I would have been 100% sure the guitars were all by MO himself! You truly celebrated his legacy with another really nice cover!

I like that your version is slightly different than MO's. You put your own unique spin on it.

Beautiful Guitar playing and tone. Stellar mix too my friend. Always a pleasure to my ears🎸✌️

Yet another gem. Classically MO. Immaculately rendered Mike

A perfect, immersive arrangement - beautifully played and produced! :)

Cool rendition Mike...always liked this one from Oldfield !!

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Consider that this song is ten iterations of a pattern, representing the hands of the laborer as well as ten-based systems of measurement.

Credits:
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PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, vocals, floor tom set 2, howl 1
R Thomas: Synth Guitars, backup vocals, floor tom set 1, snare drum, hi hats, howl 2
Mixed and Mastered by Mystic Tape Deck

Lyrics
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I cut the tree and I hammer the nail
I fetch the water and I carry the pail
Harvest the wheat, and I bundle the bale

Fasten the saddle, the bridle and bit
I shoe the horses and I shovel their shit
I dig forever in the bottomless pit

I'm turning wrenches and I'm fueling the jet
My brow is furrowed and it's blistered with sweat
I'm on a boat with a hook and a net

I'm in the engine room, I'm driving the train
I'm climbing poles in the wind and the rain
I load containers from a towering crane

Repair the derricks for the men who get paid
I'm tugging triples up a slippery grade
I built the factory where the factories are made

I'm in the kitchen now preparing your meal
With hogs to slaughter and potatoes to peel
I hone the blade and I sharpen the steel

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Laborer

Thank You Ray -  Piano Solo 8

LYRICS

Living times
Lifetime's gone,
Crisp at dawn
Mellowed by the sun.

Golden horizon, all at stake,
People arrive at the fray.

No one knows the roots of our past.
No one shows, we've given our best.

Times have come
Times have gone,
Past tense
Is the chosen form.

Till the plain, caught up surrounding 
Our heart, our soul, our own.

No one knows the roots of our past.
It goes to show it's gone too fast.

Shear moonlight through my window.
Riding sideline, drawn-out timeline.
Taste so quaint, virtuoso.
Hello blueprint: unchecked, untried.

See the way
Script what may,
Humbled by the song
Promises go on.

What is this, hold on exist,
Gotta love our land, our smile, our pain.

No one knows the roots of our past.
No one grows enliven the guest.
It goes to show it's gone too fast.
No one knows the roots of our past.

The Roots of Our Past

Infinity

Always enjoy the opportunity to collaborate with Jeff and Jo.  They are wizards with words and sorcerers with sound. Was happy to contribute a bit to this one.


lyrics copyright jo richter:

still wearing his headphones
in the mall's thermal flow
uranium bones
intercourse afterglow

she walks down the aisle
as light as a rainbow
sunlight on the Nile
et in arcadia ego

a bodice, a comb, eris' pear
black, red, white as snow
forces align, forces shear
a million mirrors in a row

she walks down the aisle
as light as a rainbow
sunlight on the Nile
et in arcadia ego

et in arcadia ego - featuring Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches and Stonerjazz

good morning

Made in #Ableton (July 2024)
I've played the guitar parts with my new Strat.

Genres;
#Electronic
#Pop
#Rock

https://frozenlab.bandcamp.com/

Flight Of The Ice Dragon (by project Frozen Lab)

My wife says @ it’s all about you, when we disagree…or I want something that she doesn’t, ha! … that was the catalyst for this song..  but made a quadruple entendre about it! .. . It’s about all of you, me, our attitudes towards one another… it’s all around you, in plain sight…but mostly about my Lord, Jesus Christ!! Hope you like it! … a remix was in order, so that’s another reason I’m reposting it! 😎

All About You

A Mike Oldfield tribute, keeping the legend and his music alive, with a guitar cover of this classic track.
Thanks for listening.

Jungle Gardenia with its haunting melody was released as a single b-side with Crime of Passion, 03/01/1984 on the Virgin label.
It also featured on the album "The Complete Mike Oldfield" 1985 on the Virgin label, the "Elements" album, 1993 on the Virgin label, and "The Mike Oldfield Collection" 2009 on the Mercury label.

Mike Hilton - Guitar.
Original Composer - Mike Oldfield, Jungle Gardenia, ©️03/01/1984, Virgin Records.
Background photo - ahmad-nawawi, Pexels.

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This audio contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
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Jungle Gardenia

Jungle Gardenia (Mike Oldfield Tribute)

Epic (2018) Anthology CD2 Track 05

1967 Hit song for US artist Louis Armstrong

What A Wonderful World

Welcome and thanks for listening.. 

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I produce mostly original instrumental guitar tracks. a few covers & tributes, and involved in the odd collaboration.

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Jungle Gardenia (Mike Oldfield Tribute)

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