Ballads, Songwriter, Hip Hop - Dave Heffner

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Summer 2020 part 2

Movements of ApproachToSilence & Friends 20/6

SENSES FOR A LIFE

Related tracks: LIKE A SUGAR CANE IN A HURRICANE

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Best of the Cloud 24 07 2020

Arianna Rader sings this ballad about the need for meditation in our lives. Written and produced by Dave Heffner.
LYRICS
VERSE1
In the stillness
Of the moment,
The sun peeks through the trees.
The day awakens.
I think of the times
I looked, but did not see.
CHORUS1
With Love,
In Peace,
With Kindness,
And Humility.
VERSE2
As the morning
Fades behind me,
I struggle through the day.
Distractions surround me.
Temptations confound me.
I can easily lose my way.
CHORUS2
With Love,
In Peace,
With Kindness,
And Humility.

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Meditation (ft. Arianna Rader)

Arianna Rader sings this song about the power of nature to reset our place in the world and to appreciate the things around us.
LYRICS
Verse1
Thunder sounds. I look to the sky.
It stirs my soul. It makes me cry.
Verse2
Wind in my face. Trees bending down.
Power around me is so profound.
Pre-Chorus
I walk to the river. My spirits high.
I feel renewed. I feel alive.
Chorus
Living. Living
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
Bridge (see below)
Verse3
Day by day, not much control.
Breathe in breathe out: It calms my soul.
Verse4
Gray clouds part. The sky turns blue.
Touches my heart. I think of you.
(Pre-Chorus2)
(Chorus2)
Bridge: Part1
In the still of the night, like a sky at war,
A distant rumble, like a lion’s roar.
Clouds are gathering. Air thick and tense.
The storm begins. Let the show commence.
Part2
Raindrops fall. Rhythm on the ground.
Each clap of thunder, a primal sound.
It shakes the core. It stirs within.
The elements dance. The storm begins.
Part3
The storm moves on. Thunder fades away,
Leaving calm at the break of day.

Walk To The River (ft. Arianna Rader - vocals)

Vocals - Anna Rader, Dave Heffner
Copyright 2016 David B. Heffner
Often the best songwriting comes late at night.

Late at Night (Songwriting) Dave Heffner, Anna Rader - Vocals

Don't let others define you. Be yourself.
Copyright 2016 David B. and Janet A. Heffner
See DAVEHEFFNER.COM
LYRICS...  SHATTER THE IMAGE
VERSE 1
Now you’ve been told what you should be.
Get on your mark, now, we’re countin’ to three.
But in your head, you say, “Is this really me?”
And in your head, you say, “Am I really free?”
VERSE 2
An old man sits in a darkened room,
Staring out at the evening gloom.
Humming a tune, while he drinks his gin,
And heaving a sigh, as he rubs his chin.
VERSE 3
And he thinks back to his younger days,
When there was little, if any haze.
So many dreams, but where did they go?
Off to another world, that he’ll never know.
CHORUS
Shatter the image in the other man’s eye.
You’ll find out that you won’t really die.
What you’ll find are the things, you need to know.
What you’ll find are the things, you need to grow.

Shatter The Image (feat. Janet Heffner - vocals, acoustic guitar, Tim Breon - electric guitar)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/aCTx-76-z_M. See http://DAVEHEFFNER.COM. Copyright 2017 David B. Heffner. Alice Weiler - vocals, Len Cagle - tenor saxophone, Dave - synthesizer. What could be more inspiring for a song than a beautiful fall day with a warm breeze blowing in an open window? Of course, the song should be composed at a relaxed tempo. Japanese instruments, a pan pipe, and bongo drums were added to create the right atmosphere. This song is the debut, for experienced singer and songwriter Alice Weiler, for vocals and assisting with lyrics on my compositions. Throughout this song, Alice sings harmony and multiple layers with her main vocal track. Len Cagle returns to the studio with his tenor saxophone, performing an improvisation at the bridge and playing “over” the vocal track in the second verse. This is the first time that I used an iPad for the initial creative phase of a composition. It was refreshing to have the freedom to compose away from the studio.

Window's Open (feat. Alice Weiler - vocals, Len Cagle - tenor saxophone)

Evocative song to listen to without hurry... most serious job I've done lately, say no more.

Letra / Translated lyrics:

SI TÚ ME FALTARAS  /  IF I MISSED YOU

Abre tu risa mis ojos,  /  Your laugh opens my eyes,
olor a café por la mañana…  /  smell of coffee in the morning…
Para murmurarte un beso  /  So as to whisper you a kiss
me levanto de la cama.  /  I get up from the bed.

