"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

  I was introduced to the  folkloric musical traditions as a young child. 
A London primary school  ,who favoured  the arts nurtured my curiosity,giving me the opportunity to play a wide variety of instruments including violin , percussion ,flutes  and singing too  I  participated  in a buoyant  musical and artístic community.
A  female music student from Kingston University London , who lodged  introduced me to the piano,  before I started at the local primary school.
After a wee while, 
  ,I was sent to take piano lessons from 
a   female Czsec piano teacher, who was  also a concert pianist . She took up the  unenviable task of training me in the classical piano music traditions and entered me to audition for a  junior  scholarship place at what is now The Guildhall School of Music , London .
 I was awarded a full grant  to attend by the London Arts council to attend.
The Grant include fully funded tuition on first study Piano and 2nd study Flute. Also included were  musicianship classes to cover aural training theory, extemporisation . composition  and orchestral  and choral participation.

Regular opportunities to perform in the classic salon  with ensembles  and as a soloist  in the main college was all part of the lively and cohesive musical community. 
All  learning materials ,scores were  reimbursed on submission of receipts to the  conservatoire's accounts department.





 

The central station for the works of music's classical masters. Compiled here for you. For any suggestions on which musical pieces you want me to upload, leave them as comments on any of my tracks.

SweetPsyche is a post-metal gaze band and a group of visual artists from Manila, Philippines.

The band’s diverse musical influences and genre - from classical music to metal, were reflected into their songs that are in juxtaposition
of sweet but dark, light but heavy, mellow but intense, and erotic yet chaste. SweetPsyche intentionally resonates a sound that may let
you float and drown in your own emotion.

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Studying at XAMK, Mikkeli, Finland
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I'm an autodidact on guitar (acoustic , electric) and on flute. I enjoy jazz, folk, blues, latin, funk & soul and classic in all kinds of variation and combination.

I'm looking for inspiration and collaboration on the Cloud. Please post some info or a comment, if my tunes appeal to you.

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