This is celestial, I can hear my angel @rekha-iyern-fe

Beautiful song, wonderfully performed... :)

Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli
Piano and instrumental composition: Torbjørn Vagle https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Orchestral composition and performance: Ad Van Nederpelt https://soundcloud.com/ad-van-nederpelt
Production for all instruments and vocals, the final mix and mastering: Ad Van Nederpelt
Poem: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Photo Torbjørn Vagle and Cover layout: Vetle Vagle
Thank you so much Torbjørn and Ad for this great JOY.
Poem:
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson  was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

In this poem, Dickinson discusses her love for a man. She is jealous of everything around him, the water "He rides", the Chariots, the hills that watch him going by, the sparrows, the fly, even the leaves.
"I envy Seas, whereon He rides --" can be seen as a love poem for a man, but it can also be seen as a religious poem. The mention of Heaven and Gabriel can easily make this connection. The love of God and the love of everything he created.

I envy seas whereon he rides

I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of chariots that him convey,
I envy speechless hills

That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!

I envy nests of sparrows
That dot his distant eaves,
The wealthy fly upon his pane,
The happy, happy leaves

That just abroad his window
Have summer’s leave to be,
The earrings of Pizarro
Could not obtain for me.

I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad,—
Myself his noon could bring,

Yet interdict my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in everlasting night
Drop Gabriel and me

I envy seas whereon he rides. Torbjørn Vagle, Ad Van Nederpelt, Oddrun Eikli.

Well we have been working on this little number for a while!  
I sent a rough, very basic track to Finn last summer, just some chords really.  @finn_eces weaved his magic, wrote the lyrics, and a song within a song, and sent back this amazing folk-rock opera.  
We spent some time, shooting it back and forth, grappling with it's size, but we finally realised it needed to get bigger or go home.  So we turned to @dairv-dubbleyew and he helped rev it up all the way to 11!!

Music & Production: Finn Eces & Philleann
Electric Guitars: Dairv Dubbeyew
Lyrics: Finn Eces
Mixed: Philleann

Photo by Isaak Alexandre Karslian courtesy of unsplash.com

From a Queen Falls a Crown (Finn Eces, Philleann & Dairv Dubbleyew)

13/02/2022
Recorded and produced 
by greyshoes#music-berlin.  
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Photo (Detail): Björn Wylezich – stock.adobe.com
Coltan from Analalava District, Madagascar
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Coltan

So thrilled to be able to collaborate with the amazing cellist Roxane Genot on this track.  When I came up with the music it just felt like a rather solemn wedding march from a far of time. A story of a woman betrothed to a Lord she does not love formed in my head.  I don't know if any of that is conveyed in the music or not, but it was the muse I drew from non-the-less.

The Byzantine Bride

The Byzantine Bride (Philleann & Roxane Genot)

Asunder In The Midst, Album Version

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

The Hungarian minor scale, double harmonic minor scale, or Gypsy minor scale is a type of combined musical scale. It is the fourth mode of the double harmonic scale. It is the same as the harmonic minor scale, except that it has a raised fourth scale degree to introduce an additional gap , or augmented second. It is a symmetrical scale with a slightly ambiguous tonal centre, due to the many half steps.Its step pattern is W, H, +, H, H, +, H, where W indicates a whole step, H indicates a half step, and + indicates an augmented second (three half steps, enharmonically equivalent to a minor third but functionally distinct). While in intervallic terms, it would be described as: 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 7.
The scale contains two augmented seconds,[5] one in each tetrachord.[1] It also contains an augmented fourth between the first and fourth degree.
This scale (and its modes like the double harmonic scale) is the one perfectly balanced seven-note subset of the equally tempered chromatic scale: when its pitches are represented as points in a circle whose full circumference represents an octave, their average position (or "centre of mass") is the centre of the circle. Other examples include the Dorian mode of major and fifth mode of melodic minor.
The axis of balance for the Hungarian minor passes through the fifth and the flat nine, which is not included in the pitch set.

The scale may be used with minor or m+7 chords. See: chord-scale system. Chords that may be derived from the B Hungarian minor scale are Bm(maj7), C#7♭5, Dmaj7#5, E#6sus2b5, F#maj7, Gmaj7, G7, A#m6 and more.

