Name: Waltz for my angels by Witold Podhajski
Duration: 4 min 58 s
Description: In another, original version, this piece is a waltz. Here, the tempo and the way it is played can be defined ad libitum, although in my opinion it has a hidden pulse.

Angel Music 🎶 very tasty lead work Witek!

Piano: Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Flugelhorn: Arne Hiorth
Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Merry Christmas to you all, and the best wishes for  the New Year.

Thank you from my heart Debbie and Arne for the JOY making music together.

Our version of the timeless "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.

Merry Little Christmas. Debra Buesking. Arne Hiorth. Oddrun Eikli.

2024 Remaster version for full album release in 2025.
 
This final track of the album acts as a bookend to the project, departing via the causeway after arriving over the sands in the first track, 'The Pilgrim's Way'.

The idea behind this piece is exploring the duality of the causeway and of Lindisfarne itself. Sometimes the causeway is below the water and sometimes above. Lindisfarne is in turn an island cut off from the modern world, then reconnected for a while before the cycle repeats itself.

Connection versus isolation, spiritual versus material, water and dry land in balance, governed by the ever changing tides. Even the concept of the water itself somehow holding echoes of past times and the call of of the natural world. This last idea is also a convenient way to reprise some of the 'Foley' sounds from the rest of the album, a worthy goal for the last track of this project. This piece is truly eclectic in nature so please enjoy the journey.

This track is now part of "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne.

Project Playlist
soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website
www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

Photo by Paul Everitt ... "an early morning golden hour" of the Causeway. (used with permission). As I said to Paul "This picture of yours just seems to capture the spirit of the piece I'm creating".

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Instrumentation

Causeway Dreams features strings, cello, alto flute, C flute, French horn, English horn, alto F whistle, harp, DADGAD acoustic guitar, piano, St Peter's choir, Shevvanai, timpani, Northumbrian smallpipes, bodhrán and water pumpkins. Also including vocal phrases from Shevannai and Voices of Gaia (Linda Strawberry).

Additionally, various 'Foley' sounds including featuring ones from other tracks of the project.
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Background

When composing instrumental music you can often find yourself separating a piece into various thematic sections to create a journey for the listener. 'Causeway Dreams' breaks down into six sections. One of them is very short, (A Meeting of Worlds) but this crucially acts as a musical nexus or balance point in the music,

1) Into the Depths
The journey begins by plunging the listener below the water of the covered causeway, an alien world where the natural world, history and spiritual feelings all fuse together in the restless sea. The power of the sea is very much a feature in this first section. There is peril for the unwary, man cannot control this element of nature, only react to it's moods.

2) In a Place of Wonder
This lighter section featuring harp and flute introduces a feeling of wonder as you remain below the water with the creatures that call the sea their home.

3) Island Echoes
Still below the water you begin to hear echoes of 'Foley' sounds from previous tracks in the project brought together in this underwater realm, suggesting a merging of history and nature, an 'island memory', captured in the surrounding water of the island. At the end of this section you begin to ascend back towards the emerging causeway.

4) A Meeting of Worlds
As you emerge from the water you are in that moment of balance between the two worlds. The voice you first heard in 'The Pilgrims Way' is ready to lead you home.

5) Travelling Home
As the sea finally recedes, the rolling feel of acoustic DADGAD guitar and low whistle feature to lead the listener as you travel across the now fully uncovered causeway back towards the Northumbrian mainland.

6) The Call of the Coast
As you travel further along the causeway, you hear the sound of Northumbrian pipes over a boisterous bodhrán backing. The mainland is calling to you but the voice you first heard in the Pilgrims Way soars as a final reminder of this special place.

Causeway Dreams - 2024 Remix and Remaster

Dedicated to my dear friend Lisa.

My sincere thanks to David Dunham for his generosity in mastering my track. @david-dunhamuser589535203

Lisa

Paul Amlehn - Libretto, composition, arrangement, editing, mixing, production
Sabrina Carter - Voice
Gustave Moreau - Painting: "Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre"

Libretto:

And I descend again
Magnetically
Drawn
Towards a dense silence
A silence broken only by
The dark beat
Of my blood.
 
And I descend again.

O me ill, my, I
Descend again
In search of you.
 
Orpheus I am
And I descend again
In search of you.

Fathomless…

Fathomless

All Over Again

Again

In another, original version, this piece is a waltz. Here, the tempo and the way it is played can be defined ad libitum, although in my opinion it has a hidden pulse.

Waltz for my angels

I am very proud and grateful to Saskia for making magic with this song.
Vocals and lyricks by: Saskiagoethals
For more Saskia please check: https://on.soundcloud.com/sTp9ak2cKX6iX9F96
Music by: The Bird Inside
Lyrics:
Summer Fools

Two fools, you and me,
Summer fools
We believed
Summer love
We believe
That the summer
will last a lifetime
endlessly

Summer fools, you and me
Like a split second
Can last an eternity

The sunrays warm our face,
Seawaves washing up and down,
This paradise this place
It feels like time erased every trace of summer love

el tiempo borrará todo rastro de amor de verano

Summer Fools - Feat Saskiagoethals

... The spinning wheel turns, days go by with countless chores around the house. Everything is on her shoulders – a dreamer husband, naughty children, the financial well-being of the family. With each passing year, her strength diminishes. New circumstances and inevitable mistakes, like tropical thickets, encroach on the comfort and well-being built with such difficulty. The wheel turns more and more slowly. The thread becomes thinner. And in the end, it breaks, no longer able to withstand the inexorable march of time…

«Incansable rueca de Úrsula Iguarán». Op.16-04. (2016)

Roots & Reverie explores the dance between grounded tradition and wandering dreams. Each song is a metaphor for something deeper—love, loss, memory, change—told through imagery inspired by nature, folklore, and the quiet spaces between words. It’s an album that feels like a journal left open on a porch swing, pages fluttering in the wind.

Harvest the Silence

He is truly gone

The nature of these quick play tracks is that they could always be better… more practice, more takes etc but they are supposed to be (vaguely) spontaneous so here is today’s attempt.
This uses the latest version of Piano Motifs, specifically the new Randomise feature. PM and GeoShred both playing their own instance of iFretless Guitar.

A video of this track being created is here https://youtu.be/hmapgSgGLAY

2025 04 30 Wednesday Quick Play

Thanks to everyone who listen to my melodies
My live performances can be found on Facebook, link below.

Waltz for my angels

Witold Podhajski

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