what a fantastic emotional song!  those clean guitars are fantastic!

this is exactly the time of year to listen to this one.... damn...

Sounds really good Jonathan. Really nice composition and voice!

another great song and performance, you guys have a wonderful style

I hadn't realised that this was out there... My lost but I'm catching up now. This feels like a real accomplishment, so delicate and organic, like it has always been around. Thanks to everyone involved for sharing.

You guys have great chemistry. Another gem..

wonderful guitar playing, smooth vocs - right up my street

Cloud 9

Another track from Time Zones released exactly 2 months ago on Engram Recordings: https://engramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/time-zones
Artwork by Malka (excerpt)

Time Zones

Sommerset

Galileo's telescopic observation of the moons of Jupiter orbiting the planet  was a black swan moment for the Church's earth centred view of the universe. As ever those whose long held beliefs were challenged by the facts did not react well. Plus ca change.

But Still it Moves (John Stone)

Galileo Galileii stood before the court 
Accused of breaking sacred law
In what he said and what he thought  
They told him God had made us the centre of all things
The earth stood still, The universe
revolves around in perfect spheres and rings.

But he had seen the moons of Jupiter
Sailing through the void
And knew at once religious law
Had forever been destroyed
The power of observation
Proved the earth went round the sun
And we were not the centre of all things
as we were told we had become.

The Bishops and the Cardinals
Were outraged by the thought
That places held by God and man
Were not what they had always taught,
They forced a recantation of his controversial views
But as they dragged him from the court
He cried,“But still it moves”

Still it moves, Still it moves
But still the earth goes round the sun
Whatever you can make me say
A truth once known can’t be undone
So forget your old religions
And new ideologies
Truth is truth and only truth will I let speak to me
And still it moves… 

We’d like to think we’ve come some way 
Since those unenlightened days
But look around and count the things 
you know but are afraid to say 
In pain of media pile-ons 
And News that’s always fake 
And Those who are inclined to say 
That hate is truth and truth is hate 

It may not seem important  
But it still seems plain to me 
If you’re not allowed to speak the truth 
Then you’re no longer free 
So when they try to shout you down 
With the crazy things they say 
Remember Galileo
When he once dared to say
Still it moves…

But Still It Moves

Sueños

Instrumental composition, guitar, bass by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal Composition, Lyrics: Nadia Selvaggi

The Order of Things by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Special thanks to 5Eleven for his a cappella....

ONLY MY DRUGS.  Feat 5Eleven

Transcendent Dreams

Here's another demo I made with Garageband from the time when I was learning to make songs in a DAW environment. This song has the same chords and melodic progressions as the previously published yarning song here.

Standing In The Wind (Yearning) (Demo 2016)

#electro #ambient #beat #frenchtouch #bandlab

..In ThE DisTancE.. ThE DoVe ..

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.  Featuring Godin Acoustic Nylon Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone solo. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano Rhythm. Gibson L5 Electric jazz Guitar Rhythm. String Quartet. Viola, 1st & 2nd Violins. Cello. Acoustic full Drum lit. Percussion Cowbell, Tambourine, Triangle, 22" Zildjan Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Cannery Row

Your so Beautiful

Your So Beautiful

Breeze The Brass / Paploviante
Paploviante: Bass, Mix, Picture and Mastering
Free Download

Breeze The Brass - Paploviante Free DL

Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/43KQ1zzCMZDkEU6RyGQbHR
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/oliver-grind/1502558445

RIDE IN THA CHEVY THANG

I don't wanna live,
for if I just can't live.
I don't see a stable road
I can drive or walk alone.
A life I dream, where I am free
from all this shit that got nothing to do with me.

I don't wanna live,
for if I just can't live.
I don't see a stable road
I can drive or walk alone.
A life I dream, where I am free
from all this shit that got nothing to do with me.

Fakeout!

Where Is My Freedom?

PleaseClick

VERSE 1
i dont try, i dont cry
spend my days locked inside
waste away as time flies by
i wait the day when i will die

i hate my life but i say im fine
but im nothing new im just like
these other dudes living in strife
im nothing new, same old design

BRIDGE
put my fist through the wall
im nothing new, nothing at all
i never write i never call
im nothing new, nothing at all
i cant talk to girls, i get ignored
i'm nothing new, nothing at all

CHORUS
i'm nothing at all

VERSE 2
i make songs, shitty songs
shitty guitar with fake drums
shitty bass (played with a pick)
shitty lyrics made by scum

im not one to interact
cuz i cant talk i just panic attack
and i thought that i was complex
but im just like everyone else

BRIDGE
put my fist through the wall
im nothing new, nothing at all
i never write i never call
im nothing new, nothing at all
i cant talk to girls, i get ignored
i'm nothing new, nothing at all

CHORUS
i'm nothing at all

Femur Breaker

"Out of the Blue"  electronic music with guitar and vocals

Out of The Blue

Out of the Blue

not quite right

Wheelwright: voice, lyrics, vocal melody @wheelwright

Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley: drums, tambourine, percussion recording @hypnopompetus  

Jonathan Beckenstein: guitars, bass, orchestral samples, original music, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at: https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

drums recorded at The Tension Headache Studio, Tsagarada, Pelion, Greece https://soundcloud.com/tension-headache-studio




See you same time tomorrow
Goodbye Kelly goodbye Sister J
Oh yes you hide your sorrow well but
No need to tell these kids that god does not appear to care

Oh if he's even there
 
Walked down to old St Martin it's
Dusk already there's cold December rain
In the Piccadilly lights
This place has seen the lost and found for
Seven hundred years
And so they come and pray
Or just to stay out of the rain
 
Oh were there words enough and time I would
Explain the world away and
If life's just a story (maybe) we can change the ending if we try
And though the past's been priced and sold
Tomorrows yet untold
 
Strayed into being happy
Fields of barley framed our stupid bliss
But it was all reflected lights
I never learned how to be kind until I lost someone I loved
But I'm not here to pray
Just trying to stay out of the rain
 
[Repeat chorus]
 
And the words become a song
And the child becomes a man

bandcamp

Close Of Day (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

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.

Original compositions. 

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

Preferably use headphones for listening.

Close Of Day (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Jonathan Beckenstein

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