Great idea using the double mandolins to sing to each other. Lovely bright and cheery piece Don.

Beautifully spidery Don. There's a joy to it.

Track 8 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
The Dining Room was extravagantly big considering the size of the house and a portrait of Grandpa Henry shown pretentiously as the king of the house was looking at us during dinner. Brothers and sisters were singing “Food Glorious Food” kidding the welcome of the good meals Grandma was bringing at the table. Indeed, we were not religious and thus did not pray before eating. Uncle Rudolf was sometime joining us since he was living in a room at the basement. Those dinners with Uncle Rudolf were usually turning sour as he was a loud man with a small mustache talking about politics and how he dislikes the cultural diversity. During one of those dinners he was so upset by our society that he burned a pile of books in front of the house. Fortunately, he was so ignorant about history and literature that he burned 10 years of the Readers Digest, Humpty Dumpty’s weekly and Jack & Jill magazines. We enjoyed the fire while cooking Marshmallow and made fun of him. 
Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1989)

Musical Note: Main theme based on “Food Glorious Food” by the Lionel Bart musical Oliver!, and the orchestration style of Prokofiev, “Lieutnant Kijé” and Paul Dukas “La Périe” and The “Sorcerer's Apprentice”. It is then combined with the structure and rhythmic of the demo fanfare “Silky Glory” by Christian Henson and orchestrated as John Adams - “The Chairman Dances”.

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents haunted house

The Glorious Dining Room

Heavy Sound. It's Alright!!!

https://youtu.be/KRChTadvUnc

Piggy Bank

While our family was binge-watching the 1990’s sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun” I was inspired by Ben Vaughn’s (also from Southern New Jersey) rockabilly/retro-rock theme song. So I decided to step back in time (Keepsakes was mostly about time travel)to the 60’s and write a surf rock guitar tune (aka The Ventures - I played the LP "Golden Greats" so much I wore it out). I wanted to add a little more texture and I thought it would be fun to sing Doo Wop so I added 4-part vocals.

A Simple Life

With gratitude and respect to Kohei Uchimura, who is retiring.

This song was inspired by Kohei Uchimura who is a gymnastics athlete at Tokyo 2020 Olympic.
But maybe you can sing this for your hero, for your friends, for your lovers, for your parents….
Whatever it is, this is a song of gratitude and respect for the person you admire.

[Lyrics]

Cause I Saw You Were There

Do you know why I could come here?
Do you know what made me to come here?
It’s you. 
Cause I saw you were there. 
You were there.
Yes, it’s you. 
Cause I saw you were there. 
You were there.

引退される内村航平選手へ、感謝と敬意をこめて。

体操の内村航平選手の東京オリンピックを見て、この曲が生まれました。
でもたぶんこの曲は、あなたのヒーローのため、あなたの友人のため、あなたの恋人のため、あなたの両親のための曲でもあります…。
それが何であれ、あなたの憧れの人への感謝と敬意を歌ったものです。

[歌詞]

僕がなぜここに来ることが出来たのか知っていますか？
何が僕をここに連れて来たのか知っていますか？
あなたです。 
あなたがそこにいたのを見たからです。 
あなたはそこにいた。
そう、それはあなたです。 
あなたがそこにいたのを見たからです。 
あなたはそこにいました。

Cause I Saw You Were There

Spider In The Whiskey

The Junk

We all know what we should do to lead a healthy, happy, good life. This is a song about the mystery of why we don't do it.

The Man In The Mirror

Be good to yourself for just a few moments 
at the start and the end of the day
You must live with yourself, for you're the one person 
who will never be going away

So don't ever worry
Don't let it bring you down
Please don't get dismayed
You must be you, so be the kind of person 
as if love were your sobriquet

Looking in the mirror
These are the words I say, willing myself to be
But I just take no notice, ignoring my good advice
Happiness is not my cup of tea

So give yourself a break, there are more things in heaven and earth 
than are dreamed of in your philosophy 
That man in the mirror, he sometimes does talk some sense
In this ongoing soliloquy

So don't ever worry
Don't let it bring you down
Don't ever be dismayed
You must be you, and be the kind of person 
That has love as a sobriquet

The photo is from Rishabh Dharmani on Unsplash

The Man In The Mirror

Musik & Text: Gabriel
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
OF THE LYRICS CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.gabriel.land/gabriel-winterschlaf.htm

Winterschlaf

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When the real threat of solar flares threatens our technological dependent existence....

Rings Of Fire

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&feature=vm&video_id=Wy6ybcp6PRE

Spider In The Whiskey

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