Beautiful song Rowena, a wonderful adaptation of your poem. The musical form is lovely as well giving a nod to both folk and pop. Excellent work in your layering technique.

Just catching up i must of missed this Rowena . Your voice is delicious on this and with the choir  sounding background just adds great atmosphere. Just lovely 👍

Another good one, Rowena. Nice recording and performance. Can I request that you include your lyrics in your descriptions (I promise I won't steal any!)  You come up with lovely turns of phrase.

what a delightful piece, beautiful how a poem becomes a song so delicate and meaningful.

Oh yes, beautiful poetry becomes beautiful song. Never done that myself, but I'm one step closer after hearing this.

thanks for indulging me for another terrible track. 
lyrics:
please mr chill
dont let me burn
put out your welcome mat
party hat
waiting for your triumphant return
i used to own you
unflappable
unshakable
in knowing that the tide will always turn.
now the moon is a black hole.
always beside you
counting backwards

mr chill

For this collaboration, Liam and I alternated writing eight measures each back and forth for the duration of the piece. Hope you enjoy it!

Our other collaborations: https://soundcloud.com/liamhynestawawalkingears

Liam's profile: https://soundcloud.com/liam-hynes-tawa

The Dreamer Reawakening (Collaboration with Liam Hynes-Tawa)

Rainbow.

Crossing the rainbow bridge seen in the distance, imagining a beautiful rainbow country,
With a heartwarming yet bright and warm melody in the orchestra instrument,

"I wanted to make music that can touch your heart without lyrics and for healing your mind."

Rainbow

Rainbow Waltz

It was 1995, I had already acquired my trusty Alesis SR-16 "Dr No" but not hooked it up in stereo yet on my 4-track cassette recorder.

This track is one of the more fun I made in those days, thought I'd share it here. For the occasion, I properly mixed and mastered it in such a way to keep it's original character intact as much as possible. I did put *some* fancy effect to stereoize the vocals a little, and there is a subtle stereo reverb on the drums.. Things like that, but that's just to make it palatable for the modern crowd. This is after all an original recording, no edits, no overdubs.

Thinking about putting an entire 'legacies' album together. Would anyone be interested in that?

The very mature lyrics:

Salvation song
Connect me if I'm wrong
Me I am cracked, broken and torn
Haven't been clean ever since I was born

But I don't bear much pain
I'm not gonna jump no train
Every single hour every single day
Guess life is just a game

Some say I am insane
Some say I am just the same
As all them youth rebel rabble rebel rabble
Well I know better but you won't hear me tell
Everyone lives his own little hell
Let them turn around in their own smell
I let them feel bad if they let me feel well
It be alright with me

I know I only live to be
I know this is all you can see
I live to be just like the trees
And the flowers and the bees

Some say I am insane
Some say I am just the same
As all them you rebel rabble rebel rabble
Let live through their own hell
Let them live with their own smell

Salvation

Salvation song
Connect me if I'm wrong
Me I am cracked broken and torn
Haven't been clean ever since I was born

Some say salvation
Everyone, everyone...
Rebel rabble rebel rabble
Loser! Loser!

noitavlaS

Salvation Song

Every day the stack grows taller and we can't differentiate between the flyers and the fallers, is it paradise or is it squalor? doesn't take a scholar.
Father dark and Mother bright and bruised, the fist the belt the angry welt., don't get me wrong, I aint complaining, we're all players of the hands we're dealt We never had a chance, but still we're obligated. Every day it gets a little closer, the clock the clock is ticking tick tock and i've got a lot of nothing left to spout, seems to me that there was not a lot of reciprocity when this whole thing came about.

I always hoped there was a chance for an invitation to the dance with squirrels and swirls and twirls and murals of workers and warriors and women  in pearls and boys and girls with toys and all their noise.  some things may not be as cut and dried as you may think, relax my friend, no need to hide, it's in the script, i think you better take a seat and have a drink with me.. have a drink with me right now!

