Great song Len! I love it! Awesome vocals! I'm like you self-taught, retired, and have written hundreds of songs! Keep it up!👍

A lovely simple message that didn't get lost in crazy production values!

Good song.  Always like this approach....like a letter, or phone call, real or imagined.  And that guitar is so clean.

Excellent song. Great lyrics and vocals 👍

really like the melody and vocal..pensive feeling lyrics..like the chorus

...Nevertheless, I'll go on flying.

Thank you.

North Pole Highway

I composed this song many years ago but I updated in 2023. 

"Everybody needs someone to be close to
Everybody needs someone to confide with
Cause being lonely never helped nobody
Ans all I can do is just think of you"
Music and Lyrics by Len Fm Folk Copyright 2023

"Everybody Needs Someone"- Len FM Folk

This is a cover of an Arrows of the Sun. All words and composition are Arrows of The Sun. 

For this version of the song:

S. Drysdale : Vocals, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
A. Reed: Engineering and Programing

Keep On Running

As each November approaches I try to make my own little Remembrance-time tribute.  Seems more relevant as each year passes...

Following the huffing and puffing empire lunacy in the summer of 1914, the next four years would see 40 million casualties, half of them deaths and of those, half were civilian.  

40 million.

40 million tales of poignancy, pain, grief and human tragedy, through times that can often seem littered with coincidence, symmetries …. bookends and mirrors.

In the Military Cemetery of St Symphorien near Mons rests John Parr.  At only five foot three inches and several years under age he (amazingly) managed to enlist in 1912 - hoping to see the world, and get the advertised “two square meals” a day.  He was the first British Army casualty, killed in the battle of Mons aged just 17, his body left behind, fate unknown until much later in the conflict;  the army unable to answer his mother’s letters of enquiry about her “silent” son.

By pure coincidence, John lies just a few yards from the last British soldier to die in the great war.  George Ellison served for four long years including at the same first battle of Mons as John, and most of the famously grinding, attritional infantry battles of the conflict.  His working life bookended by military service, George had first enlisted in 1902, leaving the army in 1912, just as John joined, he became a coal miner, re-enlisting at the outbreak of war to dig mud not coal and fight from trenches he helped excavate.  George was killed just 90 minutes before the armistice took effect at 11:00 on the 11th day of the 11th month.  The futility of the conflict was cruelly illustrated by the fact that George’s war had started and ended at exactly the same place, Mons in Belgium.  They had literally gone nowhere.

As a postscript to progress since "the war to end all wars" the human race is currently reckoned to be engaged in 7 major wars, 15 significant ongoing conflicts and 21 “minor” conflicts (the latter defined as up to "only” 1000 deaths per year).  By way of another macabre bookend, the longest of these has been going on, unbelievably, since the year .... 1918.

As always, this simple ballad is offered as a live one mic one take effort - please excuse the fluffs and gaffes.
_______________________

Bookends and Mirrors

Sun turned cold ‘cross every sky in the summer of ‘14
The Good Lord shook his head, and he placed it in his hands
Braided declarations flying, whose like was never seen
Lunatics in feathers stockpiled lead, bagged their sand.
Slapstick Mephistopheles, unleashing of his flame
Spiral minds lobotomised in the waltz of the insane
Simple lives unknowing of the mud that would become
A mirror in the resting place of two Holy Mother’s sons.

Signed the line, five years young, fingers crossed behind his back
Chance to see the world, grab a future, two square meals.
At 17, John’s angels sung, first to fall in dawn’s attack
Abandoned and forgotten, deaf to all his ma’s appeals.
Never knew the miner, his bookend pal to be
Fighting down the line, many battles that he’d see
Full four years in trenches, George’s hell lived through them all
Cruelty was smiling wide at England’s last to fall.

In service time they travelled nowhere, nothing to achieve
Embracing 40 million weeping mothers left to grieve
The crime of puffing chest bravado beggared to believe
Hall of mirrors seeping others’ blood of the innocent naive.

Now John and George lie facing each to seek their mirrored peace
Raise my eyes and brim a tear for the lessons never learned
Pray God, don’t ever let them know man’s insanity but increased
The war to end all wars a mere sequel oft’ returned 
By comedies of leathered fools stuck on infinite repeat
Bemedalled and bejewelled, they prosecute their moral defeat
But here, on sallow turf twixt heroes, broken mirror in my broken hand
Met by my own broken eyes, I still fail to understand.
_________
Photo by Michael Yuan on Unsplash

Bookends and Mirrors

｢欲しいものと必要なもの ~ DUETTO PER LO-FI TRIO」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Music Company, Petworth"(1835) by Joseph Mallord William Turner. Edited by me.

Wants + Needs

ＷＡＮＴＳ＋ＮＥＥＤＳ

Please visit the following link and listen to the latest collaborated version.
https://soundcloud.com/david-marconi-917184705/a-shade-of-blue-revisited-collaboration?si=f76ff153884b45738e4f2c6cbd97742d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Just me having a little fun playing the blues.
Guitar instrumental by David Marconi

Aroused from Slumber

A Shade of Blue - Legacy Demo Version

Here’s a jazz swing track for 2024 !
It’s a rearranged version of an old composition. In this track I used piano, acoustic guitar, B3, Rhodes, brushed drums and upright bass.
Thank you for listening !

Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
December, 28th, 2023.

Maximum Swing

you light a new fire and let it burn so bright...

Connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/flynnpark3r/

Moonlight

'true love' 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3B2inkus95/

I want to give you everything that you deserve.
Although I haven't anything, I have a way with words.
Oh darling won't you come on over and sit next to me.
You can talk about your day, hon, as I'll gently massage your feet. 

I want your love and everything that accompanies.
I'll give you all the love you'll need. I want you to believe
in a love so deep that you can feel it right through to your bones.
And it makes you complete and feel like you are comfortable at home. 

True love.

true love

Dedicated to my mother. 

💛🙏 May Grace Embrace You 🙏💛

→ https://soundcloud.com/tilman-fricke/awakeningofspring

📍 🎧 Best listened to with studio headphones (to hear orchestral panorama)  🎧📍
Slightly revised on 11 March 2024.

For Symphonic Orchestra.
Instrumentation List:

Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Cor Anglais
Clarinet (B Flat)
Bassoon
Horn (F)
Trumpet (B Flat)
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Harp
Percussion (Triangle, Crash Cymbal)
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Violoncello
Double Bass

Written in winter 2023/2024.
Engraved in Dorico Pro 5.
Performed solely by Noteperformer 4 plug-in.
Original composition: © 2024 by Tilman Fricke. All rights reserved.

May Grace Embrace You – Dedicated to my mother. Orchestra, Op. 12.1.4, Winter 2023/2024

Joe // CH

“What makes a song is the singer, while what makes a singer is their dedication to music and their inner feelings.”   Dimash Qudaibergen

I have enjoyed music for as long as I can remember and cannot remember a day of not either singing or listening to music. I am self-taught when it comes to playing guitar but what I most enjoy is singing which I have been doing since around age 18. Now retired singing and playing the guitar is now just a hobby and something I do to help pass the time. Have always  loved the sound of a Martin guitar. Currently been playing a Road Series DR S2 for about 6 years. Thanks for listening. I also enjoy discovering the sounds of other talented musicians and singers here on SoundCloud.

"Everybody Needs Someone"- Len FM Folk

Len FM Folk

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