I hope to someday finish animation I started years ago of flamingos in the rain dancing to this song.

Synth harp, guitars, clarinet, cellos, and bass set to hit hop, conga, and bongo beats at a tango’s pace of 70 bpm. Rain audio recorded live in December 2023.

I wrote an extended version of this track more than a decade ago during a time I was experiencing intense physical pain. As I fled inwardly into creativity to escape, this music narrated the discovery of a quiet harbor from pain.

Later I became amused watching a wildlife documentary of flamingos and their mating dance. As they marched together in step, abruptly turning their heads and beaks known as head flagging to an unknown beat accentuating their synchronized rhythm, I imagined flamingos dancing the tango. Initially I had ambitions to create an animated short with Tango In The Rain as the soundtrack. With time constraints, I leaned more toward the immediacy of digital music-making than animation and discovered pain relief in the process. And as a fan of old movies, this tune evolved into my fantasy score for a different Singin' in the Rain type of musical of animated dancing flamingos.

I hope the music takes you to your own safe harbor, hopefully a place of grace, comfort, and peace. My best wishes to you.

Tango In The Rain

Special Cecilia
Libby Laksmi                             
Raðulfr Maganhar
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Imagine that you can turn around

VOCALS> Imagine through EYES OF AN ALIEN/ Not from this World/ Don't Understand Mankind...
https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/vocals-imagine-through-eyes-of-an-alien-not-from-this-world-dont-understand-mankind

Turn Back Around—OPEN COLLAB
https://soundcloud.com/libbylaksmi/turn-back-around

OPEN COLLAB (Sound zygote COVER)
https://soundcloud.com/raoulfr/open-collab

Imagine that you can turn around ft. SPECIAL CECILIA & LIBBY LAKSMI

A version of Michael McDonald's 'I Can Let Go Now'.

I Can Let Go Now

version1:
https://soundcloud.com/fuwatt/supercell-is-approaching-version1

Supercell Is Approaching (version2)

Golden Sun

Powerful Universe

The first time I came back to you
Was out of loyalty, sense of reality
I said “I do” and I was keepin that promise
In front of God and men, no matter how I had to bend
And oh, I didnʼt want to come back
No, I didnʼt want to

But there I was, flinging my future down at your feet
Brought it all back, doubt and foreboding there at your feet
But still comin back

The next time I came back to you
I was closer to God, caught a little joy down in my heart
I realized a grace had been laid out before me
2000 years ago, made me a prisoner of hope
And oh, I didnʼt want to come back
No, I didnʼt want to

But there I was, claiming those promises from the old book
Brought it all back, a new mind held captive, a will unshook
And comin back

Well I let go of loyalty and grace
Got 3 miles away when I heard the phone ring
Been dying to hear these words for more than 20 years

Come back, come back, come back to me my love
Come back or Iʼll chase you down
Just come back, can’t live without you
I’m beggin you, come back
Oh I think Iʼm in love
For the very first time

Now here I am, tackling love down to our bedroom floor
Brought it all back, kissing, consuming you, lock the door
And throw away the key
Iʼve come back for love
I've come back for life
Iʼve come back for good

©2016 Happy-Sad Face Music

Back for Good

Occasionally, I like to share tracks from my early albums.  This is from my first, "Wake Of the Moon" (2001) (which, I have to admit, despite the lo-fi-ness of the recording and some "pitchiness" in the vocals, I don't think I've bettered).  This tune is a fav from that record and has recently been revived by my daughter's championing of it online in connection with her writing (long story).  I love the electric guitar and piano work in this by Matthew Sanborn and the gentle violin by Biff Moyer:

Incandescent, invisible
The secret sun
A fire waiting for you
Everyone

Beauty too much for you
It's terrible
Fearful is the symmetry
Strange world

Intermittent, dangerous
So many times fair
Hands will hold the infinite sometimes
So rare

Incandescent

Highland Heather

Mass Wakeup explores the slow collapse of traditional left–right politics and the growing realisation that here in the U.K. we’re effectively governed by a uni-party system. No matter who’s in office, the real power rarely changes hands. The faces and slogans might shift, but the interests pulling the strings remain the same.

This track is the tenth of 29 original songs I’ll be releasing — with a new one dropping every two weeks.

#MassWakeup #NewMusic #OriginalMusic #IndependentArtist #Songwriter #MusicRelease #PoliticalCommentary #UKPolitics #UniParty #AltMusic #MusicDiscovery #NewMusicFriday

Mass Wake Up

Tell me again how much you love me. Tell me again how much you care.
Tell me again you’re thinking of me. Just tell me, I’ll be there.

I want to hold you in my arms tonight, wanna hold you so tight I can’t breathe,
‘Cause the feeling I’m feeling is feeling so right, I don’t believe I can leave.
Something about you just takes me away, to a place where the cool waters flow.
And the feelings I’m feeling are making me stay; I don’t believe I can go.

After the first time I met you, I knew it would be
Something much bigger than both of us ever could dream.
I can’t imagine a day without you close to me. Yours desperately.

I want to hold you in my arms tonight, wanna hold you so tight I can’t breathe.
Feelings aren’t feelings unless they feel right. I remain yours desperately.

After the first time I met you, I knew it would be
Something much bigger than both of us ever could dream.
I can’t imagine a day without you close to me. Yours desperately.

Yours Desperately

Here you will find little acoustic pop songs; melancholy, dreamy-folk things. Sometimes some jangly, fuzzy rock tunes or ambient pieces as well. Work-in-progress demos to finished tracks, informal playlists to official album releases. Enjoy.

Incandescent

Tom Hanson