Makes me feel high on the mountain ! ❤️✨

so beautyful and i love that deep bass :-)

sweet contemporary jazz guitar sound & playing!!!  (just looked up your locale -- he estado en Oaxaca 2x incluso en aldeas remotas pero la tuya esta pero muy alejado -- K interesante!!!!)

This is just perfect and beautiful! So rarely nowadays do I get to hear something like this.

very peacful mood coming out of this music! awesome!❤️

A few weeks ago I first heard https://soundcloud.com/user-369089703/stay-original and could already feel the words filling my head before it had finished playing. The song reminded me of a favourite band of mine, Procol Harum because of the piano/organ arrangement. I asked if I could try to make a collaboration out of this wonderful melody and Pascal kindly agreed. Thank you so much for the opportunity Pascal and thank you for listening.

Music/Arrangement/Production/All instrumentation except drums - Pascal PAVY 
 @user-369089703
Drums - Loïc
Lyrics and Vocals - @markjbennett
Photography - Douglas Corrance

Stay just a little closer,
Take me in your arms until the morning has come.
Bring me just a little closer,
Who knows what the day might yet become?

Soon it will be dawn,
And will the dream be gone?
Why is it that we cannot make it last,
Forever?

Stay just a little longer,
Hold me in your arms until the morning has come.
Hold me just a little longer,
Who knows what the day might yet become?

Stay, stay, stay, stay

Now it’s close to dawn,
Why can’t we carry on?
Why is it that we cannot make it last,
Forever?

Stay just a little longer,
Hold me in your arms until the morning has come.
Hold me just a little longer,
We know only too well what’s to come.

Please stay

Stay - Pascal P. Musiques/MarkJBennett

A big thank you to https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx for playing nearly all instruments, arranging and mixing, it was a  pleasure to collab.

Lines in inverted commas quote René Girard (1923 - 2015), also the title of the song points to him.

The picture shows a section of a photography showing men at Ascot (taken out of NZZ).

Mimetic Desire

Man is the creature
Man is the creature

„Man is the creature
Who does not know
What to desire,
And he turns to others
In order to make up his mind.“ (2)

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don’t let the blindness guide you
Even if it is full of shiny, 
Mimetic desires

Maybe there is still 
A shadow of a hope out there
Isn’t there still somewhere
A shadow of a hope ?

Let me have it, let me, let me have it
Let me have it, let me, let me have it

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don’t let the blindness guide you
Even if it is full of shiny, 
Sparkling, mimetic desires

„We desire 
What others desire
Because we imitate 
Their desires."

Maybe there is still 
A shadow of a hope out there
Isn’t there still somewhere hanging out
A shadow of a hope ?

Man is the creature…
Man is the creature…

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don't let the blindness guide you
Don’t let the darkness blind you…

Mimetic Desire (ft joerxworx)

Thrift Shop Treasure

Go Beyond

Here is a link to the youtube video for the song! https://youtu.be/sXd5B2iSWck
I looked back at the few notes I collected during this Photo Op's song development time-frame and concluded I did not have much to go on after a two year lapse.  The lyrics were not fully documented in my notebook. I must have been using lyric ideas and ad-libbing them into the song. I do not know my state of mind and wish I was better at capturing this closer to the song's conception point.

Life was still fairly locked down due to Covid, Trump was still in-office and the George Floyd protests were ongoing. The song was created without any direct outside musical influence driving the creative direction. This was me inside my studio starting from ground zero and evolving the song over the course of probably several weekends by playing around with sounds, rhythms and textures until a fuzzy shape of cohesion slowly emerged.

Listening back, I suspect, I smashed together two fairly divergent musical ideas. Bold move Dave and perhaps disastrous from a song gluing perspective. I like it anyway. Lyrics were influenced by what was going on around me and one of those things was a narcissist clutching a bible and clearing a peaceful protest with tear gas to enable his next photo op in front of the church.  A holy moment indeed. 

Lyrics
Photo Op
by David Husted

Dew drop dreams
Silly games
Buy some more stuff
Throw it away
Is it me?
Where did I go?
When we turn our backs
let them take it away.

