Great to have you back on SC in this lovely collaboration. Congratulations to you both. Thanks for sharing

Most beautiful, and so nice to see you back here Mirjam, congratulations to you both…

How nice to see you here again, Mirjam, and to listen to this collaboration again that I think I remember hearing before.💐💐💐💐💐

Beautiful work Mirjam.  So very deep and fine.

Missing one final instrument...

© Xanylovem - 2023

Teacher:
What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

Teacher:
The laddie reckons himself a poet!

Teacher:
"Money get back
 I'm all right, Jack 
Keep your hands off my stack 
New car 
Caviar 
Four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team." 
Absolute rubbish, laddie !

Teacher:
Get on with your work...

(Pink Floyd The Wall - 1982)

Money Snake (Acoustic Session)

All Day The Hoary Meteor Fell

#onesideofme #piano #minimal #newrelease #ambient #sad #romantic #Intimatemoments #naif

One Side Of Me

New Year Magic

I've been away from SoundCloud for a while working on my new album and several writing projects, but the album's nearly done, so I thought I'd emerge from my cocoon and post this song, which means a lot to me. It features my good friend Akmaral Zykayeva on violin. For the past ten years, I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Kazakhstan. I met Akmaral in Almaty, Kazakhstan about six years ago. She is a hugely gifted composer, singer, and violinist who records as "Akmaral Mergen" and also as "Mergen" (Mergen means "woman warrior" in Kazakh).
For this song, Akmaral wrote a beautiful six-violin arrangement, playing all the parts herself.
The photo on the cover is the view from my hotel room in Almaty on one of my trips. In the foreground is Almaty Opera House and in the distance are the snowcapped Tien Shan Mountains (the "Celestial Mountains"). Beyond the mountains is Kyrgyzstan. 
Main guitars on this song are my Taylor GC-5 acoustic and my 1966 Guild Starfire XII (electric twelve-string).
The cricket and bird sounds at the beginning and end were recorded by me with a field recorder in a wild area of southern Wisconsin.
(This song can be found on my "Twilight on Tunnel Road" album, which I'm happy to say won the Alternative Album of the Year award from the Madison Area Music Association.)
LYRICS:
"Let Me Go”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go—I can’t say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can’t bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don’t know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I’m making my way.
I can’t deal with you gone and I’m not okay.
Let me go.

I don’t say you should not go—closing off the future before you can know.
I just can’t get loose from your strings,
they’re wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can’t go on now,
without you I’m lost, I just don’t know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Let Me Go

*Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi/not-my-neighborhood-by-garddwr-porffor-nadia-selvaggi-with-the-windscale-blues-experiment
The Rant: Cono Corvino & Nadia Selvaggio
Instrumental & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: 
@garddwrporffor
Lyrics, Vocals, Production by Nadia Selvaggi
*New Sax Solos by Nigel Manning of The Windscale Blues Experiment: 
@windscaleblues
'Two Boys Smoking' (1975) by Photographer Peter Bellamy:
pswbportaiture.blogspot.com/
www.peterbellamyphoto.com/
More on Peter Bellamy:
medium.com/@Brownstoner/in-197…photos-a3bbe85c0246
New York Street Noise by Pixabay

Not My Neighborhood
by Nadia Selvaggi

This, this, this is not my neighborhood!
Where is Williamsburg, Brooklyn --
my crime-ridden, filthy, spray-painted 'hood?

Where is Eastern District High School?
Where is that old school cool?
Where is all the red brick?
Where are all the addicts itchin' for a fix?

I don't know this place at all
I don't smell my Grandma's moth or meat balls
Corporate greed, thy will be done,
as it is in Manhattan and the City of London

Mr. Global's mercenaries killed our low rent,
our culture, and our authenticity
Damn the L train gentrifiers!
Damn the cold glass and bitter steal!

Bamonte's, Fortunato Brothers, Nunzio and Sons,
survived New York's perpetual reinvention
Tell me craft beer drinking, Hipster trust fund --
where is my 11211?

