wow Layna, this is a brilliant composition brought to life by your stunning performances both instrumentally and vocally. excellent work!

High Desert

“Dancing in the distance”

おくつきは並びたれどもうつし世に相ひ逢はざりし吾子三人はや
木下利玄 (1886-1925)
出典：『木下利玄全歌集』五島 茂 編　岩波文庫

The graves of three brothers and sisters are side by side. They have never seen each other in this life.
Rigen Kinoshita(1886-1925)
Source: “Complete Collected TANKA(Japanese Short Poem) by Rigen Kinoshita: editing by Shigeru Goto”　Iwanami Shoten Publisher

Art work: RondellMelling via Pixabay

Dancing In The Distance

Down the Rabbit Hole

Sketch(2023) + improv 

It's a little bit selfish piece that packs my favorite atmospheres, such as the midnight waltz and the image of a labyrinth. I sketched it with the image of wandering around looking for the exit from a complicated maze…

Piano sketch 11 Lost In Maze

Rhythm of the Night

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Music and Lyrics by Layna Claunch
Instrumentals and Vocals by Layna Claunch

Fight for the light      
Mine for the truth in darkness
Illusion takes flight
With reality’s face before it

Find the pure life
Truth’s grace is shining on it
No more in strife 
Discerning and learning from it

And the light is now shining It breaks through the clouds 
And your mind is expanding dispelling your shroud
Light has found you has  snatched you from death's dark embrace           
Free to fly in God’s love and to seek out his face

Fight for the light
Share truth and light with others
Guide them to home
Becoming God’s sons and daughters

Lift others up 
Courage to find the center
Of truth and light
God is their joy and mentor

And a light is now shining it breaks through the clouds 
See your heart is expanding dispelling your shroud
God has found you, has snatched you from death's dark embrace
Free to live in his law and rejoice with the brave

Oh, the joy
Oh, the peace
Oh, this light
Given to thee
 
Born in God's arms
Child of God now in covenant 
Loving his law
Trusting his righteous judgment 

Nothing before
Everything in his glory
Filled with his light
Singing to share his story

And a light is now shining it breaks through the clouds 
See your heart is expanding dispelling your shroud
God has found you, has snatched you from death's dark embrace
Free to live in his law and rejoice with the brave

Fight For The Light

playing in castles

A Deeper Joy

This song was written for piano by Hitoshi Yasui, chairhouse of Tokyo, who was generous in allowing me to arrange and record it for guitar. It is from his "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" project. His mission “is to create gentle, calm, peaceful, beautiful, relaxing piano music and share it with all human beings." He writes, records and posts one beautiful piano composition each day. This song, "ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums", is number 1371 from september 16, 2017. His original piano version can be heard here:
https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/ayant-servi-pour-plusieurs-parfums-1371-by-chair-house-09162017

Thanks to Hitoshi for his daily musical watercolors and thanks for allowing me to adapt this for guitar. Please visit and listen to his original piano music @chairhouse.

chairhouse guitar

ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums

Ayant Servi Pour Plusieurs Parfums

¡¡ Warning: very old track with very LO-FI sound !!

A tribute to the heavy origins I wrote on July 1994: two alternating riffs and a 3rd theme for a rest; little by little encouraging voice and of course, distortion on rhythmic and solo guitars.

Tributo al jevi original que escribí en julio de 1994: dos riffs alternados y un 3er motivo para ir descansando, voz que poco a poco se va encendiendo, y claro, distorsión en rítmica y solista.

Lyrics/Letra:

Casi he olvidado el tiempo
 en que podía decirte que no.

He tirado mi cigarro a la noche
y no quiere apagarse,
para seguirla viendo desnuda
a la luz de la calle.

Si hay sí,
pero ni la piscina,
ni los tragos de Passport,
pudieron apagar...
...mi cuerpo, su cuerpo, ¡qué locura! (bis)

Casi he olvidado el tiempo
en que podía decirte que no.

Y ahora vuelvo a estar atrapado
de lo que pude escapar,
ahora vuelvo a ser esclavo
de lo que pude olvidar...
...de ti, de tu cuerpo, nena, ¡qué locura! (bis)

Cuando podía decirte que no (Si hay sí)

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