c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

questo mese dedica speciale per Jonny Greenwwod

"musica assoluta" (agosto 2020)

August 2020 Playlist

Bold Explorations of Uncharted Space, Vol. 6

Divine Sounds Of Love: 20 New Ones from the SoundCloud Community

A Storm A Brewin' II

Been There Done That

Wednesday Collection #58 (Thursday Edition)

Too many songs we liked while we listened during April so we'll put our April faves out in a few parts. 
We HIGHLY recommend Wheelwright, Aged Choir Boy, Moon Drifter & Fady - all have been playing many times through this cat's earbuds 🎧 this month.
Also a few instrumentals here - the Cat loves a good instrumental.
Part 2 of this playlist will come out sometime soon!

The Cat's Favourite Soundcloud Songs April 2021 - Part 1

a rotate c

There's a gap between us, and I don't know how to bridge it
I can't even meet you half way there
I can't come to your side, but you can come to mine

This is getting serious, and I don't know how to fix it
I'm losing respect for you day by day
I won't accept your excuses, but you can change your mind

Where are your principles?
It's basic empathy
Where is your precious moral agency?

Another cynical joke
No man, I'm not in a cult
So much for brotherly love
Do you laugh at their pain like you laugh in my face?

There's a gap between us, and I don't know how to bridge it
I can't even meet you half way there
I can't come to your side, but you can come to mine

Where are your principles?
It's basic empathy
Where is your precious moral agency?

Another cynical joke
No man, I'm not in a cult
So much for brotherly love
Do you laugh at their pain like you laugh in my face?

Frequency (with my acoustic piano)

Before The Devil Knows Your Name! (basic demo)

a wonderful minute of Trumpet by Frank - extensively evilized by NME

HORN by Brass-Lines.... No Mates Ensemble Re-mix

Noise Italia: 1 NAPOLI

VaporWave.

Original Guitar Composition : Sk4rz 
Additional Composition / Production / Lyrics / Vox : Chris Dargay 2017

Nightingale.
Who's There ?
Not a Bird at All...
Light of Day ?
Night + Day.
Not a Bird at All...

Nightingale (demo)* featuring Sk4rz Tsijonriake

Tom Adams created this sparkly Country-Blues inspired Gem as an Open Collab offering. Crafted some lyrics, sang along, and then added a little Harp. Always amazed by Tom's Guitar Mastery, and he's created yet another superb tune here. Honored to contribute, and hopefully, lend something to it in some way? Big Thanks to Tom and also Tony Harris - Two of my Longtime 'Cloud Heroes' and Friends. Chuck Aaron and Steve (Spanish Lillies) also created their own Fab takes on this Open Collab Project. Please check their versions out, and you can always also enjoy Tom's Blissful Blues Guitar at Tom Adams (SC site), as well. Thanks, again, Tom.
Doves on The Wing ©
Music - Tom Adams - Lyrics, Vocals, Harmonica - Riff Beach 
Oh, Wake Me, Darlin’…..
Won’t you gently Shake Me?
When We Get There
You know I won’t Care
Chorus
Steady your hands 
Upon that Wheel
Set your gaze 
......out Ahead
Oh, Find what's Real 
(Before Blue Skies 
......All turn Red)
Bridge
Sunny Day
Faded to Grey
Faded Away
Turned into Night
But, It’s OK………
Just Hold on….
Oh, Yeah.......Hold On Tight
Fly On Doves……
Fly On High!
Down that road, 
We’re feeling so Alone
Burned all our bridges
....in the Rear View
Heading to..... 
Our Soon-to-be-New-Home
But, I’ll be smiling…..
How ‘bout you?

Sunny Beaches Ahead

Doves On The Wing ©

Doves On The Wing © - Tom Adams Guitar & Music with A Bit of Riff'n

Excerpt from Porest's "ABJECT MIRROR" – a full-length audio-drama with advertisements and musical accompaniment.

Porest is dragged through an inconvenient network of paranormal subterfuge after exposing something significant that may have happened 33 days from now.

Featuring appearances by Robert Millis and Jake Rodriguez. Special thanks to Vicki Bennett, whose MIRROR theme this is in partnership with.

