Name: all falls down (4 track analog recording) by Garden of Heathen
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: The recording process was 100% analog with the help of a 4-track cassette recorder. Of course this digital upload can only give a poor impression of the analog magic.

Love those keys and guitar working together!

Two short improvisations for this track....

LAST DRINK CLUB.

Cast of Characters:
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition 
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender HSS Telecaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass with a plectrum 
 
This song began as one of Joe's, lyrically centered songs, which he wrote and filled in with VST instruments. He came up with the lyrics by sharing ideas with fellow SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani.
   Knowing that Josh is a fan of his work, Joe offered this song to him in hopes that he'd share it with the rest of the band. Of course, Josh jumped at the opportunity to work on his song, and immediately shared it with the rest of the group. 
  Ken went to work first, adding his driving, excting drums. Josh was having a hard time coming up with a good bass line for it, until Ken suggested that he use the power of the 1/8 note to propel it. Tez was up next with his clever fills you hear throughout the first half of the song. Stephen came along right after and matched Tez's energy for the guitar fills in the second half of the song. 
  It was still missing a solo in the designated spot, though, so Mark stepped up with his innovative piano solo you hear in the middle. If it sounds a little mechanical, that's because he's using an arpeggiator to achieve the effect. We thought it sounded good in a song about AI, though. 
  Once all the parts were dialed in, and Joe had gotten all his vocals tuned up, we asked one of our resident pros, Stephen, to mix it for us. He did that and mastered it, too, expertly, as always.
  This is the first song we've ever done with Joe, and don't expect it to be the last. We all really enjoyed putting together, in no small part because Joe is such a competent, receptive, and gracious collaborator. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino (and Michele Ansani):
When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers 
But I continued to play
And the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will think your songs are great even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure
And a catchy vibe and beat
It was overly verbose but when I played it people tapped their feet
In my forties I stopped wasting my time
Work was more fun I was doing just fine

AI Sucks - The Eclectic Collective with Joe Stroffolino

Lyrics

Mother is always at home
And the flies just won’t leave her alone
Her flesh falls onto the floor
She doesn’t talk to me anymore

Forsaken trust fills me with guilt
Destroyed the family that she had built
Albatross like a noose around my throat
That which decays under the surface will float

Frozen face, eyeballs decayed
Surrounded by flowers where she is laid
Occult books piled in a stack
Maybe someday I’ll bring her back

Decompose
I oppose
To compose my brain 
I’m fucking insane

I suppose 
I will close
The windows to keep her spirit inside

I can never 
Let her go
Not physically nor in the form of her soul

No one left
To forget
And forgive the evil deeds that I’ve done

Mother's Corpse

Only Love

 I composed this music based on an acapella found on the looperman.com website. I usually compose the harmonies and then look for the melody; I wanted to try the opposite. Unfortunately, I learned that the voice used was an AI. I am therefore making this piece available for real singers. You may or may not be inspired by the title WannaBe your lover that I still published, but you are free to do something else. 

Open For Collab (singer welcome)

One of my favorite Frankie Valli songs recorded in 1967. 

Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Cover by Tony

The recording process was 100% analog with the help of a 4-track cassette recorder. Of course this digital upload can only give a poor impression of the analog magic.

all falls down (4 track analog recording)

Doctor Who is a long running British science fiction TV series aired on the BBC since 1963. The period I watched was during the 80's (the best cast version of the 'Doctor' in my opinion!). My favourite part of the show was always the amazing and easily recognizable theme music, written by Ron Grainer. The opening theme has gone through various updates over the years, but when it first came out it was one of the first TV themes to use electronic music, and is regarded as a pretty innovative piece of electronic music recorded well before synthesizers or multitrack mixers became widely used. The story of how it was recorded is a quite fascinating. There's a great documentary about Delia Derbyshire, the woman who created much of the sounds in the original theme in BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, using recordings of found objects, cutting and manipulating tape by hand to create the 'electronic' sounds you hear in the music. She never got writing credit but should have. 
Here's a link to the documentary:

The Delian Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI 

This is a cover that focuses mostly on the original theme, but blends in a few elements of the more recent variations. I also added a second more atmospheric 'epilogue' section, that includes a sample of dialogue from one of the show's episodes. 

I've wanted to try playing this theme forever, and had some fun tinkering on my synthesizer to get the sounds as close as possible, especially that main ghostly synth melody. 
If you've heard it before this might bring back memories! Thanks for listening. 

- 'Doctor Who' theme written by Ron Grainer (& realized by Delia Derbyshire)
- vocal sample from the episode "Rose", 2005 season, episode 1
- Image art designed using Dall-E

'Doctor Who' TV Theme (cover + epilogue)

Mission_erledigt_Next_Level

retour en ville sur le bitume

You better run fast woman

Update July 6th, 2025: Currently we re working on a new version of an old song, on new songs, old and new songs as a 4-tack analogue version and a video. Right now it's time for some summer holiday.
NOSTALGIA AND DYSTOPIA

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