What a really gorgeous folk song. Wow music, lyrics, vocals, mix is all so good. I think it's a whistle that is just such great ear candy floating around the track 😃

lovely music and a gentle heart-warming voice

This is a gorgeous and soul-searching collaboration.  Beautiful traditional instruments joined to lovely lyric and vocals. One cannot multi-task and listen with the heart; something this music demands.

well this is a natural pairing of talents for sure!!

Truly beautiful and really touches the heart. 💚

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Music & Lyrics Phil Dale
Guitar & Vocal Finn Eces @finn_eces

Watch the lyric video https://youtu.be/OD9hOQeyims

The true tale of Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant. (1761–1783)
Charles' "gentle, likeable nature inspired an immense public fondness, and his celebrity life was constantly splashed across the newspapers of the day. Byrne's great height was the result of a then-undiscovered growth disorder.
Byrne was living in London at the same time as the pre-eminent surgeon and anatomist John Hunter. Hunter had a reputation for collecting unusual specimens for his private museum, and Hunter had offered to pay Byrne for his corpse. As Byrne's health deteriorated, and knowing that Hunter wanted his body for dissection (a fate reserved at that time for executed criminals) and probable display, Byrne devised a plan. He made express arrangements with friends that when he died his body would be sealed in a lead coffin and taken to the coastal town of Margate and then to a ship for burial at sea. Byrne's wishes were thwarted and his worst fears realised when Hunter arranged for the cadaver to be snatched on its way to Margate."

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The Irish Giant (feat. Finn Eces)

Wonderful Times

Lessons

Melancholy Hill

Music by Philleann
Lyrics by Finn Eces
Performed & Produced by Phil & Finn

Honored to be working with @Philleann on another song. Thank you for sharing your music and trusting me to contribute to it.

Come the Spring

Come The Spring

I have no problem with masks :-) ... but what is about masks behind masks ? ..... dark synths featuring a hopeful sax ...... Except the drum loop its all original stuff ! ... and my artwork a collage from a photo by Michele Caliani on unsplash

anybody there ?

Llanpsych and Blue Al grow long beards and turn up the amps for this cover of Marvin Gaye's classic :))))
Blue Al - vocals and bass
Llanpsych - guitars and production

I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Llanpsych and Blue Al

DISTANT STORM
For three guitars

Having released my new album “Short Tales” last week packed with music for three acoustic guitars, this new piece could easily fit in that collection. 

Like the title suggests, this piece a brooding, mysterious sounding piece with some moments of release from tension. 

The lead guitar regularly escapes with improvised parts. In the accompaniment I use some typical flamenco percussive playing and tapped sounds to accent both rhythm and transitions. As usual my music uses different influences, however the influence of the guitar trio (DiMeola, De Lucia, McLaughlin) is apparent.

As always I really enjoy your likes, comments and shares!

-Dan

Data:
All music, arranging, composition & guitars by Daniël van den Berg, May, 2021
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch.
Photo edit by Dan van den Berg, 2021

Distant Storm

Distant Storm | for three guitars | Dan van den Berg

IPG1's open collab offer Inevitable with added psychstyle triphop vibes.
Hope you enjoy :)
Listen to the original here
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/inevitable-vocal-remix-88-bpm

Inevitable - IPG1 Collab

This is a cover of an old Al Stewart song, which I have liked for a long time. 
I am joined by the brilliant Mr Böhme https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme on soprano sax, casting his magic again!

My Enemies Have Sweet Voices

By Alistair Ian Stewart / Pete Morgan

Was in a bar called Paradise
When the fiddler from the band
Asked me "Why do you stand there crying?"
I answered him: "Musician, this may come as a surprise
I was trying to split the difference
And it split before my eyes
And my enemies have sweet voices
Their tones are soft and kind
When I hear my heart rejoices
I do not seem to mind"

I was playing Brag in Bedlam
And the doctor would not deal
Asking me: "Why do you kneel down there bleeding?"
I answered him "Physician,
I think you would have cried
I was falling back on failure
The failure stepped aside
And my enemies have sweet voices
Their tones are soft and kind
When I hear my heart rejoices
I do not seem to mind"

I was blind side to the gutter
And Merlin happened by
Asking me "why do you lie down there bleeding?"
I answered him "Magician, as a matter of a fact
I was jumping to conclusions
And one of them jumped back
And my enemies have sweet voices
Their tones are soft and kind
When I hear my heart rejoices
I do not seem to mind"

My Enemies Have Sweet Voices - with Georg Böhme (cover of a song by Al Stewart / Pete Morgan)

A warning sound
throw arms
lie awake
disappear in daydreams now

Hold your tongue
Light the match 
Tides will turn
so fill the rafts

And you take just what you can
Save yourself 
nowhere man
So just take what you can

Look away 
coup de grace
Featherweight
moved too fast

No I won't feel let down
Disappear in a crowd
and you take 
just what you can

Sing soft rains
we go quietly..

