@donald-bell-227867146: Thanks a lot Donald, your nice feedback is always welcome. And I am glad you like the track, "Folie à deux" is actually one of the grunge songs I really enjoy to play.

This is great.  Reminds me of Nirvana unplugged which makes me wonder how this woudl sound all grunge distorted out!

Recording of the piece Micro-Shocks on 24/05/22 during the concert at the Phonos Foundation (Barcelona).

In concert there is a video projection from 10m45s to 14m40s, the music at this point is more landscape. The link to watch it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9scircGep8

Statement of intent :


This piece is inspired by the theories of Brian Massumi, and I thought it would be interesting to freely interpret his concept of micro-shock. Our daily life, full of micro-perceptions and interruptions, as dazzling as they are subtle, is also inhabited by small moments of daydreaming. Those that are necessary for assimilation, phantasms, reorientations, hope, projections... The poetic and musical inspirations will take root in these suspended temporalities for their faint nature and their slightly psychedelic sweetness. The construction of the forms tries to translate the unfolding of a dream, of a mysterious logic of associations of ideas.
 
A few flashes of daydreaming will be visible on a screen, in small touches, in counterpoint to a certain musical line. These filmed moments come from an experience. For two months, I had a hidden camera in my buttonhole with the intention of capturing the little daydreams of the people around me.

The aim here is to translate these feelings of disorientation and reorientation into music in an age where we have forgotten the importance and beauty of finding our way.

Enregistrement de la pièce Micro-Shocks le 24/05/22 lors du concert à la Fondation Phonos (Barcelone).

En concert, il y a une vidéo projection de 10m45s à 14m40s, la musique à cet endroit se veut plus paysage. Le lien pour la vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9scircGep8

Note d'intention :

Cette pièce est inspirée des théories récentes du philosophe Brian Massumi, où il m’est apparu intéressant d’interpréter librement son concept de micro-choc . Notre quotidien, peuplé de micro-perceptions et d’interruptions aussi fulgurantes que subtiles, mais non moins capables d’opérer un déplacement de nos habitus, est aussi habité par des petits moments de rêverie diurne, ceux nécessaire à l’assimilation, aux fantasmes, aux réorientations, a l’espérance, aux projections... Les inspirations poétiques et musicales prendront racine dans ces temporalités suspendues pour leur nature évanouie et leur douceur légèrement psychédélique. La construction de la forme et de certains phrasés tente de traduire le dérouler d’un songe, d’une logique mystérieuse, mais avec certaines associations d’idées surprenantes. 
Quelques éclats de rêverie diurne, seront visibles sur un écran, par petite touche, en contrepoint avec certaines lignes musicales. Ces moments filmés proviennent d’une expérience, j’avais pendant deux mois en continue une caméra cachée à ma boutonnière pour essayer de capturer les petites rêveries des personnes de mon entourage.
Il s'agira ici d'aborder le concept de réorientation dans une époque où nous avons oublié l'importance et la beauté de chercher son chemin.

Merci à LOÏC VARANGUIEN DE VILLEPIN de me prêter si souvent sa voix.
Composition, vidéo : Matthieu Guillin
Une production compagnie éOle – création musicale et transdisciplinaire dans le cadre du Réseau de Création Musicale Pyrénées-Méditerranée (RCMPM)
Coproduction SACEM

Micro-shocks "Live in Phonos"

Relic....
"The Sun reclaims.
 It makes a secret of you,
 The time remains,
 The Sun still shines upon you  "

Relic

Eye of the day

Ah ah

Song by the Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
Strange communication
A cryptic vision
A truth untold
Strange communication
A new beginning
An endless road
Lost – forever
Strange communication
An unclear message
The way unknown
Strange communication
A sudden ending
A dead-end road
Lost – forever
Forever

Strange Communication

The Cacklettes are a fictional witchpunk mannequin band. I am creating their backlog using a variety of tools, synths and instruments. Why? Because it's a heck of a lot of fun. Trying to recreate some goth club memories from the 1990s.

As a Witchpunk group, naturally they have evolved out of the punk scene, into the post-punk era of new wave, which in turn birthed shoegaze - so they naturally had to go through a phase of that. But their dreams were far from pleasant - nothing pretty flowery, but dreams of oblivion instead. Go figure!

The Cacklettes: Dawn of Oblivion

T.O. Rell - Really

Little Runaway

Based on Great Bells of Fire created by @ray_cobley and @33per: https://on.soundcloud.com/41Mg671BgkPgyLmX8

Feeling instantly inspired -- this reminded me of the duo work of Mark Fell and Will Guthrie -- I set about improvising some bassy, repetitive riffs on my Tele through 1440 looper, Pladask Elektrisk's Fabrikat and some other tone-shaping gadgets. Includes minuscule edits, albeit with loads of after-the-fact looping etc., to create more of an illusion of synchronicity. Enjoy!

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Fells Of Fire (disquiet0638)

taint

Unplugged grunge song about the psychiatric phenomenon described as folie à deux.

© Copyright Fraenk Darko. All rights reserved.
This song is of my own making regarding songwriting, lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, recording etc.. Writing as well as recording process are well documented. All pictures and artwork is also done by Frank Darko.

Please also note: My songs are first-person narratives because it supports the storytelling and the intended impression. Therefore they are not meant to be "autobiographical".
Moreover they invite to do or think nothing, they don't constitute any sort of solicitation and don't proclaim a certain attitude. It's simply just music/art.

Fraenk Darko - Folie à deux (Unplugged Demo)

In the course of musical independency this is a solo project.  I'm a vocalist that usually does Grunge, (Low) Rock, Desert, Doom and acoustic stuff. Apart from the hermit thing I enjoy working with my friends Hank (@hank-sola) and Ed @constrictedfreedom).

I also play guitar and bass. Weapons of choice are my Rick-style bass „Blacula“, my downtuned Les Paul "Abby", a two-string slide bass and my Dreadnought.

Fraenk Darko - Folie à deux (Unplugged Demo)

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