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Songs for a deserted island-03

New Day

THE ACTIVE SOUL OF A BUTTERNUT

Words are hard to come by in describing what this man meant to me.  The photo is worth a thousand words capturing his charm and personality. We began our musical pilgrimage together as bandmates at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Amarillo, TX.  He was a bit shy, entirely unsure of himself as a mandolin player, but with encouragement and practice his playing began to bloom.  We started to do brief offertories and then expanded that music into some of the tracks presented here which have been updated as noted. 
He noticed a lump on the side of his neck two years ago which became uncomfortable to the touch and started to interfere with swallowing.  He was not a smoker, but a biopsy revealed a squamous cell carcinoma.  He valiantly fought the disease with the best treatments available but succumbed to it July 17, 2023. He leaves behind a loving family, a legacy of faith and faithfulness to his Lord, and his love of music celebrated with these collaborations I was honored to create with him.  Rest in peace dear friend until we meet again at His appearing.

Pat Howell--mandolinist, and good friend--A Memorial Retrospective

En Verdad

Monday Playlist week of 7/25/2022

Collaborations with Special Friends

Jazz Fusión (from Málaga (Spain)) -> RECOMMEND USING HEADPHONES

- Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitar, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering.

En verdad

Cut through the static—Three Photons is broadcasting pure analog soul from a rain-slicked midnight in Chicago

I have been playing around with.....ii V I progressions and the Bebop A dominant scale. I call this one an Indie Dark Jazz flavor. Hope you will like some part of it and maybe hum along before it ends..... 
Thank you René for feedback on the first draft! 

Live from Chicago 
Written by TJG March 2021
Mix 1: March 23, 2021

Technical Details
Recorded at Princeton Studio
Guitars
Rhythm 1: Guild DV52
Rhythm 2: Les Paul Standard
Lead1: Fender Stratocaster
Bass: Fender Squire

Percussion: 
Pearl Cajon Mach 2 – with brushes
Pearl Hi Hat with Zildjian symbols - with brushes - no idea what I'm doing here, but I like working the foot pedal. 

Mics: Neumann TLM 67 (vocal)
AGK 414 & Shure KSM44 on guitars, cajon and hi hat

Software: Pro Tools
Vocals: TG

Mixer: API 24 channel summing mixer (8200/7800)
Stereo Bus processing (API EQ and API compressor)
Final mix down to a MARA MCI JH110 1/4inch 2-track at 15 ips using ATR Master Tape. I used an input and output transformer to give some additional harmonic distortion......I just like pushing the buttons and watching the reels spin…;-)


Verse 1
They’re all buying guns
To take a shot at you
But you’re still smiling
Because you died a long time ago
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain 1
It’s live from Chicago
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago

Verse 2
When the morning breaks
The camera fades away
But you’re still smiling
Because you’re still standing tall
Two bullets through your soul

Refrain2
Let the camera roll 
It’s live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

outro
How was I to know?
It's live from Chicago....

Let the camera roll
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
Here in Chicago
How was I to know?
Two bullets through your soul
let the cameras roll
let the cameras roll
it's life in Chicago
it's life in Chicago

Two bullets through your soul
It's live from Chicago

Live from Chicago

Some songs take something special to bring them to life and in this case it is the Amazing voice of Finn Eces. Finn has a quality to his voice which is able to release the magic from a song and really express the message of the song in the Vocal with passion and beauty, very happy to have this collaboration with him. 

this song has been bugging me for months trying to get it to realize its potential and to get the feeling out of the song, i have already released  it under of the name of " Searching for your love" but i was never 100% Happy with it I hope all my SoundCloud friend agree that this is now a really Beautiful song. Finn can be found @finn_eces 

Written By : Johnny Mc Farlane 
Guitars: Johnny
Bass and Drums :Finn Eces 
Vocals  : Finn Eces 
Arrangement and Mastering : Finn Eces 

I hope you enjoy this song as much as i do .

Because Our Love Is Real : Featuring Finn Eces

March is a month of contrasts, especially on the High plains, and really anywhere in the Midwest and Southern states.  Sometimes after lamb-like weather, a lion of a storm system can form bringing a blizzard to the Front Range from Denver to Cheyenne and tornados to within a few miles of Amarillo.  Pat and I try to put a little of March's moodiness into music first inspired by his mandolin musings that also inspired an earlier track "The Return".

The Lamb And The Lion (Pat Howell; Mandolin, David Dunham; Guitars

A Song about Longing to be close to somebody!

