That guitar tone is killer, nice harmonies and vocals...

Fully vibing with all your tracks right now, getting me through the work day in style <3

Nice swing in your voice 😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥

Fantasic licks Phil.. Such a poignant song..

Have listened to this amazing tracks many times now and never grow tired of hearing it - in fact, it just gets better every time.  In every sense, intensely moving...

Have always and will always love this song...

POST SOLSTICE TRACK ATTACK

A Path To The Meadow - part of the reworked cinematic musical suite based on my original theatrical Cirque style show: Regalia - The Enchanted Forest, which was initially performed at the Bali Safari and Marine Park in 2011. The new ethnic infused World music score has been crafted around sophisticated and powerful hybrid orchestral compositions by my friends at Anthology Records.

NEW 4K YouTube Video stories: 
https://youtu.be/o4_tk75JBlo (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/rqqJ3v-RAOo (Part 2)

These two video clips depict the opening scenes of the story as a prelude / backstory. It tells the tale of our heroes (two Final War survivors in a post-apocalyptic surrounding) on their strenuous and dangerous voyage to a magical place - Regalia - The Enchanted Forest.

My Soundtracks on Spotify - Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/08YGQVTwWgP63WAovIYOvY

Music by Anthology Records and Peter Heckmann - featuring members of the Ethnic World Orchestra.

Arranged, produced, mixed and mastered by Peter Heckmann.

Album cover photo by andreiuc88, licensed through Envato Elements.

Regalia - The Enchanted Forest

A Path To The Meadow

Buy at Bandcamp

A Path To The Meadow (feat. Ethnic World Orchestra)

A small Effect-Experiment for my upcoming EP.
For this one, I tried to represent in sounds how a panic attack feels. How it comes, how it takes everything from you for a moment, how it fluctuates but also how it goes again.

Experiment A-1 - Malaise - Panic Attack

Mystic Delirium

Frustration

Original Composition / Performance / Production : Bonetender  https://soundcloud.com/bonetender
Lyrics / Vox / Mastering : Chris Dargay

If You Wanna ... *ft Bonetender

Llanpsych open collab offer https://soundcloud.com/llanpsych/solstice-funk
Llanpsych Guitar, Bass, Drumloop Sampling(Looperman)
Paploviante: E-Bass
Logic X Pro:
Guitar, Synth, Sax and Vox
Thanks much for the open collab offer !!!

Solstice Funk - Llanpsych & Paploviante

This song is about losing my wonderful big brother when I was a young man. He bought me 'The White Fender Strat' and said quietly through his smile "No excuses now...". Thanks forever bro, this is for you as always.
 
The Valuable Friends:
@janinelevinson: The Queen of Roll, Rock and Soul on the Second Mic
@rick-4-1: Mr Tour Pro on Very Cool Drums
@phil-mcwalter: The Other Stuff


SMOKE

Growing up, looking up
I have never had my toast buttered on both sides
I started crying the day 
I watched my father clearing the overgrown weeds at the top of the garden and realised 
And realised
That wasn’t what he was doing
Ooh no

It was a still day 
So still
It was a still life
And the smell of the smoke never quite left our clothes
Five years
And another
Five years

There was a silence 
Where my beautiful dead brother still lived between us 
And that quietness wasn’t burned with the weeds

It was a still day
It was a still life 
So still
And the smell of the smoke never quite left our clothes
Five years
Another
Five years

Digging the sod in Donegal 
Praying for muscle, bunched like a ball 
Sweat and pride loved standing tall 
Anticipating 
Eye-watering 
Peat-stove fire 
That would 
Warm 
Cook 
And flavour our bones

It was a still day 
Still day
It was a still life 
Still life
And the smell of the smoke never quite left our clothes

Another
Five years
And another
Five years...

Five years
Tick tock
Five years
My father lost his sense of smell and his pulse in cenotaph central heating
Five years
And my orphaned senses 
Five years
Still feel that fire

And smell that smoke...

© July 2021 - Phil McWalter

Image: 'Peasant Burning Weeds' 1883 Van Gogh

Spotify

Smoke

Janine suggested we did this. So we did!

