The Valuable Friends:

@rick-4-1 - Refuge Drums
@janinelevinson - Haven Vocals
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Asylum Stuff

SANCTUARY

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere
 
Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
Old friends, no more these sounds! 
Let us sing more cheerful songs 
More full of joy! 
More full of joy!
Joy, bright spark of divinity, daughter of Elysium 
Fire-inspired we tread thy Sanctuary 
Sanctuary…

Joy!

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere

Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
All you millions, I embrace you 
Well this kiss is for all the world
And you millions, oh I embrace you all
This kiss is for everyone 
All the world…

© Aug 2023 Phil McWalter

Lyrics and music inspired by Friedrich von Schiller's (1759-1805) poem: "A die Freude" [Which also appears in the choral fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - 'Ode to Joy'.]

Image: The Sanctuary, Avebury, Wiltshire UK. Dates from 2,500BC

"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
from 'The Faerie Queene' Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

Sanctuary

Spotify

Book of Sighs

'Harder Better Faster Stronger' - Daft Punk (TJ's Dirtbag Sax mix)

I couldn't resist revisiting my tilt at this 1980's classic from The Korgis, now with Rick!

@rick-4-1: Teaching The Drums
@phil-mcwalter: Learning The Other Stuff

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - The Korgis

Change your heart
Look around you
Change your heart
It will astound you
I need your lovin'
Like the sunshine

And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Yea ea eah

Songwriting credit: James Edward Warren / The Korgis

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime II

Kintsugi is an art form that embodies the philosophy of wabi-sabi which values the beauty of imperfection and transience. Kintsugi also serves as a metaphor for embracing our flaws and imperfections in life seeing them as a source of strength and beauty and finding resilience in the face of adversity. 

Kintsugi

Waiting for Spring, is the title track of my new album, available at https://timhopkins2.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-spring.  Winters where I live in Canada, can be long and harsh.  We always look forward to springtime.

Bandcamp

Waiting for Spring

Für Elise is surely one of the most famous compositions of all time, by Ludwig van Beethoven, the German composer from the 17 & 1800s. Famous for getting the kroovy boiling of Alex from A Clockwork Orange, and famous for many other things, being deaf for instance, this piece is instantly recognizable on piano or guitar.

I hope my rendition of Für Elise proves to be the same. I tried to pick out the most recognizable part by ear, then added my own guitar elements to fill it out and give it my own spin. Those guitar parts may feel blasphemous and out of the spirt of the original documentation of Für Elise. But, they were fun to play and I hope you enjoy listening to these Für Elise variations on acoustic guitar.

Für Elise Variations for Guitar - Ludwig van Beethoven

Summer Ease

forever wondering
if I was ever really
up for the moment
in the bright city lights
and the dark, wet streets

just a humid memory

Goodbye, good night

Null

A track using the Kristiansand Octave Cascade Piano available for free at:

www.pianobook.co.uk/library/kristiansand-octave-cascade

(All delay effects are included in the instrument)

Octave Echos (Kristiansand Octave Cascade demo)

Jim Sanger