Keeping it real in May 2023

Thumper

This tune was first released by Phil Collins in 1984. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: https://www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #425 by Phil Collins

Blue Alien

Non tu n’es pas la fille d’ipanema
Tu n’es pas
Cette Garotta là tu n’es pas 
La fille d’Ipanema
Car comme tu vois
Y a qu’elle qui m'a mis en émoi…  https://open.spotify.com/track/6AX9i0PpQ0Rt3vid3RmiXr?si=586a102cb5d74527

Crime Scene Do Not

Bossa Ipanema

This tune was performed by Mike Oldfield in 1983. Performed by me on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #497 by Mike Oldfield

The Mysterious Decibel - Spiders, Phantoms, and Lost Miracles

Lyrics, instrumental, Vocals, Sounds, mix, song structure - The Mysterious Decibel

Vocals mastered by: Mark McClellan

https://themysteriousdecibel.bandcamp.com/track/spiders-phantoms-and-lost-miracles

Lyrics:

The silk from all the spiders pulling me in all directions
Grueling... phantoms... 
Carry me into the void where nothing matters

I can't believe in miracles
Because miracles are unfair

If we all have one chance to cheat life,
I'm waiting on my share!

Spiders, Phantoms, and Lost Miracles

Call To Love is the first song I recorded in studio.

This experience was a huge step in building my confidence and started my journey towards really working on producing my own stuff. 

I like to think of this song as a sort of personal mantra to live by. And when life gets tough, I return to it as a much needed reminder to myself of beauty in the world. 

Glad to finally add this to my SoundCloud collection. I hope you enjoy :)

Music, lyrics, guitar & arrangement by Tam Hastings
Produced, mixed & mastered by Milan Rendall

Recorded / mixed: Ableton Live

Lyrics:

I follow the call to love
Knowing that I am enough
I follow the call to love
I pick up my heart from the dust and
I will remember
I will remember oh oh
Remember

She looked up at me that day
Watching me do it my way
And I will be free every day
These words I heard her say
I will remember
I will remember oh oh
Remember

Drop your sword
And kiss me while I sleep
My hand in yours
Is a memory I'll always keep
Hope is a road
Meant only for the brave
And as I paint my poetry
The sun rises on another day

I follow the call to love
Knowing that I am enough
I follow the call to love
I pick up my heart from the dust and
I will remember
I will remember oh oh
Remember

This is a call from
My heart to you
Knowing love
Is something I know how to do, so
Take my life
Exactly as it is
And as I paint my poetry
It falls so gently on
Your ears

I follow the call to love
Knowing that I am enough
I follow the call to love
I pick up my heart from the dust and
I will remember
I will remember oh oh
Remember

I follow the call to love
Knowing that I am enough
I follow the call to love
I pick up my heart from the dust and
I will remember
I will remember oh oh
Remember

To love
Call to love
Call to love


© Tam Jennifer Hastings, 2022

Call To Love

Call To Love (Studio Version, Prod. by Milan)

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Trees Cry
April 2023
Duration: 3:00
Listen to the Anthropomorphic Expressions Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/anthropomorphic-expressions
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for his highly valued musical input and for creating the trees sound library used to compose this piece.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, or emotions to non-human entities or objects. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Anthropomorphism is a common way humans perceive and interact with the world around them.

Trees consist of a wide variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. The majority of tree species are angiosperms or hardwoods; of the rest, many are gymnosperms or softwoods. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. Trees have been in existence for 370 million years. It is estimated that there are around three trillion mature trees in the world.

About a third of all tree species, some twenty thousand, are included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Of those, over eight thousand are globally threatened, including at least 1400 which are classed as "critically endangered". 

For violin, bansuri, duduk, cello, bassoon, double bass, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, tree samples and percussion

Anthropomorphic Expressions - The Trees Cry

This tune was performed by Toploader in 1999. Performed by me on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #498 by Toploader

Pissing in the Sink - Single by Turbo-Laser

Pissing In The Sink

Just a little happy and funny instrumental pop track for a sunny day (but for any other day too).

A Sunny Day

Too Many Words was included in the top 30 list for the CONTEMPORARY POP DANCE Category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. 

I was thinking one day about how my songs are wordy.  I had the thought that I could write one that was mostly the words "too many words" and would have far fewer words than most.  Naturally irony prevailed and "Too Many Words" probably has too many words.

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Chorus 1:
Too many words
Get in the way
Of all the clever things
I was planning to say
Too many words
Over the top
I know what I'm doing
But I can't seem to stop

Verse 1:
I've been nervous thinking
About what I'd say tonight
I rehearsed a whole lot cuz
I wanted to get it right
I was looking here and there
Through all the words I knew
To find the words to tell you
How I feel about you

Chorus 2:
Too many words
Got in the way
Of whatever it was I thought
That I wanted say
The most important things
Are hard to convey
That's when too many words
Get in the way

Bridge:
Long as I remember it's always been this way
No matter what I talk about I've got too much to say
All my songs are far too long
All my stories are long too
I rarely choose a single word when 5 or 10 will do.

Verse 2:
I stumbled over adjectives
Adverbs, nouns and verbs
All I heard myself say
was a jumbled mess of words
Felt i should Apologise
For what I'd put you through
Before I could you smiled and said
You already knew

Chorus 3:
I wasn't sure
What it was I heard
I was still caught up in my
Avalanche of words
I felt so alive like I could
Laugh and dance and sing
But I couldn't manage
to say a single thing

Chorus 4:
You taught me a lot
‘bout talking since that day
I’ve learned that what you hear
Matters more than what I say
I still got a ways to go
Before I master brevity
But I’m getting better at telling you
what you mean to me
I took some time and thought about
All the words I could do without
One by one I cut them out
'Til the only words left numbered three

Too Many Words

01 Water to Drink

I Cant Wait

Great times with family and friends, no matter the reason

Magic Time

Can you put titles to my tunes? If not, my website reveals all at:

https://www.harveytwyman.com

My Latest Tunes are at: www.soundcloud.com/harvey-twyman

I have now minimised all my musical equipment down to a single arranger keyboard, the Yamaha PSR-SX900.

Originally I had created all the features of this keyboard using multiple pieces of MIDI equipment all controlled through a Windows tablet. I created a YouTube video describing it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TekeXG_oe1g&list=PLzVsLVsxIwiZLfDwmRDZ1B8TnIrgwX7aC&index=2&t=1s

Name That Tune #497 by Mike Oldfield

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