This ones For Hannah

Thank you Annie for this chance to collaborate again, love how this one this came together!! @annie-smart-1

Annie = piano, bass, drums, electric piano
Phil = low whistle, whistle, Uilleann pipes, guitar, and virtual harp.
Mixed and Mastered by Phil.

Atlantic Drift (Annie Smart & Philleann)

So thrilled to have been able to work with the wonderful Suzanne Ledwith @suzanne-ledwith on this song.  What a beautiful and captivating voice!!
I also have to thank Peter @user-264930040 for collaborating with me on the lyrics. He has a masterful way with words, and imbued the lyrics with poetry and life!

The Glimmering Shore

They married in haste on a bright winter’s day 
Knowing the next tide would sail him away 
But he pledged his return come the warmth of the May
 And to wait for him there on the glimmering shore

High masted whaler, fading from view 
Beyond her horizon of shimmering blue 
Steeling her heart, through tearful adieu 
Set to wait for her love by that glimmering shore

May’s softness as swallows came dancing on air 
July blessed her life with his daughter so fair 
Then autumn winds rising, whispering despair 
While she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Darklings of winter, snow blankets the sand.
 Earth forged to ice, life stripped from the land. 
Daily returning, the horizon to scan 
To wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Weeks swelled to months that folded to years
 Hope’s light expiring, extinguished by fears 
And the salty sea roared and it crashed like her tears
As she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Like a ship gripped by tempest ne’er to break free
 Her heart imprisoned on a turbulent sea. 
No lighthouse of guidance to lead her to lee. 
She'd wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Vocal - Suzanne Ledwith 
Guitar - Philip Hitt
Lyrics - Philip Dale & Peter Keenan 
Music - Philip Dale

Picture by Lukas Robertson via unsplash.com

The Glimmering Shore (feat. Suzanne Ledwith)

Blades

SHORT (SINGLE) VERSION - the longer cue / score can be found here: 
https://soundcloud.com/integritypartners-music/peter-heckmann-salahuddin-the-guardian-extended-commercial

A melodic ethnic flavored soundscape with a pensive pulse, which becomes increasingly more anxious and powerful toward the end with off-set percussive elements and off-beat /syncopated orchestral SFX. 

The mourning violins and the female vocal lament (separately first and then as call / response) create an atmosphere of sadness - anguish and pain of war. The ending briefly highlights the battle and then just evaporates ... into history, or?

Composer: H. Luqman, P. Heckmann and A. Mutlu
Creative Director: M. Fairouz
Artwork: dinabelenko
Production / Mix / Master: P. Heckmann for IPI Ltd. and Rose Records and Publishing

Salahuddin

Salahuddin - The Guardian

Buy at Bandcamp

I hope you will enjoy listening to this Fantaisie, which I wrote already a while ago....I ticked it for free download if you wish to do so....

Art work by Uwe Nake on Pexels....

Une Fantaisie Opus 20

The Joy We Need - Music by Svayam | Music & Lyrics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

A sacred meditative song to give you the immediate peace healing love vibrations...May you all be blessed...Love and Light for all forms of life, OM Jai Matha, OM Jai Gurudeva, OM Tat Sat OM Shanti OM, REKHA-XOXOXO

Thank you so very much Dearest João for this beautiful sacred gift that we share...for giving me this wonderful opportunity to sing on your gorgeous healing music...I hope our Divine Cosmic Mother will feel our loving intensions for the world...May there forever be peace for all beings, for all forms of life...My greatest prayer wish XOXOXO

Listen to the amazing music of Svayam here: https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa

The Joy We Need - Music & Lyrics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

J-o-Y, J-o-y, J-o-y
We need
We need
J-o-y
Feel the j-o-y
OM-OM-OM

OM-OM-OM
WEH-OH-EH-EH
AH-AH, AH-AH

OM
Hari OM
J-o-y
Feel the j-o-y
In the U-n-i-v-e-r-s-e
It's shining for Y-O-U
Happy J-O-Y, Oi...
Feel the j-o-y

Everyone
Feel the j-o-y
R-e-j-o-i-c-e
OM

J-o-y...
Feel it inside you
It's the L-o-v-e
In your heart
J-o-y, J-o-y

OM
Hari OM Namo Narayana
OM-OM-OM
OM-OM...

