Such a beautiful sound and a great retro mix!

Agree with all your tags, TSD. This is right in the 60's! Nice work Chris

Great Britpop sound. Shades of early Kinks (ou really got me...).

you're really capturing an iconic sound here. Very well done.

Sound(s) so good, like 60s authentic. Catchy song Sweet One.

this could be a syd barret unpublished song, great work mate

Wish I still had my embossed cords and Nehru jacket! :)

Anastasiya Ihnatovich is one of the best talents to be found on SC. I had the privilege of being able to sing to the notes of her splendid piano. I recommend you to listen to her music here:
(@anastasiya-ihnatovich) you will be fascinated!
Piano playing and composition …… ..Anastasiya Ihnatovich
Voice, lyric and strings ………………… ..Paolo Pieraccini
Below the lyrics of our song together

Time goes so slower
missing the one you love
You are my prison
But I don't want to escape
No, I don't feel alone
causes sadness
                                                                     
Is always with me

I still love you
But you don't care about me
You don't care about me
About me
I hide my pain with a smile
For you
It's true
I can't be strong all the time
And so I gave in to the pain
and I'm sure that my woman
My only woman is you

LAPSE 1 Anastasiya Ihnatovich vocal version by Paolo Pieraccini

This was written in South Africa in 1987, a few years before the release of Nelson Mandela - really digging into the archives here! It was one of a handful of songs co-written with Pravinand (@johnny-minstrel). I had the first verse and an inkling of a melody, and Pravinand finished it off. We were very chuffed by the end result. Hope you like it.

The Prisoner (Peters/Maharaj)

The empty space he feared
Was fixed between his ears
To live is but to bear
The scourge of twilight years
He lost the strength to fight
He lost the will to live
For all that was his right
They took away from him

He cannot move his arms
The iron weighs him down
His feet, they cannot dance
He feels no joyful sound
He alone must grieve
The toll of passing years
He alone must feel
The loneliness and fears

His eyes reflect the pain
A man should never bear
How long will he sustain
To hurt for what is fair
And in the dark he prays
No one hears his heart
Except the one who made
Man from dust and blood

The Prisoner

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my next BandCamp solo album)

Greetings my wonderful SC friends. I hope you’re enjoying October as much as I am. I adore all the -ember and -ober months. As seasons go, this is my happy space. It’s a great time to reflect, and a great time to reset.

Creatively speaking, this song caused a peculiar reaction I wasn’t expecting; enough to make it the topic for my liner notes. The reaction was... nostalgia. The world instruments made me pine for the experiences of my Scottish (clan Mackay) ancestors. And some of my other synth choices sparked happy feelings of being a teenager in the 80s. 

Even now, I’m strangely comforted by this song (a sort of mother’s love/lullaby effect). It makes me yearn for what I imagine to be easier, simpler times… and I couldn’t be more wrong. 

I know my Scottish ancestors had quite a brutal and destructive history. And if I’m really being honest with myself, I never expected to survive the Cold War in the 80s. In fact, I actually adopted a very dystopian view of the world because of it. So why do I (or any of us) have such a strong desire to return to ‘the good old days’, when almost all evidence points to those times being worse for the majority of us?

I’m reading a book right now that puts all of this into sharp perspective. It’s called ‘Enlightenment Now’ (by Steven Pinker); and it has less to do with being enlightened, and more to do with using reasoning to help us rummage through the inaccuracies stored in our minds. I’ll be the first to admit… I struggle with a lot of the concepts (because my ego loves the drama of believing it’s all going to hell). But truthfully, we have never seen a time when so many people were experiencing such a decent quality of life, and Steven has the analytics to prove it. For example:

On the topic of life…. The average human lifespan is now 71.4 years. In the 1700s it was 35.

On the topic of sustenance… Premodern Europe suffered famines every few decades. The typical diet in France in the 1700s was comparable to Rwanda in 1965 (the most malnourished nation for that year). Today, India’s billion people get an average of 2,400 calories a day. Hunger hasn’t disappeared entirely. But it’s nothing like what our ancestors experienced.

On the topic of wealth… the average preindustrial European was fortunate to own a quality garment only a few times in their lives. And it was not uncommon for clothing to be stolen off a dead body during an epidemic… thus continuing to spread the epidemic. Now we have to store our winter clothes to make room in the closet for our summer attire. And we order these items on our smart phones, to be delivered tomorrow.

On the topic of equal rights… Consider Michelle Obama’s quote from the 2016 National Democratic Convention, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” That is a hopeful indicator of how far we’ve come toward achieving racial equality. And there are people still alive today who were born before women had the right to vote. Now women can run for President. Another great indicator we are heading in the right direction. We definitely have a long way to go. But again, it is much better than it was.

These are some of the simplest examples pulled from the book. If you need a booster shot of positivity, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best researched, most logically presented perspectives I’ve encountered in a while; and it is unapologetically hopeful. It reminds us… the ‘good old days’ weren’t really that good; and the best days are now. So let’s focus on what we need to do next, and maybe park those fond (but faulty) memories.

I hope you enjoyed my latest musical offering, ‘Nostalgia’. :)

Vox Populi

Nostalgia

Words & Music - Beth Williams
Demo Recorded in 1997

One Empty Chair

Misery - Beth Williams

This is the 1st track in the "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" medley.  It serves as a prelude to the rest and for the subsequent track "Ocean Star" in particular.  (If you like this one, you might like listening to the whole medley in sequence--you can find it in the album section soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.)  I wrote this track after the others were finished.  The medley overall is rather dark and emotional, so in this prelude I aimed for something light, calm, and peaceful with just a hint at some of the later darker themes.  The impressionist-style waterfall just after the middle of the song is indeed Debussy-inspired (it is just a simple pentatonic pattern similar to ones that appear in plenty of songs, but for me this type of pentatonic run is iconic of Debussy's Arabesque).  I like how the 6/4 time signature gives a little extra space to elaborate on this riff, and I was pleased with how it sounds as a resolution to the cadence leading up to it.  While the song has a shifting tonal center, it is certainly not as tonally destabilized as Debussy's music, and this (along with the simplicity of the locomotive rhythm) affords an opportunity to prepare the listener for a climactic sense of arrival as the pentatonic run appears.   I wanted the middle section of the song to offset the minimalism that is present at the beginning and end of the song, and this Debussy-style riff serves as a nice centerpiece for that.

Ripples In Spacetime

Happy new year 2023 !!

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Sparks Of Nature from OESJ feat. Patrick Mautner and joerxworx

My last track for now, based on my "Myriad Love". I wish you a good time, stay creative, keep your head up...and always be kind to each other 🤗👍🙏
THANK YOU ALL!

C U 🥰🤗

DL free 😊❤️

nirah of nippur

The Road After

I had best intentions to release a Christmas song but this is what I ended up with. So, a very happy psychedelic Christmas to all.

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