Once again, a real joy to be involved with a consummate professional like Hamilton!

lovely textured sonic landscape sung with earnest expression, bravo:)

Beautiful! Didn't know you sing as well:-) Well done!

Collaborations with Simon Reich

@simon-reich

Simon & Me

lady of fire poetry and music and video 

Here is the official music video for "Earth Child":
https://youtu.be/o4zID_01fvY

Earth Child
I am my own medicine
the poison is me
but I am not bound
by my word
for the sky is me
as well as the scent
from a wild flower
when you see me
I am also the mountain
you cannot move
to know my strength
is happiness
in the elements of earth
to know I am the still
water flowing
is peace
I am calm

arturia key step 37/ableton live: Tanisha Jackland
mixed and mastered by Tanisha Jackland

Earth Child (video link in description)

Words of wisdom. 

"Instead of looking for hope, look for action...We can't save the world by playing by the rules because the rules need to be changed and it has to start today." 
-Greta Thunberg

Thank you, Rizlix for your fine meditation;
https://soundcloud.com/rizlixcollabs/rizlix-a-time-for-space-open-collab

Here from the original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yK_N11pGEs

Meditation on Hope When We Are Out of Time

Lady of Fire Original Music and Poetry

(vintage)Omnichord- Tanisha
Vocals-Tanisha

Remember Me

Inside I am a 
raging inferno

no one sees it

I fool them with
My undercover
Breath

I could be satiated by
this raining madness

Remember me

the woman who
speaks in
fragments of 
the moon

showing mercy
with the tongue of 
ancient reeds

Water meeting fire
in my throat

Remember Me

IN A DOORWAY
IN THE SHADOWS
AS THE RAIN MUTES
THE NEON SIGNS


HANDS IN POCKETS
OF A SLICKER
MIDNIGHT STRAGGLERS
MEANDER BY

HOLLOW PROMISE
REMINISENCE
LIKE AN ARCING
ELECTRIC LINE

4:00 IN THE MORNIN’
SHE’S AT THE AFTERPARTY
NO ONE IS WARNIN’
SHE SHOULDN’T LEAVE ALONE, NO…

EVERLASTING
I DON’T THINK SO
EVERY BARGAIN
WILL BE BETRAYED

JESUS TOLD ME
I AM SPECIAL
CLOCK IS TICKING
IT’S JUDGEMENT DAY

FADE TO BLACK
SHE’S NOT COMING BACK

FADE TO BLACK
A FRESH MANIAC

Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, and Wheelwright for consultations various.

Amour Noir

WB Yeats poem, recited magnificently by my friend Hamilton Bailie. When I first heard this recorded version, I went straight to the piano & improvised the basis of the orchestral backing in one pass. It was a truly inspirational moment as the music just fell off the ends of my fingers. I then went back & added all the strings, horns & other orchestral instruments to fill out & back up the overall feel of the poem. Really enjoyed doing this project (the first collaboration Hamilton ever did) & hope to produce a lot more using his fabulous resonant vocals.

The Song of Wandering Aengus - Ft HamBa

Sometimes it all goes slow. 

image: Aubree Henrick

solstice solitaire

Only three years late, party long finished. I came across this on my old hard drive and thought it right to post it now. One of many I intended to finish but have left the chisel marks visible

Original here https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere and much more to enjoy 

Fantastic experimental guitar noises and sounds form the backcloth. Beats from lincolnproduction. Vocals and additional guitars by me.

pic: https://wallpapercrafter.com/5904-forest-snowstorm-bw-winter-snow-4k.html

Out There Somewhere - Learningtoplay With Nicholas Ridiculous

I backcombed and lacquered every hair on my head and body to record this. Just hosing down now. Hope you enjoy

Be good

pic: nasa

Slingshot Round Saturn - free DL

Having benefitted from many generous SC artists' Open Collaborations in the past, I have decided to upload my own.

Please feel free to add anything you like. If you'd like me to comment and repost, please send me a DM and I'll oblige as soon as I can. Sorry I won't be able to send individual stems.

