Good Folk I Found

"Hippie Hollow" is a single released by American singer/songwriter, ALEX KAUTZ.

Hippie Hollow

SÉSAMOS

Sésamos en avalancha,
rodando sobre la arena.

La serpiente que separa
los follajes de los prados,
y me interna suavemente
traspasando las montañas
y esa mirada.

Sésamos en avalancha,
rodando sobre la arena.

Hay dos soles que se acercan
una tierna madrugada,
dos constantes beneficios
cuando mi mente se escapa, 
y esa mirada.

Sésamos en avalancha,
rodando sobre la arena.

Se levanta la mañana,
reverberancia en la cara,
luz dorada que me acerca 
a mí suave pensamiento,
y esa mirada.

Sésamos en avalancha,
Sésamos en avalancha.

SÉSAMOS CREDITOS:
Sojue Stradac - Símbolos, signos y presentimientos.

SEMILLAS

Sésamos

Composer:    Karl Heimgartner Dat : 16.07. 2023    ©       
Genre:           Folk 
Title:                 Beautiful Clean Lake
Track             06
Extern Mix and Mastering : MTM - Mastering True Music Production
Mixed and mastered by Christine Sampson of MTM


Thanks for the collaboration, Freddie and Team MTM Mastering True Music Production
Mixed and mastered by Christine Sampson of MTM

Beautiful Clean Lake

Original Song
https://soundcloud.com/trappedanimal/neev-seawall

Neev - Seawall REMIX

Remaster 2023 of the 2022 EP "A Path Of Light"

The Transmigration

Let's do a deep reference for this one.
See who spots it.
Draw your own conclusions.  Free country...sorta.
Sometimes the song is tiny but the presentation is more fun.

203 : Well, Well, If It Isn't Necessarily Skyrocket released December 15, 2023

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DoDeka

Well, Well, If It Isn't Necessarily Skyrocket

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Pauper's Weed

So here's to the arrival of something about departures.
Learned this expression from coworkers early in my working life, when someone fairly high-up left.

The wistful cabal saw him depart/
And their mood was nothing if not quite tart

217 : Don't Let The Door Hit Ya In The Ass On The Way Out released January 5, 2024

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TreDeka

Don't Let The Door Hit Ya In The Ass On The Way Out

Third part of my father trilogy.
The father trilogy ends with my naïve and youthful attempt, at the age of 23, to break away from my father, who seemed overpowering at the time, and stand on my own two feet: 
To move as far away as possible from my provincial hometown, to throw myself into a Berlin that was completely foreign to me at the time and completely overwhelming. 
My saviour at the time was my oldest friend, who had already been living in Berlin for a few years and took me under his wing like a big brother.     
But even with his help, I soon had to realise that the attempt at a radical inner "patricide" could not succeed in any way. The early imprints he had left on me, the demons I had 'inherited' from him, were all still there. No matter how much I turned my outer life upside down, there was no escape from the central patterns and beliefs that I had learnt from my father in the first 10 years of my life.
In this respect, the song title "The Singular Man" is a "Mission Impossible". It was only three years later, and especially after his early death, that I realised more and more that a lifelong confrontation with my inner father images could lead to a closely linked dialectic:
An ever deeper and visibly more reconciliatory bond with my father and, at the same time, an ever-increasing self-realisation    
 
The Singular Man  (Lyrics in English)

Run through streets crooked and skewed 
The bridges criss-cross

All around me the stink of the city
An army of people everywhere

Turn in somewhere now
Fall in at your door

You are alone
Your corridor infinitely long
Your walls high and wide 
Your front door broad and welcoming

You push me through the corridor now 
At the windows the siren-
song

I get scared and bang 
Am I still
Your catch of fish
Your silhouette
That only plays at being free

And yet I have escaped you 
Escaped!

I take off all hinges
Hang out the windows
Make me a magic wand
Grey Berlin becomes a colourful bouquet for me 

Ride on a peacock wheel
Take a foam spring bath in the Spree

All light 
Time thrown into the air

Pain-free in a glittering dress
An ecstatic feeling of life

But something pushes back
Under the carpet lies the hanging rope
The spider's web is
Still there
The old danger

I only know about her now 
Keep me out of her more 

Oh man, the singular man
Man Oh man, the singular man
Man Oh man, the singular man
Man Oh man, the singular man


Der Singuläre Mann (Deutscher Originaltext)

Lauf’ durch Straßen krumm und schief, 
Die Brücken kreuz und quer

Um mich herum der Großstadtmief
Überall ein Menschen-Heer

Bieg' irgendwo jetzt ein
Fall’ bei Dir zur Tür herein

Du bist allein
Dein  Flur unendlich lang
Deine Wände hoch und weit 
Deine Eingangstür willkommens-breit

Schiebst mich jetzt durch den Gang 
An den Fenstern der Sirenen-
Gesang

Mir wird Angst und Bang 
Bin ich immer noch
Dein Fischfang
Dein Schattenbild
Das das Freisein nur spielt

Und doch bin ich Dir entflohen 
Entflohen!

