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1st release from my upcoming acoustic instrumental album.

Alon Barak-Acoustic Guitars,Mandolin,Backing Vocals.

Recorded&Mixed by Alon Barak at Alon's home stUdio.
Mastered by Yoram Vazan@Firehouse studio-Tel Aviv.
Cover Photo by Haarmonica Art.
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Core Values

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Alon Barak-Acoustic Guitar
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Becoming Melody

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Produced and Mixed by Hayden Calnin
Mastered by Andrew Edgson at Studio301

Justin Lewis playing some g tar 
Ruby Whiting on backing vocals.

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Sense of Home

Odessa, can't you see?
You were meant for me
and I was meant for you
How I have broken back and knees
Just to find the means
To come into your room
And there I'd stay

Now I would never ask you why
Your loyalty lies
With someone that ain't you
But we both like finer things
And in between the sheets
Is where I will find you

Take me back
To the train to where you're at
I'll be coming there real soon
All broken down, I call to you
That they beat my like a drum
She says "come inside my chosen one"
And I will come right back to thee
Odessa, can't you see?

Now you seem now quite confused
Moneys not the truth
And I've got needs
But soon, I'll be coming through
I'll do what I must do
To get into that room

Take me back
To the train to where you're at
I'll be coming there real soon
All broken down, I call to you
That they beat my like a drum
She says "come inside my chosen one"
And I will come right back to thee
Odessa, can't you see?

Times they're hard now
The rain just falls down
And wash away my seed
You could ease my mind now
Lay yourself down
One time for me

Now you don't answer my calls
They're closing in these walls
And I've got needs
But soon I'll be coming through
I'll do what I must do
To get into that room

Take me back
To the train to where you're at
I'll be coming there real soon
All broken down, I call to you
That they beat my like a drum
She says "come inside when the money comes"
And I will come right back to thee
Odessa, can't you see?

Take me back
To the train to where you're at
I'll be coming there real soon
All broken down, I call to you
That they beat my like a drum
She says "come inside when the money comes"
And I will come right back to thee
Odessa, can't you see?

Odessa EP

Odessa

This little tune popped out today, inspired by this sudden winter blast. Rough as. Don't listen too hard. Lotsa blemishes. Gets the point across as far as a demos go. Hope you enjoy it. Unmastered. Barely mixed.

Quilts And Pillows - Rough as guts demo

Recorded with a Takamine acoustic guitar (Edward) and a laptop in my little basement studio...............

A few months ago I came across an acoustic musician named Jon Gomm playing his song 'Passion Flower'. What this gentleman could do with a guitar was simply amazing!
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw
His use of the instrument in unconventional ways to produce music inspired me to really start from scratch, practicing every way I could think of to produce sound from the guitar.
The most challenging part has been adding in percussive beats while playing and learning to play up and down the neck overhand while all the fingerings are backward.............This is my first stab at pulling together everything I have been playing with for the past month into a song. Hope you like it ;-)

"In The End"

Why do we wait to say
What we want to say
Would it really matter anyway
Why do we wait to see 
Who we want to see
Are we really that busy anyway

In the end
What we were fighting for
Won't matter anymore
In the end
What will become of us
Just a pile of dust
In the end
Back where we all begin
All alone again
In the end

Why do we wait to be 
What we want to be
Would it really matter anyway
Why do we wait to go
Where we want to go
Are we really that busy anyway

In the end
What we were fighting for
Won't matter anymore
In the end
What will become of us
Just a pile of dust
In the end
Back where we all begin
All alone again
In the end


In The End

Recorded with a Takamine Acoustic guitar (Edward) and a laptop in my little home studio...........

I wrote this song for a dear friend that has been going through a hard time and has been on my mind a great deal lately...........No words on this one.......just my feelings expressed through the guitar...........Smile :-)

You can watch the music video for this song here: https://youtu.be/ITnEzTUvsFE
~SC~

Smile

A nice early October Sunday afternoon.  The sweet sounds of the recently restrung Dobrato guitar mixes with that infernal bird and a car that slips quietly by a couple times.  A consistent tempo is not what it's all about.

