The Willing

long winter

"Soon, we will have no atmosphere, and will one day we might just no longer be here." Joshua beckford

Exoplanet

slow chill instrumental with guitar & beats

rockon2019

the way I feel

Lyrics (Written and Sung by Lisa Abcarius):

HAVE YOU EVER FELT YOU’RE INTO DEEP
YOU CAST YOUR DREAMS BUT FEEL SO INCOMPLETE
SOMEHOW YOU LOSE ALL CONTROL

LIFE GOES ALL THE WAYS
NOT THE ONCE WE WANT
BUT WE NEED TO BE STRONG AND NEVER LET IT GO
RUNNING DOWN IN CIRCLES WE CAN’T LET GO
TRYING TO HOLD ON
HEARTS TURN TO STONES

WE HOLD ON TO OUR PAST
HOLD ON TO WHAT’S NOT (NEVER FREE, WHY ARE WE)
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WE SPEND ALL OUR LIVES AFRAID AND JUST TRYING (TO FIT IN, WHY ARE WE)
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WHY ARE WE (WE COULDN’T SEE)
OH WHY ARE WE (OH WHY ARE WE)
OH WHY ARE WE
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WHY ARE WE (DEEP WITHIN)
WHY ARE WE (RUNNING IN CIRCLES)
OH WHY ARE WE
I WILL NEVER WANT TO BE FREE

GOING UP HILL WITH MY TRAIN OF THOUGHTS
WE ARE ALL CONECTED SEEING HOW IT GOES
FEEL THE SPIRALS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE
ONCE WE MOVE ON IT WILL NEVER SLOW

BREAK THESE SPIRALS
BREAK THESE SPIRALS

HOLD ON
WE’LL HOLD ON
HOLD ON
WE’RE HOLDING ON

WE HOLD ON TO OUR PAST
HOLD ON TO WHAT’S NOT (NEVER FREE, WHY ARE WE)
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WE SPEND ALL OUR LIVES AFRAID AND JUST TRYING (TO FIT IN, WHY ARE WE)
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WHY ARE WE (WE COULDN’T SEE)
OH WHY ARE WE (OH WHY ARE WE)
OH WHY ARE WE
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
WHY ARE WE (DEEP WITHIN)
WHY ARE WE (RUNNING IN CIRCLES)
OH WHY ARE WE
RUNNING IN CIRCLES

WHY ARE WE
OH WHY ARE WE
WHY ARE WE
OH WHY ARE WE
RUNNING IN CIRCLES

Circles II (Combstead💀, Keystone Studios🗝, Lisa Abcarius)

Half Lit Rooms is the debut EP from Civic Ghosts—three emotionally raw songs about memory, silence, and the weight of things left unsaid. Blending spoken word, alt-rock, and ambient post-hardcore, these tracks don’t perform—they confess.

Each song captures a different kind of grief: the quiet aftermath (Half Lit Rooms), the ache of unspoken words (Ghost Notes), and the rising panic of unresolved memory (Wires in the Walls).

This is cinematic emo for people who feel too much. It doesn’t ask for closure. It just lets the room stay dim.

Ghost Notes

Just Died.

I got inspired out of knowhere and made an album. Stay tuned for Book 2.

I Nephi chapter 16 - The Compass and the Storm

Supported by: http://www.soundcloud-shop.org

Sweet Dreams (Instrumental)

Autumn Songs (for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 18'

MOVEMENTS
I. Ascension: Autumn Dusk in Central Park (Evelyn Scott)
II. Under the Harvest Moon (Carl Sandburg)
III. All Hallows’ Eve (Dorothea Tanning)
IV. November for Beginners (Rita Dove)
V. Leaves Before The Wind (May Sarton)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble, Blythe Gaissert, Mezzo-Soprano
For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/autumn-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index...
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=autumn&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
View Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs...
Also available as a version for mezzo-soprano and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/autumn-songs-version-for-mezzo-soprano-and-piano

PROGRAM NOTE
Autumn Songs for mezzo-soprano is my final song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with my previous three seasonal cycles for different voice types, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Like Spring Songs, Autumn Songs begins with New York: a setting of Evelyn Scott’s Ascension: Autumn Dusk in Central Park, an early 20th century Imagist poem in which people seem to merge at dusk. The second movement is a setting of Under the Harvest Moon by Carl Sandburg. In this poem, Sandburg uses autumn and summer as a metaphor for people in two different periods of life, revealing beauty in both stages. Memory is the primary concern for someone who is older, and possibly for someone who is younger. The third movement is a setting of All Hallows’ Eve by Dorothea Tanning, who was not only a poet, but also a well-known visual artist whose early work was inspired by Surrealism. This is perhaps the most playful setting, and I used Tanning’s evocative, Surrealistic imagery as inspiration for colorful sounds and angular dissonances in the ensemble. November for Beginners by Rita Dove is the text for the fourth movement. In this setting, Dove beautifully encapsulates the feeling of waiting for winter in November, and the sense of anticipation one feels during the fall months. At the end of her poem, she uses the sound of zithers as a metaphor for the sounds of wind and rain when spring comes. The final movement, a setting of Leaves Before The Wind by May Sarton, is inspired by Irish jigs, and mimics leaves blowing in the wind. The penultimate section is anthemic, and the end of the movement is more calm and similar to the beginning.

Autumn Songs was made possible, in part, by generous support from the Gerson Family Foundation.

ARTISTS
American Modern Ensemble: http://www.americanmodernensemble.org
Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano: http://www.blythegaissert.com/
Sato Moughalian, flute
Pascal Archer, clarinet
Matt Ward, percussion
Esther Noh, violin
Dave Eggar, cello
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Robert Paterson, conductor

The Four Seasons

Autumn Songs - III. All Hallows Eve (Text by Dorothea Tanning)

Jim Robinson and Mark Butler are both Army veterans, and the founding guitarists of the ‘90’s metal band Spectre.   Today they are professionals who spend their limited free time collaborating on new music from their respective homes in the Midwest and the Lone Star State.  Keystone Studios is their online playground, an ideal virtual location to exchange their ideas and create inspiring and positive-vibe metal music.   No doom and gloom here - just high octane tunage.  They believe that life is too precious and too short to waste focusing on the negative.  Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

Circles II (Combstead💀, Keystone Studios🗝, Lisa Abcarius)

𝙆𝙚𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙨 🗝