I’ve not looked, but there just has to be a band somewhere called The Strat Vamps.

Chugs along neat and sweet my friend - very easy on the head flaps.

Love this tempo and that vamp--nice picking  !!

six stringed sweetness. fender six string, that is.

great picking exercise! and I love this magnetic upbeat rhythm.

soundN like fender bender/great strat track/pick it/a hit/can't beat it/ a trip

Relax

Main parts --- nylon and steel string acoustic with some electric guitar overdubs later. A kind of study, with some almost experimental electric guitar ornaments. Recovered the acoustic guitar files, fixed them up, and glued it together! A bit of unevenness in the quality means best on earphones I think.

Step into the Light

Come sunrise I'll see this through.
It's the morning light that helps you move.

And little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this until all is right.
Little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this with you all the time.

Warm sunshine. Such a nice surprise.
One of a kind that helps you move.

And little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this until all is right.
Little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this with you all the time.

Never mind all the woes.
It's a crime. You said it so.
Better times come and go.
To remind you why you'll never ever know.

And little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this until all is right.
Little by little if it'll make you feel fine
I will, I will do this with you all the time.

Little By Little

Take your time. It's all right 
to take it slow sometimes.

Take your mind off your weary life and those
that remind you it's not okay to smile.

I just don't got in me.
I just don't got in me
to take this seriously

It tastes just fine.
Savor every bite. 
The finite and sublime.

Ooo It ain't right. 
No, no, no I don't think so.

Take your eyes off the devil's prize and go back.
It's okay to laugh.

I just don't got in me.
I just don't got in me
to take this seriously

Seriously

Posting In honor of my good friend Mike Kavanaugh, He wrote such beautiful songs from the heart. You will be missed but never forgotten. Such a privilege to know and work with you my friend. 
Mike Kavanaugh: Vocals and Rhythm guitar
Greg Hurley: Slide guitar, Bass, Drums and backing vocals, mix and mastering
Mike Kavanaugh : "An original of mine - collaborating with producer Greg Hurley for a full band version of this tune previously recorded solo."
Mike passed away peacefully on Sunday July 18th 2021. He is safely home in Heaven where there is no more pain only eternal happiness.

Lyrics
Stay with me  tonight
Won’t you hold me tight

Need to feel you Love
Fit me like a glove 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight

Hold me in your arms
Don’t give me no Harm 

Take away my Breath 
With your tenderess

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 
  
But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight  

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 

Love before all time 
Let’s say you’ll be mine   

Tell me that you’ll stay 
Till my diying day 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight

Don't Leave Me Alone / Mike Kavanaugh

Pas Glop - Guit Solo

Reach Out is a song about love and friendship in the midst of tragedy. It could be war, or the pandemic, or any circumstances where two people try to make it work, against the odds. We probably all have such a story. The resilience from close friendship always comes…so long as we continue to reach out. 

The song was written a while ago, and sung with Jen Di Biasi; it started with some arpeggios on my classical guitar (C maj 9, G sus2/B, Am7), and some sketchy vocal lines. I’ve come back to it periodically, always building in new ideas and layers…but I think this baby is ready now! It’s got an 80s rock ballad feel I guess, with a little dancing section just past half way!

Reach Out

Here's a jazz original.  I'm joined by the wonderful Sam Mendez, Georg Boehme, and Al Schulman.   Such a great sound with both the flute and Bari ranges and timbers and Al's showing off on such fine rhythm guitar and soloing.  Sam is no longer with us and never got a chance to hear this.  This smile's for you Sam.

https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

Your Smile - Sam Mendez / Georg Boehme / Al Schulman / Jamie Rhind

Second part of my father trilogy.
This song is based on a dream I had a good 20 years ago with my father, who had been dead for some time. 
I am in a dimly lit room. It's just me and somehow my father's energy body. At some point, this invisible energy body comes towards me. Then we embrace. It is a merging embrace. Something deep inside me releases and makes me cry. It's not so much a sad cry, but a liberating, soothing cry that pacifies me completely. 
Since this dream, the grudge I harboured against him for a long time has largely disappeared.     
Somehow he has been there inside me since then and I can sometimes visit him (even in dreams) when I want to talk to him.

