime

Most beautiful romantic melodies (Full piano performances of the works in Romance in Time EP)
https://youtu.be/K62TuGv0VL8

25 Feb Jazz Meets Classical Piano Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyP8LHN3sa0

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

Also, I was not on SC for several months before because they do not accept my email, cox.net and I needed to switch to another email address. However, their support is very slow. Right now taking a small break because of neck injury.


Thoughts on a Still Night: releases 27 October: https://gyro.to/ThoughtsonaStillNight

Cinema Paradiso for violin and piano now out under new moniker Sharon Chen Music Covers! listen https://bit.ly/3SSHjNl

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

~~~
I am a classically-trained composer, violinist, pianist; an award-nominated composer. Spring's Hope was nominated for One World Music Radio’s (UK) Best Piano with Instrumentation Single (2021). Harvard College grad with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. I was a violinist but became a composer, pianist recently because of ongoing health problems. I am a poet, dreamer, writer..see my poems on Twitter. My songs are twinged with nostalgia, introspection; often incorporate themes of darkness evolving into light.

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
~~~

Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

Morning Breeze in D (Piano Solo)

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