I have again the honour and pleasure to share with you a beautiful piece by Christopher Larkins (CPJL), I hope you will enjoy listening....

To listen to more by Christopher please follow this link

https://soundcloud.com/cpjl

Winter Rain by Christopher Larkins

Hope you enjoy this number as much as Delaflor and I...We're here to give you some retro goodness...I'm the woman with the sonic gun, here to be a serious blast from the past as in, in your face obtrusive, you can never get away from me! 

Our YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaHTYM5578

Listen to the amazing music of DELAFLOR here: https://soundcloud.com/mercer-goldengalls/tracks

Retro Active (REKHA AND DELAFLOR) 26.04.2021

Retro Active - Music by DELAFLOR

Retro Active - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a REKHA - IYERN FE

Intro

Oh 
Hey Hey
Oh 
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

I'm a woman with a sonic gun
I can be electrifying
I'm the woman with the sonic gun
I can be age defying

Born to be free a wild child
Retro Active
Born to be free a wild child
A blast from the past

Retro Retro 
Retro Retro

I am Retro Active
From a significant era
I am Retro Active
Born to make you wild

Retro Active 
I was born to be Retro Active
Retro Active
I'm of a serious sophisticated kind

Like Zep, Bowie
I learned from the best
Eno and Kraftwerk
Retro Active ever so cool and distinct
You can never make me extinct

In your face obtrusive
You can never get away from me
I'm your intellectual beauty
A woman of high fine
I'm a walkin' talkin' leatherette

Phenomenal
Phenomenal kind
Phenomenal
Phenomenal kind

Retro Active I am

Retro Active
Born to be free 
I'm a wild child
Retro Active 
Your serious blast from the past

In your face obtrusive
You can never get a way from me
I am Retro Active

Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties 
Not Two Thousand 
But from the beautiful Retro Active
Time...Time...Time
Your blast from the past

I want
I'm your Wonder Woman with the sonic gun
Electrifying
I can be age defying
Born to be f-r-e-e
Your wild child
Retro Active

Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed by REKHA - IYERN FE at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA
Music Mixed & Mastered by DELAFLOR in SPAIN

Covert Art Design: Photos & Graphics by REKHA - IYERN FE

RETRO ACTIVE

YouTube

Retro Active | Music by DELAFLOR | Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Electronic ROCK | YT Vid

I seem to be thinking about the past and simpler times lately.

Distant Memories and a Heavy Sigh

"A musical vision of Summer, a time of warmth, light and fun. A time to live life to the full and enjoy all that mother nature has to offer. As the season moves on, the solstice reminds us that the warmth and light cannot last as we start to head into Autumn"

Description

Summer, finds me trying to express, in music, my feelings about this season. Below is a attempt at doing this in words too. This is chronologically the forth and final of my orchestral pieces that describe the four temperate seasons of the year.

If you want to hear the other pieces from the series "The Wheel Turns" after listening to this piece, the links are here :-

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-wheel-turns

The Wheel Turns Orchestral Suite - YouTube playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQkE1sMc-t1sixu4RmJmjyFr0HF6dnUF2

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Summer
The days grow longer, the nights shorter, as the golden ball we call the sun parades in all it's glory.This is a time for living life to the full, a time of happiness, a time of pleasure and excess.

At the solstice, some people still give thanks to the life giving orb upon which we all depend. For we know this moment cannot last, the majesty will fade, the warmth will falter, the party will end.

With threadbare days and darker nights the proud display of Summer flowers starts to fade. The heat can be oppressive, at times there is a chill in the air and Nature herself seems finally quiescent.

We will carry those memories of days on the beach or at the park in our hearts forever. Those days of fun.

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Instrumentation

Con Sordino Strings (Albion One - Spitfire)
Ensemble Strings Mid Octave (Chris Hein Strings)
Viola Ensemble (Chris Hein Strings)
Cello Ensemble (Chris Hein Strings)
Bass Ensemble (Chris Hein Strings)
Solo(1826 Old)Violin (Chris Hein Strings)
Alto Flute (Chris Hein Winds)
C Flute (Chris Hein Winds)
Piccolo (Chris Hein Winds)
English Horn (Chris Hein Winds)
Barock Bassoon (Chris Hein Winds)
Trumpet Ensemble (Chris Hein Brass)
French Horn (Chris Hein Brass)
French Horn Ensemble(Chris Hein Brass)
Trombone (Chris Hein Brass)
Tuba (Chris Hein Brass)
Cymbal (Albion One - Spitfire)
Bass Drum (Kontakt Factory Library)
Concert Harp (Garritan Personal Orchestra 5)
Timpani (Kontakt Factory Library and Garritan Personal Orchestra 5)

This piece evolved into 5 different thematic viewpoints that I labelled up to give an insight into the composition.

1)Grand Intro ... Sunrise / The Majesty of the Sun
2)Summer Promenade / The Beauty of Life
3)Summer Fun / The Bandstand
4)Balmy Days / Sultry Nights
5)A Fading Glory / The Last Hurrah

The piece commences with a Summer sunrise and the sound of French horn and alto flute before the brass heralds the glory of the sun with a fanfare . 

