Wow, what a change,m didn't expect that after the intro ;)

Beautiful from start to finish & she sang so lovely. Great job Jonathan 🙏🏽

Great song composition... beautiful guitar playing and great vocals! This picture is cute and nice.

Wonderful writing.  That unusual percussion instrument?

Scream of the butterfly - Acid Bath (Cover)

This is a musical climbing, a melodic essay (or expansion) for sythesizers and drums.

The Climbing

Under A Sun Called Hope

Music & Lyrics, Vocal, Synth, Drums: Jan Schonander
Guitars, Bass, Drums: Norbert Meyer https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer

Reworked version of Break Out Of This Cage with Norbert Meyer (N.o.b.S) - what an incredible guitar track he came up with. A lot of iteration on the levels and production of this track before coming up with this final mix. Norbert also took care of the mastering.

For those that are interested here is a link to the original: https://soundcloud.com/thegats/break-out-of-this-cage

BREAK OUT OF THIS CAGE

Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders 

Better than that 
More than that
You deserve so much more
So much better than that

Round and round and round…..

Up and down
Round and round
Off the ground
I don’t want to hear a sound
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh….

Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage

Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders 

Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh…..

Round and round and round…..

My future
Your future
Our future
It’s all in the past
It’s all in the past
Get off of this circular path

Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage  

Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars

Break Out Of This Cage

Break Out Of This Cage | N.o.b.S 🎸

The Art of Hoquet - D'Amore
November 2020
Duration: 2:45
Cover Art: John-Marc Ventimiglia

Based on the 14th century 2 part Ballade, Je ne cuit pas, by Guillaume de Machaut.  
The composition is written in a contemporary style using the technique of hoquet.

The term "hoquet" is a French word (in Old French also hocquet, hoket, or ocquet) meaning "a shock, sudden interruption, hitch, or hiccup".  Although the term is in reference to the secular music of the 13th and 14th centuries in France, the technique, under other names, could be heard in different types of music across the world as early as the 11th century.  Hoquet is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords.  In medieval practice of hocket, a single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices or instruments such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.  Hoquet is also used in Indonesian Gamelan music, African music, Classical music, Jazz and popular music.

For strings, woodwinds, harp, bandura, celeste, virtual instruments and percussion

The Art Of Hoquet - D'Amour

Janine Levinson: lyrics, singing, vocal melodies, cover art. @janinelevinson

Jonathan Beckenstein: music, instruments, mixing.

I climbed to the top
thinking I would stop
and gaze upon the crystal view
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess I think I thought
that everything would start
and I would find my heart
or something quite extraordinary

but there’s no here here
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
this room is full of ordinary men

I worked very hard
To be a member of
a high and mighty club
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess that I supposed
when every door was closed
the thing that was behind
would be something extraordinary

there was no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

oh there there, dear
there are no answers here.
oh there, there dear
go forth and multiply

older now I know
the bill of goods I sold
the little boy when he was
something quite extraordinary

that there’s a special kind
of gem that he will find
that only special people get to see

there is no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
there there dear

but maybe there’s a green
that I have never seen
the emerald kind of grass
that’s on the far side of the hill

there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

Ordinary Men (with Janine Levinson)

Let's end the dark times with a funeral march and start a new future with new power. The intro is a short funeral fanfare, then a gentle guitar sound is followed by the powerful rock sound, driven by a bass synth pattern. Look forward, stay confident and take care of yourself.

Music Video: https://youtu.be/40vRJRJsS_4

Cover Pictures: https://pixabay.com/users/geralt-9301/

Music Video

The End Is A New Beginning - OMCB [Music Video]

Have you Ever looked back Long Ago and wondered why?
how The decisions you made in your life affected you positive or negative?
Long ago I met someone that changed my life completely.
Has been an Influence on my music and my viewpoints, 
and I thank you for that  #see you in the stars

Long Ago

Snowfield Poetry

Falling Star

Parallel Inspirations
https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/hummin-snowflake-myrcury
Thank you Myrh, vocals and their mix and arrangement. 
Original Inspiration
https://soundcloud.com/enigmacurry/orison
Updated Mix edit 06/05/2023

Susurro Ōrātiō (Orison)by EnigmaCurry and taRka(HumminSnowflake)

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.

Ordinary Men (with Janine Levinson)

Jonathan Beckenstein

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