Thoughtful lyrics wrapped up in a great story telling style. Beautifully sung.

I like it man.  I prefer your simple songs the best.  There's some real honesty in there.

yes, we hear them everyday, ian, those bleating horns of Jericho...love this song!!! :)

Thank you so much, what a great compliment! Touched. :)

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Sleigh Riding

I wrote this song during the Coursera Songwriting Course this summer, though not for the course. 

I had hoped it would of been enhanced by the contribution of one of my collaborator's but that has not been successful, so I offer it up as one of my usual one take guitar and voice pieces with a little over dub. If anyone feels they could add to the piece with voice or instrument or drums...you know where I live!  lol :)

Guitar: Unnar (Walden Baritione B1E), Microphone: Rode NT2A, I/O Focusrite Saffire Pro14, iMac and Logic Pro X.

Riders on the the old river road
Nobody's talking, but somebody told
And the weathercock turns over Sutter's barn
Scarecrow points to the setting sun

Dark clouds lour the western plain
A distant rumble, a storm declaims
And Billies been sweating since she gave it up
Its fear that silvers her tongue

Oh! Judgement
It comes to be
Take the choice
Away from me
I hear them now
Oh! As they blow
The bleating horns
Of Jericho

Corvids darken the lightning tree
A thousand eyes through the darkness see
A brutal truth of the world expose
The sacrifice, the blood, the bone

Oh! Judgement (etc)

Spotless lamb, blameless girl
The blades they turn in this mans world
They dare not see or will they look
At the truths that lie in their good books

Oh! Judgement (etc) x2

Riders on the old river road
Nobody's talking, but somebody told.

Jericho (click title for information & lyrics)

Album Out Nov. 5th, 2013
Available to Pre-order now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/divided-united-songs-civil/id720936196
at iTunes and Amazon

32 fresh interpretations of Civil War songs from a collection of artists who span genres and generations.

ATO Records and music supervisor Randall Poster ('Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' 'Rave on Buddy Holly') have joined forces to release 'Divided & United,' a two-disc set of Civil War songs brought to life through fresh interpretations by the pioneers, Hall of Famers and rising young stars of country, bluegrass, folk and beyond. The collection celebrates music deeply vital to the history and spirit of America in tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Each song offers a unique window on the past, with themes exploring race, identity and reconciliation in a manner that echoes profoundly today.

The tremendous talents on 'Divided & United' span several generations and genres. Combined they have won close to 200 GRAMMY Awards, numerous Country Music Awards and include Rock And Roll Hall of Famers, Country Music Hall of Famers and Bluegrass Hall of Famers.

The songs represent hope and loss, camaraderie and compassion, and the distinct voices of the North and South; born out of the specific battles and turning points, sentimental, parlor songs and spirituals of the period, songs that soldiers brought into battle with them, abolition and minstrel songs, and more.



Taj Mahal "Down By the Riverside"

61) Monkey Mafia - Long As I Can See The Light (Adrian Sherwood's Dub Lighting)

FIRE IN THE HOLE

Ama Suwa

Written and Performed by Uwe Lauterbach 2017

Kleiner Käfer

Spiel den Blues
während ich in meiner Küche stehe
Denk ich seh wie mein kleiner Käfer mich anschaut
Schau aus dem Fenster und seh den Regen wie er fällt.
Kleiner Käfer sieh nur wie er fällt

Spiel den Blues
während ich an meiner Tür lehne.
Denk ich seh
wie mein kleiner Käfer mich anmacht.
Schau in ihr Gesicht
durch ne beschlagne Brille.
Kleiner Käfer
sieh nur wie er steht.

Spiel den Blues
während der Zigarette danach
Denk ich seh
wie´s dir den Bauch runterläuft.
Schau aus dem Fenster 
und seh den Regen wie er fällt.
Kleiner Käfer sieh nur wie er fällt.

Kleiner Käfer

Vocals & Lyrics by Atla Daga from Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.reverbnation.com/httpssoundcloudcomsaltlakrits1
Instrumental & Vocalmix by Moon Dust

Lyrics, Songwriter: Atla Daga
Become one with life, and the infinity you can't understand
What if it disappeared on the trip when you ran running,
But didn't see the life you should have seen
When dreams take you to the place on earth, where you can find peace
Forget the noise from all that you don't want to see
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Run, run, but take the paths that can lead you to
Just the space you missed so
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
When life is over, they're not there, so catch all that's inside you now
Take the keys you've received, and open the holes you chose to leave on the road when you ran ran,
But not on the paths that were in the space you should have seen
To learn everything on this earth, and all the wisdom that leads to the peace of mind
You missed so
Dream away away
Fall through all the gaps you didn't want to see
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Run, but take the paths that can lead you to 
just the space you've missed so
Dream away
Fall through all the gaps you didn't want to see
Forget the noise
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Dream away away
Dream away away
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Run, run, but take the paths that can lead you to
Just the space you missed so
When life is over, they're not there, so catch all that's inside you now
Catch all that can fit inside you now
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Dream away away
Dream away away
Because maybe heaven is right where you haven't looked before
Fall through all the gaps you didn't want to see
Fall through all the gaps you didn't want to see
When dreams take you to the place on earth, where you can find peace
Forget the noise from all that you don't want to see
Dream you away, away
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Take the keys you've received
Take the keys you've received
Dream away
Fall through all the gaps you didn't want to see
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Maybe there's heaven right where you haven't looked before
Dream away

