Hey Joe, I loved this new version! It was love at first bite!! Great Halloween song! Awesome lyrics as always! Great job Joe, it was good to the last drop!👍😎✌🏼

Love it uplifting and with great vocal harmonies !!

I love the storytelling and your perspective in interpreting it all: superb song 🔥🔥🔥

Your vocal is superb ✨ Love the lyrics and production too

🔥🔥Fabulous Story Joe🔥🔥
🔥great job writing this song Joe.. humorous.. still laughing at “ I want to see the sun on your face “😂😂😂😂
That would put the final nail in her coffin if you got wish seeing that sun ☀️ on her face😂😂😂
🔥thanks for posting your songs Joe
They really lift up spirits ..
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Haloween

“This Riff Rock track is for Halloween and written from the perspective of a senior paranoid individual who is convinced that the local trick or treaters are a time travelling group from the future called GHOSTS. They are to be feared and are making their annual visit to punish the community. Inspired by Audioslave, Street Sweeper Social Club, Alice Cooper and Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman. I wanted to create a Frankenstein’s monster of 90’s/00’s Rock, drama, anarchy and most of all, FUN; listen out for the pastiche flamenco guitar at the end. Happy Halloween.” 👻💀🎃🤘🎸

PLAY LOUD. Listener beware you are in for a scare😱

There’s a secret society
That comes out on the 31st
They don their masks and their costumes
They’ve got a hunger, a thirst
Now go and tell you and yours
Make sure you close them blinds
Look now here they come don’t let that ghost inside

There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost at the door
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost 
There’s a ghost at the door
So lock your door
Lock your door 
Lock your door
Lock your…

Trick or Treat? 

© Heart House Records 2023

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

There Is A Ghost At The Door So Lock Your Door 2024 (A Heart House Halloween Special 🎃👻)

Slow Crash

K-Margherita Funk

Première pensée   (Translated after French text )
Vidéo :  https://youtu.be/NYPOfarT2w0
Texte et chant : Muette
Musique : Alain Illos

Dans le vase de mon cœur
L’amour est à ras bord.
Dans le tien, une fleur
T'offre une nouvelle aurore.
Dans le sol de mon cœur
S’est ouverte une crevasse.
Le tien, d’heure en heure,
Se durcit et se tasse.
Dans la salle de bain
Où j'me rends présentable,
Je n'me trouve plus aimable
Et je te cherche en vain.
Mes yeux n’ont pas compris,
Immobiles dans la glace,
Butés comme des impasses,
Et ce corps inutile...
Quand viendra-t-il ce jour
Où ma première pensée
N'aura pas ton langage,
Où ma première pensée
N'aura pas ton visage,
Où ma première pensée
Sera d'boire un café ?
Je voudrais comme toi
Etre hors la loi d’amour,
Mais je suis condamnée
A te faire vivre toujours.
Je voudrais comme toi
Faire juste un demi-tour
Et t’avoir oublié.
Dis-moi comment tu fais.


First thought

In the vase of my heart
Love is overflowing.
In yours, a flower
Offers you a new dawn.
In the soil of my heart
A crack has opened.
Yours, hour by hour,
Hardens and settles.
In the bathroom
Where I make myself presentable,
I no longer find myself lovable
And I search for you in vain.
My eyes have not understood,
Motionless in the mirror,
Stubborn like dead ends,
And this useless body...
When will that day come
When my first thought
Will not be of you,
When my first thought
Will not be your face,
When my first thought
Will be to drink a coffee?
I would like, like you,
To be outside the law of love,
But I am condemned
To keep you alive forever.
I would like, like you,
To just turn around
And forget you.
Tell me how you do it.

Première pensée avec Muette

Nu Jazz chill music with a throbbing beat at varying tempos. I used the same "tick-tock" synth from tracks on my Time Machine EP.

