Spiritual II (part 7)

Our first fully recorded song. Mixed and mastered by GrevusAnjl. Find his incredible music here: https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl

A huge thank you to GrevusAnjl, not only for mixing and mastering this track, and the endless help and advice he's given us throughout this process, but also for giving us permission to actually tell people he did so. :D

The Single

Somethin' Creepin' (Single)

Buy on Bandcamp

Lady Of Fire Poetry - Vocals & Lyrics
Original Track https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire/if-i-were-god-psychadelic-version
Dariusz Jackowski - Melodica https://soundcloud.com/dariusz-jackowski-1
Cover Pic - https://soundcloud.com/user-982980686
MOSNAR DET - Bass, Electric Piano, Remixing, Drum Programming
Special thanks to Lady Of Fire Poetry for letting me remix this great track! check out her profile. https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire

Lady Of Fire Poetry - If I Were God (MZRPKLPS RemiX)feat Dariusz Jackowski

Piano & Ambient Sounds: Jan Schonander @thegats
Violin & Cello: Carolyn Barela https://soundcloud.com/cjsongs-1

The story of a summer fling, a chance encounter, light and sweet love, passionate romance...and over as swiftly as it started, leaving memories to last a long winter.

Summer Fling

Summer Fling | Carolyn Barela 🎻

The story about this track is simple -- made a drum track for a friend, but it got rejected ("too harsh"). Self confidence went to the bottom, and the voices in my head were insisting to produce something extra harsh. Music indeed is a good therapy. Anyway, this all wouldn't have happened if I just went to the zoo as originally planned for that day.

Fun fact: I have been owning a Microkorg for some 15 years, and this was literally the first time I had used its inbuilt vocoder. It even shipped with a swan neck microphone; it sounds exactly as terrible as it looks (and the more I keep staring at it, the more it resembles the weapon used for colonoscopy).

Should Have Gone To The Zoo

Music composed and piano performed by https://soundcloud.com/tom-r-gnier 
Stratocaster Guitar performed by https://soundcloud.com/juswel 
Vocal, bass, Organ, mix and lyrics by https://soundcloud.com/conover 
© 2020 Conover/Régnier
I know just where your walking at night
I know just why you look at me
I'm the guy who want to talk to you
and walk with you
and I don't know just what brought us here

Stay Inspired.....

Talk With You, Walk With You..... (Conover/Régnier/Welin)

Pandemic /Plandemic/ Financial Meltdown/ Staggering Unemployment, Just be a good citizen and Take The Pain.

Dont Complain Take The Pain

Level One Up / IPG kindly let me collaborate with him on his awesome track , Go follow and listen to his hot sounds :- https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
Lyrics:-
We've always been together
Connected from the start
They've kept us in a prison
To keep us all apart

Hope and justice
In a world that's fake
Release perceptions
And we all escape
Look inside yourself 
And feel the shake
Come together
We can all awake

Don't matter where you begin
To expand your consciousness
OOH you'll feel the change
Its dimensional
Higher , Higher

We've always been together
Connected from the start
They've kept us in a prison
To keep us all apart

Hope and justice
In a world that's fake
Release perceptions
And we all escape
Look inside yourself 
And feel the shake
Come together
We can all awake

Level One Up / winkandwoo 2020

All Awake - Level One Up Ft. winkandwoo

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/them-hybrid-folkFrom the album “Them Hybrid Folk”- 

Please listen with patience- this is not just an a cappella track. There are surprising things in store on the journey Home. :)

Mood Exhibit - Hōm

"A musical vision of Autumn, a time of year when change is in the air. Mellow days and vivid colours give way to darker nights, rain storms and misty mornings. As the season moves on, a hint of Winter arrives with colder nights and frosty mornings"

Description

Autumn, finds me trying to express, in music, my feelings about this season. Below is a attempt at doing this in words too. This is the second of hopefully four orchestral pieces that describe the four temperate seasons of the year.

