Love the track and the waffle, thanks for sharing Cap'n

yeah love the creativity, very interesting, but most importantly it sounds great

Oh man, i completely forgot this song existed.

I'm glad you accepted the dare, Lenny. What an intriguing piece of process (thanks for the note!). Very imaginative, and I'm sure, a lot of work. But as Paddy suggests, what is important is that it sounds and feels good, and it sure does.

A very fine cover indeed!  Has a haunting intimate feel....

love this ....got a lovely edge (and that bell :))

swoop and slide
in summer skies
the sun high
gliding by

awake in slumber
deadpan rings
spiral thoughts
forgotten things

swoop and slide
skylarks fly
the day lies
gliding by

awake in slumber
deadpan rings
spiral thoughts
forgotten things

spiral under the light
spiral under the sky

Awake In Slumber

a very short piece...

rims of light
upon the surface haze
reeling into it too
in the delicate
distant rays
on a pale afternoon

in the haze of 
a distant light
reeling into it too
in the delicate 
distant rays
on a pale afternoon

Hazy excerpt

Electric Deathtrap Circus

Ritch Bitch (1995)

The Valuable Friends:

@rick-4-1 - Refuge Drums
@janinelevinson - Haven Vocals
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Asylum Stuff

SANCTUARY

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere
 
Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
Old friends, no more these sounds! 
Let us sing more cheerful songs 
More full of joy! 
More full of joy!
Joy, bright spark of divinity, daughter of Elysium 
Fire-inspired we tread thy Sanctuary 
Sanctuary…

Joy!

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere

Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
All you millions, I embrace you 
Well this kiss is for all the world
And you millions, oh I embrace you all
This kiss is for everyone 
All the world…

© Aug 2023 Phil McWalter

Lyrics and music inspired by Friedrich von Schiller's (1759-1805) poem: "A die Freude" [Which also appears in the choral fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.]

Image: The Sanctuary, Avebury, Wiltshire UK. Dates from 2,500BC

"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
from 'The Faerie Queene' Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

Sanctuary

Spotify

A song for Amy

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northern hemisphere
coffee warming
you are with me dear
misty morning
the news is dreadful
again
i’ve got a headful
but then
you and your crimson nightgown
from way back when


southern hemisphere
1990
you were with me dear
we were briny
the tanks were empty
again
we went to fill them
and then
a drive to Saba cliffside
with our new friends


we have memories           (we go way back)
but we’re not done yet
come ride beside me        (while we still can)
again
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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright, and Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley for early listening.

Love Song #1000

Beauty in Chaos

Across the sulphur light

Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hypocrite

Isle of Sleep

Swirling the silence amplified
Falling so crystalline
Whirring a distant hum that slides
Seizing unyielding time

Swathes of yellow fading
Fleeting moments swaying
Fragments breaking through
Moments we once knew

Veils of drab hollow magnified
Falling so crystalline
Whirring of dances reeling by
seizing unyielding time

Stasis of Reeling Dances

Halloween….I felt a dare coming on :) 

I was 'musically challenged' on FB to use my 7 guitars on a song and only guitars. No samples or keys. I looked round for a suitable song to cover as that would save me the extra headache of writing new material. 

Only anoraks should proceed beyond this point because I'm gonna waffle.

I chose  'Moonchild' by King Crimson for it's Halloween feel and the 'cobwebs' and 'ghosts' in the lyric. 

I recorded a basic guitar /vocal with a classical gtr via single mic as a guide track, freehand – no click/tempo defined. Then recorded the classical and vocal separately and faded the guide track in and out at low level here and there. 

Next a bass using a Tanglewood acoustic which I dropped an octave.

Next I created a 2 pads with a Fender F3 acoustic, an Echo 12 string set up  'Nashville'' ( remove the standard six strings). Not by 'traditional' sampling but  by recording a single note  to each track, reversing, then to a buss with a reverb set at 'infinite' to create a drone. 

I avoided creating 'chord' pads to help with clarity. You can form chords from the notes if  you want to though I find 2 note intervals work better.

Crunchy guitar is a Squier Strat, via Native Instruments Guitar Rig.   

On the last verse I added a little bit of detail with two acoustics, a Taylor and Gibson J45. 

I used two non-guitar samples. A stone flower pot dragged across flagstones and  grandfather clock chimes from Washington Old Hall in County Durham ( ancestral home of George Washington). 


Simples :)  Never dare a Pirate !

Moonchild  ( King Crimson )

This is now a basic 'Free' account.  A number of old songs are no longer available. 


Huge 'Thank You'  to the following people for their  help on some of these songs and their inspiration on others. 


http://soundcloud.com/the-secret-red-orchestra

https://soundcloud.com/vangabriel

http://soundcloud.com/the-acoustic-grill

https://soundcloud.com/bluecherrykiss

https://soundcloud.com/faerytale

https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter

https://soundcloud.com/little-lone-waltz

A few ( printable ) quotes.

 "  Masterpieces "-----Dolll
 "Shit, you got me crying"----RosesAreBlue
  " A Legend".....RosesAreBlue
 "I brought my kazooo"------  Faerytale
 " Unaffected Eccentricity"-----Gil Gillespie
" Uniquely Mad "----- Phil McWalter
" F*ckin' space chords man" ------Phil McWalter
 "Unhinged seriousness"----Wheelwright
 " Slightly Deranged".......Superhowl
"F***ing Hell "  ----Man on a Grill
"Chaos and Beauty"-----Steph Casey
" Nutter" -----  Kim Guy
" F**K's Sake ! LOL "------Bekah B
" You are definitely Cool " .......lola-demo
" A bloody good racket"   ,,,,,,Steph Casey 
" Intelligent, uniquely beautiful music " .  Kerijohnson.
" Devastatingly cute"  Aerogene 070. 
" Cool husky crooner at play "   Soundboard tinkerers.
"Keep your knees together"      RosesAreBlue.

Moonchild ( King Crimson )

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