Midnight Odyssey - Where Hope And Daylight Die (Homage to Summoning)

This is a backing track for a solo improv guitar performance I am putting together.  It is centered around D-major, but varies a bit between the key of G and D (except for the interlude).  You can play D-major pentatonic over everything but the interlude as a safe zone, but depending on where you are at in the song you can play D Ionian (major scale) or D myxolydian, with the only diff being the the 7th or flat 7th.  As neither of those notes are in the major pentatonic, it fits over all the chords.

At the interlude, I switch to the key of A and you'll want to play A major/D lydian over that section.

Sangre Stomp - Backing Track - 100bpm

immaculata - sanguis et cinis

Defiance

We are rolling the rock up a hill
To watch it roll down where it was before
Always rolling that rock up a hill
And sometimes that's hardly a metaphor

Then you stumble on a mode of resistance
That some others seem to know without thinking

The arrival at a style
Of defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance

This contract, it is sometimes insufferable
And despite that you're intended to suffer it all
The outlook predictably unpredictable
For a life's work that will recede to nothing at all

Can you summon up a show of resistance
Like some others seem to do without blinking

The survival of your trials
In defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance
Is the strategy to chose

To resist in the face of what's certain
May appear on the face of it worthless
But you're showing your disgust at the format
That you'll grant life some purpose despite that

I am offering this course of resistance
As the closest thing I've heard yet to wisdom

The survival of your trials
In defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance
On the only path we use

You don't have to stand for this
And you don't have to take it lying down either
You don't have to stand for this
And you don't have to take it lying down either

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Defiance (Edit)

desire

Verse 1]
Not in the thunder, not in the flame,
not in the echoes calling my name.
But in the stillness after the storm,

[ bridge]
I find a place where hearts stay warm.

[Verse 2]
No need for answers, no need to speak,
the soul remembers what words can’t reach.
A breath, a pause, a light unseen —
[ bridge]
and in that hush, I start to dream.

[Chorus]
🕯️ In the quiet, You are near,
soft as wind that I can hear.
Not far above, not deep below,
just in the space where silence grows.
Yes, in the quiet — peace flows.

[Instrumental interlude]
(piano loop, ambient reverb)

[Verse 3]
I used to chase the louder voice,
to run with fear, to cry by choice.
But now I sit, and now I stay —
and feel the dawn in every day.

[Chorus – with harmony]
🕯️ In the quiet, You are near,
soft as wind that I can hear.
Not far above, not deep below,
just in the space where silence grows.
Yes, in the quiet — peace flows.

[Outro – whispered]
Peace… not as the world gives…
but as the soul knows.


[ instrumental outro, piano solo ]

quaet in the night(silent of the arms)

Leave Me Behind

My cover of the song by Garbage. The second track of their 'Version 2.0' Album from 1998.

Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)

The Cranberries - Salvation

Lovesong from The Cure cover performed by some members of insonic.

Edie: vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard
Kakemi: bass, drums, backing vocals

Lovesong - The cure

I am a musician & producer with influences from rock, R&B, funk, metal, jazz, folk and Americana.  I enjoy making my own music, and collaborating with others.

Sangre Stomp - Backing Track - 100bpm

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