Winter

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
April 2024
Duration: 2:50
A shorter version was previously included in the “Art Expressed in Music” series
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion

Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

Lyrics and vocal by me
I made the music in GarageBand

Lyrics:

The contours of you slowly fade
You who once shone so brightly
Everything you did was stuck inside of me
In all the memories i made..

But was it you...?
Was it true...?

Or did I create an illusion
Of what I wanted you to be
My head is full of confusion
From what I thought i could see..

Was it you...?
Was it true..?

Oh, I had made myself a picture
With what I wanted so see
I really thought I saw you..
I didn't really see the truth..

I saw you...
But it wasn't true....

Was It You? (Original )

My last child became 18 and has left for University.  He is off to study Music production in Leeds University hopefully.  You never know one day he might fix my songs. Meanwhile life has flashed before my eyes and they are all gone.

Postcards From An Empty Nest

This track all started with the bass guitar and I built everything else around it. 
I wanted to keep the track as raw as possible with two guitars, bass and drums. 
I called it Serpentine because the bass is weaving and pulsing throughout the track.

Guitars used:
Yamaha Revstar Standard, P90's (left speaker)
Gibson Les Paul Studio (right speaker)
Fender Precision Bass (centre)

Plugins used:
Guitars - Neural DSP Mesa Boogie MKIIC+ Suite
Bass - Line 6 Helix Native 
Drums programmed using EZ Drummer 3 

Cover photo generated using an A.I image generator

Serpentine

All Around 140 BPM

Banishment 135 BPM

Here's a collab with the exceptionally gifted https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire

You can find her original vocal here;

https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire/like-rain-another-open-collab


cover art created here;

https://www.canva.com/

Lady Of Fire Poetry X RiZLiX - Like Rain

Happy Music

prom king

Mango Sunrise

My car is broken. ( 1994 ) Eddy Mango - Margareta Theorin ( Eddy )

Magical Maybe is Steven Parry who lives in Chorley Lancashire.  He writes songs in his spare time and  in his studio under the stairs. The original idea was to produce music for fun and that's exactly the same idea today. Ideas come in many shapes and forms and if anything gets done of any valve then maybe that is the magic. If anyone ever wants to use the songs for any reason please just reach out.