MIRAGE

OKTOPIA presents: Colliding Galaxies

Beats, Samples & Synths: Dan C E Kresi
Guitar: The Shire Bairn Project

More from Dan here:

on.soundcloud.com/7OQeMYQ0zsp4dsjsdv

Colliding Galaxies

A friend of mine has a severely autistic son who is now in his early 20's. He can't speak and has the mind of someone around three years old- but that is determined by the way we think.  Who knows how complex his thinking really is.  His name is Lorenzo. He loves to do puzzles and listen to music. 

One afternoon as I was laying the piano track for this music,  my son was talking to the mother on speaker phone and Lorenzo could hear me playing the piano.  He stopped doing his puzzle to listen.  That is how he connects. He loves music. When I heard that I knew I needed to finish this music for him. I haven't seen this friend for a very long time but she is coming to visit in a few weeks and I will be meeting Lorenzo for the first time. I wonder,  will he recognize the music?

Lorenzo's Song

"May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset more peace." ✌️

Mastering by @bahram-dashtii 🙏

Here comes the sun

Echoes of Hope

The album: Mystical Cities
Step into the labyrinth of vanished worlds, where forgotten cities whisper in the dark. Beyond maps, beyond memory, they wait in shadows of the ancients...

Release date: 01-08-2025 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:

01 Ambient Indigo - Lyonesse
02 Time Away - El Dorado
03 Aestheia - Ys
04 snurretop - Zerzura
05 Andawan - Rhapta
06 Colin Stevens - Camelot
07 Der Bischof - Kitezh
08 Tuuligan - Paititi
09 Hellweed - Shambhala
10 Sonic Bodhi - Thule
11 Progeny-1 - Agartha
12 Cosmic Cadence - Astradorei
13 Wane of Summer - Atlantis
14 Promethex - Hyperborea
15 Helsinki Project - Ophir

Artwork & Mastering: Chris Held

Time Away: https://soundcloud.com/timeaway
Colin Stevens: https://soundcloud.com/colin-stevens
Der Bischof: https://soundcloud.com/daturasonoris
Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Progeny-1: https://soundcloud.com/progeny-1-617773258
Tuuligan: https://soundcloud.com/tuuligan
Ambient Indigo: https://soundcloud.com/ambientindigo
Promethex: https://soundcloud.com/promethexmusic
Wane of Summer: https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
Cosmic Cadence: https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-cadence
Hellweed: https://soundcloud.com/hellweed
Aestheia: https://soundcloud.com/aestheia
Sonic Bodhi: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-bodhi
Helsinki Project: https://soundcloud.com/helsinki-project
snurretop: https://linktr.ee/snurretop

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Legacy of Thought: Mystical Cities - Paititi by Tuuligan

This composition, "Memoriae Gregorianae," features three "Kyrie Gregoriani" themes:
The first was sung (and notated by me) at the Mass for the enthronement of Pope Leo.
The second theme is the Kyrie theme from the Mass "Cum Jubilo" (IX. - In Festis B. Mariae Virgis).
The third theme is taken from the Mass "In Dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae" (XVII).
The themes are prepared, introduced, and varied by me very freely.

Questa composizione, “Memoriae Gregorianae” presenta tre temi di “Kyrie Gregoriani”:
il 1° è stato cantato (e da me annotato) nella S. Messa di intronizzazione di papa Leone.
il 2° tema è il tema del Kyrie della Messa “CUM JUBILO” (IX. - In Festis B. Mariae Virgis).
il 3° tema è tratto dalla Messa “In Dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae” (XVII).
I temi sono da me preparati, introdotti e variati molto liberamente.

