Faint faint hope

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So… I was pondering my current mindset, and I noticed it sounded something like: “Holy flaming shitballs of impending fiery doom!! Is this it? Are these the end-times? And are they just more pea-brained and tedious than Hollywood promised? Please stop the planet. I’d like to get off here.”

A lot has unfolded in just the last six months. I'm pretty sure Australia burned down. The world has become embroiled in a pandemic (And the US is firmly ranked #1, so… MAGA?). Major earthquakes have been reported in Mexico, and the states surrounding Yellowstone (isn’t that super). Umm.... Murder Hornets (because Huggy Hornets didn't seem appropriate to this year's theme).  Humans have once again proven they will always stand up for equality, and opportunity… despite any antiquated and fear-based structure that stands in their way (who could have imagined?). Current leadership has finally confirmed the value of those human lives (considering inflation, it wasn't as high as I'd hoped). Oh, and bleach is now a health drink (although you’re gonna want a mixer).

It was probably around day twenty seven, hiding under the stairs in the basement, that I had to stop and ask myself, “I wonder if the Sun’s still there, or if it got fed up with our crap, and left.” (Good news folks. It’s still there. It’s also shockingly green and beautiful outside, so the pollution may have actually gotten fed up, and left.)

So for this one, I’m going full Star Trek analogy, because it’s one I’m sure almost everyone will remember… The concept of ’Shields Up’. 

Even in the earliest episodes, whether the attack was imminent or hidden, ’Shields Up!’ was always the first command. It’s purely a defensive move, and it’s fascinating to study the cinematically-defined rules created to support that idea. Sure, the ship becomes impervious to attacks. But its landing bays are also closed off from receiving allied resources during that time. Most intriguingly, the shield can only be maintained for so long. It is always draining the ship’s resources. So essentially, the shield is unbiased as to who or what it keeps out, and the ship’s resources drain rapidly with each passing moment. It is a very temporary situation, meant to be used sparingly.

In this analogy, I suspect our egos are the ship (I’ll let you decide if your ego is also the captain), and our fear and anger are our shields. And in similar fashion, nothing good can get in when those shields are up. And they are a constant drain on our energy reserves. Everything about the nature of anger and fear suggests we can’t sustain that level of energy output indefinitely. And yet we insist on keeping those shields up.

Going turbo-nerd now, what if this is the equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru (a no-win scenario). What if we are intended to creatively think our way out of this situation, and the answer doesn’t lie in using fear or anger. What if being open to the negative is as important as being open to the positive. And learning to flow with the negative leads to a more well rounded crew, better capable of handling challenges in the future.

Maybe, just maybe, we are meant to have the shields down right now. Maybe we’re meant to be experiencing the brunt of this, full force; in order to come out the other side that much more capable, and that much more respectful of the experience. Either way, I know when my shields are up, I feel physically drained; and when my shields are down, I can feel myself being rejuvenated. And I really believe something profound is happening there. Just something to geek out over.

I hope you enjoy my latest creation, ‘Shields At 10 Percent’. :)

(Oh, and in other news… this is the last song I needed for my 3rd solo album, so that’s a thing now. Just one more callab album to catch up on… then I begin mastering ‘The Great Divide’.) :D

The Great Divide

Shields At 10 Percent

A soulful expression about the mad-suffering one endures with the sudden loss of a dear one

Dear Sister Friend Kaerian, you fill my heart with hope and strength to persevere in my time of utter sadness…How shall I ever thank you enough? I’m so deeply grateful for our most beautiful collaboration, friendship and even more deeply so for this special sonically rich creation for my precious angel child…May the healing blessings be showered into the universe with our soulful sonic vibrational song - XO - REKHA

Listen to the amazing music of KAERIAN here: https://soundcloud.com/kaerian-1

Original Instrumental Music composed & produced by Kaerian at...in Switzerland
Vocals composed & produced, recorded & performed, (Music) mixed & mastered by REKHA at IYERN [Fe] Records CA

Original Photo, Graphic & Cover Art Design by REKHA Iyern [Fe]

Music by KAERIAN
Music & Lyrics by REKHA

Sweet Nothin' - Music & Lyrics by REKHA

In the dark depths of my mind
(Mind...)
Where I long to dwell
Inside where I reside

In the dark depths of my despair
I'm bleeding out
Of my soul
I'm bleeding out of my soul

Oh hopelessness
Is all around me
Hopelessness
It blinds, blinds me
Won't someone save me please?
Save me now?

No pain, no gain, no pain
Only pain, no gain
No, no gain

No pain, no gain, no pain
Only pain, no gain
No, no gain

Is this some kind of cosmic slap?
To set me back?
Perhaps?
To learn to be strong?

But I can't be
But I won't be strong again
No, no not me
But I can't be
But I won't be strong again
Like everyone wants me to be

Is this how it's gonna be now?
Is this how it's suppose to be?
I am sweet, sweet nothin' without you
Well I am sweet nothin', nothin' without you
Sweet nothin'
Ahn....Ah...Oh

Sweet Nothin'

Sweet Nothin' | Music by KAERIAN | Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | BALLAD, June 27th/2020

Randall buys a telescope. Night falls and he points it upward: he sees a giant eye, staring directly at him. The next morning he wakes up covered in eyes. He's unsettled.

