Incredibly chill collection of musicians and songs / tunes from (truly) around the globe, and if you include ALiENPiG - beyond!

Originally the list was friends on Artist Signal where people sort of competed for new guitar strings like it was a version of the hunger games where you sing for your supper / guitar strings. 

But then someone featured above invited me to the gig of a lifetime - performing upstairs at Koko Gorillaz in Cardiff to support, unofficially with no time to redo posters, The Vibrators!

Did my visuals of dancing black skeletons when they were performing, great night! Performed my stuff and drew a small handful from the street where they could hear the palaver but gotta admit top punk band soundcheck blew me away and put me and my music in our place - tone... it's all about tone. Not for nothing are they named the vibrators - the cells of my body got re-arranged! But it was well worth it to see once or twice someone on stage turn mid-riff or paradiddle to see gigantic dancing colourfully-lit see-through glass skeleton and friend dancing and bopping and digging their heels in in much the same way he and his bassist were. Mad night.

Anyway, in honour of lost souls any and everwhere trying to self-right in a storm and wobble their way uncertainly homewards through the rough streets may we present the light and the dark dappled sun/moonlight that is demosphorent...

Soon to be a mix on Mix Cloud if not some sort of release-able / free and/or purchase-able thing, correctly tagged so anyone can play it.

Meaning that Performers Rights Society & Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (PRS/MCPS) - who have safeguarded artist's work since the days of the pianola - can sort out the rest. It helps if air-time on a commercial radio station equals new guitar strings etc.

Please spread these songs and tales widely - some featured artists cannot normally get any airplay when they MORE than deserve plenty - and that is a form of Erasure.

Thankyou

MMM (for want of a better tag - the magical mystery mixer)

Demosphorent - ALiENPiG BSingh Bufinjer DSkunk Doll EarlKayoss NShankar ShiftyChickenShed Vibrators

Quick, unplugged practise-take on small classical guitar found when moving in. It was fate. Or from a village fate. 

ME/CFS makes playing difficult but instead of "start from the top" advice or metronome tending to just play through, fix it in post, and look! we'll go all the way to eleven!

Is There Anybody Out There?

Cover - Is There Anybody Out There by Pink Floyd (classical lilt practise)

A very multi-speed remix of the sublime song, sung by Miss H from Shifty Chicken Shed, "Come" from their new album. 
Originally a 'rough' but intensely talented skiffle band, Shifty have rocked people's socks off, and onto the OPPOSITE feet. And back again. Often (quite some mean feet, if you can pull it off...)
http://soundcloud.com/shifty-chicken-shed
https://www.reverbnation.com/shiftychickenshed

Crash on Welsh Wall Street out now on BandCamp!
http://shiftychickenshed.bandcamp.com/track/crash-on-welsh-wall-street

"Come!" by Shifty Chicken Shed / Moron Records (Boogalicious Mix!))

SHIFTYchickenSHED: Come! (Boogaloolicious mix)

A quick demo version of how this song would be seated in the ambient remixes double-CD

Alienpig - The Jiminator 3000 (J-3001 mix demo)

Can You Sing That In Hindi? mix was inspired by L’Hotel by Yello, but mainly by Mr Bobby Singh deciding to sing “Happy Birthday Stevie!” in Hindi (and Hari-Hari!) to local legend and artist Stevie Henderson, she was thrilled. More so somehow with the remix? We were both very chuffed at that. HUGE number of plays from Pakistan and India (>11,000?) I thought Stevie played it on a loop (actually she did say that she did do that so, but hey, go Stevie - it's your etc)
And as the lady who was there blurted out - yes - it WAS unexpected!
Glad I took my Tascam field/voice recorder with me! Good times

Bobby Singh - Happy Birthday (Can You Sing That In Hindi? mix)

Remix with indian strings and electronic + petrol drums of DOLL's "Say My Name" run forwards and backwards

DOLL - Say My Name (Summer of Love mix)

Lively break-beat remix of New York based US indie-folk group DOLL's song "Darlin" 

The gorgeous original is here:
https://soundcloud.com/doll-2/darlin-performed-by-doll-jeff

DOLL’s remix project (fabulously wonderful works, before and after) is here:
http://soundcloud.com/doll-remixed

DOLL - Darlin (Sneak-step miix)

