Name: Tossing and turning by Frank Steyn
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: Finished version of another tribute,this one 's by the Ivy League,the song ,written by John Carter / Ken Lewis / Perry Ford, dates back to 1965,were it reached nr 2 in the british charts.

Superbe cover my dear Frank. Excellent my talented friend. Thank you very much for this delighting moment. Have a nice time

Nice one Frank **. Love this golden oldie !!    .. Well done my friend 👍

BEGINNING

Distorted Reality

2.DISTORTED REALITY

Cast of Characters:

David Marconi — @david-marconi-917184705 — electric guitar, bass, foundation synth plus midi percussion and assorted traditional voices, production, mix, and composition
Elpiverse — @elpiverse — Elpi -- vocals, vocal composition and production
Ron Lewis — @ron-lewis-779503933 — synth 
TexMex Shaman --  @texmex-shaman –Stephen– sitar and mastering
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – talking drum
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- synth flute and ambient synth
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 5-string fretless bass
AliasZen (Elpi's husband) — artwork (created with the help of AI)


This song began with David, who wrote it on the guitar, synth, and bass over a programmed beat he created. He and Josh met more than two months ago and decided to do a collaboration, based on mutual enjoyment of and respect for each other's music. Dave had this song pretty much fleshed out, although it was still a skeleton when he offered it to Josh, who, of course, got the rest of the Eclectic Collective involved. 
  Dave asked us all to compose our own parts for the song, so we all got to work right away doing that. We all realized that the first order of business would be to get a real beat on this, so Ken accomplished that task with some dynamic, Eastern inspired drums and percussion, which he plays throughout the song. JJ then stepped in and added his best eastern flute magic. Stephen was next with the perfect-vibe sitar you hear in the first two sections. 
  Josh came next to add his five-string fretless bass to the mix, augmenting David's high, staccato bass with his deep, low tone bass. Then, for the third section, where David's Gilmore-esque guitar solo resides, Josh drops out, allowing for Dave's awesome bass playing in that section. However, Josh does come in again towards the end, in the final section, too. Also, in that section, Tez dropped an augmented, harmonic, electric fire, complementary guitar part. Then, David's frequent collaborator and friend Ron added some well blended, ethereal synth to the first section, too.
  Once we had the instrumental parts pretty much laid down, we began to discuss getting a woman to sing on this, as David was inspired by The Great Gig in the Sky, by Pink Floyd, and we all agreed. Who we found to do it actually blew all of our minds. JJ, being familiar with her music, contacted Elpi first, and we were all lucky enough that she agreed to do it. Having heard Mediterranean music all her life in Greece, she tapped into what her husband said were her "ancient Greek roots," for her spectacular vocal performance. She finds all the modal notes and places them perfectly throughout her sections. 
  But before we were done, Mark came through with some really striking talking drum parts in the first two sections, too. Once we had everything in the can, David took over, both with some masterful editing and production, and with the balanced, dynamic mix. The mix was a formidable task, but he did it with considerable skill, also taking everyone's opinions into account, which is a talent in and of itself. When he was done with the mix, he turned it over to Stephen for the mastering, which the latter did to everyone's satisfaction, as always.
  This is the first song the Eclectic Collective has done with David, Elpi, and Ron, and we all hope it's the first of many, as we welcome them into the EC family. They all have some wonderful music on their pages, too, so do yourself a favor and check out all of them, as well. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed creating it.

TheSiege (David Marconi, Elpiverse, and Ron Lewis with Eclectic Collective)

Hi there, this one isn’t one of our usual first-take/one-take recordings during a jam session; we did actually spend a bit of time on this one! It is a live take though, no overdubs, except for the synths that I added after.

Jim Sanders is on the drums, Charlie Villiers and Dave Toolan are on the guitars, I’m on the bass and singing (and I wrote it).

Look out for Charlie’s sublime solo 🤩 one of my personal favourites of his!
~
Lyrics

I already know
what you’re gonna say
what you’re gonna say

Maybe I’m afraid
I’m incapable
I’m incapable

Would we still be here
if the rain had stopped
if the rain had stopped

And of course this may not fly
but we’ll give it a shot
yes we’ll give it a shot

Everything in life,
if you add it up
if you add it up

It’s my faithful wife
and we are in love
yes we are in love
.      (🤩🎸)
Oh and how we dance
you don’t stand a chance
no you don’t stand a chance

Taken by surprise
you’ll get used to it
you’ll get used to it

And the longer that you leave it
the longer it will be to grow
And the harder that you push it
The harder it will be to know
And I told you not to hurry
Don’t make up you’re mind just yet
Cos how can you be certain
promises can be kept?
~

Everything In Life

Surfers like Us ….. composition, all guitar parts and drum programming 

Hello my friends!
At the beginning of this New Year, I invite you all to listen to my brand new piece in a slightly more cinematic mood.
I love cinema and some of my favorite directors include David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers. I am often influenced by their films and when writing my own songs I am inspired by the atmosphere and surreal vision of the world in their films…
I wish you a good time! 😎

This piece is the first part of my triptych about the mysterious highway!

