My dude, this so good! This song hit me just right. Got goosebumps for real 🥰

Mesmerizing! It built up and then removed itself so well! I love the way the strings sounded with that layered part. And then the strings and the guitar together. Great work my brother!

We should all be able to say our last goodbye's .. some don't get the chance.
For the fallen of Ukraine  ...

Music, Arrangement, composition, mix and Production .. Pablo
© Retro-Tone

The Final Goodbye

"It's Hopeful Time Again" (v2, 2023)

A new version and arrangement of my earlier song, a.k.a. ”It’s Xmas Time Again”. I experimented with some different chords, inversions, voicings and chord progressions etc. and this is the result!

This was played by me using the Korg SGProX digital stage piano as a master keyboard. The main keyboard sound here is from the Yamaha Montage 8 (the great and ever so lovely Yamaha TX816 Electric piano performance which was converted from the original TX816 patch), layered with Gospel Musicians' Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2 (Dyno Rhodes) and Keyscape (Roland MKS-20). Other sounds that I have been privileged to use come mainly from the great UVI SonicPass instrument collection and the Arturia V Collection. The drums come from Native Instruments Abbey Road 80s Drummer. 

Recorded and mixed using Cubase Pro 13. Mixed with Cubase, with some very significant amount of help from iZotope Neutron 4. Mastered with iZotope Ozone 11.

Please take care of yourself and each other and please let us try to treat each other with due dignity and respect in this hopeful time of year.

It's Hopeful Time Again (2023)

adieu adieu

(em) back to balance 
a gate in the (c) day

(em) Ten of Swords
at the end of a (c) play

(g) (the) purpose of the (c) cross
(g) (the) pain of our (c) Lord

(g) I don’t know what I’m (c) doing 
or not (bm) doing, of (am7) course

(f) how to get back – (g) back to where? back to where?
(f) how to get back – (g) back to where

thy (c) plaintive (g) anthem (f) fades
(c) adieu (g) adieu (f) adieu
in (c) those next (g) valley (f) glades 
and (c) you and (g) you and (f) you

love to drift
through the clouds

far above
the worlds below

(the) blood of the lamb
(the) promise of the seed 

I don’t know what I’m thinking 
or not thinking, indeed

how to get back – back to where? back to where?
how to get back – back to where

thy plaintive anthem fades
adieu adieu adieu
in those next valley-glades 
and you and you and you

clock the seconds 
afore they go

reconnect 
to the flow

tender is the night 
on a winding mossy way

in love with easeful death 
yet still wanting to stay
how to get back – back to where? back to where?
how to get back – back to where

thy plaintive anthem fades
adieu adieu adieu
in those next valley glades 
and you and you and you

split the heart
of the tree

divided self 
one, two, three

(the) nightingale’s repose 
her last song on the air 

I don’t know why I’m sensing 
but not seeing the rose 

how to get back – back to where? back to where?
how to get back – back to where

thy plaintive anthem fades
adieu adieu adieu
in those next valley glades 
and you and you and you (et vous et vous et vous)

(fade out on adieu adieu adieu x 3)

NB
(uses some lines and variation of lines from Keats's Ode to a Nightingale: 'thy plaintive anthem fades'/ 'adieu adieu'/ 'next valley glades' / 'tender is the night' / 'winding mossy way' / 'in love with easeful death')

TASCAM DR-05

adieu adieu

Closing

(traduit plus bas)

According to the news I get
I would have deserted and left
The planet for a dark grave
But this is just an illusion
The foam out of our division
That comes and goes with the wave

We focus on the difference
Throwing away the evidence 
That we live together
Building borders it's so much fun
To point each other with a gun
But aren't we all the same, mother ? 

I will be found, 
From the silence I'll rise
By cleansing the sound 
From the void I
I'll make you a bright day 
From an unexpected monday
Lightening the way

Somehow, one day, you will see
We will all merge again to be
One force, this hope
For our survival, salvation
One single world and one nation
With the reality we'll cope

I will be found, 
From the silence I'll rise
By cleansing the sound 
From the void and lies
I'll make you a bright day 
From an unexpected monday
Lightening the way

I will be found, 
From the silence I'll rise
By cleansing the sound 
From the void and lies
I'll make you a bright day 
From an unexpected monday
Lightening the way
Of an ordinary day

I am hope
I am hope
I am hope 

----
D'après les nouvelles que je reçois
J'aurais déserté et quitté
La planète pour une sombre tombe
Mais ce n'est qu'une illusion
L'écume de notre division
Qui va et vient avec la vague

Nous nous concentrons sur la différence
Jetant au loin la preuve 
Que nous vivons ensemble
Construire des frontières, c'est tellement amusant
De se pointer les uns les autres avec un fusil
Mais ne sommes-nous pas tous pareils, mère ? 

On me trouvera 
Du silence je m'élèverai
En nettoyant le son 
Du vide, je
Je te ferai un jour radieux 
D'un lundi inattendu
En éclairant le chemin

D'une manière ou d'une autre, un jour, tu verras
Nous fusionnerons tous à nouveau pour être
Une seule force, cet espoir
Pour notre survie, notre salut
Un seul monde et une seule nation
Nous ferons face à la réalité

On me trouvera
Du silence je m'élèverai
En nettoyant le son 
Du vide et des mensonges
Je te ferai un jour radieux 
D'un lundi inattendu
En éclairant le chemin

Je serai trouvé 
Du silence je m'élèverai
En nettoyant le son 
Du vide et des mensonges
Je te ferai un jour radieux  
D'un lundi inattendu
En éclairant le chemin
D'un jour ordinaire

Je suis l'espoir
Je suis l'espoir
Je suis l'espoir

I Am Hope

Words and music by Roger Whittlesey. Lead guitar by Audric Jankauskas. Bass by Noel Barrett. 2024.

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Piano composition by Anibal Seminara 
Image by Marco Britto

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To answer a question asked: yes, I do cool with sound, and I do it pretty much every day, a little ab here and a little dab there.  I love good synths, and there are a lot of them nowadays, software as well as hardware. I go for both...but I still  love the immediacy of hardware, especially analog..oranic colours I'd say. I know thaere are also quite a few others, here, on Soundcloud,and elsewhere, that share the same fascination, and have colouring books of thier own.

Also, I would have to say that I don't give a hoot as to what is or is not trending. Neither do I care how loud it is. I love dynamic variation. Best way to call it is light sometimes, dark other times...whatever it takes to tell the sonic story.

For this one...my brutes are Atrtuira's Minifrak, Modla Electronics Argon 8M, Behringer Toro (Moog Taurs recreation), and Electric piano coming from Yamaha MOXF6, all recorded to Tascam Model 24 and ported over to my computer running Persons Studio One for the final mixing and mastering.

My colouring book.......

To those who asked, all the best to you,
Thanks for listening!!!

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Owner of FreeNotFree Studios, LLC based in Alabama, FreeNotFree is a dedicated artist, producer, and entrepreneur releasing music on all streaming platforms. Music has always been my passion, and I'm attracted to trying any and all genres I can. Let's collab just hit me up!

I thank God for everything.

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