A Storm A Brewin' II

Best Of SoundCloud Mix

Happy Little Trees

David Dunham

March 2021

Best of the Cloud 28 04 2021

2022 NewPL

My tribute to the artists whose music has touched me the most, even my own stuff:) This will be an evolving list.

All-time Favorites--Songs That Never Fail to Move Me.

Soul Elixir

Blood  On The Moon

Based around an acoustic riff, the song is about how a wave can be the start, or the end of something, and maybe a chance to start again. Produced by Shael Wrinch at Stone Hill studios on Bowen Island, B.C. Chris Herbsen on vocals, Shael doing harmonies and more of that great slide guitar. 
Lyrics:
She waved to say hello, she waves to say goodbye
She left a scent of faint perfume, and clouds in a sunny sky.
Coffee stains and magazines, and a space where she used to lie.
We're livin' here on shifting sands and we're left to wonder why.

I could have stared for hours and hours
at footprints in the sand
It took a wave beyond my powers
to help me understand 
that life come in waves.

Children's laughter fills the room. I hear her laugh and sing.
Faces stored in a picture frame can't beat the real thing.
What's been lost and what's been found, and what we hope to gain
is all that matters in the end, not teardrops in the rain.

I could have stared...

The Tequila Monday Project

Life Comes in Waves

https://youtu.be/OKai3vc2a0c
[original guitar score by @john-byrne-117035719]

4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - IGNITION!

Final lap dance, one last drink
but baby don’t feel sorry for me.
About to ditch the thing
that makes your boobs swing,
back up the well to where the rocks roll free.

‘Cause I’m an asteroid miner (wooh-ooh!)
like my daddy and my paw-paw was.
And yeah, I wear manliner (wooh-ooh!)
just so you would know I’m not your earthworm cuz.

I’m an asteroid miner. (miner, miner, wooh-ooh!)
I’m an as-te-ro-oid mi-i-i-i-iner (ooh)

[break]

Yeah, baby, yeah, baby, yeah!
You're part of my therapy (ye-eah!)

Out in the Belt I’m closer to God
and I thank Him for pressurizing my pod.
I shoot from the hip and trust my gut
and gut anyone that tries to steal my cut!

‘Cause I’m an asteroid miner (wooh-ooh!)
born on a hull where we drink our piss.
But I wear designer (oh-ooh-ooh!)
just to let you know I’m not your broke-ass sis.

As-teroid mi-ne-er—mine that asteroid... (owww!)

I know who to sell to, who to bribe, and who to rob.
No Martian robot’s gonna steal my job.
Got a powerful lobby in the Solar Alliance.
We say, give us better ships
but fuck your science! (yeah, fuck your science!)

And I’m not gay, not even bi-curious.
When I sleep with other men it’s because I’m “Mercurious”
It’s okay to want a penis—
just pray it away when you slingshot from Venus.

Asteroid miner—pillar of the Solar economy
Asteroid miner—never a pillar of salt for sodomy (that was never me!)
Asteroid miner—never covet my pilot's wife
Asteroid miner—but my pilot’s torso makes me feel alive...

[instrumental break]

Lap dance over but don’t worry about me—
I’m headed to a place where everything hangs free.
It’s pretty cool if you like huge diamonds.
I’ll introduce you to my best friend Simon...

Ooh, Simon! He’s my favorite asteroid miner.

Support John

Asteroid Miner

A rainy-day-melancholy sort of piano piece.

Many thanks go to David Dunham for mastering my track. You can hear his beautiful guitar music @david-dunhamuser589535203
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/waiting-at-my-window-digital-sheet-music/22554409

Waiting at my Window

Dragon And The Peacock

Le plaisir de partager quelques moments de complicité et la preuve que l'amitié musicale n'a pas de frontières ....
Voix de Clara Sorace.

