Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with the very talented singer & songwriter Sarah Golding.
Check out the great work of Sarah: https://soundcloud.com/voiceofgolding/tracks
Lyrics and vocals: Sarah Golding
Photography: Trudy Simpkin

Lyrics:
See the southern cross, my little love?
Trace the shapes in the galaxy above
Tiny lights in the sky
Distant giant fires
Time will pass, and the stars will age
And my love for you will never fade
Never fade away.
No matter where, why, how far you fly
I’ll be by your side like a constellation
A constellation in the night sky
See the southern cross, my little love?
Trace the shapes in the darkness above
Burning bright in the sky
Distant giant fires
Time will pass, and the stars will age
And my love for you will never, never fade away

Constellation

Constellation (Feat. Sarah Golding)

Cast of Characters:
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen–guitar, mix, and production

J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –electric piano, organ, and arrangement

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion

Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez–guitar

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–four string fretless bass, guitar, arrangement

  This is a song that began as a drum track that Ken came up initially as a beat for The Gat(s), who respectfully declined it. Instead of letting a solid go to waste, Ken set it loose with JJ and Josh, who came up with an arrangement for the music over top of what they felt was a very killer beat. What was originally a jam, turned into a showcase of the entire Eclectic Collective. Josh also did some guitar work in this one, and with Stephen's brilliant harmony, came up with the opening theme that reoccurs about halfway through. His guitar can also be heard briefly right after the opening theme. Along with Stephen's other half of the theme, he is also responsible for the dynamic, climactic leads through most of it. Tez added his incendiary guitar to the final section, when all else was said and done, as a cherry on top. After all the tracks were in the digital can, we were lucky enough to have Stephen produce and mix it for us. 
  We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the winter holidays. We also hope you enjoy this ride as much as we enjoyed assembling the vehicle.

Helium Weights (Eclectic Collective)

FRIENDS

Three Percent

Music : Janne Hennie & PJ Project
Vocals & lyrics : Janne Hennie

Lyrics:

why is it so hard to receive compliments?
Why is it so hard to enjoy being seen?
Why do we see problems in things that feels good?
Why do we push the good feelings away?

We should all enjoy every moment
That makes us warm
And gives us love
If someone says you're beautiful
Take it to your heart
You may never hear it again...

Why is it so hard to speak out?
To say things that needs to be said..
We often say it can wait
And suddenly it may be too late..

We should all enjoy every moment
That makes us warm
And gives us love
If someone says you're beautiful
Take it to your heart
You may never hear it again...

Why is it so hard to love?
To give away your whole heart..
Why wait to say: I Love You
Why so afraid to fall apart?

We should all enjoy every moment
That makes us warm
And gives us love
If someone says you're beautiful
Take it to your heart
You may never her it again..

We shouldn't wait to speak out
The words that lie in our heart..
We shouldn't wait to love
Tomorrow it may
all be too late.......

Enjoy Every Moment W/ Janne Hennie

A little House track for fun...
Vocals featuring Hemanifezt "No Way"

No Way ! (ft. Hemanifezt)

It Is Worth Almost Nothing | 2024.03.03

That Happy Ending


Well here I am in that same rut
and the more that I try to break it free,
it's bad luck that always seems to follow me

Its been an aching in my gut.
I take my one step forward then two steps back.
Its just that one little break that I seem to lack.

I don’t know why
but it seems that wherever I turn,
there's another bridge that has started to burn.

It's not that I don’t try,
but I find myself in quick sand
and I'm desperately reaching for one trustful hand.

Gravity, doors and walls are all things,
little things that get in our way,
little things that keep us from having our say.

Let honesty, truth and hope be your wings.
They're the winds that will fill out our sail
and that happy ending 
will be all that is left to your tale.

I know its easy to get down
when all around you there's nothing but angst and pain
sunny days been replaced with the pouring rain.



But never let it keep you down.
Seek out those that find the good in all that’s bad
and pull the happiness out of all that is sad.

Soon you'll be free
and the only thing that you'll see
will be that big blue sky and your destiny.

You hold the key.
It's just another lesson to learn
and another page that is only for you to turn.

Gravity, doors and walls are all things,
little things that get in our way,
little things that keep us from having our say.

Let honesty, truth and hope be your wings.
They're the winds that will fill out our sail,
and that happy ending 
will be all that is left.

So let  the magic take you away
I guess that's all I really wanted to say
It's high time that you try
because there’s never been one bird to fly
that didn’t take that first hopeful leap
toward the sky

That Happy Ending

ATTENTION Disclaimer:  The music you hear is me using the Tim Henson Neural DSP amp sim plugin. This is just a raw free flow of me and the guitar.

Date: 4/28/24
Song Title: 80’s Idea-WIP
The lead, improvising over the track was done with the following;
Picture with Track: Is what the Guitar looks like.
Guitar Used: 91 Ibanez RG550 with HSH configuration
Color: Purple Metallic Strings: Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9-42 and Hybrid 9-46
DAW: Reaper
AmpSim: Neural DSP Tim Henson
Preset: 80s Arch Lead
Interface: Focusrite 2i2 2nd Gen

Raw: What does RAW mean to me, not having undergone processes of preparing, finishing, refining, or mastering: It is what was recorded at that time in its current state.
Comments: Please follow if you like, comment if you like and I’m opened to feedback to improve my playing, recording, mixing etc.  Thanks for listening \m/.

80s Idea WIP

Parametrica (2016) Anthology CD1 Track 12

"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

Helium Weights (Eclectic Collective)

Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)