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

Me despierta muy temprano  /  Wakes me up very early
el olor de tu cuerpo a mi lado.  /  the smell of your body beside me.
Para que se haga de noche pronto  /  So that it gets dark soon
rápidamente me he levantado.  /  I have got up fast.

Siento que mi vida se desliza por el sabor tan suave de tu cuello y de tus besos.  /
I feel my life slips along such a soft flavor of your neck and your kisses.

Puedo ser ligero como el aire y filtrarme con mi fuego en tus sueños y en tus deseos.  /
I can be as light as air and percolate with my fire into your dreams and your desires.

Busco el momento cada día de volver para gozarte, para olerte, para amarte…  /
I look for the moment every day to come back so as to enjoy you, to smell you, to love you … 

para amarte, sí, aaaay! para amarte.  /  to love you, yes, aaaay! to love you.

Juega tu lengua en mi cerebro,  /  Your tonge plays in my brain,
recorren mi espalda tus caricias.  /  your caresses cross my back.
Miro el reloj y suspiro,  /  I look at the clock and sigh,
deseando que acabe el día.  /  wishing the day to finish. 

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

ER40FI07

Si tú me faltaras (de tedio moriría)

Another first and live in studio recordings for Velvet Voyage.  Trio style. Song I wrote thinking of james bond.  Also showcasing many of the VST's available from NI at that time.

Velvet Voyage

Eye Spy

Brubeck Theme for june version cover RESC
Trumpets Jam RESC

TROMPETAS RESC - Pestdoktor ( médico de la peste )

Power

Turn on the radio,
Top20 breakfast show
You know my coffee just turned sour
Hey, you should be ashamed
This so called music sounds so lame
And very soon we´re gonna kick you out

I´ve got the power…
Over you

Oh you should be ashamed
Your playlist sounds so lame
I´ve got a word or two
To say to you

You say we don´t fit your plans
Of manufactured plastic bands
But we have something real
And it won´t fall through
You say you have a format
I say I´m not your doormat
Right now I´m walking over you

(musical break) 

Oh you should be ashamed
Your playlist sounds so lame
I´ve got a word or two
To say to you
I´ve got the power….
Over you
I´ve got the power…
Over you
Over you
Over you

Lyrics-Krissi Treganna
Music-Samuel Aalto

Krissi Treganna & Samuel Aalto- Power

A SIMPLE SONG ABOUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT. YouTube: youtu.be/Xxi1FVBp0Po. Website: daveheffner.com. Genre: Singer - Songwriter. Dave sings and plays keyboards this simple ballad about the riches around us.
LYRICS.
VERSE 1
I like the simple life.
The simple life’s for me.
Give me a sunny day,
Wind in the trees.
Air that’s fresh, and water clean,
Food that’s good to eat.
Warm clothes so I don’t freeze.
Shoes for my feet.
CHORUS
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh, oh. Simple life for me.
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh, oh. Best things are for free.
VERSE 2
When we’re born into this world,
We have simple needs.
Then as we grow older,
Life picks up speed.
We can read many books,,
Lots of facts they give.
We can learn lots of rules,
But not how to live.
PRE-CHORUS
Oh----, wee-oh
Oh----, wee-oh
CHORUS
BRIDGE
(8 bar instrumental)
CHORUS
VERSE 3
Gazing at the mountains,
We can look for free.
Beauty surrounds us.
All Nature we can see.
Clouds up in the sky. Ocean…
Waves that never end.
Life is overflowing.
Share it with a friend.
CHORUS
VERSE 4
When we pass and leave this world,
We leave it alone.
Until then we have riches,
From things we find at home.
Family, friends, and beauty,
Nature’s full buffet.
The simple things around us,
‘round us every day.
PRE-CHORUS
CHORUS

Simple Life (Dave - vocals)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/7XEpo8GqzwM   Website: https://daveheffner.com.
It started out innocently enough: "What could I write for piano at 180 bpm?" Then I started playing around with my voice tone using a popular plugin. So why not add a sub-bass track to test out my new speaker? After many bells and whistles later and massive editing cuts, one gets a frantic two minute track, not to be confused with Mozart's Minute Waltz. :-)Perhaps this reflects being stuck in my house for a couple months. Artwork by Arianna Rader.