Avec la participation pour m'accompagner dans cette aventure :
- David Dunham d'Amarillo Texas - Etats-Unis.
A la guitare acoustique, que vous pouvez découvrir ou redécouvrir ici :
@david-dunhamuser589535203

- Seagull de Stockholm - Suède
Solo E.Guitar, que vous pouvez également découvrir ou redécouvrir ici :
@farout-music-studio

Je les remercie pour leur spontanéité, leur gentillesse et leur talent.

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The pleasure of sharing a few moments of complicity and a proof that musical friendship has no boundaries ....
Voice by Clara Sorace.

With the participation to accompany me in this adventure:
- David Dunham from Amarillo Texas - United States.
 On acoustic guitar, that you can discover or re-discover here:
https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203

 - Seagull from Stockholm - Sweden 
Solo E.Guitar, which you can also discover or re-discover here:
https://soundcloud.com/farout-music-studio

I thank them for their spontaneity, their kindness, and their talent.

After The Rain .... With Clara - David Dunham - Seagull

Songs come like waves. I live to give them out. Hopefully the words will bless someone. Perhaps I can produce them more professionally someday. For today it's catch and release. I hope you can enjoy them in their infancy. Peace to this place. America the Beautiful. All Races loved and loving each other. We are on our way. Walking through the fire. Keep your peace and love each other. Reflecting on July 8  USA, Love Urgency in this song. 
Update May. 
Oh, and now 2022, we need a supernatural power to stop the suffering of war, sickness of the human race and our beautiful planet earth! Little me, must be bold or fade away. I chose to share this song in the rawness of its infancy because it’s powerful and waiting is futile.

Galaxy (just me and my guitar in writing & recording mode)

Original Guitar Composition : Sk4rz 
Additional Composition / Production / Lyrics / Vox : Chris Dargay 2017

Nightingale.
Who's There ?
Not a Bird at All...
Light of Day ?
Night + Day.
Not a Bird at All...

Nightingale (demo)* featuring Sk4rz Tsijonriake

Written, Arranged, & Mixed By Erica Aloian
Mastered By Scott Murray

Patches

Not really an etude in proper musical sense....it has more to do with a story behind it...:)

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Leon Pajer

orlando51music © 2024

Etude For Nevi

Strange Lives

Tales of a Starless Night

My Nightmares

While sitting down for an hour and half just writing down musical ideas on manuscript paper with a pencil, the initial motive jumped out to me and I knew I had to develop this idea further.  So, I did.  Then came then next part when the left hand takes over the melody while the right hand plays a counter melody.  Then it's goes back to the beginning motive again.  As you guessed, it's an ABA form.  I entered it into a composition contest for the NLAPW.  Although I didn't win any prizes, this is probably one of my favorite melodies.  The reason I called it Genesis is because this is where it all began.

Genesis

Le Passager (concerto du confinement 1 mvt)

Unforgettable

Do You?

A Free Trip to the Moon

Voiceover - Please relax and enjoy your remarkable privilege, a free trip to the moon
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
I’m sitting beneath a tree
I close my eyes and try to see
My thoughts rustle like the wind through the leaves
Memories of memories float through the air
Like ripples in a lake from a rock thrown there
I relax my body 
And I relax my mind
And try to drift away
Try to drift away
From this daily grind
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
A free trip to the moon
I’d like to go there in June
When the weather is nice
And it’s not too crowded
I want to go to the moon
I think I’ll go pretty soon
While the weather is nice
And it’s not that crowded
I relax my body 
And I relax my mind
And try to drift away
Try to drift away
From this daily grind
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
I want to go to the moon
I’d like to go there in June
When the weather is nice
And it’s not too crowded
Voiceover - A free trip to the moon

