Totally digital, voices and all.
I am still learning this new software, the 'little people' in my computer are trying their best.
This song came to me as a comfort during a time I was trying to cope with my papa's passing from this world.
"A feather fell, and He was there"
RIP Papa
(cover photo of my father at sixteen, after he joined the SAAF during WWII - Izak Els 12.12.1925-27.10.2010)
"We shall remember them"

Sparrows and Rainbows ©

Extracts from the very second composition right after I finished "A Mother's Symphony".
This song came one early morning next to a dry riverbed on the outskirts of Windhoek, capital of Namibia as I began waking up. It was a flood that ran me over and I was sort of frozen while this happened, though all my senses were alert and absorbed things in an amplified way.

Later that morning I began jotting down what happened, it was a poem that could hardly end and it took me a long time to catch up with all of it.

Little did I know that this was going to be my first Symphony and when I began 'writing' it in music, some of the older cuts came back, each one about a morning in Africa. Especially very wild and rural where I loved to live in my younger days. 

The first session ended somewhere in the 140 measures and depicted my waking up each morning and then the birds announcing rain and the rain coming. When I got back onto it again for a day, the lullaby came and I ended up with 180 measures. It was just too much for me and 'fortunately' I had to focus on very serious matters which kept me from composing music for around two years.

So when I took it up again, it was stronger than ever. I began disappearing into this new world.

African Morning Song

Illumination 1: I hear you
Illumination 2: Where will I be tomorrow
from: Petals Volume 2 - Discovering
Real time stories. (much behind with them all)

My first go again back to the voice of piano - a long lost love. I have several people to thank for this, they all play (piano) an enormous role in carrying me away with this voice.

Illumination 1&2 Extracts

from: Petals Volume 2 - Discovering
Real time stories. (much behind with them all)
At times, long ago songs are coming back to me. I wrote poems and even made sketches and paintings of certain such songs. Telling them now in real music is a bit tough at times but it brings a lot of 'freedom' to say things.

One such was "Paint me love" from my album "Bleached African - Volume one" which I've put onto the little lines for my little digi orchestra. But many remained until recently when a roaming wind reminded me about my
♥ love ♥
and I begin to answer while new songs are pouring.

Weeping Willow - Extracts

from: Petals Volume 2 - Discovering
Real time stories. (much behind with them all)

You Chose, Mama, Not I (I Wanted Music) Extracts

You Chose Mama, Not I (I Woke Up) Extract

Discovering that I can be an activist, speaking with music....
As much as the pretenders would try and qualify their horrendous deeds of murdering, calling upon the Holy Name....
As much do I call upon the Holy Name without vanity.
LORD GOD I pray for Peace
YHWH IS GREAT and in the old Arabic tongues: Allah Akbar.
So be it. LORD GOD is great and sees all.
from: Petals Volume 2 - Discovering
Real time stories. (much behind with them all)

Children Cried, Children Died - Extracts

COPYRIGHT
Inspired by Deuteronomy 32:1-43
Holy Confession instituted by LORD GOD - Elohim - YHWH
for HIS children.
This some extracts from the 4th session.

I've never had as much pleasure working on music as when this came to me, and sure had a few bouts against evil trying to rob me of time to work on it. The fourth session was a total of 212 measures with various voices where I've spent just over 12hrs by then.

The 7th session has far more voice already and I still need to finalize percussion.

Photograph was taken shortly after a large flagpole at my northern home was taken down some years ago... It was almost as high as the house. Alpha and the OMEGA.... LORD GOD is the highest deity and does have the last say, Man only has a last chance. By the time I got my camera, the perfectly formed Omega cloud had already been blown into this shape.

Confession Of A Child Of YHWH (extracts, 4th session)

Feeling in touch with another poet and musician who loved and worshiped GOD the Holy, it just happened to also give a voice in music from my side to this beautiful song of an acestor.

When you love YHWH the living GOD and know HIS perfect love and care and see how HE guides you, then you do dance and sing with a joy which is almost unworldly.

I can imagine David as a young boy herding his father's flocks - how he had to shoo off beasts, chatted with birds and other animals and learning from this beautiful nature the greatness of its Creator. Because I love the purity in Creation. Sadly, it is being destroyed by Man.

But we'll sing on because GOD is eternal and so it shall be to all the goodness to become again....

Psalm 92 (extracts)

This music came to me as a vision of being there. An inspiration that I serve a powerful GOD.

Song Of The Exodus

Composer of the Namibia National Anthem by Axali Doëseb and I couldn't resist to improvise, adding African sounds and beats to this beautiful national anthem of a beautiful country where I lived for around 10 years.
♫Namibia, land of the brave♫

Dawn Els

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