Porest, etc: Mark Gergis 
Dr. Lumen / Mr. Fleckt, etc: Jake Rodriguez 
Acoustic guitar on THROUGH YOU: Robert Millis 

Recorded and produced by Porest until 2019 

Supported by public funding by Arts Council England 

Porestsound - 2019 (Porestsound 010-DI)

Through You

Marco Lucchi : synth, tape and treatments

morphing and playing along "Water" by Jonny Greenwood

Lisa Moore : piano
Olivia De Prato : violin
Lauren Radnofsky : cello
Greg Chudzik : bass
Paul Coleman and Elena Moon Park : tanpura

to Olivier Messiaen

A glass of water [alt version]

I Wanna Feel We're Just Like One

I wish that I could meet the crowd 
and feel that feeling once again 
I wish one day the business man
could join us to be as one
I want to spend a lot of time
in the land where there's no pain

I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one

I wish that I could meet the crowd 
and feel that feeling once again 
I wish one day I would not need
to exchange my time just for cash
I'm just feeling I'm part of a being
who exploded into infinite grains

I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one
I wanna feel we're just like one

I Wanna Feel We're Just Like One

offered here, you have, you see, a compilation of music created by me...

Can't Stop

Strange Cats ft A-woken and friends, also produced by A-woken.

The Sander

From Milo Hunter's Sophomore EP "Lux Flakes"

Lux Flakes

Generator

Together we work as one. Together we smile much wider. Together we laugh a river...

Half Blind Lucy -

Paul Janszen - Mix, Master, Backing Vocals, Drum Programming
Otto Janszen - Lead Guitar
Mark DeVries - Rhythm Guitar
Mike Walker - Vocals, Drop D Guitar & Bass
gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpa…94740-1-1652125374959
@pau-14
@user-102126447

Sunday in Amsterdam - Half Blind Lucy

First song Annie ever wrote, and its about yours truly...... (no really I am as great as mt Bendigo!)

The Great Mt Bendigo

Dayflower（露草）

Psycho

A Free Trip to the Moon

Voiceover - Please relax and enjoy your remarkable privilege, a free trip to the moon
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
I’m sitting beneath a tree
I close my eyes and try to see
My thoughts rustle like the wind through the leaves
Memories of memories float through the air
Like ripples in a lake from a rock thrown there
I relax my body 
And I relax my mind
And try to drift away
Try to drift away
From this daily grind
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
A free trip to the moon
I’d like to go there in June
When the weather is nice
And it’s not too crowded
I want to go to the moon
I think I’ll go pretty soon
While the weather is nice
And it’s not that crowded
I relax my body 
And I relax my mind
And try to drift away
Try to drift away
From this daily grind
Voiceover - Please relax, please relax, please relax, please relax
I want to go to the moon
I’d like to go there in June
When the weather is nice
And it’s not too crowded
Voiceover - A free trip to the moon

Clintmusic 9

A Free Trip to the Moon

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/far-from-way.html

Far From The Way

A demo of a collab with a bunch of genial wierdos in Berlin, with help from the amazing producer and bassplayer Kalle Enkelmann. 60’s Tarantino feel.
Close your Eyes and let me in, Melodie Für Barbara, the imaginal secret love of my Life.

Melodie Für Barbara

Oh Janelle, thanks for your fantastic lyrics and vocals! :)

Lyrics, Vocals: @the-real-janelle from @juniperoband
Music, Mix & Mastering, Guitars (Tele & I don't know), Bass (P), Drums (AD2) and Mello Keys: @bonetender

========== Lyrics ==========

The golden curtains
Are burning down
This great palace I built
Is falling to the ground
And I pay no mind, no
While everybody’s losing theirs
And I cut the ties
No longer while I look behind

Go forward, what are the odds
Of not finding nothing
Keep forward, pushing strong
Their words mean nothing

Their words mean nothing (8x)

You would always say
That you never had enough
When you had it all

Having everything was never
Quite enough
What do you want?

A restless need won’t let you sleep my friend
What do you want?

Having everything is a bless and a course
What do you want?

Sometimes things don’t matter at all
At all times you should be who you are
Life as we are, we are, we are, we are
To live life as we are, we are, we are

©Janelle & Bonetender 2020 All Rights Reserved

You can be king

You Can Be King (ft. Janelle)

This is a remix of an Armenian folk tune called 'Hovern Elan'. Traditionally it is played on duduk. In this arrangement it is played it on a four valves quartertone trumpet. 

