Artwork:  Remedios Varo -- Creacion de las aves  (do yourself a favor and see it full on in the link below)

https://historia-arte.com/obras/la-creacion-de-las-aves

It's simply amazing how much talent there is out there/here.

In order of acquisition, not ranked.  A celebration of just a few of the wonderful tunes people are making here.  More accessible Pop sounds but there is no guilt in this pleasure.  The list will grow...

Gorgeous Pop (all pleasure no guilt)

hello music lovers…
i’ve written a song that i suppose is a love letter to london, or perhaps some sort of stalker balled.
now in my late fifties i take great comfort from london..it’s familiar to me like no other city… i’ve never really tired of it, for it keeps my head and heart alive.

it feels good to finally be posting a new song…there were so many crazy distractions last year, and when i did record, it wasn't terribly good anyway,so i kept quiet.
i hope all you fellow maestros in soundcloud land are well, and connected to your own gorgeous guitars and synthesisers, or whatever crayons you have at hand.

all my loving
mary fairy liquid

English Paparazzi

This wonderful song was found at https://soundcloud.com/jasny-svetly/vverkh
I asked Nata If I could do some background vocals over it and I tried to learn her native tongue to work on the verse as well. This is me learning phonetically by the seat of my pants. This is what came of it.
Nata Boundariver is one of my new favorites. Her music is so free and spirited.
This is her song I just added some background vocals
mp3: jasny-svetly.bandcamp.com/track/up
videos: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xn7MxXZi64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTaIauuQgw&t

Jasny - Svetly Vverh [Conover/ Ясный — Svetly]

As I developed this song and it's lyrics a recurring theme of “crazy laugh of madness” kept percolating to the top of my creative meanderings and musical  sculpting.  Laugh my friends;  it is all ok.  See a more detailed write-up below. Thanks for listening and here is a link to a Youtube video for the song: https://youtu.be/6P3vUh_8Qdo

Dave

My new song is called Laugh Seurat.  Here is the journey that led to such a strange song title.  I, at times, receive “instruments” from innovative artists for FREE. On occasion, this arrival occurs at the same point I am deep in the throes and messiness of music creation. 

Several weeks ago I received a strange instrument called Seurat Midi developed by Jason Grier. He has freely allowed the use of his samples and instrument to the general public. “Demonstration Disc is a new album by Jason Grier. It’s also a collection of over 1800 samples and generative Ableton Live music tools which Grier spent the past four years carving, cutting and coding from studio recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, field recordings, found sounds and more. As part of the album’s release, Grier is making the entire project available as a free download. He has even provided tutorials and has expansion packs planned, making this a unique, open source project that will continue to evolve.”(1) 

I actually, to this day, don’t really understand how the instrument works or its potential.  However,  being a certified tech geek I did horse around with it a bit.  This instrument essentially creates patterns from chaos using any natural sound as a starting point.  I chose an alto saxophone to test the waters. It created a random pattern you can hear in the bridge of the song.  It reminds me of sounds you might hear as an orchestra begins its tuning process.  I included it in my song only because this instrument was the creative spark that initially propelled the song forward out of oblivion. You can here it very briefly in the bridge for a short moment.  I edited most of it out.   Like I said, it was the creative spark, NOT a center piece in the song AND I am most likely using the instrument totally wrong. Oh Well.  

Jason Grier called his instrument Seurat Midi in homage to Georges-Pierre Seurat.  This, of course, made me very curious about Mr. Seurat.  I found out he is a “……French post-impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism  and pointillism.”(2) This art is best looked at as opposed to discussed.  I thought it was very cool and was very fun to experience but lets move onward.  

As I developed my song and lyrics a recurring theme of “crazy laugh of madness” kept percolating to the top of my creative meanderings and musical  sculpting.  I guess you can now see where this is going.  At the end I was left with a finished song and a decision to make regarding a title for the song.  I decided on:  

LAUGH SEURAT  

Thank You for spending a moment with me I hope you enjoy my latest song. Have a Fantastic Week and Happy Holidays! 

