Great song Karen, love the lyrics. Thank you for the music. Go well, Amanda :-)

Love this 🥰. Great lyric and vocal, love your voice. Can’t go wrong with a blues 😁

Love this Karen - I just listened again to try and generate a bit of mojo for one of my own for T is T

Really good Karen - so simple and so to the point!

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The Great Depression Is Now

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a crescendo of silence
wild applause

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track made for the Naviar Haiku music challenge #351 https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/23/naviarhaiku351-urban-chorus

field recordings:
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Urban Madness (naviarhaiku 351)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
352 week haiku
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2020-10-01

the Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu
Naviar Haiku 352
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Surface Tension (naviarhaiku352)

Electric guitar
Bamboo flutes
Bowed upright bass
Composed and performed by DD

For this haiku:

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Poem by Ryōkan Taigu
Photo by Trevor Cole


@naviar-records

like silk (naviarhaiku352)

Mexican Tree Frog (Smilisca baudini) and Túngara frog (Engystomops pustulosus)in Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Recorded with Telinga Parabola, Senheisser ME 62 and Roland R-26. Jul 26th 2018.
Rana de árbol (Smilisca baudini) y Rana Túngara (Engystomops pustulosus)en Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Grabado con Parabola Telinga, Senheisser ME 62  y Roland R-26. 26 jul 2018

Charca de ranas

A binaural soundscape featuring gentle crickets trilling and a lone chat singing at midnight. Recorded in Aravaipa Canyon along the Turkey Creek Tributary, which was dry. 25 May 2017. © Lang Elliott. Music of Nature.

Aravaipa Canyon - Turkey Creek Tributary at midnight

In 2020 I lost my best friend and musical collaborator of 40 years to cancer. It took me a while to write something meaningful about this - this song emerged from 3 or 4 unsuccessful and partially completed songs. In essence, it is a song about loss, yearning and the hope for better times.

It started as a simple acoustic piece, but then grew and grew. There is a version with an extended "Gareth Malone" style massed choir singing "You're in our hearts/Never forgotten here". There's also a more orchestral version with massed trumpets, marching band and additional choir. 

This short piece crystallised 4 different themes, so there are some fragments of the earlier unsuccessful songs hidden in the lyrics. Janine Bracewell joined in and added a complete female choir. Thanks, Janine!

Ian Middleton: 12 string guitar, bass, vocals, orchestra, choir
Janine Bracewell: female choir

Hope it feels like home 
©2021 Ian Middleton (Mysterian)

And here we are, now one of us is gone
An empty space, where you once belonged
And if there’s is a place that we all go
Come visit us 
And tell us what you know

We all wonder where you are
Are you there
Shining brightly with the stars
Will you
Whisper in the winds that blow
So wherever you’ve gone
We all hope We all hope 
We hope it feels like home

The race is run, you can take your rest
With the brightest and the best
The world seems like an emptier place
Without you
It leaves a empty space

Dust to dust is what they say
I guess we’ll all 
Find it out on some other day.

And it all just
Feels so very far far away
So wherever that you’ve gone
We hope We hope 
We hope it feels like home

Holding all the memories
And never let it go
All the moments remembered
So very, very long ago

Ashes to ashes is what they say
Here's hoping that 
there’ll be some more better days
And it all just
Feels so very far far away
So wherever you’ve gone
We hope We hope 
We hope it feels like home

Hope It Feels Like Home

A Single Day (solo)

English songwriter, scatty, dreamer, optimist, Europhile

Wintry landscape picture by Clay Banks - Unsplash

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