@janinelevinson - Vocals
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Stuff

Share the love: https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson/the-blue-red-and-grey-who-cover-with-phil-mcwalter

BLUE, RED AND GREY

Some people seem so obsessed with the morning
Get up early just to watch the sun rise
Some people like it more when there's fire in the sky
Worship the sun when it's high
Some people go for those sultry evenings
Sipping cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day

I like every second, so long as you are on my mind
Every moment has its special charm
It's all right when you're around, rain or shine

I know a crowd who only live after midnight
Their faces always seem so pale
And then there's friends of mine who must have sunlight
They say a suntan never fails
I know a man who works the night shift
He's lucky to get a job and some pay
And I like every minute 
Of the day

I dig every second
I can laugh in the snow and rain
I get a buzz from being cold and wet
The pleasure seems to balance out the pain
 
So you see I'm completely crazy
Even shun the South of France
The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy
But when they sleep, I sing and dance
Some people have to have the sultry evenings
Sipping cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day
I like every minute of the day

I like every second, so long as you are on my mind
Every moment has its special charm
It's all right when you're around, rain or shine

I like every minute
I like every minute of the day…

© mostly Pete Townshend

Blue, Red & Grey

Blue, Red and Grey

The Beginning of a project Im working on . https://youtu.be/IUbkgpMqXts
My You tube video for this piece.


cover art By Merlin Light Painting.

Even The Score

Finlandia Hymn (instrumental guitar arrangement, orig composition by Jean Sibelius)

The Fox

Original description disappeared !!

NADA  / NOTHING

He pensado en la muerte  /  I've thought about death
y en lo que habrá detrás.  /  and what will be behind.
Puede que no haya nada,  /  It may be nothing,
¿te has parado a pensar?  /  have you stopped to think?

Nada, nada... nada.  /  Nothing, nothing... nothing.

Nada, nada, nada ni siquiera aire,  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing not even air,
nada, nada, nada que pueda tocarse,  /  nothing, nothing, nothing you can touch.
Nada, nada, nada que tocar ni respirar.  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing to touch nor breathe.

Nada, nada, ni una idea ni un deseo,  /  Nothing, nothing, neither an idea nor a desire,
nada, nada, ningún miedo ni silencio,  /  nothing, nothing, no fear or silence,
nada, nada, nada nada se puede escuchar.  /  nothing, nothing, nothing nothing can be heard.
...
Nada, nada, no esperes encontrarte  /  Nothing, nothing, don't expect finding
nada, nada, no puedes imaginarte  /  nothing, nothing, you cannot imagine
nada, nada, nada, no te entra en la razón.  /  nothing, nothing, it doesn't fit your mind.

ER18PB06 - ©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2014 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Nada (He pensado en la muerte)

My How to Do Songs Do Not Make Sense

How to Climb Down a Ladder Upwards

Et si tout pouvait basculer… en un battement de cils ?
🚨 "Qu’à un fil" est une plongée poétique dans ce moment suspendu entre la vie et l’après. Des paroles envoûtantes, une guitare qui plane comme un dernier souffle, une montée qui explose juste avant la révélation.

🕊️ Une voix venue d’ailleurs… qui murmure ce que les vivants n’entendent plus.
🎸 Un solo de guitare déchirant, un crescendo qui te laisse le cœur en apesanteur.
🌌 Pour ceux qui aiment réfléchir, vibrer, disparaître un instant.

🔁 Écoute, partage, laisse-toi emporter…
Tu comprendras à la dernière note pourquoi tout ne tient qu’à un fil.

Qu’à un fil

Don't miss the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86QGnhPJeI

Para Lia - Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady Haddad)
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition here:
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words and music by René Methner, Copyright 2020
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin

Follow Para Lia on:
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twitter.com/para_lia_band
www.youtube.com/channel/UCNABsfHKaCDk28fOj91Dc1g

Meeting @fadysporz on Soundcloud back in 2018 felt like a meeting of soulmates. There is a mutual respect for each other’s work and i wrote the track with room for Fadys heavenly synth work in mind and also with the idea that he joins Cindy and me in the vocal work. With Fady having the ability to ‘read’ the way of the songwriting and harmony construction it was effortless to work together - he is a fantastic musician. Thank you Fady for joining us here! 

how can you sleep, did you sleep
how dare you sleep?
when the water already laps your feet
it's time to move offbeat

you are the rider on the withe horse on the dike

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away

how would we guard what we love
if we were stuck behind a broken dike
how would we save what has to be saved
without a heart and nothing but an angry mind

we are the children of the flood

gone with the flow
gone with the flow
don't let it all take you away
we are the children of the flood

Children Of The Flood (Feat. Fady)

long hot summers - endless dawns... memories golden

Beauty Of An American Summer

(Don't follow me here, best on my main page ;)

!!!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.

Smoke

Phil McWalter

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