Great natural sound, how did you record this?

Beautiful song, for the subject and the sound. The 6/8 brings an unexpected freshness. I like your tone and warmth. ⁓Rebecca

another great song, top musicianship, and expertly recorded too.

Special Thanks to Chicago Bob for his beautiful piano.

On this Road

What if we could leave, leave everyday life,
pack our things, take a chance and leave it all behind.

Oh, what if we could create a new path,
straight ahead into the wide open.

On this road, open road
I feel alive, alive again somehow.
On this road, open road
I feel my love, my love for you, for you.
Even if we get lost on the way.
I just know we will find back on track again.

What if we could built a ferry for the flow.
Follow where the water falls,
wherever it may go.

Oh, what if we could create a new path.
No, there is no turning back, just moving straight ahead to the wide open.

New Country

On This Road (Piano Version)

the signs(acoustic version)

LYRICS:

OOH WHY (4x)

White wooden doors red house
Loud white noise, no sound
Crawl back to me
Ill crawl back to you

OOOH WHY (2x)

Old picture frames on the wall
But this house aint the same without you here

OOH WHY (4x)

WHITE NOISE

Lander is a dark ambient track.
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Lander

Follow My Heart

Hard to describe what it feels like to become a father... this is an attempt...

SOMETHING REMARKABLE

You took all the love in my heart 
and you made it
into something new
you took all the feelings i had 
and you wove them inside of you
you wove the tactical practical magic, that saved me
took all my rash indecisions and turned them into maybe 

something remarkable, something incredible
something to help us make sense of it all
something remarkable, something unstoppable
something to show us that nothing’s impossible

you had some invisible insight
that grew
into something new
I couldn’t see the intangible truth
that was glowing in you…
you knew the endless momentous potential of maybes
you knew it would reach out and touch me and wake me and change me, it’s

something remarkable, something incredible
something to help us make sense of it all
something remarkable, something unstoppable
something to show us that nothing’s impossible

I was the night, you were the daylight, streaming
I was asleep, you were always dreaming
I stood outside, you were always feeling…
feel that kick inside, feel that hit inside…

I was the stick, you were the treetops, growing
I was the ice, you were the stream still flowing,
I was the dark, you were the firefly, glowing
with a second heart inside, a second heart inside…


then and only then when I held you could i ever realise
things i was told without trying would suddenly materialise
I know there’ll be days when you’d try my impatience, maybe…
I know you’ll deflect and reject but you’ll grow to amaze me with

something remarkable, something incredible
something to help us make sense of it all
something remarkable, something unstoppable
something to show us that nothing’s impossible

Something Remarkable

The Sidewalk

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Summer Songs (for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 24'

MOVEMENTS:
I. Summer Music (May Sarton)
II. The KIte (Anne Sexton)
III. Childhood (Sharan Strange)
IV. Moths (Jennifer O'Grady)
V. Summer Night, Riverside (Sara Teasdale)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/summer-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2333
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/paterson_summer_songs__score-chambe
Also available as a version for soprano and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/summer-songs-piano-vocal-version

PROGRAM NOTE
There is a seemingly endless supply of poems about summer. After writing Winter Songs for bass-baritone and chamber ensemble or piano, I realized that I had inadvertently only set poems by male poets, so I decided to restrict myself to female poets for this cycle. I am well-aware that this could emphasize a potential cliché: woman can be viewed as more "summery" and men more "wintery,” but more than anything, this is merely a way to offer a course correction, so to speak, or even a yin and yang, as well as a way to create a balance between these two works.

Summer Songs begins with a setting of Summer Music by May Sarton, a light, happy, playfully musical poem filled with allusions to nature. The second movement is a setting of The Kite by Anne Sexton, a poem about honoring and enjoying the moment, and the simple things in life such as flying kites with children. Childhood, the third movement, is a setting of a poem by Sharan Strange about children capturing fireflies. The fourth movement, Moths, is a setting of a poem by Jennifer O’Grady about moths, but relating to late night conversation on a front porch. The cycle ends with a setting of Summer Night, Riverside, by Sara Teasdale, a passionate, warm, optimistic poem that muses on the timelessness of summer.

Summer Songs was commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund, for Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble. Special thanks to Marnie Breckenridge for her assistance in selecting the poems for this cycle.

Commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund, for Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble

ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Marnie Breckenridge, soprano
Sato Moughalian, flute
Pascal Archer, clarinet
Matthew Ward, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Esther Noh, violin
Dave Eggar, cello

The Four Seasons

Summer Songs - I. Summer Music (Text: May Sarton)

The idea behind this track is to blend Blues chords progression with hard rock electric guitar. Hope you like the rendering. 🙂

The track was made on GarageBand for iOS and mastered on a Mac. I used the phone interface to play the electric guitar.

Hard Blues Cafe

Always liked Bob Dylan's early songs that took jabs at people...

PAINT THE TOWN BLUE

if you could turn back time
would I be yours?
would you be mine?

if you could change your mind
would it be cold
would it be kind?

if you had a change of heart
would it beat hard or soft this time?
If you made a brand new start
would i be here or 
left behind
I’d be out of your mind

you don’t have to say
cos you always take the long way round
you always take the higher ground
you’ve always got to paint the town blue
you’ve always got me running round
you always turn me upside down
and I've always got to paint the skies blue…
and I do…

If you could have your say
Would it take all
All of my lines

If you could have your day
Would it take all
All of my time

if you could see yourself 
would you be pleased with what you find

If you forget yourself
Would it be always on your mind
All of the time

you won’t have to say...

if you could turn the tide
would we be all left high and dry

if you could make up your mind
would you be ever so dissatisfied?
DEEP DOWN INSIDE?

You don't have to say...

I paint the town blue…
I paint the town blue…

Paint The Town Blue

A ginnel is a passageway between red brick terraced houses, specifically in Yorkshire, where I grew up. The ones near where I lived had peculiar sound reflections that always fascinated me when I was little. Macalla is Irish Gaelic for echo, in a nod to my Irish roots…

Something Remarkable

Ginnel Macalla

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