Fire

Gentle acoustic, rock and synth songs for winter walks.

Cheer up, it's almost winter!

Best of the Cloud 2022 12 16

Some more RhuneStar 3 Favourites (And a few of our own ;)

*** RhuneStar 3 *** SOUNDCLOUD FAVOURITES *** 2023 PART 1***

what nature silent moon mapmaker

Feb 2023 Collection

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0018

The sound of inter-generational confusion

Acoustic manoeuvres in the dark

This is my cover of a song by Amber Fults, as part of the #mysongisyoursong project of Make Music Day 2021. https://youtu.be/Yioq18GlzZ8
Singer-Songwriters around the world swap songs, re-interpreting them.


Here's Amber's version of my song "The Lamp of Welcome" https://youtu.be/RoKaS86Flw8

And here's her original version of "Fire Burning"
https://open.spotify.com/track/30jVabsbADXhiiGzXrVap0?si=4a176915f7054954

Fire Burning

Fire Burning #MySongIsYourSong

Light Within Me

The 9th EP of "past is the verse"

-Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/273KoY8npsRDlTEDEIHVGV

-Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/1588759016

-Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.co.jp/albums/B09HR8TC9M

-bandcamp
https://pastverse.bandcamp.com/track/hurting

Hurting

Download

*** VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-pxPEh4-I

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
''''''    SOCIAL CLIMB    ''''''
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

We know - that you think you're a Princess
They know - what you're all about
And we know - that you think you're above them
And we know - that not one of them cares !

Yeah! We know - that there's always a motive
They know - just why you always call
And we know that you're yearning - they can see it
And we know just what's on your mind !

Sitting pretty - Little Missy
You don't really get it - do you ?
Your social climb is what it's all about !
But is it all it's cracked up to be - your life ?

You can fool some of the people
We know it's only some of the time !
'Cos they know exactly what you're thinking
And you know what you want every time !

Sitting pretty Little Missy 
You don't really get it do you?
Your social climb is what it's all about
Is it all it's cracked up to be - your life ? 

vvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Moir 2006

Social Climb

Plainsong (The Cure cover)

They advertise and sell
Connection

They hustle and deliver deflection

Does fucking people over give the boss a big erection?

…..

The sky dome is my dome now.

firmament

Song: Resolve 
Artist: Off the Coast

"Resolve" is the latest release from Off the Coast. “Resolve” confronts the feelings we experience when we allow frustration and anger to guide our decision making including remorse, loss, and loneliness.


Artist Information
A four-piece, alternative indie band representing the Pacific Northwest. Off the Coast blends alt-county, indie, and pop-rock to bring listeners a captivating but easy listening experience. Formed in early 2021 the group quickly found artistic comfort, inspiration, and freedom as they set out writing their debut EP from locations throughout the Pacific Northwest. The group has continued writing music from afar, while occasionally meeting in person to bring cohesion to the songwriting process.


Website
www.OfftheCoast.band

Socials
www.instagram.com/otcnw
www.Facebook.com/otcnw
www.twitter.com/otcnw

Follow on streaming platforms today! 
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/offthecoast/resolve

Resolve - Single

Resolve

Maybe It's Time (Jason Isbell) - Cover by Cowboy Billy Herron

All That Is In God

Mapmaker

This is my first foray into orchestration involving more than one instrument.  In this track, I added a virtual choir to my piano track "Windswept Wilderness" https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/windswept (the last track in the "Seven Dreams" album soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver).  

I used the "Gregorian swell" virtual choir in Logic with extra reverb.  I also added extra reverb to the piano for consistency (except at the piano solo toward the end where I put a smaller reverb).  Mixing was a challenge--my dad helped with that by making a simple game-changing (and fog-lifting) suggestion to cut out a few dB from the mid range on the piano to make space for the vocals.  

This was a fun project--it is nice to keep the piano as the lead instrument while highlighting certain notes and harmonies with a complementary instrument (and hammered strings seem to go well with a swelling vocal), but there are a bunch of additional challenges in working with more than one instrument, so this gave me new respect for the SCers that do full orchestrations!  Comments/criticism are welcome!

The art is just a color inversion of the "Seven Dreams" art (the procedure for generating the "Seven Dreams" art is summarized in the album description https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver).

The title "requiem" is an afterthought prompted by the cathedral effect of the piano and choir combo.  I didn't choose the Gregorian vocals because I wanted this sound but rather because it happened to be the vocal I liked best among the options in garageband/Logic. While tragedy and loss (of friends and family as well as the horrible things happening in the world lately) have influenced some of my compositions including the base track "Windswept Wilderness", this cathedral sound I think is too vintage and over-the-top to feel like a sincere requiem (and for that reason I decided to tag it as #soundtrack).

