Rise

Video here 💜

https://youtu.be/G7je9x_x_0Y

A song I wrote with my dear friend Orla in mind and memories of our teenage years and the great times we had. sadly Orla left this world 7 years ago and left an empty space in many people's lives...
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Snowy bus rides, foreign scenes,
the way we laughed, hysterical teens,
singing "I don't belong here"
life is not what it seems.


ooh dancing in the long grass
ooh closing time.


Traffic lights, staying out all night,
scary stories, your eyes so bright.
Those empty spaces...
floating out of our sight.

ooh dancing in the long grass,
the fire inside fire inside, fire inside

oooh reflections of time..
oooh can't rewind...
reflections of time
can't rewind, when it's closing time.

reflections of time
can't rewind
when it's closing time.


Empty spaces...
Closing time.


Empty spaces (Adrian Smardzewski and Áine Parkes)

let me know what you think 
photograph taken in New Zealand in 2023

April 7 (Dub Mix)

Songwriter : David Gates \ ISWC : T-070.080.616-1
Publisher : Sony ATV Tunes LLC \ Released : March 21st, 1971
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Recorded : June 19th 2005
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Alas, it wasn't me who played the guitar!. I gave it up a very,
very long time ago. Besides,
I can't remember how to pluck the chords... 🙄😊😁
(I used to sing it and play guitar when I was young).

In fact it is a guitar sound from the synthesizer going
through a sound module. But no synthesizer guitar sound can
replace the real sound of a guitar... Maybe now...
With the new technology.
Besides you can hear that it is a bit machine.

There are imperfections, I recorded it in one take.
When I sing, I only have the feeling once,
so inevitably the wrong notes and the pronunciation
mistakes are in the “box” as they say.
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IF - Cover (Bread)

Taken from the 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon' series of tracks

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/beyond-the-veiled-horizon-series

Dee Zee and Mr B YouTube Channel 

https://www.youtube.com/@DeeZeeandMrB
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This track is part of an ongoing SoundCloud collaboration with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast Dave Zeitlin.

Be sure to check out more of his music here :- @dee-zee

Once again, one of his instrumentals entitled "Beyond The Veiled Horizon" conjured up some imagery that inspired me to try and add something to his original track. I was thinking 'Ethno-Prog' mixing Prog Rock with a World sort of feel. 

The title and music suggested to me the mysterious world of a desert landscape with it's rhythms and music and I had the famous Led Zeppelin 'Kashmir' in my head too. John-Paul Jones added a strings arrangement to that track and I thought I could try something similar.

Since it's Prog Rock I wanted to get my electric guitar out and I feel I came up with some phrasing and a scale that works for the idea. I particularly like the solo section at the end featuring Dave. I didn't want to tread on his toes so I went for more melodic held notes and panned myself hard left and right to keep the separation. 

I used a fair amount of more exotic instruments from various parts of the world. The Persian Ney, Kavali - an End Blown Flute and percussion from ancient Greece and the fairly rare Indian Kanjira that is like a small tambourine. A bell tree, cymbal and water pumpkins were added into the mix too.

Finally, I sang in some vocal lines that I felt helped add to the immersion after doing a bit of research about Moroccan vocal phrases. You can buy VST instruments with samples of them but I thought it was more fun to sing in my own and have more control over the finished article as a result.

Be careful out there ... who knows what you might discover.

Instrumentation 
Drone - Dee Zee
Drone and Chords - Dee Zee
String Synth Intro - Dee Zee
Brass-Like Synth - Dee Zee
Percussion Organ - Dee Zee
Main Synth - Dee Zee
8-bit Pattern - Dee Zee
High Voice Synth - Dee Zee
80's-Style String Chords - Dee Zee
Drum Kit - Dee Zee
Guitar-like Riff - Dee Zee

Seistron Percussion - MrBouzouki
Bell Tree - MrBouzouki
Kavali - End Blown Flute - MrBouzouki
Ney - Persian End Blown Flute - MrBouzouki
Shaker Percussion - MrBouzouki
Kanjira - Indian Hand Drum - MrBouzouki
Water Pumpkins - MrBouzouki
Strings (VSL Appassionata Violins) - MrBouzouki
Electric Guitar - MrBouzouki
Cymbal - MrBouzouki
Ending Hits - MrBouzouki
Sung Vocal Phrases - MrBouzouki

Beyond the Veiled Horizon - in collaboration with D Zeitlin

Made in 2023;
https://hega.bandcamp.com/album/world-after

World After

piano three

Cayo Coco

Lost love

NOBODY

Lyrics Gebed (by Blaffy)

The Delight Music Project
Producer: Mike Wornath
Vocals: Jenny Kershaw
Vocals: Mike Wornath
Label: Armaora Records