Words and music written by Bartley Charles Mastin
Performance by Bartley Charles Mastin
Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved

Jaybird

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Youtube: https://youtu.be/BW3Bt4Z94yY?si=_goOTLfYuXcdaP_I
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2gRzuNVCACThpsbJifIwyn?si=XcQsn8zFQOKQkwBu-vL6-A
Amazon: https://amazon.de/music/player/albums/B0DHL2NBJN?marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9&musicTerritory=DE&ref=dm_sh_L3fhkmez1Q4AzCW2V49jlqr6V
Apple: https://music.apple.com/de/album/mosaik-der-momente-single/1769900038
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Lyrik: (The English translation is below the German lyrics)

Durch Münchens Gassen, Isar nah
Marienplatz im Nebel grau
Pinselstriche ohne Farben
Mein Herz, ein stummer Schrei nach Wandel

Da kam ein Ruf aus Barcelona
Kunst und Code in Harmonie
Bits und Bytes, Farben, Klänge
Erweckten Träume aus der Ferne

Deine Augen, Spiegel meiner Seele, (Seele, oh Seele)
Zeigen mir, was ich nie sah. (Nie sah, nie sah)
Aus Pixeln wird ein Meisterwerk
Mit dir beginnt mein Leben neu. (Leben neu, oh Leben neu)

Von Schwabing bis zum Central Park
Unsre Kunst, digital, analog
Jeder Klick, ein Herzschlag mehr
Erschafft ein "Wir" aus "Du und Ich"

Vom Englischen Garten bis Gaudí
Formen wir die Welt ganz neu
Was verloren schien, jetzt gefunden
In Code und Farbe neu verbunden

Deine Augen, Spiegel meiner Seele, (Seele, oh Seele)
Zeigen mir, was ich nie sah. (Nie sah, nie sah)
Aus Pixeln wird ein Meisterwerk
Mit dir beginnt mein Leben neu. (Leben neu, oh Leben neu)

Erinnerst du dich an den Tag
Als wir im Regen tanzten?
Jeder Tropfen ein Pixel war
Jeder Blitz ein Pinselstrich
Zwei Herzen, einst getrennt
Nun vereint in Kunst und Liebe

Deine Augen, Spiegel meiner Seele, (Seele, oh Seele)
Zeigen mir, was ich nie sah. (Nie sah, nie sah)
Aus Pixeln wird ein Meisterwerk
Mit dir beginnt mein Leben neu. (Leben neu, oh Leben neu)

Von München bis New York und zurück
Unser Weg, ein buntes Mosaik
In deinem Licht seh' ich mich neu
Eine Zukunft, digital und treu
Mit dir an meiner Seite hier
Beginnt das Leben, du und ich

English translation:
Through Munich's alleys, Isar near
Marienplatz in the gray fog
Brushstrokes without colors
My heart, a silent cry for change

Then came a call from Barcelona
Art and code in harmony
Bits and bytes, colors, sounds
Awakened dreams from afar

Your eyes, mirror of my soul, (soul, oh soul)
Show me what I never saw. (never saw, never saw)
A masterpiece is emerging from pixels
With you, my life begins anew. (life anew, oh life anew)

From Schwabing to Central Park
Our art, digital, analog
Every click, one heartbeat more
Creates a “we” from “you and me”

From the English Garden to Gaudí
We'll reshape the world entirely
What seemed lost is now found
In code and color, newly bound

Your eyes, mirror of my soul, (soul, oh soul)
Show me what I never saw. (never saw, never saw)
A masterpiece is born of pixels
With you, my life begins anew. (life anew, oh life anew)

Do you remember the day
When we danced in the rain?
Every drop was a pixel
Every flash a brushstroke
Two hearts, once apart
Now united in art and love

Your eyes, mirror of my soul, (soul, oh soul)
Show me what I never saw. (Never saw, never saw)
From pixels comes a masterpiece
With you, my life begins anew. (Life new, oh life new)

From Munich to New York and back
Our path, a colorful mosaic
In your light, I see myself anew
A future, digital and true
With you by my side here
Life begins, you and I

Mosaik der Momente

*Listen w Headphones!

Let this song be your safety-Rope
when you climb these mountains.
My thoughts are always w you my old friend!
~ LS
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Vocals by Gary Reeves
Spoken words by Terry Reeves

Lyrics /Short version.
(Written by Terry Reeves)

I was walking down Mare Street, Hackney
Climbing boots and back pack on
Looking for a song of mountains
I had climbed them many times before
Challenge may help to find another door

I’ve climbed arduous N.H.S mountains
Planted flags a'top of wedlock peaks
Hung upside down on magical fountains
With my muscles springing major leaks
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Check out the original track here
https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/mountain-man-cripple-club
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Remixed by LS/2025.