Be My Friend

David Dunham AND Ren Faye on the same track! Wow! There's a video too at https://youtu.be/kOg5Yn9_-aw
To say I was lucky to collaborate with these two is something of an understatement and I would like to thank them both for their hard work and for putting up with me! I am so, so proud of this track and love the mood that we have created. I really hope you like it too! 

You can hear more of their work at:
https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203
https://soundcloud.com/renfaye-1

The lyrics are:

Catch the breeze,
Treasures for me...
Watch them go...
Watch them go...
The way the river goes..
Ebb and flow...
Ebb and flow...
That I used to know...

Play on Spotify

Dream Catching (feat. David Dunham and Ren Faye)

Try not to dwell on the tough times.  So many good things in  life
to reflect on -- a good woman, birth of my babies, them growing up
and moving on, friends and family for support.  Ah, keep your
heart on fire!

My Heart's On Fire  (Original)

Hope you enjoy this number as much as Delaflor and I...We're here to give you some retro goodness...I'm the woman with the sonic gun, here to be a serious blast from the past as in, in your face obtrusive, you can never get away from me! 

Our YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaHTYM5578

Listen to the amazing music of DELAFLOR here: https://soundcloud.com/mercer-goldengalls/tracks

Retro Active (REKHA AND DELAFLOR) 26.04.2021

Retro Active - Music by DELAFLOR

Retro Active - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a REKHA - IYERN FE

Intro

Oh 
Hey Hey
Oh 
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

I'm a woman with a sonic gun
I can be electrifying
I'm the woman with the sonic gun
I can be age defying

Born to be free a wild child
Retro Active
Born to be free a wild child
A blast from the past

Retro Retro 
Retro Retro

I am Retro Active
From a significant era
I am Retro Active
Born to make you wild

Retro Active 
I was born to be Retro Active
Retro Active
I'm of a serious sophisticated kind

Like Zep, Bowie
I learned from the best
Eno and Kraftwerk
Retro Active ever so cool and distinct
You can never make me extinct

In your face obtrusive
You can never get away from me
I'm your intellectual beauty
A woman of high fine
I'm a walkin' talkin' leatherette

Phenomenal
Phenomenal kind
Phenomenal
Phenomenal kind

Retro Active I am

Retro Active
Born to be free 
I'm a wild child
Retro Active 
Your serious blast from the past

In your face obtrusive
You can never get a way from me
I am Retro Active

Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties 
Not Two Thousand 
But from the beautiful Retro Active
Time...Time...Time
Your blast from the past

I want
I'm your Wonder Woman with the sonic gun
Electrifying
I can be age defying
Born to be f-r-e-e
Your wild child
Retro Active

Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed by REKHA - IYERN FE at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA
Music Mixed & Mastered by DELAFLOR in SPAIN

Covert Art Design: Photos & Graphics by REKHA - IYERN FE

RETRO ACTIVE

YouTube

Retro Active | Music by DELAFLOR | Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Electronic ROCK | YT Vid

So honored to have singer/song writers Gary and Darcy Bixler add a vocal and lyrical interpretation to an earlier song I wrote "When You Awake" in which Pat Howell added a lovely mandolin part.  I am twice blessed by these fine talents adding to a song with such a humble beginning; the result of a dream during an afternoon nap:) Thanks to all of you for making this song something very special.  More fine songs can be heard from Gary @soundcloud.com/user-432405235-236877019, and @patrick-howell-786748109.

From This Moment On--SC Original Collaboration of Gary&Darcy Bixler/Pat Howell/David Dunham

Needs lyrics and a vocal track and final mix. 

Instruments by JME Ryn

A New Day Has Come

Pablo - Percussion | Motion X - Music, Cymbals, Mix, Mastering --------> PLAY LOUD | Ram Call 2:58
This is a collaboration using Pablo's track https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti/the-soul-of-the-ram
I added searing synths and granular manipulation against Pablo's most excellent percussion work.
Experience Pablo's Music https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti https://soundcloud.com/dromo-3 https://soundcloud.com/user-936316435
Photo by Sabina on Pexels

Soul of the Ram Diabolus

Pablo | Motion X - Soul of the Ram (Diabolus Mix)