Remix and music production by Pim van den Heuvel @pimvdheuvel
Trumpet by Igor Iofe @igor-iofe-1
Cover image by Cinzia Nistico @cinzia-nistico

Cold Wind (Pim van den Heuvel Remix)

Solitary simplicity cried out to me for this one

But the Moon Does Not Stare Back

But The Moon Does Not Stare Back (NaviarHaiku 343)

1Aug20

My naviarhaiku343 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/29/naviarhaiku343-persistently-i-stare/
:D

Boson Spin - Staring at the Moon [naviarhaiku343]

Previews of the new album by Quiet Places (Dennis White, https://soundcloud.com/charliemay and Dave Gardner), available on Transparent Gatefold 2LP and digital August 17th on A Strangely Isolated Place asip.me/asipv023

Quiet Places / Volume 1 (ASIPV023) [Previews]

20200801(1

Lost Behind The Oortcloud

Wheel of Arms

An electronic orchestral-cathedral like prayer piece meant to resonate intense love & healing into the Divine Universe. Hope you enjoy - XO

Loving You Is All I Can Do | Music by REKHA- IYERN [Fe] | NEW Electronic Music, Aug 2020

My prayers & endless unconditional love forever for you my sweetest and most precious angel child. I will sing for you until the very end of time & beyond. 

May you hear & feel me always - XO-XO-XO

OM JAI MATHA
OM JAI GURU DEVA
HARI OM NAMO NARAYANA
HARI OM TAT SAT 
SHANTI OM
SHANTI OM
SHANTI-SHANTI-SHANTI

Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a. REKHA -IYERN [Fe] (Coming Soon)

Loving You Is All I Can Do Rekha Iyern Fe Master3 Basic 0.0db Aug 11th, 2020

Cover Art: Photo & Graphics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe]
Loving You Is All I Can Do | Music & Vocals Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] at IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA

Loving You Is All I Can Do

Loving You Is All I Can Do - Music & Lyrics by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Aug 2020 | Electro Spiritual

Hey, here is a new collab with my partner in vibes @specialececilia with a funky breakbeat.   

Enjoy!!
Dx

ACTUALIZE Cecilia & Ricø

This is the work of Hypnopompetus. Please visit us here: @hypnopompetus

It's a candy store for grown ups.

In The House Of The Strange (Hypnopompetus)

Many thanks Glen for the fab invite... you produced such a beautiful arrangement, love it, and it was again a great joy to work with you <3 Listen to more of Glen's wonderful music https://soundcloud.com/the-glen-granthem-band
This is for my cousin Mahri out there in San Fransisco...hing in there hen, we'll hae mair adventures!! 
Big Big love to all of my friends out there, look after each other  <3 <3 <3
Lesley Duncan(1943-2010) Music and lyrics.  More info about Lesley in katebushencyclopedia.com, and well worth a read!
Glen Granthem - all instrumentation, arrangement and mixing
Lizzie Taypen - vocals
Lyrics
All my friends are travellers
We don't often get to meet
But I know they're out there somewhere
And the knowing keeps me sweet

Now some go out in limousines
And some leave on there feet
And I never really feel as if they're gone
No I never really feel as if they're gone

Amanda's like my sister, and she's out there in L.A.
(sung Mahri's like my sister, and she's out in Frisco Bay)
But the wings of love fly straight and true
So we keep in touch that way
Now there's other friends, they're sensitive
I guess they'll use the phone someday
And we watch the wheels of life, keep spinning on
Yes, we watch the wheels of life, keep spinning on

Now the chain of love keeps growing
And the World keeps getting small
And soon there won't be room enough, to seperate us all
When the voice of love grows strong enough
It could break down any wall
And you'll hear it call....you'll hear it call

Now sometimes when I look ahead
I could cry at what I see
Some say it's an easy road
But it never was for me
The damage, is not half undone
And we've all got dues to pay
But we get the help we need, along the way...
Yes the light keeps growing stronger, everyday
Every day Yeh...growing stronger...chain of love...growing stronger

