@user-138663860: Thanks so much from us all Sandy, your support is hugely appreciated, thank you

this popped up in the queue --I heard the voice and recognized J Rivas immediately--top notch vocals and realized it's a Phil McW tune.  This is great combination of talents!

Dig the pathos..And how history repeats...

Best of the Cloud 21 05 2019

L’éclipse


C'est un chemin
À demain tu ne peux le remettre
C’est un chemin
Que je ne souhaitais pas connaître

C’est un chemin 
Sur l'abîme une voie ouverte 
Tu le découvres					
Oui mais c’est  d’abord lui qui te trouve 		


 
Dans mon absence, je suis étrange
Ma honte ma peur cachée dérange 
Comme une étoile qui s'écroule 
Et qui devient un puits sans âme		

Je crains de t'emmener dans mon monde	
J’ai tellement besoin de ta vie 			
À voir l’bonheur de ceux d’en face		
Mon cœur fond en larmes de glace		


De nouveau les monstres anciens		
M’apparaissent en chacun de nous		
Nous sommes, tous, ces immortels
A corps perdus dans notre histoire 			

	         

C'est un chemin
À demain tu ne peux le remettre
C’est un chemin
Que je ne souhaitais pas connaître

C’est un chemin 
Sur l'abîme une voie ouverte 
Tu le découvres					
Oui mais c’est  d’abord lui qui te trouve


En terminer avec la nuit
C’est le sommet de la misère
Chaque jour tenter dans la douleur
De trouver un début d’envie

Chaque jour garder le souvenir
Qu’il exista des jours brillants    
Chaque jour garder un espoir
De voir le retour du désir


Difficile de rester en paix
Tant que l’on reste vivant
Mais rien n’a de sens vraiment
Avant qu’il ne soit vraiment temps



C'est un chemin
À demain tu n’ peux le remettre
C’est un chemin
Que je ne souhaitais pas connaître

C’est un chemin 
Je pensais que c’était la fin
Et ce chemin
Aujourd’hui fait partie du mien

Ce chemin fait partie du mien
Ce chemin fait partie du mien
Ce chemin fait partie du mien
Ce chemin fait partie du mien…

Eclipse

Wide Awake

What a night

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN SEEN WITH NO SOUND
A HAS BEEN NOWHERE BOUND
I'VE BEEN LOST AND BABY I'VE BEEN FOUND

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

I'VE BEEN SEEN WITH NO SOUND
SHUFFLING WIND NOWHERE BOUND
I'VE BEEN LOST AND BABY I'VE BEEN FOUND

ONCE A KING TWICE A CLOWN
I'VE BEEN SNEAKING AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND

WHISPERING TO THE WIND 
LOVELY SWEET LITTLE NOTHINGS
SOMETIMES LOVE IS A SOLITARY THING

I'VE BEEN UP I'VE BEEN DOWN
I'VE BEEN FOOLING ALL AROUND
FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO THE GROUND





I'VE BEEN UP (Lyrics)

Red Light Syndrome

“L’Amour de Love” by Luke

I posted the long version when I only had 50 followers..
here is the shorter version .. it’s one of my favourite compositions.. and yes the “big tough as nails” is a romantic 

Keys & Piano & Synthesizer & Guitar & Drums  by Luke
Created & Composed & Produced by Luke
Music & Track & Album Photos by Luke
Photography by Luke
I use Open A.i for Album art pictures 

                           Beats by Luke©️
                         S c h ü ß m a n n©️

“L’Amour de Love”  by Luke

Ray and I made another song together. Well, maybe it's not exactly a song. But it's something!

Please visit Ray here if you haven't already https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040 You'll be in for a treat.

