J’adore ce morceau. Je voyage avec vous…

What a beautiful ambiance ... superb piano and production

How did I miss this one? Excellent composition!

Wow, this is very nice. Don’t expect such a track. ❤️👍

Such a masterful soundscape youve created here

Just love the low end of this piano. Great ambience.

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Desiderium: noun meaning an ardent desire or longing
especially a feeling of loss or grief for something lost

Desiderium

Yoshi & Chie are friends of mine from Osaka, Japan, where I lived for a year back in 2002-03. They now live here in Toronro, where I got to know them while busking together on the street, and jamming at my house with a few other friends. Here's a medley of music from that day:
https://on.soundcloud.com/UtPSC

Yoshi is an incredibly talented and super creative sitar player, sometimes playing with a violin bow, or with trippy electronic effects. He participated in a performance of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band full album re-enactment here in Toronto several years ago. Together with wife Chie, who plays didgeridoo, sings, and plays various percussion and electronic effects, they form the group Kaminari. Kaminari is a very popular act performing at various music festivals around Toronto, with shows now including dancing performances by their daughter.

This is a song from their early album Triangle, where I was honoured to be asked to play the drum (djembe) part - the only other artist on the album. 

Here's a video of a show they did a while ago to give you a sense of their stuff. I just like to plug them cause they're a super nice couple and a joy to play with. 
https://youtu.be/xAsKFPaRp24?si=thr44agGgN1ZXWND

thanks for listening!

(Written by Yoshito & Chie Yamano)

Triangle

Running Carpet (Kaminari with mistermark)

Like a lunatic I dived into this 6x4 that would take me to a new day.
Picture: Tarsila do Amaral
Art with Canva

A LUA

Two short improvisations for this track....

LAST DRINK CLUB.

Instrumental & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Lyrics by Nadia Selvaggi

Esther by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Thanks to @david-dunhamuser589535203 for his continual mastering help and support.
I'm very grateful.

Night Train

YOU NEED SOMEBODY

In Astra

Here is a new composition about the simple fact of loving.  Once again I could find many reasons to Hate, but I choose Love.  It's more pleasant.

Voici une nouvelle composition sur le simple fait d'aimer.  Je pourrais encore une fois trouver de nombreuses raisons de Haïr, mais je choisis l'Amour.  C'est plus agréable.

Embrace the Winter

This is my new single. It’s about accepting life’s challenges, working through them and then using that learning to adapt and survive.  I’ve posted an earlier version here before but it’s remixed and mastered (RCD Audio). 
I hope you enjoy it. Take care. 
James
Lyrics:
My Uncertain Steps 

As a boy, I was scared of the sea
With my family, on a beach in Normandy, 
a French boy told me the ghosts of drowned sailors grab your legs and dragged you down
I wouldn’t go in! 
Too naive and trusting! 

As a teen, I was all over the place! 
Always confused, just didn’t know which way to face
Too many temptations, suggestions and thrills, distracting and wild
Couldn’t think straight 
Couldn’t concentrate! 

It was always their demands and directions 
Had to meet their dreams and expectations 

My uncertain steps
No confidence 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps 
At my own pace
(My way) 

My wreckage of a life, with this chaotic love
Constant demands, you can never do enough 
Mix in the bullies, the twisters and those egos too
It pulls you apart
Breaks your heart 

I’m seasoned, I now know this path
One crisis avoided, another starts 

My uncertain steps
More experienced 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps
At my own pace 
(My way) 

And now I expect to see the worst
In everyone and everything I know
Just know how it is, but feel I can somehow 
see it through

(outro) 
I’ve got friends (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve lived and learnt (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve got you (for my uncertain steps) 
I’ll get through this (my uncertain steps) 


James Whiteman copyright  18 January 2024

My Uncertain Steps (Single version)

Hypnagogia : the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. 

I have been continuing my mixing practice and trying to get better piano sounds with this one.

Thanks to Chris Adams for his creative input and for teaching me how valuable it is to take a step back now and again to evaluate my work before making any changes.  Thank you also Chris for polishing up my final master copy and making it "sparkle".

Hypnagogia

So finally, it has arrived. This one is almost a part two of my second to latest track called Fade To Grey On New Years Eve, which you can also find here on Soundcloud and on most other platforms as well!

So this is a story about a marriage gone wrong in every possible way, where one of the parties were dead serious about getting it to work and holding it together in every imaginable way, while the other part is more interested in revarding themselve on yours and others expense and behalf. 

I have tried to describe the narcissistic feelings and thoughts regarding the above and how it will affect your thinking and actions toward yourself and life in general. 

It's not an uncommon thing nowadays where everyone seems to get away with everything, even #murder, lies, and #drugdealing. 

and that what this story is about and the chorus referens about the fourth of july and why it's raining is something you have to figure out for yourself! 

Let's just say I left the bad hairday in the #Whitehouse referens out of the lyric for a reason. Otherwise, it would have been too obvious, don't you think! The land of gold and dreams seem pretty far away when you compare it to what it used to be. 

Anyway, please enjoy this track and all the others as well, and look me up on #spotify or #youtube as well if you feel like it. 

So it doesn't have a #hood feeling but rather a seens of knowing that you have slid down to an all time low but you not able to bring yourself up again.

This song was created using #bandlab #newmusic #storytelling #story #indierock #newsong #alternativemusic 

Causes And Exits

Special thanks to Ashesndreams for her acappella

Lyrics :
Baby no me pidas que me aparte
Yo ya te he buscado en todas partes
Solamente vengo a recordarte que estoy
Imaginandote
Una y otra vez
Que tu estas aqui conmigo
Acariciandome
No seas timido
Dejate querer
Que si dudas te prometo
Que vas a volver

No tengo miedo
Soy un kamikaze
Mi imaginacion se prende con lo que me haces
Diario yo te pienso
Te tengo en mis suenos
Eres el motor para escribir todos mis versos
No te voy a mentir te quiero todo pa mi

IMAGINANDOTE. 🎧.  feat  Ashesndreams

Ocean Ritual (PM 7967) 3:45 07-08-2025

Deep Sleep Seven

wavey twin

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

Best described as eclectic, my style is a soothing mix mirroring my personality: mostly mellow with the occasional outburst. Although I have a background in classical piano I have always loved to create and improvise.  Since early childhood I have been trying to duplicate on the piano what I hear in my head.  Now I see how formal studies and improvisation fit together perfectly. I hope to always keep growing and learning, reflecting the beauty of Christ in all my endeavors. Thank you for your kind listening.

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