very interesting choice of melody and chords, intense progression and high tension in this track!

Well, sounds like you know cats!!!... mystery creatures!! ... fantastic happy tune, despite the departure!!!😎... fantastic @ every position, great performances and production!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🙏🙏

I can get the happy for the way nature's creatures go about their lives and I also know we are touched by the ones who come into our lives … and who leave. This song has such a magical quality to it. Your creative spark is very entertaining.

Nice note choice at 0:50. Dug the synth in the production. I'm happy you made this song :)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/cwmullins
Mixed and Mastered by Woods Studio
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CW Mullins

Restless

MIX-MASTER - WOODS STUDIO
BACKUP VOCALS - FOG CITY FOGEY


At a time and a place
So ill defined
I get lost inside my own foggy mind

Dusky doubt, cloudy thoughts
A blanket of gray
The sun is exhausted
It goes home for the day/gives up for today
But then there’s that bright smile….

Who better, who better
Than you to come clear the air
Who better, who better
Than the one close at hand and yet beyond compare

Former friends, an ex or two
Might gather someday
I’ll make myself scarce
They’ll have plenty to say

On a bridge, down below
The water flows
It takes the past with it
I don’t care where it goes
From here I’ll need a guide 

Who better? Who better?
Any destination will do
Who better, who better
I only ask that I end up there with you
(All I ask is I end up there with you)

Be here with me
Through the days to come
I know you’ll be
My better half and then some

Empty suits 
Airless room
I’m bored with the board
My mind drifts away
And I may well have snored
Could a hero broke me free

Who better? Who better?
With or without a cape
Who better? Who better?
To plan and lead our escape

Any destination will do
if I’m with you

Who Better

I'm on the Upright Grand Piano for this one as Tim accompanies me on both his Fender Telecaster, and at times, his Taylor guitar.  
This one is full of the Winds of Autumn by the way, so let it sweep you up and take you away! 😁

Free flow Improvisation is what we love, even if it becomes a bit uneven at times.  And apparently many of you Listeners do as well.  
But we're making it up as we go along... so cut us a bit o slack, ok. 😉

We Thank you for all the lovely comments, Re-posts and General support, people. 🤗

And we promise, we'll try to make our recordings even more Listenable as we continue our 'conversations'.

But in the meantime...  May you enJoy!  😊

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2022

Autumn's Flow * Anomon & Elliot

MIXED/MASTERED: WOODS STUDIO
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LEAD GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS: Fog City Fogey
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LYRIC

Far along the beaten path
No end in sight 
What supplies we have are poor and running low
We’ve so far to go

Some split off
We’ve seen their camps
Maps they study by weakening lamps
The light will die out and then
They’ll join us again

We march on
It’s our purpose
 We march on
We endure thus we survive
And that’s our true goal
Stay alive

In the distance mountains loom
The darkening skies mean winter soon
We’ll find an old tree down
Build a fire to gather round
But not a shelter
We’ve lost that skill
Our arms are weak
As is our will
Besides we don’t have time
There are mountains we must climb

We march on
Tired but trudging
We march on
No use judging
Why we do
It’s just another day
to get through

Elders tell of a homeland
Their own elders told them of and
Maybe it’s all true
Who knows what they knew
But maybe it’s all true

The trail is lost
We’re on our own 
Our courage sapped
Our fear has grown
We can’t give into dread
Salvation lies ahead

So we march on….

Sexagenarian III

We March On

This song is inspired by the book "Annihilation". 

-----------------

Lyrics


I've awakened 
Paled by the ocean
amongst of the the shadow 
of the lighthouse
everything is blurry and changing
life seams sprouting all around
I have my journal
pages of nonsensical
letters that gallop into the waves
eyes sprawling out with this passionate setting
wondering where my trek down the shore will lead
I've awaken 3 times now.
it's a distress to find them gone...

I've awaken paled by the ocean
amongst the shadow of the lighthouse
Walking in the same shoe prints
a game of sidewalk hopscotch in the sand
it shifts as I try to make it stay
to subside the boredom down the beach
what's the point?
where's the end?
I'm always here trying to copy another

I've awaken paled by the ocean...
I never get far from the lighthouse
but you made it 
I have to believe that

I start counting the steps now
again and again...
off the lighthouse
will it ever be different
or will be continuous
of the distance of someone else's success?
It's all still dripping

The Lighthouse

MIX/MASTER: Woods Studio

NOTE: I had the start of the tune when a songwriters group I sometimes joined announced a "game" of writing a song to a certain title. I started a lyric for "Safe Space" and then discovered the contest title name was actually "Sacred Space"! 🥴 Anyway I wasn't able to join the "game" so I just decided to stick with my original inspiration. 

