A very big thank you to the following artists it was a great pleasure to work with you over the past few years. 
Finn Eces, Randy Souviney, Debra Buesking, Jeff Roberts, Doug Roossien, Liam from Default Sensor and Raphael Muhr, Nadine de Macedo.
@finn_eces
@doug-roossien
@debra_buesking 
@user-427228031
@rsouviney 
@jeff_roberts
@default_sensor
https://soundcloud.com/nadinedemacedo?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Collaborations

Some songs take something special to bring them to life and in this case it is the Amazing voice of Finn Eces. Finn has a quality to his voice which is able to release the magic from a song and really express the message of the song in the Vocal with passion and beauty, very happy to have this collaboration with him. 

this song has been bugging me for months trying to get it to realize its potential and to get the feeling out of the song, i have already released  it under of the name of " Searching for your love" but i was never 100% Happy with it I hope all my SoundCloud friend agree that this is now a really Beautiful song. Finn can be found @finn_eces 

Written By : Johnny Mc Farlane 
Guitars: Johnny
Bass and Drums :Finn Eces 
Vocals  : Finn Eces 
Arrangement and Mastering : Finn Eces 

I hope you enjoy this song as much as i do .

Because Our Love Is Real : Featuring Finn Eces

I am delighted to have a opportunity to Collaborate with Liam from Default Sensor and Finn Eces on this track. Liam as well as playing bass on the track has been a constant source of Inspiration and Friendship since last March when we all got Lockdown and began finding other ways of communicating with each other. Liam is an amazing songwriter and musician please you can listen to more of his music @Default_Sensor and Finn as well as having an great voice is also a great songwriter and musician hear more of his music @Finn_Eces i want to thank both Liam and Finn for their huge contribution to The Evolution of Men. Finn Sang all backing vocals on the song and gave great advice on Mixing. Many thanks Guys.

the song itself is about Our Evolution as Mankind we are evolving in one way but are we being blind by Financial considerations, are we forgetting about the Planet that we are borrowing from our children and future generations Evolution should be the solution to our continuing Pollution but can we see this....Hope you enjoy the song anyway ..

Evolution Of Man  (Collaboration with Default Sensor and Finn Eces )

For you was written for my wife to let her know that there is no room for anyone else in my heart except her from the moment we met, through our lives together and until the end of time and into eternity. For you is a promise and a pledge of everlasting love. 

the song was an idea a seed with lyrics, music and a sort of a structure and once again the amazing talent of my Friend Finn Eces has helped to bring this beautiful tune to life with his unique voice and production talents. Finns is a master at capturing the magic of a song and helping to release it's full potential. Thank you once again Finn for your input into FOR YOU . Finn can be found @finn_eces. Hope you enjoy the song 

Written by: Johnny McFarlane 
Guitars: Johnny 
Strings  : Johnny & Finn
Bass, Percussion and other backing: Finn Eces 
Mixing & Production : Finn Eces 
Mastering : Finn Eces

For You ( Featuring Finn Eces )

Anyone who has stood on a stage will associate with this song its a Ballad for a Ballad singer, expressing the experiences and heart felt feeling of the Ballad singers and entertainers the world over. I hope you like it. It is a collaboration between myself and Finn Eces.

Listen to more of  Finn Eces : @finn_eces 


Written by: Finn Eces and Johnny Mc Farlane 
All instruments : Finn Eces 
Vocals : Finn Eces 
Electric Guitar : Johnny Mc 
Arrangement and Production : Finn Eces

Ballad For A Ballad Singer featuring Finn Eces

This is a new arrangement and production of my song Golden Sun.  Jeff Roberts has transformed this song giving it a more modern and vibrant feel and i want to thank Jeff for the time he has spent working on the song,  a great transformation.  Check out Jeffs other songs @jeff_roberts 
Here is a link to the original if you want to have a listen https://soundcloud.com/johnnymc2/golden-sun-acoustic-rock-mix-1?si=52583dfe63704379949e27572a6ebf17


Its a song dedicated to our children who have to leave home to find a better life, May they be safe and come home soon.

Written by : Johnny Mc Farlane
New arrangement and production : Jeff Roberts

Golden Sun   Featuring Jeff Roberts

Music and orchestration by: Raphael Muhr  https://soundcloud.com/user-427228031
Lyrics and Vocals : Johnny Mc Farlane  

Raphael Muhr is a very talented German composer and he sent me the music to this track Beidh rath ar Éirinn and asked if i could come up with some lyrics We have been working on this song for a while now and in the end decided to go back to the 1st Version which had the feel that we liked best . So here it is. The original version of the song is on Raphael's page ..link above . thank you Raphael for giving me this opportunity to write the lyrics and sing your very beautiful song.  

