Magnificent piece…Love your great impressive vocals!

Such a great atmosphere, awesome mix, and lyrics/vox.

wow. possibly a new favourite. loving that ending but not half as much as the 3 mins before. really catchy and goes without saying top notch singing.

Super catchy sonically pleasing track with excellent vocals.

Nice acoustic sounds with an electronic drum beat !

Wonderful song, full of feeling. Your voice is really fabulous on this : )

Blind Jet

Guitar & Mix by Toshi Rio: https://soundcloud.com/toshi-rio
Vocals by Nadia Selvaggi

Greg Lake's The Sage by Toshi Rio & Nadia Selvaggi

A (tad) longer release of my Overdubies track, with a few additions,
Kindly remastered by Jordan @DimMaster. Many thanks Jordan, you did superb work.

Overdubies (extended and remastered)

Long time ago in the Scottish Highlands. A tribe that lives in a rough and harsh surrounding, strengthened over generations by the unfriendly environment. The borders of the tribes territory are not exactly known. In particular, in the North, the saying goes that vast areas of unoccupied lands will belong to those that first dare to claim it. So a small troup of currageous military men sets foot to the Northern Frontier ...

Composition-wise: The piece explores the change of atmosphere when the same motive is played with different accompaniments. The same theme can be found for instance @ 0:00 ff,  0:23 ff and 1:05 ff. The accompaniment increases in intensity and rhythm for these three instances, ranging from a meditative intro over a – to my ears – tribal dance or chant towards a first  climax of the piece which might make a good soundtrack for a battle in the Scottish Highlands. The track then settles down to the second theme @ 1:33 which again is repeated with much more agitated accompaniment @ 1:55 ff. 

While the track is in general in 4/4, it raises the tension by sometimes breaking the metrum into more unconventional rhythmic structures. This holds in particular for @ 0:46 ff where the metrum changes to a succession of ¾, 4/4, ¾, 6/4, 6/4, 4/4, ¾, 4/4, ¾, ¾, ¾ and then reverts to the original 4/4. Also @ 2:09  there is in insert of a ¾ bar and at the very end @ 2:30, there is a 2/4 break just before the final chord. 

I did some Youtube Shorts in Case with more details on some composition tweaks that I used in this track:
Varying the Accompaniment: https://youtube.com/shorts/7HAWSz2Mg14?feature=share
Breaking the metric structure: https://youtube.com/shorts/tUvaq8D6nUo?feature=share
Ligature Bows: https://youtube.com/shorts/-WBf6Du040g?feature=share
Keeping the attention until the end: https://youtube.com/shorts/qnJl5BQ4yxU?feature=share


The track has been recorded on a Roland FP-90 and mastered in Cubase by adding  reverb, a Stereo enhancer and fiddling a bit with the EQ. 
The picture was created with Stable Diffusion. 

The track can also be found at 
Youtube (including the scores): https://youtu.be/FIQZc7JakvQ
Spotify: spotify:album:5YG7dpoBElKImcbmX7eWTU

The Northern Frontier

The Northern Frontier (Solo Piano)

učmalost(demo)

We are pleased to present track 2 from our new album, 'Squaring The Circle,' the fourth solo album by Amanda, music by Verulium, full album now available on Bandcamp, we hope you’ll enjoy!

https://amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/squaring-the-circle

Squaring The Circle

Breaking Away

Written and performed by Bluebird
Produced by Richard Brown

Lyrics:

We're building puzzles in our hearts
playing snakes and ladders, try to chase it away.
I roll the dice you play your cards, try to make it better
while we wait to play. 

Well who was I? Who was I? Who was I to think?
Cause you are, you are everything to me.

You draw your pictures of the past, of a purple flower
while your colors fade.
With apples sitting on our heads, and a broken arrow
there's no one to blame

Well who was I? Who was I? Who was I to think?
Cause you are, you are everything to me.

We place our pictures in the sun turn the lights on everyone
and wait......

Who Was I

I hope this summertime fever dream blues warms your winter!  
(BTW Sacramento California summers are notoriously hot)

Lyrics:
It's a nitroglycerin bomb sniffing skirt
That's a lollipop night stick
She only hits you where you need to hurt
A Marie Laveau shotgun shack
Don't ya know there's gambling in the back?
In a shotgun shack
I'm reading the tea leaves  by the smoke stack
We've all been bitten by the maharishi's baby teeth
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(And I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm gonna have to lay real low for awhile
My trouble follows me
I'm waist deep in the marsh
That's been thickened up with
Gumbo voodoo mule skin starch
I hear the Hellhounds on my tail
And I don't know what their motivation is
Maybe it's the Mississippi hog maw fizz?
If you think you know me
It's because I'm the guy that shows up
And all the trouble begins
Hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

I'm down at the racetrack
I'm sleeping on a mattress made of blister packs
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
(I don't mean that as a bad thing)

Oh, I'm up on the rack
The executioner is sharping his ax
He says: the world is ruled by fools
"And I'm sorry man, but I don't make the rules"
It's hotter than a Sacramento summer
Wherever I'm going
I'm looking forward to what the cool weather brings...

Hotter Than A Sacramento Summer

Now Christmas time is now passing and we are heading into a new year I would like to thank all of you who have taken your precious time to listen and support my music over the past year. I appreciate you all.

Music,arrangment,orchestration,mix and production :- Pablo

Christmas Passing

Sadness

Boxing Day

The Faraway Tree is a place I come to sing and write.These songs are from my earlier work when I was just starting out in the studio with my writing and singing.I also have been putting up recent workings as I go.Hope you enjoy(:You can find links to my other pages below.
Peace and love, Bluebird

Who Was I

The Faraway Tree

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