The Ulysses butterfly, or Papilio ulysses, is a large swallowtail butterfly native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. It is a common sight in the rainforests of Cairns, Queensland. The Ulysses butterfly is known for its striking blue and black wings, which can reach up to 14 cm in length. The males have a bright blue patch on their forewings, while the females have a more subdued blue color. The Ulysses butterfly is a fast and erratic flier, making it difficult to photograph. It is most active on sunny days, when it can be seen feeding on nectar from flowers. The Ulysses butterfly is an important pollinator of rainforest plants. It is also a popular tourist attraction, and many people visit Cairns specifically to see this beautiful butterfly.


Ulysses

No one knows what they’re doing
Don’t believe everything you think
Some things aren’t worth pursuing
Don’t believe everything you think
Feelings aren’t facts
They’re weapons of mass distraction
Holding on won’t change the past
You can win the game by not playing
Complaining won’t change the past
You can win the game by not playing
Don’t believe everything you think
No one knows what they’re doing
Don’t believe everything you think
Some things aren’t worth pursuing
Don’t believe everything you think
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light

Don't Believe Everything You Think

The path of least resistance

Original title: I like to sample old drums

Open collaborations have always triggered me and they have to be cooked, when they are still hot. So when I listened to the new track of Marquis I knew immediately what I wanted to do and created a remix in a few hours. My approach is, that I have replaced the warm and organic sounding drum-loops with cold and sterile sounding synth-sounds. Though I am far from being a Hip hop-producer I tried to apply a polished and modern attitude. I painstakingly recreated the groove of the original loops, shifting sounds exactly to the same place. All sounds are made with the Zebra-synth and mixed in Logic. I used two raps and tried to create a smooth transition between them.

Open Collab original: https://soundcloud.com/couch-king-presents/i-like-to-sample-old-drums

Lyrics 
Take The Max Down To Hillsboro  
Hey maybe when were done collabing  
You should  
Take the max down to hillsboro  
Kickback and relax 
We could have fun 
Eat some cake at Decadent Creations  
Chill and bake in the sun, then Run to the Bagley park pavilion 
When the rain has begun 
We don’t use none umbrellas here 
Just jackets from Columbia  
I could buy you one cause there Is no sales tax,  
I don’t lie, just facts 
We all like to try to put bike racks on our Subarus  
What chus got to loose  
Boos is only sold  
At the liquor store I got one near me called 
Wholesale Liquor store 
Yo what more  
Do you want to know From the Portland Airport  
You can go  
Take the max down to Hillsboro It’ll cost around 4 to 6 bucks  
And take about an hour and 45 minutes 

This One Goes  
This one goes out to Portland breweries even though I don’t drink keep making them brews 
This one goes out to Washington Park for the oldest west of the Mississippi zoo 
This one goes out to Beaverton Nike workers cause you know we keep wearing them shoes 
This one goes out to Hillsboro  
This one goes out to Cornelius, every day I go to work I’m just passing through 
This one goes out to Forest Grove Pacific University keep collecting them dues  
Fuck going into debt for school



Heartscore and The Couch King - I like to program new drums

Echoes in Ebony

As always, produced & mastered by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden.

THE DARK TOWER RISES

Descending Points

SOON to move to Bandcamp as an album - in the meantime, you can also listen in sequence here: soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/scalar-fields
instruments: Jeff Gardiner and jo richter
voice: Jeff Gardiner
modulation, arrangement and all that: jo richter
lyrics: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter
image: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter

stepping off the edge with desire
he was the flyer on perception's broken wings
sixteen times he bounced and landed on the ledge
with the shack at the back where the
old man sat on some wooden crates
and spoke of gates in dreams
and trips and traps and strategies and
cautionary tales about inorganic beings
and how to catch a rabbit or lion or a squirrel
with some sticks and strings

scaler field pt 9: Sticks 'n' Strings with Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches

Sunshine. The Sun. Our God and creator!

In this song I'm pretending Earth is asking me to make soldiers of all Humans to clean the air we all have to breathe especially for those in cities that have to breathe horribly fume filled air all the time. We have the tech and if we spread our wealth properly and had the will, we could all breathe clean air. Let's make it happen! Step number one to get on the right side of climate change. Burning more oil like some ignorant assholes want us to certainly ain't the answer. Yes we need to burn oil as our society relies on it but to deny climate change, purposefully try and confuse people's mindsets about it and feed the oil industry with a stay for a few years is very fucking dangerous for all of us... Stop listening to people not qualified to teach you about subjects they don't know..Read James Locklock if you want to actually find out where this is all going. He is one of many incredibly informed sources of good information and one of the greatest thinkers EVER.
Rest in Peace James 🔆
The oil industry spent decades crushing his ideas with narrow-minded propaganda and now all of his ideas are widely excepted by science and they are unbelievably fascinating and I would say some of the most spiritual theories ever created by a person. He found the one system that I will sing for until I'm dead 🫡💪🏽 Gaia will go on with or without us so time to synchronise with mother Earth. The Sun will take no prisoners!
We have an oulipo style lyric spelled by the first letter of each sentence of the first seven stanzas

