Janine Levinson: words, vocal melody, voices, image https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan Beckenstein: instruments, music, mix

Thanks so much, Janine! It was good making this with you.

You can’t relax around a coiled spring
No matter what they say 
Cause what they do is everything
You can’t relax around a coiled spring

What did you think was gonna happen? 
What did you think was gonna happen?

No matter what they tell you
The snake is not your friend
That’s just me being me, he said
I’m the snake for heaven’s sake oh what did you expect?

What did you think was gonna happen?
What did you think was gonna happen?

But snake also needs a friend
A snake ought to haaaaave a friend
A snake also needs a friend
A snake ought to haaaaave a friend
Ssssssssssssssss

You can’t relax around a person who snaps
No matter how they kiss
A morsel of cheese and a tango perhaps,
But turn your back and you’re just a mouse in a trap

What did you think was gonna happen?
What did you think was gonna happen?
What did you think was gonna happen?
What did you think was gonna happen?

Mousetrap (with Janine Levinson)

I also post my work here: @https://soundcloud.com/Rehearsals2

Your soul is so beautiful/ Take my eyes with you / Mirrors will come handy

Sing your deepest sorrow / Let your soul touch the bottom of my heart

Life's too short for perfection / Enjoy your imperfect being

Life is too short
Imagine your pain
The poetry of rain
Sing it like a bird

Imagine your sorrow
The dark dance floor
Turn on colourful lights
Join the soul dancers

زندگی کوتاه است
درد و غم گر دارید

دردها را باید
جمله شعرِ تر دید
چون قناری نالید

غصه ها را باید
رنگِ دیگر بخشید
مثل رندان رقصید

Wallowing in the warmth of lower mids and melancholic melody.
Recorded, mixed and mastered on a Tascam DP 32 Portastudio using vintage gear gathered over many years.


Take a large bucket. Add a pint of Neil Young, a pinch of Glen Hansard. Wack in a tea spoon of Damien Rice, then an ickle bit of Tom Mcrae. Shove in a hand full of Mike Scott, a heaped table spoon of Neil Finn and a large dollop of Conor J. O'Brien. Mix with a big stick then strain through an old sock. Pour. What you have is a little bit of Mr C.

Hello good people of the cloud.
I play everything in real time and record and master on a Tascam DP 32 Portastudio. Although three of the older songs on here where recorded on a 8 track tape recorder through an old seck analogue desk.
No pc's are used or abused in the process of me music making. I love tactile recording. Switches, faders, pots and buttons. Mouses are for computers and eating cheese. No Mac, Daws or Windows, Midi or overused plugins. And no automated mixing, compromise being a large part of my final sound.

Hope you enjoy some of the music that I make, please feel free to share and comment.

I now have another page, link below, of songs recorded from 1999 to 2012 on an 8 track tape machine.

Gear used:
Tascam DP32 (for all recording and mastering)
Custom Sound amp (owned since the 1980's/90's)
Tannoy DC 200 monitors (owned since the 1980's/90's)
Alesis Sr18 drum machine
Roland V drums HD1 Live Kit Through Roland TD20 Sound Module
Kord M1 keys (owned since the 1980's/90's)
Yamaha moX6 keys
Joe Meek VC3 pro channel (owned since the 1980's/90's)
Audio Technica AT4033a Cardioid Condenser Microphone
Shure SM58 Mic
Sessionmaster direct recording pre-amp (owned since the 1980's/90's)
Zoom GX1N guitar effects
1972 Yamaha FG180 Red Label acoustic guitar
Martin performance acoustic guitar
Yamaha FGX5 Acoustic guitar
JD Fender Telecaster Leccy guitar
DeArmond M75T Leccy guitar
Tanglewood bass 
Vintage banjo
Uke
Stagg mandolin
And a box of old rusty harps.

Off for the rest of the summer.  Back in the fall.  Be safe.

Thanks for listening and more importantly, thank you for sharing your work and recommendations!

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.

Composer of instrumental and electronic music.
Double bassist, recorder player and electronic musician.
Focus on improvisation, experimental music, electronic and electro acoustic.
 Interested in Soundscape composition and in visual art in the interaction between sound and video.

This is where Synthgrinder,  
is doing the REPOSTS from now on.
I am slowly but surely moving them from my original profile: https://soundcloud.com/synthgrinder-1 ,
And along the way, everyone gets an extra LIKE.

Music is a moral law.
It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety, and life to everything.
It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.
-Plato-
Born in Mexico City in 1955, started playing at an early age. In Mexico, I played with many bands like "Batallón de San Patricio", "Atrás del Cosmos", "Queso Sagrado", "Syntoma", " Broken Heart", "Decibel", "Bardo Thodol", and "Kathmandu Ensemble". In New York City I played with Bands like "Volti", "King"s East", "In The Service Of", "Fist of Facts", "Desire", "Dense Undergrowth"," "Matahari", "Like Wow", "Devil's Breakfast", "Muse Mob", "Atlantis 3000", "Monster", "Zenith", "Andromeda Crash" "Night Shade", I also collaborated with Hector Zazou, Harold Budd, Elliott Levin, Dennis Charles, and many others. For many years I also wrote Jingles for a lot of products like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mc Donalds, Toyota, Kodak, Payless Shoes, Rothman's, Salsa Tabasco, JC Penny, Liberty Science Center, American Heart Association, MCI, Reebok, AT&T, Fanta, Play Movil, etc, I also made music for Viacom writing music for cartoon networks, Bravo TV, Chanel 1, and MTV. Also wrote music for Bill Moyers (PBS)and also for Fax TV in Germany.