This is an Anti-war song, set in Ireland during 1916 Easter Rising and referencing  the song "When Johnny comes Marching home" , except in  many cases Johnny didn't come marching home. The story in the song is told from the eyes of a woman who is standing in a station waiting for her beloved to return but in her heart she knows that isn't going to happen. This song is dedicated to all the people in the Ukraine fighting for their homes, their freedom and for their Lives to let them know that we are praying for them and that we support them in their struggle for freedom.

Lyrics . 
She stood with the crowd to see if Johnny Came marching home 
As the solders disembarked the Army train she stood alone 
She held her breath and clutched her heart and she prayed in the pouring rain 
That sweet johnny  would come home and that  she would see him once again 
As the band played a march she thought she saw him get off the train 
Head held high, shoulders back so she ran through the morning rain 
With tears in her eyes she called his name johnny are you home again 
But all she heard was the army band as it played a sad refrain 

And  all she heard was a whisper on the wind and all she felt was pain 
For she knew that johnny didn’t make it home and she would never see his sweet sweet face AGAIN 

as the station emptied she stood  on the platform all alone
For Johnny didn’t make it back poor lad never made it home 
And her poor heart was broken like the rocks on the shamrock shore 
For she knew that she would see her Johnny anymore  

She roamed the mountains and the valleys wide 
She was the banshee of the night she wailed and she cried 
Until the day that johnny came to take her form this land
She kissed his lips, she held him tight and then she took his hand.

Johnny Didn't make it home (Raphael Muhr)

About the Artists :
It has been my great pleasure to have worked with Finn Eces and Debra Buesking  on this track. 
Debra’s amazing piano playing has transformed this song and added some real Magic into the song carrying the lyrics on a Musical Magic carpet and Finns Vocal and Production have lifted the song to new heights and added a new dimension. It has been a great pleasure to have worked with such Talented people.  
Debra and Finn can be found at the following please check out their SoundCloud pages for more amazing music.
Finn Eces: Vocals and Production @finn_eces 
Debra Buesking  : Piano  @debra_buesking 

About The Song 
THE ROAD is a song about Life, how we all can loose our way and how we are all only human, but the big message in the song is that no matter how wrong we go, or how lost we get that we can always change our direction and take another path and that we all need good friends to help each other on our way ... that' s the great thing about Life....Its never too late to change the ROAD that you are travelling on.

Song Written by :  Johnny Mc Farlane

The Road: Featuring Finn Eces & Debra Buesking

Words and music, vocals  : Johnny Mc Farlane 
Orchestration and all musical backing: Raphael Muhr https://soundcloud.com/user-427228031?utm
Cover design and painting by Raphael. 

I want to take this opportunity to thank my good friend Raphael Muhr for the amazing backing and orchestration of this Love song and for his painting which we used for cover of the song. His playful and inspiring musical Accompaniment has added so much to this song giving it colour and dept and raising it to another musical level. I am not a trained singer as anyone who has listened to my music before will vouch for, but Raphale pushed my vocals to a new height in this song ( Probably as high as I could go to be honest ) and i want to thank him for his patience and hard work . 

About the song 
In these dark days that we are living in at the moment it is sometimes hard to believe that love exists, but yet everyday there are thousands of unselfish acts of love and human kindness towards our fellow man, woman and child by ordinary people who still hold Love in their hearts. This song is for them. Love always triumphs over hate and Evil eventually.

Love is everywhere
A shooting star lights up the sky, a weeping willow starts to cry 
As the summer breeze, blows through the trees
A rainbow fills the morning sky, a new born baby starts to cry 
As the summer breeze blows through the trees,

Chorus
The River of life is flowing everywhere and everywhere love Is there 
The river of life is flowing everywhere and ev…re….where…..love is there 


Love is there in that star at night , love shows the way love shines it s light 
For you and me to keep us free
Love is there in that baby’s cry in that rainbow that fills up the sky 
In that summer breeze blowing through the trees.

Love is there   in that rainbows end 
Love is there   when you need a friend 
Love is there in that darkest night 
Love Is there its your guiding light
when that shooting star light up the sky , when that new born bay starts to cry 
When that summer breeze blows through the trees

Love is Everywhere (Orchestration and cover painting by Raphael Muhr)

This song was written by Doug Roossien https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingand when i hear it i fell in love with it. It's a song about life and love as most Country based songs are but this song has a great drive and passion in it. Doug wrote this song many moons ago along with a whole Aladdin's cave of pearls and gems, he is a first class song writer. i would strongly recommend for you to visit his SoundCloud site to hear some more really amazing songs. 

