A three track EP, with a mixture of genres, is part of a larger body of work in progress.

Where lines meet EP with Dónal Lunny

Candyside Arcade

Would you chop down the forest
would you freeze the bog
would you sell the sun

Recorded  and mixed by Darren Flynn
Drums Steve O'Keeffe (https://www.bluesconfidential.com 
Blues Confidential/The Pale) 
bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale)
Lead vocals. guitar, art Suzanne Ledwith
Information about fairy/ringforts and why I prefer them to a new road.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/072…ions-rural-ireland/
Halloween link: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1020/1172649-irelands-gate-to-hell-oweynagat-roscommon-otherworld-halloween-folklore/

Change of Address

Money Mad

This song sounds like it's about something else but it's really about sitting looking at an off TV and resisting the urge to turn it on.

Recorded Live in The Stables by Frank Byrne 
Drummer Steve O'Keeffe (https://www.bluesconfidential.com/The Pale)
and the melodic bass playing of Bernard Byrne (The Pale).
Lead vocals and guitar Suzanne Ledwith

Box of Letters - live version

Here's a live video the song, introduced by Christian. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkdo0Pcmlw




I was 16 when I arrived in Liverpool, in 1955
I knew no one, thought no one knew me
Till I heard someone call out my name


At the port I was ordered to sign papers
but I could not read or write
Ashamed and weighed down
It said with me all through my life

Leaving Ireland, is my way back to you
I will return very soon
Over the sea that separates you and me

Part of a three track EP, Where lines meet, featuring Dónal Lunny 
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea live sound engineer for Danú. 
Bouzouki, guitar, bass and drum programming Dónal Lunny
All vocals, acoustic, ukulele Suzanne Ledwith
Music, lyrics and photograph by Suzanne Ledwith
Vocals, guitar and ukulele recorded by Suzanne Ledwith
All songs copywritten.

Leaving Ireland

Leaving Ireland Featuring Dónal Lunny

This is an earlier version of Pearly Moon, off an older EP called Change of Address.
Live Studio Recording

Playing wooden flutes/whistles Roger Mullarkey
Drums and percussion Steve O'Keeffe https://www.bluesconfidential.com
and on bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale). 
Lead vocals/BV guitar Suzanne Ledwith
Mixed and recorded by Darren Flynn (The Pale).
Words and music by Suzanne Ledwith
Photograph by Suzanne Ledwith

Pearly Moon Irishy

EP  -  Change of Address.  
This is a live recording.
Recorded by the sound engineer Frank Byrne. 
Drums and percussion Steve O'Keeffe (The Pale)
Bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale)
Lead vocals and guitar Suzanne Ledwith

All songs copywritten
Could it be I'm floating

Poppy Fields - live version

The burning eternal question - do you love me?
Do you love me, you love me?
Well so do people who sell ice-cream
They'll say anything, they think I'd like to hear

Do yo love me like they do?

Hey girl, you better watch out
cos people care not for what you may
Though it's written on their faces
They hide behind sweet words

Anybody for ice-cream (or tennis)?
(a nod to @nic_nic_nic: Nic for tennis suggestion)

Live Studio recording, engineered by Darren Flynn
Drums Steve O'Keeffe (The Pale/BluesConfidential  www.bluesconfidential.com
https://soundcloud.com/bluesconfidential) 
Bernard Byrne (The Pale)
Lead vocals, BV, guitar, art by Suzanne Ledwith

Hey Ho

Confused?

Live Studio recording, engineered by Darren Flynn (The Pale)
Drums Steve O'Keeffe (The Pale/https://www.bluesconfidential.com/
Confidentialhttps://soundcloud.com/bluesconfidential)
Bass guitar Bernard Byrne (The Pale)

Lead vocal, BV and guitar Suzanne Ledwith
Photography taken by Suzanne Ledwith

Change of Address CD

Orange Sun

Photograph: https://www.yankodesign.com/category/architecture/


Feeling all this anger, feeling all this anger
Taking out on you.  I'm taking it out on me
Starts off as a hive on my skin
Turns into a hill, in my brain
I take a look through my ear
It's turned into a 

Live Studio recording, engineered by Darren Flynn.
Drums Steve O'Keeffe
Bass guitar Bernard Byrne
Lead vocals, BV and rhythm guitar Suzanne Ledwith

Mountain

I wrote this song after an in-depth conversation with my mother who spent years searching for her mother.  It's in 7/8; perhaps reflecting the irregularity of relationships.