Two Minute Workout

I'm currently working on a remix/rework of one of Bruce Klepper's compositions and when I asked him for the files, he mentioned he would like to add his magic to Kodiak. Bruce has created some amazing parts to this track. I'm always blown away by this wildly talented composer. @bruce-klepper-1

Original version: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/kodiak
Painting by Brian Sloan

Kodiak [feat. Bruce Klepper]

All For Nothing
Vocal: Brandon
www.Ghosthack.de
Bass and Mastering: Paploviante
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Lillithe: Music, Arrangement, Production

All For Nothing (Collaboration with Paploviante)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/MDfgSB9BRcE Photos used in this video are the gardens of our former Queen Anne Victorian house in Pennsylvania. Cover pastel is by my wife Janet Heffner. The music composition was originally written for a ballet production about the artist Henri Matisse. The trumpet was chosen when writing the lead part, since I consider it to be a very colorful instrument. Bruce Klepper's (https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1) arrangement skill brings out some rich harmonies in the saxophones and brass sections. He also worked on improving the overall brass timbres. I was inspired in writing this song by posting the word “colorful” over my keyboard for a few weeks.

Colorful (Instrumental, Bruce Klepper - arr.)

Used some lyrics from a cool homie, Trevor Hall, in the making of this track.

The Promised Land

Four Telecasters and an organ walk into a bar.

Or maybe it's a chapel. Can't tell. But it's weird in there, all swirly and broken up.

Bill Boethius has posted a very alternative cousin to this music, derived from the same genetic material: https://soundcloud.com/bill-boethius/blue-slippage

Signorelli Blue

Don't Give Up

Real Again

Lost Paradise

Taken From  "SCENARIO BIZARRE"
VIDEO- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Bq7DT4woI&lc=UgxHH7MWf4amoe8iEJJ4AaABAg&ab_channel=winkandwoo
LYRICS:-
Information
Coming through
Information
Right on Cue
From you to me
It's everything i need
Information
Right on cue

I've opened up my mind 
To possibilities and different views
Not listening to the mainstream media 
No more 'cause they confuse

You either follow 
Or your heart leads to the truth
And then your soul awakens 
When you get the proof

Information
Coming through
Information
Right on Cue
From you to me
It's everything i need
Information
Right on cue

You either follow 
Or your heart leads to the truth
And then your soul awakens 
When you get the proof

Attention .......... Incoming Data !

winkandwoo 2020

Scenario Bizarre

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INFORMATION

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

You took my breath away
It was so sublime
It rained on my parade
The unrhymable song

Whistle down the wind
It was so surreal
Out of time
The unrhymable song

She moves and grooves me
In a special way
Which comes from way down deep inside
She moves and grooves me
Nearly every single day
Every day of our lives

I know that I can't be with you
I know I tried and you did too

Glasgow morning rain
It was so unreal
Down and out
The unrhymable song

Whistle down the wind
It was so surreal
Out of time
The unrhymable song

She moves and grooves me
In a special way
Which comes from way down deep inside
She moves and grooves me
Nearly every single day
Every day of our lives

I know that I can't be with you
I know I tried and you did too

Glasgow morning rain
It was so unreal
Down and out
The unrhymable song

Glasgow Morning Rain

Here

CYBER DREAMING

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Leon Pajer

orlando51music © 2020

You And Me

Creatures we are...every single one of us.

Creatures

Summer Is Coming (Conover and The Warheads)

@ApproachToSilence2 - 27.6.20 / 8.7.20   [Teaser]

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/3eYnJ3u4UwgqR9raJy89z5

ApproachToSilence_2020

Berührung

A year in the making, the climate seems right for it now.. Actually changed orchestration a bit recently.. More lush strings, bigger percussion.
Piano, prepared piano, orchestra, harp, music box, strings, percussion, flutes, brass..
Watch for new YouTube performance based on this track..  'Flower of Sorrow, the Dream' now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XzAgtLhsgI
Have enough material for one more piano performance..

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/winter-sun

Related tracks: Flower of Sorrow, Desert Serenade
Album: Winter Solstice


‘Winter Sun’

From the East the sun did shine
At night it lowered its head.. 
The days, filled with scattered light
The sated sky, eternally red..

And though the Hope was small 
It grew by force each day.. 
That Tumult would dissolve 
And Peace at last would stay.. 

♾SEC

Winter Sun

Music by Mixedio 

Youtube:
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Firefly

The lyrical message is to not hold one’s emotions inside oneself when upset, but to find a trustworthy person in whom to confide. There is a lot of pain in the world and we are here to help each other.

It's Okay (ft. Dudly Ulysse - vocals)

New collaboration with my great friend @onlymizero .
Hot Slow Flow... Tense Climax! 
Serious Dope Journey! Legalize 


Peace and Love

You Make Me Love You - Mizero (prod. Assá)

This one was developed and recorded one afternoon about a year ago with Jose (the Problem) when no one was thinking about mics or recording quality or nuthin', and I can’t really remember what we did. I opened it back up a few weeks ago and did a little editing. But it was basically live. I was playing v-drums somewhere back there with a little speaker, while Jose played piano with at least one mic. We may have added the vocals separately. I don’t know. I just don’t know.

