Hamlel

Category: Music by Andrew Charman-Williams

Songs and instrumentals recorded as Andrew Charman-Williams.

  • Syniad 1

    Syniad 1 is an instrumental piece by Andrew Charman-Williams. Syniad is one of the titles I am using for instrumentals when I don’t have another title. The word (from Welsh) means something like idea or concept.

  • Third Steps

    Third Steps is an instrumental for felt piano and pipe organ that has strong influences from ambient music and post-minimalism. Keyboard sounds from Pianoteq 8 and Organteq 2.

  • Minor Moves

    Minor Moves is a laid-back instrumental for felt piano and cello that has influences from minimalism, ambient, film music and other styles/genres/approaches.

  • Rosella

    Rosella (or the Rosella Waltz) is just a gentle waltz recorded with 2 tenor guitar tracks and organ (using Organteq 2).

  • Cubic Triads

    Cubic Triads is just an exploration of a curiosity. I saw a video by ‪@12tone‬ explaining the music theory concept of Cube Dance by Jack Douthett. This explores that concept using just triads to move through the 12 major, 12 minor and 4 augmented triads. Moving between triads only one note changes by one semitone. Through the layering that occurs with organ stops these three notes are fleshed out to a fuller sound. Organteq 2 is used for the organ.

  • Yes or No – Yes and No

    A song written for a ukulele forum.

    Lyrics: Yes or No – Yes and No

    They wanted Yes or No 
    as the only answers 
    but what if it’s Yes and No 
    or neither with no firm answer. 

    So many things aren’t simply black or white, 
    wrong or right. 
    Left or right
    day or night

    Yes or No
    Yes and No
    Yes or No
    Yes and No

    Where are the shades of grey and the central ground
    Why expect a simple answer to a complex question
    Why is the complex answer never found
    What if it’s both, what if it’s none

    Yes or No
    Yes and No
    Yes or No
    Yes and No
    or neither

  • I Thought of You

    I Thought of You is a song recorded with vocals and Irish Bouzouki.

    Lyrics: I Thought of You

    I still hear your laughter, soft as the breeze  
    It whispers through the trees, brings me to my knees  
    The way we used to dance, under starlit skies  
    Now the echoes of your voice are where my heart lies  
     
    I thought of you yesterday  
    I thought of you today  
    I’ll think of you tomorrow  
    The memories never fade  

    I see your shadow in the morning light  
    It lingers in the silence of the quiet night  
    Though time moves forward, leaving us behind  
    In every passing moment, you’re still on my mind  

    I thought of you yesterday  
    I thought of you today  
    I’ll think of you tomorrow  
    The memories never fade  

    And I hold on to every piece of you  
    The moments we shared, the things we knew  
    They live on forever, deep in my soul  
    Your memory’s a fire, it keeps me whole  

    I thought of you yesterday  
    I thought of you today  
    I’ll think of you tomorrow  
    The memories never fade  

  • Skid Road

    A song written for a ukulele forum. This plays on one of the origin stories of the term Skid Row.

    Lyrics: Skid Road

    Maynardtown
    Down on the Sawdust
    Yesler’s Mill in the Sag
    Tenderloin

    Skid Road
    where dreams go to die

    Lava Beds
    White Chapel
    Great Restricted District
    Wappyville

    Skid Road
    where dreams go to die

    Mill Street
    Yesler Way
    The Deadline
    Pioneer Square

    Skid Road
    where dreams go to die
    Skid Road
    where dreams go to die

  • Nothing At All

    A song written for a ukulele forum

    Lyrics: Nothing At All

    nowhere to go
    noone to see
    nothing to do
    nothing at all

    so i can just relax
    and do nothing much at all

    no expectations
    no obligations
    no confrontations
    nothing at all

    so i can just relax
    and do nothing much at all

  • White Dove

    A song written for a ukulele forum

    Lyrics: White Dove


    Under skies of blue, where troubles end,
    A symbol of peace, a dove ascends.
    Its feathers, a canvas, pure and white, 
    Glide through the skies, a beacon of light.

    Oh, white dove, take me away, 
    To a place where dreams don’t fade, 
    with strong intent take to the sky, 
    Oh, white dove, away you fly.

    In times of trouble, when hearts grow weary, 
    The white dove whispers, soft and airy. 
    It carries hopes on gentle wings, 
    And to a troubled world, some hope it brings.

    Oh, white dove, take me away, 
    To a place where dreams don’t fade, 
    with strong intent take to the sky, 
    Oh, white dove, away you fly.

    In lands divided, by walls of fear, 
    The white dove’s call, so crystal clear. 
    It seeks no borders, nor lines drawn deep, 
    But a world united, where all may sleep.

    Oh, white dove, take me away, 
    To a place where dreams don’t fade, 
    with strong intent take to the sky, 
    Oh, white dove, away you fly.

    oh white dove you still remain
    a symbol of hope amidst the pain
    with every beat of your gentle wing
    a dream of peace you bring