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MAY 2020

Top 50: Jazz & Blues

Top 50 : Jazz et blues

David Dunham

Collaborations with Special Friends

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)

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)

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Deep down
Under water
I can 
See clealy
Warm and sure
Still breathing

Why don't you
Just let it go
Why don't you
Just be free
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Why don't you 
Just let it go
Why don't you
Just be free
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Deep down 
Under water
I know
I'm wearing thin
Swimming
In my own world
Still breathing too

Why don't you
Just let it go
Why don't you
Just be free
Embasan Embasan
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Why don't you
Just let it go
Why don't you
Just be free
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Why don't we just be free
Why don't you just let it go

Embasan | RosesAreBlue

DOWN BY THE SEA - Re-Mastered Aug 2020
Written, Performed & Produced by Andrew Borderick
Copyright 2019 AB Music All righte reserved.
Mastered by Soundcloud Aug 2020

IF I WAS A BIRD
I COULD FLY THE WORLD
OR LIVE DOWN BY THE SEA
WHERE THE WIND IS FREE

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
WE'LL FIND A TREE
LIVE UP THERE AND SEE
THE WORLD BELOW

IF I WAS A FISH
I COULD SWIM THE SEA
I WOULD DIVE SO DEEP
SO NO ONE CATCH'S ME

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
WE'LL FIND A PLACE
AND LIVE OUR LIVE'S AWAY
FROM WHAT'S UP THERE
(break)
IF I WAS A CAT
I WOULD CLIMB THE TREE
OR CATCH YOU BY THE SEA
IT'S JUST A PART OF ME

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
DOWN BY THE SEA
A PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
WE LIVE BETWEEN,
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I'LL MESS YOUR HAIR
DOWN BY THE SEA
A PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
WE LIVE BETWEEN

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Down by the Sea

DOWN BY THE SEA

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon

chanson du film "Belle & Sébastien"

Photo de l'envol d'une Grande Aigrette  sur le lac de Grand-Lieu (44) prise par mon ami Petit Pingouin.

Je remercie immensément mon amie Liz Dicker (@liz-dicker) pour avoir accepté de composer cette pièce de piano en accompagnement de ma voix sur cette chanson qui a bercé mon enfance.
Un grand merci à Peter Stevens (@pwstevens) pour l’arrangement et sa patience.

Many thanks to my friend Liz Dicker (@liz-dicker) to have accepted to compose this piece of piano for me on this lovely song. Thank you Liz for your patience and bravo for your great talent. I'm so honoured to have done this song with you.
Also many thanks to my dearest Peter Stevens (@pwstevens) for the arrangement. Thank you Peter for your time and patience.

L'Oiseau - cover  (Piano Liz Dicker & Vocals Dominique Briand)

Video: https://youtu.be/aybjo_nPHqg 

Music: Wypernet soundcloud.com/wypernet/tracks
Lyrics and vocal: Lukowig https://soundcloud.com/user-407534243/tracks www.facebook.com/Lukowig/ twitter.com/Lukowig

Douce Bretagne
ta chantante campagne
loin de moi les rires éloigne
et mon cœur étreint dans ta poigne
s'exile vers le bagne...

Besoin de ses baisers...
Je t'ai rebaptisée
"terre d'exil" !..
Je suis son ex-il.

Douce Bretagne
quoi que j'en groigne
je t'ai choisi j'en témoigne
pour que ma solitude je soigne
payant ainsi sans épargne
les pots cassés sans hargne !

Gémit dans cette ville
mon romantique cœur vil
désert comme une île
comme toi terre d'exil... 

... je suis son ex-il.

Terre d'exil (with video: link in description) [Wypernet and Lukowig]

Check out Joe Bongiovanni's super nasty sound on our electric You Stay Home!  Joe's a several time finalist at the World Championship of Blues in Memphis, and pushes this one hard.  
Visit Joe's Soundcloud page:  https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanni
A Playlist of our 30 tunes recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/jammin-with-joe-bongiovanni-1
https://www.facebook.com/joe.bongiovanni.528

Here's You Stay Home!  Please do

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

You Stay Home!    Joe Bongiovanni / Jamie Rhind

Curtis Gremmel joins me in another "twenty fingers" collaboration exploring an improvisational blues riff heard at the beginning.  Done in one take (essentially) I employed a little editing and sound enhancement to tighten the track. Curtis is left center in the mix. Hope you enjoy this "shade of blue".

Love In A Shade Of Blue (with fine guitarist Curtis Gremmel)

Everything is enhanced when Janine is around.

