I’m listening again, it’s most beautiful Paul-Maurice…

Yes this is beautiful.  The melody just tugs at you.

This was an unexpected piece to round off another year after the acquisition of the wonderful VSL YMIR children's choir library. Well what can you do except compose a piece using it ;-)

Given the time of year a seasonal piece made sense and once I had a title then I was away. I also took the opportunity to practice orchestral wooshes (they are a thing). The ones in this piece comprise a cymbal roll, a timpani roll and a harp gliss.  

Many of the instruments employed here like glockenspiel and tubular bells are popular in this type of music and obviously sleigh bells make an appearance. I took the liberty of quoting 'Deck the Halls' in some places too.

I wanted a dream sequence in the middle of the piece which is mainly choir and alto flute, although the glockenspiel and percussion makes an appearance. It acts as a nice contrast to the general festive sleigh ride feel. 

Wishing you 'The Compliments of the Yuletide Season' :-)

Release Date: 2023-12-01
Label: Peter Goodrich
UPC: 735910951592
ISRC: GX4W52300001

Available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube and other sites.

Photo by Tobias Bjørkli from Pexels

Also now on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRmXjTJOrD4

Instrumentation
Ensemble Strings Mixed  - Chris Hein Strings
Ensemble Strings Violin  - Chris Hein Strings
Ensemble Strings Viola (Sus Vib)  - Chris Hein Strings
Ensemble Strings Viola (Pizz Tight) - Chris Hein Strings 
Ensemble Strings Cello - Chris Hein Strings
Ensemble Strings Bass - Chris Hein Strings 
Alto Flute - Chris Hein Winds
English Horn - Chris Hein Winds 
French Horn - Chris Hein Winds 
French Horn Ensemble - Chris Hein Brass
Trombone Ensemble - Chris Hein Brass
Euphonium - Chris Hein Brass
Tuba - Chris Hein Brass 
Vibraphone - VSL - Big Bang Orchestra 
Glockenspiel - VSL - Big Bang Orchestra 
Sleigh Bells - Big Fish Audio / Fracture Sounds 
Cymbal Rolls - Albion One 
Timpani Rolls and Strikes - VSL - Big Band Orchestra
Tubular Bells - VSL - Big Bang Orchestra 
Concert Harp and Harp Harmonics - GPO5 (Garritan)
St Peter's Choir - Halion 6
YMIR Choir - VSL - Big Band Orchestra

A Yuletide Dream (Remastered 2023)

How do you feel about the rights of others, or about your own?
A mood statement about otherness and uniqueness, sexuality and self-determination.

With great thanks to all involved, may the future be better!

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Vocals
Milky Himself @milkyhimself
Malu https://www.instagram.com/lunartickband/
Marquis Zane @couch-king-presents
Peter Sparker @peter-sparker

Guitars
Fabi @theblacksuedeshoes

Keys, Bass, Drums
bitzone @bitzone

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*Milky*
aye aye aye … listen up …

What were you conditioned to believe in?
Is a woman and a man equal are they even?
Love is unconditional then does it need a reason?
If a man loves a man is he a heathen?

If we both love girls have a threesome
bring her cousin, get our freak on
I don’t really care who I put meat on 
you can turn the lights off, baby leave the beat on

I be like …

Love who you wanna love.
fuck who you wanna fuck, suck who you wanna suck.
Love who you wanna love.
Plus you can never love too much

yeah and really though:

See I don’t fuck with the requirements
and I don’t chime in when the choir sings
Hose you down like the firemen
I think the patriarchy needs retirement, so I’m denying them.

• Are you under the rainbow looking up or on a high-horse looking down?

*Malu*
Gay pride wants you to fall, why don't you want that pot of gold. 

*Peter*
You do you I'ma do me
we don't gotta be enemies
jus because we disagree
everyone is entitled to their own opinion
not hurtin anyone continue livin how you livin
be who you are don't hide yoself
if you do then you'll always feel by yoself
I'm not gay but if I was
what other people thought I wouldn't give a fuck
so nothin against anybody that is
it's your choice to live the life you live
live it
people fear what they don't understand
it's double bad if you're a gay Black Man
some men love to see Women kiss
but not 2 men yo that don't make sense
but again people like what they like
but what what you likes not a reason to take yo life

• Are you under the rainbow looking up or on a high-horse looking down?

