what a transition. I'm taking this as inspiration

🎭🎭So beautiful Momma Rapper🎭🎭🎭
🎭I know I commented on this piece over a year ago
but it was time to give it a little helping hand for all those who are new to SC or missed the original launch date last year
🎭your an artist with multiple talents Jessica
🎭thank you for sharing this with us
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Wonderful instrumental 🎼 beautifully composed 🙌🏽 fabulous atmosphere invoking peaceful feeling ✨✨🕊️  thoroughly enjoyed 💯 thank you for sharing 🎶🙏🏽📿

dissonances dissolve into sleep-peaceful!

Your Mix 2

This is re-recorded version of this song. I wanted to make my vocals clearer and powerful. How do you feel? If it’s a bit better I’ll be happy!  And I added some arrangements. Please listen to this version, thank you.  August 28th 2023
I made this song while the time of pandemic. This is a kind of requiem…believing in the spirit

Lyrics
Maybe I just want to see
When we’re together along
Still my eyeing keep on always

How I save your life?
There's oceans lie to see
I will be waiting for...
Couldn’t save your life

Horizon far away stands before me
Dreaming on about down befalling
Closing my eyes in too darkness
What do you see? because I cant tell you how…
 I know we won’t cry
 I heard your voice with no sound

——————————————————————
Maybe I just want to see you again
When we’re together along
Still my eyeing keep on always

How I save your life?
There's oceans lie to see
I will be waiting for...
Couldn’t save your life

Horizon far away stands before me
Dreaming on about down befalling
Closing my eyes in too darkness
What do you see? because I cant tell you how…
 I know we won’t cry
 I heard your voice with no sound
So it tears me upside down
 I heard your voice is no sound

OCEANS

"Distanced" is a reflective ballad that captures the beauty and heartache of a long-distance relationship, drawing parallels with the infinite expanses of space, and the need for connection stifled by the realities of time and space. With spacey guitar tones and melancholic vocals, The Day Afters blend wistful lyrics with a modern indie sound. Perfect for late-night reflection.

Lyrics:
It’s the Distance - and the time we squandered, the days we found were- quickened.
A rhythm - as we break in two again, smash into ourselves - listen….   

If you want it - you get it - you get you let it go
When  you see it - it’s never what you’re looking for
You can dream - for more and more
What’s real is here, you feel it near - that’s yours

Absence - makes the heart grow fonder But my thoughts still wander - still with you
This system - demands you follow, Makes you swallow - puts us in this queue

If want it - you get it - you get you let it go
When you see it - it’s never what you’re looking for
You can dream - for more and more
What’s real is here, you feel it near - that’s yours

I Miss you - the earth is harder, the sun feels farther than it used to - and we’re just passing through

Trying to read you - I can't tell
Trying to reach you - No one’s there

Void Century

Distanced

Played Myself To Sleep

Caravan

The Night Fall

***See version 2 of this song, w/sax & Hammond, here***
https://soundcloud.com/bruceavery/the-blue-room-version-2?si=3976cab678424394950e6c2b27429883&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The Blue Room – smoke and whisky and tears….

The original idea was a smoky, jazzy, late night club-for-lonely-hearts kind of thing.  But since my “jazz” piano always ends up honky-tonk, and I can’t seem to lose the backwoods in my voice, the final product – though still smoky & late night – is more lonely hearts beer joint than jazz club.  Jazzabilly maybe.  Redneck Blues. 
								
But there is a plan to give the song a little jazz credibility.  I play an organ solo mid-song that I actually wrote for saxophone.  I’m sending the song to my little brother, longtime Atlanta musician Herb Avery, who says he knows a sax player who’ll take it on.  So if Herbert can make that happen, I’ll upload the new version later.  If he can’t, I’ll be looking for a sax player out there. 

My daughter Julia helped out vocally on the choral refrain.

So here we go.  Come set for a spell in The Blue Room…..when nobody loves you.

The Blue Room (original version)

If there is a God

About the depths of depression that I call the blackstuff. Happens to all of us, the trick is escaping. 

BLACKSTUFF WIP Mix 1.12725

"Corroded Brainstorm" (2025).

