EmberTime Mellow Guitar Project

Warm welcome to some personal folk guitar recordings. These include many tracks that are FREE, songs, rhythms and improvised outlines to stream (or download on Audius.)

TUNE in on Soundcloud: Embertime Mellow Folk Outlines…

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2020: A 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY UPDATE: ‘Distilled‘ recordings:

NEW links……….

• on AUDIUS:
  stream (+ free downloads! to followers)
  ‘Guitar Shards’ playlist : ‘dark crystal’ tracks…
  songLines (1) playlist…
  songLines (2) playlist…
• on EMANATE
  stream (includes ’embient’ project tracks)

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ARTWORK to collect…………..

collect rare emberTime art on makersplace

• rare, digital emberTime concept etc. ART
• rare, digital songs/lyrics

If you would like to use any music for a commercial / non-commercial project – short films, animations etc – please contact (via Soundcloud, website etc.)

-warm wishes, Ade mc 2020

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LISTING OF RECORDINGS…

• Embertime – final version 3
  A final version, with capo 3 and drop D. No extra guitar parts. Nature sounds. 224 quality.
• Go Out to Sea – live version (2012)
  A final (live) Embertime recording in August 2012, dedicated to Lucas, my son.
• Go Out to Sea
  From ‘Distilled’ album.
• Burning Nature
  Deep, running rhythm. From final recordings. Features 2 guitar parts, nature and sea sounds. 320 quality.
• Embertime – final version 3, slow mellow
  The final mellow version with nature sounds. 192 quality.
• Estuary
  Final song, rounding off the Guitar Project and ‘Distilled’. Inspired by a place and a person. Quite long, hence 160 mp3 quality here for the moment
  (dedicated to Corinne x).
• Estuary – no vocals
  Song as above, but mellow version without vocals. Features nature sounds. 256 mp3 quality.
• Sea Change
  From ‘Distilled’. 256 mp3 quality.
• You Can Fight the Fire (But it Grows)
  From ‘Distilled’. 256 mp3 quality.
• Estuary – faster, no vocals
  Extra version, speed-ed up for extra folky-ness and without vocals. Features nature sounds. 224 mp3 quality.
• Into the Light (2010) – no vocals, improvised
  Long side-track without vocals, improvised within the song framework. Features nature + sea sounds. 224 bit-rate quality.
• Working with the Sun
  Distilled side-track 2010. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Find Love
  Distilled side-track 2010. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Simple Trees (fast version)
  Distilled side-track 2010. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Flow (2009, fingerpick)
  Beta version for ‘Distilled’. Features instrumental part with higher reverb. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Know the Sun’s Gold (2010)
  New version 2010. Much reverb and high treble EQ. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Song from Earthsea (v.2010)
  Re-recorded this old love song again with gf’s acoustic guitar. Lyrics are from a short tale by Earthsea fantasy writer Ursula K Le Guin called ‘Darkrose and Diamond’. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Light of the Sun (v.2010)
  Finally (fully) recorded this old song again. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Drink the Road – instrumental version
  Steady rhythm, reverb and slight Flanger effect. Free mix, b-side version for ‘Distilled’. 256 quality.
• Drink the Road – quick instrumental version
  Quicker tempo of previous. Free mix, b-side version for ‘Distilled’. 256 quality.
• River
  flowing piece.
• Old World
  Features nature sounds etc. Long version of a mellow, university song.
• Into the Light
  Features rooks and nature sounds. 2010 re-edit with slight Chorus effect.
• Pattern of Gold (improvised)
  Hopefully an inspiring piece. Features nature sounds (because it was recorded outside!)
• What it Means to Die (no vocals)
  Long and dark, improvised side-piece with nature and rook sounds (see ‘Dark Crystal’ tracks for the song version). 224 bit-rate quality.
• Song from Earthsea
  Inspired by a short fantasy story ‘Darkrose and Diamond’ by Ursula K Le Guin, from the book ‘Tales from Earthsea.’ lyrics are by Ursula K Le Guin.
  Light of the Sun
  Shortened early version of an original song. Contains some natural sample sounds.
• Be Inspired
  Mellow focus. Summer 2008.
• To Know the Sun’s Gold
