How to live with history (and family), how to throw off its bonds?

Very nice song! Niamh I really like you vocal phrasing they sound like indian vocal phrasing.

dark gothic folk  - provocative and accusatory - you have a sound!!

i have stumbled upon during my many many hours listening to your music here on Soundcloud...  here you will find songs that ooze summer vibes, sunlit happy pop - in all its sub-genres. If you like what you hear, please go show the artist/s some love....  x

WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE SUN

LE PREMIER AMOUR EST TOUJOURS LE DERNIER

A song I love…

Paroles : Bernard Dimey - Musique : Henri Salvador
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse_(chanson)
- - - -
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'île de Pâques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
À glisser l'aile sous le vent
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du grand Lama
Rêver des amants de Vérone
Au sommet du Fuji-Yama
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pêcher au cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En écoutant chanter le vent
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
Pour m'en souvenir à Paris
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
Pour m'en souvenir à Paris

Syracuse

Påskdagen

A precious duet with an inviting smile: enjoy it!

Romanze (Cello + Piano, michael spielmann)

This is your inheritance. 
The burnt grass is fragrant.
You wear the scent of seared earth,
My little innocents.
Trees brittle, unbreathing
The walking warped abandoned spirit
Bereft, they bring on a winter
we won't recognise..

And something inward screams;
a punch right in to the heart
A deep genetic memory;
a punch right in to the gut...

Apples rot at your feet
The impoverished spirit robs yours blind
The assault the spirit has sustained:
How vast the blindness can be.
Don't let these years eat you alive,
eyes blackened and wide...
All sacred trampled underfoot:
Let the fever do all the killing..

(chorus) 

I'll not partake of this new weather;
Won't pay my way in to this fear theatre.. 
What weird worship - twisted invocation -
Destruction is built in. 
Heirs to a kingdom in ruin, 
I bend to kiss your crowns. 
Heirs to a crumbling throne, 
I kiss your crowns... 

(chorus) 

Here the sun pours a torture,. 
And there it pours a balm. 
I hear a muttered curse and then.. 
And then I hear a psalm... 
What weird worship -
twisted invocation - 
Destruction is built in. 
I'll not partake of this new weather:
I will not pay my way in. 


HEIRS

Resign

Till infinity   Version 28-8-2021
Thanks to Dennie Pol for singing along on this song.
https://youtu.be/WgtK2nFO3zM 


I'll be a refugee
Loving my enemy

Working secretly
Till infinity

Soon I'll be joining
The time team

Digging and scanning
to figure out
What the signals mean.

Till infinity
Remember vividly

Where we cmoe from
Steadily
Uncover history
And what we stumble upon

Demo discussion also welcome at 
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songs-for-review/2/till-infinity/7100/

ISRC NL1BH2100012

Till infinity

Till infinity (featuring Dennie Pol)

... just a one man jam :-) ... soprano sax and keyboard improvisation - some fun synths too ;-) .... enjoy my saturday afternoon draft !

flow motion

featuring @4catsncoffee on violin
:
One last wander past the mountain stream... 
only sunrise is a guitar-based folk rock tune with southern gothic echoes. the closing track of the d'ville EP >https://soundcloud.com/jh0st/sets/dville
:
-------------lyrics

This is the only sunrise
Edge of the amber darkness (cut the)
veins of blue mountain water…

A path to the lullaby wind
We're stumbling… 
not knowing the
The child from within

[@4catsncoffee on violin]
This is the flash of madness
Traced in the scraping branches…

A path to the lullaby wind
Sung by the…
child that sees out from within
Gravity, on and on (and on…)
Spots on the sun
Sung by the…
devil behind those closed eyes

Yes, promises chase the magic
breath, skipping the one heartbeat between
Faces and thousands of lullabies end in a single word

This is the only sunrise

2021

Buy on Bandcamp

only sunrise [ft. 4catsncoffee]

Satan / Jacob Rose

Satan

Intro 
Who you gonna call when the news gets here
A new generation closes up in fear
Now these days are spent to leave this place
Cuttin' ties, just in case it's gone.

Where ya gonna go where there is no light
right the wrongs, stand the test time
and you'll know, we all know we can't run this time

So meet me soon at the jump off point
take my heart leave it all behind
It's cold and blue but I'd rather not die
right the wrongs, stand the test of time.
...with you, just one more time.
So meet me at the jump off point
take my heart and leave this all behind!

Outro 
meet me soon, just one more time...