Bouzouki, harp, bass and drum programming, mixed and premastered by Dónal Lunny
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea
Editing/Vocals/BV/guitar/photo of my mum by SuZanne

(Because you asked Jeff.  When my Ma met her mother she commented on the colour of her eyes and said, "They're brilliant blue..." and it's the way she said it and looked that stuck in my mind)

Brilliant Blue
Her eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
I take after my father, they say he was a farmer
My mother's at the window as I say goodbye
I've only just met her, she is 84 0r 85

Refrain: Brilliant blue eyes, greet my brown
I've waited all my life, for this

2lb 4oz wrapped in cotton wool, placed in a cardboard shoebox
given to nuns in Bloom Street
Manchester in 1940, I was one of many a child and mother
sent from Catholic Ireland

Refrain      Lahlahlahs

Sixty-two years since we met, mother
I just wanted to see you one time, if you want me too
Your eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
as I leave the white-haired woman
It was dead of winter I was found

Lahlahlahs   Refrain

Brillinat Blue Master         

Brilliant Blue featuring Dónal Lunny

A dance track born of a yearning for escape and an uncharacteristic urge to dance. (I actually love to dance but I liked @sixfourzerotwo's confessional)
Music
- Lyrics and vocals: Suzanne Ledwith.
- Music, instrumentation and production: Six Four Zero Two.
Design
- Cover design: 6402.
- Video production: 6402.
- Photography by Thomas Stephan on Unsplash.

On Your Skin (feat. Six Four Zero Two)

A happy collaboration with SuZanne Ledwith and Nic @nic_nic_nic: 

Lyrics, main vocals and additional guitar: Suzanne Ledwith
Demo, rhythm guitar, bass and additional vocals: Nic
Someone once said, he felt trapped in a horizontal line and I thought that was really great song line.

In Happy Dreams (with @nic)

An X6402 collab:
Hakka remix of an original track 'On Your Skin' by Suzanne Ledwith x Six Four Zero Two.
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Lyrics and vocals: Suzanne Ledwith.
Original music: Six Four Zero Two.
Remix and production: Hakka.
soundcloud.com/hakkabeat
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Cover: 6402.
Photography: Thomas Stephan on Unsplash.

On Your Skin (Hakka REMIX)

Here's a video that was created by Philleann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Yf5PJ8_QM

I was very lucky to collaborate with Philleann @philleann: on such a beautiful song. 
Peter @user-264930040 collaborated on the lyrics. 


The Glimmering Shore

They married in haste on a bright winter’s day 
Knowing the next tide would sail him away 
But he pledged his return come the warmth of the May
 And to wait for him there on the glimmering shore

High masted whaler, fading from view 
Beyond her horizon of shimmering blue 
Steeling her heart, through tearful adieu 
Set to wait for her love by that glimmering shore

May’s softness as swallows came dancing on air 
July blessed her life with his daughter so fair 
Then autumn winds rising, whispering despair 
While she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Darklings of winter, snow blankets the sand.
 Earth forged to ice, life stripped from the land. 
Daily returning, the horizon to scan 
To wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Weeks swelled to months that folded to years
 Hope’s light expiring, extinguished by fears 
And the salty sea roared and it crashed like her tears
As she waits for her love on that glimmering shore

Like a ship gripped by tempest ne’er to break free
 Her heart imprisoned on a turbulent sea. 
No lighthouse of guidance to lead her to lee. 
She'd wait for her love on that glimmering shore

Vocal - Suzanne Ledwith 
Guitar - Philip Hitt
Lyrics - Philip Dale & Peter Keenan 
Music - Philip Dale

Picture by Lukas Robertson via unsplash.com

The Glimmering Shore (feat. Philleann)

Copperfield has all-too-vivid recollection of the terrifying storm at Yarmouth and the tragic end to a near-to-shore rescue attempt.
Have a listen to the wonderful creations of https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade


As clearly as I see
As clearly as I see, what happened then
Before me now, it happens again

Greet the faces, scenes and figures in the fire
The howl and the roar, ratttling windows, pews and doors
Streets of lead ripped clean from the high church spire
The dark invests the storm, with terror in new forms

Repeat As clearly as I see...

