What a fantastic journey! This whole end part is magical!

Nicely done 👌🏻😎is that a turdle or a turtle 🤣just playin🕺

Great beat and rhythms carry this beautifully... Such a fresh dreamy dopeness to it

Wonderful & lush blend of instruments.   Brilliant mixing & performance.

eponymous collective

Any The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans around?

Brief conversation with a somewhat upset sentient elevator

Sometimes we feel like drowning into an abyss of fears and disappointments and it seems that there is no way out but there is still hope and light in our souls that will help us to find the way to the light. 

Abyss Rflections

Check out, Ducks on Quack in Space, also on Soundcloud. @user-713093027

Im a Man of Many Thinkings

A new Proof of Utah track. 
The yellow turtle is located towards the top left and just beyond the edge of the image.
drum kit and percussion: louie simon https://soundcloud.com/lsimon33
additional sonics: mike brosco
photo: suzanne rinehart

Yellow Turtle (w/Louie Simon)

FM SQ FX EX

Lost in Celestial Haze

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

www.taqs.im
SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery



From the new album 'Welcome Anomaly"
moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-anomaly

On "Welcome Anomaly" Mood Exhibit returns to electronic sounds with a fierce enthusiasm.
This new album contains some of the boldest and most adventurous electronic music from the mind of ME. - exploring IDM, electro, melodic electronica, and granular experimental, all with an emphasis on detail and evolution.


Mood Exhibit - Performance Mode

Just moving previous posts!! Steve Vervaet on vocals( Steve’s Planet). Josh on bass and composition ( Entheogenic Psychonaught).. Stephen on guitar ( Tex Mex Shaman) Tez( Llanpsych), on guitar,JJ Terrell on keyboards …Yours truly, K2.. on drums and percussion! Hope you dig it.. it’s from July, 2023!!! Yes!

Second Floor-Eclectic Collective

Music: Little Man & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocals: Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix: Little Man

  Lyrics:

I have to ask myself
Is it all your fault, is it just you?
If I need someone to blame
It's easier to turn away
Feel big for one more day

But I am here to learn
And see myself for how I am to you

Are you the only one who did wrong?
If I need someone to blame
I don't see myself, only you
But I can make mistakes
It's easier to turn away
Feel big for one more day

But I am here to learn
And see myself for how I am to you

Am I the only one who can see..?
We are both to blame
You also make mistakes, like me
If we need someone to blame
It's easier to turn away
Feel big for one more day

But I am here to learn
And see myself for how I am to you..

I am here to learn..

I am here to learn...

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-Thank you so much for listening! 🫶

I Am Here To Learn

Limited time Pumpkin Day release.  Happy Halloween!

Dance of the Wild Pumpkins

Carnage

Ghost of my Rage

my everything

telescopio

An Ocean For The Empty

I'm primarily a guitar player but I'll try to make music with anything you throw at me. When left to my own devices I enjoy recording minimalist ambient pieces and textural soundscapes. My principal sound source for these efforts is manipulated guitar but I often include electronics and organic sources. I enjoy working on collaborations with other musicians. Please contact me if you are interested.
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I am the co-founder of the 80's indie avant-garde mutant pop band Proof of Utah, the Smiley Turtle Records label and the Smiley Turtle Recording Studio. For a taste of the Smiley Turtle sound check out: https://soundcloud.com/user-745187095
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*** Visit the collaborators' websites:

Louie Simon @lsimon33
Stan Magendanz @stan_magendanz
Wodwo @user-364196783-552705040
Lone Arrivals @tiny_wytch and @tinywytch
Marcin Gruszczynski http://www.fairlyconfusing.net/

Yellow Turtle (w/Louie Simon)

Brosco

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