Heroe's Overture

"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

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Independent artist making songs that rock.

I don’t know about you but I miss hearing songs that just rock.  A couple of guitars, bass, drums, vocals, and harmonies make such a powerful combination.  It’s this power and energy that I’m after in the songs I record.
I perform all parts on these recordings unless otherwise specified. I’m primarily a guitar player and never considered myself a singer but I started doing it to complete my songs and I may be finding a voice for myself.
I’m open to collaboration so reach out if you’d like to work on some tracks.  I don’t have any rap on my tracks, don’t listen to much rap, but I have a couple of incomplete songs I’m interested in brining some rap into.  So let me know if any of you rappers want to collaborate with a rocker.
Recording, mixing, mastering is just as much of a hobby as playing the music is.  If you’d like another ear on your mix or some mastering done, drop me a message.  I’m not looking for money for it, just the opportunity to practice my skills on other artists work, see what I can do, and help a fellow musician.
Finally, I’m looking to put together a band to see how my songs work live.  Reach out if you’re interested and in the RDU area.  Follow me on my social media links to get the latest updates on the journey and share some music and laughs.
Cheers!

Thank you so much for visiting and listening.
I’m a full-time engineer, but I’ve been making music for 40-plus years. I studied jazz drums and Spanish guitar, and now I make music as both producer and guitar player.

I love instrumental rock and hip-hop and electronic music — especially when they start to overlap. To me, music should share electricity, and have a dynamic, stratified blend of styles.

I use Ableton DAW, add Moog and Arturia synthesizers, play guitar, and dive head over heels into the creative process. I really treasure the ancient power of music.

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Anjunadeep music are some of my main influences.
All the best from Hungary!!!!!

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I love music, I always have, and I always will. I love all the different kinds, types, genres, etc. My #1 favorite is classical music it sings straight to my soul....
        Recently, I have become more acquainted with computer programming, music production software, and external instrumentation 
         I LOVE IT ;) I like to create melodies. I love to make different and not "normal" music! ***KEEP IT WEIRD*** Some of my INSTRUMENTALS & other stuff is literally just a melody, other things just WEIRD-NESS, and sometimes other stuff is just....I DON'T KNOW stuff  haha!! 🤣
        I am still a NOOB BIG time, only been playing with music On p.c. myself, off and on, for maybe a YEAR.. I HAVE BEEN GIVING MYSELF HAPPILY LATELY WORKING VERY HARD!!! ALSO, I AM HAVING A GREAT TIME!!
       NOW I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO SING 😳😳 AND RAP😂...I love to sing. That doesn't mean I'm good at it, haha!! FOR ME SINGING OR RAPPING IS VERY EMBARRASSING!!!!.😭😭😭😭😳😳😳. IT IS still so new to me...I've NEVER sang on a microphone!  I'M HAVING A GREAT TIME XOXO
      However, I still want to get my compositions out to the world. There is a lot & lot more that I have made and wayyyy more coming, and I WILL  NEVER BE DONE :o) 
     I hope and dream of collaborations, or someone working with> me whilst using my melodies, or ideas, or thoughts, or feelings,  HUMAN INTERACTION!!    :o)So If you hear something that perks your ears, please let me know. I am so very pleased to know that someone out there felt something, anything !!
      If you would like, please message me on here. Please do 🙏 just please don't hit me up with any weird inappropriate things, please!
       Do you want to collaborate with me? I am good with that !!! I listen to music as my way, igniting a fire in my soul, as I have always done. 
      Now I'm learning the programming, and I am able to get actual melodies out of my head!  I get to express my feelings, happy ,deep, dark emotions that have been buried in my so so very long..,and listening to my own tracks, and it feels great! It is so humbling to me 🥲
Thank y'all so Damn much!!!!!
      A bigger plus, I am finding so many pure talented awesome, fantastic TALENTED artists on this platform, and for that alone, I am so very grateful, and I appreciate y'all!!!!
 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<MUCH LOVE, HAPPINESS, AND PEACE!!!!

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

 MUCH LOVE TO THE MASTERS OF MUSIC 🎶 🎵 🙌 😊😊😊💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
THANK Y'ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK. YOUR DEDICATION, PURE DEVOTION, AND BEING JUST PURELY BADASS!!!!!

Heroe's Overture

Eddie Sharp