Dave 

references: 

(1) ableton.com.(2017, 04 October). Jason Grier: Download his unique sound library. Blog. Retrieved from https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jason-grier-demonstration-disc/?utm_source=2017-10-single-item-jason-grier&utm_medium=email&utm_term=std-suite-en&utm_content=header&utm_campaign=editorial-newsletter&&sc_src=email_2236504&sc_lid=132209893&sc_uid=QCAGPbTDye&sc_llid=76861&sc_eh=e8eb2a4ccfa404231 
(2) Wikipedia.Georges Seurat. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat

the Perch

Laugh Seurat

This is an old collaboration that never went anywhere and I can't remember the person I did it with... I think his name was Johnny.

Welcome To The Fold

desire and dreams in an "unknown world"
electronic music and vocals
art work : by me (like always)

Unknown World

01/06/2019   All Rights Reserved

Why do my eyes not see
Into the masses that are breathing next to me...
What is it on your mind
And on the faces of the people left behind...

Looking into the distance
The lights are streaming by so fast... 
creeping on through the havoc
the future’s gainin on the past 

Spending the time of day
Among the people and the places on the way...
Stumbling through the night
In search of anything to make me feel alright

Looking into the distance
The lights are calling out at last... 
Wandering through the havoc
the future’s gainin on the past 

Coming apart at seams
The hazy vestiges of lost ones and their dreams...
Seeing them one more time
The cloudy images that linger in my mind...

Flying along that freeway
The lights they’re streaming by so fast...
Wading in through the havoc
The future’s gainin on the past
Gainin’ on the past...

Gainin' On The Past

So grateful to be channelling the song-writing vibe again.  :-) 

This song is the silver lining.  It was about one thing but now it's about something much more special - counting on yourself.

Jane Hamilton's Album

Let It Out

This is a new thing for me. I decided to do this all myself from start to finish. With a little encouragement and guidance from @midiits, 
@russellsinfield and @jonathanbeckenstein

Janine Levinson 2019

The things you love make their escape at unexpected moments
Tear away and float astray and tumble through the heavens

An anchor is ephemeral: a figment of attaching
Tracing up to surface air
It’s just a cloud of silt away

Temporary 
Laughing at a lock and key
Hyena smile, a drooling gryphon locks his hungry eyes on me

Love, a cage of chicken wire that vapor doesn’t honor 
Steam away and float astray and cloud and rain, disintegrate

Temporary 
Offering an open door
Hyena smile, a drooling gryphon banished to the rock no more

Already gone Only a song 
As hard and as real as the stone you are sitting on

What are you counting? 
What are you counting?
What are you counting? 
What are you?

Waves of love make their escape In unexpected moments
Break away and flow astray then tumble through the ocean

Temporary
Laughing at a lock and key
Hyena smile, a hungry vulture locks its steely gaze on me

Temporary

words and music K. Gennery
image not my own

I was dancing on the sky, clouds beneath my feet,
lightening at me heels, I wished you could have seen.
All the beauty in my mind, Shinning through these visionary eyes,
this was no ordinary, ordinary dream.

Grey had hued to blue, black it bleed to red,
a kaleidoscope of colour, deep inside my head.
And the only thing that was missing, you were not there dancing by my side,
this was no ordinary, ordinary dream.

You ooh, I'll be waiting for you ooh, I'll keep waiting waiting for
You ooh, when are you coming, are you coming on.....through.

It was a wonderful concoction , something to behold,
not a touch of contradiction the stories that we are told.
All the beauty in my mind came shinning through these visionary eyes,
this was no ordinary, ordinary,ordinary, no ordinary, ordinary, no ordinary dream.

You ooh, I'll be waiting for you ooh,
I'll keep waiting waiting for, you ooh,
I'm still waiting for you ooh,
when are you coming, are you coming on.....through.

