wait by the window
pray through the sight

for a dollar
in my pocket
for my country
who’d have thought?

don’t stand by the window
outmanned and alone

after drinking
(check my cheekpiece)
i can hit it
(pull the bolt back)
without thinking
(keep my hands loose)
what i’ve done

i’m waiting now by the window
i don’t know how to get home

for a dollar
in my pocket
for my country
wrong or right

after drinking
(check my cheekpiece)
i can hit it
(pull the bolt back)
without thinking
(keep my hands loose)
what i’ve done
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Thanks to Janine Levinson and Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely for early listening and encouragement.

Special thanks to Wheelwright for sage editorial advice.

Image by Chandler Cruttenden via Unsplash



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Here you'll find a mishmash of ideas, tunes and so-called songs (with the occasional actual song mixed in, coming mostly from collaborations). Hopefully you'll find a bit here and there to enjoy too. Please leave a comment, I appreciate feedback, let it be praise (unlikely) or criticism. Take care and have a good one.

Musician, Composer, Visual Artist - Pacific NW, Oregon. Greetings. My focus has mainly been on instrumental albums. I started recording with solo guitar and then expanded into ensembles. Now, I'm layering compositions in a home studio. I love all kinds of music.  When an artist creates work that expands me, I'm thankful. I think, "that's a way to be". Color is sound. People are sound. Everything is sound. Thank you for stopping by. May you have a wonderful day.

★MTM Productions★
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- Miguel Sepulveda Arnau (Mastering engineer)
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- Christine Sampson(Recording, editing and mixing)
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- Alessandro Giordano(Recording, mixing and mastering engineer)
☆Administrative Department:
- Amanda Bernard Thomas 
★ MASTERING TRUE MUSIC ★ 2023 MTM Ⓒ

🎧 Nocturne Ritual
Atmospheric electronic | Cinematic soundscapes | Emotional depth

Crafting music for the late hours — between dream and memory.
Music carved from silence.
A slow descent into cinematic atmospheres, dark textures, and ambient emotion.


🎵 Releases on Spotify, YouTube & more
🕯 Best heard alone, at night

🎵 New music on Spotify / YouTube

You can watch the videos that I make for my songs on youtube!

I only answer and interact with real people that have really listened to my music.

TOP 10 FANS 1/9/2025: Thank you so much!
Sisy Chelsea
543 plays
P.o.C - Prisoner of Christ
486 plays
Snub Knows
393 plays
Matrix Computacion
367 plays
BROOKSY_II
364 plays
Acres of Diamonds
293 plays
Kdubsbub
293 plays
Sear Diugz
266 plays
THEHELLKNIGHT94
245 plays
chillywillyzation
234 plays


TOP 5 LISTENERS LAST MONTH:



SCHUDY Jean
105 plays
NumberOne
76 palys
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31 plays
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27 plays
Lumen Vale
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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.

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! ALSO 2nd Deluxe Vinyl & CD+Booklet "Songs That Mean Something" See links below. 

Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

"more fun than i deserve" 
" stepping off the ledge with desire"
NEW album released 10/31/2025 SCALAR FIELD ON BANDCAMP listen for free or own it for the price of a couple  Frappuccino's   :)

In the distant Subert Humlin, Gory Rallagher, Sank Frinatra, and Dats Fomino Galaxies, Her Majesty's Royal Intergalactic Empire is under siege by the sinister Khazargonians and their elite squads of shock troopers- the Jearl Pamians and Goundsardenians. Her Majesty has commissioned an elite force led by her three of Her Majesty's Space Navy's finest officers with several primary objectives, chief among them was the following directive: to combine the great tones of surf and fifties rock... with disco!
These elite officers are:  Admiral Krank of the SS Belgrade (Guitar, bass, beats, intergalactic espionage and assassination by exploding cigars); and Captain Mirth of the SS Zagreb- (Guitar, piano, synth, beats, and advanced thermal detonation). And our very own clockwork man on the drums, Mo Sheen (https://soundcloud.com/user-424452711).  Unfortunately, despite bravely serving Her Majesty's Space Navy, Vice Commandant Dubois has been court martialed and convicted for conduct not befitting an officer and counterfeiting baseball cards, stripped of his command of the SS Budapest, and dishonorably discharged from Her Majesty's Space Navy, though certain recordings of his guitar, synth, bass, beats, and forward deployable laser blasters remain here memorialized for posterity. Let it be known that though he has sunk to the very depths of ignominy, we wish him well in his new venture, the Spandex Spanktroverse.

Hi! I'm Rob!! I write and record my songs, and present them to the world here. I am the singer, guitarist and bass player, EZDrummer3 keeps the beat!
I have a collaboration with Single Use & Recycled:
https://on.soundcloud.com/XmiY1G8qKTuGQiAeZQ 
and another with my brother Joseph Olsson:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y261JZd5ZFZbOKmn40 
(Starts October 17)
Check 'em out!

Independent artist in Denmark. Indie/Britpop and Singer-Songwriter/New Romanticism. New album 'Cancel the Winter' out now! Thanks for stopping by.

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Jonathan Beckenstein