Pensive & deeply illustrative journey full of cinematic warmth... :)

I've been wandering a desert forever at this point but I see the oasis on the horizon...

ooh, this one is beyond amazing....congratulations!

What an epic kick, all the other stuff too

One of my older songs updated this week, I may remix the tune with a classical treatment in the future. 

In the meantime, I wish you sweet dreams. I also hope that fears or threats are vanquished as quickly in your life as they are in my Bedtime Story. Happy trails!✨

90 bpm with tempo shifts 
DAW Apple Logic Pro X 
MIDI Akai Pro MPK  
E-instruments: 
Steinway Grand Piano 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
 Flamenco Echoes
Steel String Acoustic
Upright Ballad Bass
Violas
Cellos
French Horns
E-drum kits:
Latin Kit Pandeiro, Tambourine, Congas, Bongos
Pop Kit Maraca, Shaker
Classic Hip Hop Remix Analog Kick, Gated Snare, Hi-Hats, Cymbal
Atlanta Hi-Hats, Crash
Mystic Groove Chimes

Audio
* Bird chirps recorded live May 29 and June 15, 2024.
* Cicadas recorded live June 22, 2024
* Train recorded live October 17, 2023
* “I’m gonna get ya” vocal recorded live July 11, 2024, of my voice transposed 4 steps down. Sounds like LL Cool J’s voice to me. 😀

Cover art: A Photoshop composite of many photos from pexels.com as follows:
* Woman in body of water by Pixabay
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-body-of-water-235469/
* Brown Monolith Under Teal and Gray Milky Way by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-monolith-under-teal-and-gray-milky-way-1624360/
* White Swan (wings) by Anthony
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-swan-132479/
* White Horse on the Beach by Missi Köpf
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-horse-on-the-beach-6215909/

Bedtime Story

Music & Lyrics: Jan Schonander

Sometimes you go to a dark place.

WRETCHED BEGGAR

Ooooo….
Ooooo….

I don’t want you
I don’t need you
Why don’t you 
Why won’t you
Why can’t you
Get out of my way 
It’s my way

All you do
When I’m in your arms
All you do 
To twist and turn me
All you do
To look the other way
Alll you do
To ignore me

I should leave you
I can’t bear you
Why don’t I
Why won’t I
Why can’t I
Get out of my way 
Gotta be one day

A little devil in my mind
Poking me with his red hot trident
White smile on his face
I feed him 
I feed him
That fat little bastard
I’m gonna get the wretched beggar

All I do
To forget myself
All I do
To erase myself
Never do
Anything I used to
Never do
Anything I want to

Better for you
Better for me
I think we
I believe we
I hope we
Get out of my way 
Never better than today

Wretched Beggar

This song is inspired by George Orwell's book Coming up for Air. Suppose I ought to go and read it.

Coming Up For Air

First song I am posting in 2024!

This is what I wrote in 2013 when I first thought about posting Nothing But (The Sound) but decided to take it down from the cloud short after. 

"Nothing But (The Sound)" is Plastic Inevitable's first song since 2011! Plastic Inevitable is Marty Procaccio, AKA Blankets, working the sound and Sneekie San Salvador tweaking the sound. The recording for this song began in 2011 in the bedroom recording studio of Marty in Santa Clara California using GarageBand and a whole bunch of pedals. The song was completed in 2013 with vocals recorded in Sneekie San Salvador's mobile Toyota recording unit.

Now it is 11 years later...

I am amazed that I found the vocal stems. I had to look though an old hard drive to find them. I did not feel like digging through more old hard drives for the original track stems. Big thanks to Russell for taking the time to mix the vocals and master the track. I told Russell, when I mixed the original instrumental I was listening to a lot of shitgaze bands at the time. 

May you find many gems when you dig into your past. 

Track Credits:
Blankets: Bass, guitars, and vocals
https://soundcloud.com/allergeist
Couch King: Original instrumental track mix, production, samples, lyrics, and vocals
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
Russell Sinfield: Vocal mix and final master
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
https://soundcloud.com/the-exe-stencilists
The Chaos Cookhouse: Studio
https://chaoscookhouse.bandcamp.com

Lyrics: 

Chorus:
Sitting in my car
Windows rolled down
Feet out the window
Nothing but the sound
Of my favorite song

Capture me a distraction
And season it with your bliss
To steal my dissatisfaction 
And feed my mind but a moment
Of happiness 

Chorus

Capture me a distraction
And season it with your bliss
To steal my dissatisfaction 
And feed my mind but a moment

Chorus  

In this moment
There is an infinite 
Amount of things
Happening
In this moment
I have loved you
Infinitely 
Again and again
In this moment 
I am yours
Forever with me
My forever friend
In this moment 
I sing with you
Every song 
That was ever made

Nothing But (The Sound)

Blankets and the Couch King with Russ Sinfield - Nothing But (The Sound)

58_Andored - released on 07 April 2024

Andor (Inspir)ed! This is inspired of the episode intro & outro of the Star Wars series “Andor”! #darkwave #electronic #liverecording

(produced with Blocs Wave & Launchpad)

Andored!

