Intriguing, like Bach drinking a bottle of wine and meandering into the cathedral.

I am starting my journey with these wonderful TAFFETA's.  I have already enjoyed a sneak peek ahead of the story but i did my best to close the book so i could enjoy from the start.

In fact I am making it an evening.  I was looking forward to doing this and will see you at the end. Cheers!

It's like an invitation to a theatrical performance. Let's begin the journey. People coming in and taking seats... nice :)

A 266 part musical storybook. Each new section of the story is uploaded every Saturday.

This is the musical story of a young woman named Taffeta who is recently widowed and falls into a coma. While in the coma, Taffeta's mind wanders from one strange place to another. She experiences a variety of surreal and fantastical landscapes, each with its own unique inhabitants and dangers. As she travels through these strange worlds, Taffeta must confront her inner demons and come to terms with her grief over the loss of her husband. Ultimately, she must find a way to wake up from her coma and move on with her life.

Volume 1, containing parts 1-15: 
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-1

Volume 2, containing parts 16-30:
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-2

Volume 3, containing parts 31-45
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-3

Volume 4, containing parts 46-60
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-4

Volume 5, containing parts 61-75
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-5

Volume 6, containing parts 76-90
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-6

Volume. 7, containing parts 91-105
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/taffeta-vol-7

COVER YOUR TORSO WITH TAFFETA! Check out the official TAFFETA 2022 t-shirt!
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/merch/belial-pelegrim-official-taffeta-desig

TAFFETA | A 266 Part Musical Storybook

Mark Duffield: voice, vocal melody, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/markduffieldcollaboration
Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mixing
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Across the bay
Many many many miles away
See a crescent moon
Reflected in a field of poppies bloomed

Take a step into this vision, soon
Grab a flower and throw it at the moon

(YOU)
Don’t ask me how you’re gonna get there soon
(Don’t ask me, don’t ask me, do)
(YOU)
You might as well throw a flower at the moon

Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon
Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon

Save our wrecks
Oh then, say the best
Get it off your chest
Just another shipwreck

Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
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image: Bart Ros via Unsplash

Poppies (with Mark Duffield)

PLEASE READ THIS! THIS IS NOT A PROMOTION!
I'm posting this here as a curiosity and... a sorts of warning. Artificial Intelligence has entered the sphere of music creation. And it hits with enormous power...

This is a song that my wife (she's German Language teacher) generated using Suno.ai in about 2 minutes, just giving it a prompt to generate a rock song. Its lyrics come from a really cheesy song included in a children's textbook. She just wanted the song to sound more accessible to today's kids. She didn't actually realize what this song would cause. And it left me completely shocked and actually questioning the point of further activities in music... 

My wife, by generating this song, gave the A.I. ​​a lot of scope for its own "imagination". She did not specify the structure of the song or the elements to be included in it - which can be set by entering appropriate comments in the song's text. What surprised me is how wisely the A.I. ​​approached this task, how it determined what should be included in this song. A huge surprise for me is the second part of the song, where the A.I., having no more lyrics, created something incredible, using elements such as triplet, half-time and returning when we expect the song to have ended. What's even more surprising is that the A.I. ​​understood that it was a song in German and was inspired by German-speaking bands such as Die Ärzte and used the typical German song structure, including the sound of the vocals.

Yes, I know, I do music for fun, but I still don't know what to do next... I'm thinking how it will impact the music industry? Let's talk about it in the comments and remember - let's be polite.

Below is a link to the original song, I improved it a bit, but whether it's for the better is a matter of taste:
https://app.suno.ai/song/180bb869-7d3f-47d7-86fa-8f44261ee80c/
And here is another one that left me speechless, also generated by my wife:
https://app.suno.ai/song/d5cb1dec-43ca-4d5f-a6f0-f4d8b5825cdc/

(WARNING! This was generated by A.I.) Du kannst ja mal... (das Tierbuch fragen)

The essence of the night .

Poésie sonore et sensuelle
Splendid lyrics written and said by La Gazelle https://soundcloud.com/amandine-esno
Music by Damga

Eloge Sensuel De La Rousseur

Eloge Sensuel De La Rousseur (La Gazelle & Damga)

Downloadable 
First of new dance club style sets

Mood Exhibit - Klub Affliktion

Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, 2024, all rights reserved. 
Thank you for listening :)

Lyrics:
You go your way the best you can
No one was there to guide you
You did not get protection and
You tried to get your way through
Little phoenix, little phoenix, little phoenix, do it again.

You had to look for shelter
You had to teach your self
You stumbled and you fell
You always were rising as well
Little phoenix, little phoenix, little phoenix, do it again.

Your willpower is unbreakable
You try and try again
Your courage is unshakable
although you know the pain
Little phoenix, little phoenix, little phoenix, do it again.

Little Phoenix

Little Phoenix By Neli CoKo

Good evening to my SC friends. I hope life is treating you all well.

First thing I want to share… there is a reason why so many of my recent songs don’t include write-ups. I promised myself a long time ago I would search out positive and productive ideas, and only share those. But lately, I’m wasting a lot of time and energy dwelling in darker territories. It’s way too easy for my ego to jump on the ‘fear’ bandwagon (that’s happening to a lot of us these days); and I feel an intense responsibility to never use my writing abilities to spread more of that kind of thinking. 

