'Don't Hold Your Breath' is a lively Jazz Fusion track. And is my tribute to the memory of the remarkable Joe Zawinul.

Bring It To The Table

Don't Hold Your Breath

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…

how many layers can you peel from my heart?
and yet still, I am standing here, holding you tight
my arms enfolding you as promises of all
the everything you ever dreamed, that could come true

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

now, as the sun sinks down behind a winter sky
you are snarling as a wildling,  all the snares you have laid,
flowers lying broken, all the bottles overturned
all the ashes spilling over, all the bridges that you burned, you burned, you burned...

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart
 (but something’s broken and I can’t bring it back)

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…
although it hurts so much, to stay

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

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Written made sung and played by Emma

hard it is so easy now...

Thinking about You

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/waQhU47-p6c
Vocals by me
Piano by The Piano Nest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClrvoh_d5IxPlu6-zbkjOzQ

María Elena's Album

You Raise Me Up (with video)

Thank you to my awesome boyfriend Sander for a new magical drum and bass track to sing! Sooo much fun. @wane-of-summer for more awesome music. 😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

SECOND NATURE (Wane of Summer and Annie Smart)

Uilleann Pipes.(sekkepipe),  Whistle and Accordion : Phil Dale https://soundcloud.com/philleann
Piano , Cover design by Debra:  Debra Buesking https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli
I warmly thank Phil and Debra for this collaboration.
Like most people, I have heard this song many times, read the poem.
 But now I understand the depth of this poem, so sore and fragile. 
Thank you from heart Debra and Phil,  two wonderful musicians. A JOY.

If you need one poem for regrets in your life, then it must be this poem. 

Down by the Salley Gardens was written by W B Yeats (1889), who is generally known as one of Ireland’s greatest poets.

    Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
    She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
    She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
    But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

    In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
    And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
    She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
    But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

 Yeats published the poem in his collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889. 
In a note on the poem, he said that he was trying to reconstruct an old song he had heard being sung by a woman in the village of Ballisodare in Sligo.

Down by the Salley Gardens was written as a poem and remained that way until 1909 when Herbert Hughes set it to music using the old Irish melody, The Maids of Mourne Shore.

Salley Gardens. Debra Buesking. Philleann. Oddrun Eikli.

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Dark Eyes
Listen in the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/in-a-dialogue-with-gravity-and
Based on a Gypsy melody which became very successful in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's.
Duration: 2:15
Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) premiers two contemporary ballets June 3-4. Inspired by the relationships architects and dancers share with gravity, “In A Dialogue with Gravity” explores the connection between architecture, dance, and its people. In the second act, “Matisse’s Gardens,” the forms, colors, and space of Matisse’s famed cutouts forms the foundation for this contemporary ballet.
Cover design by Maire-Jose Payannet
For strings, accordion, saxes. piano, basson and percussion

In a Dialogue with Gravity and Matisse's Gardens – Dark Eyes

I live in a bubble
Safe from the decay
And rubble
I don’t feel things 
like I used to
My feelings can’t seem 
To break through
I am becoming numb
But not in a comfortable way
I’m numb to the violence
To the suffering and the pain
I live in a bubble
I stay out of trouble
The world is spinning
Out of control
But I found a loophole
I live in a bubble
I stay out of trouble
Everything is spinning
Out of control
I live in a bubble
I live in a bubble

I Live In A Bubble

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart  ( COVER - Original by Joy Division )

Redemption is an original track set up by Mirko Borach soundcloud.com/stringburner. In Mirko's words: "The title Redemption aims to signify the balance between the human soul and nature in a spiritual way of life far away from the hustle and bustle and the drab monotony of everyday life.".

This track brings to mind the glorious days of seventies fusion with bands like Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Weather Report. Mirko, aka Stringburner, sent us the outline of this track with some splendid bass work and percussion. 

Dan van den Berg soundcloud.com/danarchx on acoustic guitar, Jamie Rhind soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind on synthesizer & Julien Apelian soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1 on piano and keyboards joined in on Mirko's request to really make this a virtual band effort where each player is featured. We are very proud of the result.

We had a great time pulling this together and hope you now will too. The photo of the beautiful waterfall was taken in Costa Rica by Jamie. As always we really appreciate your comments, likes and shares!

Bass guitar, bass arrangements and tabla percussion programming by Mirko Borach
Acoustic guitar and guitar arrangements by Dan van den Berg
Synthesizer and co-production by Jamie Rhind
Synthesizers and piano, drum programming, arrangements, mixing and production by Julien Apelian
October 2015

Redemption - Mirko Borach, Dan Van Den Berg, Jamie Rhind & Julien Apelian

With this composition I wish all of my friends here on SC a Happy and Blessed New Year.....As the title says, "Time will tell", and hope it brings to all of you everything you wish for....
Have a safe Journey this year.....

Art work by ha-nguy-n-as on Unsplash

Le Temps Dira Opus 2

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Music is a passion, i'm keyboardist and love to play some guitar, bass and drums as well.
Compositions, recording, mixing and mastering at Audio Colors Studio.