This playlist was created from the songs that I been working on and re-recording for about three years. I have weeded out some songs that didn't record exactly the way that I had planned. I am having the Top 8 tracks cut to Vinyl soon. The album cover will have a QR code that links the listener to this playlist in order to download the digital files.

Firebird 400 ~ Top Tracks to Vinyl ~ 2024

rock instrumentals

80s tracks

heavy rock

Best of the Cloud 2024 04 11

MiLu Lotus ✫ Cover & Attempt ✫

July Friends

dSh Diggers 2024 Playback

turbocharged (jazz fusion)

Get The Stuff Out

Open Your Eyes

Playing an ES-175 Natural through a Boss SY-300 synthesizer. Marshall SV20C MK II amplifier for right channel. Boss Katana 100 MK II head for left channel.

Drawbacks Of The Future

Echoes Of The Ocean

Firebird 400 ~ Echoes Of The Ocean

Bulldozed

Stream & download: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/azul

We hope you like jammin too! Lofi heavyweights LESKY & Waywell are expanding their sound spectrum. With Norwegian guitar-hero MAS on board, our duo is giving their Lofi beats a Balearic twist and inject a healthy dose of jazz & fusion. All created during some long session in Tbilisi, Georgia. ‘Azul’ is the first single.

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Produced & mixed by LESKY.
Guitar by Waywell.
Bass by MAS.
Recorded in LESKY's living room in Vera, Tblisi, Georgia. 
Mastered by Roe Beardie.
Artwork by Tim Paschadag.

Cat No: MPM 332-1
Artist: LESKY, Waywell & MAS
Titel: Azul

© ℗ 2023 Melting Pot Music

LESKY, Waywell & MAS - Azul

All I Have Is A Pocket Full Of Riffs

This is the first song that I have recorded with my HeadRush Looperboard. I layered four separate acoustic guitar parts using a Taylor Koa 214ce. I then added Latin Percussion Conga Drums, Teak Shakers & Meinl Bongos using my old Yamaha MD4s minidisk recorder. Now, I have remixed this track by adding my Slingerland Snare Drum with Wire Brushes and Zildjian Constantinople Cymbals.

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Before The Last Train Stops

Before The Last Train

Larch Mourning

Did a first time collab with Phillip Johnson. he played distorted guitar and drums. I did the rest of the job. These first couple days will be a test run on all systems then replacing the file for better quality listening. on second replacement so far.

Law Of Hypnotization (First time collab ever with phillip johnson)

CHOICES

Gear used:

Ibanez UV70P 7 String Guitar
Ibanez EDB605 5 String Bass
Bias FX 2
Casio CTK 7200 Keyboard
EZ Keys I & II
EZ Drummer 2
EZ Mix I & II
EZ Master I & II
Cakewalk DAW by Bandlab

Guitars, Bass & Keys performed by me.
Drums programmed using Cakewalk DAW Sequencer Tool.

Dark Waters

Dark Waters/暗い海

Lyrics, Guitar : Peter Rand
Mix, Piano, Drums: Moe Howard
Bass: Steve Johnson
Melody, Vocals: SK

Winter snows slowly melt in the sun
A new day has only begun
These journeys melt into one
Unburdened, unfinished, undone

From tears to rivers
From the seas to skies
It's a long time coming as fools become wise

For every river
That flowed to the sea
It's a long time coming
Now you flow through me
As the fruit fell so far from the tree
The sand became one with the sea
Each captive now longs to be free
Each jailer hates every key

From tears to rivers
From the seas to skies
It's a long time coming as fools become wise

For every river
That flowed to sea
It's a long time coming
Now you flow through me



***a mix of a project I am currently working, one of my favorite songs by Peter Rand

artwork: https://pixabay.com/users/hansuan_fabregas-2902307/

Long Time Coming, ft SK  ( Moe Howard Mix, Peter Rand, Steve Johnson)

Los Manuelos - Remind Me

Lyrics:

can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was
can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was

slowly hear me
know me undo me
try me speak through
like you choose to need to

can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was
can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was

prove me I'm wrong
become undone
hold me closely
tell me how it is

can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was
can't you remind me all that's behind us
stand by easy like we knew how it was
like we knew how it was...

