Oh wow!  This one is a splendid sound journey that sweeps one upward! Beautiful work, Mike! 😍💯🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻

fascinating. that strum pattern is glitchly but working real well. the space between the strings and other things like the subdued keys and the overall ambiance is calming. lovely picture. I would like to take a jog around that area one day~

This is an earlier version of Pearly Moon, off an older EP called Change of Address.
Live Studio Recording

Playing wooden flutes/whistles Roger Mullarkey
Drums and percussion Steve O'Keeffe https://www.bluesconfidential.com
and on bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale). 
Lead vocals/BV guitar Suzanne Ledwith
Mixed and recorded by Darren Flynn (The Pale).
Words and music by Suzanne Ledwith
Photograph by Suzanne Ledwith

Change of Address

Pearly Moon Irishy

this is a recording from a couple of years ago, just me and guitar. 

So I'd watched the amazing Peter Jackson, WW1 documentary film, They Shall Not Grow Old. It really brought the subject to life, and was a vivid and sensitive documentation of the great war. 

The following night I watched a BBC documentary which was an insight into the origins of shell shock, in terms of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, what we would now call PTSD. Some really harrowing stories were told from WW1. 

One story in particular haunted me. A tale of a young teenager suffering from shell shock and sent home to recover before going back to the trenches. He was so traumatized by the effects of war, that he pleaded with his mother to hide him under the stairs when the army came looking for him. The mother did exactly that, but the boy was dragged back off to war, where the  boy could well suffer the ignominy of being killed by his own comrades if he refused to fight.

It's hugely hard to comprehend this sort of story, and it's not my place to condemn or condone behaviour in warfare as I have no experience whatsoever of it.  

But I can certainly feel empathy for the boy, and although these harrowing tales are hard to rationalize, this song was my meagre attempt to show empathy and genuine compassion towards a story that touched me greatly.

And so the song is told as, The Boy Beneath The Stairs. 

Lyrics

Mamma I heard the call, are we going to war
mamma please don't you let them take your boy

if they come, would you hide me beneath those staris

they dragged me kick and scream from beneath the stairs
called me coward, n gave me a gun 
and said please go ahead

now I shake from head to toe
I got nowhere to stand

mamma please do you remember when
we stayed up half the night 
and laughed our heads
mamma I'm seeing things
my brain don't comprehend

mamma I'm telling you now
I see your face
and this is gonna be the very last pain I feel
really wish I could of stayed beneath those stairs
really wish I could of stayed beneath those stairs

when I refused to jump, they shot me dead
no last post no holy ghost 
they just leave you there

thanks for listening and reading along, really appreciate it✌️








Boy Beneath The Stairs

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This is another one from the recordings we did with our former chanteuse Julia back then. Credits and hugs! Cheers @user-20931549 & @bonetender

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Randy

Wisdom

"Flowers forgotten at dawn" was initiated by Paulo Chagas using his bass clarinet. I responded with my 14th version of my mosesa.
This is the 2nd and last album preview.
Listen and or get the album here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/for-us-para-n-s

Thanks for your listening, likes and comments!
Wilhelm Matthies and Paulo Chagas

Flowers forgotten at dawn

I’ve been up I’ve been down
I’ve been all over the town
I can find my way home

I’ve been kissed I’ve been kicked
I’ve been everything but taken in
You’d think I’d take the hint

Down by the corner 
Of Cottage and Sawyer
My heart has been left on the vine

You’ve been warned
Seraphim Son

I’ve been in I’ve been out
I’ve been filled inside with doubt
I tried to play by rules

I’ve been praised I’ve been decked
No good deed goes left unchecked
I tried to play it cool

Down by the corner 
Of Cottage and Sawyer
My heart has been left on the vine

You’ve been warned
Seraphim Son

Nightbird EP

Seraphim Son

I'm a keyboardist with a love for layering sounds to create ambient, ethereal atmospheres and composing simple piano pieces to embellish. I love all genres of music, and find myself composing different types depending on my mood of the day.

I’ve never had formal training. As a teen, my parents wouldn’t let a piano in our house in Egypt, so I studied piece-meal at friends’ homes. When I got to college, I learned by going to university piano practice rooms. In my 40’s, I met my birth-mom who turned out to be a child prodigy, winning a Van Cliburn competition by playing Rachmaninoff at age 11. Most of what I play today, I learned from the techniques she taught me. 

I’m an American who has lived abroad for a good part of my life in Egypt, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Taiwan, and now back to Texas.

All in a Summer’s Day

Mike Krath

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