What a great mix of styles. The sustained result with the bass is surprisingly eclectic and attractive.

I´m impressed with this track, fine music , master worker

Well I'm digging this mighty flow...this is absolutely such a sonic rush of beauty - XO

This time, I played one of Led Zeppelin's signature songs, "Stairway to Heaven," on a nylon string electric acoustic guitar.
This song is included on Led Zeppelin's fourth album. The album sold over 29 million copies worldwide and was certified platinum in the United States.
Like all guitarists who consider themselves avid Led Zeppelin fans, I love this song and often play it lightly when tuning my guitar. I omitted the effect processing and simply adjusted the volume and uploaded it. I noticed that it sounded more boosted than when recording the chord strokes in the second half. Since it's a Led Zeppelin piece, I thought it might not be a bad idea to listen to it in this condition.
Personally, I hope that everyone can feel that the nylon strings (end type) that come with the two electric acoustic guitars fit perfectly into the guitar itself.
Winter is over in Japan, and we are about to enter the spring season, but I chose this piece as the final part of this winter's nylon string solo performance series. After this, I'm starting to look forward to the possibility of using a nylon string guitar to complete some of the collaborative pieces that I've been unable to complete.

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Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (HQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPSkNFODVRE
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (lyrics) Released: 1971【和訳】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTLbMUYtqs&list=RDwzTLbMUYtqs&start_radio=1
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Stairway To Heaven Chords by Led Zeppelin
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/led-zeppelin/stairway-to-heaven-chords-1088573

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin cover (SOLO) with a gut-string guitar

After a long time, finally a collab work with Cecilia again. Always a pleasure. Let's dance...

Open collab by @specialececilia 

Original Version:  https://soundcloud.com/user-883466627/trance-n-dance-vocals-special-cecilia

Lyrics & Vocals: Special Cecilia  Music & Arrangement: OMCB

Cover Picture: pixabay.com


Lyrics:

Voilà Voilà, Vois là Vois là...... C'est le temps de la Fiesta
Voilà Voilà, Vois là Voislà..... C'est le temps de la Fiesta
Here, here, See there, see there ...It's Fiesta Time

Allez viens, Come on , reste pas planté là
Les soucis ont oublie ça, Laisse la musique guider tes pas
Let's come, Come on, don't stay planting there 
Forget about worries, let' s Music guid your steps

Papillons dans le ventre, Fourmis dans les jambes
Butterflies in your belly, Ants in the Legs

Tous en Cadence ,On se balance, Comme dans une Transe 
Dans une Transe , dans une Transe 
All in the Riddm , We are Rocking Like in a Transe
Dance a Trance, Dance a Trance

Dance Dance Dance like in a Trance
Dance Dance Dance l

Tous en Cadence ,On se balance, Comme dans une Transe. Dans une Transe
All in the Riddm , We are Rocking Like in a Transe
Dance a Trance, Dance a Trance

Dance Dance Dance in a Trance, in a Trance

Comme dans une Transe. Dans une Transe
Dance a Trance, Dance a Trance

C'est la Fiesta , C'est la Fiesta Allez viens, Come on, 
It's Fiesta, it's Fiesta Let's come come on

Papillons dans le ventre, Fourmis dans les jambes
Butterflies in your belly, Ants in the Legs

Tous en Cadence ,On se balance, Comme dans une Transe, dans une Transe

Dance Dance Dance like in a Trance
Dance Dance Dance in a Trance, in a Trance,

Tous en Cadence ,On se balance, Comme dans une Transe. Dans une Transe

Dance Dance Dance like in a Trance
Dance Dance Dance in a Trance, in a Trance

Dance like in a Trance - Special Cecilia & OMCB

The Smoking Trout continue our tale of the Quest for the Holy Dumpling. This time we're joined by our biggest crew yet! Stonerjazz (Jeff) got us started and somehow the whole process unfolded quite organically from there. TexMex Shaman (Stephen), Jo Richter, Tot (Masa), Jeff and Tea R Sea (Terry) are regularly recurring members of the band. We are happy to welcome Wivresse (Carine) and Neil Harding as new guest contributors. This was tons of fun as always, and a truly global collaboration spanning Japan, France, Germany, UK, and USA.

Stonerjazz (@user-911083679) --- Words, Vocals, Guitar (pt II)
TexMex Shaman (@texmex-shaman) --- Guitar (pt III)
Wivresse (@wivresse2) --- Xaphoon, Vocals, Water sounds & percussion
Tot (@tot-beat) --- Drums & main beat
Jo Richter (@sonic-textures) --- Thundersheet, Instrumental prelude & words (pt I) 
Neil Harding (@user-484622070) --- Spoken word vocals (pt I)
Tea R. Sea (@tea_are_sea) --- Production, Synths (pt II), Sound effects (pt I)

Catch up on the Quest for the Holy Dumpling: on.soundcloud.com/FR63a
Listen to the Land of Zed, Smoking Trout's debut album: on.soundcloud.com/WB34q

LYRICS

(Part I - Vocals by Neil Harding / Words by Jo Richter)

Those individuals on wheels had a hard time finding their feed. Hungry they were - for that special dumpling that connects you to anything pagans and believers alike deem holy. Although endowed with holgraphic properties, you can't walk on clouds unless they are numbered. They kept drifting upwards, therefore, slowly upwards until they hit the ceiling called Mars. Mars always happens to be where your head needs something to bump against. That's the nature of war.