With a special dedication to my friend Josh Clary 💥
     Artur

Ghost Highway

Finished version of another tribute,this one 's by the Ivy League,the song ,written by John Carter / Ken Lewis / Perry Ford, dates back to 1965,were it reached nr 2 in the british charts.

Tossing and turning

NOTE: SOUNDCLOUD UPLOAD PROCEDURESS ARE BASICALLY BROKEN. DEATH BY CATERING FOR AN INDUSTRY, NOT PEOPLE.


method: taking the sl 2 (and some other pedals) for a ride into lush territories and then  being rigidly minimalist in the initial mixing … the initial mixing, yes …. things evolved a bit on the longish side, though ... I hope the endeavour is worth your while …. there will be carmenta pt2 soon, then employing the (older but less menue-diving) sl 20 pedal

narration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmenta – creating categories on the fringes of the unconscious tends to corrupt perception which is why the number of sibyls (or fates, or muses) varies dramatically over time and cultural stages – even if you do not hear it at first, the full poem is included in this soundscape

image: a fridge magnet (made of fake marble and adorned with a tourist version of the etruscan alphabet) was purchased at the gift shop in the villa giulia in rome which houses the etruscan museum. I went there more than a decade ago and very much enjoyed mostly empty showrooms at year’s end, much to my delight. The electronic gear also shown is a lot more recent and the overall mesh-up-art is just nice as is- long live gimp  ;-) copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter
(actually, the poem is titled ETRURIA. For this album, however, three syllables  are mandated which is why I chose the name of the sibyl referred to, carmenta, who is supposed to have shifted the spelling of the letters to create the etruskan alphabet, later inspiring the „latin“ letters):

aporia
aporia
all new shapes to
praise carmenta

dolphins leap through
arcs made of waves
to welcome the new
lines, strokes and staves

etruria
euphoria
raise your caverna
and praise carmenta

carmenta pt 1

I dedicated this track to an old friend.
He passed away this year.
He also played oboe.
I have incorporated influences from it into this track.

Genres;
#Electronic
#Ambient
#Classical

Forest Heath

Cast of Characters:

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick four string fretless bass, vocals, lyrics, and seed idea

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums 

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– electric guitar 

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – clavinet and VST sax    
 
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar, mix, and production

Eclectic Collective -- composition

This song started its life as one of a batch of bass lines Josh came up with around the New Year holiday. He recorded it to a rudimentary drum loop, which Ken replaced perfectly with his own beat. Stephen was up after Ken, adding his tasteful, foundational guitar you hear underlying the entire song. Not to miss out on the guitaring, Tez came up with the ethereal guitar fills that float around in there. Mark came after Tez with his textural wah clavinet, also adding the wonderful sax solo you hear in the middle. After it was done musically, Josh went back and wrote some lyrics and sang them, too.
  Once it was in the can, we asked Tez to do the honors of mixing it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion. 
  This is a fine example of the Eclectic Collective coming together to create a heartfelt song, based on a bass line seed.  We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by Josh Clary:

Sometimes I think about 
Things we used to talk about
Now I have to go without
Ever looking at your face x2
 
But I want you near me
Wish that you could hear me

What if we could ever reach
Out to the other each
But what would we say?
Is it just another routine day? x2
  
It makes my heart hurt bad
When I think of what I had
Now you’ve slipped away
Seems I saw you just the other day
 
Life can be really cruel
And I can be a fool
But I wish there were a way
I could hear what you would say

Loss - (Eclectic Collective)

I was angry, because I couldn't play this beautiful piece, because I'm lefthanded but hold the guitar as righthanded. So I'm happy to present this. With many thanks to Don for the link to the midi.

variation on Asturias (Albeniz) with beats

Exclalone and Traclonaut were originally one song. This is from Summer 2024. I got the idea for Traclonaut and used the riff for that. This is how things could have gone. This is, unfortunately, the full range of my slide guitar skills........

Exclalone/Traclonaut (Instrumental Demo)

Music-Alchemist......or more specific ;  " A bunch of molecules trying to share the right frequencies ".....Have a listen and enjoy..!!

Tossing and turning

Frank Steyn

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