What a well sung piece this is. Well done all, very enjoyable! Helen :)

Oh!...   my Inner Harmony Goddess were doing triple summersaults!!  This is ...  Exquisite. xx

I've heard this a few times in the past, great harmony, well done!

une découverte, jamis entendu ce type de chason, merci  !!!!

As soon as I got serious about putting this playlist together I was afraid of missing something or someone from among the many wonderfully talented and supportive people here. And it can't be helped. So this is best described as a sampler of some tunes I really liked a lot, but it certainly isn't an exhaustive list. If I were David Geffen I'd be working on getting people the listening public they deserve. But in the meantime here's a list of great songs by you for you.

2023 Sampler  (not ranked)

This songs been on S.C. awhile but its one of my favorites and sadly rings more true everyday.
I don't know if you've seen US news lately..have you noticed the profound deception?  Please pray for the US.
I ponder "something's missing" in the song. It's the gospel. We have changed the gospel of truth. It's been changed to a self help crusade...me me me.. as a nation we aren't seeing our need for a savior because sin isn't sin anymore.. we've been sooo decieved..We don't see how lost.. we are. But Praise God Jesus came to seek and save the lost!
About 15 years ago I wrote a song called World Revival( it was a flop) but I took an important phrase out of it and put it into this one "start in me awakening revival". That's my prayer, and I hope it speads like wildfire...

Silly Side note:
This song was so much fun to do! Casey Jake Josh and me all took turns trying to get the muted trumpet part right at the end, it was hillarious cause we all knew WE'D be the one to get it right.. LOL! 3 of us were wrong!!
Verse1
Save us from the jaws that grip us!
Here’s how numb we’ve been made:
Devoured alive before our eyes
Can't feel the pain
Tag
Something’s missing. Where's the revival?
It's a tragedy!
Chorus
Start in me, awakening, revival?
We need a revival!
Repeat
V 2
Do you recall seeing honor die?
What was the cause?
Did we stand up? Did we fight back?
Is there more to be lost? More to be lost.
Tag
Something’s missing. It’s a tragedy! !t’s a tragedy!
Where's the revival?
Repeat chorus
Bridge
We silently yield
Stray from the truth
Traded our peace
Forgotten gratitude
Oh what sacrifice!
Oh what sacrifice!

American Tragedy

American Tragedy (Where's the Revival?)

also available on YouTube and more streaming platforms
https://youtu.be/Lz2jpFXycGQ

Air Return

This piece is based on a traditional Scottish-Gaelic waulking song - a highly rhythmic song that would accompany the waulking (beating and finishing, or fulling) of woolen cloth. Though traditionally, waulking songs and other Gaelic puirt-a-beul (mouth music) songs would have been sung unaccompanied and in unison, we put together a little arrangement for SATB.
We hope you'll enjoy it.

soprano - Diane Roberts
alto - Abby Bryden
tenor - Angus Bryden
baritone - Rob Llewellyn 

words:

Hé mandu 
'S truagh nach tigeadh
siud gam' iarraidh
gille 's litir
each is diollaid
Hé mandu hì ri oró hó ro hù o
'S mise dh'fhalbhadh 
null thar sàile 
le mo leannan
's cha bhiodh dàil ann
Nam biodh agam
sgiath a'ghlaisein 
iteag an eòin 
spòg na lachainn 
Shnàmhainn na caoil
air an tarsainn 
An cuan Ileach 
's an caol Arcach 
Rachainn a-steach 
chun a' chaisteil 
's bheirinn a-mach 
as mo leannan 

translation:

It's a pity that what I want isn't on its way - a lad and a letter, a horse and a saddle.
I would go across the sea with my lover, without delay.
If I had the wing of a finch, the flight of a bird, the webbed foot of a duck,
I would swim the narrows, right across the Sound of Islay and the Orkney Sound.
I would go out into the castle and bring out my lover.

