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Farewell

The Path

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitar played: Taylor 714 CE in DADGAD Tuning (all tuned down a half step and capo'd at the 7th fret.)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography

I wrote this his song imagining the days when travelling large distances by foot was normal and the hardship encountered by a traveller on a long journey when the winter weather closes in......
Lyrics:
The light was fading fast
A traveller far from home
Snow fell hard unyielding
Winter striking its blow

From far upon the hillside
He looked down on the valley below
Searching for a sign of 
Shelter from the cold 

Down there in the distance 
A glimpse of candle light
A window through the darkness 
On this bitter night

The prospect of a haven
On this lonely road
A simple roof and walls of stone
With shelter from the cold

Come inside, there’s safety now
There’s warmth here while you rest
There’s room there by the open fire
Beside the chimney breast

Here’s food to give you comfort
a warming cup to hold
Gather up your strength
While you have shelter from the cold

I know not how to thank you
There are no thanks to pay
The sun will rise tomorrow
And you’ll be on your way

Such kindness I shall ne’er forget
This story shall be told
A kind and gentle stranger 
Giving shelter from the cold

Shelter From The Cold

Here's a lovely tender-hearted Piano improvisation in Three Parts from several years back that I found in my 'musical vault' today. It's kind of a hymn to the wonders and beauties of Nature. 

The 1st part goes til 2:53.
The 2nd one begins at 2:54 and moves through to 5:31
The 3rd proceeds to the end, (and the Beginning).  :)

 Don't know how it got lost, but so glad to have found it again. :)

I'm pretty sure it was an homage to one of my favorite streams and its surrounds, as the experience it evoked within washed over me.
May it also awaken something lovely in you, dear Listeners. 

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

An Ode to Nature's Beauty

And children grow up with deep eyes,
Who know of nothing, grow up and die,
And all men go their ways.

And sweet fruits grow from the bitter ones
And fall down at night like dead birds
And lie a few days and perish.

And ever the wind blows, and ever again
We hear and speak many words
And feel lust and weariness of limbs.

And roads run through the grass, and places
Are there and there, full of torches, trees, ponds,
And looming, and deadly withered . . .

What are these built for? and never resemble
One another never? and are innumerable many?
What alternates laughter, weeping and palliation?

What do we care about all this and these games,
We who are great and eternally lonely
And wandering never seek any goals?

What does it matter if we have seen many such things?
And yet he who says "evening" says a lot,
A word from which profundity and sorrow run

Like heavy honey from the hollow combs.

Und Kinder wachsen auf mit tiefen Augen,
Die von nichts wissen, wachsen auf und sterben,
Und alle Menschen gehen ihre Wege.

Und süße Früchte werden aus den herben
Und fallen nachts wie tote Vögel nieder
Und liegen wenig Tage und verderben.

Und immer weht der Wind, und immer wieder
Vernehmen wir und reden viele Worte
Und spüren Lust und Müdigkeit der Glieder.

Und Straßen laufen durch das Gras, und Orte
Sind da und dort, voll Fackeln, Bäumen, Teichen,
Und drohende, und totenhaft verdorrte . . .

Wozu sind diese aufgebaut? und gleichen
Einander nie? und sind unzählig viele?
Was wechselt Lachen, Weinen und Erbleichen?

Was frommt das alles uns und diese Spiele,
Die wir doch groß und ewig einsam sind
Und wandernd nimmer suchen irgend Ziele?

Was frommt's, dergleichen viel gesehen haben?
Und dennoch sagt der viel, der "Abend" sagt,
Ein Wort, daraus Tiefsinn und Trauer rinnt

Wie schwerer Honig aus den hohlen Waben.