J-o-y, J-o-y, J-o-y
It what's we all need
Need, need...
OM-OM-OM
OM

Cover Art Design, Photo, Original Oil Painting, (The Celestial Rider) & Graphics by REKHA IYERN FE

Music Composed & Produced by Svayam in Portugal
Music/Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

The Joy We Need -  REKHA IYERN [Fe] & Svayam M1B BVersion Official -3.4db

The Joy We Need

The Joy We Need - Music by Svayam | Music & Lyrics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Not necessarily our favorite song by John & Paul, but something made me try it out for our own style and we liked it. Made it a very much more straight forward country folk sound with the accent on the lovely lyrics. This is another “live” recording based on my iPhone base of guitar and vocals which Nat then took and added her magic harmonies and such to pretty it up nicely.
Vocal Copyright 2021 Daniels & Durgy
Gentle Rain Records
Copyright Sony/Atv Music Publishing (Uk)/Lennon/Mccartney

Long and Winding Road (Live Cover)

Long and Winding Road (live cover)

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCJekNvGSw

The Colours of Bliss (with video)

This is the second track of an instrumental project I've entitled "It's All Greek to Me", as I explore the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.

I'm using Ancient Greek instruments featured in the 'Ancient Worlds VST Library from Big Fish Audio', underpinned with classical orchestral instruments. There are some very interesting sounds in it that do seem to evoke a time long ago.

Background

According to Greek mythology, Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Despite modern iconography depicting the Sirens as mermaids, early Greek art depicted them as part woman, part bird.

For this piece a Greek galley is introduced with a steady drum pulse and some Greek instruments to set the scene. We start with the Pan Flute supported by the Strings (Lyre and Kithara). Cymbal rolls represent the waves. The melody then passes to the Flogera and Alto Flute and a lone Siren voice before all three make an appearance. From then on they all act in counterpoint to each other. 

As the Sirens continue to charm the sailors, the Samvyke is introduced (another stringed instrument) as a sort of controlled tension that slowly gets a bit more frantic as the track starts to build. French Horns and Percussion herald the full fury of the Sirens unleashed on the luckless sailors. Helpless to resist, their boat is dashed upon the rocks. 

As the ship begins to break up on the rocky shore the track goes much smaller with a mournful solo cello, supported by the other strings. I wanted a melancholic ending  and the descending figure is supposed to represent the sinking of the boat alongside an almost funeral drum pulse, it just leads down and down into the depths of the sea. More lives have been lost to this peril of the ancient world.

Instrumentation Used

Greek Stringed Instruments - Lyre, Kithara, Samvyke
Greek Wind Instruments - Kavali, Flogera, Pan Flute 
Greek Percussion - Bendir

In addition to the ancient instruments above the track also features :-

Orchestral CS Strings (Albion One - Spitfire)
Violin Ensemble (Octave Long)(Chris Hein Strings)
Viola Ensemble (Octave Long and Flautando)(Chris Hein Strings)
Cello Ensemble (Long)(Chris Hein Strings)
Bass Ensemble (Octave Long)(Chris Hein Strings)
Solo Cello (Chris Hein Strings)
Alto Flute (Chris Hein Winds)
French Horn Ensemble (Chris Hein Brass)
Trombone Ensemble (Chris Hein Brass)
Tuba (Chris Hein Brass)

'The Sirens' - Shevannai vocal library (Eduardo Tarilonte)

XXL Percussion(Albion One - Spitfire)
Rolled Cymbals (Albion One - Spitfire)
St Peter's Choir (Halion 6)
Boat Breaking FX (Halion 6)

The Sirens (It's All Greek to Me)

The wonderful Debra Buesking joins me on piano in a less mad version of my song!
Debra is such a beautiful player, I recommend spending some time on her page : ) https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking

Speak to me
You are all that I can see
I am one
I am one

Hold my hand
I have done what I can do
Though I am just a man
Just a man

When the rains fall
They will sweep us all away
when the sky palls
at the ending of the day
You are my love
and that's all that I can say
We were here
We were here

I must leave
and though parting tears my heart
I had love
I had love
You're with me now
and that's all that I want
We have love
We have love

When the rain falls etc

We Had Love - With Debra Buesking

A collection of songs, instrumentals and orchestral pieces charting my adventures in home studio recording and production.  All original compositions using voice, acoustic and electric guitar (sometimes using altered tunings), bouzouki, low and high whistles and MIDI instrumentation. 

I'm also using VST instrumentation to create classical compositions and integrating orchestral sounds into my songs and instrumentals.

Links to various instrumental projects and other Social Media links are available below.

My Eclectic Music Connections repost thread is here

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki-repost

The Sirens (It's All Greek to Me)

MrBouzouki