LYRIC
It takes nerve
To face a world so scary
We deserve 
A break every now and then 
Cancel all plans and then -  stay in
We reserve
The right to have a safe space

Yes safe and sound
It’s our place
We searched and found
A safe space
Our home ground

When you’re beat
Too tired to take the world on
Well my sweet
No need for subterfuge
Even a small refuge - looms huge
We retreat
To shelter in our safe space

A safety zone
A safe space
Address unknown
We lay low
And mute the phone
We’ll manage on our own
In a safe space alone

Let me say
It’s not total seclusion 
We foray
When the pantry’s running bare
For wine and cheese we will dare - out there
So we pay 
Then rush back to our safe space

A cool cocoon
We embrace
Like a honeymoon
Our safe space
None too soon

A safe space
As it was before
A safe space
And forever more
A safe space

Sexagenarian Vol. IV

Safe Space

Dreaming of the endless ocean ... That's what I put into it!
It's powerful music!!
Good luck crossing the endless seas of your life!!
(果てしない海に夢を抱いて…そんな気持ちを込めました！
力強い曲です！貴方の人生における果てしない海を渡れるよう
幸運を祈ります！)

thank you for listening!!
DAW: Cubase pro 12

Dreaming of this endless sea

Fallin' Into A Deep Dream

currently in beat block

MIX/MASTER: Woods Studio

NOTE: I came up with this song, music and lyric, a few days after a cat of ours, over 10 years old, went out for his evening look around, and never came home. I consider that relevant to the lyric, but maybe only I would...just trying to deal with the realities of existence...

LYRIC
Hey my friend potato bug
Crawling from a hole I dug
if you thought me a threat at all
You’d roll yourself into a ball

I’m happy for you
Go do what you do 
And I’ll just smile
Go on, do what you do
No need to be
Happy for me

Tiny bird with a hungry maw
Potato bug never saw
You swoop down to snag a meal
Well that’s life, we know the deal

I’m happy for you
A bit jealous too
Great things, those wings
Yeah do what you do
No need to be
Happy for me

My lost love that never was
I think of you, as one does
A bitter man might scorn and scoff
But I assume you’re better off
So why be blue
I’m happy for you

Old black dog with the gray muzzle
Sidle over here and let’s nuzzle
Your best days may lay behind
but the sun is out so pay no mind

I’m happy for you
Each day is still new
don’t fail to wag tail
Go on, do what you do
From what I see
You’re happy for me 

Ah,  I’m happy it’s true
Think what we went through
We got lost, muddled along
Got a few things right, others wrong
If you see yourself in this song
I’m happy for you

I'm Happy For You

This song is an image of the various inner thoughts of people passing by as seen from the car window while driving through the city at night.
I have also uploaded a music video on YouTube, so please take a look.
https://youtu.be/Z7Rrzen_t_I

Run Through The Night

MIX/MASTER: Woods Studio

NOTE: I don't hold myself to any strict "historical accuracy" in my lyrics. There may be one person in my distant past I had in mind as I wrote this. Or not...

LYRIC

Sir
I called you sir
It was a different time
And that's just how things were

Role
You played your role
And it was quite a fine performance
I was so naive
It’s hard now to believe
I never saw through you, ‘sir’

Gone 
That world is gone
For both the worse and better, maybe
It's moved on

Sir
Did you ever let your guard down
And let the truth slip through
Was there a real ‘you’
Or were just a man I knew as ‘sir’

Now
The world of now
I wonder if it would astound you
Frighten and confound you
But could it be inside
You would feel some pride
At how it could be
If you lived to see 
A world somewhat free for you, sir

Serial

Q-Rīga

CW Mullins You Should Know Better

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CW Mullins - Mess You Made

I'm a sound engineer at Woods Studio that mixes and masters songs.  Check out my web page: https://woodsstudionorway.com, I only charge $25 US Dollars per song.  For only mastering, I charge $15 per song 
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I have attended an audio school and worked several years at a concert hall named Olavshallen https://www.olavshallen.no/arrangere/store-sal I followed Khaliq Glover’s courses and webinars. I've been into sound engineering since 1991 and mixed over 1000's of songs. I have previously mixed for One Time Records and have released a vinyl with Koalra. I also have mixed "Where Do I Go" with Chris TR that was airtimed on the BBC radio

I use Universal Audio, fabfilter, soundtoys, autotune, melodyne, ozone and Plugin Alliance plugins and have a Uad apollo interface .

 I also use outboard gear like the RME Fireface, Universal Audio 2-1176 stereo compressor , An Avalon channelstrip, a space echo RE-201, a Drawmer 1968 mkii, and a Lexicon Pcm92. Also a dual ssl eq 

If you have the session files I would be happy to mix your song. Let me know if you’re interested.

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SPOTLIGHT:  With Sexagenarian Volume VI now complete, the final volume of songs from my 60s, which will be Volume VII, gets underway with "Get On With Your Life." Check out the other five (5!) volumes of Sexagenarian as well. What happens after my upcoming 70th birthday? TBD!

BIO: I started writing songs in high school (1969-1973!) and I've pretty much never stopped. These are mostly solo recording projects (my brother, Fog City Fogey, contributes sometimes).  I don't do much self-promotion, not a fan of Repost Exchange etc, so all of you who find this page and like a song or two - you are truly appreciated!

I'm Happy For You

CW Mullins

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