Such an engaging story, made so captivating by the space and rhythm and Peter's great lyrics and Seagull's visionary soundscape. Thanks for sharing

Fascinated.  An audio documentary to me, as I think was intended.  Awed that, conceptually, you guys can work as one on such a creation.  And intrigued that such a dramatic soundscape seems somehow so appropriate in depicting a world that, as far as I know, had no “music”.  In fact, aside from the occasional mountain blowing to smithereens or meteor crash scorching half the earth, was probably pretty quiet.  Anyway, plan to tune in on the continuing series….I’m assuming your guitar musings, David, will emerge around the time humanity stumbles upon the concept of “sin”…. :)

Magnifique! Bravo à toute l'équipe!! 👍 👏 🎶

ha ha! what a nice coincidence - first, I've been on SC much less lately and have some catching up to do on some of the SC artists I admire. That brought me here, and scrolling down the list of recent songs, I came across this one, which is a funny coincidence with the latest one I just posted with the Eclectic Collective guys. But coincidences aside, I'm so blown away by these song series you keep putting out - some outstanding artists to collaborate with, and always very thoughtful themes to pour your huge guitar talent into. Keep doing what you're doing!

We wish we could yes
Sit at a nice desk
Make all the right quotes
Play all the right notes
Sell out to get right
We all know the score
All cards on the floor
Sad to discuss truth

Alone on a boat
Outmanned to sea lost
Fairness at what cost
Monsters do come here
Flailing to save me
Teams twice falling down
Mention the sad clown
Tension displayed framed

Came back to find
All of this time
Wasted away
Was never in line
Now gone today
All my fears and hate
Bottled and sold
Was never too late

Stepping quiet game
Face up to take back
What was is now lost
Turn to escape fault
Beaten inside mind
Full of the same thoughts
Coming at your fall
Breeding false hope home

Lost in what if's rains
Bouncing off walls built
Contain the calm well
Torture repeat fake
Wish we could make links
These days become weeks
Further discuss beats
Hearts get tangled free

Design as planned caged
Those times are now gone
High stakes to keep close
What to expect now
Taken dissolved made
Hoping waiting fade
Guided to take on
Your light that shined on

Came back to find
All of this time
Wasted away
Was never in line
Now gone today
All my fears and hate
Bottled and sold
Was never too late

All Of This Time

Fireflies

The second album by BarrelHaus. 

Marc Challans: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, percussion, recording, mixing & mastering.

Ian Mitchell: vocals, guitars & bass.

Tracks 1,3,5,7 & 9 by Marc Challans.
Tracks 2, 4, 6 & 8 by Ian Mitchell.

Special thanks to Grace & Alice.

Down With His Ship

Frida's Wings – The Valse 
April 2024
Duration: 3:10
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Remix of Vals Alejandra by Enrique Mora
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For strings, piano, accordion and percussion.

Frida's Wings - Valse

Sometimes you have to break free from 'classical' strictures and do your own thing. 
Vocals, instrumental, arrangement, mix: Nadia Selvaggi
Music by Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell's Evening Hymn

Together Again

© Together Again

We begin our new song series "A Shared Horizon--We Solve Most Things If We Talk". 
Have you ever thought about humanity and its so-called progress and development through all the millennia on our fantastic little globe, floating on its spiral path around our sun, in the infinity around us. 
Our little "international band" did that for a period of time, and our conversations and thoughts gave birth to music and lyrics. And this music and lyrics became a little story, in 5 parts, which we want to share with you all by publishing a part of the story every week. 
So we wish you all a pleasant experience and listening as you journey with us these next few weeks:)  First song of the series: "Ancient Man, Calm Stream"
Many thousands of years ago, our ancestors lived here on our little globe. Did they have any idea of the future..... and if so what was "future" for them? "Tomorrow, next week, or next year?" Did they even have a word for future? Or was life exclusively about developing and expanding the group and getting food for the day? Or did they, too, have other goals and meaning with their lives?

Lyrics and vocals: Our dear poet Peter, soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Music, Mix and Production; Seagull, @farout-music-studio
Spoken word/lyric:
I have no words, just thoughts, like these
Of primal cravings, fears and needs.
My leathered skin, yet young, seems older
Browned and cracked I shiver colder
Depicting beasts muralled large within my cave,
Their fatty flesh my empty gut to crave.

