Very cool built up! Great songwriting, great work overall👍

a bowl of crakling lol love it great music  mixed sound like bowie costello petshop boys and a few others to mention great track

I like instrumentation & style. Very cool !

Every year, on 17 May, we celebrate our national day in Norway.  "Gratulerer med dagen" means Happy Birthday!  We celebrate Norway's freedom and independence.

Our constitution was signed on 17 May 1814.

Everything I feel about living in a free and independent country is described in the march.  I don't need to use words.

Gratulere med dagen!

A video to accompany the song can be found on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweQ0FA2F1Q

Submarine has a very un-traditional mid section bridge where I essentially just shout from the top of a mountain top with a growling guitar and a bit of heart.   The change in song style and tempo at this point dis-orient because I felt like walking outside the expected lines of a traditional ABABCB song arrangement. The slow burn build has impact because it smolders, swells, intensifies and then goes boom; literally. In the end, why is the middle so behind?  I just do not know.  

Dave

Lyrics
Submarine

V1

In the end why is the middle so behind?
Why did I act  like the guy who is always right?
I was a submarine but I thought I was flying
I'm a rocket ship that’s out of time

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I was a submarine but I thought I was flying
Now I'm a rocket ship that's out of time

Bridge
Lift the curtain up a little higher now…… than  our ignorance, than our ignorance
Shout a little louder, a little louder now, than the weakest voice they had no choice
Speak your piece now, I said speak your piece now , above the crackling peaks where money wreaks
And lift your hearts for the poor who drink from the putrid lips of the honeyed rich 
  
If we could just breathe in that harmony, or  that peace that leaves ,  when we just don't believe…….
I remember that song it said we all belong where  love trumps war,  hear us roar
We Believe ,…………………..in Democracy.

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In the end, why was that middle so behind?
Why did I act like that guy who is always right?
I was a submarine but I thought I was flying
Now I'm a rocket ship that's out of time

Submarine

abode where I abide

Venerdi Sera

Coded Language

Musik & Text: Gabriel
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
OF THE LYRICS CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.gabriel.land/gabriel-zeiten-wie-diese.htm

Zeiten wie diese

A friend of mine who's a brilliant saxophone player did this cool version of Little girl last year, just came across it again and thought  I'd share it 💜

Little Girl (jazzy version with Mervyn Sayers)

Miles Away

Down by the river.

Selected to be published in the Vibraphone Project's Centennial Compendium of scores in early 2023, this is a computer generated performance.

A streaming version of this work with an accompanying image montage to help convey more vividly the story of this music is found on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y372ReVfhY0

I composed this work as an expression of deep concern for our planet and its people in the midst of the global warming impacts unfolding before our eyes. One local example of the devastating and rapidly unfolding impact of global warming is Indonesia and its capital Jakarta. So severe are the city’s infrastructure and health problems and so quickly is Jakarta sinking below sea level, the Indonesia government is in the process of moving its capital from the island of Java to the island of Borneo in a yet-to-be built city named Kalimantan. 

Jakarta has recently been identified as the fastest sinking city in the world due to the disastrous combination of depleting ground water from the aquifer beneath the city and global sea level rise due to global warming. With the growing urgent problem of supplying enough potable water to the city, the aquifer beneath the city is being over used and causing land of the northern area of Jakarta to sink below sea level. With the world’s rising sea levels compounding the problem and no coordinated effort to address solutions for these problems, parts this city could be completely submerged by the year 2050. 

It is with this image in mind of Jakarta sinking that I composed this music. The vibraphone has instrumental cousins in the metal xylophones of the Javanese gamelan orchestra and I take advantage of this in suggesting gamelan-like music at moments in this composition. The vibraphone’s fan vibrato is used sparingly for strategic moments to suggest a feeling of watery emersion. The over-all tessitura of the piece descends from its beginning through to a climatic cadence on a closely packed aggregate of pitches suggesting an F minor/major ninth chord (F, G, A-flat, C) on the lowest bars of the vibraphone. After this doleful sunken cadence, a coda softly rises from the depths of this cadential chord to convey a sense of hope.

My Heart With Jakarta Sinks In Rising Seas

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco
https://youtu.be/qs9vtPrE_Qk
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmmanKWPW14/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/carlos.vivanco.102/videos/5825066817556097

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Deep bow of gratitude to you for giving my music a listen, for liking, for commenting and/or for sharing when any given song resonates with you.  You help create a community that lifts music out of the nooks and crannies and allows it to be heard a little bit more than it otherwise might have been.  Thank You sincerely for that. YOU ROCK!

I love to create music.  It is really that simple.  

Dave

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