Requiem

PURPLE HAZE

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
Hammerin'
Talkin' 'bout heart 'n' s-soul
I'm talkin' about hard stuff
If everybody's still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Something's happening, something's happening
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
Ooh
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Tell me, baby, tell me
I can't go on like this
You're makin' me blow my mind, mama
N-no, nooo
No, it's painful, baby
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Andrew Cocup / Robert Keith Young / Wallace Wilson / Tom Findlay / Brian Scott / William Hughes / Melvin Adams / Ronald Wilson / Francis Dominic Michael Nicola Rossi
Purple Haze lyrics © Valley Music Ltd., Notting Hill Music (uk) Ltd., Warner/chappell Music Ltd, Experience Hendrix Llc.

WARM COVERS 3

PURPLE HAZE-Jimmy Hendrix cover-LYRIC HERE

Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-WfXii030

Music, Production & Backing Vocals by Hobocop
@metrocityrecords

Vocals, lyrics & art by Cosmic Keanu

NOTE: Thanks for all the amazing feedback! We really appreciate it! If I don't answer back here, I'll be sure to repost, listen, and comment back on your tracks!

Lyrics:

Every moment
Filled with spirit
now here
Breathe in the space

Heart open 
equanimity,
we walk 
The narrow way

Clear choices, 
pure actions
Be true
Live by faith

In alignment, 
eyes open
Unafraid
Doubts pass away

Caught by nothing
No distraction
Complete
Do not stray

Calm and focused, 
not dreaming
Awake
Time slips away

In the spirit
Not even death
Can take
life away

In the stillness
Find refuge
At peace
On the narrow way

Video

Flow State (Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu) VIDEO AVAILABLE

From the 2023 album Coffee Stained Attendance Sheet Scotch Taped To A Glass Door
Featuring Keith Carlock, Brian Allen, Pat Coil, Laurent Medelgi, Barry Green, Mark Douthit and Steve Patrick.

Hopscotch

Lyrics
talk
if you want to avoid the worse
i can let you live
or let you die

talk 
i want the whole truth
you need to understand 
that it s no time to die 

I must save the world 
from those filthy beings
i have to diffuse that bomb 
just in a few seconds
i live surrounded with bombs
red , brown or blonde
just remember my name !
my name is Bond .. James Bond 

talk
you know like me 
that you'll never say again 
 you'll escape me

talk 
you know you're wrong
to keep protecting 
the man with the golden gun 

I must save the world 
from those filthy beings
i have to diffuse this bomb 
just in a few seconds
i live surrounded with bombs
red , brown or blonde
just remember my name !
my name is Bond .. James Bond

My Name Is Bond (translated lyrics)

4:30

Fairy Ghoul.

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 12/2022.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti
Thanks to Julie for this beautiful photo.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas.
A big thank you to everyone who supports me!

-------- Take the Light ---------

Always believe in yourself
never listen to others
always do what you think,
He's your friend, your best link,

follow your lucky star,
banish your nightmares,
cast out your demons,
take the light, take the sun,
your freedom to dream is not for sale,

Take the light

Take the Light

Prod By @willydbeats

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/1hqYbWXro96YYaZhlbza0P

Stream
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/willydbeats/its-watchin

Beatstore
www.beatstars.com/willydbeats

Enjoy it.

It's Watchin

Days pass...and we make decisions and choose the path we believe in
These roads are full of surprises, sensations, and difficulties
I will let my heart and faith continue the way 
see the Video below 😘💖👇
https://youtu.be/AVcyBEhsdKw

Where The Path Leads - Video in link

Anrau

Deal the Cards

Saturday evening in the basement. It's late, the French jazz bar is closing soon. We play the last piece. Maybe a few musicians will stay and jam, who knows?

Instruments:
 Una Corda Piano
 Mini Grand Piano
 D-50
 JV 1080
 SQ 80
 Korg Wavestate
 Drums, Percussions, Bass

Close the Bar, it's late

Close the Bar, it's late - Live 2023

Listen to the Children - Severn Cullis-Suzuki's famous speech on the environment (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdS8ts63Ck


Transcript:
https://www.lelivrescolaire.fr/page/6223955

1992

Game Theory

She cast a spell

*** VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPoJ1hhQVw

::  STOWAWAY  ::

A winter take off 
A summer touch down
Leave it all behind 
Oh! A new world
With old dreams
A new time ... so it seems

Stowaway 
Inside information - never seen or found
Hide away! Its only in the mind...in the mind

It's simple to understand - when eyes get a clearer view
Your soul can heal in time...