(Part II - Words & Vocals by Stonerjazz)

It turned out
there was never any doubt
about
how it was gonna be

ya know it's hard sometimes
to get a grip
drifting in the corridors of time

everybody on the bus
runnin hard and hot
some of us holograms
except for Gus
he's an Alien from outer space
waiting for the rendezvous
at the window of the launch
in Oaxaca down in Mexico
Where the magic mushrooms grow

And his bus
a shuttle from the mother ship
disguised as a 1983 GMC
infinity
He's from another Galaxy
searching for the holy dumpling
just like you and me.

Hope we find that dumpling soon
maybe it's on the moon
traveling at the speed of light
we could get there sometime later on tonight

(Part III - Vocals by Wivresse)

Except for Gus (Smoking Trout's HOLY DUMPLING #9)

Tempted to venture somewhere you shouldn't ??
This dark bluesy experiment riffs its way downtown....
[Headphones if possible.]
Photo by Mike Cialowicz c/o Pinterest

Back Alley Blues

I am hypnotised

HUGE thank you to Tam Jennifer and Ken from K2 and the Three for putting this one together with me!

Contributions

Piano/Organ: J.J.Terrell
on.soundcloud.com/zMRZHupDxhFSYd676

Vocals/Lyrics/Mix (Audacity): Tam Jennifer
https://on.soundcloud.com/Tyc5G

Drums: K2 and the Three
on.soundcloud.com/xGewgZifWnxsEmZY7

Cover picture: Erin Jennifer
on.soundcloud.com/imA3NPDbnh667UtS9

Lyrics

What do I have to say
To make you stay
The world is turning now
Without me

Why do you have to keep
Just letting me retreat
This worldly learning is
So lonely

Take my hand, dear
Help me to stand, dear
It thaws my heart, just
To have you near

Cos times are changing, so fast
Can we find the energy to last
This price we paid was it worth the cost
Or will we feel that all is lost

On the horizon
Sunset or sunrise
Facing death, or saving lives
Losing our faith
Or finally arrive

You used to bring me
Coffee in the morning
You used to kiss me in the rain
I remember times so full of yearning
Oh will we ever feel that way again

Cos times are changing, so fast
Can we find the energy to last
This price we paid was it worth the cost
Or will we feel that all is lost

On the horizon
Sunset or sunrise
Facing death, or saving lives
Losing our faith
Or finally arrive

© Ben -Tam Jennifer Hastings, J.J. Terrell, Ken Karasek, 2024. All rights reserved.

Echoes Of Tomorrow (Tam-Jennifer, K2 and the 3, J.J. Terrell)

Cast of Characters:
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell –electric piano, synth and original seed 
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–guitar, mix, and production
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Llanpsych– @llanpsych –Tez– Guitar
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –five-string fretless bass guitar
The Eclectic Collective – composition

This song began with JJ, as many of our songs do, who composed the outline on the keys, drums, and bass. He then let everyone else in on it immediately. Ken was first up to bat by laying his always cunning drums in there. After he had a beat to work with, Josh used his tree trunk of a five-string fretless bass to complete the rhythm section. Soon after, Tez and Stephen both laid their magical guitars in there. Once we had it all in the can, Stephen used his powers of production to give us a great mix.
  This one came together relatively quickly, which is a good sign that we're all enthusiastic about what we're creating. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

Mellow Travels (The Eclectic Collective)

Swinging

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
April 2024
Duration: 2:50
A shorter version was previously included in the “Art Expressed in Music” series
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion

Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

find Wildsilences on:
https://soundcloud.com/indiiwildmoon/in-two-vocal?si=787923bfd9c34e26977830a67216bcdc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Huge thanks to Wildsilences for their sublime participation !

A Poppy Placed on His Heart  By Zitou Itou & Wildsilences

Here's a Mighty Flow to groove with, my friends; a searing BiG Band piece that powers on like a Lava Train deep into the night and Outta Sight into the Deep Blue Sea. :)

 "All Aboard!" 

Try listening at a Moderate volume first, as I couldn’t quite get the mix anywhere near where I wanted it.  But I truly hope you will InJOY the ride.


(c) 2020 Gary Courtland-Miles

(c)  Photo by Gio Giusa

Dig That Mighty Flow

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

Banner Pic- BLUE SKIES ON PLUTO
                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

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