Dobrato Rubato On Mellow Street

An upbeat romp through dropped-D tuning on a Larrivee acoustic guitar (AKA "Larry").  Recorded inside on the "virtual porch" due to uncooperative weather...

Larryville

Acoustic guitar, music and concept by: Saving Change
(https://soundcloud.com/saving-change)
Lyrics and vocals by: FaDE
(https://soundcloud.com/fa-d-1)

I originally wrote "Bloom" as an instrumental about the different seasons of life. I cannot begin to express how much it means to me that Fa found beauty in the music and has added so much more through her wonderful words and voice!!! Thank you so much!!!

“Bloom”
One step at a time
First to learn to fall
One step at a time
Before you learn to walk

Look at me, on my new bicycle
Look at me, I am the king of the world
Kissed Knees from pebbles on the ground
I’m getting older if I don’t cry, and I smile
I’m growing up like a bloom into the light

Then to learn to dance in the sunlight
A few stolen kisses in the shade
I’m growing up with the love that I’ve met
I’m growing up in the laughter, in the pain
No matter if the tears are flooding the sand
Which feeds me

One step in time 
One step in time
One step in time
One step in time
I want to dance in the sunlight

Look at me now I’m old and faded
Look at me….in my eyes, the past so far away
I underwent so many thunderstorms
Now I’m older, no I don’t cry……..I’m reborn
I don’t want to wilt like a bloom into the dark




Bloom ~ Vox / Feat. FaDE

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LITTLE DRAGON - TWICE
DONNIE & JOE EMERSON - BABY
LITTLE DRAGON - SCRIBBLED PAPER
GAYNGS - THE WALKER
SEAFAULT - Cornfields
GARDENS & VILLA - CARRIZO PLAIN
POPULOUS - Zodiac
AMANANZ - KHALA MY FRIEND
ELECTRIC PRESIDENT - white noise
GAYNGS - THE GAUDY SIDE OF TOWN
SAROOS - Dubstar
HERE WE GO MAGIC - OVER THE OCEAN
BOBBY & BLUMM - Take a Sip
Low Roar - FRIENDS MAKE GARBAGE ( GOOD FRIENDS TAKE IT OUT )
B.FLEISCHMANN - ALDEBARAN WALTZ
ZERO 7 - distractions
GUTHER - Glide
NOUVELLE VOGUE - MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL
THE WOODEN BIRDS - Afternoon In Bed 
Soley - Pretty face
BUTCHER THE BAR - Bee to Honey
Soley - the sun is going down II
MASHA QRELLA - Pink Frost
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET - Anything Could Happen
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
CAT POWER - CROSS BONES STYLE
EMILIANA TORRINI - SPEED OF DARK
CAT POWER - SAY
EMILIANA TORRINI - AUTUMN SUN 
THE XX - INFINIY
FINK - SAVE IT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE
THE XX - CRYSTALISED
MUM - The Caorful Stabwound
IRON AND WINE - Singers and the Endless Song
FAT FREDDY´S DROP - SOLDIER
Thievery Corporation ft. Lou Lou Ghelichkhani - NO MORE DISGUISE
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And Now For Something Completely Different...

Co-produced by Andrew Samuel and Ryan Brennan.  All the main instruments were tracked in Andrew's house using natural reverb. First song from a forthcoming EP (Hissing Bitterness) due for release late August. 

Lyrics: 

Where does this begin.
The page is on the table and I look up at you.
Your eyes are brown, the room in your command.

She says what are you thinking, I’m thinking of going home.
And I don’t feel I have to be someone around you,
You always gave me that.

And all of a sudden
You look sadder than I’ve ever seen
You’re smiling at me

And all of a sudden
I think maybe I’ll only ever love you
I think of the years to come, and wishing I was here again
Making mistakes.

Funny I care now, sitting here with nothing owing
The last stage in giving up.
It happens in reverse.