Lege alle Scharniere ab
Häng' die Fenster aus
Bastle mir einen Zauberstab
Grau-Berlin wird mir zum bunten Strauß 

Fahr auf nem‘ Pfauenrad
Nehm‘ in der Spree ein Schaum-Frühlingsbad

Alles leicht 
In die Luft geworfene Zeit

Schmerzbefreit im Glitzerkleid
Ein rauschhaftes Lebensgefühl

Doch etwas drängt zurück
Unterm Teppich liegt der Häng‘-Dich-Strick
Das Spinnennetz ist
Immer noch da
Die alte Gefahr

Kenn‘ mich jetzt nur mit ihr aus 
Halt mich mehr aus ihr raus 

Oh Mann, der Singuläre Mann
Mann Oh Mann, der Singuläre Mann
Mann Oh Mann, der Singuläre Mann
Mann Oh Mann, der Singuläre Mann

Der Singulare Mann (The Singular Man)

Der Singuläre Mann (The Singular Man)

The third rather experimental vocal track.  A lot of compressing sections to go faster and match instrumentals.

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Lyrics:


And if it isn't too much trouble
I would like to know just what you were angling for
For the time... grows...short
To search for redress, tidy the mess

Riddle me this

As we sit here treading water
Why is it that you keep dodging the issue
Are the terms... too... steep
To broker a deal
What is it you feel

I didn't want, to be cruel
But there comes a time
Begging validation
Plays me for the fool

SexDeka

Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2 (Lyrical)

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The fourth lyrical track, this is Track 67 (LXVII) with the vocal track just fitted on top of it without really changing the instrumentals at all.

Don't interrupt a woman when she's trying to keep you out of trouble.

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Lyrics:

They're looking for a man
Who has a plan
Don't be put out by seeming
Shallow comparisons
Their abacus is always on patrol

They seek the best discard the rest
Remember they just try to build a nest
That instinct isn't really just a troll

They don't have time
To sit and wait
For you to find yourself
Until too late
The younger ones
Require being bold

SepteDeka

Be More Worried If She Says Yes (Extended Lyrical Version)

Be More Worried If She Says Yes - Lyrical Extended

I liked the technical challenge of this song.  A lot of moving vocal segments around and the first time that I sang harmonies against myself.

Looking at it a day later: it's like theres an extra measure in the verses where Bill shortened once he got to the 2nd-and-later, and I didn't because I cut and pasted, so it explains why I have to idle extra time each verse to deal with that.

But it does inadvertently fill the requirement that "cover songs should have their own weird signature that doesn't match the original too closely"

I very consciously did -not- read the spoilers for who Laura was really about before cutting the cover.  One fun way to interpret who Laura is, if you didn't know it's Joel's mother, is not an ex-wife or an ex-gf, like some are saying, but let's say a niece or a biological daughter that he never sees until Laura is an adult, but what hurts is they're cut from the same cloth, they're -so- similar but Laura's karma is different and gets her in trouble and he always has to financially bail her out etc.  Be a fixer.
She's genius-level but does substances way harder than him and routinely almost gets killed.  Loose cannon.  The 'umbilical cord' in this sense is then the aid he has to give, she -never- shows signs of growing up or out of this phase.

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OctoDeka

Laura

Laura (Billy Joel Cover)

This was after DanikaXIX's Twitch watchalong of Dreamgirls when I made two vocals really quickly inspired by that experience.  Of the two, Kick Rocks is where I consciously tried to do an Eddie Murphy impression as a laugh, and then She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy (CCCV) is more done in my own voice.  The latter got an Alpha Remaster a number of months later to get rid of the awkward 2 second gap after "modus vivendi"

The closest I've come to an R&B vocal.  I didn't expect that writing the lyrics it just started to make sense.

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Lyrics:

Women love strategically

And men love romantically

If you expect to be both ignorant and free

You expect what never was and never will be


Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Any tool can mask their cruelty forcing you to find it.

Circle jerks of any size

Tend to scotch the intended prize

Hence the warnings of the wise


Women think intuitively

And men think logically

I saw how the ringmasters tend to their flocks

And that's when I told them that they can kick rocks


If you expect to be both ignorant and free

You expect what never was and never will be

Shit rolls down hill but eventually

It ends up on my boots and then we shall see

304 : Kick Rocks released June 19, 2024

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NovemDeka

Kick Rocks

Just a strange conversation I had on Twitter/X and a few other concepts rolled together:

Note: I am in nowhere near this dark a mood it's just the direction writing the poetry dragged me in.

