Beautiful singing and playing.... wonderful song...

Fantastic song - I like all of it's nuances...quirks...great vocals, and lyrics and PIANO!! The tempo changes allow the song to breathe and we stop and really listen to the content....clever and clasy!! GREAT ARRANGEMENT AND PRODUCTION!! Peace :))

Don't know how I misses this. A brilliant collaboration. Nice work.

Ottimo brano e arrangiamento vocale e musicale.      Eja

@andrewsdeejay: Thank you very much Jay :)

well constructed, cool changes and sounds good too!

.21 this is authentic work - the mix is taking me RIGHT to Abbey Road - I think the boys would be proud.  There is a real human element - I can hear the players playing - often the hardest thing for a good producer to enable - there are so many ways to alter performance and sounds - this piece has a placement about it that blends the best of a studio performance and a live performance 3.03 the emotion is captured - the underbelly of the artist is there without it being inappropriate.  3.45 the stylistic shift really works 4.16 this has a quirky somewhat off beat but again it works - strange but it does 4.42 I would say this is my favorite passage - the simple and workmanlike piano with the vocal - brought up a bit (vocal that is) and the organ layed in very subtly.  This is one to be studied for how to capture an interesting song and artist - let it be flawed but give it a foundation to be heard and felt.

this has a kinda Lou Reed 'feel' I think..

AMBROSIA COAST

Driving down the coast road
Looking for Ingrid’s hat
It doesn’t matter if we find the beach or not 
With it raining like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
Oh can we do it tonight?
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?

They came in in inflatables
But they weren’t looking for Ingrid’s hat
We spent some money dressing up the corpse
No-one had learned a move like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight?

But we don’t wanna see where the birdie goes

Give me emotion (bow-wow-wow)
Lend me the potion (bow-wow-wow)
Rub me in lotion (bow-wow-wow)
Give me the motion (bow-wow-wow)
We need ambrosia
Because it’s cosier
Feed the gods with that bowl 
Feed the gods with that bowl, there...

Driving down the coast road 
Looking for Ingrid’s hat
It doesn’t matter if we find the beach or not 
With it raining like that

Checking the important ones
Went out before midnight
I’d like to think we could be either in or out
To hit the waves like that

Oh can we do it?
But can we do it tonight? (bow-wow-wow)
Oh can we do it?
Can we do it tonight? 
Bow-wow-wow

© Phil McWalter Sept 2019

The Drums @rick-4-1
The Other Stuff @phil-mcwalter

Ingrid's Hat

Ambrosia Coast

Hi there,

My second stab at producing a track in Cubase that was recorded on my Zoom L12 

I'm getting to grips with the levels now, but need to work on the vocals.

This will hopefully be rerecorded soon with a live band set up.

Comments and feedback most welcome

Thanks for listening

Cheers Matt ;)

Matt Baker - Photographs Mix II

written, recorded, and performed by The Irate Pirates
produced by Gabriel Vanore

Piano in The Woods-The Irate Pirates

Some time ago my friend Jonny Cooke asked me to play drums on a beautiful acoustic song he wrote...well, I never could imagine all this beauty, the magic guitar of Tom Adams, the evocative strings by Maira Huisman, the awesome work of Van Gabriel on mixing, mastering and production, and obviously the talent of Jonny....I'm so proud and honored to be part of this, me...an amateur drummer with such a cast of amazing musicians...thank you, my friends !!!
I'M ALIVE
A Jonny Cooke song
Jonny Cooke: Bass, Lyrics and Vocals
Tom Adams: Electric Guitar
Maira Huisman: Strings
Myself: Drums (Wow!)
Van Gabriel: Entire Production
I can't resist to post it......:-)))))))))))))))))))

I'M ALIVE - Jonny Cooke-Tom Adams-Maira Huisman-Carlo Presti-Van Gabriel Productions

Walking Guy - 2017 - 06 05 2017 10.42

thanks thanks thanks thank you

blessings of love
light up your soul
it gets so heavy at times
though it weighs 
nothing at all 
you know its there
we’re bound together 
like flies on a spider web

its the gold that you got
its the name on your socks 
when dumb things
run things

its your name on a rock
you forget all about 
when fun things
run things.

blessings of peace
quiet your mind
it gets so busy at times
though it goes
nowhere at all
circles and squares
we’re bound to wonder
like cats on a window sill

Fun Things Run Things

Berlin Heel by Steph Sweet
Video Link https://youtu.be/qcWsjexxPwk
I wrote and recorded this a month ago, just a throwaway, superfuzzy, trashy indie pop song about foot fetishists
And so much has happened since...
But we can still dance, yeah? xx

Berlin Heel

iTunes

when the oaks go gold

Thicker than water.    An alternative ending to The Mermaid's Tale. 

Somewhere in the labyrinth of The Mermaid's Tale an act of betrayal took place. A jealous Seaflame falsely accused her sister Seawind of sinking a ship. As a result Seawind was imprisoned in a stone circle on a hilltop where she died of a broken heart. (Chapter 2. In a Lovers' Storm) Now Seaflame begs hers sister's ghost for forgiveness. 

Cast in order of appearance

Seaflame.....a mermaid.  Seawind's sister

Seawind......a ghost

Moonstar....a mermaid. Seawind's daughter


Seaflame ...

Sister, forgive me, Sister
This painful history
my mischief stains
Sister, forgiving Sister
Tears for the love we lost... to my jealous heart  

Seawind  ...

Souls lost to the sea             
have no rest
they have no peace
they have no grave
where flowers save
their memory.

Seawind ...

Sister, forgiven Sister  
a given, Sister
Blood flows thicker than the sea.  
Sister, forever Sister 
Tears for the years we lost... 
To swim side by side..

Moonstar...
Timeless the ocean, that we swim through
Midnight blue                      
Love is the moment, that we swim to
Compass true...

Some of you may recall reading Shakespeare  at school and it is probable that your teacher pointed out that the plays were written to be performed by a troop of actors and viewed by an audience. You had to imagine the different characters speaking as you read through the dialogue. Do the same here and imagine female vocals from the three characters. 

A little confession. I borrowed the concept of a hateful act as 'a mischief' from Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' where the Sorceress invites her 'Wayward sisters' to 'Share in the fame of a mischief ' .

Thicker Than Water

Lucifer Uncrowned.  

Apologies to John Milton ( Paradise Lost ) but the recent fall from grace of 
President Trump and The Witchfinder General Cummins drew my mind to the wickedly unfair demise of Lucifer.  

Live. One mic. No excuses. Had a few beers tho.....

A sweet voice said, 'Bless my soul,  
gotta get back into heaven
cuz I left my phone...
If the Big Guy finds it, turns it on
I got some dirty pictures of me dressed up as a swan...

Down, cast down, hungover, uncrowned
Set to to drown at the bottom of a bottle
with my tu-tu twisted round...

An old angel said 'There's a secret door
...l got a  key, 
in my sock drawer
In the good old days, it was one of the ways
to smuggle in a girl and gin in time for Hogmanay '..

Down, cast down, hungover, uncrowned
Set to drown at the bottom of a bottle
with my tu-tu halfway down...

The Dark Lord said 'Sad to report there's been some Revelations
I'm overdue in court...
It was an honest mistake, I love Swan Lake
I was suckered by a witches' brew 
of Granny Smith's and snake...

Down, cast down, hungover, uncrowned 
Set to drown at the bottom of a bottle ........
Oh Lord, snake news brought me down.

Lucifer Uncrowned

I love music and I produce music.  Thanks for taking the time to listen :)

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