©Los Manuelos Bedroom Productions

Lost Manuals - Remind Me

My "Keeping it soft", again, but better!

🧚‍♂️

Don't hide away from me
The things you don't want
The things you don't want anybody else to see. 

What is your secret 
Why would you keep
Why would you keep it hidden somewhere inside you? 

I want to see you
I need to feel you
I need to feel you, how else will I ever know... 

(Don't hide away from me) 

Show me who you are,
Show me your soft side.

Keeping it soft (Mastered)

The Ground Below

Use headphones for much better listening experience!

Kaltevat Marenkisillat

自然の神秘

Under

Before Dawn (Under Ver.)

Original music by: FPMORINSTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin musician composer, maker of mood , photo from the window of the music studio last autumn 2023 in the morning.

FUSION LATIN JAZZ

Blessed be the ROCK! 🎸 🎶

Mieux Vaut La Music - O- Logie Que La Mite Au Logis

I recorded the drums and electric bass guitar around 2012. Last year, I started to record it on a better system. After re-recording the drums several times and then reworking the multiple guitar parts, I decided to go with this version. It could change again before it's over...

Sometimes I See

This track written by request of Branwen's family friend.  

Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Cozmo Jethro.
Additional voices: Lydia Matamoros-Lapp and Korey Reed.
Tik Tok sample of Branwen. 
Beat by Lazy Town. 
Scratching by Cozmo Jethro.

Lyrics:
(Sample from Branwen's tik tok channel)

That’s Branwen, she knows, waz up.
Workin as a cowgirl way down under.
Managed at McDonalds, but this is better,
In Australia, on a grand adventure.

Everybody in the house, come on lemme hear ya say Brannnn!  Brannn!
Everybody in the house, come on lemme hear ya say Branwen! Branwen!
Now somebody, anybody, everybody, screeeeaaammmm! Ahhhhhhhh!

Now Bran, she’s from Carmarthen
Ch Ch Ch Chilllin in a small farmingtown,
H H H Hailing from West Wales,
Rockin Tik Tok like a Richter Scale.

Now Branwen, that’s one brave girl,
Jumpin outta planes, and travelin the world.
Can sing and dance and rap like a b-girl.
Cowgirl, homegirl, daughter of Nigel.

Everybody in the house, come on lemme hear ya say Brannnn!  Brannn!
Everybody in the house, come on lemme hear ya say Branwen! Branwen!
Now somebody, anybody, everybody, screeeeaaammmm! Ahhhhhhhh!

She’s got 2 sisters, Elon and Rhian
The 3 of them, havin so much fun.
To Estelle and Nigel, she said farewell,
To her parents, as she travels the world.

This is Cozmo Jethro rappin bout Bran,
Man, we’re fans of your master plan.
Me and Steve wishin you luck.
As you learn life while your down under.

Branwen (beat. Lazy Town)

Waking soft
Waking slow
Fading into focus
Every breath
Every pulse
Holding in the moment
Every fall
Every rise and falling of your shoulders
And I'm trying not to try so hard for you
I'm trying not to try so hard for you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Wake me soft
Wake me slow
Fade me into focus
Every breath
Every pulse
I hold you in the moment
And I'm trying not to try so hard for you
I'm trying not to try so hard for you
Oh, oh, oh
For you
Oh, oh, oh
For you

Shoulders (Guitar-Coverattempt)

based on some loops, but I added:
string and pad synth, keyboard, drums + brass and synth solo blown with my EWI. Enjoy !
artwork: image (AI) by FranSoto / Pixabay

Projection

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) Avril/2024.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:

Instrumental Jazz-Fusion

Iron Lady

Recorded in Modesto, Ca. Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone solo. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Drums full kit. Percussion, Cow Bell, Ago go Bells, Tambourine, 22" Zildjan Ride & Crash Cymbal. Congas, Bongos.