My tribute to 50s Hollywood SF film music.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DXWVdhRgbE

Flying Soccer Invasion (video available)

Closing

Video;
https://youtu.be/esXzz50j9I4

https://hega.bandcamp.com/album/life-therapy

Made in #Ableton (May 2024)

Genres;
#Ambient
#Ethno
#Experimental
#Electronic

Life Therapy

Recorded/Mixed: Audacity
Guitar: Cort MR710 LH NS
Mic: Rhode USB Mini

Lyrics: 

I'm gonna write another love song
For my mother
In an attempt to be strong
I became the perfect son.
I'm gonna write another love song,
For my mother.
For my mother.

I see you, mum.
I'll be your heart, your rock, your faith in life,
So you can grow to be someone.
I love you, mum.
I'll be your hope, your world, the one who always,
Fills you up.

But mother, mother!
The price I pay for this role-
Oh mother, mother! 
Is taking too much toll. 

Cos as I write another love song,
Even all, these years after you're gone-
As I write another love song,
All I know is how to grow,
All I know is how to grow into the perfect son.
For someone!
And now you are gone, there is no one.

Who do I turn to now?
Who do I turn to now?
Turn to now. 
Turn to now.

I called to the moon,
And she reflected the sun's light,
On my heart.
I called to the ocean,
And waves of beautiful emotion,
Float around me,
As the birds flew in the sky, mother!
I called to the mountain,
And the path that I followed led me,
To another mountain,
Just another mountain,
Always,
Another mountain.
Always another mountain.

Finally I called to my heart.
The love inside,
Was a place,
Where I could start.
I could start.

Mirror! 
I never see your face in the mirror, Mum.
I often wonder, if without you, I will ever be someone.
All I knew, crumbled and flew,
Away in the wind-
Breeze touched my skin,
And I stood,
Ever so still,
Ever so still.
And a place, inside, 
Where nobody can hide,
Where even the music is quiet,
Where even the colours are blind,
Where even the senses have no mind,
Where even a scream has no meaning,
I stood there, mother.

And in that space, my face,
It looked out towards-
Another. 

I will never know what they saw.
But I don't question that they saw me - at all. 
Mother!

I wrote another love song, for my mother.
I wrote another love song-
For my mother.
For my mother.

But also now, 
For another.
And another.
And another.
-end- 


Original Poem: 

I’m gonna write another love song
For my mother 
In an attempt to be strong, I became the perfect son.
I’m gonna write another love song 
For my mother 
For my mother

I see you mum. 
I’ll be your heart, your rock, your faith in life,
So you can grow to be someone. 
I love you mum. 
I’ll be your hope, your will, 
The one who always fills,
You up. 

But mother,
Oh mother.
The price I pay for this role.
Mother oh mother
It’s taking too much toll. 

Cos as I write another love song. 
Even all these years after you’re gone. As I write another love song, mum. 
All I know 
Is how to grow
Into the the perfect son
For someone
And you are gone
So there is no-one. 
And I am lost 
In the dark

Who do I turn to now? 

I called to the moon and she reflected the sun’s light on my heart. 
I called to the ocean! And waves of beautiful emotion flowed around me as the birds flew in the sky. 
Oh mother! 
I called to the mountain. And the path that I followed led me to another mountain. Just another mountain. Always another mountain. 

And finally I called to my heart. The love inside was a place I could start. 

I never see your face in the mirror, mum! 

I often wonder if without you I will ever be someone. 

As all I knew crumbled and flew
Away in the wind
The breeze touched my skin.
I stood ever so still
And there inside that space where nobody can hide. 
Where even the music is quiet
Where even the colours are blind
Where even the senses have no mind
Where even a scream, has no meaning. 

There I stood mother. 
And in this space,
My face. 
Looked out towards another. 

I will never know what they saw. 
But I don’t question that they saw me - at all. 

My mother. My mother. 
I wrote another love song
For my mother. 
But also now - 
for the Other. 


© Ben -Tam Jennifer Hastings, 2024. All rights reserved.

I Wrote Another Love Song ~ For My Mother (Acoustic, 2024)

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BELIAL PELEGRIM is an electronic musician and producer whose work covers a blend of dark, sometimes cinematic music with an experimental sensibility, created with the help of electricity and dark matter. 

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