'Hugo von Hofmannsthal'

Origin And Decay

Tycho - Awake (Remixes)
Ghostly International
January 15th, 2016

Purchase now: https://ghostly.lnk.to/tycho

1. Awake (Com Truise Remix)
2. Montana (Christopher Willits Remix)
3. L (Dusty Brown Remix)
4. Dye (Nitemoves Remix)
5. See (Beacon Remix)
6. Apogee (RJD2 Remix)
7. Spectre (Bibio Remix)
8. Plains (Baio Remix)
9. Montana (Few Nolder Remix)

TYCHO. DJ SET. TOUR DATES.
02.10 Denver, CO @ Club Vinyl *
02.11 San Diego, CA @ Bang Bang *
02.12 Tucson, AZ @ Gem & Jam Festival 
02.13 Los Angeles, CA @ Exchange LA * #
02.16 Miami, FL @ Bardot *
02.17 Washington, DC @ Flash *
02.18 Brooklyn, NY @ Output *
02.19 Chicago, IL @ The Mid *
02.20 Detroit, MI @ Populux *
03.04 San Francisco, CA @ 1015 Folsom w/ Nitemoves, Dusty Brown
03.05 San Francisco, CA @ 1015 Folsom w/ Few Nolder, Christopher Willits

* - w/ Nitemoves
# - w/ Autograf

Tycho - Apogee (RJD2 Remix)

Pure synth inspired by Aphex Twin in 7/4 meter

Robot Cyborg

9/8 meter.  A track dedicated to all the laser proof cyclops that get squashed by solid rock doors.

Krull 98

From the upcoming album "Dame Fortune" out March 25th. Pre-order now to get this track right away.

*Digital*
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*Physical*
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Peace Of What

This track was designed to make you suffer.

Level: Boss Fight

Cover of Things That Make It Warm by Cavetown. Glad to have finally put something new out. I recorded this all in about 3 hours and then put it up ASAP - I've fallen in love with this song ever since it came out. I do apologize for my lack of music uploads, but to be quite honest, that will be the norm most likely. I'm a busy kid trying to get through college and part-time work, and while music is my passion, it's hard to sit down for hours at a time and record. I'm trying to get better though! Hopefully you'll see some more stuff from me soon. I've got a cover of Oh Klahoma (Jack Stauber) in the works - we'll see if that gets uploaded.

Things That Make It Warm

losing my mind..streetlights flash, empty street, rain falls on the road
I wish I could tear down the calendar page
And join the line for a new destiny
Somehow, somewhere with somebody else
Meet the long-expected sunrise
Bite your lip hurt that you did not spit the image
That a crested herd of horses brought nothing but dreams
Somehow, somewhere with someone else
Don't be ashamed of your tears

The bar is closed long ago
My shadow has been smashed by a tram
The wind has cut the veins
Love tastes slightly salty
Somehow, somewhere, with someone else
Look out from a wide open window
Somewhere there a string will snap
And the balky fringe will fall down and touch your soul
Somewhere, somewhow, with someone else get even more pretty without me

The shelter with a bright sign "Hotel" is asleep
The policeman looks back
The beds are cold in that house
Natashas and Veras hold no happiness
Somehow, somewhere, chatting about nothing
Step back two baby-steps behind and you'll see
A shoulder of a stranger
Noone has the gift of returning the magic of a previous life back
Somehow, somewhere, we are all doomed to be with someone else.

Где - Нибудь,с Кем - Нибудь by Alexander Rozenbaum

My first track of the year in 2020; I had no idea how prophetic it would be.  We all lost loved ones or know someone whose loved ones perished in the pandemic (still ongoing) and the heart's cry was to have "one more day" to say what needed to be said, to give them a hug or a kiss, share a laugh or a tear; to give them a fond and fitting farewell.  Annie @annie-smart-1 added a lovely vocal and piano part to this song that lifts it to another level.

For One More Day (instrumental version)

Here`s a track from my latest album which I released november 2019. One can download it on services like Itunes or Spotify
or go to my website for other order options,

music.apple.com/nl/album/guitales/1483451123
www,rientsdraaisma.com

Rise And Shine

Some new jazz for our new decade.  All done on keyboards.

That Look

The third song in my "Moon Cycle" based on Native American names for the full moons.  This is "Full Frog Moon" which is the month of April.

Full Frog Moon (Brown Eyed Suzy)
Words & Music by RoZita B.