Brave adventure 
Broad horizons
Everything should change - by now it should change...
A winter touch down - the clouds not lifting
One day it may fade from grey...

Stowaway
Inside information - never seen or found
Hide away! She's only in your mind...In your mind 

MOIR 2006

Stowaway

Bigger Wilder Storms

Explanation .aiff

This is a song about saying goodbye while the heart still wants to hold on 🖤

Lyrics:
Only in dreams

When we kissed
beneath the twisted tree
and love changed colors
like the autumn leaves
that kept falling to the ground
without a sound…

Maybe we were
never meant to be
and all that‘s left now
is a memory.
We became a sad story,
a poem that doesn‘t rhyme.

Only in dreams.
One stich away.
Torn at the seam,
but it‘ll be okay.
It could have been
rare and pristine.
Only in dreams.

Oh, oh, Ah, Ah,
You’ve inspired me
to be nothing like you.

A back-and-forth
between the heart and brain.
don’t want to make
the same mistake again.
I‘ve asked myself, what did I do?
The problem was you!

Everywhere I go,
I see your face,
and there are thoughts of you
I can‘t erase.
You were the first one that I loved,
the first one I lost.

Only in dreams.
One stich away.
Torn at the seam, but
I’m gonna be okay.
It could have been
rare and supreme.
Only in dreams.

Oh, oh, Ah, Ah,
You’ve inspired me
to be nothing like you.

It‘s just the feelings that I miss. I keep
feeding them with memories.
But both will slowly fade
over time.

Only in dreams.
One stich away.
Torn at the seam, but
I’m gonna be okay.
It could have been
rare and supreme.
Only in dreams.

Oh, oh, Ah, Ah,
You’ve inspired me
to be nothing like you.

Only in dreams.
One stich away.
Torn at the seam, but
I’m gonna be okay.
It could have been
rare and supreme.
Only in dreams.

Only In Dreams

You care too much Stanley. How can anybody care too much? (Year of the Dragon Soundtrack)
Its the middle of an ice age baby
Theres been so little promised
I’ve been walking through a dark room slowly
I’lll take a chance but please don’t break me

Neon lights and a startled day dream
The streets go on forever
It was love and regret that made me
I saw you dancing and it stayed with me

You know there were moments when
We lived on the razors edge
Lived on. Lived to regret
But we’ed choose the same path again

Cobalt blue and the flesh is used
In the street where the rivers meet
Skin and bone pressed up against stone
Take my arm and I’ll walk you home

Morning skies and empty lives
We’re late for work again
We’re late for life again
When will I see you next

Bit of synthwave fun

The Razor's Edge (synthwave demo)

Brand new video available on YouTube https://youtu.be/2aUqACWrHHs

*** RISE ***

Can you see the dawn arising
Can you see the light inside your mind
Can you feel it ?
Love will never die !

Be majestic like a phoenix 
You can be as golden as the sun
You can reach it
Nothing ever really dies !

RISE 
Shine like the sun
Make real your dreams
Realize it's all just make-believe 
Take time and take space
Shape with your hands
Your life's your own
Your master plan...

The universe it has no corners
There's no boundary 
You are not alone 
Are there edges to the oceans' waves ?

So the grass it may be greener
And the rivers may run clearer
So - How'd you know -
If you can't look to the other side ?

RISE
Shine like the sun
Wishes and dreams
And watching them all come true 
You'll see
That finding your way
Is all that it takes 
If you can wait for them to be...

RISE MAJESTIC 
RISE PHOENIX
YOU CAN BELIEVE IT !

RISE 
Shine like the sun
Make real your dreams
Realize it's all just make-believe 
Take time and take space
Shape with your hands
Your life's your own
Your master plan...

Rise

The Labyrinth

The Sound Of Silence Boy

*** VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHINzt6-ds

^v^  HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN  ^v^
---------------------------------------------

Hey Babe!  What brings you here when so many seasons have gone & disappeared?
Thousands of suns & moons have drifted out of touch!
So are you gonna tell me now, we've really changed that much?

We were high on a mountain and we thought that we could fly
When the whole wide world was wondrous
Can we hold on to that time?
We were high upon a mountain and we thought that we could fly!

We all have a story and we've found our way
But are we still the people that we once were, today?
So tell me, tell me now - what, what do you see?
Do you see the angel you always saw in me?!

We were high on a mountain and we thought that we could fly!
When the whole wide world was wondrous
Can we hold on to that time?
We were high up on a mountain and we thought that we could fly!

