TMS and Nic

This is a good time here.  I've had this idea and this song pretty well done for about a year now but until I started doing a few collaborations lately I couldn't find the right opportunity for it.   

This vocal nic @nic_nic_nic put over it is totally opposite, not even opposite, it's in an alternate timeline from where I saw it going, but when I heard it, I thought it fit in a way possibly too cool for me to understand.  

Lyrics for this one come from a public domain poem credited below:
https://poets.org/poem/afternoon-hill

Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950



*Special shout out to my brothers in Natt Brus for loaning me this guy and also thanks for all the inspiring kick ass music you guys create.  Love all you guys & keep rockin!


bow 
Guitars, Music & Arrangement : TexMex Shaman
Vocals by Nic

lyrics : 
I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
    With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
    And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
    Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
    And then start down!

Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!

bow - Collab with nic and TMS

This is a great ambient type track that my friend @nic_nic_nic nic had written and asked me to lay down some guitar on.   Here's what we came up with.

Now hear this one on Spotify if you so choose :) 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1h6xZtNUHL7AylXnxCMLKh?si=G3zz8ohbS9eGie4Hq-R8uQ&dl_branch=1

a dreamy summer serenade to the vast fields in our minds or out in the wide open

dream on

bass, rhythm guitar, rhythm section and vocals: nic
lead guitars and bell: TexMex Shaman

Vast Fields - [ nic ]

A new collaboration from @nic_nic_nic NIC and TEXMEX SHAMAN

All the instruments are played by NIC and TEXMEX SHAMAN

I always enjoy working with Nic so when he showed me this cool moody tune, I was happy to add some love to it.  I think it turned out well and I look forward to another down the road. 

Lyrics is lent from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers

The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
270 Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down Greenwich reach

Ah ah aaa leia
Ahh ah ah leialala

Torres Strait [NIC and the TEXMEX SHAMAN]

Here's another cool composition that @nic_nic_nic Nic sent over for me to color on.  Like Vast Fields and Torres Strait, it's got an understated moody kinda vibe to it.   This one really grew each time one of us would touch the project.  It's been fun to hear it evolve over the past month or so.  

It's a 12 minute plus commitment should you choose to make it, but hopefully you'll find it musically interesting throughout.  Nic likened it to a big Italian meal with lots of delicious side dishes.  I thought that was appropriate.  

So check out "Great is the Sun"  and if you like it, take a listen to Vast Fields and Torres Strait  Also don't miss "bow" - one of my tracks that Nic did vocals for. 
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/bow-collab-with-nic-and-tms 

Music: nic and TexMex Shaman

Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevensson

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad,
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Great Is The Sun [NIC and the TEXMEX SHAMAN]

Nic sent over this cool song and I added some things and here it is

check out our other cool collabs here...

https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/tms-and-nic