I like the chord progression. A good pop song

Great song! You have a great talent for melody and awesome production and vocals!👍✌🏼😎

Here is a new track written with a new collaborator, vocalist Elvya. @elvyadulcimer brings her wonderful heavenly vocals to this Celtic track and Jordi Storm lends his voice on harmony.  We hope Willows Waltz will transport you to a peaceful spring day, laying by a river bank under the gently swaying boughs of a willow tree.

Elvya - Vocals and Harmonies
Philleann - Music and Instruments
Jordi Storm - Harmony Vocal

Written by Philip Dale & Elvya

Willow's Waltz (Philleann & Elvya)

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A short hymn for this special day. Ave Maria, Gratia Plena.
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Piano Solo

Piano Solo No. 25

Guitar duo improvisation. An evening atmosphere.
Cover photo: Alain de Maximy©

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I think I fancied myself as something of a John Lennon when I wrote this, when I was 19, way back, at least I'm certain I had a particular song of his on my radar a lot back then.  If I remember rightly it must have been Jealous Guy - with that in mind I'm annoyed to see I've got "..... Guy" in my own title, but still, at least it's its own thing.  However, all the "nah nah" stuff was clearly, very clearly, inspired by a bunch of other 70s artists. 🤣

I'm conflicted about the arrangement on this one, though at times like it, but rather than just overthink it thought I might as well just upload it.  It's stripped back at the minute, and what I'm conflicted with is ideas I have around adding additional layers!

There's a lovely naivety evident in the lyrics, as if I'd somehow got to the bottom of it all in this moment! 


Lyrics

Time before the story every knew my name
Life so kind to me now nothing's quite the same
Days will come some days won't go
Most will scar you to the bone

I don't feel ready for that life that I don't know
The one i'll find

Guess I'm an ordinary guy
With ordinary dreams
In an ordinary world
With ordinary things

Na na...

Things unfold as I begin to cross the line
Tales untold to me I find along the ride
I won't pray but I can hope
Please no slip noose on my life long rope

I don't feel ready for that life that I don't know
The one i'll find

Guess I'm an ordinary guy
With ordinary dreams
In an ordinary world
With ordinary things

Ordinary Guy (1999)

BABYLON A.D. Aurora - Mary Goes To Jesus Remix

We Belong Together (Mariah Carey) [Greg's Mix]

Martin Garrix - In The Name Of Love (A V I O 7 Remix)

I've been writing songs for ages and ages, because it's something I enjoy doing, and that's about it. 

I've added dates to titles, however, these aren't always dates recorded, mostly just dates written because the original offerings, back then, had little to be desired with consideration to production values and all that stuff!  For the older tracks some tracks have the old backing with a modern vocal (often with a lyric rewrite), the original vocal with a new backing (when I could work with the original vocal, but not the original backing), the original song newly recorded in all areas, and less often the original vocal and backing, but with a few additions, "No" is one such example.  Otherwise, most of it is newer stuff, post 2018, and is as is, when written and recorded.    

I've had to re-record some things on account of my abilities to record demos and all that being very limited once upon a time.  

In the early days I only had a Farfisa F1 workstation thing (it's amazing what I managed to do on that), later an Atari ST, with Cubase 2 probably, a Proteus 2000, and Fostek 8 track recorder thing, and now I've got Native Instruments 14, and Cubase 12, in what amounts to an astonishingly good set up compared to my earlier resources, for about the same money as that older rubbish was back then. 

I still use the microphone I've had since I was 18, though did just recently upgrade that as well, however still pick up and use the old one, as it's still good - a Sure SM58 with a dent in it! My upgraded mic is a Sure SM7B, which is great, and I see it all the time on TV and podcasts, so must have made a good choice! 

My musical chops are focused on the piano, my main instrument, and the ukulele, which I play a lot as well.  Not doing a lot of piano-orientated songs at the moment, but I do sometimes, and mostly try to get the best out of my Native Instruments stuff.  I'm barely scratching the surface with all of the NI stuff I've got.

Ordinary Guy (1999)

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