Kanske Finns Himlen - Atla Daga & Moon Dust

As featured on Twelfth Night's Fact And Fiction - Definitive Edition on pre-sale right now http://twelfthnight.info/?cds=fact-and-fiction-the-definitive-edition

This City

I've recorded  this in one take, just me and my piano, singing my little heart out...  I had added a bunch of things to the production, then I took them all away again, it just is as it is...
.
There Comes a Time
.

There comes a time, a time to let go
a time to say yes, a time to say no
a time to rise up, stand tall and stand free
that time is not yet/has begun, come and sail/fly there with me

It’s a season of growing, it’s a season of pain
a time of direction, the pain and the gain
It’s a time to re-order, re-shape re-define
prune out all the extras, re-assess re-align

It’s been a rough ride, and it aint over yet,
but life keeps on flowing, her rivers run deep
and I guess you can leave it, just let it flow by
whether joy or sorrow, you can’t tell till you try

Yes there has been pain, you’ve been broken apart
felt the wild desolation,  the wind in your heart
but it’s time to move on now, time to leave it behind
cast aside those that hold you, let the future unwind

And there’s no use pretending, 
I know that it’s hard
but sometimes you must leave them, 
move on and discard


Written sung made and played by Emma.
Picture is a dreamscape with pastel and charcoal.

There Comes a Time...

I am not a musician but music plays a very important role in my creative life! I am an artist/designer and music is my companion and my muse in the long hours I spend working in my studio! 
I am immensely impressed and grateful for all the talented and inspiring musicians whose work graces this Cloud, and I will always re-post sounds that I love (and will listen to again) - knowing that others will enjoy them!
I feel slightly embarrassed and quite humbled when I receive such graceful messages of thanks from artists whose work I have re-posted - after-all, I am the one who is so inspired by the discovery of your brilliant music!!!
So thank YOU!!!
Jools :)
P.S. If you want to see where the music takes me there is a link to my Portfolio site on Behance below!!! 
NEW!! - Thanks for all the great feed-back on my work! I shall be re-launching with a website (shop & archive) ‘KULT-JE’ in the not too distant future! Meanwhile, examples of past and current work are featured on my Instagram (@joolselphick)
Since my heart op in Jan2021, I have had to deal with taking quite a lot of meds which have interrupted my design work - that and moving to Germany in 2020 - and back in 2021 (due to Covid my business plans stalled!) - SO, slowly getting it together…. hang tight!😊

I have an archive of my work to date on Instagram - @joolselphick

https://soundcloud.com/ian-melvin/audiobiography-ian-melvin

All the songs on this cloud are original compositions of mine.  Sometimes in collaboration with other SoundClouders.

Music is a kind of kaleidoscope, although it manifests itself on an incomparably higher level of ideality. Music produces beautiful forms and colours in ever more elaborate diversity, gently overflowing, sharply contrasted, always coherent and yet always new, self-contained and self-fulfilled. Eduard Hanslick 1854

I am a married father of two, grandfather of four, fine arts graduate and polymath.

I had been asked to commit my songs to recording for the benefit of my offspring, and also I guess before I go completely deaf (Yes. I am one of the 1 in 7 severely deaf people in the UK) so begins this project. 

However, as I have gotten into it I realize that I have a lot of new stuff bursting out all the time, much of it inspired by you good people on Sound Cloud. 

Collaborating has been a revelation and I want to do more and as much as I can, so if you hear anything of mine you like and/or have any ideas about production etc just drop me a line anytime.

My collaborative name is Eight Zeros and can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/eight-zeros and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/eight8zeros

I would at some point like to work with someone to develop my own and hopefully your songs as an acoustic vocal duo so if you are geographically near and interested please get in touch.

Recordings were made first on a Boss Micro BR, then on an iMac running Garageband'11, inputting through a Behringer 1204 USB mixer and using a Rode NT2A for voice (Behringer C1 condenser mic for voice up to April 2013) and an AKG1000S for guitars. From January 2013 I have upgraded software to Logic pro 9. My weapon of choice is a Martin 00015M, with Martin SP Light's mostly recorded open though sometimes via Fishman Rare Earth Blend. 

All Material is Copyright © 2012,2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.

Jericho (click title for information & lyrics)

Ian Melvin

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