Earth

Arctic Dreams

Heart Of The Forest

Fool

Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, 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

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

bandcamp

Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Beautiful Girl

Thank you to https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein for creating this fine 🎶
Love will always be the greater force.

Lyrics: 
So, don't you think it's getting old now
Empty rounds, sprayed all around
So, don't you think it's getting old now
It could be different now
Somehow

Not another one, oh no

Wake up

not another one - Jonathan Beckenstein/cw

I usually don't sit on unreleased tracks... but this one started last Winter as a proposed collaboration that never came together. After giving it another listen recently, it resonated with me as an especially good track to put out during the week of the Summer Solstice! This is my favorite time of year and I'm finding there is something really nostalgic about this one. Once again the minilogue xd is heavily featured.

Cover image credit to Richard Rydge (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), found on Flickr.

Summer Skies

'Coming And Going' is a fusion track inspired by the endless coming and going of the many birds and insects who both live in and visit my garden every day. Today is particularly lovely and the garden is simply alive with sounds....

Coming And Going



Music written and composed by: Mark McClellan 

Lyrics: Written and performed by The Mysterious Decibel
@Themysteriousdecibel

Visual Lyric video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROIjlpwk00

Lyrics:
Joey held the bottle upside down
Squeezed it and the smile turned to frown

It was the ketchup precum! 
Once a delicacy grilled under the sun
and now a wet hot dog between a soggy bun

Oh yeah ketchup pre cum
That's what you get when you don't shake before you squeeze

I didn't really fancy any discolored water with my meal tonight
I was really looking forward to those tater tots, Before I took a bite
A magnificent meal that was shattered by one squirt
A puddle that stares me in the face from the plate 
Left me in a world of hurt

Ketchup yeah!
Precum No!

My Burgers!
My fries!
One squirt could meet the demise of the food that I eat

You don't want
You don't want
You don't want
You don't want
The ketchup precum No no no!
You don't want it slaughtering your plate
It's a liquid that everyone hates
Don't you know that no one wants to deal with the dreaded ketchup precum

The Mysterious Decibel - Ketchup Precum

https://soundcloud.com/chips-in-nose-and-ears had a beat, and I had a chord set…we shared them and started following different inspiration lines to get this eclectic but coherent suite:

CINAE-R SUITE (1) Rapped Andalucia (with chips-in-nose-and-ears)
(https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/cinae-r-suite-1)

CINAE-R SUITE (2) Tirolese Jam (with chips-in-nose-and-ears)
(https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/cinae-r-suite-2)

CINAE-R SUITE (3) Rasta Pasta (with chips-in-nose-and-ears)
(https://soundcloud.com/chips-in-nose-and-ears/cinae-r-suite-3-rastapasta)

This 2nd movement got a funk rock vibe, by hand-playing bass instead of my usual programming. Descriptive guitars and much more complete this number's story teling.

(Images: photos I took of some graffiti on my hometown walls)

CiNaE-R SUITE (2) Tirolese Jam (with chips-in-nose-and-ears)

4 Minutes

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.