Happy Samhain! 🔥

Hour Glass is about time ⏳

An original composition, no AI, digital music created MIDI to DAW by a human

HOUR GLASS
I have an hour glass in my mind 
It measures life in bits of time 
Like TikTok videos
Showing how the sand flows 
All in a trickle 
Dancing Wu-Li masters remind
The consequence of time 

While the force of gravity 
can bring me to my knees 
The hour glass remains to hold
Above and below 
Before and behind 
Carry me forever
In the consequence of time 

.........................
70-52 bpm
Variations of Cm, Am, Fm, C7, G7
DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai Professional Keyboard
VST or E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand
Boesendorfer Grand
Ambient Lead
Clarinet Solo
Ethereal Mallets
Lunar Chords
Phantom Winds
Cellos
Modern Strings
Studio Double Basses
Deep Round Synth Bass
Upright Ballad Bass
E-PERCUSSION:
Timpani
Indian & Middle Eastern Kit
..........................

COVER ART is a surrealistic interpretation of the song as original CGI by SUNNYBECK using a composite derived from original and AI-generated images rendered by the DaVinci app, then altered, retouched, and designed in Photoshop.

Released on SoundCloud
October 31, 2025, 11:12 PM ET

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Hour Glass

The Good Train (Chooo Choooo)

I am this
So I can't be that
A locked up mind
No matter the fact
Imaginary lines dividing our clan
Such divisive mindset of bias by plan

True value is found on a centered line
Yes we veer off course
Sense returns us in time
Weak power of ego derails our train
Then the power of one finds the tracks again

When far from the line
You don't hear old friends
The chat becomes shout
With malice meme trends
We list as too liberal
Or get racist with rights
Neither tribe ever sees
On the tracks there's no fights

This is digitally sown
By your own algorithm
Fake power confirmed
By a fed bias shism
We're averaged to side
Sold out for divide
In this drama
Brain jailed from centered confide

Those who lead from this partisan pain
Just amplify lies and stay departed from sane
Here's to talking back on the train
For the good of our lives
Back in the middle we' tame

The good train is always here
We hop aboard when we lose the fear
The good train finds arms a ' link
Choo tuned together
We merged to think
___________________________

Tuning 432Hz A Standard
Tempo 151bpm (rough)
Key Am
Chords // Am / Dm / F / G / Am / G //

Instruments
-Vox and Acoustic Guitar live run
-Piano played on keys
-Emerald Haze Pad played on keys (1 bass low run / 1 treble high run)
-Violin played on keyboard
-5 String Bass
-Backing vox run
-Falsetto backing choir for outro
-Hand bongos
-Bodhrán with rubber mallets
-Acoustic Picked
-Acoustic lead
-Nylon string guitar lead
-Additional vocal harmonies
-Acoustic picked run 2
-Celtic Harp played on keys
-Turkish Oud played on keys
-Intro Reverse effected acoustic riff, duplicated and reversed again and run in unison
-Lost Reverse pad to follow acoustic intro
-Additional Violin throughout played on keys
-Upright Ballad bass played on keys
-Chinese Drums played on keys

___________________________

The picture is this mornings sunrise and some train tracks popped on using canva - https://www.canva.com/ - Canva is a really cool cloud based image editor. Has all the AI stuff but offers a free basic photoshop alternative for jazzing up real imagery and is multi device quite easily merging your phone and computer image editing seamlessly

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Listen to Sugar Trail by Salt Fire on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/jck97FHsdk2fKgA2G2
The idea to try and link the falsetto to the strings came from these geniuses from Brighton the other day. Thaaaaaaanks teachers ✌🏻🎶🔆

___________________________

Apparently, most creatures with hearts, that live natural lives have 1.5 billion heart beats in their lives. Larger animals generally live longer and have slower pulses and smaller animals hearts beat faster but have shorter lives. But we all get 1.5 billion beats. (Thanks Physicist Sean M. Carroll for that epic bit of knowledge - https://youtu.be/pLbSlC0Pucw?si=3SRmY0hYsrFuAd1h)

Because of science and medicine humans live twice as long as before modern medicine existed, so we get 3 billion beats now until we go permanantly on our journey back to the Sun!

We're ever so slightly lucky to be in this position in this time and on this journey.