Art by Snowfall the Cat
Guitars, backing vocals - Cass
Vocals, percussion - Rock
V5.04

Jumping Off

"Heartbeats" from "Veneer"

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2015 Tour Dates:
Tickets available: found.ee/JGFullTour

March
2 Berlin, Germany @ Heimathaften* SOLD OUT
3 Berlin, Germany @ Heimathaften* SOLD OUT
4 Prague, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar*
5 Vienna, Austria @ Ottakringer Brauerei* SOLD OUT
6 Munich, Germany @ Muffathalle* SOLD OUT
7 Zurich, Switzerland @ Kaufleuten*
8 Frankfurt, Germany @ Mousonturm* SOLD OUT
9 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg Oude Saal* SOLD OUT
10 Paris, France @ Cabaret Sauvage*
11 London, UK @ Scala* SOLD OUT
12 London, UK @ Scala* SOLD OUT
13 Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre*
14 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2* SOLD OUT
16 Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque Royal*
17 Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefarlich* SOLD OUT

April
6 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer*
7 Washington, DC @ 930 Club* SOLD OUT
8 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg* SOLD OUT
10 New York, NY @ Webster Hall* SOLD OUT
11 Boston, MA @ Paradise* SOLD OUT
12 Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre*
13 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre*
14 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall* SOLD OUT
15 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall* SOLD OUT
16 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center* SOLD OUT
17 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center* SOLD OUT
18 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre*
20 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre*
22 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot*
24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater* 
25 Vancouver, BC @ Imperial* SOLD OUT
27 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club* SOLD OUT
28 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club* SOLD OUT
29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent* SOLD OUT
30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent* SOLD OUT

May
22-24 Mannheim, Germany @ Maifeld Derby
22-25 Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Festival
28 London, UK @ Shepherd's Bush Empire 
29 Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound

June
4-6 Porto, Portugal @ NOS Primavera Sound
12-14 Aarhus, Denmark @ Northside Festival
26-28 Oslo, Norway @ Piknik I Parken

July
1-4 Gdynia, Poland @ Open'er Festival
4 Dachau, Germany @ Dachauer Musiksommer
16-19 Ostrava, Czech Republic @ Colours

August
10-17 Budapest, Hungary @ Sziget Festival
20-22 St Pölten, Austria @ Frequency Festival
21-23 Biddinguizen, Netherlands @ Lowlands
21-23 Hamburg, Germany @ Dockville Festival

* with Ólöf Arnalds

Heartbeats

I found this on my hard drive. It dates from four or five years ago. At the time, I thought it wasn’t enough of this or enough of that to post, while thinking it was also too much of the same thing. But now I like it, especially from the guitar player’s point of view. The sounds and interlocking parts please me. Maybe you will like them too.

I remember that I made this in vague tribute to one of my favorite players and musical mentors-at-a-distance.  He shall remain only partially named.  

For some reason, the “head,” such as it is, comes at the end. Go figure…

Billy I Am Ruined

Olhos híbridos

Halfway There

I'll be finished with the complete version in a day or two.  Pardon the vocals please....

It's You! Guitar

niamhjmckinney@gmail.com 

We now have some of our tracks available to buy on bandcamp 
https://niamhandstephenmckinney.bandcamp.com/

Niamh McKinney is a singer-songwriter from Wicklow. Having kept notebooks of poetry since childhood, she didn't start writing songs until one day in 2015, when songs suddenly started pouring out. Unsure as to the nature of what she had composed during this first creative burst, a form of validation came a month later when she won the Allingham Songwriting Competition with one of the first songs she wrote.
      Poetically rich - both lyrically and melodically - her heart-rending songs draw on stories and life experience, captivating by way of their ethereal sense of urgency and foreboding.
     Niamh writes her songs a capella. Her musical partner and husband Stephen McKinney (who has previously played guitar and synths with prog rock fusion band Leo Drezden) then crafts evocative guitar accompaniment which interweaves seamlessly with the songs, complementing their haunting quality. The two are currently working on producing their debut album.


hello!  i'm Kat but you can call me Miaow, like my cat does....  i'm a singer/songwriter/musician/music-lover from Scotland and have been all my life.  this is my first solo project.  my debut album, Year Zero, which is out on all digital platforms.

DOWNLOAD / BUY my music here:

https://miaowmcdonald.bandcamp.com/

you can also find me on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Napster, Applemusic, Googleplay, etc etc etc.

Miaow McDonald: words, vocals, guitar, bass, piano, Theremin, synths and is responsible for some other sonic perversions and samples.

Additional players named on individual tracks.

Production: Robert Davidson (Aged Choir Boy)

Thank you for tuning in!  

Love,
Miaow x

HEIRS

Niamh McKinney

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