The Harpy, is a powerful and charming eagle that inhabits the rainforests of Latin America. This work is a tribute to this great and majestic raptor.

The Harpy's Flight - Composition, Arrangement & Production by Jorge Inacio.

Album Spacing Time

The Harpy's Flight

Happy New Year from The Welcome Parade!!

We hope 2022 will be the start of something quite exceptional for everyone.  I think we are all due a bit of a respite from the current state of affairs! 

Lyrics:
I can feel the fire living in the rain
Pay witness to the pleasure hiding in the pain

To hear the craziness of those that you deem sane
A circle left unbroken we'll travel once again

If not today, maybe tomorrow… 
If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…
If not to lead then maybe to follow…
If not to steal then maybe to borrow…

To feel as broken, as I seem to be
All surrendered out my friend, embracing my defeat

The mirror changes nothing except the point view
A gap, a hole,  a thing that takes my place,  takes my place with you

If not today, maybe tomorrow… 
If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…
If not to lead then maybe to follow…
If not to steal then maybe to borrow…

If not for joy, maybe for sorrow…



The Welcome Parade is proud to release our first two tracks of 2022

The Ready -  See "The Ready"

Not Today - This ones development followed a different path than what normally happens in our band.  As usual it starts on Skype...ends up discarded to the "we will get to that later" pile.  The melody however simply refuses to leave my(Jeff's) head.  I string together a rough rhythm guitar track and send it off to the crew and say in the email....this is what this is about for me and I am compelled to finish this. 

Thom sends back a written chorus....and what a chorus it is.  I do a quick performance and once I can hear the thoughts in real time... the verses slide right out of my head on to paper.   Jay moves to the Rhythm guitar, Jeff to lead vocal and bass,  Thom on the lead and aux & rhythm guitar work.

Normally in development the drums and bass get locked in first so everyone can grab on to the vibe once its all figured out.  In this case...the bass was the last instrument to be figured out.  It was a wonderful opportunity to play off my band mates with the bass.  There are times where I rotated to the speakers and imagine my friends in studio/stage across from me as I start digging deeper on the bass.  Something I don't always get to enjoy but something so seductive to feel! 

I hope one day the world looks at us and says...we got to get these guys together!  If not I am just very happy to have a couple of friends with a musical connection that exists as something so natural, it is difficult to keep the components separate, to realize where one ends and another begins. 

You guys rock and I am so glad to have you as friends and musical companions...rock on mi amigos!

2022

Not Today

Not Today (by The Welcome Parade)

Music & Piano: Jan Schonander

A Friday jam....warts and all. Piano is the Grand Piano native on my Korg SV-1 recorded with the Grand Piano settings in Logic Pro X. This track made it to the #1 spot on SoundClouds playlist Piano: New & Hot on 4/14/22 . I wonder how that happens. 
https://soundcloud.com/discover/sets/charts-trending:piano:us

Bridge To Nowhere

But Where's The Fun In That?

Vocals / Lyrics, Painting: Aine Parkes @aineparkes
Music, Guitars (Jazzmaster, Cheetah), Bass (P), Drums (AD2), Mellotron (Redtron), Piano (AK), Mix & Mastering (DAW): @bonetender

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2UOH8iWKG7xrLeaWUe8Qwj

======= Lyrics =======

Blindly, drifting,

blaming others for your woes.
Why don't you look in the mirror, deep in your eyes, 
you gotta pay the price.

All the things you've said and done, 
all the things...
What have you done?

Sadly, drifting, 
won't connect with anyone.
Feeling misunderstood and too afraid to try, 
Why don't you see the sky?

So many roads you could take,
A world just waiting for you to wake-

You can't see the forest for the trees oh oh no,
Just about everything makes you freeze so oh oh,
You just keep on keep on running,
Don't look inside your mind.
You keep on keep on running, 
Hide.

But your mind knows, but your mind knows the lies, you know your mind knows why oh oh

Wildly drifting 
madly its lifting, 
step outside just stop the fight,
You know you have to try, 

You know your mind knows why, You know your mind knows why,

You know your mind knows.