  Not a song, but a piece of improvisation, the first on my then-new Tanglewood acoustic-electric. This is when I realised that no 2 recordings can ever be the same, or even similar. I’ve tried to replicate this, depth etc, but don’t think I’ve been able to, despite a 2010 version, which is more subdued. I guess I was just younger and more excited about possibilities. Ive added some reverb and shortened it, but that’s it. Nothing amazing maybe, but it still shines to me, so I like it.
• Riders
  This is still more of an outline, that might benefit from extra parts/work in future.
  (dedicated to my daughter, Lydia.)
• Sandy Denny – v2
  2nd version (similar to the first), in memory of the british female folk singer.
• On the Stoop
  A cheery slice of random improvisation….
• Dark Love – grunge
  Uses the old set-up of a crappy pc mic, almost cellotaped to the guitar……But this one turned out OK – dark and grungey – for the theme of the track….no samples.
• In This Wind – classical
  Classical guitar version of the song w/ Blade Runner sample.
• Ariel mix
  An attempt at adding separately recorded parts together.
• Ariel – rough
  Rough (nylon) version, with voiceclip from Blade Runner.
• The One for Me
  Romantic, summer piece
• Communion with Clouds
  Soft and meditational
• Night Thoughts
  Quiet section for jamming, with samples from Blade Runner etc.
• Freedom
  Original outline version featuring acoustic guitar.
• Back Among the Rooks
  Short, improvised side-piece (see ‘What it Means to Die’) with nature and rook sounds. 256 bit-rate quality.
• Fractal Magic
  Spooky piece inspired by the Mandlebrot fractal set. Infinite iterated complexity from a simple equation.
• Drake and Kings Embermedley
  Includes 2 sections from Nick Drake and Kings of Convenience
• Clear Wine intro or The Secret Garden
  Early piece of fingerpicking, having read the classic children’s book.
• Redemption Days
  Features an old poem i wrote called ‘Ruin’ and some music from the film Excalibur.
• Call to the Witches
  Includes heavy rainfall !
• Rothko
  Original song about the abstract artist Mark Rothko.
• Beltane Dance
  Wiccan idea, based on ancient fertility festival of May Day, before where young lovers partner off into the woods.
• Smoke over the Bronze Fields
  features samples from the sci-fi film Blade Runner.
• Come Clouds
  Original outline song.
• Rooks
  Classical guitar piece.
• Before the Flood
  Some improvisation with rainfall that did lead to flooding in England 2007!
• Towards Peace
  Original track featuring acoustic guitar.
• Clear Wine
  Autumnal piece.
• New Horizon
  updated version of an early song.
• Sandy Denny
  in memory of the british female folk singer.
• Brief Connection
  Guitar only piece.
• Calling
  Guitar only piece.
• Night Girl
  Mello guitar piece, inspired by a girlfriend.
• Rochester
  Short, bouncy classical piece.
• The Fire Inside
  Guitar only piece.
• Estuary – secondary version
  Very similar to other main version. With nature sounds. Difficult to say which is better! Quite long: 128 quality for the moment.
• Crawling Between Earth and Heaven
  Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1): ‘What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.’
• Life is Music
  Guitar only piece.
• Dark Love – intro
  Intro to main song.
• Land Eternal
  An old classical outline due for distillation.
• Song from Earthsea – older
  Older mp3, similar version.
• Riders (ruff strum)
  Single-part strummed version. Extra parts still required.
• September
  Wintery piece.
• Swimmers
  Piece named after the Wadi Sora or Cave of Swimmers, that features prehistoric rock paintings.
• Embertime – final version 3, live recording, quicker version
  The final mellow version (with drop D, capo 3). Quicker live recording. No fx but reverb. 224 quality.
• Embertime – final version 3, no lyrics
  Final version 3 but without lyrics. Quite long. 192 quality.
• Flow – early
  Or ‘Combinations’. An early soft (classical guitar) version. 256 quality.
• We Know
  Original outline song.
• Breathe
  Song outline, late 2007. A bit uneven, but this song exists, albeit in a simple form.
• What it Means to Die 2 – no samples
  Quietened, rough, long, uneven, grungy outline version. 128 quality due to length.
• Embertime – free mix
  Flickering atmosphere. B-side version for ‘Distilled’. Features 2 guitar parts experiment. 224 quality.