YOU GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN IN ONTARIO
AND SPENT ALL YOUR SUMMERS AT BUTTERNUT BAY SAILING ON THE RIVER AMONG THE THOUSAND ISLANDS SWIMMING LIKE A SILVER FISH SPLASHING DOWN THE FLOW WHAT AN EVERLASTING IDEAL GETAWAY
AND WHAT A TREAT STEPHANIE TO SPEND ONE’S LIFE WITH YOU COMME IL FAIT BON STEPHANIE ÊTRE TON AMI(E)
REGARDER ROULER LES EAUX DES JOURS ET DES NUITS TRAVELING ALL LIFE THROUGH IN YOUR COMPANY
IS THE BEST ALEX CAN GET THIS IS CLEAR TO ME
IF THERE’S A RED HOUSE YONDER LET YOUR SISTER KNOW I WOULD PACK MY SACK AND GO LIKE JIMI USED TO SAY TELL ME ABOUT YOUR COUSINS AND YOUR LITTLE BRO AND HOW PRINCE BOLKONSKI DIED IN BORODINO
REMIND ME OF YOUR BUDDY FROM QUITE A WHILE AGO
LIFE IS SOMETHING HAPPENING EVERY OTHER DAY
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING I HEARD SOMEONE SAY WHAT WILL BE TOMORROW SURPRISE SURPRISE
AS LONG AS YOU SHINE A LIGHT WITH YOUR QUICK BLUE EYES 49 CANDLES OF LOVE FOR YOU TO BLOW TONIGHT
DROPS OF WATER SPARKLING IN YOUR CURLY HAIR
TWO STARS SHINING IN YOUR HEART CHARLIE AND CLARE
ME A PERFECT STRANGER DO I DARE
YES I DO AND FOR THEM ALL I DECLARE
WHAT A TREAT EVERY MORNING TO HAVE BREAKFAST WITH STEPHANIE
LIFE IS SOMETHING HAPPENING EVERY OTHER DAY
IN TIMES LIKE THESE STEPHANIE NOTHING MUCH TO SAY HOPING EVERYONE WILL FIND ONE’S IDEAL GET AWAY
IN THE MEANTIME LET’S GO BACK TO BUTTERNUT BAY BUTTERNUT BAY

BUTTERNUT BAY (Lyrics) Song for Stephanie

熊鷹(Kumataka)：Hodgson’s hawk‐eagle
Accipitriformes Accipitridae bird . One of the largest among the ones named Taka. In particular, Japanese subspecies are large and fine. The total length is 70 to 80 cm, and the wing opening reaches 150 cm, but the one in the south is small. With Japan as the northern limit, it is distributed in southeastern China, the Himalayas, parts of India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. It prefers to live in forests, especially coniferous forests.

熊鷹(Kumataka)

Recording is currently stopped halfway :(:(:(

Please listen to the previous guitar sound album instead!
https://voodoozoostudio.bandcamp.com/album/be-trapped-in-a-foreign-sand-land

Gabacho Demo

J'AVAIS TOUT VU...

AMBROSIA COAST

Driving down the coast road
Looking for Ingrid’s hat
It doesn’t matter if we find the beach or not 
With it raining like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
Oh can we do it tonight?
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?

They came in in inflatables
But they weren’t looking for Ingrid’s hat
We spent some money dressing up the corpse
No-one had learned a move like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?

But we don’t wanna see where the birdie goes

Give me emotion (bow-wow-wow)
Lend me the potion (bow-wow-wow)
Rub me in lotion (bow-wow-wow)
Give me the motion (bow-wow-wow)
We need ambrosia
Because it’s cosier
Feed the gods with that bowl 
Feed the gods with that bowl, there...

Driving down the coast road 
Looking for Ingrid’s hat
It doesn’t matter if we find the beach or not 
With it raining like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
But can we do it tonight? (bow-wow-wow)
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight? 
Bow-wow-wow

© Phil McWalter Sept 2019

The Drums @rick-4-1
The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

Ingrid's Hat

Ambrosia Coast

Skriftesång

Paroles

Tu me tiens la main pour que je lève le pied.
Tu m'oblige à te regarder.
Au fond de cette chambre 
s'empilent nos souvenirs.
Des plus noirs aux plus clairs 
Instant fragile.

Instant fragile.

Tous ces mots que tu glisses 
Sont paroles d'évangile 
Tous ces gestes anonymes 
Se perdent sur le récif 
Une barrière de corail 
Me coupe telle la limaille 

Ma peau fragile 
Ma peau fragile 

Instant fragile 
Instant fragile 

Entre nous c'est Vegas 
Les palaces et l'ennui 
Dans un cercle de feu
Je veux voir ton ombre 
Au milieu des braises 
Je veux que tu me 
Au milieu des braises 
Je veux que tu me 
Brise les yeux 

Instant fragile.

