This is my easy listening instrumental CD titled "Karlstejn Castle" that was released in late 2008. There are leven tracks on this album using my piano, keyboards, harpsichord, and nylon guitar.
The title song for this CD, Karlstejn Castle, is a song that I composed for the Government of the Czech Republic and their offical office of tourism. I also wrote this tune to honor not only the wonderful people of the Czech Republic, but their beautiful Karlstejn Castle located near Prague.
Each track listing on this 13 min 59 sec CD sample is about a minute and a half.
Regards,
Key...
Karlstejn Castle Track Listing:
1. Strom Waltz
2. Night Time
3. Sweet Silence
4. Goetzinger Waltz
5. There Were Times
6. Czech Folk Dance
7. Veronica's Victorian Waltz
8. All I Need Is You
9. Within These Stone Walls
10. It Was Long Ago
11. Karlstejn Castle
"Night Time" From my "Karlstejn Caslte" CD.
Thanks, Sonny...
Too bad for you, I don’t have to hurt no more,
And I threw out your heart its true
So sad for you, I don’t want you in my life; I hope I broke it in two
No I, I cannot comprehend those words you said, to me
Your mind is blind, to me and I just want you gone
Too bad for you, when you took him in your arms,
You threw our future away
So sad for me, you ripped my heart right out of my chest,
Cause I gave you my best
No I, I cannot comprehend the sight of you, your face
When you touch my mind, it's like a switch you turn me off again
No I, I don’t understand you, no, you’re losing your mind,
I don’t understand you no more
Too bad for you, trying to come back into my life,
You didn’t learn a thing its true
So sad for you, keeping those memories in your head
When I threw them away it’s true, that
I, I cannot comprehend your Aiken Heart, you know
Your mind is blind, to me and I just want you gone
No I, I don’t understand you, no, you’re losing your mind,
I don’t understand you no more
Blue Opal - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
One of four songs I made in Andy's Studio Digital Waves here in Fayetteville. Blue Opal, Miss Noble, why do you steal my heart? As the story is the story goes, . .she's that chip of fire blue caught at an angle when just about all the light is gone. Is this a Country song?
For Our Soldiers - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Hellish heat distorts the ground, . . . and so it goes a duty, honor, Country call that servicemen uphold as their forefathers had in order to secure freedom. God Bless the men and women who serve our Country. Resources and possessions scattered all across the globe as we thirst in the shimmering heat. Draw us the compass point on an azimuth we can track - global positioning accuracy - a petroleum prayer.
Clock Hands - Trace - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Caution - Clock Hands is a Lo-fi recording. Nothing in this song is studio quality obviously, just an example of possibility in a limited manner. . . frivolity really.
Mood story song to announce life waltzing through the migration of time. Whisper to me that passage of time to trace the length of shadow that clings to the wall as I am there with an observer's stance recording the movement of the clock hands' inevitable touch. Trace, the lost desired amount, rare without question, obscurely discreet is waiting for the receptive outside the norm yet comfortably perched within possibility.
Thanks for listening to this song - Clock Hands.
Felinicity - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - all rights reserved.
Felinicity, the world has gone to the cats - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Panthers, Cougars limited in form and function to the dance of the cat aloof on noiseless paws, they stalk, . . .hear their calls as they make their way through the jungle streets all with intent and purpose illuminating through their eyes. Felines, what role do they play in Natural Law as a predator? Culling the sick and injured so that only the strongest of the species survives, genetically mapped out through centuries of evolution. . . .and on it goes this felinicity.
This song was writen, produced, recorded and performed by me.
This song is copyrighted by me.
Shellcracker - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Shellcracker lives on the bottom of the sand at least the fish do that are staple fun in North Carolina. These fish are among the largest of the freshwater bream species sure to give any enthusiast a tug or two. Their name comes from their habit of eating freshwater mollusks, all of which carry univalve or bivalve ornamental walls for a dwelling. It's all part of Natural Law. What do I say about a metaphor except to demonstrate the clues that lead to meaning. What lands are there left to conquer Shellcracker? Can you sweep through the algae with your fins as a fan? You smile like an ocean pearl and you smile. Would deep water suit your taste better than the spring shallows? Shellcracker, yep field artilleryman, the last of a kind never seen, just beyond the reef where there is magic, . . .so it is with Natural Law as the extended dream of making songs carries me further downstream - Shellcracker.
From my "Buskin' Around" CD.
My Grandmother, Ruth Headley, raised me during my elementary school years in San Bernardino, California. That was the only time in my life that I can say my life was good growing up. She was one of the best women that ever blessed the face of this earth. My heart is still heavy from missing her so dearly now that she is gone.
"Grommie" as I used to call her during those years, spent day after day after day cooking, baking, cleaning, gardening, sewing, tending to my Grandfather's needs, tending to my childhood needs, helping neighbors, and so on and so on endlessly.