Cannery Row

Dashing Out

My first DAW song!
I enjoyed very much doing this song?
Can you also enjoy it?

Under Pressure
In this world of expectations where success is a decree
All the pressure from everywhere can easily break you and me
Schooling us with numbers and facts, who care is’s breaking our backs
All the promises I must keep still hunt me in my sleep
In this circle of demands the pressure still expands

Education should be the key, but if the pressure breaks me?
What if I cannot break free?

You think when I smile I’m shinning so bright, but deep within there is a fear I can’t fight
All the pressure closing on me, expectations, how to be free?
How can I handle the wight before it is too late?
The obligations are so strong, where do I belong?

Success is what we strive for, but I wonder if there’s more
Expectations are everywhere,  all the pressure I have to bear

Under Pressure

Dedicated to 29 years old police officer Rouven Laur who lost his life today in Mannheim being stabbed down by an islamistic attacker while trying to save the life of another victim of this terror attack. Rest in peace, may you be never forgotten.
written in 1994

Pulseless (2024)

Cast of characters:
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ—piano, synth, lead vocals, lyrics, seed idea 
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–electric and acoustic guitar, slide guitar intro 
mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – backing vocals, organ, vst sax, mix, and production
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – four-string fretless bass
Composition--The Eclectic Collective

  This song began as an idea JJ came up with during one of his Saturday night creative sessions, fleshed out on the piano, drums, and bass. I was first on this by coming up with a new bass line to go with it, but Ken was also an integral part of that process, as always, too, adding his perfectly suited drums to it. Once we had the rhythm section down, Stephen added his electric guitar, which adds a great howling at the moon esthetic to it, and his acoustic guitar as a foundational element. He also added the cool slide guitar you hear in the intro. 
  At this point, JJ decided it needed some vocals, too. So, he wrote up some lyrics and sang them, giving his typically light, gentle voice some rough swagger. Mark then came along and added the rich backing vocals you hear in there. He also added the sax solo and the organ, too He also was able to correct some timing issues we were having, by using his able hand in the DAW. Then, of course as every good song needs a good mix, Mark did the honors for us with this one, too.
  This is a true Eclectic Collective song, and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.   Also, in case you were wondering where Josh and Tez have been, they've both just returned from vacations in North Carolina and Ireland, but are excited to be back making music with the team.
Original lyrics by JJ Terrell:
That fog around the mountain

is getting set to rise

pulling these wheels on down the road lord

is pulling my heart right out


If you really love someone now

wouldn't you want it to be a hundred to none?

instead of traveling around with a scorecard by your side


ooooh oh yeah

gonna set you free


ooooh, oh yeah

gonna leave you be
that fog around the mountain
it's like a dream
my heart, it has soon forgotten
a rolling stone like me

saxophone
looking down that dusty road
sun's beatin' down

pulling these wheels on down the road lord
has got me down
until I see you again. 




That Dusty Road (Eclectic Collective)

Cast of characters: 

Quanah Stewart --vocals, lyrics
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–electric guitar, synths, arrangement, composition, mix, and production 
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – four-string fretless bass
 
This song began with Stephen and his friend and bandmate, Quanah Stewart who also sings this version, and who wrote the lyrics. They were in a band together for about 7 years in the early 2000s. When the band broke up, they went many years without playing together. Until, in 2018 Stephen started his TexMex shaman project and this was one of the first songs he wrote.  Quanah had moved to Austin in the meantime but on a visit back to Dallas, Stephen asked him to come over and add the vocal track you hear on the song.  
 