©Aine Parkes & Bonetender 2022 All Rights Reserved

Your Mind Knows

Your Mind Knows (with Aine Parkes)

Various Garageband Synthesizer sounds and effects.
Yamaha Tenor Saxophone

Bring Me The Saxophone Of Alfredo Garcia

A message from Lyrical Smirk:

“I’d really love to shine some positive light and fresh air in this lil’ community of friendships. So here's the concept. It is, basically, ‘One Big Collaboration’. Anyone who’d like to join in just needs to send Gary a message to the Mountain Songs page and include one downloadable track. He'll do the rest. 
Would prefer original material, ideally not stuff that's already been remixed.
Each and everyone who joins gets credited for their work / efforts.
Newbies / Amateurs / Pro's, it doesn't matter, ALL can join. This really does include everyone…non-musicians & ‘listeners’ very welcome. 
Every Soundclouder can pick one track of their own which they want remixed. Don't be intimidated by other Soundclouders work. Remember, this is designed to be a fun project and the positive vibe is what counts.
What styles? It doesn't really matter as long as it's easy on the ears!"

Best to use Headphones
Topic: Russia Ukraine

Vocals

https://soundcloud.com/floras-1/all-along-the-watch-tower?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Classical Guitar Bach - Bourree
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w90l3igRIu8

Meditation sounds
@arterial-flow

River
Floras-1 – All-along-the-watch-tower

Sara / LS
https://soundcloud.com/sara-unlocked/she-turns-my-world-upside-down?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Sheryl Crow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgmBaE1cqD4

Gypsy Violin

Samvel Yervinyan sample mark 7:22
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYclzxE9EE

Synth ( Sample delayed and remixed )

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wln6NX0V4AQ

Remixed by LS.
In collaboration with Mountain Songs & Co.
***************************************************
Smirks is the best remixer I know - the track included here, which is titled 'No Way Out Of Here' is just one example. If you'd like to hear more just visit his page (@user-820148039), and you will see exactly what I mean. So just message me here, include one downloadable track and you will become part of the revived 'One Big Collaboration' project. Many thanks!
(Gary Reeves)

Old collab revived info:
Mountain-songs – One-big-collaboration-with-smirks-please-read-description

ONE BIG COLLABORATION (Revived Project). Please read description for all the info....

Days

Nuclear Rain

Flutes, Drums, Keyboards by David McCarthy
Lead and Bass Guitars by John Paulus
Female Vocals by Kari Tally
All Sampled Men's voices, women's voices, ethnic voices by Best Service | Ethno World 7
Art by Rachel Williams

Music from Eden - Ritual

Same words, different world.

There was a time when the world was quiet. Or maybe it wasn’t the world—maybe it was just me. I remember the silence, the kind that wasn’t empty but full, the kind that settled softly like dusk over a slow-moving river. Back then, my mind was still a place I could rest in, not a storm I had to survive.

It must have started as a whisper, a small ripple in the stillness, something I thought would pass. But it grew until it became everything. Now, the quiet feels like something I dreamed, something too distant to be real. I chase it, reach for it in the rare moments when the chaos slows.

And I am left here, a drift in the wind, unable to remember what it felt like to simply be.

Sometimes, late at night, when the world is half-asleep, I almost hear it again. A memory of silence, pressed between heartbeats, between the ticking of the clock and the sigh of the wind against the glass. But it never stays. The storm always finds its way back, tearing through my thoughts, scattering them like leaves in a wind I cannot stop.

I wonder - was I ever truly at peace, or was it only the absence of knowing what would come? And if I was, if that silence was real, is it lost forever? Or is it waiting for me somewhere, just beyond the horizon?

I remember the silence (rework)

NOVA-XIV is a 15-track cosmic journey by SphereVibrant — blending lo-fi, ambient, downtempo, and electronic textures into soundscapes that feel infinite. Each track is inspired by a planet, moon, or star, reimagined as music for study, focus, meditation, and late-night drifting.

NOVA-XIV isn’t just background music — it’s a soundtrack for traveling through galaxies, both real and imagined.

🚀 Your soundtrack to infinity.

Pluto

Mountain Songs is a project dedicated to my brother Brian Reeves (aka Rocky Mountain, 1948–2012), an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and arranger.  He was the creative force behind so many of the songs on this page.  If you have time, please click for lyrics and track history. 
This is for you Bri, with love and thanks from us all.   We miss you. (Gary Reeves)