Name: Old Soul by Eric Festa in Rock
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Description: My Life's drive! - Available now on I Tunes, Amazon Music and Spotify

Heavy Springsteen influence, great lyrics

Great composition, nice guitar sound and gorgeous vocal 🙏

Great song, like the vocal delivery very much...👏👏

awesome vibe to this one, Eric - love the music and your vocal is amazing as always! beautiful song 💛

Merry Christmas, Eric! Vocals that tug my heart strings! ;)  Your guitar has incred0ible spirit behind it!  Stand tall! ;)  😎🖖🏻🎄🤗🔁🎶

Rock

At first a song but the instrumental seemed to sound quite right ^^

Feelin' away

FEELIN' AWAY (6 To 8)- Bruno C  (& New Nataly NGM painting)

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
~ Alan Watts

Ethos: The Greeks used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions.


improvisation guitar, bass and synths

Charlie Bryant - Keys, Impulse 49, Various iPad Applications, Engineering.
Gary Andreozzi, Guitar, Ibanez AS153, Line 6 amps & EFX.
Joseph F Grossman - Keys, Roland FA06, HandSonic (electronic drums).
Tom Klosowski - Bass Guitar, Warwick 5, zoom EFX.

e t h o s

A piece comprising of different styles. Start atmospheric with panning soundscapes and moves into a piano lead melody with drum, bass and guitar accompaniments.

Magpie

Starry Sky

StarrySky（星空の彼方）

NO te olvido mi bella gata viki. Siempre presente en mis recuerdos.

Victoria (mi VIKI)

DESIRE PATH (under the moon)

Song 1 from the OFF GUARD EP, released 22nd September 2023.

Video and lyrics here: https://youtu.be/B0VjFBwGSbg?si=Z9KKSAyz0i9ilpUC

My Conscience The Nag

Basement Rock Star

The Radio edit for the track from Us and the Cats up coming album 'Dump Truck @ Cecil Place'.

I'm No Soldier (Radio Edit) - Us and the Cats

*Astrogenesis (Mato's version) is a new space rock version of my track Astrogenesis, with the valuable collaboration of my multi-talented friend Martin (Mato!) 
*Astrogenesis (original version): astrofaros.bandcamp.com/track/astrogenesis 
*Martin's music page: martinhuba.bandcamp.com/music
Photo (original) by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Astrofaros - Astrogenesis (Mato's version)

XAL47, the first humanoid to step onto a new world...

Massive thanks to Jim Lemons for giving me permission to use his artwork here. See more of his work at Jim Lemons/art:holding form/https://jimlemons.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/

XAL47

My latest track is an abstract artform of the biblical story David and Goliath. It starts with Guitar being my representation of David. And Bass For Goliath. After that the fight scene as bridge and the overwhelming happyness for the outro. I really enjoy the Moral of the story of facing your fears head on. 
:) Ry

David And Galiath

Free Download

David And Goliath (Guitar+Bass Solos)

My Life's drive! - Available now on I Tunes, Amazon Music and Spotify

Old Soul

Those very last moments....

A huge thank-you to BetaPSI for her brilliant vocals here. It was a pleasure collaborating with her. Thanks must also go to my buddy Luke, who played some of the guitar on this track.

Available for download on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and the usual sites.

Play on Spotify

Fading (feat. BetaPSI)

Challenge was to make one of my shorter songs with one of my longer lyrics, so I 'had' to craft it into an amalgam of 9/4 and 4/4 signatures. Thus, it may feel crazy on verses but I hope also catchy on refrains.

Letra / Translated lyrics:

Sólo pido no tener deseos (Ya no quiero imaginar)  /  I ask only not to have desires (I don’t want to imagine anymore)

¿Puedes explicarme qué es lo que me pasa?  /  Can you tell me what happens to me?
Señor, llévate de mí esta confusión.  /  Lord, take away this confusion.
Quítame el don de la inteligencia,  /  Take the gift of intelligence from me,
pues si no pensara tanto, sería feliz.  /  because if I didn’t think so much, I would be happy.

Siento que este mundo me es extraño,  /  I feel this world is strange,
estoy a disgusto con mis sentidos.  /  I get displeasure from my senses.
No puedo comprender su funcionamiento,  /  I cannot understand their functioning,
ni siquiera amoldarme a él.  /  nor even get used to it.

Sólo pido no tener deseos,  /  I ask only not to have desires,
ya no quiero imaginarme nada.  /  I don’t want to imagine anything anymore.

Esta situación siempre es pasajera,  /  This situation is always temporary,
pero se repite una y otra vez.  /  but repeats itself again and again.
Este malestar de cuerpo y alma  /  This discomfort of soul and body
me hace desear dejar de ser.  /  makes me wish to stop being.  

Pienso entonces en todos los que me quieren,  /  Then I think of all those who love me,
o al menos en los que a veces lo parecen…  /  or at least about those who sometimes seem to…
¿Por qué es tan difícil la coexistencia  /  Why is coexistence so difficult
en medio de una sociedad inteligente?  /  in an intelligent society?

Sólo pido…  /  I ask only…

No deberías dejar pensar a algo imperfecto,  /  You should not allow something imperfect to think,
sino limitarlo a cumplir su función social.  /  but limit it to fulfilling its social role.
Sólo quiero ser un engranaje más, señor,  /  I only want to be one more cog, Lord,
en tu rebaño de almas, sin preguntas.  /  in your flock of souls, without questions.

Esta vida que me has dado, señor,  /  This life you have given me, Lord,
me tortura, de modos insospechados,  /  tortures me, in unsuspected manners,
a buscarle un sentido a mis dudas,  /  to look for a sense to my doubts,
lo cual, tal vez, sea precisamente su fin!  /  which, maybe, is precisely its purpose!

Sólo pido…  /  I ask only…

ER43FI10 97-18

Sólo pido no tener deseos (Ya no quiero imaginar)

Let me take you on a journey, to outer space....and inner space.

A Prog rock/Space-rock odyssey inspired by a traditional Russian language marching song by composer Lev Knipper in 1933 called "Polyushka-Polye", also known as "Meadowlands".

Video version here :
https://youtu.be/Z8ozrNRI6bc

Music made on an iPad2 with the following apps :
Voice Synth : Vocoder,
Thumbjam : Mellotron choir, Mellotron flutes and Sax
Sunrizer : Big Strings
Space Wiz : Generative soundscapes
Garageband : drums, guitars, bass, lead synths
Hokusai : audio editing.

Hope you enjoy, one for headphones in the dark. Comments welcome.

Lyrics : Star Fields © Nathan Jon Tillett  2012

Star fields, deep fields,
We crossed the bridge of space and time,
Solar winds scatter our forgotten dreams now dust,
Realities entwine.

Star fields, deep fields,
We left the fabric frayed and torn,
Soaked in the blood of dying stars still screaming light,
A universe reborn.


StarFields

-Boston Area storytelling.  Remember you are only a true artist if you recognize the genius in somebody's else's work. Keep your ears open there is genius all around us.

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Old Soul

Eric Festa

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