Well played and constructed track, love it.

lovely piano composition and bold performance! Fun title and discovery!

Bravo pour cette belle poésie musicale!  Une expérimentation intéressante d'initier une composition par le rythme

An interesting composition, full of the unexpected.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD97jEGib8s

Solar System

Jupiter

Jupiter & Video Link

Icehot

i put a little spin on this four tops classic to suit my inclinations. 

peppermint oil face cream every morning
quirky shirt statements for every occasion
convos for every grocery store associate
cares for the underdog kids at the highschool
sings at the drop of a hat every day
always finds something kind to say
loves me for all of the way that i am
puts the moves on me makes me feel like a man
words of affirmation is her loving language
she'll light one up any time she can manage
brings me a drink when it's hot outside
knows what she wants and lays it on the line
messages her family and keeps up with her friends
early in the morning wakes me up with a grin
best damn woman that i ever seen
the illustrious velumptuous monika j. jean

ain't no woman (like the one i got)

Remixes

The Flying Bed (Remix)



Disciple of Pain

I wake up to the silence
To that memory of you
Entombed by bad decisions 
Crucified by your truths
I can not hear your footsteps
This change is like a chain
You were my religion
And me, I'm the disciple of pain

Now I pray for resurrection
As I choke upon my sin
The gospel of another
Has renewed your faith again
The blood, the body of our love
For you a fading stain
You were my religion
And me, I've become your disciple of pain

This sermon that I'm sharing
I'll be preaching it again and again
The hurt, the hope, the healing
The raw, the rage revealing 
Let's stand up and face it again

So if you feel a sadness
Engulf and empty you
Get off your knees and get to work
Let the hurt empower you
When you can not feel your future
It's still there but it's just changed
The end can mean beginnings
We all are disciples of pain
One time or another
We all are the disciple of pain




Disciple of Pain

I originally composed Strange Metronome while following a metronome — and it felt strange… Later, I discovered that my recording software (Logic Pro) could detect the tempo of my playing without a metronome. What a liberation! But I kept the original title… 
J’ai d’abord composé Strange Metronome en suivant un métronome, avec un résultat étrange… Puis j’ai découvert que mon appli d’enregistrement (Logic Pro) pouvait détecter le tempo de mon jeu de piano sans métronome. Enfin libre ! Mais j’ai gardé le titre d’origine…

Strange Metronome

Cast of characters:

Jack Karasek — beats and seed idea

K2 and the Three [and the Four] -- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–beats

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1– Roland Phantom workstation

Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez– electric guitar

Tea R. Sea @tea_are_sea -- Terry – Synthesizer

TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– mix, master, and production

This song began with Ken's oldest son, Jack, who laid down the basic rhythmic beat. Ken took over after that with the rest of the beats, though. Jack just graduated high school last week, and he's into hip hop and trap music, so he wanted to share some of it with his musician father, who is very proud of him.

  Tez was first up on this one, which surprised me when I went back and checked the workflow. He added the perfectly placed guitar hits throughout. Josh was next up, using his synth to add the falling bass line. Last, but not least, Terry came aboard, adding the moody, melodic, high register synth.

  When it was all finished, we asked out resident pro mixer, Stephen, to mix it for us. 

  This song was in its current form for about the past eight months. It was originally part of a series of vehicles Eclectic Collective composed for The Mysterious Decibel. He got caught up in life, though, and had to abandon the project. So, we sat on it, asking all the rappers we know if they'd be interested in having a go with it, but no one bit. So, with Jack's recent graduation, Ken revived it as a celebratory song for his son. It could still use some vocals, too, so think of this as an open invitation to anyone who want to do the honors. 

  We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. 

  Oh, and just a side note for all of our friends who follow along with us, we will have  new one for you, the following Friday, the 11th. Thank you for keeping up with us! 


Throwing Rocks - Eclectic Collective w/ Jack Karasek and Tea R Sea

A fierce ride with the Divine Dragon. Thank you for the listening!

Production environment Bitwig

Meet the Divine Dragon

hold back the river (james bay)

In 2018, I did a SoundCloud collaboration with @clive-hawkins after one of his tracks inspired me to write lyrics over his haunting instrumental 'After the Bomb'.

Clive had posted the line "let us not forget the consequences............of unleashing weapons of mass destruction!", and that comment, coupled with listening to his moody track, had me writing the complete lyrics inspired by his music in about 1.5 hours.

In 2025, I am currently working with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast @Dee-Zee (Dave Zeitlin), to create an Ethno-Prog album 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon'. 

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/beyond-the-veiled-horizon-series

So when I recently re-heard the old collaboration I wondered if Dave's keyboard wizardry could add a whole new dimension to the lyrics. The message in the lyrics has perhaps has even more urgency in 2025. 

The Doomsday Clock currently stands at 89 seconds to midnight. 
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/

Using Clive's harmonic rhythm that inspired the melody, that inspired the lyrics, I basically gave Dave a blank slate to see what he could come up with as parts. As usual he delivered some amazing ideas and playing and this left me re-assembling this Redux version of the collaboration. Once again, I made use of the Alto vocal talents of 'Mrs Bouzouki' in a vocal harmony section and as part of some harmony stacks. Towards the end, the additional female backing lines are from the Soundiron 'Voices of Gaia' collection featuring the vocal talents of Linda Strawberry.

I feel the addition of a church organ really added to the track. As a result I removed a choir part I added in the original collaboration and added some low strings to add some weight to the bottom end in places. Besides piano, Dave also added some synth pads to keep things interesting during what is quite a long track. I hope that people can hear why I enjoy working with Dee Zee. I think he's done a fantastic job with this track.