I was dancing on the sky, clouds beneath my feet,
Lightening at me heels, I wished you could have seen.

no ordinary dream

Well, this is me trying to create something happy, to let go of sad thoughts when I think about my dad. Wanting to move forward and letting go. A new start, a new life, just being happy. I think this is the only thing that really matters, loving and being happy, the rest is kind of irrelevant. Love to all, be happy. Copyright protected ©

Passion Within

This Life Of Mine

This Life Of Mine ©

Try Not To Screw Up

Reantü

El Teléfono

Thanks, Davy, for your wonderful guitar and vocals which have transformed this track.  A real joy working together again.

Music - Andrew Doyle
Words and Music - Davy Vance:

I tried to write to you
What was in my head
Yet the words remain unsaid

I can't find the words
I'll make it worse
You are a blessing
You are a curse

My fine intentions
All set to call
Yet nothing happens at all

I can't find the words
For love and hate
I think I've left it
All too late

Can't Find the Words.  Collab with Davy Vance

I'm a lucky man today, because not only is this my first collaboration on SoundCloud, but the wonderful Annie Smart graced this song with her beautiful voice.
Check out her music @annie-smart-1 !

lyrics / composition - Robert Llewellyn
mixing / production - Annie Smart
2nd vocal - Annie Smart
vocal / piano - Robert Llewellyn

_____________

Lyrics:

When every time we cross the line 
We feel like we’re an inch from the bottom
When every cut can bleed for days
That we threw band-aids at the problem

You toss it off; tell me to take it like a man
But I’ve hid the pain for just as long as I can stand

CHORUS:
It’s all the same, every night, same old fight, but a different blame 
Wrong or right, we both lose in this game
Black and blue, we both bruise the same way
We both bruise, black and blue, yeah
Black and blue, yeah

So let me be, just walk away
Yeah I would rather silence the red light
And in between, it’s possible
That I could see from here that’s a bad sign

You cut me off to try to make yourself look right
And you lost me, but hey at least you won the fight

CHORUS

Words can cut so much deeper than I’d ever try to make you feel
Well, I just don’t let you see me bruise, so you assume the pain ain’t real
And you just keep it going 

CHORUS

Black and Blue (by Annie Smart and Robert Llewellyn )

Music & Lyrics by Thierry Clua. Mars 2020.

Birds in the trees ! Flowers in the meadow !

-> BUY HERE

Birds In The Trees, Flowers In The Meadow

Magic Land | Music by Lecktric | Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Electro Dance, NEW July 6th/2020

A majorly energetic uplifting piece of glorious music to set your mood to happy-happy - Go ahead and shift your hum-drum disposition to an elevated happier one - Yes go ahead please & enjoy our Magic Land in all of it's rich sonic booming glory - XO

Thank you so kindly Dear David for this magnificent work of utter art...I'm floored, completely blissed out from our collaboration...your music is royal!!! My input was a true expression of how I really wish the world could be...I'm in your Magic Land with this...even while creating, I was in the Magic Land from the first go...Much love and gratitude for our super sonic music - XO-XO-XO

Listen to the amazing music of Lecktric here: @proglectric

Magic Land - Music by Lecktric

Magic Land - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a. REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Intro:

Oo-Oo-Oo 
Baby
Oh-Oh…Wo-Oh-Oh-Oh

It’s a magic land
It's a feel good plan
Makes you feel so fine
It’s a magic land
It’s a feel good plan
Don’t you know it?

Oh come with me
So we can be joyful 
All of the time
So come with me
So we can be joyful
All of the time

Ai-Oh-Oh-Oh
Wo-Oh
Eh-Yeah…Yeah

Happy people
All around
The sun is shining 
All the time
All for us
So we can
Re-charge, Re-charge it
Come on don’t you know it? 
It’s a magic land
Oh, it was always in the plan
To be gleeful, joyful
Oh-Oo, Oh-Oo
Oh-Oo, Oh-Oo…Oh
Ee…Tee…Ee-Yeah

Come on, come on
Come on, come on baby let's
Let’s go down to the magic land

Why we can, we can charge it up-up-up-up 
We can, we can charge it up-up
Up….Oh

The Magic Land
The Magic Land
The Magic-The Magic
Ma….

