That's awesome! We've stayed at Seahouses a few times. I love the beach walk to Bamburgh and watching the tide come in at Lindesfarne. So many lovely quiet places and fantastic inspiration for artists of all types. X

This is just wonderful and beautifully performed. I love songs that bring visual art together with audio art......very different but finding common ground.

A beautiful song Suzanne and a great tribute for Mick I am sure.

"He will bring life to the dead, hope to the living, and for him, the gate will open."

Track art by Reverence.

Deathgate

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A few years ago, I joined Twitter and started searching for positive, uplifting people to follow. Thankfully I found @SeaSkyCraster, an account in which Mick Oxley, an artist living in Craster, Northumberland, posts the sun rising each morning. His photos are beautiful, and his view from his sea window, the changing light and colours, inspire his art. 
Mick has kindly allowed me to use one of his pictures with this upload of my song, and you can find more on Twitter, @mickoxley , or his website,
www.mickoxley.com .

Through his sea window, as the tides rise and fall,
The artist prepares as the first seagulls call.
On his palette he mixes the colours of dawn
And summons the soul of his north-eastern home.

Through the haar, Dunstanburgh Castle 
Beckons ghosts to the fore,
As the northern sea foams on the timeless seashore.
The fiery sun rises, casting shadows and gold,
Giving strength to the new  from the power of the old.

As the mystery of the water meets the spirits of the air,
They are captured by the artist, who blends them with care.

 And as the year turns, time and tides ebb and flow
We gaze with the artist,  through his sea window,
Through the gift of his hands and the skill of his eye,
He brings us the blessings of sea and of sky.

As the mystery of the water meets the spirits of the air,
They are captured by the artist, who blends them with care.

Through his sea window, as the tides rise and fall,
The artist prepares as the first seagulls call.
On his palette he mixes the colours of dawn
And summons the soul of his north-eastern home.

Sea Window Craster

CHARPENTE

Happy Valentine's All you Hardcore believers in Love! 

A beautiful bluegrass/country song recorded by J.D. Crowe, written by Steven F. Brines and James B. Smoak, interpreted here with a simple acoustic guitar, piano, vocals and mandolin complements. A long time favorite that we think was wonderfully suited to Nat’s gentle voice in lead.

Vocal Copyright 2022 Daniels & Durgy
Vocals, Piano, Acoustic guitar, Stand Up Bass, and Production - Nat Daniels
Vocals, Mandolin, - Craig Durgy
Mechanical Copyright Brines/Smoak

Lyrics:

When you say you love me I don’t know what you mean
But it seems like I should
So if I say I’m bruised and torn and other loves have warned me
You won’t mind if this one is for good

I don’t know if I can take it if we can really make it
I’ve never known a love without an end
But if you really think we can then you can share my blanket
And we’ll see what happens then

When your coat falls from your shoulders in a heap upon the floor
And the door behind is closed
I don’t know if I can stand it it’s an awful lot to handle
Taking count of all the things I know

When you say you love me I don’t know what to say
I’m afraid to go along
Afraid that you might hurt me unable to be certain 
Afraid that I might turn and you’ll be gone

So I don’t know if I can take it ..if we can really make it
I’ve never known a love without an end
But if you really think we can then you can share my blanket
And we’ll see what happens then
You are more than a friend...
I guess... we'll see what happens then....

You Can Share My Blanket (cover)

Version 1
Homage to Ronnie Laws, Grover, Maceo Parker, Brecker Bros and the many influences from that era...
Andy McLean: Yamaha Electronic Wind Instrument, Keyboards, Bass, Drum programming

That Groove

Here's Part Two of the Jam that guitarist Tim Elliot and I recorded in mid May.

Part One can be found @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/another-heartfelt-flow_with-tim-elliot  

The Full Session can be found @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/anomon-elliot-live


May you enJoy it as much as we did conjuring it out of the Silence. 

Cheers! 😊



Upright Grand Piano 
Fender Telecaster and Tube Amp
One Stereo Microphone

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles &  Tim Elliot 2022

Edited and produced by Anomon

Anomon & Elliot Live! an Excerpt

Whiskey Pretty

A hike to the park, past the concert garden, out into the no man's wood land and back.

