Name: Why Must We Toil by Jonathan Beckenstein
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: This was made on the occasion of being unexpectedly called back to full time work after some years of delicious semi-retirement.

Hopefully working full time again will still give you enough time to make your music! Great blues feel Jonathan!

Ah, brilliant. Much respect to the chaos. God bless ya...

great off-kilter blues, love the changes and dissonant tones which are used so well they just sound lovely to me. Great sonic palette here.

love the dissonant cocauphony (I'm not going to do a spell check on that, you get it), and the sort of Tom Wait dusty shuffle of this. I do't think I realized this side of your stuff man. Some pretty dark swanky tunes you've got hiding here.   :)

The Valuable Friends:

@janinelevinson Electric blanket vocals and additional lyrics
@rick-4-1 7/4 Drums
@phil-mcwalter The other butter lad stuff

I COULD HELP IF YOU WANTED

I could help if you wanted

Don't let me fall into your eyes
Don't let me call your name
Don't let me fall
I don't want to go there
You do it if you want to
I don't feel like going out
I could help if you wanted
[Wash your face]
I guess it's over now...

I could glow if you lit me
And you could melt into my eyes
I'd cup my hands when you were close to me
And I would let you fall
Steady like Sundays and pigeons
And we'll fill the bottles with wishes

Electric Blanket Lucy and The Butter Lad
Electric Blanket Lucy and The Butter Lad

Don't let me fall into your eyes
[Putting wishes in bottles that's all we do]
Don't let me call your name
[Listen really hard]
Don't let me fall
I don't want to go there
[Putting wishes in bottles that's all we do]
You do it if you want to
[Listen really hard]
I don't feel like going out
[Putting wishes in bottles that's all we do]
I could help if you wanted
[Wash your face]
I guess it's over now...

I could help if you wanted
I could help if you wanted

© Phil McWalter & Janine Levinson August 2021

I Could Help If You Wanted

Bleeper

This is a cover of the song "Sugar Baby Clown" .  The original author of this one is none other than Rekha Iyern [Fe].  We made a fun deal not long ago to cover one of each other's songs 

You can hear her fantastic version of my song 'Newly' here-
https://soundcloud.com/rekha-iyern-fe/newly-tms-cover-rekha-iyern-fe-m1b-aug-25th-2021


You can hear her original version of Sugar Baby Clown on her BandCamp page here
https://rekhaiyernfe.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-baby-clown

and listen to my original song "Newly" found here -
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/newly

Sugar Baby Clown

Sugar Baby Clown - Cover by TexMex Shaman | song by Rekha Iyern [Fe]

Long before September 11, 2001, there was a September 11, 1950; the birthdate of my wife Terry.  This song started out as a very personal musical portrait of her.  Debra became interested in the track after I sent it to her for collaborative consideration.  The result is something very special for the both of us and we hope you too.  In my playing, I address the intimate side of the song and day. In Debra's playing, she addresses the now much larger meaning of the day for our nation and the world. Ultimately I think what we are saying is that 9/11 is profoundly personal. Each of us, if were old enough to remember, know where we were, what we were doing the day the attacks occurred. The attacks also shook the world, world markets, world travel, and any and all sense of security.   Profound sorrow was draped over our country and any nation that called us friend.  "Stay With Me" is another way of saying "hold me close", "we need each other", and as the track picture suggests "forget me not".    A big "thank you" to Debra for lavishing her talent on this very personal song.    More of her beautiful music can be heard @debra_buesking.

Stay With Me (featuring Debra Buesking, piano)

This was made on the occasion of being unexpectedly called back to full time work after some years of delicious semi-retirement.

Why Must We Toil

YT video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZ6FGmnaMo

Zen Day / YT video (link in description)

produção em downtempo energy no estilo industrial, leve fluxo num pesado compasso tech... 

Save The Nature, and leave a good planet for future generations!

Earth Asks For Help

2nd African themed track from the album Vibrations Empowered Within-
moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/vibrat…wered-within
1st African themed track - https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/mood-exhibit-song-of-serengeti

Mood Exhibit - Nomad Soul

A song about a dream that takes me away to an Island in the Sun, do you want to hop aboard and lets set sail for better weather and peace.

Johnny

Dream Boat

I Beg to Differ

I Beg To Differ

i'll be there

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.

Why Must We Toil

Jonathan Beckenstein

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