🎵 What a fantastic funk-infused electronic masterpiece! The groove in this track is absolutely infectious from the first beat ✨ Love how those swelling sounds create such dynamic movement throughout the piece 🎧 Your sound selection shows such musical sophistication and playfulness 💫 That catchy rhythm and beat make it impossible not to move 🌟 The production brings every funky element to life with such clarity and punch ❤️ The Funkanator name is perfect - this track truly brings the funk to the electronic realm! 🔥​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This is an old song that was orginally called 'Flowers in Your Head'  begun in the late 70s by my dad and his friend. He completed it in the 90s and recorded it with a local band (we can't fully remember it). Having not come up with much myself lately,  I was inspired again when remembering how much I liked this, so I re-wrote it again with some different words,  and probably ruined it. 
Melody by Rob Benson (Verse, Chorus) and The Cobbled Moth (Middle 8, or whatever its called). Lyrics by The Cobbled Moth, and Hoppo (who wrote the first verse and part of second).

Cooler is slang for jail. The Song of Songs is worth a study. Beno of LCR FM is in there and the Azerbaijan link. 

Phone recording 24.12.24. 

When I'm feeling lonely and my life is dead and I feel so useless that my face is red 
And I know I can't get away 
The cooler's in my head 
The coolers in my head, the cooler's in my head no no no no oh
Well I turn the radio way down low DJ D says not to go
Back to Stockholm yeah I'm alone just like they said 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head no no no no oh
You're locked up in a teacup
Diagnoses all wrong 
Bad domain, rage in vain
For lost Song of Songs
Even though you fled
The coolers in your head cooler in your head wo oh oh oh
Where we met was Persia but the north turned red, later left turned right
The same families led 
And I know I can't get away the coolers in my head 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head No no no no oh 
Cooler in my head, Cooler in my head oh oh oh 




The Cooler's in my Head (collaboration)

ANARS ! Abandonnez-vous à la nuit

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It is my pleasure to share another collaboration with the wonderfully creative and talented Michele Ansani. For a complete translation of the lyrics as well as a description of this work, please visit Michele's SoundCloud page (@MicheleAnsani). While you are there, be sure to listen to his other great compositions!
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Lyrics: Michele Ansani
Music: Michele Ansani & Francess Harris
Piano: Francess Harris
Vocals and arrangement: Michele Ansani
Composed by Ansani & Harris (1976-2025)
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, February 14

Flora [with PianoFran] * By Michele Ansani is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Flora [with Michele Ansani]*

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 - The Eclectic Collective

Funkanator

PLEASE NOTE: this is an .mp3 file only since higher quality .wav files are currently not uploading on soundcloud

method: to distract me from the everyday task of fighting demons of the mind,  I set out with a gregorian version, only to understand that my voice was not up to standards and expectations. You can still hear that choral in the background. Well, gregorian monks might might have actually sounded like that – not everyone is a pitch creature after all. After postponing some iterations to enjoy creating UP UP AND OUT with Jeff (and assissting in setting the next project on good tracks), I  then added layers to better match what my mind heard to what the headphones belted out. Somehow, I did not let go of the initial composition, though – feeling attached to its disjointed, squealing humanity. Call me sentimental and you’re right. I also just felt like taking this ride on the RC-505, rediscovering my former companion from hitherto unexplored angles ;-) 

Narration: the poem is about an evolution – or a journey to the sea – whatever you prefer to call it. having become aware of the circumstance that I am more of a liability than an asset in certain processes, I found myself in the clutches of a transformation that needed processing itself – and a good deal of sublimation, I guess. 

Image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

all the hardly humid barrens
harbour time in arid sands

while the early einkorn seedlings
of the floodlands sway and bend

and the tides bring tidal tidings
weighing vapour, thermal scales

ah, the oceans, giant oceans
breathing water, water whales

isosem

- Picture -
Art Cover Editor. Shyntwirl
Artist Picture. Unknown (Sorry)
Colorist Editor. Shyntwirl 

- Music -
Composer. Shyntwirl
Produccer. Shyntwirl
Programmer. Shyntwirl
Sound Design. Shyntwirl
Synthesizers. Shyntwirl
Keyboard. Shyntwirl
Synth. Shyntwirl
Equalizers. Shyntwirl
Bells. Shyntwirl
Bass. Shyntwirl
Depth. Shyntwirl
Intro & Outro. Shyntwirl
Transitions. Shyntwirl
Reverb. Shyntwirl
Echo. Shyntwirl
Background Synthesizers. Shyntwirl
Wave. Shyntwirl

Ambient / Atmosphere / Electronic / World / Experimental / Synth

PROD. Shyntwirl

Shyntwirl - Welcome To My Universe (Intro / PROD. Shyntwirl)

method: recording, then overdubbing. eventually; a friend I asked encouraged me to just dish it out ;-) I like that dirty, berliny backdrop of the sound, although it comes from quite a different reach of this country and from a moment in time that has very nearly  been forotten  
narration: the poem says it all, does it not?
the title:  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compleo#Latin
image: apart from the cropping and the writing, this photograph is a hundred percent unaltered, as is. Copyright jo richter 


poem / copyright jo tichter:

lured into life 
by orpheus' silence
he has been dreaming in verse
just to survive

is there a word to express
both the presence and absence
of beauty, he wonders

observing his fingers
cradle the table's edge
he holds his breath
for just a moment too short

complerit

Artur from Surfers Like Us   https://soundcloud.com/user-411502040 
send me a fine little surf guitar file which i permutated in a mix out of the original...

surfers like us +noxpox - meltdown of the ego

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