Voice, vocal melody, words and flat felting image: Janine Levinson https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Music and instruments: Jonathan Beckenstein

is there an ever blooming flower?
is there an ever open rose?
is there an ever present lover?
well maybe it could happen
who knows

is there an ever thumping mattress?
are there forever open legs?
is there eternal love and happiness?
well maybe it could happen
maybe it could happen

once in a while
go out the open window
and fall into the cold
go out the open window

am I the ever open flower
with petals ever in your nose?
and neurons ever more to fire?
well maybe it could happen
maybe it could happen

An Open Window (with Janine Levinson)

Music/Arrangement/Production/Vocals/Lyrics by Achazia

This beautiful song is written by Bon Iver

Ever since I heard the howlin' wind
I didn't need to go where a bible went
But then you know your gifts seemed heaven sent
Just lead me to a choler, dad, that's the thing
I don't know how you house the sin
But you're free now
I was never sure how much of you I could let in
And I'm free now
Won't you settle down baby here your love has been
Heavenly father
It's definitely lava
Why you don't carry other names?
Heard about a day where it dropped the know
To go another day as we learn to close
'Cause I'm a known coward in a coward wind
But you're free now
You turn around now and you count to 10
To see you go now
Well I know now honey that I can't pretend
Heavenly father
Is whose brought to his autumn
And love is left in end
I just been up here for god damn years
Can you see now?
Filling up hulls with god damn fears
I am free now
I know about it darlin', I've been standin' here
Heavenly father
Is all that he offers
A safety in the end

Heavenly Father  (Bon Iver)

Underworld

From the upcoming Album Tales From The Dark Queen soon to be released on Bandcamp

Rule

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POUR CEUX QUI AIMENT LE KOMPA DIRECT VOUS ALLEZ ETRE SERVIS 

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(English translation above)

Paroles et mélodie de Myckaël Marcovic, sur une musique de David Dunham, https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203/conversation-at-a-french-cafe-with-fine-guitarist-devon-locke

Voix : Myckaël Marcovic
1e guitare : David Dunham
2e guitare : Devon Locke

Lyrics and melody by Myckaël Marcovic, to music by David Dunham, https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203/conversation-at-a-french-cafe-with-fine-guitarist-devon-locke

Voice: Myckaël Marcovic
1st guitar: David Dunham
2nd guitar: Devon Locke
(English translation above)

Si Django avait joué

Si Django avait joué
À la Renaissance
On aurait déjà swingué
Dans tous les châteaux de France
Les gaillardes, les pavanes et les branles
Saltarelles, basses danses et allemandes
Se seraient déchaînés
Si Django avait joué

Si Django avait joué
Sur la lyre de Vinci
Il n’aurait pu tricoter
Son "Nuages" de génie
Sur la tête de cheval argenté 
On sait pourquoi la Joconde souriait
De Vinci le savait
Si Django avait joué

Et François 1er
Avec son armée
N'aurait pas versé de sang
À Marignan  
Au château de Chambord
Il aurait eu la bouche bée
En écoutant les accords
D’un Django inspiré

Si Django avait joué
À la Renaissance
Il aurait aussi convié
Son fameux Hot Club de France
Par le violon de Stéphane, oiseau-mouche
Les bals se seraient grisés au jazz manouche
À trouer les souliers
Si Django avait joué

Comme un troubadour
La vie de château
Ne durait jamais qu'un jour
Pauvre Django
Il poussait comme il peut
Ses rêves de gloire étoilée
Mais sa roulotte a pris feu
Et sa main a brûlé

Mais Django a encore joué
Avec seulement deux doigts
Ça ne l'a pas empêché
De s'imposer comme un roi
Au lieu de se perdre dans le silence
Comme un Phénix ce fut une renaissance
Grappelli et Vinci n'ont pu que saluer
Son amour pour la guitare
De Django Reinhardt

Myckaël Marcovic, le 2 août 2020

If Django had played

If Django had played
In the Renaissance
We’d have been swinging by now
In all the castles of France
The gaillardes, the pavanes and the branles
Saltarelles, basses danses and allemandes
Would have gone wild
If Django had played

If Django had played
On the lyre of Vinci
He couldn't have knitted
His "Nuages" of genius
On the head of a silver horse
We know why the Mona Lisa was smiling
Da Vinci knew it
If Django had played

And Francis 1st
With his army
Wouldn’t have shed blood
In Marignan
At the castle of Chambord
He would have been gawked
By listening to the chords
From an inspired Django

If Django had played
In the Renaissance
He would also have invited
His famous Hot Club de France
By Stéphane's violin, hummingbird
The balls would have gone crazy with gypsy jazz
Making holes in the shoes
If Django had played

Like a troubadour
The good life
Only lasted a day
Poor Django
He was pushing as hard he could
His dreams of starry glory
But his trailer caught fire
And his hand burned

But Django played again
With only two fingers
That didn't stop him
To assert himself as a king
Instead of getting lost in the silence
Like a Phoenix there was a rebirth
Grappelli and Vinci could only greet
His love for the guitar
Of Django Reinhardt

Myckaël Marcovic, August 2, 2020

Si Django avait joué (David Dunham / Devon Locke / Myckaël Marcovic)

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

Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose

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.