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Lyrics:

As my prospects generally began to sink
I became a master of the slow blink
It seemed a better expression of calm
Than the tried and true facepalm

Every day i get closer to understanding
why Nietzsche went insane
He failed to last until the serum
of Gödel's incompleteness theorem
Or maybe it was just cancer of the brain

While nibbling on my picky bits
I stumbled into mumbling fits
Around the looming dilemma that sits
On the horizon just ahead 

Lucidity deploys a myriad of suns that melt one's mind
And then one day you wake to find
How badly you'd been left behind
Which only increased my dread

Starting as a sort of joke
I decided to invoke a sort of chant
To break me of my internal rant

Like lobbing coconades at a deka wall
I blazed a path through it all
I found my self devolving
On a hackneyed tool of problem solving

"Yes/No column, come to life"
Rectify my grum moment
By serving up the missing component
To wend my way out of the mess

Every day it's more demanding
Increasing my chances of landing 
At a place of inability to maintain
The trick's to master fear of
People that I'd rather not hear from
Or maybe it's just answering that's a pain

Insatiable truths that devour
Like maggots eating flour
Snap at my heels every hour
The trick's to find a state of grace
In weathering what i'd rather not face
Before it grows beyond what I can tame

"Yes/No column, come to life"
Resolve my little internal strife
Rid me of the pitfalls that are rife
And cut this gordian knot like a knife
44

When I catch myself being a try-hard
Or an insufferable grognard
It helps to pass the time
By flattening the occasional taxi lime
But eventually I return
To suddenly learn
How to break this paradigm

310: Yes-No Column, Come To Life! released July 7, 2024

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Ešrā

Yes-No Column, Come To Life!

I decided to get catty about some philosophers.
This was the result, with the help of a few Twitter conversations.

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Lyrics:
some say
that as far as language and culture go
internal systemic patterns rule
but I haven't really come to find
this conclusion all that cool

Camus said if the world were clear
art would not exist
Did he write that when he was sober
Or after getting really pissed

People see what they want to see
I'm more into shaping my own reality

What forms a bright personality
Is intelligence and cordiality


There are some conceptual nodes
That it is a mistake to connect
And so it's time to be reflecting 
That what we do is to interpret a thing
And warp it around our intellect

All of this pattern matching taken to excess
Results in a hyperlexic mess 
It feels like just belletristic overfitting
A bunch of overcomplicated knitting
Storytelling confused for a predictive process

The real onion here is deciding
Which connections to disregard
For some to me have only about
The appeal of a tub of lard

Some philosophers are Fools competing to
construct a board game
with the most Byzantine rules
But as their theories gather mold
The people who were sold on them
Will sometimes find some jewels

though on examination appearing useless
these things are not non-fungible

The most trivial of trivialities
masquerading as a framework
and that was when i suspected
that they were rather a bunch of jerks

perhaps it's sufficient to be
inspired by the semi-hucksters work
which in places is somewhat overrated
and here and there solutions lurk
which make them vindicated

Freud proved psychosomatics exist
And Chomsky helped out parsers
Foucalt's model of power structures
Is great for spotting farceurs
Derrida examined lived experience
But deconstruction was a miss

They might be accused of
schizophrenic pattern matching
for things that are not really there
but what they actually did was
to make their theories accommodative
fundamentally to get anywhere

They built these edifices out of
A significant chunk of the noticeable
And while I'll grant you that it's not falsifiable
The product might not be that reliable

The lesson of successful intellectual slatterns
is that if enough people agree with your patterns
the mimetic value capture alone is worth it

I just refuse to be mollycoddled
by all this abstruse twaddle
about various mental models

But the manner of their braying
Is really just bewraying  
for the edification of of me and you
that this is necessary for the functioning 
of the social infrastructure
which is just a nice way of saying
that even the clods require their due

Complexity, sensitivity, political import
There are times when i could give less of a bucksnort
But my bias here is showing
For I cannot possibly be all-knowing

Like a stochastic parrot yet a fleshy one
They're sentient but non-useful to some
And a perusal of their semantic fantasia
reveals they sometimes as well have had Wernicke's aphasia

In their defense, absolute clarity is boring
You can't dodge the theorypill they said
Protest as you may
but intellectual whoring by spewing opaqueness
creates a daunting malaise of fakeness
which kind of ruins my day

319: Word Salad released July 20, 2024

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Word Salad

A song about rain and memories. The remix version is also on this soundcloud page. 

Faster Than the Rain

..as observed at a nightclub once upon a time....the whistle is as he walks away...hands in pockets...feigning nonchalance. :)

Time to Time

Outside

Chemical Cloud💞💚..And the Dome We Live In..

little sailor - Recently Removed (EP version)

"El despertar de la flor de un almendro comienza en primavera,
es la amígdala, el veneno, la reina de las rosas,  
una drupa, la vagina, el cairel de una aureola, 
la ciudad, un puñado de almendras y un molusco de mar".

VIDEO OFICIAL: https://youtu.be/7QkgCf9xGqw

ALMENDRA

Estrella, titila, la noche,
tus ojos, diamante, desierto,
almendra, semilla, de otra tierra,
de silencio, cabalgando, que te cubre feroz.

Nubes, manto, antiguo, del cielo,
magma, blanco, tu pecho, abierto,
horizonte, telaraña, humo, blanco,
la garganta del volcán.


CREDITOS:
Sojue Stradac - Símbolos, signos y presentimientos.
KandyCardonac – Fotografía.
Paulino Robles - Portada y Producción de Vídeo #FotoBazarTulancingo.
Carlos Lino - Video, grabado en El Banco, Hidalgo.
Grabado en Enero 2019 y producido en 100 Hertz Home Studio por Sojue Stradac en Enero 2021.

¡Gracias es que su poder impulsa!

Almendra

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

Good Folk I Found

Doug Stoothoff