My Father played this instrumental and described to me the Apache native Americans on their way through a canyon . Cow boy films were topical at the time of writing this instrumental by the Shadows. enjoy!

Native American Shadows (cover)

This is a sound sculpture by She's Excited! featuring Clara Francesca for the exhibition #MakeUsVisible in Venice, Italy. It is showcased at the Off-Biennale at the Venice Climate Change Pavilion.

“Entangled Waters” by She’s Excited! invites you on an immersive journey into the sounds of the mediterranean sea and the Venice lagoon. Peaceful soundscapes of seagulls and the ocean are juxtaposed with the threatening reality the lagoon is facing: noise and water pollution, thunderstorms and high water. Some 20 million visitors flood into Venice each year. Vaporettos and other ships disrupt flora and fauna. The sea levels are rising and Venice is sinking. There is no Planet B. We are inescapably entangled with our surroundings and our environment. 
The soundbites performed by Clara Francesca are from Anton Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” and from Donna Haraway’s “Staying With The Trouble”: This is an urgency, not an emergency. Stay with the trouble. 

“Entangled Waters” is an iteration of the soundscape for the performance art piece “Inescapable Entanglement” by MEDIACOELI and XRE, which premiered at Ars Electronica Festival 2022.

Cover Art by MEDIACOELI.

She's Excited! feat. Clara Francesca – "Entangled Waters"

Libra is the first track of the Zodiac's Sound concept and it is the one from which the idea of ​​the entire project was born.♎
You can listen to the whole Concept on:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y2KhF

Cover Art designer Rosa Scognamiglio 

Libra

.... many synths & a bit of keyboard playing - no use of samples; only my drum vst comes with some ready patterns ;-) enJoy ! ...... photo: Arno Smit, Stockholm on unsplash

Spring

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Happy Sunday my SC friends. I’m having a great time revisiting my favorite books and movies, trying to find inspirational material for these liner notes. The author I want to share today is one of my greatest influences in life (and one many of you know as well)… Ram Dass.

I’ll be sharing some of my favorite quotes of his momentarily. But before I do that, I would like to mention why he was so inspiring to me. 

What makes Ram Dass a unique esoteric/spiritual voice is that he actually started out as an Atheist. But he openly struggled with not knowing the answers to life’s most profound questions, and he was willing to pursue alternative ways of thinking, and update his beliefs based on his direct experiences. 

While he was still Dr. Richard Alpert, he began his explorations through the use of psychedelics while teaching at Harvard University. He joined Timothy Leary in these studies; but Harvard wasn’t thrilled with this potentially scandalous exploration, and fired them both. He then decided to take his spiritual explorations to India. This is where he had a perspective shifting, unexplainable first encounter with Neem Karoli Baba (who later became his guru, affectionately known as Maharaj-ji). He was given the name Ram Dass (servant of God) by his guru; and after spending several years at Neem Karoli Baba’s ashram, he became one of the leading voices of the 60s counter-culture movement. 

For me, his is a voice of love and humor and acceptance. And when I read his books and hear him speak, the feeling I get is ‘Hey, I don’t have it all figured out just yet. But I’m willing to put in the daily practice, and see if I’m a better person tomorrow. Do you want to join me on this adventure, fellow traveler?” And that is so refreshing when you just need the gentle, loving voice of a compassionate friend. 

Here are some of my favorite thought provoking quotes (many from his book, One Liners):
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“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

“You can’t be free if in any fashion you’re holding the hand of fear.”

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

“At the moment when there’s nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open—and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.”

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

“To materialist eyes, India is a developing country; to spiritual eyes, the United States is a developing country.”

“If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.”

“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.”

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

“We’re all just walking each other home.”
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Those are just a few of my favorite quotes. If you enjoyed those, you’ll love his books and recorded lectures (easily found on YouTube) as well. His voice has been a kind and gentle presence for me since my teens, and his passing back in 2019 was a sad day for me. But it’s like he said, “When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t.” His ideas will live on in my heart for the rest of my life, and that is a priceless gift. I hope you enjoy ‘Upgrading My RAM So DASS Will Launch’. :)

WTF! The Musical

Upgrading My RAM So DASS Will Launch

The Smoking Trout collaborative is back with another installment in The Quest for the Holy Dumpling (follow the whole story here: soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/quest-for-the-holy-dumpling). This time Stephen/TexMex Shaman partnered with me on the production, and we're featuring Nadia Selvaggi who also joined us on 'amanita muscaria'. Thank you Jeff, Uziel, Stephen, and Nadia for another awesome creative experience, this one was a trip to work on!

Stonerjazz @user-911083679 - Vocals, Lyrics, Drums and Bass
Nadia Selvaggi @nadiaselvaggi  - Vocals, Spoken Word, and Operatic parts
Uziel @user-455619833 - Piano, Strings, and other acoustic sounds
TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman - Guitar, Effects, Production
Tea R. Sea - Synths, Production, and Final Mix

Lyrics

Get on the bus get on the bus, Get on the bus wlth us
c'mon c'mon get on the bus
There's Gus, who drives the bus and he does Everything for us
He's got the peddle down--

and all the band and larry mary sid and johnny too and that's to jjust to name a few
and all of you who have the eyes and ears to hear and see-
all of us are on that bus Telepathically
so you had better be ln the vicinity of the bus
whose designated destination ls infinity and all points ln between

Believe you me, there ls no comfort or relief ln Clarity
Truer words were never spoken and even though we're all broken
here's a little token of the love l'm feeling for the instant beauty of the moment

Everyone ls psychedelic from those purple Mlcrodots
Fuel ls burning under stars so bright
on the bus, 10 feet off the ground
blacktop slippin under us at half the speed of light

Now lt comes flowln down, lt washes over me
something l can hear, but l can't exactly see-
Cans are Blarin, l'm just starin
hearin things we can't believe
music soothin, lt's not Taxing so relaxing
making music with some friends of mine
making noises so Delightful-
on the bus, where betrayal ls the only thing
that's not allowed

Come along, you're all lnvlted to rlde the bus wlth us
get on the bus get on the bus
c'mon get on the bus
don't make a Fuss
Just get on the bus

(Spoken word samples are readings from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe)

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To hear more from the Smoking Trout, check out our first album, The Land of Zed soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/land-of-the-zed

Get On The Bus!

Planetarium

Opus79

Original demo recorded: 2002 
Remaster: 2023

Tumultuous Century

original vocal track by Ian Greaves: https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/the-alert-rap-vocals-150-bpm
may be it's a crazy combination, but to me Ian's rap feels absolutely natural on the jazz beat :-) ..... according to the start of the lyrics: "Heat’s bubbling everywhere——coming to the surface —-
Straight from the underground ——so don’t go ——getting nervous" (quote) ... is this my go / with an urban jazzy flow ;-) ... photo: Lerone Pieters, Brooklyn, New York; on unsplash

Planetarium

FuWatt