So different. Love the variation and mood.

Such a special song with a compelling delivery. Thank you so much for sharing Ilari. Wonderful work

Second listen, still good, it has a luster of its own

Original Rock with a "natural" groove. Lovely drums. Wonderful production!

Lovely feel. You have your own groove, own way to put these embellishments in your music whilst the aesthetics of subtraction is still alive.

great guitars and really nice atmosphere, loving the vibe on this track and the vocals

SPECIAL CECILIA 's INVITATION TO COLLAB >>>
MUSICIANS, BEATMAKERS, SINGERS, RAPPERS ... Who want Can USE & REMIX this ACAPPELLAS. A Special Cover of Billie Holyday Song with a little Extra Lyrics...
You can Use parts you want, Place it, Modulate it as You Feel, MAKE A SPECIAL TRACK, with SOUNDS or FIT IT AS A FEAT in a SONG... 

DOWNLOAD are FREE & it's in Wave, if You Want MP3, ask me. I
f You Use My Vocals, Mention My Name in the Track & Let Me Know, I will Repost, Share, Include it in Playlists & Mix...

First Version > https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia/good-morning-heartache-remake

Special Cecilia GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE Revisited + Extra - VOCALS for Collab

...Nevertheless, I'll go on flying.

Thank you.

North Pole Highway

This song is a tribute to beautiful lives cut short. Back in November 2022 last year three University of Virginia football players were shot and killed by a former teammate as they returned from a trip to see a play in Washington DC. It happens all too often in this country. These three were outstanding young men much loved and mourned by the community.

The amazing Ceci Wynans paid tribute in song at their memorial service:  https://youtu.be/VLA6biZDTx0

The art is a painting by D'Sean Perry, one of the three young men lost. 

This is song is sung from the imagined perspective of their parents.

Brother Gone

I still see a little boy running hiding from me and laughing then
I'd like to think that losing you had some higher reason in the end
but how can anyone know how hard it is to let you go

you were the one who always knew everything is in God's hands
but you're not here and it's so hard to understand

just look at all these people standing here
calling out your name
this would be the happiest day of my life if you were here by my side
instead all I've got is this heartbreak and pain

how was I to know it'd be the last time
that I'd see your shining face next to mine
they can take away the good years that should've been yours to claim
but they'll never take away the good man you became

I'll always see a little boy running hiding away from me
but this time you're not coming back
and I'm not sure how I'm ever gonna live with that

God I need some peace of mind
I hope that it isn't far away

Brother Gone

This song started as an idea David and I came up with to do an afrobeat song together.  So David came up with this banger of a bass line and drums track and sent it to me. I added some guitars, electric piano, and organ. I then excitedly sent it to Mikey to add the sax, which I consider to be a key element of afrobeat music, and which he always does so well. David's version is much more drum and bass heavy. Please have a listen to both so you can hear how they both sound. I really had a good time making this song. David produced and mixed both versions, and what a fun thing it is to hear my instruments integrated into an elrctronica song by such able hands.

Under the Baobab Tree (with David K. A. Spencer and Mikey McFaffington)

What came first, the tree or the telegraph pole?
Either way, there was no foresight by those involved.

Bamboo didgeridoo
Yamaha tenor saxophone
Some drum sounds
Chainsaw

Journey Through The Land Of The Deformed Trees

Rodolfo https://soundcloud.com/rplanes first shared this beautiful piece with me 2 years ago, which has had a gradual development since I first wrote the lyrics back then. More recently Ce Mastro https://soundcloud.com/cemastro added some exciting backing vocals which transformed the chorus and then even more recently we invited Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to contribute some lovely sax that we believed was just what the song needed. Rodolfo's song has such a feeling of romantic innocence yet with a wonderful rhythmic flow, that I hoped the words might feel from a simpler time. We hope you all enjoy our song of innocence (and inexperience) which thankfully is a work of fiction. Thanks again to Rodolfo for sharing this magical piece and his great skills as well as Ce and Dave's unique gifts to make this one happen. 
We thank you all for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix.
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals
Me - Lead vocals and lyrics
Dave McKeown - Sax solo and fills

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/almost-lovers

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear 
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro & Dave McKeown) Now Available on Bandcamp

Happy Happy Birthday Debbie!!!!!https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
I wish you the best day dear Debbie. :) 

Music: Jean-Pierre Dubois.
In a version from Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.
Piano and Cover design: Debra Buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you for sharing music and friendship dear Debbie :)
Thank you to your friend Jean-Pierre for this music, and for your beautiful piano-version. So sensitive and pure.
It was just for me to sing in it, with the lovely poem from  Christina Rossetti 
(5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894).
Poem:
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter".

A Birthday. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

I composed it with the image of playing in space!!

This time, we have reached 50 songs. Once again, 
I would like to thank our listeners. 
And I will continue to compose music.
Thank you for listening!!👍😀👍

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Space Concert

A song about doubt, fears and holding on. 

It has been mastered by Ryan at RCD Audio. 

Lyrics:

This washed out, mid week Morning

This morning you said you loved me
Where the hell did that come from?
I’ve been waiting months for some affection 
Now this just trips off your tongue!
On this washed out, midweek morning, 
There’s hope again! 

My routine has been disrupted 
As I’m thinking about your words
For weeks I thought that it was over
But now it seems a future’s there for us  
on this washed out, midweek morning, 
Confusion grows

And doubts intrude where trusting thoughts reside
I know I can sense it
I’m sure there’s a reason
For you to have this change of mind  
On this washed out, midweek morning 
I Feel so unsure 

And I could dig a little deeper
Yeah I could really shake that tree 
But i don’t want confirmation 
Now you’ve said you love me!
On this washed out, midweek morning 
Let’s move on! 

And doubts intrude where trusting thoughts reside 
I know I can sense it
I’m sure there’s a reason 
For you to have this change of mind
On this washed out, midweek morning, 
I’ll ignore to love 

James Whiteman Copyright May 2023

This washed out, midweek morning (RCD MASTER)

Hello friends! I have been busy with my other musical projects for a while now, but finally was able to finish the first part of The Fall suite that I've been working with for quite some time. 

I-la-rI (Ilari I. Rantala) - Composed, all instruments, vocals, lyrics, field recordings & drum machine programming.
Artwork and produced by I-la-rI.

© 2023 Ilari I. Rantala. All rights reserved.

The Fall (Part I) - Cosmogonic Myth

This Train,===Gene Jumper,=== ( cover song )

This Train, ===  Gene Jumper,=== ( Cover Song )

Project I-la-rI is a one-man experimental music project from Turku, Finland. The tunes are all original pieces composed by Ilari I. Rantala. The project began in 2015.

Hello my friends and welcome to my cloud! I play all the instruments in my music (unless noted otherwise in the song), sing, write the lyrics and deal with the aftermath myself. The tracks are recorded and produced with minimal equipment in my home, other places that are qualified as homes and in the field with a portable recorder. 

Enjoy the sounds!

Music, lyrics & artwork ©Ilari I. Rantala
Other artwork & logo ©Niklas Rantala

The links below lead to the SC pages of the different bands I currently play in/contribute to. Check it out!

The Fall (Part I) - Cosmogonic Myth

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