Hé Mandu (Scottish Waulking Song - SATB)

KORG sounds A077 - 'Final Countdown' synth improv by Magician

Final Countdown

Here’s my latest song with piano, electric piano, bass, drums, percussion, guitar, synths and vocals. Picture by me of my favourite beach. Thank you very much to my lovely Sander for another wonderful mastering job. 😊🎶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@wane-of-summer

SANDCASTLES

Hey I did a new mix of our track with @specialececilia

Enjoy
Dx

CECILIA & RICØ **THINKING POSITIVE!!**PART 2(Elated Mix)**

'Time Travel And Other Journeys' is the tiltle track from a new album that I am working on at the moment. A fusion track inspired by the never ending experiences encountered in every day life and also whilst dreaming.  I'm joined by the wonderful wind playing (Flute and Clarinet) of Georg Boehme on this track. Adding as always another dimension of sonic mastery to the piece.

Time Travel And Other Journeys

Time Travel And Other Journeys (Feat. Georg Boehme)

Original Fouglas.


Lyrics:

She’s living in a tomb
amongst the insects and ghouls
Fallen from earth
in a land beyond sleep and waking
Whenever she closes her eyes
she’s lost to the spirals
Spinning in a hex,
in an echo of truth,
in a dream that can’t die

Yet you carry her like an ache in your head
And as you walk through your days
just thinking and seething, 
though you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

She’s broken into fragments
of ugly scenes you must forget
You still feel her
and, of course, she still haunts you
Is she still buried out there 
in Satan’s junkyard 
‘neath the iron and rust 
and red rotting branches?

Yet you’re driving her like a nail in your coffin 
And as you swallow more pills
all wasted, sedated,
‘cause you know she never was
and never will be 
Gone, gone
Gone

Nail In Your Coffin

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

I bought a used accordion in 1993 at a thrift store, greatly upsetting my college roommate when I brought it back to our shared dorm room.  

More recently, I'd been wanting to dust it off and use it in a song, and I tried playing it rhythmically along with a funk guitar riff I had. I had also been wanting to write a song in Spanish, so I decided to incorporate some rhymes en espanol I wrote. Thirdly, I had been looking for some new types of rhythm loops to use in my music, and I randomly tried a cha-cha loop. These three elements together gave this song a latin feel that wasn't intended when I began this song. I hope you enjoy it.

Dime lo que quieres
Que sea un poco de mi
Y esos placeres
Si estoy loco por ti

Dime lo que tienes
Dentro del corazon 
Dime que sueñes
Con mi acordeon 

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Capto el sentido
De tus palabras
Esta bien entendido
De que tu hablas

Quieres que yo sea
Participante 
No me parece fea
Ser tu amante

Dime, dime, dime
Dime otra vez

Music and lyrics by David Wagoner

Dime Otra Vez

From the Album: "The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost" (2023)
Lyrics:
It's a nitroglycerin bomb sniffing skirt
That's a lollipop night stick
She only hits you where you need to hurt
A Marie Laveau shotgun shack
Don't ya know there's gambling in the back?
In a shotgun shack
I'm reading the tea leaves  by the smoke stack
We've all been bitten by the maharishi's baby teeth
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(And I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm gonna have to lay real low for a while
My trouble follows me
I'm waist deep in the marsh
That's been thickened up with
Gumbo voodoo mule skin starch
I hear the Hellhounds on my tail
And I don't know what their motivation is
Maybe it's the Mississippi hog maw fizz?
If you think you know me
It's because I'm the guy that shows up
And all the trouble begins
Hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm down at the racetrack
I'm sleeping on a mattress made of blister packs
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

Oh, I'm up on the rack
The executioner is sharpening his ax
He says: the world is ruled by fools
"And I'm sorry, man, but I don't make the rules."
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
Wherever I'm going
I'm looking forward to what the cool weather brings...

Hotter Than A Sacramento Summer

Lou_'e'guitar/vocals.
Jerry Garcia cover song.

