My Christmas song for this year ! Hope you enjoy and merry pre-christmas time !

Smile

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

My first album here (free listening / free download) : https://bakingjazzpower.bandcamp.com/releases

Salut !
Guitariste et amoureux de musique, je partage sur cette page quelques reprises et compositions... seul ou en collaboration avec des copains de Soundcloud ou d'ailleurs.
Influencé par différents styles, j'aime beaucoup le jazz manouche (Django Reinhardt, Angelo Debarre, Fapy Lafertin, Les Doigts de l'homme), le jazz de la Nouvelles Orleans (Tuba Skinny ainsi que tous les grands maîtres du style), le Klezmer, les musiques d'Europe de l'Est et des Balkans mais aussi le punk, le métal ou la musique d'Afrique occidentale.

Je suis ouvert à tout projet de collab' alors n'hésitez pas à me contacter pour faire de la musique ! ça sera avec grand plaisir !!

Merci pour les écoutes, likes, reposts et autres commentaires !!

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Hi to everyone who'll be here!
Guitarist and music lover, I share on this page covers and compositions ... alone or in collaboration with soundcloud friends
Influenced by different styles, I really like Gypsy jazz (Django Reinhardt, Angelo Debarre, Fapy Lafertin, Les Doigts de l'Homme), New Orleans jazz (Tuba Skinny and all the great masters of style), Klezmer, musics from Eastern Europe and Balkans but also Punk, Metal or West African music.

I'm open to collaboration music project so do not hesitate to contact me to make music! it will be with great pleasure!

Thanks for listening, likes, reposts and comments !!
And sorry for my "google translate" english ! ;(

Rock,Techno,Ambient,Metal,EDM etc...
There is no border.
Enjoy freely!

Involved in different local music associations with my clarinet  (in classic and jazzy mode) ,  I also  love to play the guitar, I love to try to create and produce music with Cubase and different other instruments at home. I love all forms of music. 
Thank you reading these lines, for your kind words , listens and all forms of appreciation and support, I'm always happy to explore,  discover new sounds  and collaborate on this unique platform with wonderful musicians  !!

2022 Collabs, Jams and Chansons :
https://on.soundcloud.com/pkz71
Proud to be inducted  in 2022 as an Official Lunatics after this:
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-ratzzz/lunatics71-skyline-cosmic-ratzzz-ddjohn?si=aa7c346eca754497a8e4168605590197&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Still so happy to listen to this one with my french SC buddies in the memory of Georges Brassens on this one :
https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/les-copains-dabord-george-brassens-with-le-hot-club-de-soundcloud-quebec-usa-fra?si=ec03fb2f0b8b42b1b57522bf07221d14&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
...and loving to play with friends in the marvelous style of Django Reinhardt
https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn/sets/collabs-with-lami-bjp

Album/EP featurings @ the clarinet :

https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/take-cripple-club-collab-with-ddjohn-download?in=ddjohn/sets/2015-1/

https://open.spotify.com/album/2XfVKVx3ZE1qUBwoUojmfW
.... and @ the guitar :
https://chrispendergraft.bandcamp.com/track/aint-seen-the-worst-of-it-yet-tribute-to-jimmy-page

Woodwind-powered experimental music (jazz/blues/ambient/funk/fusion/free improv....)[MOST TRACKS ARE DOWNLOADABLE] Wind instruments: tenor/alto/soprano saxes; Eb/Bb clarinets; flute/bamboo flutes; recorders; oboe; melodica (+ guitar+other various noisemakers) recorded on a Zoom MRS 1266 / R24.
Beats and other sounds: GarageBand.

Independent Singer / Songwriter from Japan.

[1st album] "いつから 僕らは / Itsu Kara Bokura Wa" now available at:
Spotify（Download）
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/2qy82Om825NfpV1Zj2DPy4?si=-TlSJjx2QoGlUFahlgYB3A
AppleMusic（Download） 
https://itun.es/jp/ahH10
Amazon (Download):
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00KTPN5JO
BigUp! Shop（CD+8p Booklet） 
http://shop.mu-mo.net/a/item1/?jsiteid=BGUP&merc_no=AMMZ-00537
246 records （CD+8p Booklet） 
https://246records.wixsite.com/home/yoroley

Finest sleepy garage jazz on the market.
Only original tunes.

Goon - Jankstar (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TegRqJ6MTC8

Official Music Videos Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcnZn79lTpcFo3IUWUthdIqfl72Oqbac

Ree Dawg - Freestyle - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-5ZfuZfO4c

Ree Dawg - Getting To It (ft. Quanie Cash) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwkVaIdPKOo

Ree Dawg - Ain't Feelin' Dat (feat. SB Cain & Fee) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZuncyoCia8

Ree Dawg - Let Us Pray (Official Music Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpjU33VusDU

Ree Dawg - Ice Box (Official Music Video) - https://youtu.be/6T9s3KFRNxg

Mannie B. - Impatient (ft. Ree Dawg & Fathead) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsvqLddpdZk

Ree Dawg - Kin 2 The Streetz (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvr0uwkv2GE

Ree Dawg - Straight Up (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2rQXfMeHPw

Mannie B. - Remember Me (feat. Ree Dawg & D. Tay) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=namqeOFiTHs

Mannie B. - Alotta (feat. Ree Dawg) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzI43wWTmI

Mannie B. - All My Problems (Official Music Video) - https://youtu.be/zZQLWOxO__Q

Electronic noises 
Håkan Skeneby  
I co-found a duo with my friend Artur
on guitar - Surfers Like Us

Smile

DDJohn