this is a damn good work, Jonathan. soup to nuts.

wow ...terrific guitar, hey this is good traveling man

great movement in the instrumentation especially with this

This is very compelling in both word and song. Beautiful lyrics that come from the heart and sung with real emotion. Powerful track JB. ❤️

Beautiful Dark put this on a playlist for you. Carl is a great guy and we have many friends in common… artists we follow. Beckenstein, you are awesome.

Brilliant vocal arrangements. Brilliant chorus.

This is really touching. Love how you've layered up the guitars and vocals.

I can tell from the tone and pace of the guitar and the vocal segments that there is a lot of real emotion in here..it is palpable..I think there are events that shatter "life" and rearrange everthing to a new normal that we find a way to deal/go on and make it work..that's my take..love the vocal variations

Your guitar work always gets me. Beautiful, swelling and shimmering. A joy to listen to, bravo!

I was imagining what all might be happening in a living neural network.
Is it merely a summing of various electrical potentiation
which results in the synapse firing, or is there possibly
some ephemeral packet of information along for the ride?

It seemed if there were something like that,
and there were some direction to it,
it might be like a passenger moving along a railway,
with multiple rails running in parallel.
Are they totally insulated from sharing this imagined information,
coming to some almost alien and rudimentary realizations...
based on who knows what?

But certainly, it would all be far to fast to keep track of in any instance.

Though, it could be further imagined that it might be possible
to slow this train to the point that we could crawl into this movement
to experience it at a much more leisurely pace.

It was these kinds of thoughts that I was meddling with
when I became curious for what might represent the firing of the synapse.
I decided upon the sound of an electric arc zapping,
only stretching that audio out in time,
sending it into a much more powerful bass experience.

After each discharge, 
we would once again be accelerated down a new set of tracks.

Of course any such discharge would fry a living network...
but again it is all only a musing.

Synapse

summer sunlight on the ground
i still see you fallen down

it happens every day (to the chosen) baby
the wounded find a way hey

every heartache, every fear
just a mistake brought us here

you have the secret knack (deep inside you) darling
the one that brings us back jack

into the weeds we’re going
spinning ‘round
but we’ll be back i know it
watch us now

hey honey don’t you know (don’t you know it) by now
you’ll never be alone, no

we’re grateful for today (we accept it) cherie
there is no other way hey

It Happens Every Day

Please enjoy my latest offering to you all. It is another seagoing inspired track. Over the years I have seen many deep ocean whales in their natural setting but only once have I seen a pod and it was awesome. There must of been at least twenty of them spread across the bow at distance. I immediately reported my sightings to the captain who immediately stopped engines.  He went on to explain that in this situation you have two choices you can go hard to starboard or port depending on our postion relative to the whales course or simply stop the engines and take in the view explaining the chances of seeing another pod this large is very remote. this all happened long before smartphones came along so we had no way of recording the event. This took place when I was nineteen and I am now 71 and it is a memory that has stayed with me all these years. So I say to all our fantastic young people .... You are at the stage in your life were you are creating your memories .... .don't waste a minute. Thank you all for the great support you give me.... love and peace..

Music.composition,arangement,mix and production ....Pablo

Calling The Whales

Black posies
round the fringes
of a memory untapped.

The same piano
that shadow now
a vampire bat.

A phantom dance
through cemetery smoke
in boots of kerosene
and glass.

Stop-sign under idle moon.
Riding to survive
beneath the dome light.
One to scar and it stayed
while the rest left.

Tar traces.
The pavement fissures.
Thin coat rise to neons.
The afterglow a mystery.

A round, a stage
an empty rink.
A drama of the ashes.
Air embedded with sweat
and leaking sinks
and snakes.

Underground unbound.
Unbolting each lock to soul.
Silent and slow 
but wrong it goes
until the fractured
break to fall

to the cellar
where all the lost ones let
the poets of the moon
ink the wall tattoos
for which to paint
their future
or their doom.

Words by Riley Robinson

Extinct Ignition

Written entirely on the iPhone with Ableton Note.
Mastered via Sound Cloud.