This scale is obtainable from the double harmonic scale by starting from the fourth of that scale, so the C Hungarian minor scale is equivalent to the G double harmonic scale.

In Indian classical Carnatic music, Hungarian minor scale corresponds to Simhendramadhyamam, while the Gypsy variant corresponds to Shanmukhapriya.

This scale is sometimes also referred to as "Gypsy Run", or alternatively "Egyptian Minor Scale", as mentioned by Miles Davis who describes it in his autobiography as "something that I'd learned at Juilliard".An alternative (and less common) version is the asymmetric Aeolian ♯4 scale, the only difference with the Hungarian minor scale being that the 7th degree of the scale is not raised. This form of the scale can also be used in the fourth mode and would then be referred to as the Neapolitan scale.

Summer Dreams

Hungarian Minor

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwvLYtHlvTI

Listen to my music here :)
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Listen to Patrick here:
Patrick Zelinski//
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Stratosphere - Eric Heitmann and Patrick Zelinski

Sometimes longed for, sometimes unbearable...

Thank you for listening :-)

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Solitude

Expressing a feeling where you have no power over the situation. Waiting, not knowing when or what...

OUT OF MY HANDS

Floating in a state of nowhere
Shackled in a moment of eternity

Moving forward seems out of reach
Going backwards is not an option

It’s out of my hands, out of my control

Bound tight at every inch
Body and mind stuck and still
Incapable of move a single limb
Impossible to hear a sigh of hope

It’s out of my hands, out of my control

Out Of My Hands

Some hope in these worrying times...with some absolutely fabulous vocal harmonies by Rekha, a real treat.

Vocal Harmonies: Rekha https://soundcloud.com/rekha-iyern-fe
Music, Lyrics, Vocal, Piano, Bass, Drum Programming: Jan Schonander

APRIL HOPE

All the sad faces
In all of the places
Emptied their sidewalks
Waiting

She danced on the streets
Kissed strangers on their cheeks
A playful sprite, a light in the dark
Pixie dust in the park

Under the blossoming trees 
There were thousands
Thousands gathering solemnly

Emotion busting out
Children held in longing arms
Travelers from near and far
Distance now a faint scar

Under the blossoming trees
There were millions
Millions gathering silently

All the sad faces
Replaced with embraces
From all of our places
To the games and to the races
Emptied sidewalks
Hustle and bustle
Lovers and friendships
Carefree touches

Her name was April Hope
April Hope
April Hope
Her name was April Hope
April Hope
April Hope

A moment of peace
The promise of memory
She left in a flurry of stars

There were billions
Under the blossoming trees

All the sad faces
Replaced with embraces
From all of our places
To the games and races
Emptied sidewalks
Hustle and bustle
Lovers and friendships
Carefree touches

Her name was April Hope
April Hope
April Hope
Her name was April Hope
April Hope
April Hope

April Hope

April Hope | REKHA-IYERN [Fe] 🎤

MAKE ME SMILE (Come Up And See Me)
written by Steve Harley in 1975

You've done it all, you've broken every code
And pulled the rebel to the floor
You spoiled the game, no matter what you say
For only metal, what a bore

Blue eyes, blue eyes
How can you tell so many lies ?

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

There's nothing left, all gone and run away
Maybe you'll tarry for a while
It's just a test, a game for us to play
Win or lose, it's hard to smile

Resist, resist
It's from yourself you have to hide, oh

Come up and see me, to make a-me smile, oh
Or do what you want, run on wild

There ain't no more, you've taken everything
From my belief in Mother Earth
Can you ignore my faith in everything ?
'Cause I know what faith is and what it's worth

Away, away
And don't say maybe you'll try, oh oh oh

To come up and see me to make a-me smile
Or do what you want, just run on wild

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

mOag - make me smile [Steve Harley & COckney Rebel cOver]

Thanks for visiting. This is a retro eclectic music mix with a strong keyboard base.  Looming influences from among others Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed & Jon Lord. The songs are mostly about the human condition.

I am always looking for a guitar player that wants to collaborate. Would be fun to find a real drummer also.

A Gat is a cat in Catalan - it all makes sense if you’re me.

To all of you likers and reposters that don't listen - what's the point?

April Hope | REKHA-IYERN [Fe] 🎤

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