Acoustic With Style

A first recording of a song I wrote four years ago.

We think of You every day,
We think of You when we pray,
You are so special, You're really special,
We think of You every day,

And Your guiding light, it shines on us so bright,
With the setting sun, we know You are the Holy one,
You are the only one we need,

We think of You every day,
We think of You when we pray,
You are so special, You're really special,
We think of You every day,

And on the darkest night, Your star, it still shines bright,
With the rising sun, we know You are the Holy one,
You are the only one we need,

We think of You every day,
We think of You when we pray,
You are so special, You're really special,
We think of You every day,

You are so special, You're really special,
We think of You every day,

We Think Of You Every Day

We Think Of You Every Day (Graham Williams)

Fusion Beck

This is my contribution to the now closed open call
 of a great project by Paul Amlehn
(https://soundcloud.com/paul-amlehn)

noxpox - Realm Of Anti-Logic

This instrumental piece evokes the feeling of being elsewhere. We don't really know where. The image on the cover would seem to say that it is the sky and yet... no one can really say so much the cycles of this piece seem at the same time imperturbable while remaining secret in the metric of the score. Calm and yet seeming to make one feel the backwash of the wave, this piece thus seeks to question space and its perception rather than to attempt to give a single answer. "Ci-git l'espace", a magnificent and famous work by Yves Klein, could be the other title of this musical composition, which resonates with this desire not to necessarily show what we expect to hear or see.

Ce morceau instrumental évoque le sentiment d'être ailleurs. On ne sait pas vraiment où. L'image de la pochette semblerait dire qu'il s'agit du ciel et pourtant... nul ne peut vraiment le dire tant les cycles de ce morceau semblent à l fois imperturbables tout en restant secret dans la métrique de la partition. Apaisé et pourtant semblant faire ressentir les ressacs de la vague, ce morceau cherche ainsi à interroger l'espace et sa perception plutôt qu'à tenter de donner une réponse unique. "Ci-git l'espace", oeuvre magnifique et célèbre d'Yves Klein pourrait être l'autre titre de cette composition musicale qui résonne de cette volonté de ne pas forcément montrer ce que l'on s'attend à entendre ou à voir.

Interplanétaire

Electronic Ambient
River Of Stars. Found a very old tape I recorded in 1978. Originally played on Arp Quartet Arp Quadra And Yamaha CS 30. 
Thought I would use plugins and bring it back to life.
I was 17 when recorded it inspired by seeing Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral.

River Of Stars

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 2)
for the album 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙄𝙎Õ𝙀𝙎 (𝙑𝙊𝙇.𝟭) (tba soon)

Third release for Algumas Visões (some visions)is the first version of Forest Feelings (in PT the original title is «O Que Eu Na Floresta Via» (What i saw on the forest, in ENG).
The track calls the energy of the forest, with tons of different shakers, a bambu flute and some drums. 
Strongly influenced by contact with medicine forests <3

O Que Eu Na Floresta Via | 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮)

Solar System Excursions

Magical Pluto

World News Blues

'Skunker Funker' is a short Funk Fusion track....Just having some fun really!

Skunker Funker

More in the Morning...Time to get in bed & Crash! DEMO instrumental

Sarin Subway(REPRISE ..Mix 8.1 )

Guitar song

A love song in the singer songwriter / folk genre. Enjoy all and thank you much for listening and commenting. Much appreciated...

Live recording, vocals & guitar & 2 mics
  
Peace
Mike


The girl with the flowers
Is slowing the hours
By offering her grace
With a smile

It seems not substantial
Still feeds my essential
Dwelling in my heart 
For a while

She asks without saying
Inviting me, playing
By offering me
Colors and shine

The girl with the flowers
She slows down the hours
Gently make me
Feel fine

I could easily embrace
Her flowers, her face
And wipe every trace
Of my pace

I bought all of the daisies
From this lovely lady
We dwelled in our hearts
For a while

The girl with the flowers
Is slowing the hours
By offering her grace
With a smile

It seems not substantial
Still feeds my essential
By dwelling my heart 
For a while

For guitarists: the chords are played with only a shifting E-chord with open 1st and 2nd high strings  (note: hE = high open E, 1 octave up)

hE – D – A – G – A  (all with open low E string) 
hE – D – A - G

G – A – hE – A   (all with own bass line)

A - B – hE – A    (all with own bass line)
G – A – hE – D  (all with own bass line)

C – D – hE – C  (all with own bass line)

 G-A-C-hE                   (all 3x with open low E string) 

(low)E – D – A – G – A       (open low E string)] 
hE – D – A – G – A    (open low E - all 2x)

hE –D –C – G – A  - hE

The Girl With The Flowers

Written and self-recorded in 2015 by Brad Wilson (Guitarist).
Denver, CO. Art credit: Charmaine Gurule

Ouachita

another version of wicked games.this version worths listening.

Gemma Hayes - Wicked Game

Now I Have You - Guitar Instrumental

Just 2 Acoustic guitars and my voice... and a little bit of keyboards behind. Hope you like it!

You Were Right

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

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

The Girl With The Flowers

MIKE SPRING

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