Name: Finding my voice by Roger Fontaine
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: The path to discovering one's voice starts with building self esteem, self-forgiveness, and making amends with one's past.

The path to discovering one's voice starts with building self esteem, self-forgiveness, and making amends with one's past.

Finding my voice

Delicately


I was struck by an article in the Guardian 10 years ago about a woman who used to hang out and work with the Rolling Stones in the 60s and the article was about adapting to old age while having nostalgia for such a potent time in her life. For this recording I had to change one word - 70 to 80. Musically it needed to be rhythmic but melancholic: something you got from major and minor seventh songs in the mid 70s as disco kicked in



YESTERDAY’S PEOPLE

Yesterday’s people used to party, party, party
Yesterday’s people were so cool so cool so cool

There was a girl her skin so fresh and fine
There was a guy as smooth as a dark red wine
They were out there in a happening era
Face to face so close and nearer
Photogenic and oh so bold
But that generation has all grown old

In 69 it was crazy zany time
In London town all that music going down
Young people travelling - free love happening
Beautiful people philosophizing
Mary Jane twilight in the Mediterranean
That generation they’ve all grown old

If you’re talking to an 80 year old guy
Remember he - was Mr cool way back in time
Try to imagine the face much younger
The yearning soul hormonal hunger
Suite Judy blue eyes young people dancing
That generation they’ve all grown old


Yesterdays People

A work in progress, I intend on adding vocals eventually

Neo Blues

At last - Etta James cover

Update: Redelivered vox

Lyrics
(I genuinely hope they make your moment better. The fact that this has your senses now is improving mine so 🔆 thanks a googol 🔆)

Now they say
This is me!
To the moment I pray
It's my only deity

To the moment

But what of tomorrow?
What of yesterday's marrow?
I figure my past has future answers to borrow!

To the moment
To the moment

But now they are answers
Brought to present in solution
Taught to ones self,
Fear is mind pollution
Chemicals in brain figured, not dithered
It ejects us from our now
In fear our energy is withered

The moment
The moment
The moment
The moment
For the moment
The moment
Just the moment

Lament the moment
It's your sanity enrolment
Fear is relegated
As it's never an opponent
Lament the moment
Now, in today

Fear mind profanity of old self
We've sent presence to present... hold it
In now, fud can't even get a shelf

We're in a moment
Be the moment

Now I say
I am me
To the moment I pray
One singularity

One moment
Now
Here
How
Water clear
Light
Sound
Now



(unsed lyrics. Intended for the end....)
it's near
Come over here
Comb over fear
Love is presence
Wow

File Updated 27/04.'25 @ 18:08 ~ Added tremolo acoustic, a thumbed rhythm acoustic, strings (violin cello and basses) slight vocal improvements and started thinking about a mix which needs a lot of work

File Updated 27/04.'25 @ 14:44 GMT ~ Vox found more vigour and I extended it by one phrase and very nicely that brings us to 161.8 measures exactly given where I killed the audio file. That wasn't on purpose either... Nice and golden ratio like and given how the project started with a GR tempo relationship... Nice one universe. I appreciate you having my back!

This delivered the tempo of 97 BPM 🤷🏽‍♀️
https://digitalcitizen.ca/2018/01/02/the-golden-tempo-is-97-bpm-beats-per-minute/
This person had the bright idea of representing the GR by a count every 1.6 seconds. If you count a minute with these gaps you get 97 apparently. Sounds round about right but I didn't test it. They seem to have taken some liberty with rounding so... They use 1.666 secs per beat... It should be 1.618033 per beat and they also rounded their result .. maybe you'd get the same whole number anyways (TBC)
Might work this out properly for a other song haha 

Instrumentation & order used 
// 432Hz Tuning fork / Acoustic Guitar / Vocal /  Electric Piano / Piano / Drums (Scientific method kit on logic with 11 varied sections following the Acoustic) / Spacey Keys Lead //

Note: Get good at falsetto with this song it's on a plate...


This one is about living in the moment. I've only really begun to start being able to appreciate it although I've heard and believed we need to live like that for years. I've never been able to control it for various reasons and a lack of emotional intelligence. So it's relatively simple to spell the ideas in a song but the real power comes from living it and I believe it's becoming less and less of a battle for me... It absolutely still comes and goes and my mind does wander places I dont want it to at times I don't want it to but I have given myself tools to force myself out of that and back into the moment.. Just wrote this so I'll add to this iver the next day or so and make it whatever light I feel is there for a moment...
We all came from a moment! a la big bang! A singularity! The zinc spark moment starts it all until it's lights out for our last moment... They are the obvious ones but it's the rest that we control and we're not always fully present in them... tbc

just made today so should be nice when I get this fully expressed. Another few musical moments to lock in 🤓😆

The Moment

My latest composition with vocals, piano, bass, percussion, erhu and synths. 
Mastered by my lovely Sander. 😊❤️🎶❤️

Not A Moment Too Soon

Metallic mix of 'Organic' (2nd page) https://soundcloud.com/user-146692255/organic?si=9d2d4a113ff6440b89c70f67bde8470b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

image: 'Angel of the North' statue by Antony Gormley in Gateshead, England. (c/o Pinterest)

INORGANIC

Coffe And The Dog

Sundown

"If Ever I Would Leave You" ist a song from the musical Camelot. The  music was written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legend of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White.

The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, ran on Broadway for 873 performances, winning four Tony Awards. It starred Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guenevere, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot.

Harp by Eilian Gwynn

We hope you'll enjoy!

If Ever I Would Leave You (Camelot - Loewe / Lerner - with Eilian Gwynn)

Tag: Political spiritual idealist/activist

My three spirit helpers: Polar bear-strength and persistence, golden eagle-vision and wisdom, and monarch butterfly-flexibility-adaptability-mobility, tenacity. together they assist me in staying focused, directed, and single-minded.
My musical history dates back 60 years as I learned classical piano for 3 years, then developed my ear by listening to pop and rock songs on the radio and learning them on piano. It's not till I was 17 that I began playing with others in bands for a few years and performed locally. 
I started composing and singing and recording my songs when I turned 50, my mother was dying, she had been a chorist for 30 years, and i wanted to show her that I could sing a lovely love song before she passed at the age of 80 in 2005. I sang « L’important c’est la rose » de Becaud.
I've composed 130 songs and have 120 on Soundcloud for monetizing and distribution. 
I am semi-retired massage therapist and am making more time to compose and record.
The sculptures which I. highlight in my song art are made by me from Alabaster.
J'ai crée cette page de ma musique et de mes chansons- J'invite vos commentaires et votre partage de ma musique et chansons. Merci pour votre passage.

Finding my voice

Roger Fontaine

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