Memoriae Gregorianae

Cast of characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — Ovation guitar, lead vocals, lyrics, and compostion
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST timbale, production editing
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – electric piano and synth
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Telecaster HSS electric guitrar
This song began as Carl's tribute poem to our drummer, Ken. Carl came up with the chord progression and started a project, to which he invited the rest of us. This is the third song Eclectic Collective has done that is a tribute by Carl to one of our members.  We couldn't feel more honored than to be the subjects of his wild and boundless creativity.
  Fittingly, Ken was first in line to add his magnificent drums. Once we had drums, Josh had something to work with to add his bass, which he did shortly after the drums were up. Mark paid the project a visit next, helping out with a bit of production editing, and dropping in a mad percussion solo using his VST timbale drums. Stephen jumped in soon after, adding the melodic electric guitar riffs that appear throughout. Not to be outdone, JJ added some sonically thickening electric piano, as well as the throwback psychedelic synth that pops up towards the end. Finally, Tez came along and added the electrifying solo that appears about a third of the way in, as well as the one at the end. 
  Once the recording was finished, we turned it over to Stephen to mix in his always professional manner. 
  This song is all about our very talented teammate and brother, Ken, and it is well deserved, too. As mentioned, this is the third song from Carl about one of us. It's hard to describe the feeling of having someone who you respect take the time and energy to think about you in such a positive way as to produce a song about you. Then to have all your buddies join in to amplify it to a solid song is just mind-blowing. We are all very grateful to Carl for not only sharing his music with us, but for his thoughtful consideration of each of us as subjects. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Original lyrics by The Perfect Dark:
Karakoram human
You decorate good future
As many lose their Gods
You stand tall as suture

Rhythmic mountain maestro
Each day, graft, working hard
So kids can eat
Bruised back sees very best of yard

Still, beats get born of evenings
Deep love finds joules to jam
May generation X soothe meaning
Let's teach the younger pussies what we can

To Ken, from pen, to page, to Music
To friends, Now is when, Good sage soup soothes us
Honest and brave, To Jesus he save
Kudos our maestro of percussive wave

Karakoram human
You decorate good future
As many lose their Gods
You stand tall as suture
Sticks in hand
Cymbals a floating
Snare and bass backbone gland
Tom'ed Ringo Star man keep quoting
Keep life steady paced by hand

To Ken, from pen, to page, to Music
To friends, Now is when, Good sage soup soothes us
Honest and brave, To Jesus he save
Kudos our maestro of percussive wave



Rhythmic Mountain (Eclectic Collective)

The very nature of desire is that it remains unfulfilled
- Osho
🖤
A song about existing
🖤
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/uMfXWkOORQc
🖤
lyrics
(In my dreams...)
It's a pattern
I've seen repeating
(From where you're standing)
The destruction
Is deleting
All the promise
I was holding
(From where you're standing)
And crippled
What was unfolding
I thought I wanted you
But now I see
(From where you're standing)
That's just not true
And it can't be
(I tried to meet you in my dreams)
((In my dreams))
Perceive me
From where you're standing
Judge me
I am expanding
So run away
From the brightness
This silence is
My politeness
Perceive me
From where you're standing
Judge me
I am expanding

releases August 23, 2025

Paradox of Desire

Somewhat doom-laden reflection of the prospect....but cheering up, it may never come down to a rogue algorithm sparking it all off!! Hooray!......
Blues track:
Synth; Tenor saxes; Soprano saxes; flutes; alto flutes(bridge); oboes; clarinets (bass parts).
Beats and explosions c/o Garageband.

Pic. 'Silicon Cities' by Heiko Hellwig c/o Pinterest

Algorithmic - Armageddon Blues

It was indeed a pleasure to work again with the incredibly talented artist Nic Evennett.  For more of Nic's amazing music:

https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night

Blue

Curl gently in this midnight blue,
The wild ones have all passed through.

Today it was every spring,
And I saw the birds colouring,
Did you, did you?

There's nothing but inside out,
Everything to shout about
When silence isn't golden.

They came, they saw, they stole, they squandered.
Squandered.
And tied up all the long roads we'd wandered.

Curl gently in this midnight blue,
The wild ones have all passed through.

The voice, the words, the windows quiver.
Quiver.
The place that you go
Makes the lonely sun shiver.

Curl gently in this midnight blue.

Blue (Classical Glass and Nic Evennett)

“A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -  Leopold Stokowski

A member of Cellar Door which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

"The most powerful and magical language is music. The reason for this is that music is the original language. Music is not ornamented poetry, and poetry is not ornamented prose. Poetry is fallen music, and prose is fallen poetry. Prose is not the original language; it is poetry made practical. Even poetry is not the original language; it is music made speakable, it is the words of music separated from their music. In the beginning was music." (Peter Kreeft, Philosophy of Tolkien)