Great track Mike...so good to hear you again! Love the vocal.

Very nice guitar work Mike..great vocal lyric message..excellent mix & recording production!

@user-138663860: Hey Sandy, sorry for the late answer, I'v been not been so active on SC but back again, I hear you Sandy, democracy that is so dear to us is under pressure. We may not forget what is our peaceful concept of making decicions as a community, as a country. We need to cherish and defend it when needed. Thank you so much for your thoughts!

Clean, sparse tune.  Love the texture.  ...and super good lyrics.

You May Be Right (Billy Joel)

Democracy on my mind and I felt I should write a song about it

Song written. recorded and mixed July 4th 2020

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Poem by Robert Burns 
Music by Yelena

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (mellotron, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Illustration by Fred Hyland, circa 1900 

Field recording from freesound.org:
"seagulls....waves." by juskiddink (https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/)


I wrote this song in my teenage years with Russian translation of Robert Burns poetry. Some time back I revisited my song and adapted it using original language of the poem.

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Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive (adapted)
Poem by Robert Burns 

Behold the hour, the boat arrive;
You go, the darling of my heart;
Sever’d from you, can I survive,
But Fate has will’d and we must part.

We must part...

I’ll often greet the surging swell,
The distant Isle will often hail:
“Here I took the last farewell;
There, latest mark’d his vanish’d sail.”

We must part...

(spoken) 
Endless and deep shall be my grief;
Not ray of comfort shall I see,
But somehow, I belive
That you will still remember
Remember me...

We must part...

Along the solitary shore,
While flitting sea-gull round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I’ll westward turn my wistful eye...

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535246403871/

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Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive [bitzone production]

Appears on my album "Wrapped In Darkness":
https://silentloverecords.bandcamp.com/album/wrapped-in-darkness

photo by wonderful Elseh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

Esquimaux Black Swan Silhouette

Another take on this special song
Hope you enjoy
Steph

I Can't Stand The Waste (Remaster)

Tazu

produção em downtempo style... calmo fluxo. relax

Welcome to Space

Vocals and Guitar only.

Touchstones (Brian Peters)

As the island lies in the sea
As the sea gives life to the land
From the waters over the deep
Like the inner world of the man

As the sky is home to the bird
As the worm lives under the sand
And they build a home in the world
Like the inner world of the man

And on me the glory of the sun
And you the moon and stars
When the twins of heaven, they are one
And each another part

As the fruit that covers the seed
As the lion lies with the lamb
When our waking world makes peace
With the inner world of the man

Touchstones

Joshua M Norton's Album

Preludes & Nocturnes II

Psych dub jam - with a rare outing for the Shergold Custom Masquerader guitar!
Percussion tracks all mixed from Laurentwirz's A Tension Trance ( Looperman)
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Drumming Dub

Written and recorded 1st December 2020

This week I only just learned of the passing of one of my favourite musicians on Soundcloud, Jim Horbett. Jim originally went under the monicker 'Local Man' and posted many wonderful songs, some of which are available on Bandcamp, but some are (as far as I know) only available here on SC.

Jim joined the Seattle Colonels of Truth a few years ago, but it was with his pals Daniel Ullom and Forrest Marowitz that he formed the Rain City Ramblers, a stunning 3-piece playing a mixture of their own material and traditional American roots music, including some of Jim's own pieces that he debuted here, such as Holiday and Suburban Hellfire. 

Jim's music was a great source of inspiration and one of his last posts on SC was an experimental piece called 'There's No Constant', a haunting and brilliantly imaginative piece that I took as inspiration for one of my most recent songs, 'On The Waterfront'... indeed, the original working title of my tune was 'Jim's song'. Sadly, by the time I messaged Jim to let him know about the song, he had already tragically passed away from cancer, aged just 31.

RIP James, 1987-2019

Please check out his wonderful music here:

https://soundcloud.com/jameshorbett
https://raincityramblers.bandcamp.com/releases

Lyrics:
Jim was "Local Man"
A Rain City Rambler
Once a Colonel of Truth
Not long ago

Bluegrass fingerpicker
Buffalo troubadour
"Scuz King" magic maker
Not long ago

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Ramblin' Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

That square neck resonator
On "Queen of Revelry"
Rang like strains of heaven
Not so long ago

Bad News (Blues) came calling
like Suburban Hellfire
Too long for the season
Not long ago...

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Local Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

Local Man (Song For Jim Horbett)

Netherlands based singer-songwriter/guitarist/composer/sound engineer.
headphones recommended

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MIKE SPRING

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