Instant fragile.


Des soupçons des remords 
Et des vagues de questions
Des glaçons dans la bouche 
Des réponses à la louche 
Des questions des questions 
Et de vagues réponses 
J'ai le choix de me taire 
T'as le temps de mentir 
Instant fragile 
Instant fragile 


Tu me tiens la main pour que je lève le pied.
Tu m'oblige à te regarder.
Au fond de cette chambre 
s'empilent nos souvenirs.
Des plus noirs aux plus clairs 
Instant fragile.

Instant fragile.

Misanthrope

Instant fragile

Instant Fragile

Jazz Fusión (from Málaga (Spain)) -> RECOMMEND USING HEADPHONES.

- Christopher Baker Dawson: Bass (Collaboration)
- Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitars, Piano, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering

Vamos a llevarnos bien

Vamos A Llevarnos Bien

Angle from Montgomery is a great song written by 
John Prine, originally appearing on his
self-title 1971 album John Prine.
I decided to try covering this song.

Angel From Montgomery - (John Prine Cover)

Jazz Fusión (from Málaga (Spain)) -> RECOMMEND USING HEADPHONES.
- Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitar, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering.

-> Fotografía tomada por Angel Bretón en Tijuana (México).

Cuando me haya ido

Such an honor to be invited again to collaborate with Seagull, a wonderful musician and creator who challenges me to reach beyond my usual genre of music to add to his.  This time it is to join him in a place of rest for the heart away from the turmoil that fills the headlines.  We ask you to join us too for a few brief minutes.
More of Seagull's lovely music can be heard @farout-music-studio

Rest My Heart (Seagull--Synths, Electric Guitar, Bass; David Dunham--Classical Guitar)

One of Nature's sweetest fragrances, rain-washed air.  What a delight and honor to join Dan-DT, Clara, and Seagull in making this fragrant aural experience, and my maiden voyage into Dan's lovely genre of French Fantasy more of which can be heard @dan-t-3.  Seagull's lovely music can be heard here @farout-music-studio.

After The Rain  (Dan-DT, Clara, David, and Seagull)

Written by: Hoyt Axton, Kenneth Elvin JR. Higginbotham
Produced by: Josh McAlexander

Evangelina

How wonderful it is to work with skilled guitarist and synth artist Seagull and ace guitarist Ed Cunningham on our tribute to the night sky; a favorite pastime of mine in years gone by. I was once an avid amateur astronomer (still have my telescope), until I got caught up in the guitar universe and this wonderful place called Soundcloud.  I still manage to get out now and then to capture a little starlight.  Hear more of Seagull's fine productions @farout-music-studio and Ed's beautiful guitar music @westtracksmusic

Starlight(Seagull; guitars and synths, Ed Cunningham; electric guitar, David Dunham; acoustic guitar

Quietude in the midst of chaos, confusion, uncertainty, and restlessness; Seagull captures an Eden-like vision of tranquility and reflection.  It also came with a surprise he kept securely under his hat; I would be joined in the collaboration with him by two of my favorite SC artists, Ed Cunningham and Dan-t, masters of their genre. I didn't know until he unveiled the finished product.  My approach turned out to be "less is more" so I show up to the party fashionably late at just past the 2:00 mark, but what a lovely party...and vision.  I hope you think so too. Seagull also gave sight to the sound which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFYED8OEeQ Hear more fine music from these maestros:
Seagull @farout-music-studio
Ed @westtracksmusic
Dan-t @dan-t-3
Photo credit; Dan-t

The Quietude (Seagull, Ed Cunningham, Dan-t, David Dunham)

What began as a prosaic comment evolved into an enriching collaboration.  Our friend and Soundcloud poet laurate Peter joins us on a fishing voyage.  Seagull, not content to do a simple voice over, remixes the track and places us on a fishing boat, the sea a bit rough, the gulls impatient for part of the catch, and Peter not just reading but dynamically narrating what he is experiencing on the deck of the ship.  What an honor to work with these artists enlarging on our previous collaboration.  Please check out more of Seagull's music @farout-music-studio, and Peter's poignant songs and poetry @user-264930040

My sanctuary from archive gleans
The gentle times, wherein my mind
Recalls a childhood spent in dreams
Of bobbing boats on ocean spied.