Home Lonely

Well hello… A new song, with a new instrument. A pawnshop Ukulele. Ha. What a fun instrument to play. Just had to. A few simple Uke chords, some acoustic guitar soloing, and a tale of sailing the ocean as a metaphor for life. And yes, lyrically I was talking with a seagull. And just so you know I have gotten really good at ‘talking’ with birds. I can click talk like a grackle, whisper whistle like a robin, whistle talk a curious melody like a chickadee, among others. Still working on my duck call. Ha… Years ago, I remember annoying some people at a party with this wooden duck call my buddy had. So maybe a future song about birds? And right outside my door there are some interesting avian dynamics between the grackles and robins nesting in the spruce trees. They argue every day, about territory and invasion of their personal space, but when danger appears, like a hawk or cat, they come together in unison to fend off the threat. In the natural biology of things, humans haven’t fallen too far from that spruce tree. Anyway, robins do not like the dark. They anxiously chatter with loud worry chirping amongst themselves at dusk, and create a chorus melody of happy song at dawn. With me being a late sleeper, their morning serenades can be quite bothersome at 4:30AM. A lesson for me though, as at times I am not so welcoming as I wakeup to another frenetic global morning. Anyway, birds and their enthusiastic singing far outpaces my own. Ha. There are many other birds here, but I will save that for another time. Hope you are well. Thanks for dropping by, Mark

Uke Chantey

Flowers.

Written in January 2024.

Published in July 2025.


During the first few months of last year, I was ill with my recurring kidney stone problems.

Fortunately, that passed.

I left some of the compositions I started unfinished, and some sketches were barely started.

This is one of them.

My mother lives in a typical Andalusian house in Seville.

One of the characteristics of these houses is that they usually have a courtyard where there are all kinds of flowering and non-flowering plants.

Obviously, they need to be cared for, watered, fertilized, etc.
My mother loves doing it, and in spring she reaps the rewards of her labor.

I always give my flower icons to the women I follow (I hope I'm not annoying them by doing that), so I thought it was interesting to draw inspiration from all of that to put this together.

17 Tracks native instruments MS2 & Old Xewton forum.
3 XPad 
2 iMini Arturia
1 iProphet Arturia
2 korg IM
1 Ob-xd 
1 flowtones 


Mix: my hear 
Software. Music Studio 2
Hardware.ipad

Cover. A part of the courtyard of my mother's house

Thank you for your comments

Next…. Crossroad

Flowers

MISSING YOU  (From Open Collab Paploviante)
Backing Track:
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/turn-of-time-open-collab-offer
Vocals Leslie (Ghosthack) Missing you
Lillithe:  Mix, Arrangement and Production

Missing you (From Open Collab Paploviante)

Losing Myself

Losing Myself (Curtis Samples x NFNT Cathedral)

Remaster track 3 , original indie film music

Theme Indie Films Music FRESH

Lovely to play my recorder again on a song! 🙂

FLYING COLOURS

A joy to work with these brilliant guys, thank you for bringing so much to the table... (Collab link: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/mcw-open-collab-just-add-your-own-vocals-or-whatever-you-wish) Please share some love on the others' clouds too:

@j-rivas: Vocal, Lyrics and Melody.
@dairv-dubbleyew: Solo, Arpeggio and Harmony Guitars.
@rick-4-1: Drums.
@phil-mcwalter: The Other Stuff (The backtrack and additionally both forward & backward overdriven guitars!)

SHOW YOUR LOVE EVERYWHERE

I was born the son of a pharaoh
I lived in the valley of the sun
But I was pierced with a poison arrow
Pain came swift but I was a fortunate one

'Cos I was blessed by a cultured woman
Who gave me children to spare
They outnumbered my hands' fingers
They were clothed in linens and the finest of care

All the sea-life in the oceans
All the animals in our care 
We're all bound to the same conclusion
Show your love everywhere

Love is everywhere

Everywhere...

Lyrics: © J Rivas April 2019
Music: © McWalter & Rivas April 2019
Production & Mastering: Phil McWalter [ Ver: 4 -M- ]

SHOW YOUR LOVE EVERYWHERE

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! ALSO 2nd Deluxe Vinyl & 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.

http://francoispierremorin.com  Home of storytelling , 
 I do play Music for the love of it, playing guitar,  percussionist  ,composing  on a computer and Guitar, Piano, creator of mood and sound design

SHOW YOUR LOVE EVERYWHERE

Phil McWalter

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