Eine Wanderung zum Park, vorbei am Konzertgarten, hinaus in in den Niemandsland Wald und zurück.
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I was inspired by some older synthesizers for this song. So SQ80, Wavestation and D50 were used, along with some modern VST plug-ins. The song refers to an older song and thus connects past and present.
Ooh yes, i cooked the picture myself once again ;-)

Zu diesem Lied haben mich einige ältere Synthesizer inspiriert. So wurden denn auch, SQ80, Wavestation und D50, neben einigen modernen VST Plugins, eingesetzt. Das Lied nimmt Bezug auf einen älteren Song und verbindet somit Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
Ach ja, das bild hab ich mal wieder selbst gekocht ;-)

No Man's Wood Land

No Mans Wood Land

https://northfield-lenox.com/
This track features vocals and lyrics created by Jennifer Roe. Please visit her SoundCloud page for more amazing music. 

@jenniferroe

“Crystal Radio” is 4 track album released in 2022.  The central thread related to how time and life flow in an unpredictable pattern, but within boundaries. Lines are created based on decisions we make, big or small.  How different would someone’s life change based on these decisions?  Even say, stopping or not stopping to have a drink at a water fountain, decades previously. Everything after would have been jostled around, but with what impact?  

Two previous tracks have used this theme. ‘Silica Daughter’ appears on the 2021 project “Cloktacs III” and uses a sample where the question is asked, “You won’t fail me will you?”.  Later in 2021, samples from the 90-year-old movie ‘Back Street’ were repurposed to create a radio play called ‘Back Lane’ which will be aired as part of the 2022 Radiophrenia event in Scotland. The storyline of the movie follows a chain of events set in motion by a simple decision that alters the lives of the characters completely, forever, and ends in a classic, ‘what if’…

The final track “Tracing Home” again features Jennifer,  bookending this project with two fabulous performances.

Tracing Home [Ft. Jen Roe]

We The Sun, We The Crown (In Celebration Eternal)

Written by Terry Reeves.  
Arranged, Produced and Mixed by Gordon Midgley.  
https://soundcloud.com/gordon_m
https://soundcloud.com/napiers_bones

Gordon Midgley: Guitars, Bass, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Gary Reeves: Lead Vocal, Drums

This song’s about a bloke I know.  He tends to find life a bit difficult because he overly frets about stuff.  I mean, you and me might worry we’ll lose our loved-ones in some monstrous accident, but he’s the kind who’ll drive himself into towering anxiety about a remark he remembers making in 1973.  

So as a result, I suppose you’d say he’s something of a recluse, but will occasionally put in a surprise appearance, and invariably gets the very warmest of welcomes.  But although he does want to be, he’s not back.

Gordon has done such superb work on this song - he’s captured everything it is about and so much more.  Gal and me are incredibly lucky to be able to work with such a fine musician - he makes the process so pleasurable and so easy. 
(Terry Reeves)
  
NOT BACK

Alone again on my own
I don't know where the time has gone
But I'm not back
And I'm not back again

Words of friendship in my head
Too many spaces with nothing said
But I'm not back
And I'm not back again

CHORUS:
I don't know who I want to be
It's not me
I don't know who I want to see
It's not me
It's not me

Many friends say they understand
Distant echoes of a silent band
But I'm not back
And I'm not back again

There's no witness to the tears I've cried
No Samaritan will live by my side
But I'm not back 
And I'm not back again

CHORUS

Waking silence a constant voice 
Answer questions not always by choice
But I'm not back 
And I'm not back again

Much to do but so much pain
Straining muscles inside my brain 
But I'm not back
And I'm not back again

Middle instrumental break

CHORUS

Waiting moments a chance to breathe
Thinner air makes it harder to achieve 
But I'm not back 
And I'm not back again

Sideways thinking but nothing heard
One voice to keep you happy another voice to keep it blurred 
But I'm not back
And I'm not back again

No I'm not back.             
And I'm not back          
Again…

Not Back:  Cripple Club & Gordon M

Germinating songwriter, simple country wench, mistress of the soil.

With my roots in the folk revival of the 60s and 70s, I’m a folk singer at heart, in love with everything from unaccompanied traditional folk through to folk rock, contemporary folk, American folk and beyond. 
Over the years, I’ve been inspired by singers such as Anne Briggs, Joan Baez, Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior & Joni Mitchell. More recently I’ve been enjoying the music of Rhiannon Giddens & Karine Polwart.
Having abandoned my music for decades, I’ve been encouraged by dear friends to pick up my guitar and start to sing again. I’ve only recently begun to write my own music and  it feels as if I’ve opened a door and found an undiscovered landscape which I now plan to explore. 
I never knew there were songs within me, but gradually they’re emerging, and so am I.

Sea Window Craster

Suzanne Harper

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