She says change comes, and I’ve never seen her wise
It can seems hard just to know your own nature
And I say the strangest things, it must be to keep this memory breathing

And all of a sudden
You look sadder than I’ve ever seen
You’re smiling at me

And all of a sudden
I think maybe I’ll only ever love you
I think of the years to come, and wishing I was here again
Making mistakes.

Hissing Bitterness

Sitting Here with Nothing Owing

On My Way Home

Written in a hotel room in Austin, Texas and recorded in my small home studio using a Fender Acoustic guitar (Lucy) through a Fishman Loudbox and Fender Acoustisonic amplifiers.

I was recently back on the road with a stop in Austin Texas........checked into room #1601 at the downtown Hilton and being completely exhausted, I crashed for the night. Around 2:00am I woke up to the blinding street lights below shining through the window. As I crawled out of bed to close the curtains I noticed to my left was the State Capitol building surrounded by all the downtown buildings and trappings of "Success" while to my right was the highway overpass, under which a single homeless gentleman was sleeping wrapped in a blanket on the concrete support of the bridge.
Such a stark contrast of situations and at the same time, here we were on opposite sides of the glass but both yearning for home.
I picked up my guitar and this song came out as I watched over this man through my window pane that night..........16 floors over his bridge, but both homeless...............

"16 Floors"
Can you see me here
Staring down from this window
From this window pane
I can see your pain
Does your family know where you are
Or do they even care
You sleep on concrete pillows
In your worn out clothes
Is it cold tonight
Will you be alright

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight

Is it luck or a twist of fate
Do we even know 
Another time, another place
You could be my own shadow
Well it seems we’re both drifting
One nothing, other everything
But it doesn’t even matter
Both still searching for something
Does it seem cold tonight
Will we be alright

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight


16 Floors

I Won't Be Here

Recorded live at the Marriott Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA on September 12, 2016
Guitar: Martin 000X1AE Custom X Series (Katherine)

Lavender originated in a very personal way. This past Christmas, our middle daughter Kelley had asked for an easel with some canvases and paints. After breakfast on Christmas day I was working on a new piece of music with a new guitar as she set up to paint on the other side of the room. Over the next couple of hours her painting developed into a beautiful tree with purple leaves and as I watched her paint, the lyrics for the song I was working on begin to form. In the end we will never know how the developing music may have inspired her painting in the same way the developing painting inspired the lyrics, but this song and my daughter's painting are forever intertwined. This beautiful painting now hangs on my bedroom wall and is the first thing I see every morning when I wake up! "An empty canvas is all the color that you need, and you can be anything you want to be"..................................

"Lavender"
An empty canvas
Is all the color that you need
And you can be
Anything you want to be
So close your eyes 
And tell me what you see
If you could be
Anything
Hmmm……..As for me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me
So paint your picture
Hang it on the wall
Tell your story
No Boundaries at all
Endless colors of what you could be
Feels like Lavender to me

We all start this life
Out in Black and White
And we can be
Anything we choose to be
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see
If we could be
Anything
Hmmm.......As for me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me
So paint your picture
Hang it on the wall
Tell your story
No Boundaries at all
Endless colors of what you could be
Feels like Lavender to me

Smells like lavender to me
Tastes like lavender to me
Sounds like lavender to me
Feels like lavender to me


Lavender

Stay

I really want you
It's been this way for some time
And I wanna need you
You help me better my time

We're not gonna wait
I don't wanna see it, no
We're leaving today
I don't wanna hear it
Don't tell me 
All I see are the dreams
We're not gonna wait
No we're leaving today

I wanna feel this
Deep in the pit of my chest
And I'm slightly nervous
You bring me bottles of best

We're not gonna wait
I don't wanna see it, no
We're leaving today
I don't wanna hear it
Don't tell me 
All I see are the dreams
We're not gonna wait
No we're leaving today

And I saw you when you came
Through the bustle of my brain
And I see you there
But I don't see, I just stare

Then she said...

I really want you
It's been this way for some time
And I wanna need you
You help me better my time

We're not gonna wait
I don't wanna see it, no
We're leaving today
I don't wanna hear it
Don't tell me 
All I see are the dreams
We're not gonna wait
No we're leaving today

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