'Twas a cool April night on the bayou
in the light of the full Frog Moon
An old Cajun giggin' frogs in his piro
Seen a sight that almost cause him to swoon.
A lady all in white stood a standin'
on the water 'neath a cypress tree
He said, "Dat's ole Brown Eyed Suzy
and her eyes dey a lookin' at me!"

The full Frog Moon she a risin' from the bayou
The night birds singin' out of tune
The frogs and the crickets they done cease their noise
Underneath the full Frog Moon.

They say Brown Eyed Suzy lost her lover
'Bout a hundred and twenty year ago
Some say she catch him kissin' her sister
and she shot him in the full moon glow.
They say she rowed him out in the bayou
Dump his body in the water so black
Now every year when the Frog Moon rise
She goes out to call her cheatin' man back.

The full Frog Moon she a risin' from the bayou
The night birds singin' out of tune
The frogs and the crickets they done cease their noise
Underneath the full Frog Moon.

They say Su-zy fed her man to the ga-tors
but her boat tipped ov-er and she fell
I hope that she re-pent-ed 'fore they got her
'Cause it can't be fun down in al-li-gat-or hell!

The full Frog Moon she a risin' from the bayou
The night birds singin' out of tune
The frogs and the crickets they done cease their noise
Underneath the full Frog Moon.

©2020 by RoZita Berry.  All rights reserved.

Full Frog Moon (Brown Eyed Suzy)

I wrote this song to try to open up on what I suffer from and how I suffer without talking about it. I wanted to open up and let others know that it's okay that you DON'T open up, Just don't suffer alone. It's okay to not be okay.
It is NOT okay to not be okay and not talk about it.

Lyrics:

Broken emotional tidal waves
I can’t help but I’m trying to change
‘Adjust your attitude and speak’
Why?
can’t we just sit silently?

Love the ones who suffer silent
I’m one of the few trying to fight it
To let all of you in on a little bit of me
That I try to pour into everything

Suicide isn’t what I’m trying to get at
Though intrusive thoughts come up to bat
It feels like a curve ball that pulls you out of alignment
Gravity shifted a little bit, maybe?

Perhaps it’s the sun
I’m too aggressive in the day
I’d much prefer if all we ever got was rain
Maybe then I’d be able to say
Everything that isn’t drawing the words today

Love the ones who suffer silent
I’m one of the few trying to fight it
To let all of you in on a little bit of me
That I try to pour into everything

I miss my friends from yesterday
The ones I thought would be for life
They were not, and the season passed
I’m not sure when we all stopped crossing paths
But I’d like one more chance to at least express my sentiments
and how I’m proud to be who I am as partially it’s on them
and the rest is me expressing the reason why I feel gravity shifting
Beneath my feet
I’m grateful for every thing I learned along the way
furthermore I’m finally happy and really feeling like me bleeding into these songs as I pray
and let the Lord have his way
I’m just glad I was chosen as one of the few who get to play
this music he helped me make, For his sake
For his sake, He helped me
When I was nothing!
Isn’t that something?

Love the ones who suffer silent
I’m one of the few trying to fight it
To let you all in on a little bit of me
That I try to pour into everything

Untitled

Suffer Silent

Working draft, no tuning, looking for singer, etc. 

DIVIDED AND CONQUERED
Words & music by VeePo

Born in Chicago, raised in DC
No silver spoon, just my grandma and me
In that one-room apartment she kept me on track
Got me to college and said don’t look back
But they came to me one night and told me she'd died
All alone in that room where she'd helped me survive
And I sobbed like a child from the grief in my bones
Divided and conquered I fell all alone

Yes, divided and conquered we fall one by one
No one to help us when we come undone
Nobody there who can throw us a line
Divided and conquered we lose every time

Well, they sold me on freedom and I bought their lies
We massed in the desert, blood lust in our eyes
We'd kill for our country and die for some king
Holders of Truth, we would kill ‘til we win
But their 'bad guys' were human, with children and dreams
And the nightmares still haunt me, the gunfire and screams
When the lies were exposed I was already home
Divided and conquered I fell all alone

