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Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.

This acoustic guitar instrumental is played in DADGAD tuning (all tuned down a half step)using my Taylor 714 CE guitar.

The Chase

The sacred chant ‘Salve Regina’ is a beautiful thing and to paraphrase Stewart Copeland and Caroline Shaw ‘...transcends religion itself’. This is one of a few rearrangements/improvisations I’ve tried. The harmony etc. is still there but the tele leads the way.

Salve Regina

Song composed during an artist residency with the Fredericton Arts Alliance, 2021. Guitar music performed and composed by Bryan McDaniel. A song about the resiliency of the human spirit.

Glacial Melt

V1: Down by the Labrador
Icebergs, 10,000-year-old glacial giants
Snow white to deep aquamarine
Floating down the current to the warm gulf stream

Icebergs are edges of glaciers
Broken off and slipped into the ocean
90% below the surface of the sea
As deep and as hidden as a secret me

V2: Down by the Labrador
Icebergs, frozen giants, compressed snow and water
Crevasses a deep blue
and volcanic eruptions encased in ice cold.

Ocean currents hold me, waves forever blow me
As long as I am deep blue
Try to stop explosions, wind forever blowing
Ocean currents growing too.

V3: Far from the Labrador
Icebergs run aground and begin to start melting
Growlers by the shore
The water that is melting innocent and pure

I feel the force of currents,
my inner momentum
Ice bergs are unstable
but that’s not my story

Melting ice is stronger
Melting ice no longer
I become the ocean
By a warm gulf stream.

Glacial Melt

She's Playing Games (Summer acoustic)

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Bake-Kujira-s-Woes-951581025

Crookedness

unwanted memory

This is a colab between myself and The Shaolin Sniper, The original song had no leadwork and Mathis did such a great job that i remixed the song and added his leadwork!!

In the 90's i really had a hard time finding anything musically i liked. Being a kid of the late 70's and 80's... that was the kind of music i wanted to listen to. There were 2 bands that came along in the 90's that i couldn't help liking the grooves in there music and that was Tool and Helmet. This song was inspired by these 2 groups

All music written and performed by: John Baker
All lyrics and vocals written and performed by: The Shaolin Sniper
All guitar leads written and performed by: Mathis

Lyrics:
How could you go away so fast
Why did my best dream end in a a nightmare?
In the blink of an eye all the good times are gone
I never thought death would split us apart so fast
And I start to believe that the best things never last
And every one told me that time would heal the pain
But the pain just seems to grow
and this hole in my soul is now out of control
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you
I miss how you would be there waiting
When I would come back home
And you would always be there for me when I was stressed
And needed a helping hand
on..it's all in the past
And I start to believe that the best things never last
And every one told me that time would heal the pain
But the pain just seems to grow
and this hole in my soul is now out of control
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you
Gone away too soon
Gone away too soon
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you.

Miss You

Painting a door upon the wall...
Into the night and into the wild
Wild is the wind, the storm raging within...
We are love, we are light, above the stars and the heavens below...
Here we are in oneness with the night

You told me bout your wounds, and how they ache inside
Of the scars within, and how they can't be healed... 
And I saw myself, reflecting in your eyes
And I could see it clearly, the shadow in my heart

We are angels with demons on our backs, between spheres like lightning strikes
Fallen angels, cast out from the heavens above, da da da da
Bursting between worlds... 
Like fallen angels

I threw my heart in the wishing well, in the orgasmic moment of purification
Rip me apart and put the pieces together, pieces together...

You showed me how to pray, revealed the secrets to me
And you taught me how to let go, of all the lies inside
We're painting stars into the dark
And in the circle we are one
Drawing lines into the air 
As we wait for the morning light... 

We are angels with demons on our backs, between spheres like lightning strikes
Fallen angels, cast out from the heavens above, da da da da
Bursting between worlds... 
Like fallen angels

I threw my heart in the wishing well, in the orgasmic moment of purification
Rip me apart and put the pieces together, pieces together... (We are fallen angels) 
I found my soul in the image of the fool
I found the truth in the shadow of my lies
Rip me apart and put the pieces together, pieces together, pieces together 

Painting a door upon the wall...
Into the night and into the wild
Wild is the wind, the storm raging within...
We are love, we are light, above the stars and the heavens below...
Hand in hand we step into the light

Fallen angels

I Walk Alone

A song from the 80'
Music : Fin Valentin & PJ Project
Lyrics : Henrik Blet

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Hello, I am just a beginner/solo artist that is trying my best to make music that all would listen to. Hopefully my music makes it into the ears of many people one day. I'm just a basic riffer with no knowledge of building complete songs. I lack the experience of being in a band to grow bigger with others. So, until the day I have a band......I will keep trying to do it all myself.  Hope you enjoy my simple yet fun pieces of music. Thanks for stopping in to visit my page!!! YOU ARE TRULY APPRECIATED 🤘🤘🤘

I Walk Alone

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