The Night Fall

Making My Way

This is the first and only take, I started strumming the chords and the boys joined in and nailed it. Dave Toolan is playing the bass for a change, Leon Carter is playing guitar, Jonny Rabbs is playing harmonica,Jim Sanders is on the drums and I'm singing.

Original artwork by my good old friend Adam Glover.
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Lyrics

An eye for an eye
A tooth for tooth
A life for lie
but here’s the truth
You get what you give
And you’ll reap what you sow
So live and let live
It’s time to let go

By taking revenge
you reload the gun
that murdered your father 
and will murder your son
How do you like it?
This merry-go-round
Every generation
fresh blood on the ground

Jerusalem
The City of Peace 
Violent devotion
never to cease
while the scriptures are clear
there’s one Golden Rule
Treat your neighbours
as you’d have them treat you

Forgive Israel
Forgive Palestine
I’ll forgive yours
and you forgive mine
If you want to be safe
don’t intimidate 
Hate begets hate
and grace begets grace

Mitzvah goreret Mitzvah
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An Eye For An Eye

This is about really strong attraction, being unable to resist and understanding the fallout. I was sat listening to someone tell their tale and I realised, as ever, that it would make a great song! I hope you enjoy it. 
Take care 
James 
Mastered by RCD Audio.  Great with headphones! 
Lyrics 
The firepit 

The heat can singe, the brightness blinds
As sparks fly off, I lose track of time
Attraction’s strong, magnetic pull
Entranced by you, seduced, enthralled 

My life, your life, her life, their lives
Changed forever as each second dies  I look into your eyes 

She speaks to me, she shouts my name 
You don’t react,  so I do the same 
She’s hurt and leaves,  I watch her go
Just you and me, finally alone 

My heart, your heart, her heart, their hearts 
Affected by our words and thoughts
In this chaos we’re all caught 

(Chorus)
Under this clear and peaceful, star filled, winter sky 
The tragedy commences 
As our normality collapses 
And the firepit heats the air
As we move closer, you brush your hair 
from your eyes as you smile
And I’m lost 
Yeah I’m lost! 

All eyes on us, the whispers start
But we ignore them all, safe in the dark
We’re closer now, you take my hand
You say “it’s time”, I understand…

My path, your path, her path, their paths 
Set by our actions as the firepit glows
In the darkness we go..

(Chorus)
Under this clear and peaceful, star filled winter sky
We don’t think about the fall out 
No hesitation or doubt
the firepit’s still spitting,
As in the darkness we’re getting
Further from our old lives 

I don’t want to see the morning, 
I don’t want to see the hurt 
I don’t want to see the wreckage
Of everything I burned 
(Repeat) 

James Whiteman copyright 13 February 2024

The Firepit

An atmospheric soundtrack with minimal percussion — electro ambient with piano & bass for occasional neoclassical, jazz, and R&B notes at a very chill 60 bpm to drift along to Cosmic Dust

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While reading about the Archimedean spiral, I stumbled upon an image captured by ALMA of the European Southern Observatory. As seen in my cover art, LL Pegasi shines in a binary star system. There, it and its companion star are “locked in a stellar waltz” that weaves a spiraling cosmic dust trail as they orbit through gaseous material emanating from “old star LL Pegasi.“ (links to full explanation, image, and video in the credits below).

Wonderstruck, I became aware of how universal the spiral is — from sea shells on beaches to star trails in the Pegasus constellation — how human DNA, too, is a spiral chain of atoms, a double-helix that contains genetic code to materialize into physical form as what we call biology of the Natural World. 

Science teaches that everything in the known universe originated in the Big Bang, a topic that, for me, always conjures up Joni Mitchell lyrics from Woodstock — 

We are stardust, we are golden. 
We are billion-year-old carbon.
And we’ve got to get ourselves 
Back to the garden 

— all of which inspired Cosmic Dust. 

Welcome to all, and to science and sci-fi enthusiasts🖖
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DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional keyboard
E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand
Cello Section Legato
French Horns 
Tuba
Flute Solo
Clarinet Solo
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Cinema Strings 
Lunar Strings
Upright Jazz Bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
After The Rain
Crystals & Voices
Classical Ensemble
Blue Cavern 
Glacier Pad 
Space Harp
Rain Harp
E-PERCUSSION:
Timpani
Timpani Crescendo Tremolo
2-Step Remix Kit
European Folk Kit
Goa Remix Kit 

PHOTO CREDIT: 
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/H. Kim et al. 
Celestial spiral with a twist
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1710a/

SOURCE: European Southern Observatory (ESO) via Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celestial_spiral_with_a_twist.jpg

SUNNYBECK altered the ALMA image by duplicating it and changing its hue as a background element while overlaying the original as the main cover image with an outer shadow, and finally adding the Cosmic Dust song title and artist logo. Use of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) image is not an endorsement by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) or by its employees, but the image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Cosmic Dust

If there was only one thing we could do? Electronic music with guitar and vocals. Art work : some of my photography

One Thing

Writing on the Wall

“ Colpi Dritti “  by Luke 

During Medieval & Renaissance days the fencing word..
“Colpi Dritti”…means: “Vadi blows from the right side used to defend one self” as the warriors had to do…

Just a fun experimental piece …

Keys & Piano & Synthesizer & Guitar & Drums  by Luke
Created & Composed & Produced by Luke
Music & Track & Album Photos by Luke
Photography by Luke
I use Open A.i for Album art pictures 

                           Beats by Luke©️
                         S c h ü ß m a n n©️

“Colpi Dritti”  by Luke

Humans are the only species who preserve a lasting relationship from parents to children and vice versa after the offspring has reached adolescence. This can be curse and blessing at the same time in some cases, but overall it is a gift in my view. We will stay the children of our parents for a lifetime obviously. Once you have realized this and don't consider it a threat anymore you are given the chance to close the circle in a peace- and beautiful way.


Photo (c) Laurent Bayeux

One Day When it was Time to Come Home

Another rough 'n ready Improvisation with my Saturna Island friend, illio!

I love his Rhythmic sense. It lets me shuffle 'n dance as i get a little Jazzy. ;-)

May you enJOY!

I'm on my ES7 Stage Piano, and illio is playin' his classical acoustic guitar with gypsy like abandon.  Recorded Live on our ZOOM H2N stereo Mic.

Shufflin'

If only people said the things they really mean,then maybe the world 
would be a better place...
Theres never been a better time to put this track out
Why cant we have more truth and love in our lives?
If theres a lot of lonely people in the world then maybe im one of them and whatever rises shall eventually fall
I vote for love ...peace and friendship...right on

Darkness can not drive out darkness only light can do that
Hate can not drive out hate..only love can do that
[martin luther king]

you gotta get it while you can
[janis joplin]

jim nov 2016

From the inside out

Music producer and filmmaker 
Making and producing original music I hope you enjoy these songs that I make  
Music is creative freedom and artistic expression

From the inside out

Jim Manser