The arrangement of the song is deliberately minimalist (just vocals, guitar and violin, hardly any effects) in order to emphasise the tremendous intimacy of the encounter between my father and me in the dream described above (there is no longer a "leaf" between us).

My Father  (Lyrics in English)

Would so like to talk to you
Break through the walls to the hereafter
Meet you in a moon cafe
On chairs that stand here and there

You died before the Berlin Wall came down
My son was born on the day you died
Never saw my beautiful wife
Although you had aimed 
For a hundred years of life

You only reached half of it
Life was rarely really easy for you

You were often too close to the stars
Underestimated the danger to your life
Had so many visions
Wanted to live in castles in the air

Then you were all there again
So clairvoyant, wise and clear

Would love to have you with me now
My father, I would love to have you here now 

The dividing wall to you is now open
I haven't met you for so long
You're waiting for me in the moon cafe
I see you in the soft twilight

I want to tell you so many things
What happened after you left
You still wanted to experience it all
Your early death did not grant you that

You were so torn, the demons, they tore at you
You loved the rush, had little sense of yourself

And yet you were in deep distress
My ever-protecting boat
My steadying hand
The lighthouse in my land of chaos

You gave up the shirt off your back
That ultimately cost you your life

Would love to have you with me now
My father, I wish you were here now


Mein Vater (Deutscher Originaltext)

Möchte so gern mit Dir sprechen
Die Mauern zum Jenseits durchbrechen
Dich in einem Mond-Cafe` treffen
Auf Stühlen, die hier und dort stehen

Vor dem (Berliner) Mauerfall bist Du gestorben
An Deinem Todestag wurde mein Sohn geboren
Hast meine schöne Frau niemals erlebt
Dabei hattest Du 
Hundert Jahre Leben angestrebt

Hast grad‘ mal gut die Hälfte davon erreicht
Das Leben war für Dich selten wirklich leicht

Warst oft den Sternen zu nah
Unterschätztest die Lebensgefahr
Hattest so viele Visionen
Wolltest in Luftschlössern wohnen

Dann warst Du wieder ganz da
So hellsichtig, weise und klar

Hätt‘ Dich so gern jetzt bei mir
Mein Vater, hätt‘ Dich jetzt gern hier 

Die Trennwand zu Dir steht jetzt offen
So lange hab‘ ich Dich nicht getroffen
Du wartest im Mond-Cafe‘ auf mich
Ich seh‘ Dich im zarten Dämmerlicht

Ich will Dir so vieles erzählen
Was so geschah nach Deinem Fortgehen
Du wolltest das alles noch erleben
Dein früher Tod hat Dir das nicht vergönnt

Warst so zerrissen, die Dämonen, sie zerrten an Dir
Liebtest den Rausch, hattest für Dich wenig Feingespür

Und dennoch warst Du in tiefer Not
Mein stets mich schützendes Boot
Meine mir haltgebende Hand
Der Leuchtturm in meinem Chaos-Land

Hast Dein letztes Hemd hergegeben
Das kostete Dich letztlich Dein Leben

Hätt‘ Dich so gern jetzt bei mir
Mein Vater, hätt‘ Dich jetzt gern hier

Mein Vater (My Father)

Sensibilität

Sensibilität (Sensibility)

"lua" do projecto svayam - em concerto meditativo no Chá da Barra em Oeiras (Associação Luchapa)
***
João Sousa - guitarra acústica, taças tibetanas, voz
(acoustic guitar, tibetan bowls, vocals)~
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svayam's "lua" - meditative concert at Cha da Barra, Oeiras, Portugal (a Luchapa association iniciative)

Nadi#2 (Chá da Barra, Oeiras @ 29DEZ'18)

First the track of the new album, Casa, on 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀. Check the new album at https://shanticoat.bandcamp.com/album/casa

☼ ENG
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗮 is the first 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 album recorded in studio.
This music project for meditation, relaxation, healing and inner jouney has been shared by João Sousa in live sessions for different audiences in different places.

