Episode XXXIV features music songs, bird songs, harmony songs, prison songs, drill songs, Irish songs and Sicilian songs.

Tracklist:

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill – The Night Poor Larry Was Stretched
Planxty - Pat Reilly
Nightingales and Beatrice Harrison - The Derry Air
David Harper - The Turfman from Ardee
Skara Brae - An Cailín Rua
The Voice Squad - The Banks of the Bann
Francie Byrne - The Wild Irishman
Wade Ward - Old Jimmy Sutton
Rosa Balistreri - Buttana di to ma
The Dubliners – Lag Song
Ronnie Drew – Easy and Slow
Sello - Process
Sello feat. Offica - Oggy
Seán ‘ac Dhonncha - Liam Ó Raofille
Denis Murphy - The Queen of O’Donnell
Joe Mulherron - The Wee White Turban
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - O’Reilly’s Greyhound / Palmer's Gate
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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXIV

I'm working here with flowing rhythms, maybe the kind of sounds that come from a babbling brook. This is probably closer to nature than most of the recent work I've done.

Louie - Very Free and Easy

stream/download: https://www.adamdodsonmusic.com/listen/all-this-time

watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/i3A7TLcJjPI

All This Time

"Floating with Clouds" is a harmonious and soothing atmospheric soundscape, crafted to promote deep relaxation.   This piece emerged from an evolving chord progression and experimentation with a Valhalla DSP effect plugin that evoked the sensation of soaring through clouds.

Created with a Jerry Rockwell 3-string equidistant hourglass mountain dulcimer (featuring a LACE California Acoustic Magnetic pickup) routed through Logic Pro and Valhalla DSP effects plugins, the song leverages the dulcimer's distinct, gentle, and resonant sound, often characterized by sustained drone notes that provide a rich harmonic foundation. 

Though this song's current form leaves you wishing for more, it's a promising glimpse into future of longer explorations of this ethereal style.

Floating With Clouds

"Counting the Stars" is a meditative, atmospheric soundscape designed for tranquility. Inspired by an attempt to count the countless stars in a vast desert sky, this piece uses a long chord progression to evoke an experience beyond words.

Created with a Jerry Rockwell 3-string equidistant hourglass mountain dulcimer (featuring a LACE California Acoustic Magnetic pickup) routed through Logic Pro and Valhalla DSP effects plugins, the song leverages the dulcimer's distinct, gentle, and resonant sound, often characterized by sustained drone notes that provide a rich harmonic foundation.

Counting the Stars

Wouldn't it be nice to be floating on the Loch.
Washburn R305 guitar, tuning C G C G C E  Open C I love this tuning.
Mandolin is my 1928 Gibson A2.

Visions of the Loch

"Desert Echoes: Drifting Through Time" is an ambient soundscape - tranquil, atmospheric with echoes blending with a soothing melodic improvisation.  This long and slow moving song provides us with an opportunity to relax, reflect, and breathe.

I created this song as a study of the Mixolydian Mode.  It has an atmospheric drone with melodic improvising emphasizing the flatted 7th note resulting in the unique Mixolydian sound.  I made it with a MIDI keyboard, Logic Pro, and Valhalla DSP.

The soothing qualities of this song make it a good background to relax, focus and/or do creative work.

Desert Echoes: Drifting Through Time

This mellow track features a simple arrangement centered around a harmonica, enhanced with delay and reverb to create a soothing atmosphere.  

The first two tracks, crafted using a MIDI keyboard, provide depth and immersion, forming an airy and dreamlike backdrop with a two-octave C chord.  The third track  introduces a C blues harmonica, improvising away in a mostly slow tempo that may evoke a sense of relaxation and introspection.  

The overall effect feels as if the harmonica is gently drifting from a distance allowing space to connect with thoughts and emotions.



Hello, Jeff from Afar

Shepherd Moons

How Can I Keep from Singing? (2009 Remaster)

This one originally came out on Nine Meditations for Dulcimer, but I had it in B minor there. Still, the tuning is the familiar DAD

Cuckoo Elegy (E Minor Ambient Version)

From the 1990 album "Into The Fever Rain". Jerry is one of the best dulcimer players in the USA (Check out his soundcloud page). He's playing rock Appalachian dulcimer as if a rhythm guitarist while I'm playing a mini-guitar > Electric 5-string Mandolectra tuned in a guitar register as well as bass.

Blues In D - Jerry Rockwell & Niles Hokkanen

I'm a one-man music laboratory -- mostly centered around the electric and acoustic mountain dulcimer, which I make myself in my workshop in South East Ohio, and more often these days in Wooster, which is Northeast Ohio.

I'm currently working with the aspects of the mountain dulcimer which tend to calm and soothe -- though I go through strong reactionary cycles now and again, when I have had enough of the meditative stuff. Sometimes this takes the form of wild filter-synched electronica, and sometimes it is more bluesy.

My music contains many influences, with Celtic music being the primary one most of the time. I've always been an improviser, and I have had some formal jazz training (Ohio State WI-89 BA Music), though I'm not a jazz musician by any stretch. 

I love working with extremely simple, circular chord progressions: those progressions that seem to go on for hours and are hard to stop playing. There is a strong minimalist vibe to this.

I also love the DRONE which is one of the most appealing aspects of the mountain dulcimer. These days, I tend more toward arpeggiating the open drone strings of the dulcimer, rather than the more strident strummed drone typical of the more traditional styles of playing.