♾ Smog Please Lift Let The Sun Shine ♾

I wrote and released this song in November 2024 and just redelivering today to give the vocal the improved voice. Let's go Earth 🌍  I still struggle on the Please Hear line so might drop it to 432Hz to nail that comfortably. Interestingly it's down to what I sing before those words and the part of my throat I'm at with those that makes the change hard, it's not a range thing it's a change thing. Doing the same tuning drop with God and the Universe was the only way my body could express what was in my head. It works wonders when you actually tune to your body! This song will be a completely different beast when I get around to a full 432 build

Listen to Singing Tip - Make your own frame of reference by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/9m2EDADpJzh8EooRg3
This my thinking in relation to this if you are interested in learning my approach.

My advise is actually tune everything to your chosen reference tone. I tune everything to perfect pitch 432 as this is more realistic to replicate on stage where as although a DAW can pitch shift you there if you are staying at 440 and pitch shifting artificially, which a modern DAW does amazingly well, that will put pressure on you when recreating your songs in a live environment. So I'd suggest go all in or stay at 440 if you have goals of hitting the stage with your music

Thanks Aileen for helping me appreciate this world more deeply ♾️
https://on.soundcloud.com/efwXGhXZD1oQCanPW5
A true human Light

Lyrics

Soiled air
Mist from humans
Oratory good beast, care
Give us stare through clean air, No fumes

Planet of one
Long lost founded son
Earth
Ask me for help
Send billions to repent
Earths soldiers are sent ~ Our ascent is meant

Light us a way
Insert air love today
Fear drafts away
Total clear air for alls' haze in gaze 

Love is here
Everything is clear
To the filter my dearest...

This sanction of fear?
Hire restriction to here.
Evolve the help we give, Please hear...

Sunshine
Universal
Nurture

Sunshine
Highest form
Indigo clone
New life not alone
EVOLUTION

Soiled air
Mist from humans
Oratory good beast, care
Give us stare through clean air, No fumes

Sunshine
Jniveral
Nurture
Come on from our highest form
Let's lift that dome

Sunshine
Univeral
Nurture
Sunshine
Highest form
Indigo clone
New life not alone
Never alone
This is evolution
Never alone
We're lifting that dome


Sunshine

Song written, sung, produced and engineered by Chris Scheri.
Instrumentation by Chris, Mark, David, Brendan

COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS

(Intro. Instrumental theme )
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night.
Make the best of this - he wants to help.
Walking in the park on a hot Summer's night.
Make the best of this - and help yourself.

But you know
You could have stopped this
could have stopped this
could have stopped this (repeat chorus)

(repeat instrumental theme)
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night
Where's the rest of this? Where are you now?
I'm walking in the park on a hot Summer night
What's the best of this? I need to know the rest of this.
Because I know
I could have stopped this
could have stopped this
could have stopped this
I could have stopped this

Over and Over. It keeps me awake at night.
“Could have stopped this” (background vocals)

Guitar solo.

M8 Just when you think, “Everything's alright.”
Just when you think, “We're under control.”
You trip on a thought and slip into “If Only”
If only I'd known, I would have been there!

There – on a hot Summer night
Your thoughts are everywhere.
Can I still help you?
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night,
You're the best of this!
Oh can you tell me, is there anything
I can still do for YOU?

(Choruses repeat till the end, joined by lead guitar on the
third repeat)
YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS

Could Have Stopped This

You Could Have Stopped This

A simple, little weird Original track
Music made in GarageBand
Lyrics & vocals by me 

😊

Lyrics:

In your house you want to feel like home
If you can't feel it
You don't want to be there!
On your sofa you want to feel relaxed
If you can't feel it
You don't want to be there!

Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...Mmm

In your kitchen you want to make food
If you can't do it
You don't want to be there!
On a plate you want to serve something good
If it's not good
You don't want to serve it!

Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...

In your bedroom you want to get some sleep
If you can't sleep
You don't want to be there!
In your bed you want to feel good
If you can't feel it
You don't want to be there!

Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...Mmm...

You Dont Want To Be There (Original)

There is a video of  "Going Down to Mark's Place"  on You Tube, Last fm, and My Space.
Also  YouTube videos from vinyl releases with cover pics of  'Icarus',  'State of Mind'  'Captives', ' Ambiguous Girl',  and 'Some People'  all written by Chris Scheri. ' Crushed and Crazy'   and 'Omniscience'  written by Chris Scheri and Cris Bonacci.
http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004046356170

Chris Scheri vocals and flute - 2songs - Sweet Jayne live bootleg video clip:  http://youtu.be/kwhgNdXUjwI  : Star Spinner / Emerald

Wild Orchids have been posting tracks for ages so it is time to add Wild Orchids:  Chris Scheri and Robyn Youlten. Playing live since 2016 as a duo  and also as a full band Wild Orchids and the Weeds.