Some of you will be familiar with this tune, and indeed it has been modified to include a bit of audio which was the basis of the theme. This bit of audio is the original recording of Stephen around 1982. I had looked for that recording for decades to be included just before the start off this song. Also, most recently I had redoubled my effort to find it to play for my beautiful wife as  she lay on her death bed. But, alas, I was only to find it the very day after her passing.

As you might imagine, the old cassette tape was full of hiss. So, my good friend and mentor, Sander (https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer), volunteered to help subtract that flaw and render Stephen's little voice to crystal clarity. Well, that is very much part of Sander's trademark. Thank you, Sander.

And below follows the original description of the song:


This is a song from a child which has no voice of his own. Having succumbed to the side effects of a childhood vaccination, he was never able to learn the spoken word...though through some miracle he seems to have developed perfect pitch. 

How would I know? Well, if I pick up various objects which can make a tone if they are blown into, though he may have heard it only once before, he will sometimes sing the note as it is being picked up. Blow into that object and, sure enough, he is in tune with it.

He was only about 3 years old when we were trying in vain to get him to speak into a tape recorder. Instead, he came up with this tune, which I decided to just add accompaniment. The original recording actually had his voice on it, but it has been lost over the years.

Stephen's Song (REMIX)

featuring @4catsncoffee on violin
:
One last wander past the mountain stream... 
only sunrise is a guitar-based folk rock tune with southern gothic echoes. the closing track of the d'ville EP >https://soundcloud.com/jh0st/sets/dville
:
-------------lyrics

This is the only sunrise
Edge of the amber darkness (cut the)
veins of blue mountain water…

A path to the lullaby wind
We're stumbling… 
not knowing the
The child from within

[@4catsncoffee on violin]
This is the flash of madness
Traced in the scraping branches…

A path to the lullaby wind
Sung by the…
child that sees out from within
Gravity, on and on (and on…)
Spots on the sun
Sung by the…
devil behind those closed eyes

Yes, promises chase the magic
breath, skipping the one heartbeat between
Faces and thousands of lullabies end in a single word

This is the only sunrise

2021

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only sunrise [ft. 4catsncoffee]

A musical piece for a concept of Unclearpicture. In this composition, the atmosphere offers an impression of escape by the underlying rhythm of the percussions which seems to give a kind of tempo to the quest. It is a step as if vertigo surprised the impossible immobility of the one who seeks to leave or perhaps find himself. Moreover, the rhythms are entangled where simply some chords seem to punctuate the composition. A kind of slow and heavy movement. 

Un morceau musical pour un concept d'Unclearpicture. Dans cette composition, l'ambiance offre une impression de fuite de par le rythme sous-jacent des percussions qui semble donner une sorte de tempo à la quête. C'est un pas comme si le vertige surprenait l'immobilité impossible de celui ou celle qui cherche à partir ou se retrouver peut-être. D'ailleurs les rythmes s'enchevêtrent là où simplement quelques accords semblent ponctuer la composition. Une sorte de mouvement lent et pesant.

Toile, alchimie de l'espace

Date de publication: 08/06/2023

Musique, arrangements, claviers: Leia & C.M
Mixage, mastering: C.M

Voix: Leslie

© Leia  S.V & C.M 2023, All Rights Reserved.

Even If We Fight

Adventine B

A HUGE thank you to J.J. for the piano masterpiece of beauty.

Contributions:

Piano: J.J. Terrell
https://soundcloud.com/j-j-terrell
Lyrics, Vocals, Mix : Tam Jennifer

Note on Lyrics - Tam Jennifer

This is a dark one - so a disclaimer for my listeners - one of my inspirations for this was from the thought experiment "Imagine one hand clapping" that we use in yoga or meditation practice, mixed with the idea of "Unstruck" - The word associated with the heart. The Unstruck Sound. - A beautiful way of thinking of it. 
So mixing these ideas - makes it fairly straightforward to produce a love song featuring (what I hope is ) a fairly accurate portrayal of what love can sometimes feel like - in all its complexity.

🩷
💜
 

Lyrics

There's something in the air between us, my dear.
It's a whisper that you can't, hear.
There's something in the air between us, my friend.
An agony - we can't comprehend. 
.
In this space between, you and me,
Is an ache so deep, and lonely,
With a climb so steep, to get there,
The air is thin, it's suffocating, oh! 
Just out of reach. 
Like a memory, oh! 
But the weight of this is crushing, oh! 
Where do I end?
And where do you begin?
I gave you my heart, to keep,
Safe.
Safe.
You promised me! 
.
Calm, calm, calm and slow. 
Darken the windows.
Hope is a long road.
Time is a quick trick.
.
Calm, calm, calm and slow!
Darken the windows. 
Hope is a long road.
Balancing in the thick, thick.
.
It's like, God, wrote me a poem. 
-
And now I know I'm alive. 
Alive. 
.
It has to have a place to go! 
So you MUST know. 
Your face is perfectly placed - 
Your face is perfectly placed - 
.
On Love's Road. 
.
-End-

© Tam Jennifer Hastings, J.J. Terrell, 2024. All rights reserved.

Love's Road (with J.J.Terrell on Piano, 2024)

Ambient Loop #19 (Bb)

Hidden World

Emerald Realm

I love all my kids but if you are a parent of one or more little ones you know how it feels some days  😂

This is How Parenting Feels Like

Is My Name Stan.mp3

Timesquare (2006) Tangerine Dream Cover

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