for me really powerful lyrics and idea. like the vocals distant sort of effect

wow, man, this, like all your music, is such top quality! really well conceived, played, executed, and produced.  infectious vocal melody and harmonies. this song has it all, my friend! great job!

This is the same voice as The Eternal Now ... wheelwright? Lovely tone.... great song too.

Brilliant. I do love the chorus, beautifully simple in lyric and melody and makes one want to listen more closely to the verses to discover what is. 
Just great

Peak Season

The Last Wave

Burn It All Down

A solo guitar piece that I added a piano and vocal improv over, written and recorded in ca. 10 minutes on the 14th November 2020, it has sat unused and almost forgotten for just over a year. So I finally got round to adding a lyric and recording a vocal track with minimal harmony parts, some of which is the original vox improv from last year.

In The Arms Of A Perfect Love

Dreamer

Flying Chocolate Take2

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)

Photo credit to Mike Lewinski (CC BY 2.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ikewinski/8667690822

Head In The Clouds

Adagietto Sehr Langsam - Drone

Watch the music video:  https://vimeo.com/755673453

What Are We?

What are we are the ones who were undefeated
The last ones standing ground
What are we are the enemies of your outrage
Conspiracies of sound

What are we?
What are we?

What are we are just waiting for the right moment
To send that message home
What are we are not making the rules here buddy
You break them on your own

What are we?
What are we?

Remember where you found me
Underneath the stars
But your eyes and my eyes were locked and loaded
And your heart and my heart trigger pulled

What are we are so sick of this endless crazy
The lies that will not die
What are we are still trying to fight the power
The evil from inside

What are we?
What are we?
What are we?
What are we?

What Are We?

Miles Away

New EP (final track)

amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/mcmlxx

Music, lyrics, mixing, production: Verulium
Vocals: Amanda

Lyrics:

I’m a veteran  of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place to stay
I’ve found a place to stay

And when I look back now
There is no cure
For the cruel existence we endured
We endured

I’m a veteran of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place that I can stay
On Neptune 17
Hiding from the all seeing machine
It tracks you, it drags you down
I’m lost, can I be found?
I’m lost, I don’t want to be found

And when I look back now
There is no cure
For the cruel existence we endured
We endured

And now times have changed
This space machine will help me make it to the end
To the end

I’m a veteran of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place that I can stay
On Neptune 17
Hiding from the all seeing machine
It tracks you, it drags you down
I’m lost, can I be found?
I’m lost, I don’t want to be found

MCMLXX

Psychic War

The Tabula Smaragdina (stressed tábula smarágdina, Latin for "emerald tablet") is a text traditionally attributed to Hermes Trismegistos, which forms the philosophical basis of Hermeticism and is considered the foundational text of alchemy.

The Tabula is one of the most famous texts of alchemical and hermetic literature. The twelve or so dark, allegorical sentences reflect the idea of a interrelation between the microcosm and the macrocosm. That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, an eternal miracle of the One.

The oldest extant version of the text is found in the appendix to a 6th century Arabic manuscript. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Tabula was commented on and received by many alchemists in the Middle Ages and increasingly in the Renaissance period. Even after the emergence of modern natural sciences, its fascination, at least for occultists and esotericists, remained unbroken until the present day.

Die Tabula Smaragdina (betont tábula smarágdina, lateinisch für „smaragdene Tafel“) ist ein traditionell dem Hermes Trismegistos zugeschriebener Text, der die philosophische Basis der Hermetik bildet und als Grundlagentext der Alchemie gilt.

Die Tabula ist einer der berühmtesten Texte alchemistischer und hermetischer Literatur. In den rund zwölf dunklen, allegorischen Sätzen spiegelt sich die Vorstellung eines Zusammenhangs von Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos. Das was unten ist, ist wie das, was oben ist, und das was oben ist, ist wie das was unten ist, ein ewig dauerndes Wunder des Einen.

Die älteste erhaltene Textversion findet sich im Anhang zu einem arabischen Manuskript des 6. Jahrhunderts. Im 12. Jahrhundert ins Lateinische übersetzt, wurde die Tabula im Mittelalter und verstärkt im Zeitalter der Renaissance von vielen Alchemisten kommentiert und rezipiert. Auch nach Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften blieb ihre Faszination zumindest auf Okkultisten und Esoteriker bis in die Gegenwart ungebrochen.

Tabula Smaragdina

Dimanche

Schweres Gepäck

A Little Magic

My mix for this powerful open collab from @libbylaksmi 
Original poetry track by @ladyofire

Source link: https://soundcloud.com/libbylaksmi/crimes-against-humanity-lady-of-fire-poetry-open-collab-drumnbass

Crimes Against Humanity | Seven Hills Bulletin Mix |  Libby Laksmi & Lady Of Fire Poetry

Zero Point N.R.G.

Free Downloads / Curated Playlists / 

Collaboration / Participation / 

In pursuit of novelty. / 

A = 432 Hz /

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, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

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

Jonathan Beckenstein

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