If you want to hear other pieces from the series "The Wheel Turns" after listening to this piece, the links are here :-

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-wheel-turns

The Wheel Turns Orchestral Suite - YouTube playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQkE1sMc-t1sixu4RmJmjyFr0HF6dnUF2

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Autumn
The majesty of Summer has now faded. Leaves, once so green, now a myriad of fading colours as Mother Nature withdraws her life-giving hand.

The weather is changing too. Strong winds and blustery days jostle with times of calm reflection, as you take a little wander through the woods.

The squirrels are busy, as are the birds, as some prepare for darker times whilst others set forth on their migrant flights.

For Autumn knows, whilst man often forgets, that change is in the air.

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Instrumentation

Con Sordino and 8ve strings (Albion One - Spitfire)
Viola Ensemble (Chris Hein Strings)
Violin Spiccato (Albion One - Spitfire)
Low Strings Cello & Bass(Chris Hein Strings)
Pizzicato Strings (Albion One - Spitfire)
Oboes (Chris Hein Winds)
English Horn (Chris Hein Winds)
Barock Bassoon (Chris Hein Winds)
Flute (Chris Hein Winds)
French Horn (Chris Hein Brass)
Trombone (Chris Hein Brass)
Low Brass Dirt Growl (Chris Hein Brass)
Timpani Rolls and Strikes (Kontakt Factory Library)
Bass Drum (Kontakt Factory Library)
St Peter's Choir (Halion -Steinberg)
Shevannai vocal library (Eduardo Tarilonte)
Bell Tree (Flying Hands Percussion)

Variety was the key to this piece with it almost compartmentalised into different sections to reflect this changeable season.

The initial section what I call 'the walk in the woods section' depicts the fading grandeur of Autumn before moving into a time of relative calm. This is followed suddenly by a storm section featuring a vocal line as the wind, pizzicato strings as the rain and timpani and brass as the thunder. The final section is almost melancholic, reflecting the withdrawal of nature before dying down to a misty stillness with a hint of Winter just around the corner. In fact the end section features a motif from my piece Winter so it acts as a bridge to that piece.

The Wheel Turns

Autumn

Written and recorded 1st December 2020

This week I only just learned of the passing of one of my favourite musicians on Soundcloud, Jim Horbett. Jim originally went under the monicker 'Local Man' and posted many wonderful songs, some of which are available on Bandcamp, but some are (as far as I know) only available here on SC.

Jim joined the Seattle Colonels of Truth a few years ago, but it was with his pals Daniel Ullom and Forrest Marowitz that he formed the Rain City Ramblers, a stunning 3-piece playing a mixture of their own material and traditional American roots music, including some of Jim's own pieces that he debuted here, such as Holiday and Suburban Hellfire. 

Jim's music was a great source of inspiration and one of his last posts on SC was an experimental piece called 'There's No Constant', a haunting and brilliantly imaginative piece that I took as inspiration for one of my most recent songs, 'On The Waterfront'... indeed, the original working title of my tune was 'Jim's song'. Sadly, by the time I messaged Jim to let him know about the song, he had already tragically passed away from cancer, aged just 31.

RIP James, 1987-2019

Please check out his wonderful music here:

https://soundcloud.com/jameshorbett
https://raincityramblers.bandcamp.com/releases

Lyrics:
Jim was "Local Man"
A Rain City Rambler
Once a Colonel of Truth
Not long ago

Bluegrass fingerpicker
Buffalo troubadour
"Scuz King" magic maker
Not long ago

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Ramblin' Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

That square neck resonator
On "Queen of Revelry"
Rang like strains of heaven
Not so long ago

Bad News (Blues) came calling
like Suburban Hellfire
Too long for the season
Not long ago...

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Local Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

Local Man (Song For Jim Horbett)

Keeping on fiddling while Rome is burning. Some of my therapists say that music is sublimation which is a good thing.

Profile pic by Antonino Muscarello :-)

Should Have Gone To The Zoo

Florian Lüthi