Bursting fires from the frozen mountain thread
And weave and belch and burn and spit of ochres red.
The very poison whence my paintbox palette grows
'Neath the toxic gases twixt congealing lava flows.
In these extremes we live, but few, the young into
the perma-sleep will often fall
And not so old, our eldest ageing too, follow close
upon the darkest terror's call.

Meat and heat is all I need,
Stone and bone, all I own.
Skin the flesh, strip it clean.
Cleanse it in the calming stream.

Strip the skin, spit the pips,
Moisturize the burning lips.
Skin the flesh, strip it clean.
Cleanse it in the calming stream.

We who thought, conversed, composed and collaborated around this musical journey are;
Soundcloud's most beautiful voice: Oddrun Eikli - @oddrun-eikli
Our fine acoustic guitarist: David Dunham - @david-dunhamuser589535203
Our outstanding poet & songwriter: Peter - soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Producer, composer, compilation, our gifted and visionary mix-master: Seagull - @farout-music-studio

Ancient Man, Calm Stream (Seagull; synths, Peter; spoken word and vocals)

Jason - J.BoogZ Feat.PHZ TANX(produced By BoogBeatz)

I made it with the image of being bathed in the sunlight on a summer day.🌻
The hot days continue, but be careful of heat stroke!🫗
thank you for listening！😊！

DAW: Cubase pro 13

Gentle summer sunshine

360°

Cast of Characters:

Jeff Roberts-- @jeff_roberts – bass, seed idea

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– guitar solo, rhythm guitar, arrangement , production, mix, and mastering

Mistermark – @the user-432503709 – Mark – production, editing, synth bass in the break section

J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, electric piano, synthesizer

Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – guitar solo

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, percussion, lyrics and lead vocals in the bridge section 

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – rhythm guitar, lap steel, vocals and lyrics for the verses, vocal harmony in the bridge
Composition – The Eclectic Collective

 This song began with a bass part that Jeff came up with and shared with Stephen, who had added some fiery guitar and foundational rhythm guitar to it. However, it languished on his digital shelf for many months as two parts, until he recently remembered that he had it. So, he decided to share it with the rest of the group. We were salivating, all of us, when we heard Jeff's bass line, so we began with Ken laying in the groovy drums and the tight, driving percussion, which propels the entire song. Once we had a beat, we decided to edit the part to include the break you hear about a minute into it. Mark took on that task, and deftly added the bass in that section, too. 
  Josh was up next, and decided to add a rhythm guitar inspired by Talking Heads. Once he had done that, he started hearing a simple, catchy melody in the main verse part, too, so he came up with some simple lyrics and recorded the vocals for that. At the same time this was happening, Ken also came up with some lyrics and a vocal melody for the breakdown part, which he added. After Ken had added his vocals, Josh added a harmony part on them. He also added the lap slide melody you hear in that section, as well. 
  JJ was next up to bat, laying in the breathtaking organ throughout. He also backdropped a canvas of synthesizer throughout and put in some electric piano too. Tez came along not long after and added the ripping guitar solo in the jam section. Once everyone had added their parts, it was up to Stephen to produce, mix, and master it. He arranged and added some length to it, then mixed it in his usual expert manner.
  This is the first song the Eclectic Collective has done with Jeff, though Stephen has worked with him in the past, and we were all fans of his music, and thus very excited for the chance to make music with him. Hopefully, this will be the first of many.
  We all hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. If you comment, please share, too. 

Original lyrics by Josh Clary:

The trees talk to each other
They send messages through the breeze
There's magic all around us
If we look for it, we can see
 
Original lyrics by K2 and the Three:

Hey, how you feeling about love and lust
Hey how you dealing with all the lies you trust
We're here to be clear
Just a walk in the dark

A simple Wowlelujah 
A simple Halelujah!

Hey!

Wowlelujah-Eclectic Collective

I am a finger-style guitarist living on the Texas high plains.  At the core of my music is melody that is inspired and informed by my Christian faith, family, friends, and countless influences through the years from the great composers, to jazz, folk, rock, Latin, Celtic, and the many fine musicians I have come to love on the Cloud, some I have been privileged to collaborate with.  Thanks for stopping by to have a listen. Comments are always welcome. Feel free to click on the picture of any track to learn more about it.

Ancient Man, Calm Stream (Seagull; synths, Peter; spoken word and vocals)

David Dunham

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