Gal-vanize Feat Gary Reeves

This is a collaboration with my friend xian3 https://on.soundcloud.com/QOm69lt9nGrn7W0dEL from SoundCloud. His original track had a rock flavor, but I halved the BPM and reimagined it with a tropical jungle vibe. I also got help from mozawa_*  https://on.soundcloud.com/CsHi8jD7VOjfujT9Dq on the percussion tracks. 
You can check out Xian3’s original version. https://on.soundcloud.com/U65g2z6R8LhU8NJ5N4

’Miss Terious’

Basically we're all the same Gifted with a body and a brain And a heart that beats us through all those ways Through glorious nights and fatal days
Still there's something...mysterious
We have changed the world so much In different ways we lost the touch But we don't want to take the blame There's no reason in this game Basically...
Still there's something...mysterious
Working hard in all different ways Winter, spring, summer and fall All the time again and again To deny who is to blame Basically...
Still there's something...mysterious
Still there' something more above A mysterious thing called love

Lyrics and Music by xian3
Percussion tracks by mozawa_*
Composition,Arrangement and Sampling collage by Synline.

Art by Henri Rousseau ’ Snake Charmer’

’Miss Terious’ Xian3=mozawa_*Synline

My orchestral and piano tribute to this amazing composition by Handel

Passacaglia

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

A Taylor column - part 2

🎼👉https://musescore.com/user/102916054/scores/25814749

Dance Of The Excited Mongoose

Liner Notes by the editors:

Little is known about the band that has created this song. Most of this little information can be gleaned from the website of FMT, whom a previous SHELLF LIFE release can be attributed to. We caution that  we do not know if any or all of this information is outdated: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life-interview.html Unfortunately, the Furico Team was not available for commentary, since they are launching quite a different kind of historic project on kitchen label.  

Some questionable facts regarding STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN’s release are related in quite a verbose and unreliable way tinged with judgemental interpretation and interspersed with pseudointellectual preconceptions here:   https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/shellf-life-paraphernalia-and-parerga-2025 (German original, as far as we can discern). According to that ‚account‘, the recording of STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN was found on a self-burnt disc (ha, that ancient Nero joke!) in a forgotten chest. The poem used in this recording is the only item that can be traced to an author (jo richter) who was kind enough to allow us to reprint here. Obviously, the references to the war-inflicted tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki make it of  special importance at this moment in history, not only because of current tensions, but also because those two catastrophies happened about 80 years ago in August 1945. We therefore decided to release the two versions known thus far as a vinyl single to the general public, accompanied by an image attributed to the same author as the poem.


Strangelove's Brain

another pensive pariah
spotted on the outskirts
of Hyperbolea, Parolia
avant, avant, sempre vorwärts

keeping the obvious captive
locked in a by a reverse smirk
another dementia denier
Hiroshima, where shadows lurk

and the moon keeps rising, rising
every other day, socializing
with singed hands on bare rocks

iron out unseemly locks
to keep face, straight, straight
little boys take progress' bait

B: Strangelove's Brain (brain, blood and bone mix)

Radio Haze

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march on – it’s a lie / we’ve earned this rage (brexit blues rocks hard) //
long version

years of empty promises, then reality hit: jobs lost, bills up, dreams shrinking—while the suits keep talking. this is the soundtrack for every working-class soul who feels burned, hustled, lied to. we march, we shout, we rage, and yeah—brexit blues rocks hard.

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lyrics written and narration provided by fictionalive //

music, carefully used, is the song 'April 10' written, arranged, played, mixed, produced, licensed, and provided by mobygratis.com

lyrics arrangement, additional mix, and production by fictionalive //

/ artwork illustration by peter uertz, düsseldorf / germany

fusion of it all -
fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports.

written May, 2025

dropped
saturday, september 8th, 2025
time - 11:33 pm shall be

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March On - It's A Lie / We've Earned This Rage (Brexit Blues Rocks Hard) // long version

Rising Legend (Rearrange Epic Music)

Brain Hope – Do It for Free

fictionalive /
popoems series / hyper media reports 
2001 / 2011 / 2024

/ to(tally) fictionalive or not

:: disclaimer
let me break it down for you - all tracks are handcrafted

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An artist is someone who creates or expresses ideas, emotions, or visions through a chosen medium, aiming to communicate, inspire, or evoke a response.

This definition embraces all forms of creativity—visual, musical, literary, or performance—and emphasizes the purpose of connection and expression rather than formal titles or external validation.

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Brain Hop

Brain Hop is a musical genre invented by the artist FICTIONALIVE on Monday, December 1st, 2025, at 1:24 PM. The genre seeks to bring depth, intellect, and philosophical reflection into contemporary music, emphasizing thoughtful lyricism, conceptual frameworks, and cognitive engagement across styles. Brain Hop differentiates itself from much mainstream music by prioritizing meaningful content, complex themes, and a cerebral approach to structure, rhythm, and sound design.

The creation of Brain Hop responds to the perception that a lot of current music leans heavily on surface-level entertainment while neglecting intellectual and existential depth. It aims to provide an artistic space where artists explore profound social, political, and existential issues through innovative production and poetic or experimental vocal delivery. Brain Hop can interact with hip-hop, electronic, pop, or experimental traditions, but is defined above all by its focus on ideas and reflection rather than by any single beat pattern or instrumentation.

​As of its inception, Brain Hop is positioned as an emerging genre within underground and alternative music scenes, promising to attract listeners and creators who value music that stimulates both mind and soul.
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