This post is actually the most recent of my currently 4 new BiaB creations - the other 3 yet to be posted - but it had to come first as it's a tribute to and a celebration of a beloved friend who passed away on 8th September 2019, plus her birthday is also the 21st of this month ~ today.

The inspiration for this music came in part from my last 2 of 3 previously finished projects (yet to be posted here), the 1st which came about through experimenting with 4ths and 5ths chords (there are a few 5ths in this) and from the ending bars of a solo in the next project which inspired the 4 times repeated 'chorus' bars in this ('chorus' meaning as in a song and not PGM's entire sequence of chords).

BiaB samples used:
Piano: Pop Ballad Acoustic Piano ~ John Jarvis
For building a background I introduced in steps, warm pad & strings from Enya44 - Soft Ev, 16 Techno Orche; synth pad from Whales Lap Steel Synth; warm pad & strings from Sirius Smooth Jazz; and synth pad from Circle Ambient Lap Steel.
*Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Ba ~ Tobin Frank
*Drums: ditto ~ Brian Fullen
*Panpipe: Seek Smooth Panpipe ~ Alejandro Fatur
Organ: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Ba ~ Gene Rabbai
*Harps 1 & 2: Heaven Blissful Celtic Harp Pop ~ Sharlene Wallace
*Harmonica: Slow Country/Folk w/ Harmonica ~ TJ Klay
Guitar solo: Prais &Worship w/ Poer Pop So~ Dave Cleveland
String Quartet: Runaway Soundtrack Country ~ Matt Nelson
Evening birds SFX from Pixabay.

* The Piano is a hybrid of 6 samples, in part as I wanted to keep the opening after adding the full chorus, in part so I could repeat the 4 note phrase at 38 seconds in the following bar, and so as to repeat other phrases.
* I've added a few seconds extra to the end of the Bass guitar as it ended abruptly. I've also used noise reduction in Audacity to mute the plectrum clicks.
* The Drums is a hybrid of 2 samples, plus I increased the volume of some of the rolls.
* The Seek Smooth Panpipe is a hybrid of 2 samples.
* I mastered the Harps stem in Soren AI Mastering, plus used noise reduction in Audacity to mute string clicks.
* I decreased the final note of the harmonica solo by -2db as it was too loud going into the chorus.

D ~ 4/4 ~ 115 bpm ~ 160 bars ~ 5:46

Snippet from my YouTube blurb:
The 8th September was the 6th anniversary of the passing of my very dear friend, Rachael, so as her birthday is also the 21st of this month I was moved to compose this music, not just in memory of a lifelong spiritually conscious lady, but also as a celebration of her life, her wonderful being and her so beautiful spirit.


Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.