I Am Still U (Parts I-II)

music, final mix & balance . Arma Ignifera @herronsound
lyrics, vocal performance & their pre-mix, cover art manipulation & design . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh
instrumental is an open collaboration 'FourThreeSeven' https://soundcloud.com/herronsound/84bpmfsharpminorfourthreeseven
original Art by Kristina Mills m.facebook.com/KristinasFineArtStudio/

I WAS SURE
I put my hand in the fire
I put my hand in the fire a long time ago

All the pieces of the board
they’re lost on me
I know they were there before…

I put my hand in the fire

They’re lost on me
the pieces on the board
they’re no more….

They were there before

And I’m still burnin

where did the pieces go?
they were there before….

And I’m still burnin

Queen was looking on you….
… King likes to shiver we know, we know, we know

they were there before…sure I was sure
they were there before

sure i was sure
those pieces on the board

pawns under your toes
all the silence and hopes

and i’m still burnin
psssst…. and i’m still burnin

oh right away! its nothing I could capture!
yeah you try and then so… where did the pieces go?
they were there before
sure, i was sure….

on the board
on the board
all aboard
if you wanna disappear
if you wanna disappear
if you wanna
disappear
come on aboard!
cause i seen those pieces disappear
on the board
on the board
on the board!

sure i was sure

I Was Sure - Arma Ignifera & Myrh

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Each segment is *written and produced by its artist. In order to retain the objective and transparency of the process, no post production or track changes were made.   * written and produced by 
0:00- *Rick Shearer 
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 2:36-  *Andrew Doyle  
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5:44-  *Rick Shearer (Linear Collaboration 1 concept/director/design)
                         ++ RIP Mario De Fazio - 1965-2020
Project description:
I was curious how a collaboration could sound if the collaborators were anonymous during the process. I wanted the collaboration to be created in a straight (linear) path...passed on from one anonymous member to the next..  not mixed, re-mixed and layered over, as most collaborations are made.
I created a guideline invitation...and it went like this:
As the concept and project coordinator, I will tie a collaboration track in one linear path starting with my 25- 35 sec. secret/anonymous untitled instrumental. I will pass that secret track to another person (only)in the project  who's style  I think will be an interesting following my track. That next person will create a 25-35 sec. untitled instrumental which they think might sound interesting as a follow through to  the secret/anonymous track they received from me. When completed, that person will send their newly created (un posted) 25-35 sec. untitled instrumental to me only as a private un-posted track.  When received, I will send that anonymous segment(only) to another member who's style I think will sound as an interesting follow-through right after that track....this process continues until complete. During the secret process the only part of the project you will hear is the one anonymous track sent to you.  Your sound and the track order of this Linear Collaboration will not be changed during and after the project is complete. When the project is complete and posted, you will be credited as the sole writer and producer of your contribution. 
That is when all the anonymous members of this Linear Collaboration will finally be revealed to one another!
Enjoy the process and your creative individuality! 
Linear Collaboration 2:
https://soundcloud.com/rix-shearer-ism/linear-collabaration-2-a-multiple-collabarator-chain-in-one-track
- Rick Shearer, concept and project coordinator

Linear Collaboration 1   (a Multiple Collaborator Chain In One Track! )

Track 8 from the album "B Sides, Alternates and Other Songs" ......... a collection of 10 songs written or recorded during the making of my "For the Stars" album in 2019 but didn't make the album.......releasing one song monthly thru October 2020!

"For the Stars (alternate)" is the original version that I intended for my album of the same name. I was part way thru the recording and decided I wanted it in a different key so never went any further with this version. In hindsight, it was probably just fine in G. The final version (also on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/lenaloise/for-the-stars) was recorded in the key of A ....you decide!

ALL OF MY TRACKS ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD direct from this page or at this link: lenaloise.bandcamp.com/music ........... CD's are available in the USA for the cost of postage at this link: lenaloise.bandcamp.com/merch

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For the Stars (alternate)

For the Stars (alternate in G)

琉宮城幻想曲

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free

-Excerpt from Maya Angelou's "Touched by an Angel"

In the Absence of Light

KleinFolk - Buried
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And it goes on. I share with you my results learning to play 
different flutes, recorders and tin-whistles.
As always some mysterious and strange compositions .. lol
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Production Info:
- NI Session Strings
- Ovation and Ibanez Western Guitars
- Folkfriends Cister
- Different Recorders and Irish Whistles (Soprano and Alto, Low Whistles)
- Framedrum
- Jew's harp
- Finger Cymbals, Chimes, Cabasa, Tambourine
- Didgeridoo
- Produced in Ableton Live
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(c) 2020 - Rock Flexible / KleinFolk - all rights reserved - Berlin/Germany

KleinFolk - Buried

http://francoispierremorin.com  Home of storytelling , 
 I do play Music for the love of it, playing guitar,  percussionist  ,composing  on a computer and Guitar, Piano, creator of mood and sound design

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