I was very honored when Doug asked my if i would like to write a backing track and produce this song  for him and i have to say its one of those songs that i just love to listen to. 
Hope you do too
Thanks you Doug

Sad River_ Written by Doug Roossien_Backing track and Production _ Johnny Mc Farlane

This is a really beautiful song written by Doug Roossien https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing  

this is the fourth song that Doug and I have collaborated on and i am very honored to be a part of these truly beautiful songs expressing lost love and an emotional journey to the edge of Love and back.  I think a lot of people will really associate with this one in particular. 

Thank you Doug. 

Hope you enjoy.

Johnny Mc Farlane

Tears You Just Can't Cry_Written By Doug Roossien _ Backing track and production _Johnny Mc Farlane

Dust is a song about leaving things behind to enforce personal growth. Pondering about your past, you can become blind to your present and the growth in between. This emotional dust has to be blown off the surface. Stop negative self talk and realize, that the things you did in the past have been done by your former self. Accept, that there is wrong about it and that there is no way to change certain decicions. Though having the same goal, the person you are today may solve things differently. Special thanks to the band for recording and to Berni Armstrong for tweaking the lyrics.

Nadine de Macedo: composition, arrangement, production, lyrics, programming
intoyourlight: vocals
Johnny Mc Farlane: guitars
Seppo: bass

Where to find us:
https://soundcloud.com/nadinedemacedo
https://soundcloud.com/user-851624740
https://soundcloud.com/johnnymc2
https://soundcloud.com/user-152719767

==== LYRICS ====

I suffocate in an album full of memories
Try to recreate beautiful sceneries
But now all I can see is how I used to be

I can feel
How it's taking over me
Fill my lungs with dust
Misfortune and mistrust

I can't breathe
Cause it's bursting inside me
All covered up with snow
It's time to gain control

I dig into shattered hopes and prophecies
Inhaling life with all its tragedies
But now all I can see is how I used to be

I can feel
How it's taking over me
Fill my lungs with dust
Misfortune and mistrust

I can't breathe
Cause it's bursting inside me
All covered up with snow
It's time to gain control

Can't take my eyes off you
You're just someone I knew
Come take my hand, take me away!

Goodbye to my former self
I'll be somebody else
No regrets and no return!

I can feel
How it's taking over me
Clear my lungs from dust
Misfortune and mistrust

I can breathe
While it's bursting inside me
All covered up with snow
I’ve finally gained control

Ah, clear my lungs from dust!
Ah, clear my lungs from dust!

Dust (feat. intoyourlight)

This song was written by my good Friend Doug Roossien https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien who very kindly asked me to collaborate with him on this beautiful song. The song is about loss, loosing the person you have lived with all your life and the stranger you become without them. 
 There is a great tenderness to the song that i tried to keep and to underline and highlight certain  areas by dropping the musical backdrop and pushing the vocals up to clearly hear the expression in Dougs vocal. Its a pleasure to work with such a great songwriter and i always admire the amount of passion Doug expresses in his vocals . Thank you Doug for another fine song.

Written by : Doug Roossien https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Musical backing, Arrangement & Production : Johnny Mc  Farlane ( No Killie Fish )

Stranger In My Life Master : Written by Doug Roossien

Sometimes a song needs a special touch to bring it to its full potential and Finn  once again has transformed this very average little ugly Duckling song into a beautiful elegant White Swan  and lifted it to a height that only he can with his amazing vocal & production talents. Listen to more of Finns Songs https://soundcloud.com/finn_eces?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The song is about an ordinary Guy, could be you and I, He has no wings, he's good and he's bad, he's human not an Angel but when you need someone he is the one who is there for you in your hour of need and always will be , because he's  Solid. He's your friend . 
Thank you Finn. 

Written by : Johnny Mc Farlane 
Performed & arranged by : Finn eces

Ordinary Guy : Featuring Finn Eces

I am a singer/songwriter from Ireland loving SoundCloud and the ability to be able to put my songs up here for people to listen to and comment and to be able to collaborate with other musicians around the world is really amazing. Loving the technology that makes all this home recording and sharing possible and  i am totally knocked out by the talent out there it is frightening and brilliant and i am in awe and very happy to be part of this amazing forum.

Collaborations

No killie fish