METROPOLIS APOCALYPSE (Ft. Brian Butts)

Pierre and Jean-CLaude Bordetti productions (c) 11/2025.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti and Jean-Claude Bordetti.
Thanks to my brother Jean-Claude for this great performance on drums and percussion.
Many thanks to Julie for this magnificent photo of Tanzania.

An ambient instrumental jazz piece inspired by this photo of elephants. These marvelous creatures, so strong, so tranquil, and unfortunately so fragile because of us humans.

Un Jazz instrumental d'ambiance inspiré de cette photo d'éléphants. Ces merveilles créatures si fortes, si tranquilles et malheureusement si fragilisées par les êtres humains que nous sommes.



Quiet strength

Quiet strength (feat Jean-Claude Bordetti on drums)

Words and music written by Bartley Charles Mastin
Performance and production by Bartley Charles Mastin - All instruments and vocals.
Copyright 2025 All Rights Reserved

Tuning: Standard
Instruments: Acoustic guitar, Slide Guitar(Open D), Bass guitar, Harmonica, Round shakers, Cabasa, Tambourine, Metal drum, Conga drum, Drum set.

Lyrics:
You don’t wanna go
To Memphis
Too many thieves
Too many fences

Anything you wanna do
As long as I’m with you
Let’s talk it out 
Let’s work it out

Don’t wanna ride
You prefer walkin’
Say you can’t sleep
You feel like talking

Anything you wanna do
As long as I’m with you
Let’s talk it out 
Let’s work it out

Leave them behind
Best left forgotten
Baby blue sky
Clouds look like cotton

Anything you wanna do
As long as I’m with you
Let’s talk it out 
Let’s work it out
Let’s dream about

Anything

*Listen w Headphones
Media today reminds me of Sergio Leone when he turned gentle eyed Henry Fonda in the most evil and scary villain of all time in Once upon a time in the west (1968) the opening scene! Crazy how much media has shifted ...

TV Shows / Movies
YOU
MMA
Dexter
The100
Dahmer
Ed Gein
Hannibal
John Wick
Cop Shows
Happy Days
Breaking Bad
The Last of Us
Stranger Things
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
Married with Children
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Video game series
GTA 
The Last of Us 
Red Redemption 
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Lyrics
No you are not watching a program on television
They got you downloaded eyes glitching and twitching

Brains battered down by cops shows reruns
Fun replaced by guns and body bags ain't no fun

Screaming like sexual frustrated maniacs 
Drinking booze nod along long as your screen ain't cracked

Hyper sexualized teen Kelly Bundy, chaos on the scene
Dumbed down no clue she was just only fifteen

Stalking and killing like Joe in YOU
Fixated on Game of Thrones eyes stuck like glue

Wheel like a Hamster Rock and Roll like a Guinea Pig 
Guts and violence dropping faster than dead bodies by John Wick 

Breaking all sorts of taboos yeah we're god damn right
Rooting for the bad guys say my name like Walter White

How did we go from Happy Days to this?
From Jukebox dreams to a media abyss
No fun memorabilia just blank stares and twisted bliss
How did we go from Happy Days to this?

All eyes on Heisenberg he's chasing the fame
While Pinkman is to blame pounding your brain like a trauma train

Little minds molded slaughtered like chickens 
I kid you not child intertainment not save the plot thickens

Just like The Last of Us no good options only bad
Even video games weaponized yeah it's sad

Teaching kids roadkill is okay like GTA
Intertained by a pain simulator instead of playing a game

Stranger Things got us normalized
Zombies replacing humans to de-sensitize 

The 100 the next chapter cannibal cuisine
Eggs and bacon with Dexter and Hannibal's routine

Swiss cheese morals holes drilled deep
Chopping topics faster like Dahmer no time to weep

Wait, you're still alive? 
Okay fine fast forward to 2025

Like wild horses smoke screens eating dust
Riding an endless rodeo trying to dodge those violent tusks

Fighting the beast like a MMA fighter with naked fists
Dear lord how did we go from Happy Days to this?

From pedophilia to necrophilia that's the screen
Sensationalizing Epstein and Ed Gein's dreams

How did we go from Happy Days to this?
How did we go from Happy Days to this?
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*Picture Claudia Cardinale.

Music, vocals / Suno AI
Music, lyrics, remix / LS 2025.

Happy Days [Lyrics in description]

Nu Jazz that’s Chill with Neoclassical touches, some blues notes, and audio of songbirds, all driven by conga rhythms at 75 bpm. Written in the past week, a continuation of similar themes created in the past few months. An original composition, no AI, digital music created MIDI to DAW by a human.

I live in the Northern Hemisphere, where the sunlight wanes into the shortest day and the longest night on winter solstice. In this November song — in follow up to my Equinox song — I express the month’s gradual descent into darkness as daylight recedes to the increase of night.

The good news is that we know how the story ends; the light begins regaining its strength on the day after winter solstice. So there’s hope based on empirical evidence — scientific, objective reality that you can rely upon, thank goodness! 😀

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NOVEMBER: A DESCENT INTO DARKNESS 
If I could translate the musical narrative into words, the following is what it would say.

The birds know winter is coming.
They rendezvous to flee 
like embers of a dying flame.
Autumn wind claws leaves, 
a lion untamed.
All tell stories of fading light.
Stretch, they cry, towards the setting orb.
Reach upward to compel
one last flapping 
golden sail 
slipping the horizon 
waving pale.
Away!
The end of one more day 
closer, inching sunlight retreats 
as it silently 
unceremoniously greets,
the longest dark of night.
Keep knits wrapped tight!
No frost bite.
Descent toward solstice, 
prepare the bonfire’s bed.
Rest and reflect.
Pause the scroll of dread.
Sugar-plums dance in the head.
On the other side of surrender 
to darkness comes gain
the glorious reign 
of the light 
when sunrise breaks 
again.

