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Instrumental, Production & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal Melody, Lyrics by Nadia Selvaggi

The Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr

A dormant fire inside him did catch wind
with the loss of his land and honor
decreed by the English King

Students, archers, soldiers and even nobility,
saw the raised banner
and joined the uprising

Armed with a vision only few will see,
the last Prince of Wales vowed to
set his country free


Barefoot rascals --
or heroes who won't bend the knee?
That all depends on the victors who write your history

Castles, castles --
internal enemy!
Signs of England's Imperial conquest over thee!

England, England --
your sovereign, our public enemy!

Possunt quia posse videntur
Hear Owain Glyndŵr's four gold and red lion's roar

Mist-cloaked hills and forests, artful strategy
won Owain's men countless battles,
gold, livestock and weaponry

Now, those triumphs, or fleeting fleeting victories,
light the desire inside us
that longs to be free

Castles, castles, centuries old enemy
signs of England's Imperial conquest over thee

Castles, castles, looming over the Irish sea
Eternal reminder of who rules over you and me

England, England --
wickedness with impunity!

England, England --
enemy of liberty!

Owain, Owain, Owain Glyndŵr
The man, the myth, the legend --
they never did capture thee!

The Revolt Of Owain Glyndŵr by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

I'm on a rock vibe guitar kick, I guess. The DX fills the role, and the Novation Circuit does the rest.

Step Right Up

Jaws

World On Fire

Back to good old Rock music , he's a boxer who will stop at nothing to get to the top , he's sold his soul to the devil , must be nuts !
The next song by myself is Taking back My Faith , falling out with the big man from up there somewhere , released on the 15th . In a couple of days time Charlotte and I release Time To Fly , a beautiful ballad we are very proud of . Thank you for taking the time to listen and support !

I Am Invincible

stand up for something

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

Valerina (love is like a feather)

This is a 13-minute, three movement concertino (Vivace, Andante, Maestoso) for E-flat piccolo trumpet with timpani and strings (4, 3, 3, 2, 2). As the subtitle indicates, the mood of the music reflects a general sense of the human condition across the three movements: 
movement One "NOW: In a Fleeting Moment," (Vivace)
movement Two "THEN: We Must Never Forget (in memoriam)," (Andante)
movement three "AHEAD: A Climb Into a Hopeful Future." (Maestoso)

The score and parts are distributed through Universal Edition: https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Konzertino-fuer-Trompete-in-E-Flat-Timpani-und-Saiten/P0267094.

Concertino For Trumpet: "3 Meditations on the Human Condition"

مصحف صوت القاهرة مقسم أرباع - محمود خليل الحصري

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