Fearful of falling stacks, (the) showered salt rains down
Streets strewn with sand dunes; trees torn from the ground
The tremeduous sea in grip of blinding crown
High watery walls whip and engulf this shattered town

Repeat As clearly as I see
Cue: wild sea electrifying guitar solo, bass undercurrents, piano sea spray and percussive turbulence

The ship's bell wrung its neck; she rose with two men gone
He made toward the wreck, striving valiantly and strong
They drew him to the shore and tried by all means and skills
So shaken to the core, a generous and meek heart stilled

As clearly as I see

As Clearly As I See

Here's a Promo video for the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8tofD7645o


Dark deep wOOd
LOst in leaf floor 
Of dIstaNT

RevOLving ORB

Vocal, vocal melody, harmonies, lyrics and vocal recording: Suzanne Ledwith.
Music and Production: @sixfourzerotwo
Cover design: 6402.
Photography: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker.

He Of Ebony feat. Six Four Zero Two

A song for those low moments!

Have a listen to the wonderful creations of @candyside-arcade
Their sensitiveside https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade/moment-one

Please don't despair there are darker things in this
world that could take you there
When daylight breaks across the lawn
And you breathe the pristine, scented dawn
You'll know we care
Reach out your hand and we'll be there

Please don't be low
There are better places in this world you know that you can go
Then the moon lights up the path ahead
And the jamine blossoms fill your head
You'll feel we know
Raise your eys to the afterglow

You hitched a ride and that's our gift

Please don't lose hope
There are bigger fools in this world to supply sufficient rope
IN the midday heat you'll rest a while
Brush the noble camomile and smile
Your spirits lift
You hitched our ride and that's our gift

You hitched our ride and that's our gift

The Gift

Another great song by @candyside-arcade that I have had the privilege to interpret and sing. 

Do listen to @candyside-arcade's fun, energetic and life-affirming songs.
https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade/hiding-in-plain-sight   One of my many favourites.
P-line:
℗ @ Candyside Arcade & SuZanne Ledwith
I, think much more today
About it is I stand to lose
More than what I could gain
When I kneel down to pray
About what it is that I must to choose
To keep the pain at bay

Open my mouth to say
About what seems the most confused
When it could be so plain
I think much more today
About what I stand to lose

What I stand to lose

When I kneel down to pray
About what it is I stand to lose
More than what I can gain
Open my mouth to say
About what it is that I must choose
To keep the pain at bay

I think much more today
About what seems the most confused 
When it could be so plain
And when I find a vein
I know what I stand to lose

What I stand to lose

What I Stand To Lose

Joon's compositional skill, gives 'Mountain' the intensity and gradual build-up that captures the essence of the song while honouring his own unique style. 

 https://soundcloud.com/joan-hendriks

Photography: https://www.yankodesign.com/category/architecture/

Mountain featuring Joan Hendriks

Another fab U lous genre bending song by @candyside-arcade.  Come join the sing-a-long-ling.
A pick me up -  https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade/institutionalised F U nside

Too clever to seize
You'll never believe
Forever you'll freeze
Broken Bridges

Don't try to stake 
Wise guy, you take 
goodbye, forsake 
BB

You may point to fractured beams
Disjointed manufactured schemes
Those that belong declare their plans
Can anyone repair the span of BB

Just don't police
they'll break the peace
You, won't release
BB

Broken Bridges

I have had the great pleasure to collaborate on this funky composition by The Furico Music Team.  
The Furico Music Team https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783

If you want to know more about the process:
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/ascending-stairs.html

Listen to the live version: https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/sets/leaked-live-fmt1

https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/neither
This track was one of the first of theirs that I had heard.  Love to dance to it.

