A 4-Star Commended Entry in the 'Crisis & Protest Songs' category of the 2022 UK Songwriting Contest.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all fellow human beings trapped in war zones.
(A bit of a rush job. Written and recorded in an afternoon and posted onto SoundCloud the same day)

This song's message is anti war, I don't want no guns, no more,
People of the world want to live in peace, the simplest way is for war to cease,
Fire one bullet and you've got it wrong, Why don't you listen to the message that's in this song,
People of the world, stand up and unite, all sing together for a peaceful life,

Peace, not war, we want for sure; peace, not war, we want for all,
Peace, not war, you've heard before; peace, not war we need for all

Peace, Not War

Peace, Not War(Graham Williams)©2022 Words Of Wonder Music

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TheAlbumLeaf - OPUS

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

This track is from the album Dream Recall and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/andysalvanos4

Summer

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

A short adventure on the chords from my tune "Prayer For Safe Passage" --- this from July of 2015, but there is quite a bit of evolution going on with this form. Probably revolution is a better word!!

Safe Passage Jam-A-Round (short 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.