The windmills of our minds.... ever turning, forever pulling up memories, new thoughts, the what ifs, the could have beens and that elusive idea or something just out of reach...  And where does it take us in our dreams?  This is gorgeous and wish it were longer so on repeat!  I also love the slight oriental ambience and echoes, (IMO) which takes me a calm and beautiful place.  But the windmill of my mind still turn and turn and turn..... 💖🎹🌄💮🙏

Beautiful piano composition with articulate expressions.

slow thoughts short forever

This is another “folk" approach to a cover song, in this case an all-time Motown favorite originally popularized by a 1968 collaboration of the Supremes and the Temptations (written by Gamble & Huff and Jerry Ross). Hard to match the vocal excellence of those two awesome groups but I just put a spin on it to channel the awesome emotive nature of the song. Got a little out of my comfort zone but for a base file done on my iPhone and with some grand help from my partner in music, Nat Daniels (piano & bass & production), I like the outcome.

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (Motown cover)

I was trying to write a short and catchy pop song... I think I nailed it ;)

cover photo by 12019

Welcome Down The Rabbit Hole

Broken Machine

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Against The Current

6th Street Aural Memory

Jon thought this version was too complex for the simplistic nature of the song.  I wanted to share this though, since I think it gives the song a much different vibe.

SlowDown By Jon Debellis (Monotronaut Alt. Rework)

Wifi Kills Ghosts

Phones out for pictures as we propose toasts
After dessert we were detained by our hosts
Their seance produced no spine-tingling results

Because everybody knows that wifi
Everybody knows that wifi kills ghosts

Turn off your router don’t disturb the dead
Switch it back on if they’re filling you with dread
But be careful not to harm that ghost in your head

Because everybody knows that wifi
Everybody knows that wifi kills ghosts

It’s getting lonely when no one is near
Where are the voices that we used to hear?
And why is this silence causing such fear?

Well everybody knows that wifi
Everybody knows that wifi kills ghosts

WiFi Kills Ghosts

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AePSrSCcRoU&t=4s

Mastering: Mark Suttle www.msevenmusic.com

Brumal

Recurring thoughts sometimes circle our minds and get our attention again and again. It's as if they're trying to tell us something that's just a bit beyond us presently. ✨  Same is true of riffs that we discover.

Should we banish them, let them flow... or channel them into music?

Yet another of Life's mysteries. 😎

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022

The Thoughts That Roam Within

A'BECKETT STREET
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2022 AB Music
https://youtu.be/6CvNYcb_pao

JAMMING LOUD AT A'BECKETT STREET
106 A'BECKETT STREET
LOCK THE DOOR KEEP THE COLD OUTSIDE
TAKING OFF ON A REAL COOL RIDE

JAMMING LOUD AT A'BECKETT STREET
THE CITY'S DEAD BUT NOT A'BECKETT STREET
WE'RE PLAYING HARD ON A REAL COOL LINE
TAKING OFF ON A REAL COOL RIDE

HANGING OUT AT A'BECKETT STREET
106 A'BECKETT STREET
FORTY'S FOOD TASTE JUST REAL COOL
I'LL HAVE A HAMBERGER AND A CUP OF CHIPS TOO

A'BECKETT STREET

A'BECKETT STREET (see info for video link)

Free D/L at www.terrywigmore.com A little personal experience poured out in this one. It will resonate with anyone who always believed in "one day" : one day something will come of this, one day it'll all work out, one day someone famous will cover this song, one day...one day.
We're not saying anyone should give up, but don't forget all the joy along the way to the elusive, "one day" that may or may not be in the cards for any of us.
And as we ponder life from the street view of a frustrated songwriter, think of all the "one days" that so many in Ukraine will never have, just to keep it all in perspective.

Lyrics:

I've got so many songs
Written on scraps of paper,
Tossed into bins
in every house I've lived in
Taken up space on hard drives,
thumb drives, Cd's ,cassettes,
I even pressed a vinyl.

Done so many, but not a penny (2x)
Done so...many

I've lost so many songs on the verge of that perfect mix
through a system crash,  hard drive failure
I've had so many songs that I thought I could
just make it
If someone would 
just give it a listen

oohh...give it a listen

na-na-na-na (repeat)

Now I'm hustlin' at open mic's
Busking on street corners of some nameless small town
Hopin' for enough coins to get a coffee  (oh-no)
Just a coffee...

Gone are the dreams I used to harbour
Gone are the dreams of...more than a penny

Done so many
I've done so many

Ive done many, but never a penny 
I've done so many    (repeat these 2 lines)                           

Lyrics, Music, lead vocals, Production:  T Wigmore
Bass, Guitars, "done so many" lyrics and vocals: K Allen

Done So Many

A Silent Valley

Go to www.TheSPR3.com to stream &/or download over 300 songs for free, watch ALL of our music videos, sign the best damn guestbook on the internet, and so much more!

02/07/23

Cat on the Bus

Improvised music produced entirely on the iOS platform using an iPad Pro.

A Preponderance of Blue

Music and lyrics : A SANER WORLD https://soundcloud.com/a-saner-world 
Vocals : mOag

A ton of fun, thanks Steve, Mark and Rob [ASW] for making it happen.
The Lenny in question is LENNY BRUCE https://soundcloud.com/a-saner-world/lenny-1

LENNY      
There's a row of faces
yet not a single smile
coz if you're going to die then go in style

They're waiting for a stumble
they're waiting for the choke
they're waiting for another dirty joke

And there's nothing we could do
and Lenny should know better
and if he's going down
we're going down together
and i am just like him
'cause i can't keep my mouth shut
now where do we begin
now Lenny's gone?

It's time to pull the ripcord
and find the safety net
it's never 'what you give is what you get'

They'll put you out of action
push you 'til you break
when all you did was give their world a shake

Deep down inside he's just the same as us
who knew that what he said was dangerous
we think we've all got a new song to sing
YOU'VE GOT THE MICROPHONE SO SAY SOMETHING...

A Saner WOrld w/mOag - Lenny

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cca28U7tCc

I'm an outsider, I'm not an insider

I'm not the king of the party
I'd rather watch it from the corner
I'm not the boss of society
I'd rather stay all day in bed
where I am right now
I don't mind to go outside
don't have much time to listen
to a bunch of nonsense talk that I don'want to listen
evidently I am an outsider, I am not an insider

I'm not the king of the party
I'd rather stay all day in bed
don't want to hear the next chatting
that's somewhat unimportant
what I want to hear is the sun
speaking directly to us
evidently I am an outsider, I am not an insider.

Outsider

As much as I love making music, I'm also a fan of so many of you here on Soundcloud. This page is a mix-tape dedicated to all your amazing work. I'll be listening closely with cat's ears.

Please take a moment to listen, comment on, and if you like, repost - let's keep the soundcloud community vital. 

Any folks looking to follow/ then immediately unfollow just to get me to repost: think twice and think sustainably please by doing the real work of growing your fans in an honest and organic way.

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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