They say it's gonna rain again
I don’t have an umbrella
They say its time to hate again
Photo ops and killing

Is it really so improbable?
State news and oligarchs selling fools
Make lies a game, and fear predominant 
Shake the base of our democracy

Photo Op

The Sanctuary

Might need to turn it up a little:)
**remixed 12/23 to fix boomy guitar and adjust eq on multiple tracks:)***
All rights reserved 12/5/2022
Artwork by Robin F. Williams 

I know… if I look away
I’m better off to see…
Time in a different way
And how it should be…
The minutes move so slowly
And sow their seeds…
Morning takes away the darkness
Eventually…

And if…I don’t miss the chance
To take it all in inside
Before walls come crumbling down
And we run and hide…
The hours show so little mercy 
Don’t you see
That we’re given what we need
Eventually…

The hours show so little mercy 
Don’t you see
That we’re given what we need
Eventually…

Eventually

Accidental interest

Choking Hazard

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #07 album)

Happy 2023 everyone. I hope your year is starting off positive, creative and brimming with potentiality. Mine has definitely begun on a high note, getting to collab with our dear friend Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1, https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com/). And after a full year of music lessons with this kind and generous soul, I’m finally feeling quite good about my music theory and piano skills (knowing full well, this is just me happily floating on the tip of the proverbial music theory/musical instrument iceberg). :)

This one in particular (for those of you who might be interested in the specifics) started with Carlos providing an impressively wild drum track, and a warm, rich bass track playing Ostinato in E (I wasn’t familiar with that term at first. But it means playing a singular note rhythm as a foundation for the rest of the song). From there, E Aeolian (or Natural Minor) felt like it provided the nicest fit to Carlos’s stems. I was able to play out many of the melodies you hear in this song with just a few takes, and very minor MIDI note adjustments after the fact. That is exciting beyond words.

So without further delay, I joyfully offer you my first collab of 2023 with one of the coolest folks you’ll find in this grand music community. Carlos and I hope you enjoy ‘The Nine Sentinels of Aeolis’. :)

PWWO07

The Nine Sentinels Of Aeolis | Carlos Vivanco & GrevusAnjl

Foggy Weather

High on Eagles wings.  Ft. Lioness Pinky🇯🇲

In the maddening realm of sound, where the lines between genius and madness blur like a frenzied hallucination, there exists Damon Peterson—a creature of unfathomable depth and discord. This man, schooled in the high arts of classical mastery, possesses the soul of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the spirit of a philosopher on an psychedelic-fueled voyage.

The very essence of Damon is a riddle, a ceaseless enigma, a Pandora's box of sonic chaos. One cannot anticipate his next sonic conjuration, for his compositions are a kaleidoscope of ever-shifting realities. He weaves together the fraying threads of folk, jazz, classical elegance, and unhinged improvisation. From the farthest reaches of the globe to the darkest corridors of history, he plunders musical styles as if plundering the ancient treasures of a lost civilization.

Within this swirling tempest of influences lies the secret alchemy of Damon Peterson—an alchemy that births melodies so strange, they defy convention, and emerge as something altogether fresh and uncharted. Beware, for in the realm of sound, Damon Peterson is a mad sorcerer, concocting a brew of music that defies sanity and embraces the chaotic beauty of the unknown.


En el enloquecido mundo del sonido, donde las líneas entre el genio y la locura se difuminan como una frenética alucinación, existe Damon Peterson: una criatura de profundidad y discordia insondables. Este hombre, instruido en las altas artes del dominio clásico, posee el alma de un artista, la mente de un científico y el espíritu de un filósofo en un viaje alimentado por el éter.

La misma esencia de Damon es un enigma, un enigma incesante, una caja de Pandora del caos sónico. Uno no puede anticipar su próxima conjuración sónica, pues sus composiciones son un caleidoscopio de realidades en constante cambio. Teje los hilos desgarrados del folk, el jazz, la elegancia clásica y la improvisación desenfrenada. Desde los rincones más remotos del mundo hasta los oscuros pasillos de la historia, saquea estilos musicales como si estuviera saqueando los tesoros antiguos de una civilización perdida.

Dentro de este torbellino de influencias yace el secreto alquímico de Damon Peterson, una alquimia que da a luz melodías tan extrañas que desafían la convención y emergen como algo completamente nuevo y desconocido. Cuidado, porque en el mundo del sonido, Damon Peterson es un mago loco, elaborando una poción de música que desafía la cordura y abraza la caótica belleza de lo desconocido.

Accidental interest

Damon Peterson

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