A lovely song. It so reminds me of Clifford T Ward "Home Thoughts from abroad"

Love your style and this is top work - impressed by such confident and assured songwriting and performance - sounds like youve been doing this all your life - truly accomplished

The connection with the golden age of BritFolk is clear but there is originality here which is quite special. Guildford rules!

Very pretty. Lovely chordal progressions matched by an intimate and emotive vocal performance.

Very nice james😁glad i found your music! I really like your songwriting. Looking forward to listening to more!

we enjoy good stories and good music...you delivered both!

Hey James, this song is really beautiful!

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Enregistré en 1984 avec le groupe Longue Distance
musique Laurent Porte
Recorded in 1984 with a group Longue Distance
music Laurent Porte 

Chanson Préfabriquée

Chanson Préfabriquée (1984)

This is a new song about love and support in very difficult, emotional times. 
Best with headphones. 

Lyrics: 

We hideaway to heal you

Flaking paint on our hotel room window is out of step with the rest of the room
But dark green walls and patterned bathroom tiles, and a fire that offsets the winter gloom,
and a bed with soft pillows,  a huge warming quilt, with coffees and biscuits and tea,
all provide refuge, an oasis of calm, against the storms that life has sent with ferocity….

you said your sad goodbye

Inside here, its peaceful and kind, away from the shock and loss and devastation
But flashbacks of the bedside, final sad hours, medicines and medics and sleep deprivation,
final conversations, the snatching of memories in short breathless whispers, and the final release, with a sigh, tears, black dresses and ties and a eulogy by brothers and sister
Are still there, but there’s comfort in this quiet isolation

We hide away to heal you, you can recharge and get some peace
To shield you from the whirlwind, and let the pressure ease
So you can feel stronger, and able to take the strain
Yes we hide away to heal you

In an old English town, deep inside Sussex, with oak doors and old pubs and grey chimney smoke
surrounded by fields and full bloated river where we walked for miles, held hands and got soaked
then back to the hotel for swimming and resting, tv, hot baths and loving,
reading books, watching people, we stretched out and enjoyed the freedom of just doing nothing

Sleep deeply or talk if you want 

We hide away to heal you, you can recharge and get some peace
To shield you from the whirlwind, and let the pressure ease
So you can feel stronger, and able to take the strain
Yes we hide away to heal you
Yes we hide away to heal you
And it’s all because we love you 
And we’re all here for you

James Whiteman Copyright December 2022

We hideaway to heal you

Instrumental and Mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal melody, Lyrics by Nadia Selvaggi


What Are We?

Divinity's breath --
a shadow appearing
in early morn's lucid dreams
Where unseen gods
plant their symbols and serpentry

​In you and me

Our lost history
that keeps us bound by
the spells of powers unseen
Our imaginations --
the empty halls
painted with hues of agony

What are we?

Our captured souls --
their source of power
Our hands and minds --
their energy
And for their gods
we are the sacrifice,
their offering

​W​e were once free

In a fallen world of illusion
the living dead shield themselves
from beauty and truth
Beguiled and hypnotized
by the chimeras of demons
they cling to their slavery

​Too blind to see

Shaping our thoughts and actions 
with their dark ancient craft
A faceless persuasion 
lights the path to unconsciousness

What Are We? by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Watching the Mysterious People From the Window

Rust & Bones – Fetchflix TV Series – Dick Boneman

soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/rust-bones-new-tv-series-1

