Crazy chaotic, like the movement of a jellyfish, but with great meaning and order. Like it.

Innovative sound and love your guitar, FuWatt 👏❤️🔥😀🌻

Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)

Music by Kontra Sz & Val Akey.
- Kontra Sz: plays rythm guitars, lead guitars;
- Val Akey: drums-, bass- and keys programming (mixing and mastering) + cover art.
Many thanks Kontra Sz for the fantastic guitar play! https://soundcloud.com/kontra-sz

Release date:
12 January 2024

Captive Of Time (collab)

Magic Box

Jellyfish Palace

Portal To Another World

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, lyre, vocals
Ron Thomas: Autoharps, Drums

Production notes:
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Very early on we wanted to use autoharps on this song to create a sort of swirling backdrop, reminiscent of the harps in Indian/Bollywood soundtrack songs of the seventies.

Right away there were challenges because the song is in B flat and is not wholly diatonic to begin with, utilizing a chord built on the augmented lydian scale in the choruses. So rather than transpose the song to a more amenable key (since the chromatic bits weren't going to work no matter what key we used) we instead re-tuned the autoharp. Moving through the strings one by one we tuned them either up or down a half step where applicable to bring them into key. Where the augmented chord hit in the choruses, we excluded those notes so that the autoharp was filling the diatonic parts of the chords and omitting the accidentals. It took us several tries to get it right. In the end we arrived at a chord progression that could be strummed on the autoharp and the modified chords could be played with existing dampers.

We also tuned the lyre so that the top half of the strings included the chromatic augmented notes while the lower register of the lyre was tuned using the diatonic, so the lyre could play the melody all the way through both parts of the song.

The inspiration for this song was essentially fourfold:
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First, H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying necromancer Joseph Curwen (from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") who masked his true identity in order to thwart suspicion from his fellow townsfolk. He has many secrets lurking in his underground catacombs where he performs acts of necromancy most foul, extracting the "salts" of the dead in order to raise them at will and learn the secrets of ancient eldritch deities.

Second, a poem by Rudyard Kipling titled "En-Dor" which was a warning against the rise of spiritualism and the cost of communion with the dead in the early 20th century.

Third, the biblical Saul who traveled in disguise to visit a witch at the city of Endor in order to summon Samuel from the dead and garner advice on defeating the Philistines, but who only prophesies doom for Saul. Saul dies later the next day in the battle of Gilboa.

Lastly, the story of Odysseus communing with the underworld where he enlists the help of Tiresias to have a chat with the dead and secure for himself a safe journey home.

They all seek communion with the dead for one purpose: to gain knowledge which only those who have crossed over between realms might possess. 

Lyrics:
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A mask may reveal what it’s meant to conceal
From those who are standing beside us
Armor of pride, so we learn to abide
By the monsters which hide deep inside us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us
Oh, how they scratch and they bite us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us

Only to know what the professor knows

Eating black bread, wearing clothes of the dead
The soil soaked in honey around us
For fear if we failed, leave the ogre unveiled
And it’s back in the grave where they found us
Back in the grave where they found us
Freed from the ties which had bound us
Back in the grave where they found us

Only to know what the professor knows

In the catacomb vaults, we extracted the salts
From cadavers to lengthen our youth
Chanting the names at the edge of the flames
And a mirror to show us the truth
A mirror which speaks only truth
See how it seeks not to soothe
A mirror which speaks only truth

Only to know what the professor knows

In the underworld maze, in the night of no days
Concocting the plan we’re devising
Much to endure on the road to En-Dor
And to snatch from Elohim arising
To snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising

The Professor

Thank you for listening!
Picture: Emilio GS

soundcloud.com/emilio-gs/sets/cinematic-music-by-emilio-gs

The Siege

Lyrics:-
Time flies when you're having fun
They say
If fun was what I was having
Ok
I've been trying to get out a message
You'd say
I don't know if it's touched one soul
To date

If i could make a wish
To wash it all away
I have tried
After all the pain
The least that i can say
I have tried

These walls they are closing in
Aha
I've grown tired, close to giving in
Almost
Just one , if i could touch one soul
Just one
That would be a winning streek I'd own
A goal

Did you hear what I wanted to say
Did you hear what I wanted to tell ya 

If i could make a wish
To wash it all away
I have tried
After all the pain
The least that i can say
I have tried

winkandwoo 2024

I Have Tried

Qu'y a t'il entre nous ? (What is it between us ? )

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Acoustic Godin Nylon Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone solo. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass.  Clavinet Rhythm. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Trap Drum set, full kit. Percussion Ago go Bells, Cow Bell, Zildjan 22" Ride Cymbal.

Carmel

Eclypse

Modern Times / IPG1 & Paploviante 
IPG1: Vocals  Ipg1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/modern-times-vocals-150-bpm 
Paploviante: Bass & Music

Modern Times - IPG1 & Paploviante

in a garden
she is gazing
at an apple

she is naked
doesn’t realize
and she wonders

in the sun
asking:

“Listen honey,
would you like some
just between us?”

perilous
picnic

she don’t worry 
she can take the heat
Mother Courage
ends up in the street

east of eden
she is toiling
for her children

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely, and Wheelwright for early listening, support, and ace suggestions.

image by Ray Shrewsberry via Unsplash

Hope (For one, two, tree guitars)

This is another fun toon which I hope will get you boppin a bit. It's some tongue in cheek rock n roll / cowpunk relationship counselling from legendary Aussie band the Beasts of Bourbon. Written by guitarist Kim Salmon.

I used my new parlour guitar to play this one. I was quite happy with the jangly chords which I think really suit the tune.

Something To Lean On (by the Beasts of Bourbon)

DEMON IN THE WOODS

I found this song when I was looking through old songs I made on Garageband. I composed this in 2016. Maybe I'll make an updated version of this one day?

Moonlight (Demo 2016)

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band from Athens, GR - debut album "Rock and Roll Kills" OUT NOW: https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/rock-and-roll-kills

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