such a nice, almost childish, tenbder voice that comes so nice with simple old melody

Wow--So wonderful SuZanne--had not heard this one ln awhile, l had forgotten how Pretty this song ls:):)

darklings of winter! great. beautiful tune, great story song so sweetly sung. (<;

This track radiates a raw, intimate beauty, with the acoustic guitar providing a tender foundation for the breathtaking vocals. The addition of the flute brings an ethereal quality, weaving through the melody like a gentle sea breeze. It feels like standing at the edge of a glimmering shore, where every word and note carries the depth and clarity of the ocean. Truly spectacular and deeply moving. – Francesco Adornetto ❤️

The sheer beauty of this still gives me chills.  Phillean's wonderful work given added poignancy by your stunning vocal.  A total gem...

Just relax into it

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)

Walk In A Dream

Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.
Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
Piano , keys, and instrumental composition: Yann Kifer @annkifer
Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you so much for this JOY Yann.

'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight by Emily Bronte (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,

But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.

And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.

Tis moonlight, summer moonlight . Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli

River Dreaming

Perfect Day by Colin Towns
Arranged by Debra Buesking
Many thanks go to David Dunham for mastering my track. You can hear his beautiful guitar music @david-dunhamuser589535203

Perfect Day (by Colin Towns)

A very good friend gave me this wonderful song as a gift, with a lyric that bites hard in the heart. Thank you very much my dear friend. And as you hear, I couldn't help but let my own thoughts and feelings make some additions. ;)

In a world that rumbles, shakes and spins ever faster, there are unfortunately many fine people who lose their footing, and fall into the darkness created by various mental illnesses.
Give them a thought and an honest smile. Because an honest smile can do wonders for whoever meets it. And best of all, it only takes a few seconds of your day and is completely free, doesn't cost you a penny. ;)

Guitar, Lyrics & Vocals; Peter, which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Other additions; Seagull, which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/farout-music-studio

Glide Path

Breaking of the snow
Turns my head, to face the west
Where memories play for show
They never rest.
Eyes are clouding down
The more I hide, the less I smile
Saddest clown
For miles and miles.

Portrait of my face
Staring back, from times long past
The blackest space
Where my shadow’s cast.
Conversation stalls
Me and I, in fractured sense,
Childhood’s pall
On emotion’s fence

And where from here?
And when to there?
And what of fear?
And who should care?
And why the tears?
And whose despair?
And how to see,
What once was me?

Water kissing salt
Cry of pain, dissolves my mind
It’s all my fault
Crevasses of the conscious kind
Sharpest form of dark
Biting hard, my ego’s lip
Laser stark
As focus slips

Glide Path - Peter & Seagull

Album My Strange Night Stories
nowyyorg 2024

Why Always Me ?

Once Upon


Image source:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/forgotten-landscapes-bringing-back-the-rich-grasslands-of-the-southeast

Once Upon

'insecure'

Ultrasonic Pest Repellent: music
Scotty: lyrics & vocals
Painter: art

Would you bring me home some roses?
Could you make me food to eat?
Can we candy up our noses?
And make ourselves each other's treat? 

Girl, you know that I love you
wholeheartedly and true.
But if you stop reciprocating,
I swear to Jah that we are through. 

Baby, now that you have had me,
have I left you satisfied?
Or have I left you like the others;
to feel the need that you should lie? 

Girl, you know that I love you
wholeheartedly and true.
But if you stop reciprocating, 
I swear to Jah that we are through. 

I'm insecure. 
It's true.

insecure (with Ultrasonic Pest Repellent)

This is an experimental piano piece inspired by the heavy rains and flooding in Poland yesterday, which displaced many from their homes. My thoughts are with everyone affected, as we face similar situations in Greece every year. This composition reflects the rain and its aftermath.

Although it leans toward the experimental, I hope it resonates with listeners beyond classical piano enthusiasts. Interestingly, I fell ill after walking in the rain while composing this, so the piece now holds an unexpected association with that experience...

The picture was generated with DALL-E.

Rain (Deszcz)

If that is someone's wish

Ryu / Acoustic guitar, Program, Dub mix, Voice
Pablo D. Martin Fontana / Electric guitar
https://soundcloud.com/pdmf-2023

At 3:00 p.m. the heavy rain stopped and the surrounding area was bathed in pink light.
People and cars were all swept away, leaving only my concrete box.

If, If that is someone's wish.
We will hear it as a curse.

We live in a world where subatomic particles collide and only chaos is created.
In a world of equilibrium, everything happens at the same time, and there're no lies there.

Time should be able to move forward or backward, it doesn't exist in the calculations.

If, If that is someone's wish.
Let us believe it's our destiny.

We couldn't find a way to remake the world, not even from YouTube videos.
We were witnessing the end of the world in someone's imagination.

If, If that is someone's wish.
We will hear it as a curse.

If, If that is someone's wish.
Let us believe it is our destiny.

If that is someone's wish / collaboration with Pablo Dario Martin

The Recursives get down and boogie with the sisters of the Tanat Valley at The Hand pub, Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant, Wales  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😎

We Are Family - The Recursives

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” - Francis Bacon
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Fragments of Hopes - Improvised Piano Piece

Lyrics

Left out in cold waiting to thaw

The fires in the dreams the ones I made for me

Left out in cold

Fire flames the thaw

Shaking the drips off now

Night knocks the river off it’s normal course

With a fractal frame the river roots a symmetry true
 
What you wanna be?

What you wanna do?

What you wanna see,

It's right in front of you

Night Knock

Downloads

Morning Scribble

Listen to Korima songs at www.korima.net


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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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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

We're late starters, hence the name.  Andy started playing and learning how to use a DAW to keep distracted during the covid lockdown, while Helen finally realised a long held ambition to have a go at singing, and is now both writing and performing.
We love the community on Soundcloud, where we can share our music with like minded souls.

Andy & Helen

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