Tip - Top

The fragility of the possibility of love. It can be difficult to come out of ourselves and share ourselves with another and finding the right balance to know not to trust something too good on the one hand, and on the other hand, not to be afraid of our own fear and to learn to comfortably match to each other's rhythm.

Thank-you to Roberto Bohrges for offering up this composition for me to put lyrics and my voice to, and to Bryan McDaniel for the guitar.

Fragile Heart - Roberto Bohrges, Maria Bourgeois, Bryan McDaniel

In 2020 I visited the Isle of Whithorn on the Solway in Scotland.  In the middle of the night I woke up and saw a Little Egret standing still on the rocks below.  the place was so full of atmosphere with St Ninian's chapel high up on the headland keeping watch for the fishing boats to return safely to the harbour.   The next morning, I was inspired to write a poem about what I'd seen.  I've finally made the poem into a song.  Layering up tracks using my Yamaha P121 piano and Roland interface with SM 58 mic which is popping a bit and using audacity to record.  I enjoyed layering up the harmonies and keyboard voices on this.

Harvester Of Man

Suspirium (Thom Yorke cover)

CONSOLATION

A song of empathy and solace for all those going through rough times, uncertainty, loss and grief right now caused by war, expressed in my humblest and non-verbal way ...

All the best,
-Dan

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, March-April 2022
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch

Consolation | Dan van den Berg

Part 78 of 266
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TAFFETA | 78

This song features Dave Cooper on vocals and rhythm guitar.  This is a variation on a song I wrote a little while back and placed on YouTube.  I play mandolin and fiddle on this version.  Dave Cooper added new music and melody for the original lyrics.

Here is a link to the original version of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSVW4EBZaQ

Here is a link to the music of Dave Cooper (warfydave):
https://soundcloud.com/warfydave

Do Right, Do Wrong

Verse 1:
Way back in the 1500’s
In Stratford upon Avon
The Merchant of Venice 
Shylock is good and a menace

Chorus 1:
To do a great right 
Do a little wrong
That is what
Shakespeare said

Verse 2:
What does it mean
To the play’s scene
Why must one do wrong to do right?
That is the situation Portia had to fight
How can this possibly be
Why would he make this plea

Verse 3:
When Bassanio urges Portia to break the law in order to thwart Shylock

Final Double Chorus:
Sometimes it is necessary
To do a little wrong
To create a situation for a great right

References:
https://livewireaz.com/where-did-shakespeare-write
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2682703-the-merchant-of-venice

Do Right Do Wrong (with warfydave)

Hello! Thanks for stopping by.  I write songs in reaction to life, quite often my own, or the lives of those around me.  Sometimes my song tells me what I'm thinking before I've even realised myself.  
I hope there is something here that resonates with you, I'd be really delighted to hear your comments.  
I started writing and playing again in March 2015 after a break of about 20 years having realised that life is short and I'd better crack on! I self released my 9 track CD 'Your Life' in 2017 and have since written many songs which will eventually end up on a 2nd 'album'!  I’ve had a couple of radio plays on BBC Introducing and played at a few local singers nights, but I’m really blown away by this Soundcloud community,  there’s a treasure trove of real music on here and the support is really appreciated.  
March 2021 update I've been teaching myself keyboard and have found it an inspiration for song writing and so my more recent tracks are written and performed with the piano keyboard.  
First memory of being captured by Songwriting was sitting behind a sofa aged 10 at a party and discovering Carol King’s Tapestry and a turntable. Teenage years dominated by an obsession with David Bowie, his word craft, imagery, story telling and his example of being able to constantly reinvent himself and not be pigeonholed. 
All tracks are my own compositions and performances except extra rhythm guitar and percussion on ‘Doing Time’ which was Carl Hetherington. 
Most of the images I have used are my own original artwork.  I now have an Instagram page where I’ll be posting my art at rowenaartandmusic 

https://www.instagram.com/rowenaartandmusic 

Thanks for stopping by, it’s much appreciated.

Harvester Of Man

Rowena Simpson

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