CHAIN OF LOVE (Lesley Duncan cover) With Glen Granthem

a sketch..
words iz
have you ever seen an evil hedgehog
crunching away on a slug
thinking up dastardly doings
looking evilly sideways at crumbs
have you ever stopped there to wonder
what goes on beneath spindles and lice
i tell you its all very spikey
i can tell you its not very nice

have you ever even considered
the malevolent fish in your pond
you can bet they are viscous pernicious
they are evil incarnate beyond
just waiting to grow legs and weapons
waiting to swell ounce by ounce
they never do other that evilest wishes
they lay in wait silent to pounce
outside your house

look at the evilest sparrow
eyeing you up from a tree
thinking up plots by the barrow load
devising new ways to kill thee
just you wait till theyve got themselves organised
just you wait till they sort out their crew
wait till there peckers are in your eyes
flapping and twatting at you

stop thinking youre cool
cos youre a fool
mother nature is cruel.

Nature Is Cruel

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

As Above So Below

Siriso

Watch the video and listen to You Listen while soaking in the vibes of Mexican agriculture circa 1950s here: https://fb.watch/2tXYb4EpAr/

I deeply recognize the disparity in ways natural and human disasters affect different groups of people and the need for greater equality of care. I also recognize that I live with many privileges that others do not have. And with these recognitions, I still believe there is space for us all to have a gratitude practice while passionately endeavoring for positive change.  

I am grateful for all the accumulated creativity and work of our ancestors that lead to the eventual creation of the internet and SoundCloud which has enabled us to remain artistically connected during this period of increased physical isolation. 

May everyone’s seeds be fruitful and multiply.

Jonathan Beckenstein: Rhythm Guitar, Fake Steel Guitar
https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein
Calebass: Guitars and Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/calebass
Jon Lock: Bass
https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5 
Janine Levinson: Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
 the Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, and Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
Russell Sinfield: Mix, Master, and Campfire Leader
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
The Chaos Cookhouse: Studio
https://chaoscookhouse.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

We thank this seed with its potency
To bring forth fruits so copiously
With opened hearts and festivity  
4 20 days of ceremony 
 
You listen
Oh, you listen
We’re thankful that 
You listen

You listen
Yea, you listen
In the morning dew
You glisten

We honor you with crimsoned desire
Following Nanahuatl who jumped in the fire
May your sacrifices continue to inspire
And bring forth gratitude until we expire 

The days are long and the weather is hot
We call on the rains to weather our crops
Bless the labor of men and divined thought 
Honored to sacrifice for all that we got 

We thank this seed with it’s potency
To bring forth fruits so copiously
With opened hearts and festivity  
4 20 days of ceremony 
 
We be handing out the alms for the love of Xipe Totec
Got the gods in the house garlands all around their necks
Sitting on sheaves, leaves of tzapote 
Honoring renewal of life and all that is holy 
Flayed in the way maize loses layers 
With hope of vegetation we given up the prayers
Flayed in the way maize loses layers 
With hope of vegetation we given up the prayers

Jonathan Beckenstein, Janine Levinson, Jon Lock, Russ, Calebass & CK - You Listen

threshold of faith - Across the Universe

◆ Bandcamp: thresholdfaith.bandcamp.com/album/there…es-on-earth
◆ Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/20Q2n7LKnF…t2Q5WCzd87m2yJFA
◆ iTunes: music.apple.com/ru/album/there-is…rth/1530091108?ls

Musical project from St. Petersburg, Russia that creates experimental rock music, intricatel mixing the genres of guitar music and electronic music in the most unexpected combinations

☛ Follow threshold of faith
facebook.com//threshold0ffaith
youtube.com/channel/UC62QnpgCYtb-S-wzSD4wBug
twitter.com/threshold0faith
instagram.com/threshold_of_faith

There Is No Hell, Except the One We Make for Ourselves on Earth

Across the Universe

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
You can rely on
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

And love it's such a cheesy song
But we've all got to sing along
Yeah love is blind it's plain to see
That love will never let us be

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
Someone who isn't me
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

[Repeat chorus]

[Repeat verse]

[Repeat chorus]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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The picture (detail) is from 'The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death' by Russell Oliver.
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20210317 Yet another attempt at a better mix
20210301 Uploaded another attempt at better mix
20210228 Uploaded attempt at better mix

Download

Stable Boy

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.