Here, the call of a benevolent sea
The briny, perfumed honesty
Of adolescent memories.

But whence this salty desert sea
Where once the skinny trawler plied?
Plastic water ocean streams
Where finny, swimmy fish should lie.

Silenced of the chuggy motors
Decimated by their quotas
Where the haddock, cod and herring bloaters?

The factory ships that hoovered clean
Of scaly friends the sea main wide.
Its cheaply speckled high protein
Squandered as the herring gull cried.

Where the fishers, where the boats?
Where the nets, and yellow rubber coats?
Where the pots, and lines and corky floats?

...wherein my mind
Recalls a childhood spent in dreams
Of bobbing boats on ocean spied.
Why, they set sail for the past it seems,
Upon tomorrow's ebbing tide.

Childhood Memory--Updated (Seagull, David, and featuring Peter)

Esta "coplilla" está dedicada a la virtud de las personas que más valoro.

This composition is dedicated to the virtue of the people I value most (Humility).
Cette composition est dédiée à la vertu des personnes que je chéris le plus (Humilité).
Questa composizione è dedicata alla virtù delle persone che apprezzo di più (Umiltà).

Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitars, Piano, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering.

Humildad

Borderland  - Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

There’s a wire fence running east
Keeping Eden out of bounds
And he speaks unto the least
Like a Sermon on the Mount
And as the living often do
Find a million ways to die
I was born loving you
A truth I still deny

It’s my inheritance they say
A house with many rooms
But I be homeless night and day
Until I’m in the tomb
Behind that solid door
Something else lies in
And when you open up you know
It was the same old thing

Now you and I we learned
That freedom’s golden chains
Caused Paradise to burn
And we both took the blame
Still shaken from the fall
And I can’t get back up
They all are prison walls
Everything I touch

I’m crawling through the sands
To the setting sun
Into the Borderland
Where shadows overcome
Into the Borderland
Where shadows overcome


Borderland

Newly re-minted Version of this Tune features updated 'Bitcrushed' Logic Pro X Drums. Played Guitar(s) and added my Vocals and mixed it all up again. As always, Genuine Thanks for listening and/or commenting. Most appreciated! :D
Something About the Nighttime ©  - ROCK Version
Riff Beach Original
RiffWerx - 2017
There’s Something about the Nighttime
Something ‘bout The Night
Sometimes it just seems like The Right Time
It just feels so Right
Don’t lose your grip on The Day
Don’t lose your Inner Light
And, Don’t Let it Get Away
Keep it Shining Bright
(Chorus)
There’s Something about The Nighttime
There’s Something about The Night
Sometimes, it just seems (feels) like The Right Time
It just feels so Right
(Just feels so Right)
Bridge (Slow Transition - Key Change)
Passing Slowly
Passing Fast
Grab on Tightly
Before……The Future’s Past
(Last Verse)
In those Morning Hours of Reflective Thought
As the Sun rises slowly in The East
Well, those times, they just can’t be Bought
In which Wonders never seem to Cease
(Repeat Chorus and Out)

RiffWerx

Here is the well that they dug you
there neath the salt and the snow
pushing you in was the easy part love
pulling you out I don't know

All of the lies that they told you
are just like the ice on a stream
under the wright 
of the words they won't state
all of the things that they mean.

Noted as ‘One to watch’ by NewSoundWales, Siobhan McCrudden’s has been described as a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music.

Raised in London to parents with Scottish and Irish roots, Cardiff-based singer songwriter McCrudden, crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions.

Siobhan’s early performances found her on the coffee house circuit of New York. From these beginnings she went on to play larger gigs both in America and at home, performing at festivals and folk clubs. Her first single ‘The Mermaid in Your Glass’, was on the top 10 Fresh Favs on BBC Radio 6 Music - Fresh On The Net and was played on BBC Radio Wales (Bethan Elfyn, Adam Walton), Radio Cardiff, newsoundwales, The Folk Pilot, CuillinFM, PhonicFM, Lonely Oak Radio, Symfozone Radio and Spotify playlists Double J, Big Tune IMR, Sweater Weather and more..