It is a simple guitar, bass and drums turnaround, repeated three times. Complicate it as much as you'd like, or just use it to jam to as you please

Be good

Nick

pic: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/see-also-colour-in-the-insert-Ephyra-larval-stage-of-jellyfish-scyphomedusa-feeding-on_fig29_266223304

Open Collab - Jelly

This is a collaboration between myself & a fantastic musician in England who calls himself "HamBa". He sent over an idea based around a percussion backed piano solo. I added a double bass, rhythmic piano chords & a few bluesy piano riffs. I pulled it back into a 12 bar blues format & then finally added some cool saxaphones to give it some melody. Lets hope you'll want to eat "Green eggs and HamBa" anywhere!!!!

Green Eggs & HamBa

Kothluwalawa

Wana Gi naviarhaiku473

Wheelwright: voice https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Beckenstein: music, lyrics, vocal melody, instruments

Fictive Sisters is a Trans-Atlantic online collaboration between Wheelwright and Jonathan Beckenstein.
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hibernating
the days grow dark
suffocating
so pull your boots on
walk out the door

frozen ridge line
and silver moon
distant tree line
the sleeping forest
is under snow

crystal flakes will crunch underfoot
icicles agleam
father winter will tread by your side
to the frosted stream

calculating
the solstice tide
enervating
procrastinating
walk out the door

frigid meadow
in moonlight glaze
dormant willow
is waiting naked
for your embrace

crystal flakes will crunch underfoot
icicles agleam
father winter will tread by your side
to the frosted stream
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Michael and I will be introducing two new songs in roughly a month, and at that time the Fictive Sisters album "Immaculate Distraction" will be available on Bandcamp. We will let you know when and provide a link. Thanks always for your listening!

image from Wikipedia

Father Winter (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

A collaboration with Hamilton Bailie. HamBa supplied the lovely vocal recitation of an Irish poem "The Stranger's Grave" & vocoder sections. I supplied the electronic musical backing. Something slightly different from my other work, but lots of fun nonetheless.

The Strangers Grave ft. HamBa

Once again, I have completed a collaboration with Hamilton Bailie (HamBa). Hamilton’s marvellous vocal intonations on the poem “Litany in time of Plague” provided me with inspiration to add  a bed of music to heighten the experience.
The poems author, Thomas Nashe, was an important figure in Elizabethan literature, and this poem  is a philosophical, if sometimes woeful, look at death. In a time of vast inequality among society, the plague proved a real leveller of class, strength, wealth & beauty. All tiers of society were touched by the hand of death.
While I listened to the recitation, I improvised on the piano, latching onto key phrases & words. I then went back & improvised the string parts as well. Later I just polished the whole thing up & what you hear now is the result.
In all six verses of this poem, Thomas Nashe repeats the same final two lines: "I am sick, I must die. / Lord, have mercy on us!" Whereas these lines sound gloomy in the first five verses, their meaning changes because of the optimism of the sixth verse. Nashe is suggesting that people's suffering will soon be over, and that death will release them from mortal pain. 


A Litany In Time Of Plague ft HamBa

At the Hawk's Well is a one act play by William Butler Yeats, first performed in 1916 and published in 1917. Once again I have completed a lovely collaboration with HamBa from the UK, who is a magnificent orator & brings to life words on a page like no one else I know. After receiving the recitation, I proceeded to improvise my piano line, while listening to the words being spoken. This gives me the purest way to connect the music inside me, with the words I am hearing & the story I feel they are telling. All I'm trying to do, is support the pictures I am seeing in my mind with music. If you like this sort of project, please scroll through my page & see the other collaborations we have recorded over the years. Also visit HamBa's soundcloud page for his own solo projects as well.   https://soundcloud.com/hamb-1

Hawks Well Ft. Hamba

Music:   Simon Reich - @simon-reich

Vocal:    Hamilton Bailie

Traditional Irish folk song

As I Roved Out 2 - Simon Reich & Hamilton Bailie

All playing, vocals, composition are my own - unless credited.  I play directly on IOS synths on my iPad.  Most of what I do is layered improvisation.

As I Roved Out 2 - Simon Reich & Hamilton Bailie

Hamilton Bailie (HamBa)

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