Coup de Grace

My new song! Still enjoying larger keyboard. 😊🎹 Thank you so much to my lovely Sander for another awesome mastering job. ❤️😊🎹🎼🎶🎤🎧🎵

Raising my smile

I've been in awe of Debra Buesking's music for a while, so what a joy and pleasure its been to collaborate with her on this track.  Debra took my simple little composition and dressed it up in the finest of clothes with some beautiful playing.  I was half tempted to release just the piano track!

Composed by Philip Dale & Debra Buesking

https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking

Aysgarth Falls are located in Yorkshire, England

Photo by Zo Razafindramamba - Unsplash

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Aysgarth Falls (feat. Debra Buesking)

So thrilled to have been able to work with the wonderful Suzanne Ledwith @suzanne-ledwith on this song.  What a beautiful and captivating voice!!
I also have to thank Peter @user-264930040 for collaborating with me on the lyrics. He has a masterful way with words, and imbued the lyrics with poetry and life!

The Glimmering Shore

They married in haste on a bright winter’s day 
Knowing the next tide would sail him away 
But he pledged his return come the warmth of the May
 And to wait for him there on the glimmering shore

High masted whaler, fading from view 
Beyond her horizon of shimmering blue 
Steeling her heart, through tearful adieu 
Set to wait for her love by that glimmering shore

May’s softness as swallows came dancing on air 
July blessed her life with his daughter so fair 
Then autumn winds rising, whispering despair 
While she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Darklings of winter, snow blankets the sand.
 Earth forged to ice, life stripped from the land. 
Daily returning, the horizon to scan 
To wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Weeks swelled to months that folded to years
 Hope’s light expiring, extinguished by fears 
And the salty sea roared and it crashed like her tears
As she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Like a ship gripped by tempest ne’er to break free
 Her heart imprisoned on a turbulent sea. 
No lighthouse of guidance to lead her to lee. 
She'd wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Vocal - Suzanne Ledwith 
Guitar - Philip Hitt
Lyrics - Philip Dale & Peter Keenan 
Music - Philip Dale

Picture by Lukas Robertson via unsplash.com

The Glimmering Shore (feat. Suzanne Ledwith)

Uilleann Pipes.(sekkepipe),  Whistle and Accordion : Phil Dale https://soundcloud.com/philleann
Piano , Cover design by Debra:  Debra Buesking https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli
I warmly thank Phil and Debra for this collaboration.
Like most people, I have heard this song many times, read the poem.
 But now I understand the depth of this poem, so sore and fragile. 
Thank you from heart Debra and Phil,  two wonderful musicians. A JOY.

If you need one poem for regrets in your life, then it must be this poem. 

Down by the Salley Gardens was written by W B Yeats (1889), who is generally known as one of Ireland’s greatest poets.

    Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
    She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
    She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
    But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

    In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
    And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
    She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
    But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

 Yeats published the poem in his collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889. 
In a note on the poem, he said that he was trying to reconstruct an old song he had heard being sung by a woman in the village of Ballisodare in Sligo.

Down by the Salley Gardens was written as a poem and remained that way until 1909 when Herbert Hughes set it to music using the old Irish melody, The Maids of Mourne Shore.

Salley Gardens. Debra Buesking. Philleann. Oddrun Eikli.

Big Storm Coming

Another collaboration with the amazingly talented violinist @rosindust

Inspired by medieval romanticism, and the tragic tale of Tristan & Isolde this composition is named after the Celt Princess.

Violin - Tatiana Makarova
Whistle, Ullieann Pipes, Accordion - Philleann
Composed by Philip Dale

Lady Islode

Lady Isolde  (feat. Rosin Dust) Remaster 2024

Composer/Producer blending folk melodies with neoclassical vibes, and cinematic verve, my work is a mix of original compositions and contemporary arrangements of traditional tunes.  I hope you enjoy the music! 

Philleann (pronouced PHILLY-ENN) is a mash up of my name Phil and one of the instruments I play, the Uilleann Pipes.  I also play the Whistle and Accordion.

I'm a Brit now residing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I'm also a member of Bellow Bridge a traditional celtic folk band.

Irish Musician & Singer Songwriter who decided a few years ago to start creating music again after many years of trying to ignore the call. I also decided to post whatever I created somewhere in case anyone cared to listen, even by accident! What I did not envision was finding a community of outstanding musicians, truly world class talent and fantastic people here on SoundCloud.

I never dreamed I would also have the opportunity to create music with some of these amazing people and it has been a true joy to be given the opportunity to work with some of these gifted generous people and make music I am so proud of. 

That’s me.

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