*Malu*
Misogyny and hate, your mother would be so ashamed. 
Within your lyrics, there beats a second pulse. 
But you don't care as long as you wear gold. 

*Couch*
Looking up not giving up
Sure footing not secure enough 
Thru signaling escape rebuff  
Still limiting by law will snuff

Ya think ya finna stand right up
Until ya bout to loose ya stuff 
Ya medals and your trophy cups
Your devils that a cause stir up

Your chance to be the best in club
Your stance that causes mass erupt
Societal division ta
Keep the power that is stuck  

This ain’t disorderly conduct   
When independence disrupts they don’t give a fuck 
When it comes down to it will I give it up 
Step down from looking down and start looking up

*Malu*
Gay pride wants you to fall, why don't you want that pot of gold. 
Within your lyrics, there beats a second pulse. 
But you don't care as long as you wear gold. 

• Are you under the rainbow looking up?

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Mixed & Produced by bitzone 2022

Under The Rainbow

Under The Rainbow #Fabi|Milky Himself|Malu|Peter Sparker|Couch King

The Small Hours

We all have our demons...
Lyrics;
So cold in the morning
And getting colder every day
He's slipping on his slippers
And slips into the day

He's searching for a bright side
He's keeping his head up
Stormy skies reflect in his eyes
Steam is rising from his coffee cup

The summer ended early
Up and closed the show
Flew out with the blackbirds
Making way for winter snow

And he can't hide his disappointment
Of knowing what he knows
A consequence of being
Where he shouldn't want to go

He can't fill that hollow feeling
It only grows and grows
It's just so hard to get away
From where he shouldn't want to go

Maybe some house cleaning
The carpets and the floors
But he falls into daydreaming
And dreams she's walking through the door

He's talking to himself
Or to the company he lacks
Words echo off the walls
"some day I know she's coming back"

Warm thoughts of another time
Like the pictures on the walls
But just outside there's no one there
And the snow begins to fall

He can't hide the disappointment
Of knowing what he knows
A consequence of being
Where he shouldn't  want to go

He can't fill that hollow feeling
It only grows and grows
It's just so hard to get away
From where he shouldn't want to  go

Where He Shouldn't Want To Go

Days in the Sun by Keri Johnson
Photo credits: Ken Pilcher
Dedicated to my dear friend Jennell Kvistad

It seems like yesterday we were playing
on the front lawn until dawn
you walked me home and we said goodbye
but not for long

I was the new girl you took my hand 
and we never looked back
staring down the bullies- yeah, there were a few
we stuck together like glue

Feels like a dream when we were young
oh our days in the sun

Seems like a lifetime ago
oh, but they're never gone

Feels like a dream when we were young 
oh our days in the sun

Living like thieves on the run
how the time marches on

We went our separate ways for a while
but never going out of style
just trying to find our way in the world
chasing boys, being girls

And now with two kids of your own
oh how quickly they've grown
Upon the same ground we used to run
their lives have only begun

Feels like a dream when we were young
oh our days in the sun

Seems like a lifetime ago
oh, but they are never gone

Feel like a dream when we were young 
oh our days in the sun

Living like thieves on the run
how the time marches on

Keri Johnson's Album

Days in the Sun

“The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard.”
― Christina Enevoldsen
Thanks goes to @TheAceOverlord for his feedback and sound enhancements!

One-Kind- Signal Index ft TheAceOverlord

AVEC OU SANS

Goldregen

Etude preparatoire; sketched on piano, for strings.
I post preparatory studies because I am the beneficiary of advice from much more accomplished composers here present, who generously offer me advice to help me attempt to improve, for which I am enormously grateful.

Preparatory Study for Strings (Piano)

Part 2 of a collection of 30 piano pieces - this is nos. 11 to 30.
Gentle journeys through imaginative rhythmic and melodic terrain.

20 Pieces Of Piano

13 Metre Drift Flux

January

Piano mostly. Original compositions.
Paul Maurice Roche,
Leamington Spa, United Kingdom.

My favourite pianist is Murray Perahia.

Preparatory Study for Strings (Piano)

Paul Maurice Roche, Composer

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