Wonderful piece, the epiano reminds me very much to the DX7.

Rhodes sounds good. Smooth journey for the soul. there is a healthy energy on this. shalom!

Hard to put a finger on what resonates here, but it totally does. Beauty track. Durge

I Appreciate your comment, man! Thanks. :)

Enjoyed listening very much! The best music is often the spontaneous!

My version of a classic Rush song from their 2112 album :)

Tears - Rush Cover

07/June/2021

You're My Life/Featuring David Wayne Hardy

This is an arrangement using commercially available sound packs, samples, and loops. A lot of tweaks and modifications. (Seemingly endless!) I did not create the original samples myself, but I did make the selections, and the arrangement, mix and mastering are all uniquely produced by SOS. Hope you enjoy, be happy, and dance!
- SOS

DISCOVERY

I must plead  'nolo contendere'.
Just couldn't help mySelf.
  It came out of an Improvisation
   and became an earworm. 
    Had to post it!  :-D
   
       
         May you InJOY.


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Illustration © Prévert 2007

Une Idée Fixe

Mager 110

I've always been deeply moved by this song. I saw Neil Young play this on piano in Eugene Oregon 1999. 

Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man
to the fields of green
And the homeland
we've never seen.

They killed us in our tepee
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the firesticks
and the wagons come
And the night falls
on the setting sun.

They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little box
at the top of the stairs
With my Indian rug
and a pipe to share.

I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And find out how she felt
In the mornin'
on the fields of green
In the homeland
we've never seen.

And maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome
and the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Pocahontas.

Pocahontas (Neil Young Cover)

great reinterpretation : https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/rea-742-747-by-holyshitshow-remix-free-soprano
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tangled
in the undergrowth
you may search and find
a new fresh-start
to open up
your cold cold heart

mayfly awoke
in the city of the enemy again
all head-swimming-with-ideas

just bouncing lights
and colour books
like leaves-in-the-afternoon

yellow flowers on the mountains
as they fell away behind us now
clouds overhead all broken up
we made up our own shapes in our heads

so many tones circling the air
seabirds and crows
we go out to uncover
the secrets no other knows

747 took flight
arcing up above the
skies
of sydenham

and inside my heart jumping
like a jumping bean
i was up there
somewhere with them

𝟽𝟺𝟽

This is another collaboration with a couple of fantastic artists.  It started with me and @jeff_roberts working on this funky idea I had.  I've respected Jeff as a songwriter and musician from day one.   He is great to work with and as cool as can be.  Thanks Jeff!!   

I was able to pull @rekha-iyern-fe in again and she did her thing which turned out great.  And once again she was awesome to work with, recording her vocal in almost no time and giving the song the emotional charge it needed.

Both of these folks are true pros and it was a lot of fun putting this together.   Hope you enjoy!

REKHA - Lyrics and Vocals
music and lyrics by Rekha Iyern Fe for Socan
Jeff Roberts - Bass and various percussive flavorings, quality control :) 
TexMex Shaman - Arrangement, Guitars, Talkbox, Drum programming and overall production


Intro:
Oo Yeah
Ahn Yeah
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Give it up Baby
Never say maybe
Cuz' you know
It makes me
Totally crazy
And

You want
To give me
All of your love
You know it's true
You do me so
You do me so good
Baby I need
Your love

Give it up, Baby
Never say maybe
Cuz' you know it
Makes me feel
Totally, crazy good-good
Oh, Yeah-Yeah

You know you want to
Give me, your love, love, love
It always, makes me feel
So good, good, good
You touch my woman

Ahn, Eh
Hey, Hey
Hey-Hey
Hahn, Oh
Ho, Ho, Oh

Babe, I need
Your good love
Your man-man in my
Woman-hood
Oo-Oo-Yeah

Give it Up (Badass)

YouTube

Give it Up (Badass) - with REKHA and Jeff Roberts

https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/down-like-that
vocal credit-- Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)--
remaster/mix 9/5/21

Down Like That-- IPG1-- Level One Up

The first of a collection about: A Boy, a Dream and a Magical Place.

A boy and a dream

A Boy, A Dream, and A Magical Place

SHOULD I STAY SHOULD I SPLIT
WHO WILL TELL ME SO
WILL I EVER MAKE IT 
TO WHEREVER I GO
I DON’T KNOW
BLOW WIND BLOW
FLOW SILVER RIVER FLOW

DON’T ASK WHAT DIRECTION
DOES MY EAGLE FLY
DON’T ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
I WON’T TELL YOU NO LIES
COS I DON’T KNOW
HIGH FROM LOW
LOVING OR NOT DOING SO

I DON’T KNOW
BLOW WIND BLOW
YOU SHOULD’NT HAVE EVER LET ME GO

I DON'T KNOW (Lyrics)

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul! 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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Une Idée Fixe

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