Ableton Note Fun 07 86 bpm - Dark Story

Chronus

©Musique, paroles, voix by KidOfEarth 2024/2025
à Nathalie 💕
All tracks protected "Copyright France" ©
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

*English translation below

Comme si...
comme si, je venais de naître
je respire l'air pur à la fenêtre
le soleil brille, je suis un peu fou peut-être
elle m'inspire, je l'aime, elle est ma planète
elle est mon poème
elle est mon essentielle, je l'aime...

comme si le vent chaud me portait
je m'enivre, je plane lentement sur la baie
et même si, à contre-courant je vais
je dois tenir pour celle qui m'attend sur le quai
elle est mon énigme
elle est mon mystère, je l'aime...

tout au fond de ses yeux océan
roulent à l'infini d'étranges et douces vagues
et devant son sourire aimant
je me perds, je me noie, je divague (je dis vagues)
je divague, je dis vagues, je divague...

comme si, je venais de naître...

As if...
as if I had just been born
i breathe the fresh air at the window
the sun is shining, maybe I'm a little crazy
she inspires me, I love her, she is my planet
she is my poem
she is my essential, I love her...

as if the warm wind carried me
i get drunk, I slowly glide over the bay
and even if, against the current I go
i have to hold on for the one who is waiting for me on the quay
she is my enigma
she is my mystery, I love her...

deep in her ocean eyes
strange and gentle waves roll endlessly
and before her loving smile
i get lost, I drown, I wander (i say waves)
i wander, I say waves, I wander...

as if I had just been born...

Comme Si

Comme Si...© (Chanson Originale) lyrics & translation in description

FACE

======================================

Composition made in September 2024 and edited in January 2025

When I started composing I put a simple photo on my profile of a landscape where an important photovoltaic and solar installation near Seville stood out and which I visited for professional reasons.

About 10 Years ago I changed it for another one (the current one) where I blur my face (I admit that I'm a bit shy about these things).

After sending several photos of myself to the people I've collaborated with, I thought that maybe it's time to make myself known as I am now to the rest of the people who don't follow me.

A face is no longer just that...that's why I've simply called this composition face.

9 tracks of the native MS2 instruments and Xewton forum.
1 track OB dx
2 tracks X pad
1 track Sunrizer
1 imini Arturia.

Mix: my car (Parked)
DAW Music Studio 2
Hardware ipad.

Photo...Myself.

Thank you very much for all these years of support and comments.

Paco.


Next composition: Sun &Soul (Collaboration with Osc Project)

Face

From the 2017 album - "Songs for Audio Succubus"
free on Bandcamp -https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-audio-succubus

This track was created utilizing solely the now obsolete Alchemy Mobile app. 
4 tracks and touch screen manipulation

Songs for Audio Succubus

Mood Exhibit - Foreign Objects (2017)

Ever since I saw an incredible Canadian band (Recipe From a Small Planet) do a live Reggae jam and seamlessly slide into a cover of 'Watching The Detectives', I wanted to try something similar. In this case, I did the opposite, starting with the cover, and adding a kinda reggae/dub section at the end, which starts at 3:15. 

For the dub portion, I enlisted the help of one of the best talents I know - @Llanpsych (Tez) - to add his magic and 'dubbify' the whole instrumental section at the end. I'm singing and playing all the instruments here using my keyboard, and some echo effects, and Tez did the rest to produce that authentic dub atmosphere into the mix. I recommend listening to that part at least with headphones, and hope you enjoy the result! Thanks so much Tez, I couldn't have done this without your mad skillz!

Sharp ears may notice the following 2 details: 

  -  In the last few seconds, I threw in the theme from 'The Godfather', played on melodica (see credit below). 

  -  at 0:39, you can faintly hear my dog barking in the background. I decided to keep it in, since she barked at the line, "red dogs under illegal legs", which I thought was funny timing!  :)

INSTRUMENTS:
bass, drums, rhythm & lead guitar, organ, piano, electric piano, melodica, steel pan drums, ukulele, synth horns, voice

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-song art designed using Chat GPT and Photoshop
-original song written by Elvis Costello
-theme from The Godfather, 'Speak Softy, Love' - written by Nino Rota

Watching the Dubtectives (cover + dub mix with Llanpsych)

ive got some strnage ambitions to learn to love 
tell your new man i try way harder
our souls collide as we speak i loved u more than him
and so shell come to her senses to be with me

as your standards rise take you in all mine
some day ill be here
to take you in at last

strangers once again

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.

It Happens Every Day

Jonathan Beckenstein

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