My Wife just pegged this track as ACDC.....

I could see that little guitar player from AC/DC doing his shuffle on stage to this

Nice guitar tone! Check out our new demo. Would love to share ideas!

I'm not sure what's harder to get my head around here : this 5/4 rhythm or your highly technical Eventide account :) I think I'm just going to have to trust my ears on this one. It sounds bloody good :) Oh, and you owe me a new pair of loudspeakers by the way ...

Takes me back to some old April Wine albums ;)

This Playlist is all my favorite songs that I've been listening to. I hope your song is on there and please check the list out and maybe repost xxxx

Can i Add your awesome song to my playlist?.. please repost..

For me brother

Lyrics:
Under the stone
Round one     Here it goes
Chase lizards, rescue birds   Play with the dog adopt a cat
Magic summer days   In the north and south
Round 2   Not so sweet anymore
Fight, slam doors   Different interests 
Different friends  Yet outside 
We are a team
under the stone   what did we find
bits and pieces of our life 
Round 3    From bad to worse
She is a stuck up    He is defensive
They both hurt but don't get    Each other
Winter days with Rays of hope 
Now round 4   We are older
We lived through some
Found each other
Again
May this spring
Last forever
Brother
under the stone   what did we find
bits and pieces of our life 

Under The Stone

Cancion del gato solitario

I did not use AI support at any stage in the creation of this piece.

When I started composing this piece in December, after buying Spitfire Originals Intimate Strings on sale, I had these thoughts: If this is what the future is going to look like, I didn't sign up for it. Although in my youth I read and watched a lot of SF films presenting both utopia and dystopia, I always preferred the bright future. However, what I see on TV, on YouTube and outside my window is starting to resemble the latter...

Despite this, I hope you like the piece at least a little bit

To make this track I used:
Ableton Live 11 Standard
Spitfire Originals Intimate Strings
Spitfire Originals Cinematic Percussion
Spitfire BBC SO Discover (free)
Soundpaint 1928 Vintage Steinway Grand Piano (free)
Arturia Augmented Voices
Arturia Augmented Mallets Play (free)
Strezov Sampling Afflatus Minimalist Violins Legato Freebie (free for Kontakt Player)

Beside plug-ins I used 3 samples:
Two from BBC Sample Library:
- Rioting - Riot in Belfast - with breaking glass, rubber bullets, distant cries and chants
- Chatter - Club atmosphere, busy mixed chatter at mealtime (mid-distance) - 1981 (1C25,reprocessed)
and from Freesample.org
Real War - Marines in Firefight Gunbattle (Raw audio) by qubodup

Picture in cover: Freepik

Future Perfect?

Collaboration
Check out AnandaTuk's music at: @user-11396379

For Some Strange Reason -With AnandaTuk

Special thanks to Ashesndreams for her acappella

Lyrics :
Baby no me pidas que me aparte
Yo ya te he buscado en todas partes
Solamente vengo a recordarte que estoy
Imaginandote
Una y otra vez
Que tu estas aqui conmigo
Acariciandome
No seas timido
Dejate querer
Que si dudas te prometo
Que vas a volver

No tengo miedo
Soy un kamikaze
Mi imaginacion se prende con lo que me haces
Diario yo te pienso
Te tengo en mis suenos
Eres el motor para escribir todos mis versos
No te voy a mentir te quiero todo pa mi

IMAGINANDOTE. 🎧.  feat  Ashesndreams

visitations.....for relations.....with a people.....from their past.

explorations.....confirmations.....of the beings.....from their past'

reconnection.....close inspection.....a resurrection......of their past.

they are here, to see our culture.   they are us, in the future.

they are here , to see our culture    they are us, in the future.

They are us in the future.

A little bit of tropicana to warm up a cold damp UK afternoon!
Thank you always for your kind reposts plays and playlists!!!

Primavera

A dear friend asked me if I wanted to set one of his poems to music. Well, I did. And this is what came out of it...

The title of the poem is “Augenblick”, which means "moment", but literally “blink of an eye”.

Augenblick (by Hans H. Hiebel)

Tender day
The eye-lid of the night
Has opened
Time
Is twinkling at us
And because everything is divided
And must be divided
We twinkle back
And death
Closes the lid


Composition, vocal, guitar and piano by Joliz.

The track wouldn't be the same without Robert S. Dean... Thank you!