Reviews:
‘Oh Little Red’ bleeds with tension and the wonderfully arranged strings push and pull every last drop of feeling out of the piece. Folk Radio UK

‘Absolutely beautiful, just stunning, the voice is something else’ Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales

‘There is a clear debt in Siobhan's sound to early Joni Mitchell albums. There is also a definite familiarity with late sixties British folk bands such as Fairport Convention and Pentangle in her cultural hinterland’ From the Margins

‘I was blown away by her voice, her guitar playing ... She really is something special’ Bethan Elfyn, BBC Radio Wales

________________________________________
siobhanmccrudden.bandcamp.com/releases
www.facebook.com/siobhanmccruddenmusic/ twitter.com/McCruddenmusic
www.instagram.com/siobhan_mccrudden

Released by:
hungersleep records
P-line:
℗ hungersleep records

Icarus Girl

Oh Little Red

Collaborated with my good friend and band mate Pat Howell on mandolin to compose this uplifting tune. We first played it as an offertory at church but wanted to do more with it in a studio setting. We like the results and hope you do too. Named in honor of Pat's new puppy, now a very energetic dog:)

Willow Skye (with Pat Howell, mandolin) Updated Mix 3/14/23

Both Pat and I are blessed to have daughters. So when he came to me with this musical idea in honor of his daughter, I was quick to get on board. We originally released the tune (an Irish reel of sorts) as a church offertory, but decided to make a more formal recording, and now with an added second guitar part that Pat loved when we reprised it as offertory in honor of his daughter's homecoming from college for Thanksgiving.

Of Fathers and Daughters-- with Pat Howell, Mandolin (Revised and Updated 11/22/21)

Some clear sky and fresh air for those who have to shelter in place. I floated this tune (pun intended) by my band mate Pat on mandolin and he was quick to compose a part that added a real sense of open sky to my pickings. Hope you enjoy this seafaring shanty.  
With Pat's passing I wanted to post this song with a modified intro--a little ditty he loved to play "The Irish Washer Woman".  
I came across the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield. The feel of the song fits the poem, but composer John Ireland does it much greater justice.

Sea Fever
By John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
 I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
 I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

Hoist The Main Sails (updated with new intro and outro 7/23/23)

Jazz Fusión (from Málaga (Spain)) -> RECOMMEND USING HEADPHONES.

- Carlos Fuentes Castillo: Guitar, Keyboards, Composition, Programming, Mixing and Mastering.

Muerde vieo

Muerde Vieo

Darker than green

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Artist: Uroboros Dream.
Album: Non-Quality Piece of Improvisation.
Genre: Instrumental.

Uroboros Dream is

Sergey Egorov - Producer, Guitar
Anton Kukharenko - Guitar, Bass Guitar

​Released December 7, 2020.

​EP was produced by Uroboros Dream.
© Mathematician Records 2020. All rights reserved.

Non-Quality Piece of Improvisation

Track shows a very delicate theme and a quite hard-riffed part, both alternating and finally flowing up to an endless symphonic dream (words are half a poem I wrote previously (not these, but lyrics below)).

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)  /  Don’t you wake up (Only a dream)

No... despierta... no... no despiertes  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up
no, cuidado... no despiertes, na na na na na...  /  no, take care ... don’t you wake up, na na na na na…
... despierta al fin y date cuenta  /  ... wake up at last and realize
de que todo ha sido un sueño, na na na na na...  /  everything has been a dream, na na na na na...

Una vez más, nervios y resentimiento,  /  Once again, nerves and resentment,
todo en mi vida es sueño, sólo ha sido eso.  /  everything in my life is a dream, it has only been so.

Y de nuevo, con el tiempo,  /  And again, with time,
incubando un nuevo sueño,  /  incubating a new dream,
me voy hundiendo en mis propios brazos,  /  I am sinking in my own arms,
me acuno, me canto y me voy acostumbrando...  /  cradle myself, sing to myself and get used...

Otro escenario, otros personajes,  /  Another stage, other characters,
la misma historia, na na na na na...  /  the same story, na na na na na...
que durará un día, un milenio,  /  which will last one day, a millenium,
toda mi vida, na na na na na...  /  all my life, na na na na na...

Pero sin duda vendrán a despertarme  /  But undoubtedly the laughs of people
las risas de la gente, alguna tarde.  /  will come to wake me up, any evening.

Y entonces, con miedo...  /  And then, fearfully...

No... despierta… no… no despiertes (…)  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up (…)

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)

My good friend and bandmate Pat Howell shared some of his mandolin musings and ramblings to see what I could make of them. My excitement grew as the production evolved with each "return" to the three note sequence on the mandolin.  As you journey, may all your returns be safe and joyful.

The Return (Pat Howell-mandolin, David Dunham-guitar)

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.