Very enjoyable take on this timeless song. Love the relaxed and smokey ambiance. Wonderful :-)

Just take your time girl, and sing (or should I say "SANG") the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWAH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely "BEAUTIFUL"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blues

quietly

So fortunate to work with Sukhwinder, an amazing vocalist from the UK.
Sukhwinder Flora: Lead vocals and harmonies
Greg Hurley : instrumentation / Slide guitar, Acoustic guitar, Synth, bass and drum programing. Mix and Mastering
Written by Bob Dylan

Video on YouTube.
  https://youtu.be/zaWJD0NyYRQ

Please visit Sukhwinder's Sound Cloud page! link below
https://soundcloud.com/floras-1

All Along The Watchtower / featuring Sukhwinder Flora / Video link below

video games- lana del ray cover

Heaven adores you (new song)

Matrix
Are you sure this line is clean ? 
Welcome  Neo.
As you know doubt of guest, I 'am Morpheus.
I imagine, that right now you're feeling,  a bit like Alice. 
Trembling down, in the rabbit role, I can see it in your eyes.
I you have a look of a man, how excepts what he sees, because   he is expecting to wake up.
I know exactly what you mean, there's something wrong in the world, you don't know what it is, but is there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.  
It is this feeling that has brought you to me, the Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, even now, in this very room, you can, feel it ! 

It is the world, that's been pulled into your eyes, to blind you from the truth. What truth ?

Morpheus believes he is the one.

Do you believe in faith ?  No ...
Do you know what I'm talking about ?  He is the one!
Let me tell you why you are here.
 You are here because you know something. He is the one!
What you know you can't explain.  No...
Do you want to know?  He is the one!
What it is ?  Matrix !  He is the one!

You are a slave Neo, like everyone else you were born into bondage.
Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. 
A prison for you mind. You have to let it all go Neo.
I'm trying to free your mind, but I can only show you the door !   
Unfortunately no one can be told what the Matrix is.
You have to see it for yourself !
I can't go back.  No. 
 But if you could, would you really want ?

Morpheus believes he is the one.

Do you believe in faith ?  No ...
Do you know what I'm talking about ?  He is the one!
Let me tell you why you are here.
 You are here because you know something. He is the one!
What you know you can't explain.  No...
Do you want to know?  He is the one!
What it is ?  Matrix !  

What is this place ?
More important that what, is when. 
I can't tell you exactly what year it is, because we honestly don't know.
There's nothing I can say that will explain it for you Neo.
I thought it was real !
What is real ?  How you define real ? 

Morpheus believes he is the one.

I know you're out there. 
I can feel you now. 
There's something wrong !
I know that you're afraid.
He is the One.
You're afraid of us.
you're afraid of change.
I don't know the future. 
Matrix !
There's something wrong !
He is the One !

Where do we go from now, it's a choice that I leave to you..


Matrix (FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT)

Vocal: Flora Sukhwinder @floras-1
www.facebook.com/sukhwinder.flora?pnref=story
Original track: Floras-1 – Summertime-cover-acapella
Piano & Vibraphone: Damien Riba @damien-riba

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"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP. The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". The song is recognized as one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers. (Wikipedia)

Summertime (Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) S. Flora, D. Riba

My Jazz cover of the very beautiful "When I Fall In Love" .
Written by Victor Cole and Edward Heyman and made famous by both Doris Day and Nat King Cole. 
Painting - "Piano Man" by Richard Blunt
Enjoy XXX

When I Fall In Love

I present for you a VERY loose jazz adaptation of the Ivory Watson and William Best song , I Love You For Sentimental Reasons.

All you need to know about "For Sentimental Reasons"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I_Love_You)_For_Sentimental_Reasons
Enjoy XXX

For Sentimental Reasons

Thinkin Of A Chance W You

I present for you my version of the Jazz classic "I Blame It On My Youth".
Written by Oscar Levant and Edward Heyman in 1934. It has been covered by every famous Jazz artist there is. I hope i can be part of this wonderful tradition :-)

For my friends...Enjoy XX

Blame It On My Youth

This one is a favorite from 2013 by Science Teheran, The Monk By the Sea and me. It is one of the songs featured in By This River, a collaborative effort that also includes a lovely piece, Elegy No. 3 by Milana Zilnick! https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik 
You may find the Lantern playlist on Bandcamp: 
https://themonkbythesea.bandcamp.com/album/lantern
Please enjoy!

soundcloud.com/themonkbythesea - guitar
@scienceteheran - keyboards
@faerytale - lyrics and vocals

Latern

Elegy 2

I present for you my version of the beautiful "Far Away Places"
Written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer and published in 1948.
It has been recorded by many people over the years , most notably - Bing Crosby , Perry Como ,Glenn Miller and Dinah Shore.

Enjoy XXX

Far Away Places

I present to you my version of the seminal 1930's classic, "Georgia on My Mind" .
Written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) and first recorded that year. It has often been associated with Ray Charles, a native of the U.S. state of Georgia who recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road.

Enjoy XXX

Georgia On My Mind

Recorded at The Universe in Verse 2018: https://www.brainpickings.org/the-universe-in-verse/

For poem text, context, and the story of how Carl Sagan may have inspired Angelou's poem, go here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/09/a-brave-and-startling-truth-maya-angelou/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

The Universe in Verse: Janna Levin reads "A Brave and Startling Truth" by Maya Angelou

Autonomy

Checkout my album on Bandcamp http://riverflora.bandcamp.com/album/river

Find me @sensatonia

https://folio.procreate.com/riv3r

https://www.artstation.com/riverflora


All recordings are done on my iphone upto Feb 2015 and iPad after,  Enjoy xx 


‘..Sukhwinder Flora exposes realms of existence that are trapped between yesterday and the present. Her Poetry has the authority of urban legends that have been carried on the wind for centuries. Flora's verse is ripe with borrowed wisdom and discernment about a crumbling - yet still intact - humanity. And in between each line is the very breath of the individual in isolation who walks through the realms, collecting the lost artifacts that connect the self of yesterday, today and tomorrow to the spirits who paved the way.' 
Pink Panther Magazine 

'Sukhwinder Flora's poetry feature, "Carried in the Wind" exposes realms of existence trapped between the past and present. In the spirit of an urban legend storyteller, Flora writes with discernment and wisdom beyond her years.' 

Jenifer DeBellis, Executive Editor, Pink Panther Magazine, Issue 21, 

'Folklore meets the supernatural connection is the rhythm of Flora's poetry and art. Her ability to borrow from the wisdom within legend, while unveiling her own discernment of humanity manages to pull a reader into the very heartbeat of a dismantled human condition from a fascinating perspective' - Jenifer DeBellis, Executive Editor, Pink Panther Magazine 2011 and 2012

Issue 21 weaves together a disparate collection of art and writing that give testimony to the universal spirit of woman.

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++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Summertime (Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) S. Flora, D. Riba

✨Sukhwinder Flora ✨

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