Original Version
User-596493783 – Ascending-stairs

The Windscale Blues Experiment https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues
This piece https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/apparition?in=suzanne-ledwith/sets/characters really makes me feel like a character in a Black n White movie.

Ascending Stairs ft. The Furico Music Team & The Windscale Blues Experiment

You can purchase the track here: https://suzanneledwith.bandcamp.com/track/particle-guitar


Steve Pumphrey's inventiveness, musicality and virtuosic guitar playing have infused Particle Guitar with celestial splendour.

Privileged to have had this track mixed by Damian Chennells https://soundcloud.com/damianchennells
Mastered by Ciarán Cullen
https://suzanneledwith.bandcamp.com/releases
Art concept by SuZanne Ledwith
Photography by something&knot Productions 
Graphic Design by Simon

Are you a fixed star of unknown location
Strumming a particle guitar celestial creation
Are you the beat of a solar storm, travelling earthbound
Of elemental form worshipping sun dog
To the sounds of the whistling sun

Strumming a particle guitar

Are you a shooting star
In an absent moon sky
Dancing past Jupiter and Mars
Through a billion and one stars
Are you the s e e ds of a 
Cosmic explosion
The pulsing beat 
Of a supernova

Strumming a particle guitar
Whistling son, is that you I hear?
Son? Is that you?
Strumming a particle guitar

Particle Guitar

Cast of players:
SuZanne: David Copperfield
The Candies: James Steerforth, Markham, Grainger & Mrs Crupps.

Another fabulous song by the very talented Candyside Acrade.
Do have a listen to Candyside's sensitive side.
https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade/moment-one

Lofty Castle
A lofty castle of my own
Like Crusoe pulls up the ladder to be alone
Steerforth, he is our guiding star
Inns of molten blue; that’s our repertoire
“Fill full your cups”

I hear the squawk of corkscrew sound
Long before it’s needed for the next maroon round
I’ve laughed at my own jokes all night
How town sharpens an appetite

Trickling trust divine
“Crackling fever” free
“Unaccustomed wine”
What deceiver it could be

“Vast truths that mortals seldom” found

I heard someone fall down the stairs
False reports the tumbler was in fact truly yours
Perhaps there’s foundation after all
I’m on my back on the passage floor

Trickling trust divine
“Crackling fever” free
“Unaccustomed wine”
What deceiver it could be

“But still we held as time flew by”

Who’s that smoking right by the fireplace? It was me!
Who’s that leaning out of the window? It was me!
Contemplate one self in the mirror? That was me too!

Trickling trust divine
“Crackling fever” free
“Unaccustomed wine”
What deceiver it could be

“Drink to me only with your eyes”

Lofty Castle

An elaborately inviting composition by @user-596493783 
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/saint-germain-en-laye-suzanne-ledwith.html

The participating members of SGEL, are as follows.
STONERJAZZ on guitar
soundcloud.com/user-911083679
Western Boketto on bass
soundcloud.com/westernboketto
The Windscale Blues Experiment on flute
soundcloud.com/windscaleblues

Photograph of Lace webbed spider: taken by SuZanne Ledwith

Somewhere I've never been  - The Furico Music Team

This https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783 composition was destined for life as an instrumental track and found itself conjoined to my vocal.

FMT explain the process in their blog:
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/blanket-of-moss.html

Blanket of Moss

Along the way, as Korima, we’ve created some short songs.  Not excerpts but, rather, complete pieces to be enjoyed briefly on their own - or as connectors exploring the relationships between songs.
We’d like to showcase some of them here.  This is the first one up: White Sail.  We hope you enjoy it!
 
Korima's songs are written, performed, arranged, engineered, and produced by SuZanne Ledwith (Ireland) and Steve Pumphrey (England).
https://soundcloud.com/candyside-arcade/white-sail-korima

White Sail

Toca la Guitarra | Korima
Following “White Sail”, we continue to showcase Korima’s short songs. Hoping to leave you wanting more.
This is the next one: Toca la Guitarra
Korima's songs are written and performed by Suzanne Ledwith (Ireland) and Steve Pumphrey (England).