Tempo 98 BPM
Timing 9/8
Tuning 432Hz A Standard
Roots // Am / G / F / G / Am / C / Dm / G //

The image is interesting. Taken in 1985, I would have been 5 years old. That water doesn't exist there anymore. I have my feet in Djouce mini reservoir. In August 1986, Hurricane Charlie caused it to burst it's banks and it emptied into the river Dargle and caused some fairly bad flooding in our home town of Bray, Co. Wicklow. Djouce Lake is now a dry lake 🔆

Instrumentation
-Piano played on keys
-Ovation Acoustic Guitar 2 rhythm runs
-Bass one through run\
-Epiphone rhythm one run
-Epiphon elead one run
-Vocals one run
-Deep tech logic kit beat following piano for first half of track and then acoustic guitar for second half

To add
-Build a pizzicato string section to follow the acoustic rhythm. Or whatever punchy bow up down technique is. Turn this into a legsro section for the second half and should build the drama nicely
-Bring in high pitched percussion for the interlude at 2min34 and then make that low pitched tribal epicness for the outro section from 

https://youtu.be/4OzU1jdjSZA?si=rwgmGEjokqAfNXWv
Shout out to the masters. Radiohead - The Tourist locked in the 9/8 mode with a few loops before writing the piano line. Love the way they venture different timings. I'm not sure this song is straight 9/8 though. I think they throw in a 12/8 and or a 3/4 at some point in the sections.
Truly the best band of all time in my world. I'm praying hard we get at least one more album 😆🧬🎶

The idea of the title is, let's move out of the metaphorical hell we all see people creating around us and get grounded! ❤️

I'll also note that ascension of awareness from pea head means we end up beside eachother.... No bullshit above and below!🔆


Up to the Ground

Good consciousness of clean
Infinity of one
Flow good now eternal
A christ like glow mind won
Synchronised to system
Forget the old body
I'm always here as spirit
As all life ghost shall be
I am Nana and Papa
I'm all passed life and live
I am potential energy
Just good idea inside
I am a friend of Spiders
I am a partner of Trees
I am a rock that made me
Equals to my seeds
We are not born of sin
This fear phantoms' cruel eye
With naturally selected grin
True spirit doesn't lie
We worship just our heart
Each day holds fresh new know
If we suffer as oppressed 
Still be your light to glow

Bring forth our intellect
Feed emotions matured
Define new perfect
Divined nature
Equal beings
Transcended ego
Magical meme
Shiva shanti dreamer
Good bonefide feel from soul
One greater good collective role
Control of inner balance still
Focused to breath we bend to our will
We've moved into this higher plane
Gone is confusion from physical pain
Ascended we are
Up to the ground
True spiritual God inside we found

Up to the Ground

Got wild with this for a few days till i could barely straighten my body out haha! I guess that's the zone we all crave:)

Above Snakes

Mac , music , lyrics , vocals
Scotty , lyrics , vocals
Shane , lyrics , vocals 

True, I'm still in love with you
despite all the bullshit that we have been through.
Even though our hearts have been torn in two,
we can grow, be strong, and build atop the ruins. 
You know you're worth every ounce of fight I've got left in me and I can't try to rest knowing that I won't sleep until this is right. So, pick up and fight for this, darling. True love is calling. And if you are willing, we could be happy together a lifetime. But, is it worth it?

Don’t listen to his hippie shit 
If your your looking for the king of love it’s gotta be a brit
And I think I might be it
Or at least a little bit
I don’t know if you’ve heard about me ?I’m quite exotic , tall  and swarthy and more sensitive than most
And have you ever heard of Byron ?cos I’ve spent half of my life trying to resurrect his ghost
It makes me more adept to understand the fairer sex
Let me take you home 
Cos baby there’s been something I been meaning to tell you
The smiles you give to him are causing pure living hell to  my heart
Oh let’s not start that shit 
I’ll just regret it
And I know you know that my loves the strongest 
Probably cos I keep going on for the longest 
But Christ 
I’m so fucking nice
And yeah true love is calling
But I’m singing softly 
It might be worth stalling 
Cos true love is costly

So what is true love if it ain’t true at all ?
Is it calling?

Every ounce of fight

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

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SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery

1013/2025

In My Desperation

WISHING A BRIGHTER FUTURE TO YOU ALL in an Hopefully BETTER WORLD <3 <3 <3 
Lyrics ,Vocals & Mix > Special Cecilia
ElectTribe Music by DolbyTall > https://soundcloud.com/dolbytall/tracks
HeARTISTICAL CLIP >  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJkMf6p-AE
Lyrics
No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

Many things got to change
Life needs a better balance
to avoid decadence 
World needs a second chance
needs a second chance
 a second chance

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future


No want no more sorrows
want a better tomorrow
No want no more pain
want a better to day

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

Forward for Brighter Future
Lets' go ahead

Many things got to change
Life needs a better balance
to avoid decadence 
World needs a second chance
needs a second chance
 a second chance

No want no more sorrows
want a better tomorrow
No want no more pain
want a better to day

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

LET'S GO AHEAD ...

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