I came here because I loved the version with Nat Daniels - this is really tremendous Jonathan. The title alone is worth the admission

this starts growing, like a little bud, so tiny and soft and fragile, it slowly opens ...more and more until a wonderful bloom emits. it raises....  higher, even up into the clouds, as if it was seeking the most possible closness to the sun... you are one of the most gentle and tear creating guitar players i know her on the cloud. thanks for touching my soul, again!

gorgeous work, such a confident laid back feel

wow man, this one feels like I'm floating in some big, puffy clouds. very Gilmore guitar solo in there, too. very impressive and enjoyable, my friend!

Weirdo

I strained my wrist playing guitar while practicing a new piece I hope to post in a month or two. For us guitarists, holding a large stretch (in this case a 5 fret stretch on the third fret) for periods of time can cause problems! (Guitar players nodding their heads right now 😊). Anyhoo, I can’t play my guitar at the moment, so I decided to freshen up a short piece I had on SC from a few years ago. It’s very simple, a musical meditation, towards peace; the dove of peace carries this message, through many cultures and religions. Peace is needed now, more than ever. Hope you may spend 2 minutes with me to meditate. 
PS. Wasn't able to master this with clarity, so headphones/earphones best.

Peace Dove

ON A COOL SPRING DAY IN LONDON TOWN
I WAS COMING OUT OF THE HYDE PARK HOTEL
WHEN AN OLD BLACK CAB CAME SLOWING DOWN
AND THEN SHE POPPED OUT LIKE TINKER BELL

A FEW CASUAL WORDS ABOUT THE WEATHER
STILL
I REMEMBER THEM UNTIL TODAY
AND HELLO GOODBYE FOREVER
EXCEPT WHAT HAPPENED THE NEXT DAY
MUCH TO MY SURPRISE

THERE SHE WAS AND THERE WAS I
THAT’S WHEN THE DEAL TEAM BECAME A DREAM TEAM
OH YEAH

AND IT WAS LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT
A TWO TIMES HEART REACTION
THE REST MY FRIENDS IS HISTORY

NOW THE YEARS FLEW BY LIKE A RIVER 
AND THE TEAM STILL STANDS ON ITS FEET
LONDON MOSCOW DUBAI AND DENVER
LIZ YOU AND I CAN’T BE BEAT

OTIS TESSA AND MILO
A BERNEDOODLE NOT JUST A POODLE
OH NO

I LOVE A LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT
A TWO TIMES HEART REACTION
AND THE REST MY FRIENDS IS MYSTERY

FUNNY I SPEAK IF I WERE YOU, MAN
COS I GUESS I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL
TO HAVE THE MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN
NOT TO FORGET ALEX AND WILL 
OH NO

AND IT’S LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT
I LOVE A LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT…

LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT  (Lyrics) Song for Liz

Hey…. So I put down the slide guitar the other day, and picked up the mandolin after a slide solo wasn’t working. Then did this little song. A rather surreal look at the metaphysics of stars as they relate to us. Occasionally, we are at a loss to make sense of this life. I find perspective in observing the night sky, among other things, even if for only a brief moment. Hanging out with others helps too. So does playing music. I usually laugh at myself in those moments and realize just how fascinating life can be. I mentioned this story before, but in a different context. I have been ‘caretaking’ a fire ant colony for over twenty years. The common sense of today’s world would seek to destroy the colony, as labeling them as ‘nuisance pests’ comes with a dire consequence for the ants. Fire ants bite only to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called solenopsin. Anyway, the colony had been in my neighbor’s yard decades ago, and I did my best to encourage him not to destroy the colony. But after seeing a friend of his riding over the colony with a riding lawn mower, I knew the colony was doomed if it stayed there. Then one day, while emptying the kitchen compost bucket into the compost pile, I saw a long trail of fire ants coming from my neighbor’s yard into mine. They had begun to build a mound near a brush pile in the back. So the ants have been here for 5 years or so. Sure, they may strip an aspen sapling bare, or try and sneak into my vegetable garden, but for the most part, they have been good neighbors. They have come out of their mound now that it is a little warmer. I was cleaning up the gardens in the back, and noticed hundreds of them working on their mound. I looked yesterday and I saw this one ant carrying a large twig, way bigger than him, on top of the mound. As he walked, the twig was waving back and forth like a sword raised in the air. I laughed (to myself) and realized it had been a while since I had done so. This song is about all those little things in life, like that, that bring us back…. Hope you like it. Thanks for dropping by, Mark

