C'mon Bruce
You're stuck in a rut
Do Paris, do Rome
Gotta get off your butt
You only got one life
Gotta see Rio
Climb Kilimanjaro
Ski Lake Tahoe

But I don't wanna go
So leave me alone
I'll keep my lazy ass closer to home
No thank you man
I got a better plan
And I'm gonna be just fine
    *****************
On South Padre, or St. Simon's,
Any beach will do,
In the islands, Caribbean,
'long as I'm with you.

Breakfast At The Beach

Cast of Characters:
One Man Verity Show-- @one-man-verity-show – Scotty -- guitar
mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – percussion and triangle 
cgmaness-- @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– guitar, production, and mix
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –electric piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- five string fretless bass, seed idea

Composition-- The Eclectic Collective

This song started with me coming up with a bassline and the arrangement. I started it as a project for the Eclectic Collective, so they were all immediately involved. Ken first laid down his rock solid groove of a drum beat to complete the rhythm section. Scotty was first after that, adding some melodic/rhythmic guitar magic to the mix. Stephen then blew the doors off of it when he added his melodic, dirty guitar to it. JJ was up next with his funky electric piano to fill it in. Chris then came in and added the trippy, swirling, psychedelic guitars. Mark also came along towards the end and added some really cool, but subtle percussion, and if you listen for it, a triangle in there, too.
  Of course every good song needs a good producer. Stephen was able to wrangle this into a good mix, thankfully. He also very cleverly came up with and added the psychedelic break in there between the first and second verses. Chris also added some really cool vocals to that part, too.
  This one was a lot of fun to make, and was our second song with Scotty, with whom we really enjoy making music. I named it such because I wanted the spirit of welcoming lots of musicians to come through. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed making it.

Come on in (Eclectic Collective)

First day of vacation 
25/5 2024 
 Photo: H.Skeneby
 Kungälv - Fontin Forest

Left  ARP 2600
Right  Roland TR 8
Middle  Moog Model D

Summer Rave

Written and Produced by Francesca Louise
Recorded, Produced and Mixed by James Wyatt @ Sloe Flower Studio
Mastered by Rogan Kelsey @ Kelsey Mastering

Vocal - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Backing Vocal - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Drums / Percussion - Josh Neale
Bass - Aaron Stout
Acoustic Guitar - Francesca Louise Fairclough
Piano - Francesca Louise Fairclough

Artwork - Francesca Louise

Waiting For You

Waiting For You - Single

Cast of characters:
Surfers Like Us– @user-411502040 –Artur–composition, arrangement, and foundational rhythm guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–guitar, sitar, mix, mastering, and production
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ, electric piano, and synth
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion
Llanpsych– @llanpsych –Tez–Guitar 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –four string fretless bass 

This song is the brainchild of Artur, who composed it on his guitar perfectly for collaboration, and presented it to us with his vision for the entire sound. Ken went first, of course, adding his signature rocking beat to the song. I went next, as soon as Ken had laid down the drums, adding my four string fretless bass sound to fill out the rhythm section. 
  Tez came along soon after me, adding some foundational ornamentation with his guitar. JJ jumped in right after Tez, and laid in the majestic organ, riffing electric piano, and subtle synth you hear throughout. Finally, Stephen laid his guitar in there, too, which can be heard as a fiery melodic line running throughout. At Artur's suggestion, he also added some amazing, trippy sitar in a couple of spots, too.
  Once all the tracks were laid down, Stephen came through with his always skillful mix. This makes almost an album worth of material that The Eclectic Collective has created from Artur's ideas. We're always excited when he drops a new one in our laps. He wrote this on a sweet rainy day in the Polish summer. 
  We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
  We all appreciate your support, and encourage you to share this song if you've read the whole way down to the bottom here.

Sweet Rainy Day (Eclectic Collective with Surfers Like Us)

Daydreamer

Celui qui marche sait que le chemin est plus facile à deux. Célèbre celui ou celle qui  t’accompagne.

English translation: 

Often you don't see
all the love hidden behind my words
You say my lyrics are too twisted
You don't like my singing voice either
So you advised me to do slam
Like in this album by kyan
That we like

I don't know if I know how to do slam or rap
If I'm really an urban artist
But I try to make square grooves
and fit poetry to the beat
to extract a little beauty from it
like a pulse of life
that doesn't need to go fast
to show our finest moments

call it modesty
but I hide and I conceal
In images and formulas
What is beautiful
and belongs only to us
because I am one of those who believe
That there is a real elegance
To say without saying, and to be able
to speak to one person in front of everyone

But if creating was forbidden
That our lives were just samples
If books burned again
I'd say it with simple words

Anyway you're my last conversation
I can't find more inspiration anywhere else
You've erased the makeup so much
That you've made the other women faceless
Ghosts without substance that wander
Revealed to the light with sandpaper

Crystal cuts the truth hurts
Frankness is your nobility
No more secrets, we talk to each other frankly No more playing hide and seek
Of sawing off your branch with the axe blows of cowardice in the breaches
I let go of the bitches I said I'm going to get on with hashtags

sometimes it clashes we take out the kalashnikov we trash each other
but every day I bring my ganache
at H hour to the house
our paradise our base far from the hustle and bustle

if around us everything is destroyed
that the forests are nothing but ashes
with the child we built
and our love
we would recreate the world

you put so much light in my life
that you swept away the shades of gray
revealed the colors to my eyes
and damn it changes
now I can see the future in orange
and repaint walls in blue happiness
no more black no more coldness

tenderness you gave me rage
the rage to live a form of courage
to fight for what matters
to see my chains to be able to break them
to no longer be a slave
to no longer be afraid
to burn with my shackles
and rise from my ashes as a winner

all our magical moments
have changed me into a phoenix
I have flames all around me
But I burn with you in pure love

it is in the fire that we built ourselves
no one can take that from us
and every minute of our lives
I would spend them just defending ourselves

Les Mots Simples

｢週は週末から始まる ~ TEEN CHORUS ET CONTRAPUNCTUS」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music composed and performed by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Produced at Kolima Forest Studios.

Cover art: "The Magic Mantle"(1854) by Isobel Lilian Gloag.
Edited by me.

Breakfast At The Beach

Bruce Avery