Beautiful song.  Amazing guitars, sounds big. 👏🦜✨🪐

My ears are filled with these guitar sounds! Soo lovely!

Beautiful track and a very touching story behind it. Great performances.

Brilliant melody writing, The highest and most complete example of simplicity.

Loved the original post but this one just sparkles David and Pat. Thanks for updating and sharing

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

Just like "Analog Funk", the foundation of this song was developed by Impulse, who supplied some of sounds through the Arcade plugin. These particular tracks were later condensed into a single .m4a file, a process that took multiple attempts to complete. This alleviated the need to download the Arcade plugin onto my computer but also came at the expense of restricted control over individual instrument parameters. Granted, this was a sacrifice we willingly made.

I asked Impulse to record Digital Funk at a slightly faster tempo than Analog Funk to reflect the hurried nature of the digital world. On my end, I restructured some chord changes and section durations and carved out brand new passages for more variety.

Impulse: synth and bass programming, samples, songwriting, arrangement

Sinny: synth, bass, and rhythm programming, nose whistle, kalimba, Wavedrum, octo-snare cajon, djembe, talking drum, tambourine, maracas, jam block, samples, arrangement

Digital Funk

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

Music to accompany a video made from more than 100 photographs taken from the same position over the period of a year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIjNoyC0gQ

Walk Through a Pandemic #1

When you're this rich...People give you food/'
Oh the ecstasy of dining anywhere in the world at a BIG Golden Arches
for free!!
When McD's  serves Bill Gates, you got to imagine they beef up his French fry box to maximum spillage! 
You know those burgers better be made picture perfect, & not a single sesame seed on a bun will be out of place!
AND, that first bite had best be robust, or someone's paycheck will be docked.
Way to go BILL...With a first name like that, you always had money working in your favor! ;) 
Enjoy your McLunch!
Two all beef patties,
special sauce,
lettuce,
cheese,
pickles,
onions, 
on a sesame seed bun! 
AND, for us vegans...we pull the meat out! ;)
PS...Did ya hear the track part where the pop is being poured?

The Elite Eater's Digest

Bill Gates' Big Mac

Cafe Risque

Through The Fall

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

El Puente De Los Suspiros

Ladybug

I'm Coming...

Lets make Like babies And HEAD the Fuck out

Big Baby (Return To The Mother Planet)

Sketch 20211024

Instrumental version found on recorder listed 5/3/25. Just now added effects.
-Eileen_Guitar/Music Structure. 
-Lou_Guitar/effects.
Check out Eileen on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/ffCy32w23BRYurnYu2

Original Song. Copyright 2023.

"Ricochet" Instrumental (5/3/25)

Todavía resuenan los interminables ecos del mundo distante...

MUNDO DISTANTE - DISTANT WORLD

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)

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.

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

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