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75 bpm
Variations of Dm7/b5, Db, C aug, Bbm, Edim7, Fm, F7
DAW: Apple Logic Pro 
MIDI: Akai Professional Keyboard 
E-INSTRUMENTS or VSTs:
Concert Grand piano 
Ballad piano 
Ambient Lead 
Lunar Chords 
Focus synth 
Bassoon Solo 
Clarinet Solo
Modern Strings 
Studio Double Basses
Deep Round Synth Bass
Fingerstyle Electric Bass 
ELECTRONIC DRUM KITS 
Latin Kit 
Pop Kit
Breaks Remix Kit 
Studio Brush Kit

LO-FI AUDIO of birdsongs recorded live using an iPhone on November 8 and 9, 2025.
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COVER ART is a surrealistic interpretation of the song as original CGI by SUNNYBECK using a composite derived from original AI-generated images rendered by the DaVinci app, then altered, retouched, and designed in Photoshop.
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November

revenge is a primitive vile trait that is also unfortunately prevalent and powerful.It causes senselessbrutal violence, that in the end solves no problems and creates a recurring cycle of more violence. The notion to avenge ones ancestors I suppose has to do with a sense of guilt if you "do nothing" but I think you can forgive for the sake of creating a peaceful future for your children without forgetting the qualities of the ancestors or acknowledging their worth.

lyrics

what is revenge worth if no  one's left standing
what is revenge worth if your home is now rubble
what is revenge wort if your children are starving
causeing more pain just causes more trouble

your children are playing and need to feel safe
they have not yet learned how to kill or to hate 
for people who so long ago died
that when therirstories are told you can' tell the truth from the lies

you don't have to forget to forgive
give the children a chance to thrive and to live
do you understand!!

so put down your sword and put away your gun
go back to your store go back to your farm
remember the pain your ancestors caused
then go on with your life for your children and wives

teach the children how to forgive
to learn from the past so the future they build
will be on the right path
don't let the future look like the past

so what's revenge worth...

what is revenge worth?

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We Will Not Bow Down To - Destraction Denial And Inertia

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a story by fictionalive

music, carefully used, written, arranged, played, mixed, produced, and provided by courtesy of mobygratis and its crew, licensed and curated by fictionalive //

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vocal production, arrangement, and final mix by fictionalive

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artwork art sculpture in the desert photography

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

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friday november 21
year 2025 at 5 pm
does it matter

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We Will Not Bow Down To - Destraction Denial And Inertia

My first Christmas song! This was originally intended to be just a series of improvisations on Prokofiev's Troika ( Sleigh Ride ) but then I got the idea of bringing in a space theme. So I started thinking about the Apollo 11 moon landing and worked this in. I’m not quite sure how, but Neil Armstrong has ended up providing the main vocal hook - hence the extra title in brackets! There’s a hint of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss about the brass section. I added the actual Strauss motif in the fade out just because….well, it’s meant to be a jolly festive song so why not?It was a whole heap of fun adding all the effects and touches to create that spacey and festive vibe. I hope you enjoy it and, obviously, have a wonderful Christmas! 

Additional space effects - Pixabay
Original image - betidraws on Pixabay


Christmas Sleigh Ride to the Moon (One Small Step)

Doors swing wide, the wave consumes the light
In the neon haze, we search for something right

Crowd surges like a tide beneath the ceiling high
Spotlights carve the aisle, a grave of glow in the night
Flat screens shimmering, a frontline in our eyes
We bleed for pixels, under blackout skies
Midnight riot ‘neath the price tags lost and found
Bodies hit the floor, in the echo of the sound
Shopping carts like ghosts across a metal stampede
Greed in our veins, adrenaline the seed

We bleed for pixels, claw for the beam
In the silent war of wants, we chase the dream
Flat screens lining aisles like battlefield light
Black Friday turns angels into a fighting team
And all we want is to feel alive
In the echo of the sale, we survive

Box cutters flash like hidden steel beneath the glare
Wallets stay empty, yet the rage is everywhere
Broken displays on tired tile floors whisper the cost
Some fight for the screen, others fight for what they lost
Sunrise when the damage is done, bruises count the price
Victory hollow when you see the light but lose the night
Tape on the floor marks where our shadows fell
Yet the hunger restarts, the story we still tell

We bleed for pixels, claw for the beam
In the silent war of wants, we chase the dream
Flat screens lining aisles like battlefield light
Black Friday turns angels into a fighting team
And all we want is to feel alive
In the echo of the sale, we survive

Neon flickers on abandoned carts,
Price tags fade yet the craving restarts
Screens in bags but the eyes remain lost
We fought for a glow that won’t fill the cost
And when the signs reset, we’ll fall in line
Another long night, another sale we buy

We bleed for pixels, claw for the beam
In the silent war of wants, we chase the dream
Flat screens lining aisles like battlefield light
Black Friday turns angels into a fighting team
In the echo of the sale, we survive
We bleed for pixels, just to feel alive

We bleed for pixels (Indie Pop reload)

Original track
Music made in GarageBand
Not a fancy cool track, just simple stuff, from my heart ❤️

Thank you so much for listening 🫶

Lyrics:

Dear little child
Inside me
Please come out
I need to heal
Dont be afraid
You are safe

I want you to see
I belive in you
I need you to be...  Free...

Dear little child
Take my hand
I will protect you
And understand
don't be afraid
You are safe

I want you to see
I belive in you
I need you to be....  Free.....

I need to heal
I need you to be...  Free....

Dear Little Child   (Original)

КАРШ (Slowed)

Brain Hop

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

/ to(tally) fictionalive or not

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

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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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