Name: Into the Light
Duration: 3 min 32 s
Channel: David Kilpatrick
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. An original multitracked acoustic guitar instrumental - soaring, flight, freedom, height, space, uplift, elation, awakening, joy, brightness.

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An original multitracked acoustic guitar instrumental - soaring, flight, freedom, height, space, uplift, elation, awakening, joy, brightness.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar

Charts

#2,832 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #5

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick 2007

Uploaded

February 14, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.2 MB • 320 kbps • 3:32

Story behind the song

This was recorded after months of gestation on Valentine's Day 2007 and originally called 'Valentine's Day Massedguitars' as a bit of a joke. It did very well going to the top of Acoustic Guitar and staying there. I had several suggestions made for titles, just knowing I didn't want to leave it with the placeholder title it originally had.

I thought of things it connected to; my daughter doing a free-fall skydive on her 21st birthday; getting up above the clouds and looking down at the sea of brilliance with lone pines breaking through the white; watching the V-formations of wild geese leaving the river; coming home after too long away.

I thought of space crew breaking through into the stratosphere with the open sea to welcome them; of the sea-eagles returning to Scotland after decades away from our hills; of the way Icarus felt before the wax began to melt, and the way Persephone felt half-blinded by the Spring sunshine after a winter in the dark of Hades. Of birds, of gliders. Of a mother greeting a soldier son returning alive from his last ever tour of duty. Bright horizons. Of the rare times when your heart, your vision and your mind itself seem to jump a foot in front of your physical body.

Everything seemed too literal or too allegorical (I don't really spend my time thinking like that unless I have to think too hard).

Then I considered there is something about the tune which draws you on, like waking up. It sort of shakes off its own limits but never entirely breaks out to where it could be going, because that would be too high. It wants to be transcendant, but every time the pull of reality brings it back.

That's how the title arrived. If you walk towards the light, each step will see it shine more through the dull clay until only the soul remains, stripped of the chains of Earth. The final step is the one you take when you are no longer to be here. One day someone will take my tune and play it, and add the final step. For now, just listen to it and walk a little bit towards the light, then step back and get on with existing!

It was recorded using my Lamaq SL57C small jumbo rosewood/cedar guitar using its Fishman pickup, mainly, with Boss AD-5 preamp chorus and reverb, plus some mic, plus FX from the Roland VS-800EX. This was done using a CompactFlash conversion to the Roland recorder, in place of hard disk. All eight tracks were used and the SCSI/CF card system worked fine.

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