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Walk In The Park

This one goes out to one of my big hero´s..    i have shorten the version down,    i have used a long time to make a tribute to one of the best story tellers in newer time..   "Howard Marks"  aka Mr Nice..
he lived an incredible life..   for those who´s not have read or heard he´s "Book or Auido Book"  i can sertenly recommended..   R.I.P  H.M..

Mr Nice

The new album 'Urbanicity' has begun. I'll be releasing it weekly, so I hope you'll stay tuned for the next three months. This track will be featured on it.


Composition and Sampling collage by Synline

Give It To Me

Collab with my dear Damga.
The Sleeping Stars in the Centaur's Mane.

Les Étoiles Endormies Dans La Crinière du Centaure (HyLGZ22 & Damga)

Cast of Characters:
one man verity show – @one-man-verity-show – Scotty – melodic guitar, lyrics, vocals
cgmaness-- @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – guitar intro
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell –electric piano, synth  
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen – guitar solo and e-bow guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Llanpsych– @llanpsych –Tez– textural guitar, mix, and production
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –five-string fretless bass guitar, original seed
The Eclectic Collective – composition

This song began with Josh coming up with the fonky-ass bass line and sharing it with everyone else. First up to bat was Ken, of course, who really matched the idea I had for the bass perfectly and gave it some flavor, too. Once we had a rhythm section solidified, Tez jumped in with the Kruangbin inspired arpeggios, and really gave the whole thing the flavor that it ended up with. Scotty followed soon after with his melodic/rhythmic leads that match his awesome vocal melodies. Next up was Stephen, who laid in the fiery solo towards the end, as well as some really trippy e-bowed guitar throughout. Then JJ came along and lit it up with his electric piano and synth. Finally, Chris came forward and added the distinct, exciting guitar intro. 
  Of course, we needed someone to produce and mix it, so we asked Tez to handle this one, which he did with his usual high wizardly magic. It is very gratifying to all of us to have Chris back in the mix on this one, as well as some upcoming releases, as well. This was the first time any of us has collaborated with Scotty, and we are thrilled that we finally got a chance. He's a creative, driven, and very agreeable musical partner, who's willing to work with us until we all get it right. We all hope this is just the first of many with him involved. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. 
Original lyrics by Scotty:

Can't obtain no fucking mortgage. 
And I can't pay no fucking rent.
I would rather you probe me 
than get fucked by our government
who attempts to control me 
and put nonsense in my head.
Who would rather see me
livin' in debt or end up dead.
Come and take me away.
Beam me into space.
Fly me to a planet
where there exists no hate or greed.

Take me to Utopia.
Teach me all your ways.
Save me from dystopia.
It's time to turn the page.
Something better must exist
out there beyond the stars,
where everyone can love and live,
unlike what's become of ours.

Utopia (Eclectic Collective)

Frida's Wings – The Valse 
April 2024
Duration: 3:10
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Remix of Vals Alejandra by Enrique Mora
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.
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 strings, piano, accordion and percussion.

Frida's Wings - Valse

Legacy.

I found this on my hard drive. It dates from four or five years ago. At the time, I thought it wasn’t enough of this or enough of that to post, while thinking it was also too much of the same thing. But now I like it, especially from the guitar player’s point of view. The sounds and interlocking parts please me. Maybe you will like them too.

I remember that I made this in vague tribute to one of my favorite players and musical mentors-at-a-distance.  He shall remain only partially named.  

For some reason, the “head,” such as it is, comes at the end. Go figure…

Billy I Am Ruined

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, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

Billy I Am Ruined

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