Given all the bullshit people argue about, my guess is there are way too many people that don't appreciate that. We have one shot. One set of heart beats and then that's it. Wouldn't it be way better if we just enjoyed it together as we perfect our explanations of this reality rather then stay in a bubble and our own faked version of the universe and our surroundings. But I'm just a pea so what would I know... 🫛 🎶🕺🏾

The Good Train

I decided to take another stab at this song for Halloween.
New instruments and added a strumming guitar track.    Completely new vocals and updated chorus.
***
In the dark of night, there's things that don't feel right.
Like a creature of the night with a healthy appetite
I saw a beautiful woman standing by the dance floor
I met her gaze she smiled at me
I knew the rest was history as my heart beat quickly in my chest.

The night past by in one big blur and in the morning there was no sign of her
I tried so hard to convince myself that it was only just a dream

Baby I want to see the sun shine on your face
Cause maybe you’re a vampire dressed in lace

As the day began to wane and darkness fell like bloody rain
I could feel a sense of foreboding in the air
I turned around and she was there
Next to me with long dark hair
Staring at me with a hungry pointy grin (hungry pointy grin)

Baby I want to see the sun shine on your face
Cause maybe you’re a vampire dressed in lace
Now she stops by every night and something tells me things aren’t right
Cause it’s been more than a week since I’ve seen the light of day

Now that you’ve heard my story, I hope you believe it’s true
My memory’s kind of foggy. There’s not much I can do
I’m sick of being stuck in this cold dark place
I want to feel the sun shine on my face
And I’m searching for a cure to what’s ailing me (what’s ailing me)

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby I want to see the sun shine on your face
Cause maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe you’re a vampire dressed in lace

Baby I want to see the sun shine on your face
Cause maybe you’re a vampire dressed in lace

Vampire Dressed In Lace (2025)

Greeting earthlings and welcome to my 6th video offering of spooky songs for this October! 👻! This song I wrote in 2020 for the first Halloween during the pandemic, those were scary times indeed! It wasn't recorded too well, very distorted and punk rock sounding, and I'm singing it so that should send chills up and down your spine already!🎃 I'm off-key a lot on this song and I may wind up deleting it in a few days! It originally wasn't a Halloween song but I turned into one and tweaked the lyrics a little bit and made a spooky video for it! The video is brand new, I finished it a few months ago. It has all kinds of spooky critters in it, the usual cast of horrors, vampires, zombies, killer clowns, yada, yada, and further yada! The lyrics I feel are some of my best, musically I could have done better. (I know but I got the olds! It's very Lo-Fi and old school and I re-used several clips I had used in earlier videos but who's counting right?)

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/ZATIWzmpSBs

     The video I worked very hard on with a lot of quick cuts and eye-candy 👀! Lots of visual & audio effects thrown in all over the place! Watch until the end and you'll see a creepy friend of mine crawl across your screens! She's so delish, the Black Widow!! 🧛‍♂️ 🕷️ I originally wrote this song for somebody like Alice Cooper to sing, remember him? The King Of Shock Rock!! I hope everyone is almost ready for Halloweeen 2025!! 🎃Thanks for watching and listening and have a safe & Happy Halloween!🙏🎃✌🏼

“DEEP INTO YOU”

YOUR LOVE IS TOO INTENSE,      
A FINE LINE BETWEEN DEATH AND HAPPINESS,    
I’M ON FIRE,       
JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU BABY,
                   
YOUR LOVE IS TOO EXTREME,    
LIKE A FEVER IN MY BRAIN MAKING MY INSIDES SCREAM,     
I’M ON FIRE,     
CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOU BABY,
     
I’M ONE, TWO, DEEP INTO YOU,         
TAKE ME FOR A RIDE LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO,         
TIME REALLY FLYS WHEN I'M PEEKIN',           
NINE, TEN, OVER AGAIN,         
ROLL ME LIKE THE DICE IN A GAMBLER’S HAND,         
LIFE REALLY SUCKS IF I’M FREAKIN' YOU OUT!         
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT? 
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?         
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?
          
YOUR LOVE IS TOO SURREAL,     
ROTTING LIKE A CORPSE IN AN OPEN FIELD,      
I’M ON FIRE,    
JUST STRESSING ABOUT YOU BABY,
     
YOUR LOVE IS OVERKILL,   
BUT I HUNGER FOR YOUR NEEDLE LIKE A JUNKIE WILL,     
I’M ON FIRE,        
CAN’T BE WITHOUT YOU BABY,
 
I’M ONE, TWO, DEEP INTO YOU,         
TAKE ME FOR A RIDE LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO,        
TIME REALLY FLYS WHEN I'M SPEEDIN',         
NINE, TEN, OVER AGAIN,        
ROLL ME LIKE THE DICE IN A GAMBLER’S HAND,         
LIFE REALLY SUCKS IF I’M FREAKIN' YOU OUT!         
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT? 
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?         
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?
      