Next is the introduction of the main Summer promenade theme which reflects on the glory of a Summers day before a quieter section featuring solo violin and a bit of flute in the beauty of life.

A harp glissando heralds a change of pace and mood as harp and flute hint at children playing in the park before a brief visit to a quintessentially English band-stand, complete with brass band and thumping bass drum.

Balmy days / Sultry nights introduces the listener to the fading grandeur of Summer, a more melancholic line from the English horn acting as a counterpoint to a slower version of the earlier promenade theme. 

Finally the piece ends with a last hurrah for Summer as a wistful line and rolled timpani hint at the onset of Autumn. A final bit of pomp with timpani and brass completes the piece. 

It was quite a task to fit all that imagery into  four minutes of music but overall I think it works. :-)

The Wheel Turns

Summer

'Strong' is a song I wrote after a policeman instructed me to leave a city’s shopping street while I was working as a street artist. I was so… can I say ‘pissed’? So I had to write a song about it. This was 1992. I played the streets a couple of years when I was a student.

The lyrics of the song (below) point to a broader and still current subject. Staying strong in dynamic times is important for every one of us I think. Today more than ever probably. Follow your personal believes in peace all :)

Mike


Lyrics, music, vocals, guitar and copyright Mike Spring
Guitar is a Crafter or a EKO steel string acoustic, I'm not sure
Recording: live, analogue (Tascam 4-track)

This is a recording of a song 'just written'. In this respect I should have uploaded it on my other page https://soundcloud.com/sketches-from-holland/tracks but I didn't :)

Mix: In Cubase I edited a small guitar part around 1:03 minutes because I played one chord a little too long which interrupted the meter of the song.
Master: The stereo WAV track I used had been mastered before so it was not clean when I mastered it again. 
Equipment: Steinberg UR824, Ozone 7 adv. (EQ, Imager and Vintage tape) plus Lexicon LXP Native Hall Reverb VST
Picture by Anthea Molenaar, 2011

Lyrics:

Hey what’s your name
I’m not a game to play
Hey we’re the same
You should feel ashamed to say
I don’t belong to this day

[chorus:]
If you think you’re strong
I’ve got something for you
Cause I feel strong
I think my way
Nothing’s gonna change that
I think my way
It makes me what I am
I feel strong
I feel strong

Day by day
Strongen my way   [note: I know this is not proper English 😉]
Leaded by the inner words I pray
Hey I’m not afraid
To feel the shade
Because I know who I am

[chorus]

Strong

Strong (live recording / 1992)

EDDIE’S BOOGIE

Remembering Eddie...

Here’s the video of my playthrough of this tune! https://youtu.be/A5lALFOuG44

This third original piece in the vein of the late, great Eddie Van Halen is a tribute to one of Ed’s many traits and one not to be overlooked: hooky riffs and a boogie swing rhythm. One of Eddie’s first producers was impressed with Ed’s playing calling it almost fusionesque in his weird note choices and swing rhythms. I here try to highlight that. Of course its my version here, me playing with a deep appreciation and as a homage to Eddie... to my childhood guitar hero 🤘

As always I really appreciate your likes, comments and shares!

In memory and respect of the king of rock guitar, I am making a string of tracks, covers and some originals, that celebrate Edward Van Halen’s phenomenal playing. Of course I am emulating his tones and sounds, with the deepest respect for him. I don’t claim to come close to his tone and playing, it is with the humbled appreciation for the hero of my youngest years. An introduction, back then, to the electric guitar and rock music for me.

I hope you can appreciate and enjoy this tune written for Eddie, the man who inspired young Daniël, like so many other kids, to pick up the guitar and want to play rock music.

Recorded with the EVH relic Frankenstrat Guitar.
Track written, recorded and played by Dan van den Berg, loosely based on EVH music.

Recorded July 2021,
Recorded using Amplitube, AURIA.
Photo and editing by Dan van den Berg

Eddie’s Boogie

Eddies Boogie (original) | Remembering Eddie | Dan van den Berg

Loves Complexities

An expression of painful elements: confinement, loneliness, and failing to attain what one is reaching for. The middle section (starting in Gb major) offers a little solace, but is only fleeting.

SWW26.6

Autumn walk

Flux

Thanks to David Dunham for allowing me to offer this "Celtic Orchestral" arrangement on his very expressive guitar composition.                                     And thanks to MoïRa for her Irish flute full of emotion.                                                              
       David Dunham (composer - lead guitar)
https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203
MoïRa (Irish lead flute)
https://www.facebook.com/attrapemoira/
Pascal Basso (fiddle - highlands and uilleann pipes - quena - ocarina - harp - back guitar - violins - piano - bassoon - tuba - cb pizz - choirs - synths - orchestral and bodhran percussion) orchestration - arrangements - mixing.

Benediction  ⭐️ ( David Dunham . MoïRa . Prod pb)

My daughter's quote...






























"Angels talking through your music....."

I hope you will enjoy listening......

Thank you for your time here....

Winter Rain by Christopher Larkins

Liz Dicker