Augenblick

This track is the second track from my ep CHEMICAL. 120 BPM. 6m6s. The intro is long, but bear with it. It leads into a terrifyingly flashy and groovy tune. This was heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin and punk bands such as Primal Scream. CHEMICAL Link in Bio!

THERE IS LOVE

Red Light Syndrome

Back with some new fusion for the summer...here's beatnik

Beatnik - Jamie Rhind

I have always loved this song. Hendrix was such an incredibly intuitive and inventive guitar player and great songwriter; he didn't hold a strat, it grew out of his soul. This is a sketch of one of his beautiful thoughts. It's not meant to be a facsimile, it's just meant to refresh a memory, a little tiny bit of the wonder of the prophetic and charming voodoo chile. Fly on Jimi, fly on...

 https://youtu.be/yrgNRu20a_w (over 0.5M views!)

The always amazing Rick Medlock on drums @rick-4-1
Myself on the Other Stuff (forwards and backwards!)...

Castles Made of Sand

CASTLES MADE OF SAND  - Jimi Hendrix

His life was gentle; and the elements
so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
and say to all the world, This was a Man!

William Shakespeare
English poet and dramatist (1564-1616)
considered one of the greatest English writers.

This was a Man!

I was just feeling noisy(in 5/4) sorry...
All me: © Phil McWalter - Salt Crystal Music 2017

Thanks to Eventide for the little bit of extra on the guitars:

The Eventide H910 Harmonizer was first demonstrated to universally positive reactions at the AES show in late 1974. It was designed by Eventide's first engineer, Tony Agnello (who went on to become the president of Eventide's audio division). The pre-production prototype was a hand-wired box topped with a music keyboard controller. Jon Anderson of the band Yes was among those impressed, and he became a tester for the first prototype. The production H910 was released in 1975, offering pitch shifting (±1 octave), delay (up to 112.5 ms), feedback regeneration and other features in an easy-to-use box that sold for $1,600. The H910 was named after a Beatles tune (the model number refers to the "One After 909").

The first H910 customer was New York City's Channel 5, utilising it to downward pitch shift I Love Lucy reruns that were sped up to create room to run more commercials. Speeding up the reruns had increased the pitch of the audio, and the H910 was able to shift that pitch back to where it originally had been. Frank Zappa added it to his guitar processing rig. Producer Tony Visconti used the H910 to create the snare sound on David Bowie's album Low, as did Tony Platt on AC/DC's song "Back in Black". Another popular application was to use two H910s slightly detuned with a small delay. Notable users of this twin Harmonizer effect included Eddie Van Halen, who used it for his trademark guitar sound, and Tom Lord-Alge, who used it for the vocals on the hit Steve Winwood song, "Back in the High Life Again". Recognising the popularity of this application, Eventide later recreated it as the "Dual 910" program in the H3000 UltraHarmonizer released in the late 1980s.

The H910 Harmoniser was recognised by the AES with a TECnology Hall of Fame award in 2007. (Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventide,_Inc)

OK, Turn It Down A Little

OK, TURN IT DOWN A LITTLE ....

Hey Fellow SC artists,  Listeners, Rockers,  Movers and shakers..The Capistrano Birds are back with something upbeat ! if any of you Musicians have been part of the heady Rock n Roll scene, then this little song  will appeal to ya\(*^*)/ for the rest of us, lets get hyped up, ready to nod those heads, tap those feet and turn that volume up to 11\(*^*)/..anywayz..they say it's all about the sex, drugs and Rock n Roll..well we all love to Rock.. we Birds like to get boozed up and all those Groupies!!wow!!..as for the drugs?....lol......There's something beautifully cool about  playing music together and sharing it with SC. This wonderful little world we all exist in is really where all the real music is being played out !!...lets hope it stays that way.....we hope you enjoy listening..fly well people\(*^*)/..Special thanks as ever to jadester77rock A P\Yoda\Enigma the genius that is unknown to most but familiar to many.... If you would care to plug into The Mer-Mikki show,here's the link,  http://northernquarterradio.co.uk/ very entertaining girls with a great sense of humor playing the latest unsigned singer songwriters from around the world...why not send your song fellow SC artists to the M+M Show, please contact them right away !...new album coming out soon..with all 13 tracks fully mastered..

'I'm Alright, I'm Doing Ok' Featuring AP\Jadester77- out now on Bandcamp.

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! ALSO 2nd Deluxe CD+Booklet "Songs That Mean Something" See links below. 

Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

OK, TURN IT DOWN A LITTLE ....

Phil McWalter

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