When I began learning to play the accordion at 5 years old, I of course wanted Grommie to sit down and listen to me practice and "play." Being a kid, and not realizing all the responsibilities of adults, I would sometimes feel sad about her telling me that she couldn't at the moment. Lots of times she would say, "Now listen child, I want to sit down with you and listen, but you have to realize that a woman's work is never done, so you'll just have to wait a bit until I finish more of my chores." But you know what? Everytime she would say that, she would be sitting down with me within just a few minutes....She was so cool...
At any rate, this is a song that I purposely wrote to repeat itself to simulate what it was like for me to watch her doing the same tasks around the house over and over every day. I dedicate this song to my Grandmother, and to all the women out there that make our world a better place to live...
Spider Dance - Splash - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Thanks Tom Mohler for the guitar parts and for mixing this song down for me so I could post it here on ASCAP. Spider Dance is a lofty skewed foot moving walk along a web so high above. Ok, here it is again - not for sale - just to listen to as I hope to remake this song outside the confines of my living room - a real studio where records are made? This song was written for Bigeasy Michael on this site. It was a very difficult period he experienced last year that made me look at a way to pass along a smile despite his loss. Here is your Spider Dance Michael minus a few drums because of my two left thumbs. I thank Tom Mohler for putting in the guitar parts and mixing the song.
'I hate that u dumped me...it tears me up inside...But you'll NEVER know!' "CRY"(c)2009 Dorothy ~.THE.DoT.Wilson///ASCAP///Music composed by SPEC of T.A.G. Productions www.myspace.com/songwriterthedot
Natural Law - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
I am a paramecium or at least that is what this music thing makes me feel like - single cell with a thin membrane loaded with cilia to help me swim. So I swim upstream to what? a dream? Yep - guess that makes me certifiable especially when I have no support. no resources, and a huge idea. Here's one for you - no cars at least once humans are able to create unnatural law like we have been. I have lots to say here.
Just When I Thought - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - Digital Wabe Recordings.
Here is one of two songs that started this music thing for me in October 2007. Just when I thought my life had turned topsy turvy and I had nothing left to give, . . .you noticed me.
It's Time to Leave - Splash - Mark Holman ASCAP 2009 - Higher Order Language Works
So the dream gets closer to fruition as each page is planed with Elmer's glue mixing for all to hear. Splash, the second unproduced Holworks album reflects a variety of musical styles to conform to the concept. Are story songs in vogue? This is one of them for sure. There's a finality in aging, when she no longer cares, youth, this life that leeches from our bones day by day abandons us one by one. Then the epiphany it will never be any better than it is right now. How do I find my way back to her. . .Ponce de Leon resveratrol?
This is an original Polyphon song that I wrote and performed for our City of Windom, Minnesota.
Polyphons were very popular during the Victorian Era in the 1800s. They sound very similar to Glockenspiels that are heard all over the world, usually in town squares where chimes sound, as in our town.
The polyphon pictured on this audio is an example of mid 1800s Victorian craftsmanship.
"The Christmas Bells of Windom" is featured on my CD titled "A Polyphon Christmas" along with these traditional Christmas favorites all performed in the polyphon format:
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Deck the Halls
Frosty the Snowman
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Holly Jolly Christmas
Jingle Bells
Joy to the World
Little Drummer Boy
O Come all ye Faithful
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Silent Night
Silver Bells
Up on a Housetop
We Three Kings
What Child is This
This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
It was written in 1816.
I performed this beautiful hymn on the pipe organ, and I dedicate this composition to Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Music by Henry Stuart
Lyrics by James Montgomery
Performed by Keyboardtunes
Angels from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King!
Shepherds, in the fields abiding,
Watching o'er your flocks by night,
God with man is now residing,
Yonder shines the infant Light;
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King!
Sages, leave your contemplations,
Brighter visions beam afar;
Seek the great desire of nations,
Ye have seen His natal star;
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King!
Saints before the altar bending,
Watching long in hope and fear,
Suddenly the Lord, descending,
In His temple shall appear:
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King!
This is the original ballroom dancer's strings version of the Goetzinger Waltz that I wrote and performed for a friend of mine, Tom Goetzinger and his family. Shown in the photo for this audio track from left to right is Sam, Tom & Kim's youngest son, Tom, Tom's lovely wife Kim, and Michael, Tom & Kim's eldest son.
The Goetzinger Waltz has gained a lot of popularity since it was released in 2008 with ballroom dancers here in the USA as well as in Europe, Japan and Australia.
There's also a musette accordion version of the Goetzinger Waltz that's very popular with polka and waltz listeners. In addition, plans are already in the works for a concertina version of the Goetzinger Waltz to be recorded and released in the near future.
Tom is a professional radio announcer, and also owns and operates TRG Productions, a popular full-service announcing company, specializing in providing music for special occasions. Wedding receptions are Tom's expertise. Tom also hosts a great music program called "Treasure Chest of Old Tyme Music" that can be heard on KOWZ, KDHL, and KATE. By the way, Tom's son, nine-year-old Sam Goetzinger, also hosts a polka party show on KOWZ. That's right, you heard me correctly, he's 9 years old and has already proven his announcing skills and talent with the radio station programmers and management. (guess he can help make the mortgage payments now, heh?)
Thanks to all my ASCAP friends for taking the time to stop by...
Sonny...(Keys)
