Name: Simple Song by Guy Trépanier
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: Original composition for classical guitar.

Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was channeling more of a Neil Young, Bob Dylan and THE BAND pre Americana country rock thing. But jump ahead 40 years and here we were just this last Saturday night churning out JOSIE from AJA in a set of originals and covers full of Jazz Chords and RnB beats. So this new song absorbs a lot of that stuff. 

HR Kiosk

Next to you, I feel a hero
The maintenance of normal, while you’re a trip to Cairo
Circa 2023 I’d like to paraphrase
Cause cities like that and Khartoum
Once set a soul ablaze

So book yourself into an HR Kiosk tonight
There’s gotta be an on-line guru who could shine a light
Infiltate you with guile
Make you think there’s actually an I in why 
Yeah yeah yeah

Time spent in Aja did it make me cynical?
Made me feel ok to rave 
And pull you off your pinnacle
Of course it’s arrogant to judge, someone on culture
But I see you circling thru the sky, with the eye of a vulture

Know you kinda inside out
So I’d try it with a hundred grand
I bet you on your virtual couch 
You’re lying on a slippery Sam

Course you’re going even lower - way below zero
Sayin’ hey let’s all be friends
Like Ghandi and Nehru
Your time at the Taj Mahal, did us no favours
After breathing in the rarified shrine
Where’s your reconciliation pavers

HR KIOSK

Artwork : The Great Gathering
courtesy of Ikthadani.
Description:
"In spaces where time and distance don't exist, a gathering took place: it was those sent to change the worlds who attended and departed at once with a life oath to never be apart even when they were away. Traveling through liquid cosmic tunnels inside round spheres each arrived to their destiny armed with purpose, courage, and patience. Their heart, their home, and their memories lay dormant but brimming in the subconscious comforting them during long dark nights. Gradual awakening, encoded with superhuman DNA they altered the course of history wherever they went as they were meant to. And then, at last, there was home again: a refuge of deep peace and purity. Dances of cosmic life, elixirs of eloquent colours, caresses of true love surrounding the spirit with bliss, blue fires of music... home Welcome to 2012".



The Gate of the Dreaming Cosmos is composed in 2018 by Gavin Kwok. 
He was inspired by the concept of Flammarion Engraving for the use in CGI Animated Short Film "Sputnik " by Maxim Zhestkov in BIFSC.

Dreaming Cosmos (2018)

Hidden Lores

Namibian Groove

Back around 2015, I started taking guitar lessons from an instructor who was really into Bluegrass Music. I soon discovered that didn't have an aptitude for the guitar and didn't have a great desire to practice enough to make up for any natural ability. 
I did mention to my instructor that I had written a couple of songs and maybe our time would be better spent learning how to record these songs.
One day I tried to write a 'bluegrass" tune and titled it, "I've Done It Again." We recorded it. Years later, I wanted to revisit some of my earlier recordings and see what they might sound like with professional musicians. Nicky V. Hines, currently the lead guitarist with Shenandoah acted as musical director, guitarist, arranger, engineer, and producer for me on this finally finished new version. (Several versions have been posted on my SC page throughout the years. This will be the Spotify, Apple, Amazon etc version of which I shall make .002 of a penny every time it is played.) On bass is Martin Motnik currently a member of the popular European Heavy Metal Band "Accept." (Trust me, I have no idea how a country bumpkin like me ended up working with Heavy Metal - but I dig it.) On keyboards is the wonderful Tim McDonald , out of Nashville. On drums is another Nashvillian, Travis L.. Super people and very, very talented and experienced.
I like this version very much - musically. I think the mix is excellent (Nicky V. Hines) and I like how he took down the reverb on the vocal, it sounds a bit edgier, a little more vulnerable, and real. 
What's the song about? It's about not being able to take off the "masks" and take down the walls . Although "good lover" is sexual certainly sounding - we can mess up good love in other ways too - family, friends, etc. And, although we can deeply feel the pain of our actions, sometimes we just can't seem to get out of our own way. 
It is a song about being human. Thank you Nicky!

I've Done It Again

stand up for something

Performed by David Cooper

Written By:

David Cooper - Music

Ron Todd - Lyrics

Sitting down by the riverside, watching clouds float on by
Sun is shining and swans are gliding, feel so good I could fly

Chorus

And I know 
And  I know
This is where life suits me so
Yes I know
Yes I know
The best place to go
Is where the waters flow

Boats come sailing and I get the feeling that time it just stands still
People chatting, children laughing, the gentle song of a Whippoorwill

Chorus x 2

Where The Waters Flow (Cooper/Todd Collaboration)

Original composition for classical guitar.

Simple Song

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“Valsa de Eurídice” is a poignant and lyrical waltz composed by the legendary Brazilian poet and songwriter Vinicius de Moraes. First published in 1956, this piece was written for the play “Orfeu da Conceição,” a Brazilian retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro—a story that later became the internationally acclaimed film “Black Orpheus” (1959).

The waltz is characterized by its gentle, flowing melody and a harmonic palette that bridges European classical tradition with the melancholy and passion of Brazilian popular music. Its haunting beauty makes it a favorite among guitarists and vocalists alike, often interpreted in both classical and jazz idioms.

Fun fact: “Valsa de Eurídice” represents one of the earliest collaborations between Vinicius de Moraes and guitarist Luiz Bonfá, helping to lay the groundwork for the bossa nova movement that would sweep the world just a few years later.

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