ususaly when a song is new like this ...I delete and change quite a few words until I get the phrasing right for the mood I'm looking for. This one is only hours old ...so there will be quite a bit of refinement as my voice is able to handle the twists and turns of the melody ...but for now ... It's something i can listen to and work out the bugs / listen, comment, ideas welcome ...big galf in the last part ... but i dont have voice left to retry

Morning or covid, great track and a great vocal Doug

Fab Songwriting, Doug, and I actually like the Songwriter rawness and feel of this Work in Progress. I can absolutely hear what a gem it is in this format and how it will sound when you more fully produce it too. Sometimes, less is more, too, my Friend. This is solid stuff! Enjoyed.

Another great song Doug , even Covid cant hold you back ...:-))) Johnny

fading mirage

Sketch   # 1 for BATWA

This is a weird one!

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 8 15

Artwork by: June 🖼💚🎶
“Dear Dad….”

Mixed media: pencil, ink, and watercolor markers

(Second piano lesson/ May 2022)

“Beyond the Notes” - Miss Heidi & June - age 11 (improvisational duet)

Open collab - https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen/please-change-my-battery-prototype
by https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming
Special thanks to Sonic Kitchen for offering up another great open collab!

Sonic Kitchen - Please Change My Battery (Open Collab) 🔋

Elle Balance Les Porcs

WHAT IF WE JUST LOVE by Doug Roossien 8-25-2022
Extremely rough …song began a few hours ago 10 am this morning (12:59) now
replaced 930 am next day 8-26-2022 again rough but more refined
Aug 27 / quite a few words to be refined ...nothing totally locked in / I hope eventually this will be a romantic classic / moonlight on the lakeside haha

Let’s hold hands in this sunset,... we walk along these waters 
Quite waves, so peaceful now,... as they tremble to the shore 
Listen to the sounds ... fading… sunset turns to moonlight 
Hoping there was time enough to kiss 
Looking in your eyes asking now ...what if we just love? 

Let’s sit here on this park bench…watch the boats beneath the starlight 
Let everything between us disappear from where we are          
Let’s pretend were not afraid … that we might go too far 
Or there might not be time enough to try 
I’m looking in your eyes and asking now…what if we just love? 

TIME HAS NO DISTANCE, I AM ,...WE ARE 
YOU HELD MY HANDS ,… I HELD YOU IN MY ARMS
THAT MOONLIGHT’S LOOKING DOWN,...YOU’RE SENDING ME YOUR LOVE 
AND MY SOUL IS CLIMBING LADDERS TO YOUR HEART 
THERE WAS NO DISTANCE …IN OUR EYES ,...SOMEHOW WE MADE LOVE 


Now tonight, the sky is calling ,… like most nights we're apart 
and regrets keep adding up, like broken China on my heart          
I won’t pretend that there was nothing … still remember you that night 
I could feel your love was written in your eyes 
tonight I’m looking at the stars and asking now…what if we just loved? 

TIME HAS NO DISTANCE, I AM ,...WE ARE 
YOU COULD BE HALF-A-WORLD AWAY TONIGHT,...STILL FEEL YOU IN MY HEART 
IT’S LIKE THAT MOONLIGHT’S LOOKING DOWN,...AND SENDING ME YOUR LOVE 
AND MY SOUL IS CLIMBING LADDERS TO ABOVE 
TIME HAS NO DISTANCE …SO TONIGHT ,...WHAT IF WE JUST LOVE 
WHAT IF WE JUST LOVE  
(I’m looking at the stars and asking now…what if we just loved? )

this is so rough ...made some mistakes ...but my voice is so very fragile and one or two tries is all I'm going to get ...and the song needs fine tuning ...since it's so new (I like to treat the melody better than this is ...but I have to be patient I guess

WHAT IF WE JUST LOVED 8 - 26 - 2022 (VERY ROUGH 2nd TAKE)

Electric Music

Countryside Astronaut

The last bird call is a chickadee.
IllustAC　Clip art of snake by acworks
Music video https://youtu.be/FWGQ_ncBacw

Organ and Snake

Don't wanna get used to this

YOUTUBE VIDEO......"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYHjxPPBgc 
YOUTUBE VIDEO(NEW) ... "POCKETFUL OF LIES "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9vAZQgmN4

SOMEDAY THE WEIGHT OF THIS YEAR ON MY LIFE WILL BE AN ALBUM FULL OF PAIN,... BUT, RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE I'M CENTRALLY LOCATED IN HELL

1987 WENT TO Nashville for a “short week” Music row to make the big time … wow … nobody listens in lawsuit land in those days. 1988 WENT TO NASHVILLE for 3 days (surely, I would crack this puzzle and become famous …) so many on benches in front of churches. Frustrated, didn’t sing publicly again basically for 25 years. (after all, where would a singer/song writer, make a name for himself in Karaoke land).
2010 discovered open mics (new world begins). WRITING SINCE …a lot! Had someone to produce me in limited acoustic style for a couple years…I think a few were damn good “Fields of Quiet Soil”. Had a lot of offers to write lyrics and/or sing for a lot of other artists here. (but no recording capability …let alone a decent computer for my own. TODAY, THINGS CHANGE …I’m here to make an impact (got 4 new ones under my belt recently) …plus some old ones you will not be disappointed listening to. Welcome old music fans and artists., potential serious collabs.
I’m locked and loaded this time!
FB Doug Roossien

WHAT IF WE JUST LOVED 8 - 26 - 2022 (VERY ROUGH 2nd TAKE)

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