Pretty boy you've got silver hues now!
Distinguished eyes distinguish truth...
Did your wings grow wide?
Did you fly again?
Did you touch the sky - did your dreams transcend?

What's your poison Babe? What have I missed?
Do you set the stage to show your hand or will we reminisce?

We were high on a mountain and we thought that we could fly!
When the whole wide world was wondrous - can we hold on to that time? 

Davenport/Moir

High On A Mountain

The Climb

Music by Gryflet
Lyrics and vocals by Jh0st -https://soundcloud.com/jh0st

your hands are are not
young like the sun…
they lie to me, blanket your gardens.

rest in blame
on corners high
above this moon.
we walk in circles
drugged to these fumes.

just swear to me! swear...
and you swear to me.
‘cause what you don't need
is for us to stay here and bleed.

and you swear to me. swear...
and you swear to me.
what dark can you bleed
from the depths of your veins, insane.

run...
like moths to a flame
for what you don't need
closing the circles fate.

swear to me! swear...
and you swear to me:
cry to the whisper
weep for what you don't need.

and you swear to me. swear...
swear can you leave?
leave me to be
and take what you don't...
need.

run…
like moths to a flame
for what you don't need.


What You Don't Need (w/Jh0st)

Check also: deparrotband.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/deparrot/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGp1r6xdXrfB-Eoey6jeuOQ

Nature

*** VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE ***                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jfxj-CCGnw

------------------------------------------------------------
-)))  MOVE  (((-    Onto The Radar   -)))
------------------------------------------------------------
Move onto the radar 
Take a leap of faith out of the shadows
And sing, sing across the airwaves
It's so much better now       
-)(-
Nobody said - All of this would be an easy ride
Nobody said - The road ahead is as the crow flies
-)(-
So tune it in - Turn it up 
Be the one - To bang the drum
ONE - TWO!
Make it happen!
-)(-
Move onto the radar
Take a leap of faith out of the shadows
And sing, sing across the airwaves
It's so much better now!  
And your senses will be re-awakened
When you feel the warmth and you embrace it
So sing, sing across the airwaves
It's so much better now!  
-)(-
Nobody said - It wouldn't take a lot of hard work
Nobody said - You would always get the last word 

-))((-      -))((-      -))((-      -))((-      -))((- 
  
Nobody said - You wouldn't have a care in the world
Nobody said - You'd never end up feeling hurt
Nobody said - It's easy rising from the deep, deepest blue
Nobody said - It's not worth striving to break on through
-)(-
So tune it in !  Turn it up!  Be the one - To bang the drum!
ONE - TWO!
Make it happen!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MOIR/DAVENPORT 2016

RhuneStar 3

Move (Onto The Radar)

Kantara

Charlie Parker Ballad Medley

Conflicting feelings among arpeggios and a lot of acoustic rhythmic guitar. I tried to add some arrangements, but "goblin" (feeling while playing / ad libitum - what's the english for that?) was too much limited.

Sentimientos encontrados entre arpegios y mucha rítmica a pelo. Intenté ponerle acompañamiento, pero el duende quedaba demasiado encerrado.

Lyrics/Letra:

El mundo está oscuro sin ti,
la vida no tiene sentido si no estás aquí. 
El tiempo pasa rápido, 
contigo es la paz y la seguridad de estar abrazado.

La seguridad de estar a tu lado
hace que el tiempo no pare... (bis)

Hay tanta gente en el mundo, 
tanta gente por conocer.
La tranquilidad de estar a tu lado
hace que no me decida... (bis)

¿Merece la pena esa tranqulidad
que me mantiene ignorante?
¿Merece la pena esa paz,
y rechazar la variedad?

Son las dudas de siempre,
desde tu seguro regazo, no sé qué es mejor.
Quiero buscar algo nuevo, 
intento convencerme de que no, nada es mejor.

La seguridad de estar a tu lado
 hace que el tiempo no pare...
La tranquilidad de estar a tu lado
hace que no me decida...

No sé qué hacer (Contigo es la paz)

Music from the Hill- Indie rock from near Oxford, UK.
NIGHTSHIFT TOP TRACK FOR MONTH OCT 2025: http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/oct.pdf
Latest Nightshift review Nov 24 http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2024/nov.pdf
Nightshift review Oct 2023 Top Track http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2023/oct.pdf
Nightshift magazine demo review (Nov 2022): 
http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2022/nov.pdf
Nightshift demo review from Jan 2022: http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2022/jan.pdf
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Mapmaker

Arrows of the Sun