Inspector Looso searched the entire manor to find the body of Dick Boneman and found him in a little study hidden behind the library and lighted by a candlestick. No blood, no knife and no rope. Dick Boneman was absolutely alive and perfectly healthy. However, he was laughing his guts. He spent the night preparing his fool trap. He had absolutely no intention to disclose any fraud report to the media that would put the value of Boneman & Sacks Relic Asset Management Inc. down the drain. Instead, he called every broker of the guests to setup a bad joke to his guests and the brokers made them believe during a phone call that their share had no value anymore, which was not exactly true. In fact, Dick Boneman used some of the asset of Boneman & Sacks Relic Asset Management Inc. to buy three Social Media companies, “Switter”, “Analphabet” and “Minigram” for 69 billion dollars with the intention to layoff every employee and replace them with Artificial Intelligence. He then named the new social media company Y. Y would be the greatest misleading social media in the world providing chaos and dumbness to every country on earth. This way Dick Boneman would be the new god of social media and lies. Consequently, Y would be able to help Ronald Dumm to become the leader of his country using stupid catchwords such as "Make Anemics Greed Again". Soon after, on a press release, Dick Boneman declared to all the shareholders of Boneman & Sacks Relic Asset Management Inc. “Rust & Bones is history”, our new moto will be “Mud and Shit is our Bread and Butter”. Dick Boneman is surely as slippery as a fish isn’t he?

THE END

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” 

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography of Marisol Escobar sculpture “The fisherman”: Syrel

Musical Note:

I started this track with a gentle blend of Ravel and Satie to express the underwhelming finding of Inspector Looso. 
https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/rust-bones-betflix-tv-series-inspector-looso
But then, when Dick Boneman started his evil plan to be the social media world leader I felt extreme and my score writing became as bombastic as Hans Zimmer. Was it a good choice? I don’t know. What do you think?

Rust & Bones

Rust & Bones – Fetchflix TV Series – Dick Boneman

Run Away

This song explores the promises of a bright technological future, but behind the promises, is there something more sinister? 

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
I never have to go anywhere I can live my whole life in my chair
They told us all that we were gonna be start children, they didn’t say but I think that plan fell through

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
Lifes as easy as one two three my decisions are all made for me
My teacher told me we all came from  animals, I guess that why they keep us in this cage

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
What I desire I can see from a to z to the birds and the bees
I heard it said they we are living in a brave new world. Sometimes it feels were still living in 84

Vicarious

Stasis

Recorded on a C. Bernstein grand piano and mixed November 2023 at GAM Studio by producer Armen Bedrossian near Paris, mastered by Coponat Records, Pioneers’ is a relaxing and uplifting solo piano piece. It was inspired by Northern America wide natural landscapes: the song describes the amazed feelings of the first pioneers when they discovered this land. The main melody and the second uplifting classical theme stand for a freedom hymn.

Pioneers

Well Adjusted

(no song)

no song - ambient

Soft Focus Road Movie

Waking soft
Waking slow
Fading into focus
Every breath
Every pulse
Holding in the moment
Every fall
Every rise and falling of your shoulders
And I'm trying not to try so hard for you
I'm trying not to try so hard for you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Wake me soft
Wake me slow
Fade me into focus
Every breath
Every pulse
I hold you in the moment
And I'm trying not to try so hard for you
I'm trying not to try so hard for you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Oh, oh, oh
For you

Shoulders (Guitar-Coverattempt)

here's the translation:

I thought I had left her behind
But she always catches up with me
She still hurts me to this day
And has distracted me so many times
Maybe I need more time
I don't want to be sad and I don't want to talk about it
I don't want to encounter all that crap again
I don't want to be sad and I don't want to talk about it
I want a sea between me and my past
A sea between me and everything that was
I want a sea between me and my past
A sea between me and everything that was
I love my friends
And how we are with each other
Still, I have to go somewhere else as soon as possible
Somewhere where the sun shines in winter
Where I can start anew, alone and without a past
Maybe someday I'll learn to forgive
I want a sea between me and my past
A sea between me and everything that was
I want a sea between me and my past
A sea between me and everything that was
I want an ocean
I want an ocean
I want an ocean
I want an ocean
I want an ocean
I want an ocean

Ozean (Guitar - Cover)

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I’m a singer/songwriter from Guildford, Surrey, England. I started writing songs when I was 12 on a piano but really got into it when I started playing the guitar at 13/14. As with so many of us, career and family became the priority and I stopped writing over a 30 year period. Now I’ve retired, I’ve finally got time to write and record again and I love it! 
I play everything on the songs and record on my MacBook on GarageBand. Still learning! 
I hope you enjoy the songs and thank you in advance for any comments and feedback. 
James

We hideaway to heal you

James Whiteman

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