I have just started watching this online. Unusual for me as I do not watch television at all. it was a friend who coaxed me to watch. I am  thinking this track would really fit that series! Amazing Pete.

Whoa... Awesome start, like a soundtrack with the FX left in and the video taken away.

makes a good filler flow between tracks much like sgt pepper album did

Great track. Making imaginations galore flow trough my mind... Greetings from the Viking territory of Stavanger, Norway!

I'm now in the remix and remaster phase of the project for release sometime in 2024. This list there contains a mixture of original mix and remixed/remastered tracks.

The project has it's own website where you can find much more information about the project. You can also play the tracks from the site too. 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

The Pilgrims Way is the old waymarked safe crossing point to the tidal island of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, off the NE coast of the UK.

The eponymous opening track of this project acts as a musical gateway to explore the history and natural world of this special place.

The Pilgrims Way Project

Music, Lyrics, vocals and production done by this guy....enjoy....


Follow the dark, light is not pure
Its absurd, a cure deterring many kills from the hurt
Distilled and working, a systematic decline
You resign from the time your eyes become blind
To the senseless connotations that your mental reflects
Until you speak the latin language with a poor mans respect
Its all a game, nothing is real
Not even the social definition of love that you feel

I appeal to you and try to make a solid case
You follow pace, deface the mask, deny the rape
A matter of fact the dim shadows form your soul
You've got no control as to where your energy goes
Energy flows lava anger let it explode
And corrode the lines their feeding from your head to your toes
Like a puppet they love it making you jump
Until you feel like nothing more than a waste of your lungs
Now you don't breathe let it all go
Suffocate breathe air is no more

I'm in your mind

My core is dead the spark inside cannot persist
I exist only to witness the sense of this bliss
Dismissed as a failure, done, a bitter shit
A heart ripped, let go slip 
More am I more I can know your thoughts
Before you know them and expose them 
Making me distraught

Lonely defies hurt, the pain is no more
The key to my love lies in dust heart sore
Blame the fact that I'm filled with emotions displaced
I've abandoned all this hope for the cycles to change

Follow The Dark

Live in October 2023 at the VIII Festival de Jóvenes Guitarristas José Luis Rodrigo in Madrid. 
Audio by RCSMM sound design students.

for Stella - Cornelius Cardew (live) [version 2]

This song I wrote during the end of the pandemic last year, had all my boosters and wearing a mask and everything, first trip I made on vacation, BAM! Got covid! Really pissed me off and it lasted for a month, I've never experienced anything like that in my life, the evil that was released on this Earth, it was unbearable! So I went to my studio and recorded a super fast beat and basically sweat that crud out of me and wrote this song! I kept forgetting to post it! Oh and the video is super wicked and not for the faint of heart! I'll be posting that on Youtube later this month or next. We Gotta Burn people, wake up before it's too late! Think of the children & grandkids!!
This song has one line with profanity so listener beware!!

“WE GOTTA BURN!”

WELCOME SUCKERS TO THE END OF DAYS,
WE'RE SO HAPPY THAT YOU COULD JOIN US,
COP A SQUAT ON THAT LAVA ROCK, 
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE HEAT,
HERE'S A MESSAGE FROM DEAR OLD DAD,
WE DIDN'T LISTEN, WE NEVER LEARNED,
NOW WE GOTTA BURN! 
WE GOTTA BURN!
            
NO DON'T SAY CLIMATE CHANGE,
THOSE WORDS SHOULD NOT BE SPOKEN, 
GRAB A SEAT ON THAT BURNING STREET, 
TAKE A LOAD OFF OF THEM FEET,
BURNING ALIVE REALLY AIN'T THAT BAD,
DON'T GO ACTING SO CONCERNED,
NOW WE GOTTA BURN! 
WE GOTTA BURN!

ITALY'S ON FIRE FROM COAST TO COAST,
THOSE ROMANS REALLY KNOW HOW TO COOK,
GREECE IS DANCING WITH ITS HAIR ON FIRE,  
NOW THAT'S ONE FOR THE BOOKS,
IT'S HELL ON EARTH AT LAST, 
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE,
THE FUTURE IS NOW THE PAST,
WE GOTTA BURN!      