Svayam is the reflection of an inner search, a journey from the abstraction of the senses to the celebration of the union between body and mind, and what lies beyond. His music echoes for union and equality of all beings.
The title of this work is Casa (Home), because inside of it exists many houses, many changes of earth, water, fire and air. In here, you can find different concepts of home, of body, of a place where there is no separations between the One and the Whole .
Casa lies in a timeless idea of ​​home, an intimate and safe space that we can access by simply closing the eyes, taking a deep breath, reaching a universal place and a desire to be the home.
Here and now.
In search of the Self, every place is home. ॐ ☮

☼ PT
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗮 é o primeiro álbum de 𝗦𝘃𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗺 gravado em estúdio.
Este projecto de música para meditação, relaxamento, cura e viagem interior tem sido partilhado por João Sousa em sessões ao vivo para diferentes públicos em diversos lugares.

Svayam é o reflexo de uma busca interior, uma viagem desde a abstracção dos sentidos até à celebração da união do corpo com a mente, e o que há para além disso. Na sua música ecoa a união e igualdade de tod@s os seres.
O título deste trabalho é Casa, porque dentro dele habitam muitas casas, muitas mudanças de terra, de água, de fogo e de ar. Aqui estão presentes diferentes noções de casa, de corpo, daquele lugar onde não existe Um separado do Todo.
Casa reside numa ideia intemporal de lar, um espaço íntimo e seguro a que podemos aceder com um simples fechar de olhos, uma respiração profunda, chegando a um lugar universal e uma vontade de Ser a Casa. Aqui e agora.
Em busca do Ser, todo o lugar é casa. ॐ ☮

Casa

Pratyahara

Pratyahara | Casa (SCR002)

☼ PT (english bellow)
Os dias que correm pedem 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗲: de dentro para fora, de fora para dentro, do que não está certo, do que nos cega, do que nos oprime. Que este compasso seja o ritmo da tua libertação, que comece em ti e contribua para radiar em tod@s à tua volta.
Com este tema celebro o Verão, no dia do seu solstício, mas também o Yoga no seu dia internacional. ॐ ☮

☼ ENG
These days ask for 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 (portuguese: Liberdade): from the inside out, from the outside in, from what's not right, from what blinds us, from what oppresses us. May this compass be the rhythm of your liberation, may it begin in you and contribute to spread in everyone around you.
With this song I celebrate Summer, on the day of its solstice, but also Yoga on its international day. ॐ ☮

[SCR003]
credits
released June 21, 2020
☮ Interpretada, gravada e produzida por | 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 João Sousa
☮ Arruda dos Vinhos, 20/21 de Junho de 2020

Liberdade

Liberdade | (SCR 003)

Images on a mountain top

Guinevere

Belair

Collings I35lc
Fuchs ODS bassman mod
Glaswerks 1x12xl w/ Celestion Lead 80

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

I enjoy composing, arranging and recording music on an ever-expanding array of guitars, especially Fender electrics and Martin acoustics.  My musical journey began more than half a century ago, and every day brings new opportunities for continued growth as a musician.  My current leading influences include Jim Campilongo, Scotty Anderson and Guthrie Trapp.  I love Beethoven, Keith Richards, Henry Mancini, Aretha Franklin and a thousand others whose music has brought me joy, whether for many decades or for a few minutes.  I strive to learn something from every piece of music that I hear, and to make music that others will enjoy hearing.

I'm an amateur DIYer in terms of recording, doing everything in my music space at home and learning as I go.  I enjoy experimenting with a variety of microphones and mic placements, recording into a Zoom R16 and using Audacity as my DAW.  I use an array of Fender tube amps, all blackface/silverface reissues, and a modest pedal board.  I record acoustic instruments either with condenser microphones directly on the instruments or else amped through a Fishman Loudbox Mini.

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