This instrumental (of which there's soon to be a vocal version) was finished in early July, but I didn't post it anywhere - or another new instrumental, "Painted Sky", which followed the latter - as I was still finishing off all of my old material's channel-swaps and remixes which I urgently wanted to get done. Once it was complete it was 'suddenly' September and I had to post a 3rd new instrumental first, "Rachael' Theme", the tribute to my old friend whose birth and passing away day 6 years ago were both in that month. This how is "Venus Twinkles" came about:

I'd earlier been researching the Andean charango and I was surprised to find this re the tuning:

"The basic charango has five pairs (or courses) of strings, typically tuned GCEAE. This tuning, disregarding octaves, is similar to the typical C-tuning of the ukulele or the Venezuelan cuatro, with the addition of a second E-course. Unlike most other stringed instruments, all ten strings are tuned inside one octave. The five courses are pitched as follows (from 5th to 1st course): G4 G4 - C5 C5 - E5 E4 - A4 A4 -E5 E5." Wikipedia.

I was particularly intrigued by the latter 5th to 1st course sequence and as I've never ever used 4ths or 5ths chords in any song or instrumental I've ever written I decided to experiment. I really liked what I came up with, but the sequences I had lacked a chorus section. In my research I also read about perfect 5ths and an example given was in the very old lullaby (worth reading about in Wikipedia) "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and as the chord structure I already had was like an upbeat lullaby I decided to add the latter chords as a chorus. It worked, but it still lacked something, so I did more research on pubic domain lullabies and experimenting with a few I finally decided to add 2 'verses' of "Hush, Little Baby" to 2 of the "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" choruses. Once I had this complete "Venus Twinkles" instrumental it was inevitable that I write my own lyrics for the lullaby sections and it's the song version I'm currently working on with Lucy of two of the "Flowing Lady Deya" song versions.

BiaB samples used:
Piano: Pop Ballad Acoustic Piano ~ John Jarvis
Bass: 3 Guitar Country Rock ~ Tobin Frank
Drums: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Ba ~ Brian Fullen
Guitar: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Ba ~ Darin Favorite
Acoustic Guitar: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Ba ~ Tony King
Cello: Sobbing Cello & Nylon Guitar ~ Matt Nelson
Violin: Viola & Violin Ballad ~ Avery Bright
Viola: Viola & Violin Ballad ~ Avery Bright
Harps 1 & 2: Heaven Blissful Celtic Harp Pop ~ Sharlene Wallace
Fiddle: Fidget Bluesy Pop with Fiddle ~ Andy Leftwich
Koto: New Age Bossa w/ Koto Synth: Miles Black
Guitar Solo: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham

I had to do a bit of faffing with the Fidget Fiddle and Bricks Guitar solos, plus even more with the koto sections which are mostly hybrids, but I've too many notes to add here.
Key C ~ 120bpm ~ 160 bars ~ 5:28

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.