Tales From a Midnight Bucket
                            Janine Levinson & Jose Freitas

It pours on me from a midnight bucket somewhere in my chest
Getting cold, maybe tears, maybe oil, maybe blood
I don't know

It hounds me so from a twisted chair squeaking as it rocks
Burn my ears, maybe cries, maybe songs, maybe pleading
I don't know

Just my black heart, my injured soul
No place for love   
No place for hope
It’s me and my black soul  

It gets a hold: a wire machine with poison in the gears
Bitter oil, maybe pitch, maybe tar, maybe grease
I don't know

It’s underneath my parchment skin and worms its way to light
Maybe bugs, maybe hair, maybe bone, maybe bile 
I don’t know

Just my black heart, my injured soul
No place for love   
No place for hope
It’s me and my black soul     
ooooooooh!

Strings of tar
Rising twister helpless in the rancid air
Cataract stars 
Fraying leather 
Helpless in the rancid air

It shoots in me a spear of ice freezing in my chest
Getting cold, maybe tears, maybe soil, maybe gone
I don't know  

It undermines my blistered soles and forces me to crawl
Maybe dirt, maybe worms, maybe flesh, maybe gold 
I don’t know 

Just my black heart, my injured soul
No place for love   
No place for hope
It’s me and my black soul

The Midnight Bucket (Live) (Probably)

Alchemist

Trop sandalisé 
There's no way this happened again, can't believe it
It's not about you
C'est pas tes affaires

There is nothing new
Je sais bien mais je, ne peux pas m'empêcher
D'être concerné


J'ai l'impression, parfois, que je perds pied là bas
J'aime pas du tout ça
Ça m'interpelle en soi, de trouver ça bizzarre
Est-ce que j'ai encore la foi dis-moi?


Je n'ai pas d'argent, je n'ai pas de vélo
C'est pas ma galère
Tout cela m'est bien égal et tant pis, je suis plus là


J'ai dit, j'ai dit j'ai dit non


Ce que disent les gens, musique d'ascenseur
C'est juste accesoire
Je ne suis pas la pour faire comme si tout allait bien


J'ai l'impression, parfois, que je perds pied, là bas
J'aime pas du tout ça
Ça m'interpelle en soi, de trouver ça bizzarre
Est-ce que j'ai encore la foi dis-moi?


Moi aussi... j'ai besoin d'aide
Il m'arrive d'être entre deux eaux
Et si j'étais dans le vrai...


J'ai dit non, j'ai dit j'ai dit non
Non merci 


J'ai l'impression, parfois, que je perds pied, là bas
J'aime pas du tout ça
Ça m'interpelle en soi, de trouver ça bizzarre
Est-ce que j'ai encore, la foi, dis-moi?


Non merci
J'ai dit, j'ai dit j'ai dit non

Instincts

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J'ai Dit Non

This song means a lot to both of us and it's a great pleasure to be able to release it. The lyrics and amazingly soulful vocal performance from Rekha is a stunning reflection of pain and acceptance. I thank her so much for allowing me to write music to accompany her deep humanity. @rekha-iyern-fe

Halo | REKHA & Belial Pelegrim

LIKE A SUGAR CANE IN A HURRICANE
Lillithe:  Remix Ballroom Blitz/ Sweet

LIKE A SUGAR CANE IN A HURRICANE

(Alice Weiler - vocals, Len Cagle - tenor saxophone, Tim Breon - stand up bass, Dudly Ulysse - drums, Janet Heffner - vocals, Dave - vocals, piano, synths)
“...it’s goodbye my friend, Like all earthly things, they must come to an end. But love and thoughts go on.” I continue to explore layering the vocals. There are two main musical themes that converge in the ending. In the second theme Alice and I do some “scat” vocals combined with Dudly Ulysses’ driving drums, Tim Breon’s rapid acoustic bass improvisation, and Len Cagle’s jazzy saxophone. A lot is going on, which is challenging and fun. The overall test for me is: does it “swing?” I believe the answer is “yes!”

Love & Thoughts Go On (Dave-vox, synths, Weiler-vox, Cagle-sax, Breon-bass, Ulysse-drum, Jan-vox)

Colorado Songwriter, Electronic Musician, Producer. ASCAP member. Ballads, Dance, Rock, Electronica, Jazz, Hip Hop, with a mix of everything else. All original compositions with live artists on most tracks. Piano study began at 5 years old, continued through university study and incorporated with electronic music since the introduction of MIDI. Have taught, consulted and composed electronic music. Primary platform is Pro Tools, with which I also do training and consulting. Open to collaboration. More information at my website.