Granted, I am also in a regular state of arguing with that very convincing voice, reminding it that it is only focusing on one perspective (the ‘fear’ one). That right there is gift number one… having a separate voice in my head, working diligently to raise the bar. And it’s a gift we all have; the voice that gently sits above the voice of the ego… reminding us ‘this is all about discovering the love in any given scenario’. The problem is, the ego can get noisy enough to mute that other voice; and it’s easy to forget it’s still there.

But when I achieve those moments of clarity, I laugh at how susceptible I am to my own negative thinking. What I really believe deep down is that (as experiential souls) we’re all actually doing great, and this is all going according to plan. 

I know, I know. Have I lost my mind? That can’t be possible, right? We can’t be ok? There is simply too much evidence to the contrary.

That ‘evidence’ is gift number two. Thanks to tools like the internet and social media, we can see this all happening live, everywhere, and all at once (including the now obvious lies). For the first time in documented history, anything you want to know is readily at your fingertips. 

Granted, the folks who want to control us understand human psychology well enough to use that information (drizzled in fear) to manipulate us… which seems like a bad thing. But I want to suggest it’s actually a good thing. Our hearts really only want to love (and be loved): and our ego can only take so much negative info before the body grows sick with that energy. Using a nightmare as an example… you’ll endure a lot in that sleeping state, until you reach a tipping point. And then you snap awake from the nightmare, cringe at how convincing it was, and tell yourself “I don’t ever want to experience that again. That was scary.” We need these nightmares for perspective. And the worse the nightmare gets, the more people are destined to wake up from it.

Here’s where my ideas get weird. Instead of fearing all those voices who are currently driving civilization to the brink (of who knows what, just yet). What if we thanked them. What if those frightened/frightening voices are inadvertently doing exactly what we need them to be doing… breaking the nightmare, by making it unbearable. These days, when someone tells me I need to be afraid, I immediately gravitate to the thought ‘what do you stand to gain by making me feel that way?” And that is usually enough to spark other ways of thinking. 

Simply speaking, we can determine the trustability of a message by determining its underlying energy: Fear = Bad, Love = Good. So many institutions want us to be afraid right now, and I genuinely question the motives behind anyone pushing that agenda. So yes, I thank all those leaders out there; the ones forcing fear on us so relentlessly. You are waking us up faster than you realize. And while your precariously unsustainable structure won’t survive this awakening… the human race will. 

I hope you enjoy my latest sonic swirl, ‘Poly Ticks And The Powdered Keg’. :)

Free DL on SC :)

Poly Ticks And The Powdered Keg

Recording sessions from 06/04/2024 - 13/04/2024.

*** MOOG - Microfreak - Guitare - Spark

What humans of our century are sorely lacking is the mental capacity for reflection, which has become very rare!
Think before you act, because afterwards, it will be too late once the dice are thrown... victory as well as defeat, with tears and gnashing of teeth...
“It is better to think before acting than to regret after having acted” Democritus

Ce qui manque cruellement aux humains de notre siècle, c'est la capacité mentale de la réflexion qui est devenue très rare !
Réfléchir avant d'agir, car après, il sera trop tard une fois les dès lancés... la victoire comme la défaite, avec des pleurs et des grincements de dents...
"Mieux vaut réfléchir avant d'agir que regretter après avoir agi" Démocrite
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- Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
- Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
- Cover Art - Pier WILL
- Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite,   Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
- #Ambient #Movies #Experimental 
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Reflection

The Million Star Hotel

Big thanks to my friend Nate for coming straight to the swamp with his slide guitars..truly grateful. Check out his amazing music here: 
https://on.soundcloud.com/HaMdAJQfN5qRC4kE8

Bļackbírd

Let them slowly float down and sing, 
blackbird following the wind 
Let them, carry upon broken wings,
Blackbird, following the wind 
Blackbird, carrying my sin

Let them, listen what the old house sings, 
Blackbird, following the wind
Let them, swallow what they came to bring,
Blackbird following the wind 
Blackbird, carrying his sin 

Blackbird, blacking out the morning sun
Can you, pick out the innocent one 
Blackbird, blacking out the morning sun 
Can you, follow home the soul that runs
Will see through what can not be done 

Blackbird, crying from the sky above..
From the swamp, down the road there’s a the rising gun 
Blackbird, tell me who you gonna choose
Slow wind from the north bring something new 
Streetlight, night shines from the old house stoop 


. . . … . . . … . .   .    .

Bļackbírd {FŤ} Nathanial Ehrnman

Part 1 of 266
Installments to be released every Saturday.

The TAFFETA Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 1

Part 2 of 266
Installments to be released every Saturday.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part1

The TAFFETA Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 2

Part 3 of 266
Installments to be released every Saturday.
I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds in this project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part1
Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part2

The TAFFETA Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 3

Part 4 of 266
Installments released every Saturday.

I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds in this project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part1
Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part2
Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-3

The TAFFETA Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/sets/taffeta-a-266-part-musical

TAFFETA | Part 4

Part 5 of 266
Installments released every Saturday.

I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds within the scope of the Taffeta project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part1
Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part2
Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-3
Part 4: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim/taffeta-part-4

TAFFETA | Part 5

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. 

My new album, SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER THERE is now out on Arcanum Records:
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/something-that-was-never-there

If you're into unsettling cinematic soundtrack work, my new album with Callisto's Ghost, available in limited digipack CD or digital formats:
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/the-imperishable-splendor-of-the-sunfish

Also please check out the Belial Pelegrim/Beefus B project, @cabal-akademik

BP singles and albums can be found on Bandcamp, i-tunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, and other web-based retail distributors.

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