Steemit Open Mic week 101 "Almora" (original instrumental)
My dear friends of Steemit community, this week I will play an instrumental piece called Almora.
Almora is a place in the foothills of Himalayas. There is a ridge just few km above it, from where you have a view of the highest mountains in India: Nanda Devi, Nanda Khot, Trishul and few others. You can also see part of Nepali Himalayas.
I think this composition was inspired by this magnificent view. I spent there quite a bit of time over the years, coming back over and over, staying month or two at the time. There were some other musicians there, we jammed a lot together in the evenings and in the day time I was practising some of the musical ideas from the nights before. Or creating some new ones.
I hope you will enjoy "Almora"!
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Absolutely stunning. The photo you included was a perfect companion to the piece. I was transported there immediately <3
Thank you! Have you ever been to The Himalayas?
I haven't, unfortunately. I'd love to go some day.
Yah, it's fantastic there. I am going back there in about 2 weeks.
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Almora, cool, we spent many years there also, my son Ram is born there during the Diwali fireworks :-). (In old house of Rico and Silvia), it's a small world. Beautiful piece of music!
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Great! I was there when Rico and Silvia were there. Used to visit them. Are you still in Europe or back home?
Back "home", we are in Aldona, close to Mapsa, Goa doing a school trial run. Nice vibe here, looks like we might move here. Only issue being they gave me 3 month visa, how dare they? :-)
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Oh no, I hope I will get a 6 month one. Will you still come to Gokarna in winter?
Definitely for a visit and in school holidays time and when I would have a fight with Mira, in other words not so much :-). Always welcome to bring us a visit here off course, good luck with the visa, will be OK!
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Thank you @shephard for sharing this music, I love your guitar play, you are very original and it sounds so melancholic, it is like your guitar is singing. Not so many people can play like you and it is even more difficult to compose, but I believe living in such place surrounded by nature, mountains adn wind it probably makes the soul to sing and in your case your guitar makes it for you. Brilliant play!!!
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My guitar is very old. They don't make them any more. The brand name is Yamaki and on the head it says: "The singing sound by Yamaki". And it is true. It sings, it has very special sound. In India I believe they call this style "gayaki sound". There is a very famous lady violinist N.Rajam and her sound was always described as gayaki. One of my many inspirations. Thank you so much for your comment!
WOw, that looks really impressive, I love it, that is a reason why hte sound was so special, I hope you will take care of it and please try not to damage it, if they do not produce them it would bea shame to lose such unique sounds. I really love your play, will try to keep an eye on your music :)
I try to take care of it as much as I can. Off course I travel a lot, there is lots of climate changes and it was hurt very badly few times, but I managed to fix it or had it fixed each time and somehow it developed this unique sound. I have to play it quite softly otherwise it buzzes. I heard the company was taken over by Yamaha. Shame - I've heard few more of them and they all had a very nice sound. And thanks for your support!
If I hear you playing guitar and see the picture with the mountains, I want to camp directly and enjoy a cold beer with friends around a campfire! But you have to come along and play for us ;-)
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Thanks! Maybe we'll see each other around a nice bonfire. I do it quite often.
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Hi @shephard, I truly enjoyed "Almora". Your guitar plucking and fingering is really amazing! Your fingers move very gracefully. I love every sound from the guitar and I can feel a lot of emotion from the piece - with the slow and fast plucking. Aaah.. wished I can play like you. And that is a beautiful view of the Himalayas. Thank you for sharing your music and photo with us.
Thank you for your comment! For us musicians comments like this are very inspiring.
:) Have a good weekend there @shephard!