Toca La Guitarra

When moon becomes human to meet wolf who is sun.
This song is off the current EP, called Where lines meet, with Dónal Lunny.
Bouzouki, guitar, bass and percussion programming Dónal Lunny
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea live sound engineer for Danú.
Song arrangements, guitars, all vocals, music/lyrics by Suzanne Ledwith
For those interested in myth:Lough Owel
There are conflicting legends relating to which lake Turgeis the Norwegian warrier who persecuted Christians was drowned in at the hands of King Malachy.
The Annals of the Four Masters states that after he had plundered Connaught and Meath and burned Clonmacnoise that he was taken prisoner by Maelseachlainn, son of Maelruainaidh and afterwards drowned in Loch-Uair.
Local oral tradition states that Turgesius was rolled down The Captains Hill in a barrell into the waters of Loug Owel.
MacGeoghegan on the other hand gives an account of his death in Lough Ennell. http://www.askaboutireland.ie/
Photograph taken by Steve O'Keeffe of Lough Owel.
All songs copywritten.

Where lines meet

Pearly Moon Featuring Dónal Lunny

“Into Your World" was played on BBC Introducing. Have a listen at. https://www.korima.net



Korima’s song “Root” from debut EP “Into Your World” aired on RTÉ 2XM- The  London Ear - 23rd September 2023
 
The London Ear | The London Ear - RTÉ 2XM (rte.ie)
 




Samhain
The púca
Of all the ghosts and fairies abroad on Halloween, the púca (or pooka) was the most feared and October 31st was known as Púca Night in parts of Ireland. The púca, meaning 'goblin', can be malevolent or benevolent and is not solely associated with Halloween. It's a mythological fairy and the ultimate shapeshifter, capable of appearing in a variety of forms but most commonly as a dark horse or part dog.

Spring Solstice


Winter Solstice 
The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice occurs on 21 or 22 December, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn. At sunrise on the shortest day of the year, for 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument, not through the doorway, but through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber.

Samhain
The púca
Of all the ghosts and fairies abroad on Halloween, the púca (or pooka) was the most feared and October 31st was known as Púca Night in parts of Ireland. The púca, meaning 'goblin', can be malevolent or benevolent and is not solely associated with Halloween. It's a mythological fairy and the ultimate shapeshifter, capable of appearing in a variety of forms but most commonly as a dark horse or part dog.

October 

Night migration of birds.

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September

Barn swallows bury themselves in mud in lakes



August

Barn owls and birds of prey on the move
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July

Watching bats emerge at dusk.

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June

walking in meadows




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May
The Dawn Chorus:  Ireland 5 am.
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April
First swallow of the year
Welcome, welcome
From out of mud in lakes
Were you resting there?



March

Unveils like a first thought
A whisper



February

"Nothing stands out yet", you said
As you looked over your shoulder
Broad and rounded, square and hunched
I thought I heard you say, "We are water
And over time we solidify"

Concept Art by SuZanne Ledwith
Photography by something&knot Productions 
Graphic Design by Simon

January
Snow white egret
among fields of greenandbrown
Are you lost in its vastness?
Bubulcus ibis.

DE-cem- ber
Silver EEL migration 
down river to the sea
on a moonless night

through
an obstcale 
of nets
Cutting blades
pollution
And 
Par -a -sites
White egret



December
Mild to touch, not yet winter
snow drop dropping still
daffodil 

November, can I surrender to your dying
Are you truly dying or surrendering



Is it not enough to be ALIVE, autumn 
As birds migrate thousands of miles, autumn
Of an inner stirring and outward knowing

Is BE-ING
to Our Mind
bor -ing

As summer turns, it turns
To autumn, autumn
The slugs and worms live at the root; 
The slugs eat the juice of carrot
Is it good for their EyEs too...?

I buried a 'th' in the soil
With vowels and nettles
And I, this eyE, aye, oh
This What...?
This sometimes
Known thing
Doesn't kNOW oh oh

Winter take, take these
Sor rows, lay them
Deep ee eep
To become worms
for the birds to eat


ever ever
Denied to

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Concept Art by SuZanne Ledwith
Photography by something&knot Productions 
Graphic design by Simon

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