Clintmusic 9

A Free Trip to the Moon

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 sketch..
words iz
have you ever seen an evil hedgehog
crunching away on a slug
thinking up dastardly doings
looking evilly sideways at crumbs
have you ever stopped there to wonder
what goes on beneath spindles and lice
i tell you its all very spikey
i can tell you its not very nice

have you ever even considered
the malevolent fish in your pond
you can bet they are viscous pernicious
they are evil incarnate beyond
just waiting to grow legs and weapons
waiting to swell ounce by ounce
they never do other that evilest wishes
they lay in wait silent to pounce
outside your house

look at the evilest sparrow
eyeing you up from a tree
thinking up plots by the barrow load
devising new ways to kill thee
just you wait till theyve got themselves organised
just you wait till they sort out their crew
wait till there peckers are in your eyes
flapping and twatting at you

stop thinking youre cool
cos youre a fool
mother nature is cruel.

Nature Is Cruel

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

As Above So Below

Siriso

Cvsh Cartier ft Matt Ox “Beam me Up” ( Remix )

threshold of faith - Across the Universe

◆ Bandcamp: thresholdfaith.bandcamp.com/album/there…es-on-earth
◆ Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/20Q2n7LKnF…t2Q5WCzd87m2yJFA
◆ iTunes: music.apple.com/ru/album/there-is…rth/1530091108?ls

Musical project from St. Petersburg, Russia that creates experimental rock music, intricatel mixing the genres of guitar music and electronic music in the most unexpected combinations

☛ Follow threshold of faith
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There Is No Hell, Except the One We Make for Ourselves on Earth

Across the Universe

'Healing Is A Miracle - Extended Versions', out now on Ninja Tune: https://julianna.lnk.to/healing-extendedSo

Follow Julianna Barwick -
Spotify: https://found.ee/juliannabarwick-sp
Apple Music: https://found.ee/juliannabarwick-am
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Bandcamp: https://found.ee/juliannabarwick-bc
Soundcloud: https://found.ee/juliannabarwick-sc

Healing Is A Miracle - Extended Versions

Healing Is A Miracle (Extended Version)

Survival

Okinawa

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

Een geheel opgepoetste en afgestofte versie van het nummer dat we lang geleden schreven en opnamen.  Tekst en muziek door Gern Huijberts en Margareth Hop. Thumbnail image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay.
Alle zang en instrumenten door Gern Huijberts en Margareth Hop.

Engel - Remastered

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)

Original music by FPMORINSTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin Composer

Shining light 02 01 2021

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

Lately... I've Been Thinkin'

Edge Of A Dream

This song during the “Black Lives Matter” movement over the summer with a desire to help make this Country feel loved again and hopefully heal the deep divide between our people. Gently not Judgingly is calling out to us to; “Take a walk in my shoes and you will see, you’re not that much different from me”. We wanted to inspire people to understand and sympathize with our differences instead of condemning and judging people. We believed it's time for real change.

ME is better with WE

Gently Not Judgingly

Wheelwright: voice, lyrics, vocal melody @wheelwright

Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley: drums, tambourine, percussion recording @hypnopompetus  

Jonathan Beckenstein: guitars, bass, orchestral samples, original music, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

drums recorded at The Tension Headache Studio, Tsagarada, Pelion, Greece https://soundcloud.com/tension-headache-studio




See you same time tomorrow
Goodbye Kelly goodbye Sister J
Oh yes you hide your sorrow well but
No need to tell these kids that god does not appear to care

Oh if he's even there
 
Walked down to old St Martin it's
Dusk already there's cold December rain
In the Piccadilly lights
This place has seen the lost and found for
Seven hundred years
And so they come and pray
Or just to stay out of the rain
 
Oh were there words enough and time I would
Explain the world away and
If life's just a story (maybe) we can change the ending if we try
And though the past's been priced and sold
Tomorrows yet untold
 
Strayed into being happy
Fields of barley framed our stupid bliss
But it was all reflected lights
I never learned how to be kind until I lost someone I loved
But I'm not here to pray
Just trying to stay out of the rain
 
[Repeat chorus]
 
And the words become a song
And the child becomes a man

bandcamp

Close Of Day (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Falling Out

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.