...and suddenly the rabbit ate the squash...
huahahahahahahahahahauuuhahahahahahahahahahahaaaa

Rabbit

Cast of Eclectic Collective Characters:
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –piano, synth, and composition
mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark—synth effects, synth strings and flute, lyrics, and vocals
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– electric and acoustic guitars, production, and mix
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –-four-string Fender P bass

  This is a song that JJ created late one Saturday night on the piano, drums, bass, and guitar. You can hear his Grateful Dead influence if you're familiar with the band. He then presented it to the rest of the Eclectic Collective so we could do our thing with it. I replaced JJ's rough bass with my interpretation of the line as soon as Ken replaced the drums with his interpretation of the beat. Interestingly, Ravel's Bolero had a lot to do with the inspiration for the second part of the song. After the rhythm section was done, we turned it over to Stephen, who came up with some really subtle, yet very necessary guitar lines. 
  We then turned it over to our relatively new collaborator, Mark, who came up with the lyrics and vocals. He was also instrumental in getting the arrangement to fit right with the vocals. This is a lyrical and vocal songwriting debut for Mark, who was inspired by his very first listen to JJ's rough draft. Thus, this song is extra special for him.  
  We all hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we did creating it.
  Mark's lyrics are about our Earthly relatives in the far distant future. At that point life on earth would have just about reached its limits, and so mankind embarks on a journey through space to find another place to call home.
Lyrics:
Part 1:
All you know, all you love is here today
Feel the sun, see the flowers embrace her rays
And you know, all we have must fade away
And now its time to go… away…

Part 2:
Here we are, flying high, flying high above the moons of Mars
And beyond another sunrise greets a world once again,
a million miles from where we are
To embrace the flowers of Jupiter, once again…

On and on we sail away, searching for another day,
the universe an endless sea
And you know that somewhere out there,
a brand new world, for you and me….

Flowers of Jupiter (Eclectic Collective)

This is my first collaboration with the great @ipg1 !

I've wanted to respond to one of his open collabs for a while now, but this is the first one that really came together. 

Thanks to Ian for offering up these super cool vocals, they were very inspiring to work with. I love the themes of unity and positivity that he infused into this track.

Rhythm of Life - w/ IPG1

© On The Hippodrome

“It’s over” tells a story of heartbreak and acceptance, as the singer expresses feelings of sadness and loss after a failed relationship. The lyrics convey a sense of longing and resignation, as the protagonist reflects on unrequited love and the pain of moving on. Despite the hurt, there is a glimmer of hope for healing and self-discovery. The emotional depth of the lyrics captures the bittersweet journey of letting go and finding closure.


It's Over 


Hey
I hope you know that I am not okay
I lost the words, there’s nothing left to say
I tried my best to find a different way

Hey
I left my keys, my soul, my heart behind
For now I walk alone to make things right
Although it hurts, I’ll be okay in time 

Why did I chase a love that's blind?
You never wanted to be mine
Why play a game I’m bound to lose?
I’ll never be the one you choose

All this time I dreamed about you over and over again
Show me how to live this life without you
It’s over, my friend

Why did I chase a love that's blind?
You never wanted to be mine
Why play a game I’m bound to lose?
I’ll never be the one you choose

All this time I dreamed about you over and over again
Show me how to live this life without you
It’s over, my friend

Credits

Released February 2, 2024 

Lyrics, Melody and Lead Vocals by Rachel Goldie

Backing Vocals Volodymyr Chyzhovych

Mixed and Mastered by Scott Horton

It's Over

Not So Fast

“Aprilis”

アプリリス冬ほろぼして勝ち誇る
アプリリスわが滅び待つ櫻花

April. Spring has won over winter.
April. Cherry blossoms await their doom.

Yamaha Vocaloid5 Editor
Magix Music Maker
Vocals: Yukari Yuzuki  AH-Software
Art work:　
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprilis#/media/File:Sousse_mosaic_calendar_April.JPG

Aprilis

The colorful symbols are my message to everyone... 🌍 ☮︎ 👍 🍀 2024 for a better world...!

Time

This song is a collaboration with Robec The Genius, it's an old jazz song that I co-wrote a while back, Robec wrote new lyrics for it and sang it beautifully. I thought it sounded great, Robec added a very smooth vocal and changed the melody so now we have a new song. I produced a video for it as well and is now posted on YouTube -  https://youtu.be/3hYOBgQcUzE
     So sit back, relax, have a drink or your choice of relaxing aide, cuddle with your favorite person or pet and let Robec and I serenade you tonight! 🥂

“THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU”

SOME DAYS AND SOME NIGHTS, I HAVE DREAMS OF WHAT WE COULD BE,
IN WAYS THAT FEEL RIGHT, I CAN TELL IT’S MEANT WHAT TO BE,
I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, 
THAT THERE’S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CREATE,  
JUST GO HOW IT SHOWS, 
GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO CAN WAIT,             
    
YOU’RE TRAPPED IN MY MIND, EVERY DETAIL FROM HEAD TO YOUR TOE,
THEY SAY THAT LOVE IS BLIND, BUT THAT’S HOW YOU GLOW,
NO OTHER THAN YOU, NOBODY ELSE CAN TELL ME,
THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU,      

EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT, I THINK OF THE TIME,
YOU MAKE ME SO WEAK, HEART POUNDING TOO FAST,
BABY SAY THAT YOU’RE MINE, 
SEE YOU AWAY DOES SOMETHING TO ME,
THAT IT FEELS LIKE A CRIME,
LOCKED IN TOGETHER FROM DOWN TO THE ROOTS,
PLEASE DON’T YOU CUT THE VINE,

OH YOU’RE STILL IN MY MIND, EVERY DETAIL FROM HEAD TO YOUR TOE,
THEY SAY THAT LOVE IS BLIND, BUT THAT’S HOW YOU GLOW,
NO OTHER THAN YOU, NOBODY ELSE CAN TELL ME,
THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU,

3)  [LEAD]

OH YOU’RE STILL IN MY MIND,
EVERY DETAIL FROM HEAD TO YOUR TOE, 
THEY SAY THAT LOVE IS BLIND, BUT THAT’S HOW YOU GLOW,
NO OTHER THAN YOU, NOBODY ELSE CAN TELL ME,    
THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU,
NO OTHER THAN YOU, NOBODY ELSE CAN TELL ME,
THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU.     

BY JIM VALDES & RIGEL ROBINSON JR  © 2024

"THE MANY THOUGHTS OF YOU" (Feat. Vocals/Lyrics by Robec The Genius)

Seduction

I Want You By My Side.

"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

Flowers of Jupiter (Eclectic Collective)

Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)