This piece sounds mournfully haunted. I love the chanting harmonies.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3VJvpPd81GGvDLprLa1YfR

https://music.apple.com/fr/album/i-swear-single/1629259528

https://amazon.fr/music/player/albums/B0B3V9FJJ9?marketplaceId=A13V1IB3VIYZZH&musicTerritory=FR&ref=dm_sh_kA73fz7d4cNyIcF6AuDvPTYzS

Acheter sur Spotify

I Swear

Asylum

Old Timer's Eulogy

Thistledown

Oh it's a rainy day, turning my heart upside down

Raindrops, raindrops, pitter patter all over this town

It's just a day, just a day

But these blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown


And what are we to do, is this deva vu

Cos I think that i've been here before

And it's all the same, with another name

We don't get what we have asked for

It's just a day, another day

These blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown

It's just a day, a rainy day

These blues are bringing me down

It's just a day, another day

Blown away like thistledown

Thistledown

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 7 6

Perhaps best known by Roberta Flack’s beautiful recording, this song was written by Irishman Ewan MacColl back in the 50’s. I recorded this on my iPhone VoiceMemos and simply added a harmony later. It’s a straight forward, simple acoustic interpretation of these lovely lyrics of love.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Ewan MacColl cover)

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco
https://youtu.be/Z7n2pdZi22s

Northern Lights

14 - 6-2022 vocals  Cees
A Winter's Waltz

Too many dancers
have left the hall
Out in the cold
where snow falls down
The night flies by so quickly
you could blink and never see it,
again...

Up in the sky
a pale moonlight
All of this war
just feels insane.
City burns, life cut short
without sense or purpose
I want to hear 
a winter's Waltz

All of them dreams
and hope for future plans
May still come to pass
As long as this train can reach Berlin,
As the eastern front is almost reaching Paris
again

I see you think
the tide has passed
the ship has sailed,
 on a transient wave
 lighthouse signals fast
  you could blink and never see it
but it comes around again

Too many roads have turned to ice
and promisses unmasked as lies
 a hellish cold is coming
you could freeze and never know it

So play me a waltz
"Muse of many twinkling feet"
measure and step
In a winter's waltz again ...

A Winter's Waltz

bandcamp

Written and Produced by: Josh McAlexander

Nowhere To Run {Original}

Here I created and sang some vocals over a nice jazz theme of Luis Lapa

É publicar ou perecer, disseram-me os cientistas.
Eu publiquei com sucesso, mas, ainda assim, eu pereço.
O sucesso é um fardo solitário.
É impossível ler e responder a milhões de seguidores.
Eu até gostaria de o ter feito,
se eu tivesse tido uma vida bem mais longa.
Mas eu agora estou a afogar-me numa praia apinhada de gente.
Todos têm a certeza que alguém virá salvar-me,
e, por isso, ninguém vem.
Perco a força, vou ao fundo,
e assim me entrego ao meu baptismo final,
de olhos bem abertos,
para ver a dança solene dos sacos de plástico.

Eles são todos milhões de inúteis seguidores...

Sozinho Na Multidão (Based on Flufal by Luis Lapa)

another rant........im not sure what my fish thought about it

The Joke's On You

Guts all over the Carpet

I requested SoundCloud to create a filter in the stream that would allow me to listen only what you post, not what you repost (I'm more interested in the tracks you create than the tracks you like). Could you join me in that request? I noticed that my stream can easily be flooded by reposts. The temporary solution is to stop following those who repost a lot (i.e. a ratio repost/post above 20).

I've been making music with Pedro Castro since 1972. At the time, we created the alternative rock band Petrus Castrus. The music I'm placing here are just the home recordings of ongoing projects. Petrus Castrus edited records can be found on Spotify and Soundcloud. See the Facebook Petrus Castrus page for more details, including comments about the recordings uploaded here. Enjoy! 
We are both amateur musicians, i.e. music lovers. As for me, I'm just an electrical engineer with a master in AI.

Sozinho Na Multidão (Based on Flufal by Luis Lapa)

José F Castro - JFC (Petrus Castrus)

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