Oh-Wo come on 
And feel it in your blood
It's all around
Those-those vibes
Vibrations, so sound-sound
Sounder than anything you ever knew
Oh..Wo-Oh…Oh-Oh

Come on with me 
We're gonna go down to the magic land
Where everything’s so happy-happy 
Joyful-joyful, gleeful-happy
Magic land
Magic land
Magic land
Oh-Oo…Oh…

Original Instrumental Music composed and produced by Lecktric in the UK
All Lead and Back Vocals composed and produced, recorded & performed, (Music) mixed & mastered by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

Magic Land

Magic Land | Music/Lecktric | Music & Lyrics/REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | July 6th/2020 | ELECTRO DANCE

After our first collaboration - https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/set-me-down-that-road-rplanesmjbennett - Rodolfo offered me a challenge in the form of a decades old song (in a folk/pop style, complete with tape hiss) that he was updating with a platform that is closer to R&B and my task was to come up with a new lyric. This original break-up song had an air of a happy ending to it, though initially I chose to write something less optimistic… however it became clear that with the new arrangement my words had to match the original mood. The added bonus to this is that I now have another break-up song lyric available for the future.
Singing a song that had already existed in another form meant that I had to find a very personal interpretation in order to make it truly mine. A huge thanks to Rodolfo for sharing his inspiring music with me.
Music: Rodolfo Planes (https://soundcloud.com/rplanes)
Lyrics: Mark J Bennett & Javier Rolando
Arrangements: Rodolfo & Mark
Engineering Support: Ruben Nievas (https://soundcloud.com/rbn-4)
Image (Caithness, Scotland): Courtesy of Douglas Corrance (https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCorrancePhotographer/)

I don't know what I've done wrong?
I don't know why you have gone?
Though I hope some day,
When I whisper your name,
We'll be together.
But today's too soon.
When I think of you, I dream.
Yet still, I'm a stranger,
Yet still, I'm a stranger in your heart.

Sometimes I feel like a fool.
Never knowing whether you'll,
Give me hope some day,
Still I call your name.
We'll be together.
Is today too soon?
When I think of you, I dream.
No longer a stranger,
No longer a stranger in your heart.

A Stranger In Your Heart (Rodolfo Planes/MarkJBennett)

It Will Pass And Disappear

Souvent je rêve d'îles
D'îles sous le vent
D'une île où le temps
Sans aiguille, file

Souvent je rêve d'îles
De soleil levant
Léger comme un cil
J'irai vivre lentement

Souvent je rêve d'elle 
D'elle soulevant
Sa robe flanelle
Dans un rire d'enfant

Souvent je rêve d'elles
Les sirènes et leurs chants
Répondre à l'appel
Répondre présent

Au vent des îles

Ça fait déjà longtemps
Que vous m'avez perdu
Je n'y suis plus
Ou bien vaguement

C'est le vague à l'âme
Que j'ai rejoins Gauguin
A l'ombre des palmes
Assis, peint

Souvent je rêve d'îles...
Souvent je rêve d'elle ...

Au vent des îles

Au Vent Des Îles

WRITTEN, PRODUCED & PERFORMED By: DOMINIQUEFRENCH
INSTRUMENTAL PRODUCED By: LEWISLAND
MIXING - MASTERING By: TMS STUDIOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksVXn4AehGw
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1526692470
https://open.spotify.com/album/6MysGSxDlUXBuQumQfYhpq
https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B08SJ9RDBX?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_yUVkf51oUwCcPq2LSCHWiJFMf

"ANTICIPATING"

There is so much talent and variety here, and most of the people are pretty cool too. I love being part of this community. Listening to your music and being heard in return is enough.

Still reading? OK I'm gonna muse a bit. It's hard to fully convey how much this forum has meant to me. There are people I've never met that feel very much like old friends -- and in a very real way they are.
If I follow someone I make every effort to listen to and support their efforts. It's certainly not a transactional relationship but I do tend to limit my follows to people who engage in mutual listening and engagement.

Gorgeous Pop (all pleasure no guilt)

Jeff Roberts