https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/keycurling
02/07/2022  strings
04/28/2023 fixed the low end

Keycurling by learningtoplay (The Drummer Upstairs)

A little instrumental song that might give some comfort in difficult times.

Open Collab Offer: If you want, you can also remix this song. If you do, please let me know and mention me in the description.

Cover Picture: Pixabay.com

A Peaceful Song - OMCB

A slow, and sad one. (With Jen Di Biasi, vocals.)

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AN EXPERIMENT WITH SOUNDS

Ethereal, sparse but big. A haunting, eerie song of, well, love essentially, but as it may be experienced if you were just a ghost.
How could one keep interacting? 

No need to be afraid
A breath of air by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let you know I'm there
Hear me 
See me 
Know me
Trying to let you know I care
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Blow a stream in your ear
Pull a single hair
Oh you will know 
I'm always there
I'll think your thoughts as you do
I'll give you mine to think to 
And you will know I'm close 
Through all of time
A breath of air 
By your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let your know I'm there
See everything
Hear every sound
Get the feel of your surroundings
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Pull a single hair
I'll think your thoughts as you do
And you will know
A breath of air
A breath of by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
I'm just a ghost 
Behind your right shoulder

Copyright Gina Graham 2020

3 Just A Ghost

Always one of my favorites from the Stones.  When I had the chance to "learn" it I jumped at the chance to get my take on it out there.  Peace!

Cover Art is a photo of B. taken by B. in Vince's Cathedral of Junk in Austin .  Thanks Vince! Yours is a masterpiece!

Sympathy For The Devil R.Stones Cover

After a longer break I needed some inspiration from Cecilia again and I remixed one of her great songs. This time I worked with some finished funky guitar loops, but I also recorded a few tracks myself. You can hardly hear it. Maybe that's better 😄. It's not a masterpiece, but I really wanted to get back into SC. It's good therapy in these crazy times.

Open collab by @specialececilia 
Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/keep-good-vibes-alive-acapellas-special-cecilia
Lyrics & Vocals: Special Cecilia  
Music & Arrangement: OMCB

Cover Picture: Pixabay.com

Lyrics:

Keep Good Vibes Alive & Let them Multiply...
World Wide, World Wide for Better New Times

Thinking Positive than Singing Positive 
Singing Positive Than Thinking positive
Thinking Positive than Singing Positive 
Singing Positive Than Thinking positive

Keep Good Vibes Alive & Let them Multiply...
World Wide, for Better New Times, for Better New Times, for Better New Times

Yeh oh Yeh oh Yeh
Universal Kindness
Universal Mind Set 2X

Happiness no stress.... 3X

Wherever World over
No matter the wheather, no matter the struggle 
with experience we learn , we can get stronger, we can get wiser 
& than we can go further

Good Music is Delicious Food for the Soul 
it give us inspiration uplift & linked us all

Yeh oh Yeh oh Yeh
Universal Kindness
Universal Mind Set 2X

Happiness no stress 3X

let's Be our best without cess
Let's do our best feel life is a bless
let's be our best live in the fullness

Yeh oh Yeh oh Yeh

Universal Kindness
Universal Mind Set 2X
Happiness no stress

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Keep Good Vibes Alive - Special Cecila & OMCB

Broken Pearls

Every year I try to make a little song to commemorate remembrance day in November. The month of August is also historically significant, though.  In August 1914 the massed cartoon insanity of old-world braided huffing and puffing empires slammed into stark reality when over the course of a few days: Germany declared war on Russia, France and Belgium; Britain declared war on Germany; Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia; France and Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary; Japan declared war on Germany; and Austria-Hungary declared war on Belgium. Dear God.

Herbert Burden was one of many young men who decided to do “the right thing” and lied about his age to enlist.  He endured 10 months of fighting, shelling and gas attacks in the front line trenches in France, lost many friends and was himself eventually hospitalised.  On discharge from hospital his battalion received orders to return to the front line.  Herbert went AWOL and was found at a neighbouring regiment where he said he had gone to comfort a friend who had lost a brother in the fighting.  

Herbert became the youngest British soldier to be executed by firing squad for desertion.  

He was seventeen years old, alone, given no defence at his trial, blindfolded, arms tied behind his back, lashed to a post and shot at dawn on 21st July 1915.

God rest his soul.

The picture is of a statue of Herbert which stands at the British National Memorial Arboretum as part of an installation to commemorate the 306 of their own soldiers executed by the British Army during WW1.

I felt this needed to be done raw in one take so please excuse the rough edges.
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Broken Pearls

Come the night, through singing clouds
Of old men crying on war's recall,
Pastel light hits bleeding shrouds
Still defying, backs to wall.
Morphine hymns through organ pipes
Hairs on end, standard unfurled
Shell shock sins 'neath starburst lights
Set to defend their broken pearls.

His mother spoke through spilling tears
God beside, with angel choirs.
He then awoke – pain chilling sears
Deep inside his burning fires.
Camphor dreams through ether prayers
Uniformed boys mustard gas swirls
Just seventeen, mere child's nightmares.
Discarded toy, of broken pearls.

Weeping crows in ¾ time
Belie the crown, lay down to die.
Wreaths below, left countersigned
Head bowed down, blindfolded eyes.
Hot leaded hopes absolve the rich
Salvo thunder suspends our world
On posted ropes slumped heroes twitch
And rent asunder our broken pearls.

Broken Pearls

So juicy and so purple black
Profusion in the mortal stack
Relentless in their silent March
To dominate the universe
With a vengeance few can understand

Dilitants with good intentions
Were enlisted and abetted
The invasion from the Himalayas
Where they landed long ago
From the planet of the purple berry
In a tiny spaceship made of Gold

Sent by cosmic tricksters
With intellect and agendas
Way beyond our comprehension

Now they're in my backyard
Now they're at my door
Razor canes drawn for battle
Like Neolithic Swords

Some say the Cobbler makes it worth the Risk
But I'm not so shore.

Planet of the Purple Berry (Himalayan blackberry)

My friend Eddy, from Holland, sent me the coolest stem I've come across in a while. It was a tonally and time shifting beat--the best way I can describe it. Anyway, I threw a bass, organ, and mandolin on it to funkify it a bit. I tried to get as close to a live jam feel as possible when I'm recording all the instruments myself. Hope I fooled you! Big respect to Eddy for his musical idea that he shared with me. 

Time Travel is Possible (with eddyoffline)

is it within reason
keeping at range?
I mean what if the face I hide behind 
is slowly changing?

I spent a year or so to lay 
you called it a day
but what if the time we’ve lost
is time we both can gain?

what’s the worst you’ve done?
what’s the cost?
hows the worst you’ve lived?
tell me how it was

is it the the season?
Im right as rain
Im ready muddy waters
call my name 

what’s the worst you’ve done?
what’s the cost?
hows the worst you’ve lived?
tell me how it was

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muddy waters

I like Soundcloud because it's a friendly community for sharing our music. When I like your music, I say how it affected me, maybe something about how you wrote, performed or produced it. I have musically diverse interests: pop/rock songs, jazz-rock fusion/prog instrumentals; acoustic guitar. Main instrument is guitar, I'm not a keyboard player or singer, but hopefully I can do enough there to make my work sound ok.

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