IT'S HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME,
THE TREES ARE ALL A GLOW,
YOUR PARENTS DIDN'T GIVE A F**KING SH*T,
SO SHUT UP AND WATCH THE SHOW,
HUMANS ON THE BARBIE, NOW THAT'S A LAUGH,
WATCHING THOSE LITTLE MAGGOTS SQUIRM,      
NOW WE GOTTA BURN! WE GOTTA BURN!
NOW WE GOTTA BURN! WE GOTTA BURN!
NOW WE GOTTA BURN! WE GOTTA BURN!
WE GOTTA BURN!!!!!!!!
                    
BY JIM VALDES © 2023

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART

"WE GOTTA BURN!"

looking down the street

Kristallenergie

Ganges by Jeamland & WÜST

Remember 

The Walking Jam Session

2024 Remix and Remaster version to bring it up to the standard of the later album tracks for full album release in 2024.
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"A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine - From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord"

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website

www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The Vikings! instrumental features rolled timpani, strings, electric guitar and a choir ending. Various sound FX from that are classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

"Flock of Seagulls" by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Background
Simeon of Durham recorded the grim events of the Viking attack on Lindisfarne in 793 AD

"And they came to the church of Lindisfarne, laid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted feet, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church. They killed some of the brothers; some they took away with them in fetters; many they drove out, naked and loaded with insults; and some they drowned in the sea" .
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'The Vikings' was in direct contrast to the dreamy first piece of the album. I came across a Latin Phrase spoken by priests as a prayer of protection from the scourge of Viking raids. It helped me get into the mindset required for this piece. I chanced upon some 'Foley' material of some actual Viking re-enactors from freesound and used this to create a very short, brooding piece that explodes into an electric guitar solo before just being suddenly left with a voiceover of me chanting the Latin phrase against the backdrop of the sound of the sea.

Often Viking raids were short and bloody and I wanted to try and capture how an attack like this could change everything for the vulnerable monks. Faith was their shield but could it really protect them from these savages from the sea ?

The Vikings - 2024 Remix and Remaster

Osc Project - Move

A Short Conversation

2024 Remix and Remaster version to bring it up to the standard of the later album tracks for full album release in 2024.
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Lindisfarne has always held a special fascination for my wife and I, so it is no surprise to me that I would eventually create some music about it. Hopefully you can be swept away by the music but not the tide ;-)

This track is now the first track of the "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website

www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The Pilgrims Way Instrumental features Low Whistle, coupled with the sound of strings waves and the wheeling of seagulls overhead. It also features Shevvanai Voice of the Elves VST. (Lara Ausensi)

"Flock of Seagulls by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thanks to Redmando, Leonard Scaper and the Songwriters in the Kitchen Forum for the spark
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Background
Ever since 635, when King Oswald gave the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to St Aidan to establish his monastery, the island has been a place of pilgrimage. The road was not constructed until 1954 and until then the vertical poles were the only indicators of the safe route between the mainland and island. The sight of the poles stretching across the sand and mud is one of the most iconic views in Northumberland and to walk the route away from the road and follow in the footsteps of our medieval ancestors is a wonderful experience.

With 'The Pilgrims Way', there was actually very little research involved. Lindisfarne was a place both my wife and I loved and it was really created from a simple low whistle melody. I also included 'Foley' sounds to help in the immersion for the listener. Having got some initial positive feedback from some musical friends, I decided to try and create a series of pieces based around Lindisfarne. Given it's history and unique natural setting, there seemed plenty of material to go at.

The Pilgrims Way - 2024 Remix and Remaster

"A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine - From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord"

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The Vikings! instrumental features rolled timpani, strings, electric guitar and a choir ending. Various sound FX from that are classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

"Flock of Seagulls" by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Background
Simeon of Durham recorded the grim events of the Viking attack on Lindisfarne in 793 AD

"And they came to the church of Lindisfarne, laid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted feet, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church. They killed some of the brothers; some they took away with them in fetters; many they drove out, naked and loaded with insults; and some they drowned in the sea" .

The Vikings !

An Irish-tinged tune about the Lindisfarne Gospels to reflect the Irish foundations of the community despite the later Romanisation of the Celtic church. 