Fast forward to 2024 and Stephen wanted to remix this along with a few other older tunes. He asked his good friends and teammates Ken and me if we'd like to help, and of course, we were super enthusiastic.  This is what Stephen had to say about the finished product. "Their parts blew me away.  Beyond what I expected and it made it a whole new song.  Very grateful to them both for their time and talent." As are Ken and I very grateful to Stephen for sharing his awesome rocker with us.  
  The title comes from trying to think of the stupidest song title Stephen could come up with, on a bet. And it’s close. 
  Of course, Stephen did the honors of mixing and producing it. Ken and Josh had a lot of fun brining this song back to life with him, whose creativity and skill are unparalleled. We all hope you (and Quanah) enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original Lyrics by Quanah Stewart:
1212 still like to dance still like to sing deep cover elevator parking lot bring yeah THEY don't know about IT THEY aint seen we squeakin tweakin but were bufferin th stream yeah favorite stories favorite songs hey check th timeline might be gettin mighty long now my mind expanded my mind IS blown my head exploded but I dont know what it shown yeah (unknowable silence) NOW ITS some bullshit we went through who knew th
CHASMS came & got you 2 still sayin fuck you still stayin high still makin me believe that Bon Scott never died rye whens the punchline when
IS IT near nobody laughin said that no one shed o tear NOW so whats th story what th eff we gonna have to make IT with what little we got left yeah yeah

Tallywhacker OMG! (with Stephen and Ken of Eclectic Collective, and sung by Qhanah Stewart)

Album Summer Of The Seasonal Optimist 2024 
...with a little help from my friends...

Summer Of The Seasonal Optimist

OUT TODAY

Lyrics, Score, Production - Mia Wilks 


I wrote this track about not wanting to lose someone. 
Not physical loss but someone who’s going through a tough time and switches off; not able to talk any more.  
The line ‘I will sit with you in the dark’ refers to listening to someone and trying to understand their feelings. It’s about people who can’t be present. 

With You lyrics (Copyright PRS) 

Ever since you went 
I remember when 
We used to talk 
All the days you saw the person that I was 
But it’s all gone now 
But it’s all gone now 

Life was perfect 
With you in it 
Everyday felt like a breeze 
With you in it 
And like a kite on a windy day 
When all your troubles go away 
I felt like that 

‘Cause if you ever came back 
I will sit with you in the dark 
With you
With you
I will sit with you in the dark 
With you
With you
I will sit with you in the dark 
With you 
With you 
I will, I will sit with you in the dark

Ever since you went 
I remember when
We used to talk 
All the days you saw the person that I was 
But it’s all gone now 
But it’s all gone now 

Life was worth it 
With you in it 
Everyday was met with ease 
With you in it 
And like the sky on a night in May  
When all the stars lit up the grey 
I felt like that

Ever since you went 
I remember when
We used to talk 
All the days you saw the person that I was 
But it’s all gone now 
But it’s all gone now 

Life was perfect 
With you in it
Every day had guarantees 
With you in it
And like the the love that I felt on that day
And forever I needed to stay 
I felt like that

With You

THE BOY - YOU STOLE MY SUN
out now on everywhere🫶

This music is gentle, sometimes cynical, and makes you feel comfortable. 

This was a big challenge! Whisper voice, acoustic sound, sad chill jazzy vibes. 99 BPM and this song ends in 2 minutes and 3 seconds. I want to deliver this song to the bedrooms of people who live alone with problems like me. I do think so.

YOU STOLE MY SUN

I am using Boss Phase Shifter and Tremolo Pedals. I will add drums and bass guitar some day... I am trying to achieve a Pink Floyd Prog-rock vibe by building from ambient and fusion strains. I finally got around to adding the Drums and Bass guitar to this song. I also reworked with my Taylor Sinker acoustic guitar using my Boss SY-300 synth.

Windflower Anemone

Firebird 400 ~ Windflower Anemone

On this song, I am trying to get a Pink Floyd (underlying pulsating ambiance) vibe. Or maybe if they were jamming along with Khruangbin! Mastered by Dolby ~ Aurora to hit the Sweet-Spot!

Soultripp

Solar Flares/Sun Chaser

Solar Flares

Firebird 400 ~ Solar Flares/Sun Chaser

Crosswinds

Am Buachaille Ban

The Haggis

I like to play riffs through Marshall Mini Stacks and go back later and add the BOSS effects.

Sometimes I See

Brad Bilbro