[LEAD]

I’M ONE, TWO, DEEP INTO YOU,        
TAKE ME FOR A RIDE LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO,         
TIME REALLY FLYS WHEN I'M SLEEPIN',          
NINE, TEN, OVER AGAIN,       
ROLL ME LIKE THE DICE IN A GAMBLER’S HAND,         
LIFE REALLY SUCKS IF I’M FREAKIN' YOU OUT!        
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT? 
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?      
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?
AM I FREAKIN' YOU OUT?     
                                             
BY JIM VALDES
 © 2000

"DEEP INTO YOU" (Video -https://youtu.be/ZATIWzmpSBs)

I did this about a year ago -- posting again because I reworked it a bit, and I just really like the tune. The 2nd & 3rd verses were inspired by a fellow SoundCloud member's life events. Due for release on Spotify Nov 16!!

Is it There

one two three four five six seven
all good children go to heaven

is it there
is it right there by your side

while you were sleeping
a summer rain fell through the night
(hear the sound of the falling rain there in the night)
and the taste of bitter dreams became sweeter
with the gentle sound in your mind
(knowing that soon the sun will rise leaving the night behind)

is it there to remind
that everything will be alright

I put down the page knowing there was no turning back
I watched her breathing in the sacred arc of life
I wandered alone in a hallway lit by an exit light

so much time when you were young
didn't feel the pendulum
now the saturnine faces of the ones we love
you wonder why

if I could have anything that I could keep safe and never undone
I would hold you in this fragile moment in the september sun
it means everything to have you near me





Is it There

Here's another song about everything and nothing. Musically, I'm still a bit quiet... I hope you find the right moment to listen to it... It's not exactly high-energy, I admit.

Searching for some light divine

Here we go again! 🎃 After listening to the song (maybe 2 or 3 times, so you’ll lose your mind and be perfectly ready for Halloween!)… go check out the video! This time we’re not in it, it’s a real ridiculous cartoon! 👉 https://youtu.be/_1hK8-2omFQ

OK, now it’s time to let you hear Beating Edge in the most beautiful language in the world (yeah, we know it’s subjective, but many say so anyway)! 
Our new track "Un Cavaliere Medievale" tells the story of a resurrected medieval knight, brought back to life by five crazy people (who knows who they are?😂), trying to survive the chaos of the modern world. It’s absurd, darkly funny, and just perfect for Halloween vibes. 

📝Below the Italian lyrics you’ll find the best possible English translation (we tried, we swear!). And since it’s Halloween, we’ve decided to commit artistic suicide, because with a ridiculous Italian song, SoundCloud’s algorithm will probably bless us with, what, 10 plays? Maybe 11 if we’re lucky! But hey, it’s the season for scary things, so let’s kill off these Beating Edge once and for all with the Italian language!!! 💀 

Enjoy the madness, and if your ears start bleeding, it’s not our fault… must be some ghost you didn’t listen to! Love you all (...in a very spooky way)!!! 🖤👻
Don’t forget to like, comment, and share… if you survive till the end 😈

At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud.
Released on October 30, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

🇮🇹[Italiano]

Io ero un cavaliere medievale
Ma la mia origine non era nobiliare
Sgobbavo come un animale
Con venti chili d’armatura sulle scale

Poi un colpo secco e finì la mia storia
Polvere e ossa, perduta la memoria
Ora arrivano cinque menti ribelli
Con magie e rumori che fan tremare i miei capelli

Io sono un cavaliere medievale!
Non potete scalfirmi né farmi del male!
Io sono il cavaliere di ’sti folli,
Risorto a caso tra scheletri e polli!

