Instrumental Odyssey

Skyline Run

Hey…. So this is a little Blues tune about days gone by in the life of a guitar picker. It is a new version of an old song, with some new lyrics, way more decent vocals (man, I had pushed my gravelly vocals to the limit on the original. Which contained the essence of the moment, but was musically flawed.) Since I don’t have a bass guitar or a drum set, I used my acoustic guitar for bass, and a keyboard for drums. (The keyboard sounds better than me banging on whatever on some of my previous songs.) I am losing the ability to solo on guitar as I age, as can be heard on this, but my big mouth (vocals) are holding strong. The lyrical theme is an amalgamation of two distinct periods of my life. Military service and college in that sequential order. In college, I was walking out to my car in the parking lot, late one night, when I saw these dudes jump out of a dark sedan in the lot. They began smashing car windows and stealing whatever they could. These college dudes coming back from a late night party tried to stop them by yelling, as they drove by, and one of the dudes from the sedan pulled out a handgun and began shooting at them as they went by. Suddenly, a bullet wizzed by my head. I heard it whistle. I just stood there in the darkness, as if my life had just flashed before my eyes, taking it all in. I watched as those dudes jumped back into the sedan and they sped off, tires screeching. They turned onto the access road nearby with their lights off, heading in my direction. I looked and saw a cinderblock within reach and thought to myself that I could easily pick it up, walk over to the road and throw it through their windshield, what being the hero that I am. (That was part of my military training). They had no idea I was there. Hahahahaha…… but I quickly decided now was not the time for such things being a college student as it were. So I just continued walking to my car and ended up hanging out with my college compadres, in the parking lot, as we rehashed the incident while looking at all the smashed car windows and stuff spilled onto the pavement. I was glad I had such an old, beat up looking car, with nothing inside. Anyway, I hope you like this song. Mark

Life Of A Guitar Picker

Dreamy Teardrops

Cast of Characters:
Surfers Like Us– @user-411502040 –Artur–composition, arrangement, and Fender Jaguar delayed, foundational rhythm guitar
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, mix and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- production editing
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – electric piano and organ
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass and PRS EG semi-hollow body electric guitar

This song began as a twinkle in Artur's eye a couple months ago. Hey composed it with his Jaguar, as that is the premium surf guitar out there, and shared it with Tez, who invited the rest of us onto the project. 
   Tez, being the first on the boat, added his thrilling guitar fills and solos first. It was kind of odd the way we did this one, in fact, with the melodic/chordal instruments first, followed by the rhythm section. Mark our production tech expert did some alignment for us right out of the gate, too. That said, JJ was next up to bat, adding his magical electric piano and soaring organ.  
  Ken was first up for the backline, adding his driving drums. Josh then finally added his fretless bass to the stew. But before he was done, Josh also added the guitar solo you hear from 1:30-1:55. 
  After it was all said and done, we asked Tez to mix it for us, as he is a master producer and mixer. 
  This is the latest in a long line of surf rock songs of Artur's we've been fortunate enough to get to play with. Hey is the surfingest Polish fellow you will ever come across, and a wonderful, familiar collaborator with Eclectic Collective. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

SURF VIBE  - The Eclectic Collective and Surfers Like Us

A Collision of Events

Looking forward

Let’s kick off this final month of the year by closing the AI-music chapter once and for all, at least as far as we’re concerned. The die is cast now, there’s no turning back, only moving forward. And we move forward by offering you this playful Chiptune version of our recent "AI Killed the Human Star" (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/ai-killed-the-human-star). This time the AI kills Chiptune too! What a world!
See you on Friday with an unusual Christmas song. 🎄🪩
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AI Killed the Chiptune Star (Instrumental - Chiptune)

Simple times hopefully coming.
 1975 Roselle Dulcimer, 1928 Gibson A2 Mandolin, 1945 Martin 0-18

Redid one I called Simple Times ahead because that track had terrible distortion.

Simple times a'coming

C'est que je l'aime    (translated after French text )
   
Vidéo : https://youtu.be/Phnq9OPxhA4
Thanks again to Say M and  @Ygor Jensouniev for this song written in 2021 and reworked today.
Texte : Say M
Chant : @Ygor Jensouniev
Musique : Alain Illos

J'avais dit à ma femme
Avant qu'elle soit la tienne
Que les vers rouges de vase
Sont pour les poissons essentiels
Je l'aimais pour son âme
Notre maison terre de Sienne
Nos roses rouges et les vases
Je nous voyais le même ciel

J’lui lisais à la flamme
Pour qu'elle garde son sommeil
Des histoires de jeunes gars
Morts d'amour pour une reine
Puis t'es venu, au grand dam
D'une amitié sans pareil
Sans scrupule et sans égard
Installer ta mise en scène

Et pourtant

Et pourtant, si je dis sans mesure
Des récits, des poèmes
Au fur et à mesure
Que je bois
Que je saigne
C'est que je l'aime
C'est que je l'aime

Je te pensais mon ami
En dépit, de nos panses
De nos matins en panne
De nos verres assumés
De ce rouge sans le drame
De nos belles éloquences
De nos vains états d'ânes
Tu as choisi de l'aimer

Et pourtant

Et pourtant, si je dis sans mesure
Des récits, des poèmes
Au fur et à mesure
Que je bois
Que je saigne
C'est que je l'aime
C'est que je l'aime

J'avais dit à ma femme 
Que tant qu'elle serait mienne
L'amour serait la base
Son sourire mon soleil
Mais ton ombre au programme
A fermé les persiennes
Les rosiers à terre rase
Se meurt le parfum de miel

Et pourtant

Et pourtant, si j'écris sans mesure
Des récits, des poèmes
Au fur et à mesure
Que je bois
Que je saigne
C'est que je l'aime
C'est que je l'aime
Au fur et à mesure
Que je bois
Que je saigne
C'est que je l'aime
C'est que je l'aime


I told my wife
Before she was yours
That red mud worms
Are essential for fish
I loved her for her soul
Our sienna-colored house
Our red roses and vases
I saw us under the same sky

I read to her by candlelight
So she could sleep
Stories of young men
Who died of love for a queen
Then you came, much to the chagrin
Of an unparalleled friendship
Without scruples and without regard
To set up your scene

And yet

And yet, if I tell stories and poems
Without restraint
As I drink
As I bleed
It's because I love her
It's because I love her

I thought you were my friend
Despite our bellies
Our broken mornings
Our assumed glasses
That red without the drama
Our beautiful eloquence
Our vain states of donkeys
You chose to love her

And yet

And yet, if I say without measure
Stories, poems
As I drink
As I bleed
It's because I love her
It's because I love her

I told my wife 
That as long as she was mine
Love would be the foundation
Her smile my sunshine
But your shadow on the program
Closed the shutters
The rose bushes cut down to the ground
The scent of honey is dying

And yet

And yet, if I write without measure
Stories, poems
As I drink
As I bleed
It's because I love her
It's because I love her
As I drink
As I bleed
It's because I love her
It's because I love her

C'est que je l'aime avec Ygor Jensouniev

9 PM TIL I Come - CRISPYBEATS Remix

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