A compelling, colourful piece ……… love the swirling melody! :)

lovely ambience..........beautiful lead guitar.........i wish i had a sound like that on my synth

I've been away from SoundCloud for a while working on my new album and several writing projects, but the album's nearly done, so I thought I'd emerge from my cocoon and post this song, which means a lot to me. It features my good friend Akmaral Zykayeva on violin. For the past ten years, I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Kazakhstan. I met Akmaral in Almaty, Kazakhstan about six years ago. She is a hugely gifted composer, singer, and violinist who records as "Akmaral Mergen" and also as "Mergen" (Mergen means "woman warrior" in Kazakh).
For this song, Akmaral wrote a beautiful six-violin arrangement, playing all the parts herself.
The photo on the cover is the view from my hotel room in Almaty on one of my trips. In the foreground is Almaty Opera House and in the distance are the snowcapped Tien Shan Mountains (the "Celestial Mountains"). Beyond the mountains is Kyrgyzstan. 
Main guitars on this song are my Taylor GC-5 acoustic and my 1966 Guild Starfire XII (electric twelve-string).
The cricket and bird sounds at the beginning and end were recorded by me with a field recorder in a wild area of southern Wisconsin.
(This song can be found on my "Twilight on Tunnel Road" album, which I'm happy to say won the Alternative Album of the Year award from the Madison Area Music Association.)
LYRICS:
"Let Me Go”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go—I can’t say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can’t bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don’t know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I’m making my way.
I can’t deal with you gone and I’m not okay.
Let me go.

I don’t say you should not go—closing off the future before you can know.
I just can’t get loose from your strings,
they’re wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can’t go on now,
without you I’m lost, I just don’t know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Let Me Go

*Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi/not-my-neighborhood-by-garddwr-porffor-nadia-selvaggi-with-the-windscale-blues-experiment
The Rant: Cono Corvino & Nadia Selvaggio
Instrumental & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: 
@garddwrporffor
Lyrics, Vocals, Production by Nadia Selvaggi
*New Sax Solos by Nigel Manning of The Windscale Blues Experiment: 
@windscaleblues
'Two Boys Smoking' (1975) by Photographer Peter Bellamy:
pswbportaiture.blogspot.com/
www.peterbellamyphoto.com/
More on Peter Bellamy:
medium.com/@Brownstoner/in-197…photos-a3bbe85c0246
New York Street Noise by Pixabay

Not My Neighborhood
by Nadia Selvaggi

This, this, this is not my neighborhood!
Where is Williamsburg, Brooklyn --
my crime-ridden, filthy, spray-painted 'hood?

Where is Eastern District High School?
Where is that old school cool?
Where is all the red brick?
Where are all the addicts itchin' for a fix?

I don't know this place at all
I don't smell my Grandma's moth or meat balls
Corporate greed, thy will be done,
as it is in Manhattan and the City of London

Mr. Global's mercenaries killed our low rent,
our culture, and our authenticity
Damn the L train gentrifiers!
Damn the cold glass and bitter steal!

Bamonte's, Fortunato Brothers, Nunzio and Sons,
survived New York's perpetual reinvention
Tell me craft beer drinking, Hipster trust fund --
where is my 11211?

Not My Neighborhood, Extended by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi (w The Windscale Blues Experiment)

Cover of Jeff Healey Band's version

Bass : Fin Valentin
Drums: Max Christensen
Keybord : Kim d Blanc ( PdB Orchestra )
Guitar & vocal: PJ Project

En flad ti'er

While My Guitar W/ Hit Med Pengene

I-Pragmatism

Thank you to all of you who listened and took the time to give yourselves to this track!
How do the wild animals on this planet feel about their relationship with humans? We are all living creatures who share the same earth. What do these wild animals want, what do they appeal to, what hope do they have for us?
I feel that we and all creatures share the same goal of loving and caring for this planet Earth.

Creature on the Vanishing Earth （international dedication）世界野生生物の日

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Never Ever Smoke Captain Nemo's Spicy Sea Weed. He Is Used To It, You're Not

It Flows Purling, Widely Flowing, Floating Foampool, Flower Unfurling

Yearning

EL ALCAZAR  (2024)

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Theme exclusively made with native Music Studio 2 instruments.

Composed during the year 2015 in my walks in this monument of my city.

 It is the oldest palace in use in Europe with 1,000 years old in its oldest part, and it is full of history that you can feel.

I wanted to capture the beauty and grandeur of the site where Game of Thrones was filmed (In the series it is the Palace of Dorne).

In this and final revision, the wind instruments have been further enhanced in certain phases to further mark the melody.

It is one of those places that say you have to see before you die.

Hardware. iPad 
DAW. MS 2

23 Tracks with only native instruments.

Mix. My ear.

As always, grateful for your comments.

Paco.

El Alcazar (2024)

Twirling

Composée en Octobre 1999
Il m'arrivait durant mes permissions militaires de ne pas rentrer chez moi mais plutôt trainer sur Lille. Et quand je ne savais plus quoi faire je regardais les gens prendre le train et/ou le métro. Le train train quotidien...
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Composed in October 1999
It happened that during my military leave I did not return home but rather hung out in Lille. And when I didn't know what to do anymore I watched people take the train and/or the metro. The daily routine...

En attendant le suivant - Waiting for the next one

I am glad that you finds my music.
I wanted to express a certain music in own heart at long time.
My music is the music that spilled from a jacket.
And I just hope that your creation will swell and make you feel happy.

Creature on the Vanishing Earth （international dedication）世界野生生物の日

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