Yes, divided and conquered we fall one by one
No one to help us when we come undone
Nobody there who can throw us a line
Divided and conquered we lose every time

I worked like a mad man, spent like a fool
Bowed to the boss man, obeyed every rule
Kept my mind on the job and my thoughts to myself
Just turned away when they fired someone else
So they upsized my workload and downsized my pay
Forty years in, took my pension away
There was nobody left when they came for my home
Divided and conquered I fell all alone

Yes, divided and conquered we fall one by one
No one to help us when we come undone
Nobody there who can throw us a line
Divided and conquered we lose every time

DIVIDED And CONQUERED By VeePo (drft -v2019m -V1V1)

Some improvised and composed variations on a melody by Ra Kalam Bob Moses.
VP - trumpet and synth orchestra
Tony Falco (virtuoso percussionist and Ra Kalam pupil) -  drum set

Peace Universal | Ra Kalam Bob Moses (2018)

mijn idee toen van een hitje , ik was toen wat in de fantasie taal , best leuk vond ik toen en nu nog wel , de bas riff is een heel laag gestemde elektrische gitaar  

WAHAHIHAHOE 2 met geha   64

This tune came out of a wonderful convergence (happy accident); my collaboration with @devin-locke on "Theme and Variations" and a renewed interest in the painting of Bob Ross. One of the variations I became so taken with, I wanted to develop it into a full track using the original steel string voice of the collaboration then adding nylon string to enlarge the melody line.  "Happy Accidents" was a favorite saying of Bob Ross as he would go about his painting on Public Television.  I saw how it applied to me in how I have composed guitar music over the years;  the unexpected note or chord I first thought a mistake became a turning point for a phrase or melody line.  Some would call it "serendipity", for Bob Ross it was a "happy accident".  If you listen closely toward the beginning, you can hear my granddaughter Lily in the background, a bit of a cameo and very much a happy accident:)

Happy Accidents (For Bob Ross)

A while back fine guitarist @devin-locke inspired me to revisit some of the early Miles Davis' recordings which are brilliant jazz masterpieces.  I wanted to try my hand at the style and have Devin join me if he felt so inclined.  He hasn't yet, but may do so in the future:) Anyway, a little tribute to a master...

Miles And Miles To Go

Written for my 2nd granddaughter who turned 20 last November, she is pictured here as a three year old about the time the song was first written.  It was a stylistic breakthrough for me finding its birth on a Mexican classical guitar I found at a pawn shop and bought at a bargain because it needed repair.  Shortly after the glue dried, I started playing it and the opening phrases of the song just poured out and I thought "that sounds like my Grace".  So here it is on the Godin, a song for Grace and a prayer for you.

Grace To You

Angels play a huge role throughout the Biblical narrative.  They also play a role in our lives as well, probably much more than we realize...May Lemke is one such angel. I read about her years ago and her rescuing of a hopelessly disabled, premature baby she would adopt and name Leslie in an article titled "The Miracle of May Lemke's Love".  Here is a brief video of that angel telling her story.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWtZA-ZmOAM&list=PLKj3m-0NiJ6VpEOx8YE1dhsRg0umHaQ8N&index=1  Debra Buesking gives the song yet another dimension of ambience and power in our collaboration: soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203/on-the-wings-of-angels-second-flight-with-debra-buesking-piano

On Angels' Wings (In Memory of May Lemke)

With all that's going on, sometimes the heart just wants to flee to a place of innocence. Maybe we could meet there...

Return To Innocence

I am a finger-style guitarist living on the Texas high plains.  At the core of my music is melody that is inspired and informed by my Christian faith, family, friends, and countless influences through the years from the great composers, to jazz, folk, rock, Latin, Celtic, and the many fine musicians I have come to love on the Cloud, some I have been privileged to collaborate with.  Thanks for stopping by to have a listen. Comments are always welcome. Feel free to click on the picture of any track to learn more about it.