Il mondo moderno è un vero casino
I cavalli spariti, mi date un motorino?
Le luci, i telefoni, i rumori strani
Io combatto ancora… ma senza compagni

Io sono un cavaliere medievale!
Non potete scalfirmi né farmi del male!
Io sono il cavaliere di ’sti folli,
Risorto a caso tra scheletri e polli!

E se pensate di avermi sconfitto
Ricordate… torno sempre dal conflitto!
La musica è la mia magia, la mia maledizione
E vi perseguito… in ogni canzone!


🇬🇧🇺🇸English Translation
[A Medieval Knight]

I was a medieval knight
But I wasn’t born noble
I worked my tail off like a beast
Wearing armor that felt like a ton on my back

Then a single blow ended my story
Dust and bones, my memory gone
Now five crazy people show up
With magic and noises that make my head spin

I am a medieval knight!
You can’t hurt me or do me harm!
I’m the knight of these fools,
Brought back to life among skeletons and chickens!

The modern world is a total mess
No horses in sight, can someone lend me a scooter?
The lights, the phones, all the strange noises
I still fight… but without any companions

I am a medieval knight!
You can’t hurt me or do me harm!
I’m the knight of these fools,
Brought back to life among skeletons and chickens!

And if you think you’ve defeated me
Remember… I always rise back into battle!
Music is my magic, my curse
And I’ll haunt you… in every song!

Un Cavaliere Medievale

Official Music Video

Cast of Characters:
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Fender Precision bass and Gibson SG electric guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl -- vocals
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ and piano
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST string and VST sax
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar

This cover of the CCR version of this Screaming Jay Hawkins classic began as an idea Josh had for Eclectic Collective putting on a musical Halloween costume. He was inspired by his favorite band, Phish, who cover an entire album every Halloween as a musical costume. Although, which song we covered was up for debate from the start. 
  Once we decided on a song, Josh laid down the skeleton for it on his '71 SG. Once we had a framework to work with, Ken laid down his rocking drums, followed by Josh completing the rhythm section by adding his trusty P-bass. Even though the song was now in its infancy, Carl summoned all his Halloween spirit for his dynamic vocal performance.  
  Now that it was sounding like a real song, JJ dropped both the key piano part, as well as his expressive organ in there, too. Mark wasn't far behind, adding his magic via the sax to the solo section, and strings in the third verse. Stephen came through with the spooky tremolo guitar and the fiery first half of the guitar solo in the solo section right after. And to put the cherry on the musical sundae, Tez brought the lightning down for the second half of the guitar solo, as well as the solo work that leads the whole way to the end.
  We all enjoyed bringing this classic song back to life, and doing it in the spirit of what may be the most fun holiday on the callendar. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. Happy Halloween!

I Put a Spell on You by Screaming Jay Hawkins-- Happy Halloween! (Eclectic Collective)

SpecialCecilia Children of the Universe

Lyrics & vocals: SpecialCecilia
Sounds & arrangement: electroHippie

Cover-Art: unkown Grafitti-artist Excharchia/Athens

https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/aca-same-planet

https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia

SpecialCecilia - Universechildren fights darkness with happiness

We never planned to release this.
These songs were just for us, little moments that sat on hard drives and notebooks, never really meant to leave the room. But after a while, it started to feel wrong keeping them hidden.

The Collection isn’t a greatest hits or a polished project. It’s the story of where we’ve been, caught in all its rough edges and quiet mistakes. Some songs are years old, while others seem to have come out of nowhere. Together, they make up everything that’s brought us here.

We didn’t mean for this to be an album. But here we are.


Summer Air

"Follow Your Dreams with all your Heart…" 

from album (LIFE) original release: 2018

mix and mastering by @amin-pishehvar 🙏

Reflection of Dreams

Songs with a twinge of humor (and some a bit more serious).  
I do not use AI to create my songs. 
https://linktr.ee/joe.stroffolino
Recently I have had the urge to pick up my guitars (Taylor 114ce and Fender Squire) and I have been trying to use more guitar in my songs.  
My go to .vst plug ins are  EZkeys 2, EZ Bass and  EZ drummer 3) and my DAW is Logic Pro 11. 
I welcome your comments and enjoy listening to all the great music on SoundCloud. 
All songs are originals and copyrighted.

Vampire Dressed In Lace (2025)

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