Name: Journey of the Sorcerer (Hitchhikers' Guide edit, acoustic cover) by Ben Newman
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Description: An acoustic cover of "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles, also known as the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy theme.

Cecilia Eng's Album

Let’s Fly High

February Album Writing Month 2024 Challenge:  Write a song with a verse or chorus that uses a list structure.

Chair of WHAT??

Chicken Dinner Road got its name in the 1930s but in 2019 PETA asked the mayor of Caldwell to change the name to one that celebrates chickens as individuals, not as beings to kill, chop up and label as 'dinner'.  The mayor pointed out that the road was outside his jurisdiction, and the farmers living along the road were...NOT impressed.

Chicken Dinner Road

February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) 2024 Challenge: Get Modal!  The Peter Iredale has been a tourist attraction on the northwest Oregon coast in Clatsop County where she slowly decays on the sands near the Columbia River Bar.

Peter Iredale

You can google news reports from March 29, 2021 about Sisu and his determined raids on the Dollar General in Kenansville, NC and Samantha Lane, the Duplin County Animal Control officer who paid $10 for the purple unicorn who shared Sisu's bed at the shelter as well as his forever home after his adoption through Lab Rescue.

Sisu’s Best Friend

The CCBA is the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association which kept records of the Chinese men and collected payments over the course of their lives so their bones could be returned to their home villages to be buried with their ancestors.  In 2009 a documentary by Ivy C. Lin, “Come Together Home:  Death, Disinterment, Reburial” was shown by the Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery.  Ivy Lin found and interviewed one of the men who helped ship the remains disinterred in 1948 to Hong Kong only to find over a decade later when visiting Hong Kong that the shipment with his handwriting was still on shelves at the funeral home there.  The trailer for the film can still be seen on Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/6226018

Block 14

February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) 2024 Challenge:  Rip Off Pachelbel

Chanterelle

Traditional Breslov melody for a zemer, that is sung after havdallah. This song will be recorded on Batya's upcoming album.

This version is an unreleased recording from a project called "Frum Where" songs of love and yearning for Hashem from my upbringing. This project is near and dear to my heart, and it will be a 3 volume release of 27 songs sung by a small group of all queer and trans, ex-orthodox and raised-orthodox folks. This project is still in process and will be released in the future, b'sha'ah tova.

Vocals & Guitar by Batya Levine
Mixing & Mastering support from Don Godwin

בְּמוֹצָאֵי יוֹם מְנוּחָה, הַמְצֵא לְעַמְּךָ רְוָחָה
שְׁלַח תִּשְׁבִּי לְנֶאֱנָחָה, וְנָס יָגוֹן וַאֲנָחָה
יָאֲתָה לְךָ צוּרִי, לְקַבֵּץ עַם מְפֻזָּרִי
מִיַּד גּוֹי אַכְזָרִי, אֲשֶׁר כָּרָה לִי שׁוּחָה
עֵת דּוֹדִים תְּעוֹרֵר אֵל, לְמַלֵּט עַם אֲשֶׁר שׁוֹאֵל
רְאוֹת טוּבְךָ בְּבוֹא גוֹאֵל, לְשֶׂה פְזוּרָה וְנִדָּחָה
קְרָא יֶשַׁע לְעַם נְדָבָה, אֵל דָּגוּל מֵרְבָבָה
יְהִי שָׁבוּעַ הַבָּא, לִישׁוּעָה וְלִרְוָחָה
בַּת צִיּוֹן הַשְּׁכוּלָה, אֲשֶׁר הִיא הַיּוֹם גְּעוּלָה
עַתָּה תִּהְיֶה בְעוּלָה, אֵם הַבָּנִים שְׂמֵחָה
מַעְיָנוֹת אֲזַי יְזוּבוּן, וּפְדוּיֵי ה’ יְשׁוּבוּן
וּמֵי יֵשַׁע יִשְׁאֲבוּן, וְהַצָּרָה נִשְׁכָּחָה
נְחֵה עַמְּךָ כְּאָב רַחֲמָן, יְצַפְצְפוּ עַם לֹא אַלְמָן
דְּבַר ה’ אֲשֶׁר נֶאֱמָן, בַּהֲקִימְךָ הַבְטָחָה
וִידִידִים פְּלֵיטֵי חֶרֶץ, נְגִינָתָם יִפְצְחוּ בְמֶרֶץ
בְּלִי צְוָחָה וּבְלִי פֶרֶץ, אֵין יוֹצֵאת וְאֵין צְוָחָה
יְהִי הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה, כִּנְבוּאַת אֲבִי חוֹזֶה
וְיִשָּׁמַע בְּבַיִת זֶה, קוֹל שָׂשׂוֹן וְקוֹל שִׂמְחָה
חָזָק יְמַלֵּא מִשְׁאֲלוֹתֵינוּ, אַמִּיץ יַעֲשֶׂה בַּקָּשָׁתֵנוּ
וְהוּא יִשְׁלַח בְּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ, בְּרָכָה וְהַצְלָחָה
בְּמוֹצָאֵי יוֹם גִּילָה, שִׁמְךָ נּוֹרָא עֲלִילָה
שְׁלַח תִּשְׁבִּי לְעַם סְגֻלָּה, רֶוַח שָׂשׂוֹן וַהֲנָחָה
קוֹל צָהֳלָה וְרִנָּה, שְׂפָתֵינוּ אָז תְּרַנֵּנָה
!אָנָּא ה’ הוֹשִׁיעָה נָא! אָנָּא ה’ הַצְלִיחָה נָא

B’motza’ei yom menucha hamtzei l’amcha r’vachah, shlach tishbi l’ne’enacha, v’nas yagon va’anacha. 
Ya’atah l’cha tzuri, l’kabeitz am m’fuzari, miyad goy achzari, asher karah li shuchah.
Eit dodim t’oreir eil, l’maleit am asher sho’eil, r’ot tuvcha b’vo goel, l’seh f’zurah nidachah.
K’ra yesha l’am n’davah, el dagul meirvavah, y’hi ha’shavua haba, l’yishua v’lirvachah. 
Bat tzion hashe’chulah, asher hi hayom g’ulah, meheira tih’yeh v’ulah, b’eim habanim smeicha.
Ma’ayanot azai y’zuvun, u’fduyei adonai y’shuvun, u’mei yeisha yish’avun, v’hatzara nishkachah.
N’cheih amcha k’av rachaman, y’tzaftzifu am lo alman, d’var adonai asher ne’eman, v’hakimcha havtacha.
Vi’didim p’leitei cheretz, niginatam yiftzichu b’meretz, b’li tz’vachah u’vli ferrets, ein yotzeit v’ein tz’vachah.
Y’hi hachodesh hazeh, kinvu’at avi chozeh, v’yishama b’vayit zeh kol sason v’kol simchah. 
Chazak y’malei mish’aloteinu, amitz ya’aseh vakashateinu, v’hu yishlach b’ma’aseih yadeinu bracha v’hatzlachah.
B’motza’ei yom gilah, shimcha nora alilah, sh’lach tishbi l’am segulah revach sason va’hanacha.
Kol tzahala v’rinah, s’fateinu az tirnana. Ana adonai hoshi’a na! Ana adonai hatzlichah na!

B'motzaei Yom Menucha - Breslov Melody, sung after Havdalah

This feminist retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses from the Brothers Grimm was a Challenge from the February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) to write a song with a mixed time signature.  I also not only changed from minor to major, but actually changed the key going from Am to G.

Marching to the Dance

An acoustic cover of "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles, also known as the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy theme.

Journey of the Sorcerer (Hitchhikers' Guide edit, acoustic cover)

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