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Track 5 on Southwest Passage, my Triplicate Records album release.

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Lonely Rain

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My final track to post from my EP Equations. Thanks for all great feedback on these tracks and those that picked up the EP
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/equations

Mood Exhibit - Equations 5

All Composition / Lyrics / Performance : Scott Tumino
Recording / Production : Chris Dargay

Rain (D - 2)

Some early (12th Century) Trance Music.

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Photo:
Whirling dervishes perform during a ceremony in Konya, Turkey. 
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Here is a presentation of the Sufi Whirling ritual dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1wayIgn8o

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I would like to thank Sander Heerings: 
https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer 
for his advice and assistance during the remixing 
of one of my previous songs, "Whirlpool".

His recommendation for the use 
of the WAVES S1 Imager was most helpful. 
I feel the S1 is more effective than LOGIC's Binaural Panning,
and seems to have less CPU overhead.
Also, there was an elegant approach to his mastering phase,
atteneding to a huge hole I was in need of filling...
and giving a mix just the right finishing touch.

Also to Peter Heckman:
https://soundcloud.com/peterheckmann
in the importance of paying particular attention 
to track separation in the mix.

...Again, here is where the S1 excels.

So, Thank you, Sander and Peter.

Dervish

This is just a short one more upbeat at least for me:-)) just being happy and playing 

#See you in our stars

Catch Me If You Can

Here is the title track from the debut album from Penelope's Thrill, just released on Bandcamp (and Spotify, etc.). This album has been a labor of love, recorded and mixed over the past lockdown year in my tiny home studio (Yew Tree Studios).
You can find the complete 18-track album now on Bandcamp:
https://penelopesthrill.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-on-tunnel-road

The inspiration for the album actually came from the accidental necessities of the pandemic: On my regular trips down to my 88-year-old mother, who lives about an hour south of Madison, to bring groceries and supplies, I'd always drive home on the winding backroads, usually hitting Tunnel Road at sunset (see album photo). That route is now engraved on my mind: Marshall Bluff Road to Exeter Crossing Road, to Tunnel Road to Argue Road. This route roughly follows the very edge of the "Driftless" Region of Wisconsin, that is the area that was not covered by the glaciers during the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago. So along this route there are all sorts of rock outcroppings, drumlins, and other glacial artifacts, and you can often see the actual line where the glacier stopped. The area has a charged spiritual feeling, especially at twilight--a "thin place," as the Irish would say.
Anyway, week after week, month after month, the songs came to me as I drove back along this stretch and imagined the lives of Lonnie and Chloe (the focus of the album). I even picked out the exact farms where they lived....

For more about the album, including dozens of stunning photos of the region, check out the new Penelope's Thrill website, just launched in concert with the album:
https://www.penelopesthrill.com/

Main guitars on this track are a Gretsch 5422T with a custom made solid brass bridge (which gives it a pretty unique tone) and a Gretsch 5622T (hitting the Bigsby).
LYRICS:
“Twilight on Tunnel Road”	
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

She was walking just to clear her head one night—
the sun was setting in the west.
She felt something in her soul was just not right.
She kept on walking on a quest.

She was walking and she…she was breathing and she…
looked at the sky, it was aflame.

Took her shoes off and walked barefoot through the grass.
The air it tasted like champagne.
Felt the wind run its fingers through her hair.
She wasn’t felling any pain.

She was walking and she…she was breathing and she…
realized she’d never be the same.

Walking out in twilight on Tunnel Road—
she don’t know it, but she’s walking into dreamtime 
in the night.
Walking out in twilight on Tunnel Road—
She can’t see it, but she’s walking toward the light.

She smells something that smells just like gingerbread.
She tastes nutmeg on her tongue.
It reminds her of the Christmasses she’s fled,
the innocence when she was young.

She was running and she…she was thinking and she…
never realized her name.

She was walking and she…she was breathing and she…
she knew that darkness was her name.

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