I was fortunate and honored to have a visit from Janine a few weeks ago. We had a great time. Somehow, and unexpectedly, this came out of it.

Janine: voice, vocal melody, lyrics 
Jonathan: guitars, bass, drum programming, music

Please visit Janine here: https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

at the beginning we carved out a message
into a monolith tower of stone

we were searching for our home

he was the mountain I climbed from the valley
I was the water he drank from the hole

and we searched for a home

so in the meadow
we dug in the soil
to find the root of plenty
and a child began to wail

at the beginning
at the beginning

at the beginning we shouted our message
holy vibration from hollow to dell

and our voices rang like bells

his was the rhythm that rose from the valley
mine was the melody born in the sun

and we harmonized as one

at the beginning
at the beginning
at the beginning we carved out a message

we were searching for our home

At The Beginning (with Janine Levinson)

Have a listen to my album "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept 2025). Quirky and interesting tunes.
Thank you for listening!

I try to write with rich lyrical details and self-deprecating humor about the human condition. Plus, that unique Shade Structure sound!  It sounds best with headphones. Thanks for any comments, reposts or likes.

Discography: Available under Album tag on my Soundcloud main page. 
* Curiosities Of Outsider Art (Sept 2025)
*All this Useless Beauty (2025)
*Rockers (2024) 
*Arrhythmia & Blues (2024)
* The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost (2024)
* Low Profile (2024)
* Smilers (EP 2023)
•Short Songs For Tall Minds"  (2022)
•Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong (2021)
•A Suburban Dadaist With Some Store Bought Beats (2021)
•All Feel and No Technique (2020)
•This Is How I Spend My Nights (2019)
•California Songs (2018-2019)

All sounds contained within are home-made/DIY recordings. Most songs are short stories, as I am influenced by Musicians & Writers like Raymond Carver, Warren Zevon, Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Mark Eitzel,  Randy Newman, Destroyer, Steely Dan, Captain Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen & The National. Most songs have the lyrics on the song page. Thank you for listening!

armed with seven rounds of space doodoo pistols.  -kool keith

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

all tracks powered only by my own human intelligence

Hi & welcome.
thx for visiting & listening to my music.

i jump between genres depending on my current mood, so don't wonder if you find some different and weird tunes 😂

I don’t work with AI.
For me, every track has to grow through its own process, and that simply takes time. That’s where my soul flows into the music. If I spend three hours working on a break that’s only three seconds long in the track and hardly anyone but me notices it, the energy of those three hours still flows into it on a subtle level. No AI can do that.

That doesn’t mean my songs are better or more sophisticated – I’d rather you form your own opinion.
As for vocals, I have to rely on loops, since illness keeps me from singing myself. Often, I discover a vocal line first and build the song around it. This means I sometimes have to compromise on the lyrics, so they don’t always mirror my personal outlook, mode of expression or poetry. Still, it’s important to me to share this truth.

Some various loops and most vocs from loopcloud.

All tracks composed, edited,
arranged, mixed @ mastered by J O R D I .
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I come from a musical family and was introduced to different instruments at an early age. The one that stuck with me were the drums. Various bands, gigs in small clubs. Even though, for lack of time, I didn’t actively make music for many years, music has always been one of the few constants in a turbulent life.

For the past few years, I’ve been seriously ill and slowly but surely on the home stretch. Since I can no longer play drums (I’m connected to a ventilator 24/7)
i started working with a DAW in 2024. It has become an important part of my life, my way of still creating something when my hands no longer can.

Here on SC there are so incredibly many amazing artists and people from all parts of the world … for me, it’s my universe. And the certainty that something is always possible, no matter how bad things get.

"In the midst of the deepest winter, I finally realized that within me lay an invincible summer…"
A. Camus


Stay strong - Fight fascism!
STOP TRUMP ❗️

Michael - 2024

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Hasty home recordings in between realities while the children are (sometimes) quiet. Thanks to everyone for the listens, likes and comments!

8000 Miles is the distance between Rebecca in Hawaii and Andrea in Italy. The two joined forces to create two albums of elegant progressive rock, with shiny metal bits, layered in symphonic lushness. 

Also, two singers have collaborated on two different 8000 Miles songs, each bringing their own cool vibes to Kobayashi Maru (Impossible Love) (feat. Duncan Butler) and An Optimist In A Hurricane (feat. The Fall Of Saigon).

8000 Miles is currently on extended vacation.
Rebecca is working solo as: https://soundcloud.com/becs-kauai
Andrea is working solo as: https://soundcloud.com/single-handed

🔥 Purchase on https://8000miles.bandcamp.com
🔥 Follow us https://ffm.to/links8000miles

At The Beginning (with Janine Levinson)

Jonathan Beckenstein