Not My Neighborhood, Extended by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi (w The Windscale Blues Experiment)

Cast of Characters:
mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark--sax (VST), organ, tremolo guitar chords (synth), harmonica, composition, production
Mysterious Decibel--@themysteriousdecibel --MD—lyrics and primary vocals

TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– second electric guitar solo, production, and mix

J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –piano and electric piano

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and percussion

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –-four string fretless bass, first electric guitar solo, rhythm guitar comping 



This is a song started when Mark came up with its architecture, recorded in a  slower, more laid back version on his own. However, he wanted a more souped up version with solos in turns. So, he turned to The Eclectic Collective to fill in the pieces. He originally had solos in all the parts which he laid down on the keys, and he had some lyrics, too. However, once he heard The Mysterious Decibel's excellent lyrics and vocals, the song totally changed the direction and the vibe, for the stellar. 

  But MD didn't start the whole thing. As happens sometimes, even without Tez on this one, we still needed to clear out some space to let everyone have their say. So, Mark went in and lengthened the song mechanically. Once we had a final form, Ken, as always, came up with the foundation for the song, allowing Josh to add his version of Mark's bass line. Then, after MD gave us the vocals to form the song, we got down to adding the solos. JJ first added his thrilling opening piano solo, as well as the electric piano solo right after the first verse, which Mark is also playing a VST sax solo in, as well. Then Josh added his guitar solo, which is the first of the two, with a very clean tone. Right after that, Stephen added his fiery solo, which follows right after with a more overdriven tone. Finally, Mark stepped back in and added his killer harp solo at the end. Of course, it needed to be mixed well, too, so we turned to Stephen for that important role, once again, which he fulfilled expertly.  We hope you enjoy this jazzier side of the EC as much as we enjoyed making it. MD's lyrics are about a psycho killer artist who hides clued to his murders in his paintings. 

Original Lyrics by The Mysterious Decibel:

Some might say he's crafty and planned.

With a shade of black and a brush in his hand
Some might say the world is his oyster
But no Pearl lays inside just a conjuring blur

He'll paint you a murderous scene
With the blending of  sin all between pigments of green
He's a shady fella Who hides behind the canvas!
I spy something with my little eye
This art might show just where he died

Will you find it?
The secret
Some freak shit
are you so sure you'll really wanna Keep it ?
The secret
Are you so sure you'll really wanna keep it?
Ahhh a little secret
Are you so sure you'll really wanna keep it?
It'll haunt your mind like it does him too
He's a swifty one he'll come for you!
The secret
The secret
The secret
Are you so sure you'll really wanna keep it?

I spy something with my little eye
This art might show just where he died

His art might show
might show
might show
just where he died

the Eclectic Collective x The Mysterious Decibel - A Brush With Death

Instrumental of the beautiful song
 " I Don't Wanna Know"
Leon Pajer did this wonderful mix & production.

I Don't Wanna Know

Made in #Ableton (February/March 2024)

Video;
https://youtu.be/D5fNEUs2COs

Genres;
#Electronic
#EDM
#Dance

Earth Memories

Trouble,
Has been on my mind
Trouble,
Has been on my mind

All I do,
Is worrying
All I do,
Is worrying

Now I'm looking back
At what I've done
And what I have become

The pressure,
Has been killing me
The pressure,
Has been killing me

Love,
Is all I need
Love,
Is all I need

Now I'm looking back
At what I've done
And what I have become

Trouble - Original song

[未来への道 Soundtrack]
00. 未来への道(The Path to A Future, Main Theme)
01. Introduction
02. 幻の出逢い(Phantom Encounter)
03. 運命の交差点(Crossroads of Fate)
04. 新しい道(A New Path)
05. 再生の瞬間(Moment of Rebirth)
06. Ending

再生の瞬間(Moment of Rebirth)

I have Graves Disease and I am very weak and tired and I have an enlarged thyroid. So it is hard for me to sing or create. My heartbeat has been irregular for years now and I was in ambulance twice with heart cramps. I am not shure if I will find energy to upload new tracks
 

I Don't Wanna Know

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