In The Park W/ Morten Jeamland

With It Or Without It

This song is a result of trans-Pacific cooperation at it's best. my his friend Mikey McFaffington, of Geelong, Australia, sent me some guitar chords and a smoking sax riff. I took them both, added an arrangement, bass, organ, guitar, and a beat. This is the result. We hope you like it. You can find Mikey on here, too, under his name. 

Far and Wide (with Mikey McFaffington)

Out of the Box October 2022
Drift and dream….

En - Trance

Well, my good friend Paco dropped me a note to say he had a piece of music to which I might like to try and add something, were I so inclined.  Always a good day when that happens.

Now, I can't honestly recall the precise sequence in which the neurons fired inside my skull to yield the result we have here, but we are where we are as they say.

Don't go looking at me for rationale.

Thank you, Paco, as always my friend, for inviting me to come out to play, and for mastering the end result in the midst of untold techno-horror grief.  I hope your DAW world resolves itself very soon.
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Socrates at Sundown

I lie bewildered, here, in my sphere of cubes,
On crushed silk cushions sprawled.
I sketch the cool Palladian dudes
In charcoal, on Aleutian walls.
They think I know what thoughts are theirs,
And beg to trade their graceless airs, 
But I left them there to climb their stairs
Ever downward through Athenian halls.

They say my knowledge is remiss,
The diabolical's back in town.
Seems ignorance is bliss
For this philosophical clown.
I'm seeking emptiness of mind,
That's where I hope to find
That old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

My associate, Plato knows the game
Survives through pretty dialogue
He suffocates but bestows his shame
On city states whose statutes fog
The heads of people in their ranks
Attentive on the Eridanos banks
Dispensing death by way of thanks
As justice shreds its cogs.

Deep mental grasp of social structure
No need to ever write it down
Accused outcast for youth's corrupture
Where the bleeding of democracy is bound
To seek the causal end of time
Of Aristotle and Nietzsche's kind
The men of Athens rendered blind
Killed that old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

Socrates At Sundown (with MidiSound)

No Other

First time to work with Tea R. Sea with just the two of us, and it turned out great.     He wrote this one and I added the guitar.  I'm very much looking forward to working together again!

Watered Down

Watered Down - with Tea R. Sea

Re-make of Mono-ha’s “Unbroken Sorrow”

Composition - Beta

Recording sessions from-30/04/2010, Remix-27/03/2023.
6 tracks MOOG Modular (vst Arturia),
2 tracks Beatburner (vst Beatburner),
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an aerial bombardment campaign against Yugoslavia to put an end to the repression of the Albanian Kosovars, the first against a sovereign State in the Alliance's 50 years of existence, carried out without the authorization explicit from the UN, Russia, a historical ally of Belgrade, and China having opposed any resolution allowing military intervention.
This intervention will weigh very heavily for the rest of history because NATO's military intervention in the Kosovo crisis has been interpreted as a geopolitical coup led by a Western camp determined to marginalize Russia and its status as a member permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
NATO's approach to missile defense has been interpreted by Russia as an attempt to compromise its nuclear second-strike capability. Worse still, the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine and the "Roses Revolution" in Georgia brought to power elites who considered joining the EU and NATO.
The rest, we all know it as well as the probable decline of Europe which is very likely to be, once again, the playground for a new world war. 
What is SAD about this story IS THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO TALK ABOUT PEACE, JUST THE CONTRARY !!!
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Le 24 mars 1999, l’OTAN lançait une campagne de bombardements aériens contre la Yougoslavie pour mettre un terme à la répression des Kosovars albanais, une première contre un État souverain en 50 ans d’existence de l’Alliance, menée sans l’autorisation explicite de l’ONU, la Russie, alliée historique de Belgrade, et la Chine s’étant opposées à toute résolution permettant une intervention militaire.
Cette intervention pèsera très lourd pour la suite de l'Histoire car l'intervention militaire de l'OTAN dans la crise du Kosovo a été interprétée comme un coup de force géopolitique mené par un camp occidental déterminé à marginaliser la Russie et son statut de membre permanent du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies.
L'approche de l'OTAN en matière de défense antimissile a été interprétée par la Russie comme une tentative de compromettre sa capacité de seconde frappe nucléaire. Pire encore, la "Révolution orange" en Ukraine et la "Révolution des roses" en Géorgie ont porté au pouvoir des élites qui envisageaient d'entrer dans l'UE et l'OTAN.
La suite, nous la connaissons tous ainsi que le déclin probable de l'Europe qui risque fort d'être, encore une fois, le terrain de jeu pour une nouvelle guerre mondiale.
Ce qui est TRISTE dans cette histoire, C'EST QU'IL N'Y A PERSONNE POUR PARLER DE PAIX, BIEN AU CONTRAIRE !!!
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Experimental 
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❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Europe Utopia - REMIX

THERE WERE TWO UGLY DUCKLINGS
SHARING THE SAME FANTASY
TWO LITTLE SISTERS LIKE ALMOST SIBLINGS
ONE WAS BARBARA THE OTHER MARY
CHACUNE PLUS TARD AURAIT SON MARI
QUI CHACUN S’APPELLERAIT JOE
COMME ÇA PAS DE JALOUSES PAS DE JALOUSIE
NI POUR BARBARA NI POUR MARY
AND THERE THEY WERE PLAYING HOUSE
STUFFING THEIR T-SHIRTS WITH TOWELS TO FIT
THE SILHOUETTE OF A CREDIBLE SPOUSE
BETTER THAN ANY FANCY OUTFIT
JOE ET JOE SERAIENT CAMIONNEURS
UN BON JOB POUR DEUX PETITS MARIS
ET TOUT ÇA FERAIT LE BONHEUR
DE BARBARA ET DE MARY
BUT WHILE THEY WERE FANTASIZING ABOUT
A FUTURE SO BRIGHT TWO BRIDES SO MERRY
THEIR MOTHER POPPED IN SAYING CUT IT OUT
TO BLUSHING BARBARA AND MARY
ET AVEC SES GROS SABOTS
AUTREMENT EN DÉCIDA LA VIE
PAS PLUS DE JOE EN VUE QUE DE JOE
NI POUR BARBARA NI POUR MARY
ULGY WHEN LITTLE PRETTY WHEN BIG
THAT’S WHAT GROWN-UPS USE TO SAY
FORGETTING THEMSELVES ONCE WERE KIDS
AND PROBABLY HOUSE THEY DID PLAY
BYE BYE JOE AND JOE

PLAYING HOUSE (Lyrics) song for Anja

07 Saint Elmo's Fire (Corona Discharge)

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

Far and Wide (with Mikey McFaffington)

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)