I decided to keep my original vocal takes from 2018 but I feel the track has benefited from my improved mixing and production techniques. 

I feel that once again this track is a great example of how music can be created using the SoundCloud platform. A collaboration can build on a collaboration to create something bigger than the sum of the parts. Thanks @clive-hawkins for being the catalyst for this and @dee-zee for your compositional skill and playing. 

As a follow-up to this song you can watch this movie on the Internet Archive, produced in 1969 about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs of 1945. Some of the imagery is not for the faint-hearted.

archive.org/details/hiroshimanagasakiaugust1945
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Lyrics

After The Bomb - P Goodrich 22/01/2018

One World, One Tribe
One Fate, One Life
Two Sides, Too Late
Just What Have We Done

Dead Streets, Dead Lives
Dead Seas, Dark Skies
We've Gone, Too Far
Ohhhh We've Lost It All

(C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of A Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

No Race, No Faith,
No News, No Lies
Past Ways, Past Lives
They're Over and Done

Dark Days, Dark Times
Dark Deeds, Dark Minds
No Hope, All Gone
We've Nowhere To Run

C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of The Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

(organ instrumental)

No Rest, No Sleep
No Love, Just Hate
Dull Hearts, Dead Minds
The Future It’s Gone

One World, One Tribe
One Fate, One Life
Two Sides, Too Late
Oh What Have We Done

(C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of The Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

One World, One Tribe
(Ad Lib)
We’ve Nowhere To Run
(Final Whispered) After The Bomb ... After The Bomb

After The Bomb - Redux 2025 (89 Seconds To Midnight)

Poems and lyrics aren’t the same. In many ways. This made me even more interested in setting a poem I wrote ages ago to music. The story isn’t based on a personal experience but relates to a most personal and emotional topic. It’s about a classic source of human conflict and a major killer of relationships. An overinflated ego. Very complex, very human – a perfect subject to challenge the expressiveness of the machine and its skills to not just repeat words like a parrot or a voice robot but to give them the full depth of their meaning. 

Lyrics, music and production by © Hans-Michael Albers, vocal performance by suno 4.5, cover image by keenan constance 

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

You're like a movie I'll never see again
Last scene, last scare 
End, over, switch off
Cursed from the beginning, but held on till the end

Never again and again you
Never again and again
Never again lose my head 
That will never happen again
Never again like this, never again you
I'll never get involved with you again

Your world is a self-satisfied dream
The perfect ego planet
That revolves around itself
Your only feeling, nothing but a cold game
You love only yourself and will never be different
A black hole
And I fell in, and I fell in

Never again and again you
Never again and again
Never lose my head again 
That will never happen again
Never again like this, never again you
I'll never get involved with you again

Your only feeling, nothing but a cold game
You only love yourself and you'll never be different
A black hole
And I fell in, and I fell in

Never again ever again you
Never again ever again
Never lose my head again 
That will never happen again
Never again like this, never again you
I'll never get involved with you again
Never be just your mirror again
I won’t fall for you anymore

Never, never, never again
Never, never, never again
you

 

Du bist wie ein Film, den ich nie wieder seh 
Letzte Szene, letzter Schreck 
Ende, Aus, ich bin weg
Von Anfang an geflucht, doch bis zum Ende versucht

Nie wieder immer wieder du
Nie wieder immerzu
Nie wieder meinen Kopf verlier‘n 
Das wird nie mehr passier‘n
Nie wieder sowas, nie mehr du
Ich lass dich nie mehr zu

Deine Welt ist ein selbstgefälliger Traum
Der perfekte Ich-Planet
Der sich um sich selber dreht
Dein einziges Gefühl, nichts als ein kaltes Spiel
Du liebst nur dich allein und wirst nie anders sein
Ein schwarzes Loch
Und ich fiel rein, und ich fiel rein

Nie wieder immer wieder du
Nie wieder immerzu
Nie wieder meinen Kopf verlier‘n 
Das wird nie mehr passier’n
Nie wieder sowas, nie mehr du
Ich lass dich nie mehr zu

Dein einziges Gefühl, nichts als ein kaltes Spiel
Du liebst nur dich allein und wirst nie anders sein
Ein schwarzes Loch
Und ich fiel rein, und ich fiel rein

Nie wieder immer wieder du
Nie wieder immerzu
Nie wieder meinen Kopf verlier‘n 
Das wird nie mehr passier’n
Nie wieder sowas, nie mehr du
Ich lass dich nie mehr zu

Nie wieder nur dein Spiegel sein
Nie wieder fall ich rein
Nie, nie, nie wieder
Nie, nie, nie wieder
du


Nie wieder immer wieder du

Close to Robert is a French composer born in Scotland, pianist, producer and environmental activist, formerly elected to the town hall of Toulouse, France. 
His music mixes pop melodies, crooner voice, catchy bass lines, jazzy piano and synth solos. 
His compositions would be different without the Beatles, Bowie, Gainsbourg, Bashung, 80s Pop, the Roland JX3P synth... Close to Robert likes eclectic musicians, pop in the broad sense, like Chilly Gonzales, Jeanne Added, The Divine Comedy, Lana del Rey, Benjamin Biolay, Emilie Simon, Sébastien Tellier, Get Well Soon...
Ecology takes a major place in his lyrics, in a perspective that is both realistic and optimistic, because we have no other choice but to believe in humanity.

Strange Metronome

Close to Robert

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