Love this section.. The static the bleeping in the background.. Gave me goose bumps

Υπέροχη επιλογή και σχεδίαση ήχων !! 👍✨

Great sounds and real emotional depth...excellent

beautiful harmonies and melodies, epic sound!

Extracts from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

“Son,” said my mother,
   When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
   And not a rag have I”.
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
   Nor thread to take stitches.”
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody will buy,”  
   And she began to cry.
 
…

Men say the winter
   Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
   And food was dear.
 
A wind with a wolf’s head
   Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
   And sat on the floor.
 
All that was left us
   Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody would take,
   For song or pity’s sake.
 
…

Looking nineteen,
   And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Leaned against her shoulder.
 
Her thin fingers, moving
   In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
   Wonderful things.
 
Many bright threads,
   From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp-strings
  Rapidly,
 
…

There sat my mother
   With the harp against her shoulder
Looking nineteen
   And not a day older,
 
A smile about her lips,
   And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp-strings
   Frozen dead.
 
And piled up beside her
   And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
   Just my size.

The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver

LYRICS 

8 billion people stopped praying today
Planes fell from the sky, fell like rain
Cars went crashing off of the roads
Tsunami waves landed on the coast

When I think how it ended tween you and me 
I begged the whole world to get back on their knees 
Please

Golden Gate Bridge is in the sea
The angels refused to intervene
The nations armies have gone to war
Those petty thoughts went out the door 

When I think how it ended tween you and me 
I begged the whole world to get back on their knees 
Please

Please forgive me for my selfish ways 
I know the whole world is falling away
My baby got caught up in this mess 
I didn’t try - didn’t do my best

When I think how it ended tween you and me 
I begged the whole world to get back on their knees 
Please

Begged the Whole World

Dear friends,
during the first summer months, a majestic singing competition takes place in the park behind our house. It is mainly the chaffinch and the blackbird that compete!
The picture is from the park where my chaffinch friends live.

The Chaffinch

This morning i’m going to visit my friends
who live near my home
They are so small, You can hear them anyway
They are hidden in the trees and they won’t show their face
I have to take a brake and listen to their song  
these early morning hours
Dear friends you must listen to their song
and all Your problems will disappear

They wear a blue-grey cap and have rust-red underparts
but the female is brown-grey
They have beautiful white wingbars - visible when they fly
You should not miss their lovely song - it goes directly to Your soul
I have to take a brake and listen to their song
these early morning hours
Dear friends you must listen to their song
and all Your problems will disappear

The boy birds have to learn from their fathers how to sing
to avoid a crunching sound
The male and his wife stay together all their lives
and they both feed their kids with caterpillars and more
I have to take a brake and listen to their song
these early morning hours
Dear friends you must listen to their song
and all Your problems will disappear

The Chaffinch

A couple of months ago I had the chance to jam with a couple of friends on guitars at a dinner party. We played a few Stones covers, and the vibe was ok. Then suddenly someone named the Velvet Underground, so I started strumming and singing a classic number we used to perform pretty often when we were young, "I'm Waiting For My Man". I could really feel it, and when I got home I thought it was worth trying to record it. In the past we used to cover the Live 1969 version, but this time I tried to blend it with a couple of other renditions, namely the 1972 Transformer Tour performance and an acoustic demo recorded in 1965. Quite obviously, I ended up adding to this bizarre jumble my own touch. I completed most of the tracking in about a week, but it took me a long time before trying to record vocals. It somehow sounded dull and trivial to my ears, so I had lost interest in finishing the song. Then a couple of weeks ago I felt inspired and I did the vocals. I also added an organ and a Cretan lyra parts, to make the ending section sound a bit more exciting.
Hope you'll enjoy this studio jam, I think it sounds quite unusual if compared to the rest of my stuff, but at the end of the day it's not so bad to listen to.

Teth Sin : acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar, vocals, organ, drums, Cretan lyra

Original composition & lyrics by Lou Reed
Arrangement, mix, mastering, photo & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

I'm Waiting for My Man

I'm Waiting For My Man - VU Cover By Teth Sin

Created using a groove box, stand-alone synth and mastered on a computer.  Got to get a remix.  The mastering drove me nuts.   Getting it right on the groove box level will not achieve the mix that I want.  I don’t want to use a daw.

Floating, Drifting, Transforming

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3h58z92n6UnPlNh3hSMl7y?si=pTvyFx2VRpaDKrZWEBacxQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ioan-eko/1706369033
Bandcamp: https://ioaneko.bandcamp.com/album/the-place-we-grew-up
Youtube: https://youtu.be/dLy14AXQ7jc

Composed & produced by Ioannis Koukourakis
Mastered by Doctor Mix: https://www.doctormix.com/
Original cover art by Ioannis Koukourakis
Cover edit by John Kaimakamis and theNightwatchers

It Came From the Ocean

Born Free 

Little Annie get you gun we got the trouble now 
Learned long ago don’t overstay your welcome 
You’re welcome 
I’m an itchy trigger with my gun on the side 
Ready to ride 
Then I’m out the door before I lose my mind 

When the sun goes down 
Before the moon gets high 
You know I’ve got to go 
And leave this all behind 
I was born free 
Yeah 
I was born free 

If you get away once don’t do it double now 
If you wanna stay freepick and choose don’t lose 
I’m a dirty double dealer with my eyes on the prize 
Ready to ride 
But you know I’ll be gone before you lose your mind 

When the sun goes down 
Before the moon gets high 
You know I’ve got to go 
And leave this all behind 
I was born free 
Yeah 
I was born free

Bornfree

Moonstone

Bandcamp

Hadar

Composed and produced by Kristian Marcussen.

Violin: Josefin Lykken

Solstrålen

In this fictional story, Madlyn, "the little girl dressed in blue" from the track, Climb Up the Ladder is missed by her dad. We've gotten a number of condolence messages. I guess we did a good job on this track!

Ruby LaRue

MADLYN

Hi, I'm Ioan Eko. I launched this project driven by a passion for crafting electronic music.

I don't confine my music to genres; if I were to categorize it, it would be a fusion of electronica, ambient, and soundtrack elements. To me, music serves as a unique form of artistic expression, akin to painting. I use frequencies and sounds to evoke vivid, imaginary landscapes, shapes, and textures within my mind – and I hope to do the same in yours!

You can reach out to me at contact@ioanekomusic.com, and be sure to connect on social media.

It Came From the Ocean

Ioan Eko

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