Noticed the epic homeless, displaced & refugee crises? Got it? Give it! Clothes in good condition, in-date food, pregnancy + mother/baby items, bikes, phones, books - search YMCA, Salvation Army, Refugee charities now for more.
ME/CFS lupus coeliac and MS sufferers please note: Am recovering from "leaky gut" & malbsorbtion-related weight-loss. Search 2023 ME/CFS "malabsorbtion" research taking Vitamins A, most B's, C, D, E and supplements for Iron, Calcium, Zinc, Selenium, Magnesium, Co-Enzyme Q10 as well as Equazen Omega 3+6 capsules and following strict Paleo diet (life-saving advice based on latest findings on "Leaky Gut" and auto-immune groups above - PLEASE tell your friends/family)

ME/CFS patient suffering MALABSORBTION for 30 years with extreme mould-spore allergy and diagnosed in 2022 with "Leaky Gut" (affects Auto-Immune sufferers - Lupus, M.S., Coeliac, ME/CFS and requires strict Paleo diet - no gluten, barley, malt, soya / lecithins and largely avoid wheat)

To help the NHS get everyone you can to go private wherever possible.
Improvements for the NHS? https://change.nhs.uk/

Ambient Electronica based in Cardiff with visuals - all my own work, that's right - I'm an art thief (: Poser3D has long come free with skeleton 3D Models and a material that is meant to be stained glass windows, someone else's work and all I did was drag the one onto the other, simples :)

Began making ambient noises before learning to speak - mind you, up until that point everything HAD been satisfactory. Black and Decker, the radiators humming and singing maybe? Oh yes, and a loon or two.

Blasting Music (space-invaders themed jam) came from Euro-Techno mate jam on 3rd floor, we each heard whoops, bleeps, sirens, asked "Is that you?" - later friends came back from a techno night, pointed out ash & smoke two doors down with fire/ambulance crews attending. Everyone was OK (phew) and thus from some weird sort of crucible it was born... Lovingly rescued & restored from C-90 tape (with mid 90s tech/software) it was well-received by more hard-core acid-techno fans, as well as 'the touched'

Blasted Mutants (blasting music reblasted 2025/6) will be what then bandmate wanted all along. "Scurried" is but a whisper of a flavour of what's in store.

Forthcoming singles from Through the Wormhole and Impeachy include "Preponderous" and "Going Critical" (versions of which can be found on youtube and reverbnation) - videos coming too, to a mid-2025 near you - watch space!

I'm Kif (in artworks) but the band name is Doktor Kif in honour of a 'right person' for the job... getting it

In other news: resting till 2025/recovering from malabsortbtion, mould-related ME/CFS problem (search "ME/CFS Gut Dysbiosis")

A dietician helped form weight-loss/deficiency treatment of key vitamins & minerals (did thesis on villi getting out of sync leading to non-absorption):

Eat v slowly, 30m, savour the flavour, 3-5 days
Clear out eg clothes/boxes, bag everything to clean later with mould treatment (softener draw)
Flush radiator surfaces (put soapy water down them with bag/blanket below to catch water/dust)
EG Shark vacuum/Air Purifier (in extreme cases)
Rescue (1st week)
Pro-Biotics
EnsurePlus (take 'as needed' I guess 1/day?)

My regimen (just an example, taking some on alternate days):

This first one is important - apparently the body will not be able to do anything with some of these without others hence my previous regimen taking the Floradix Vitamin B complex massively missed the mark and I still struggled a lot.

"Vitamin B Complex Capsules B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7 B9, B12 UK Clean Supplements" from e-Bay supplier "uknutrilifesupplements" aka "Healthy Life supplements LTD" of County Tyrone, Ireland.

IRON (lifesaver! Ferrate something? Have got it written down at home)
Selenium with Vitamins A, C & E
Chewable Calcium with Vit D + K
Equazen Omega cpsules (EPAs / long-chain fatty acids)
Magnesium
Co-Enzyme Q10
Zinc
Rude Health Coconut Milk with Calcium and Vitamin D2 (lifesaver)

Tried BuckThorn juice for a while but was told even half a bottle is too high a dose and it did feel like it was pushing my metabolism. Two weeks on zinc etc and vits A-E and avoiding wheat while having pro-biotics and omega 3+6 long-chain fatty acid high EPA capsules? Peachy, just put on most of a kg somewhere this week, weight-loss stabilised and hopefully reversed. Will be nice to see if I should have a belly, or be 'svelt' when finally consult the right specialists (up to 6 month wait sometimes, but optimistic, stopped my weight loss and at least can 'pinch an inch' like the ads used to say... happy days)

Live well, Love Well, SLEEP well
But above all, EAT well and BE well

Kif

Cover - Is There Anybody Out There by Pink Floyd (classical lilt practise)

Sincilious Kif