Brilliant guitar playing.  Lovely melody.

a soulful interplay brilliantly interpreted...🌍 ☮︎ 👍

Thank you everyone for the beautiful heartfelt comments. Most of all, a big thanks to David who is an extraordinary person and an outstanding guitarist as you all can tell. He is my hero and his music, prayers and friendship helped me fight this battle.   What Satan had for evil, God replaced it for good. Love and blessings to all of you beautiful people.

Great to hear on Rayna’s wonderful show again

... found you on Rayna´s Radio Show SC site...great guitarplaying.. awesome song, high respect!

You are such a great guitarist David , this is fabulous !

Fantastic guitar playing. A really light optimistic melody which tells me more about 'Laurie Lou' and reinforces your written piece about her. This is, after all, what a great piece of music can do!

Jazz 07/12/24

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”

Never Let Me Go

A diminutive woman in her 7th decade, Laurie is a dynamo of personality and energy living an outsized life as she still works, loves to travel, and when home, playing in our church band as a guitarist and sharing music as a multi-instrumentalist.  She is also a personal hero in how she powered through chemo, invasive surgery, then radiation to arrest the progress of a rare cancer.  She would tell you it was by the Grace of God, but I would quickly add He worked in concert with her faith and "joie de vivre" of which she has an abundance.  Not knowing what to give her for her birthday and Christmas (a month apart), I gave her a song with her band nickname as the title.  For you, "Laurie Lou" my dear friend, guitar sister, and bandmate:)

Laurie Lou

Live Reflexion #026

Thank You so much for over 1500 plays! ❤️

Little improvisation made after watching Fracture Sounds "Hemisphere" trailer and turned into track. The ad set the emotional state and choice of instruments. NO A.I. INVOLVED!

What I played sounded so melancholic that it reminded me of the thoughts I had while walking with my wife. Every playground we passed was empty. It contrasted with times when our son was little - finding a free swing for a toddler bordered on a miracle. Now it's a miracle to see children swinging on them. Could the "Universe 25" experiment have predicted everything that is happening now?

I played it in one take, then did some editing and added cello, harmonics, bass and ambient sounds. I used only three instruments: two from free Spitfire LABS libraries: Ambient Guitars and Cello Moods. Bass is sub patch from Native Instruments Massive.
I used one sample from the BBC Sound Effects library: Children: Playing - Fushun: Children playing in snow.

The genotype of this song definitely includes two of my favorite This Mortal Coil songs, "The Jeweller" and "Tarantula".

I secretly hope that You may like it. Let me know in the comments what You think about the music and what lies in its heart.

Thanks go to my testdriver kavvka ••ꝁ𐌰v̷̷v̷̷ꝁ𐌰•• @grzegorzkawka who always gives me courage and accurately points out the elements that need improvement.

Picture from Pexels by Robin McPherson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-metal-swing-908970/

A Miracle I'd Like to See

Ban'ei racing is a type of horse racing in which racehorses compete for strength and speed while pulling a sled. It is also sometimes called "horse pulling".
Currently, the only publicly managed (local) horse racing in Japan is "Ban'ei horse racing" sponsored by Obihiro City, Hokkaido, and it is the only form of horse racing in the world.
"Ban'ei horses" (heavy breeding horses, also called "banba"), which have been used since ancient times mainly as farm horses and weigh around 800-1200 kg, pull iron sleds carrying jockeys and heavy loads, and compete in strength, speed, endurance, and jockey technique on a separate 200-meter straight course with two obstacles (small trapezoidal hills).


Horse-drawn sleigh race on snow

... the guitars and some electronics are mine, the violin and piano is Sophie and the rhythm section and oud are Aywaze (the inspirer of my new ideas) ...

Until The End Of The World

yeah, so here is another piano I made for you, an ambient..
and I tried to sync on 60bpm..
forgive my mistakes as it's Live

Live Reflexion#028

'Sleeping Warriors' Inspired by a mountain range in the Isle of Arran in Scotland, that when viewed from the mainland, the mountain range looks like a "sleeping warrior" and this is exactly what it is referred to.
Also the "sleeping Terra Cotta army" in China is a strong inspiration. Then of course there are the real life "sleeping warriors" who become awake in times of extreme hardship in their relative countries. So then here is the track to contemplate if you may be a "sleeping warrior".
Alan

Sleeping Warriors

Nothing really changes, just your perspective.

Regenesis

All words and music by Rowland Newell.

Rowland Newell - guitar, programming, arrangement and production.

Produced in Logic Pro using Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Studio Pro  to craft the vocals - 

Thanks to the incredible voice of Emma Rowley AKA Solaria for bringing the voice in my head to life.

Lyrics

Your thoughts are not your fault
When your mind is not your own

The truth is only words
When feelings go unheard 

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You let your love light shine
All around me
To the edge of the world 

The shadows fall
Right across me
Through the mists of time

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In the shadow world of 3am
Lie awake and overthink again

Alone here in the witching hour
The night’s intoxicating power

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You let your love light shine
All around me
To the edge of the world 

The shadows fall
Right across me
Through the mists of time

© Rowland Newell 2024

Witching Hour Blues

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.

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