Hey Valerie, baby what's the matter with you
I did all of the the things that you wanted me to
I went downtown with my pocket knife
Cut your other man but I spared his life
Valerie , wont you be good to me
Valerie, baby , what's the matter with you.
COME ON, COME ON, baby, and TELL ME TRUE.
Hey, now, baby, WHAT DID I DO.
I shot my dog because he growled at you
Valerie won't you be good to me
I NEVER, NEVER DONE YOU NO WRONG
I SING THE BLUES NEARLY ALL NIGHT LONG
VALERIE, Whats the matter with me
You know I'd do anything you say
I CAN"T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU TELL ME
PLEASE GO AWAY
I AIN'T AFRAID OF THE COLD CRUEL WORLD OUTSIDE
No CHICKEN LITTLE running from a falling sky.
THE only thing that troubles me is you
If you leave me what can I do
Valerie won't you be true to me
You got me down on the knees of my shakin' feet
Can't play the BLUES, Cause of you I DROP THE BEAT.
Valerie, What's your Complaint
I try to BE EVERYTHING I AIN'T
Valerie won't you be good to me
Valerie, wont you be good to me

Jerry Garcia cover song off the "Run for the Roses" album.

Valerie

Somehow

Verse 1
I ran so fast, the world was mine, 
Until the ground just pulled me down this time.
Now I’m staring at the ceiling sky,
Counting the days that go on by. (Ohh my)

Pre-Chorus 1
But when the pain is talking loud,
I hear the voice cut through the sound—
Telling me I’ll rise again somehow.

Chorus 1
I can’t go right now, but I’m still standing, 
On the ground that’s been surrounding me. 
Every hand that’s reaching out, I’m landing
Safe and sound, where I’m supposed to be.
Yeah, I fell, but I found the love
In the hearts that never let me, 
In the hearts that never let me down
Somehow. 
Somehow.

Verse 2
There’s a road that’s off the track, 
And when you think you can’t get back. (Alright alright)
Every word and smile they give, 
Reminds me there’s a life to live. (Alright alright)

Pre-Chorus 2
And when the tears start falling down,
I see their faces all around—
Telling me I’ll rise again somehow.

Chorus 2
I can’t go right now, but I’m still standing,
On the ground that’s been surrounding me.
Every hand that’s reaching out, I’m landing.
Safe and sound, where I’m supposed to be.
Yeah, I fell, but I found the love
In the hearts that never let me
In the hearts that never let me down.

Bridge
Maybe healing takes some time, 
But rest assured that I ain’t feel alone.
Every star will be a sign, 
That everything turns out to be alright.

Final Chorus
I can’t go right now, but I’m still standing,
On the ground that’s been surrounding me.
Every hand that’s reaching out, I’m landing.
Safe and sound, where I’m supposed to be.
Yeah, I fell, but I found the love
In the hearts that never let me 
Lalala…

Safe and sound, where I’m supposed to be.
Yeah, I fell, but I found the love
In the hearts that never let me 
In the hearts that never let me down
In the hearts that never let me down
Somehow.
Somehow.

Somehow (bathroom version)

Addiction (feat. Slxthzz)

GYPSYVAN
8/6/22 newly  mastered with Sc (Dolby)

Gypsyvan

Hi, I'm Rob.

I'm a singer, well you figured that out by yourself if you listened to my music....
I'm also Welsh, so what can I do?

I love music, so listening to all the great talent here on SoundCloud - whether it's raw or refined - is an immense pleasure. Thank you all for that.

I hope you get some joy out of listening to me.

Due to some health issues I'm not always capable to listen to your music, interact as much as I'd like to or reply to your comments in a timely manner. It doesn't alter the appreciation I feel for each and every one of you. Please bear with me.

There is so much talent and variety here, and most of the people are pretty cool too. I love being part of this community. Listening to your music and being heard in return is enough.

Still reading? OK I'm gonna muse a bit. It's hard to fully convey how much this forum has meant to me. There are people I've never met that feel very much like old friends -- and in a very real way they are.
If I follow someone I make every effort to listen to and support their efforts. It's certainly not a transactional relationship but I do tend to limit my follows to people who engage in mutual listening and engagement. If you listen and leave a comment I always try to listen to *your* music when responding! If you follow at random without any feedback I hope you get something out of that too... ; )

Hé Mandu (Scottish Waulking Song - SATB)

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