The track title comes from me thinking about it being a beacon of civilisation, a rallying point, during the Early Middle Ages whist a far chunk of the UK was under Viking rule and Christianity had again been pushed to the margins of the UK.

Thanks to Karen O'Mahony (MonnoDB) for her (harp playing) advice - check out her stuff here:- https://soundcloud.com/monnodb

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
A Light in the Darkness instrumental features strings, high C whistle, harp, violin,  Uilleann pipes, bodhrán (Irish frame drum) and a choir backing.

The sound of 'Eadfrith' doing his writing is a sound FX that is classed as Public Domain and used to add colour to the track, It can be found on www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Background
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715-720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are presumed to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721 AD

A Light In The Darkness

Semi-Finalist in the Instrumental category in the UK Songwriting Contest 2018

With The North Shore I hope to give a feel of that 'magical interface' between land and sea, a place apart from the hustle and bustle of life where your soul can find peace for a while. A natural world full of wonder for those with the time and inclination to see.  

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne.

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The North Shore instrumental features low whistle, DADGAD tuned acoustic guitar, strings, choir backing, violin and synthesizer

A sea waves sound FX that is classed as Public Domain is used to add colour to the track from www.freesound.org

This recording was actually done at Bamburgh, just down the coast from Lindisfarne island.

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

"Flock of Seagulls" by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Background
The 'semi-hidden' North Shore of Lindisfarne is driven past by tourists every day, eager to see the 'sites' of the Island in their race against time before the tide cuts them off from the mainland. It is part of the Lindisfarne Natural Nature Reserve and its shifting sands and tides combine to create the 3500 hectares of dunes, saltmarsh and mudflats of the Reserve, home to a fascinating array of birdlife, seals, rare orchids and other wildlife. To experience it you need to spend time on the island, either by choosing to be cut off by an early tide or ideally stay on the island for a while.

The North Shore

This track is dedicated to the memory of Chris A and the time that was 'Elidor'. "I hope you are flying somewhere with that big grin on your face" 
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This track was very much a collision of ideas. I wanted to follow on from The North Shore and actually take the listener into the air to experience the feeling and freedom of flying like a bird. Additionally the track title "Flight of Fancy" was the title of an original instrumental  played by a band I was in in the early 80's. The keyboard player in that band is sadly no longer with us, so I decided to try and reinvent the spirit of that time as a musical tribute to Chris.  

Enjoy your Flight of Fancy :-)

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne.

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website 

https://www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation

(i) Sunrise (0:00 - 0:58)
Part One of the track features strings, brass from my new orchestral library Albion One by Spitfire Audio and timpani. It also includes an additional brass VST from Halion Sonic (Cubase).

(ii) The Shoreline At Dawn (0:59 - 2:28)
Part Two features Albion One Strings (muted - con sordini) and Woodwinds, Synthesizer and Electric Guitar 

(iii) Into The Air (2:29 - 6:42)
Part Three has Strings (Longs and Ostinato), Synthesizer, Electric Guitar, Bass, Drums (Simon Phillips Studio Drums in Groove Agent) and a Choir Backing. 

Various seabird sound FX that is classed as Public Domain are used to add colour to this part of the track from www.freesound.org

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Background

This track seemed to naturally evolve into three discrete sections with a different musical flavour to each part.

(i) Sunrise (0:00 - 0:58)
As the title suggests, it is my musical imagining of sunrise on the beach with all the grandeur of a new day dawning. A big orchestral sound and timpani seemed the way to go.

(ii) The Shoreline At Dawn (0:59 - 2:28)
Part Two has a much more muted sound as nature begins to stir with the dawn and musically this part acts as a linking section between parts one and three. 

(iii) Into The Air (2:29 - 6:42)
Finally we are into the air and I wanted to give a feeling of flying by the use of rising chords sequences and a string ostinato (a recurring rhythmic or melodic pattern). I also wanted to give a nod to the original Flight of Fancy so it has a variation of the main guitar riff I played back in the early 80's, some interwoven guitar and keyboard parts and harmony with underlying jazzy drum and bass parts.

Flight Of Fancy

NOWHERE FOREVER for piano & morning

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 Vikings !

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