This is a cover of an old Django Reinhardt tune that I learned from David Grissman's version. My friend Chris Maness was kind enough to play the first and second solos, while I took the third with my mandolin. He's incredibly talented and I'm always extremely happy with what we produce when we work together. I used to play this in an old band I was in called Confluence. It's a fun one and we hope you enjoy it!

Minor Swing (with cgmaness) Django Reinhardt cover

"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

Thank you for stopping by 😊
Born in 1972
Agricultural equipment salesman by day, musician by night!

Members of The Eclectic Collective :
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – bass
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, electric piano, synth, lyrics, some vocals, song writing
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar, mixing, production
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken– drums and percussion
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– acoustic and electric guitars, production, mixing, mastering
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark –keyboards, effects, piano, some lyrics and vocals.

If you've read this far then I am indebted to you forever. Thank you 😊. Happiness cannot be sought directly. It is a bi-product of love and service to others. 

J.J.

Bard, storyteller, song maker, star walker and author of books on the sacred mysteries.

All the lyrics of my songs are written by me. I put them to music with A.I. and then I spin up the whole lot in the Magimix with samples and loops. I can't sing for toffee, so if you fall in love with a singer on one my tracks, it's likely to be a robot!  Just sayin'...😎

All my socials: https://hyperfollow.com/anniedieuleveut

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Hello my dear friends, this was my last publication here, I was so happy to share all my musical emotions with you all :) listening and supporting all your creations and mixes, this has been the source of all my inspirations & productions. I want to thank you ALL for your unwavering support, as well as my life experiences for emotional inspiration <3 without THIS, I couldn't make all this different music. I hope to see you all, very soon and soon elsewhere. You all know it... you will recognize me... Be aware & attentive, be at peace, love and be loved >3 :) Affectionately......

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I appreciate all the love! 🙌 I stay **independent**, running everything through **[MixtapeHustler.com](https://mixtapehustler.com)** with **full control** over my music and revenue. No label needed! 💯🔥 Every purchase and stream keeps this movement growing! 🎵💥 #IndependentArtist

AUDIO - MUSICAL and GRAPHIC NOVEL —- illustrated and EN subtitled version here :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDM4-LTamvWJP24lKpQH0ww

I’m not an @ echo chamber!  I am a @ real musician!!!..  if I like or comment.. it is always @ genuine.. Gen X duder… born of 1969… that would b the day that Rock n Roll died.. Apparently…Don and Don and Glenn and Joe and the rest … they haven’t @ had @ that @ Spirit there, since my birthday!!!!  🤩🤩🤩Music for those who like music ...eclectic and varietal-in search of the perfect balance of rhythm melody harmony lyric and audio using garageband iphone
     I play guitar and drums and the rest... I’m also singing... a drummer and writer, and arranger by past diy profession... never got to record at leisure, until discovering GarageBand... this is all done on iPhone...awesome app!... leave a message if you can...
    I’ve been told I’m not doing myself any @ favors by singing.. don’t really care!🤩
Trying to write my own “ white album” a la The Beatles “, ha!😎🙏👍🤩🍺 homepage pic taken on bus, summer 2019, Niagara Falls, Canada…or Grand Canyon , 2022… or Hilton Head Island, SC 2023…or my downstairs bathroom, ha!…depending on mood, ha!!!… 
    If u don’t like, I don’t mind…. But thank u for the listen!!!… my first name is Kenneth ( go by Ken). Music for the beginning of the end…. And a new beginning….🙏 I rarely unfollow anyone….Can’t listen to everyone and everything, but if I follow…. U have stuff I dig…. And sometimes SC glitches, and removes them!? Message me, and I will re follow…
     I try to mix for my truck speakers… not always successful, but you can try to hear what I am trying for… AC/DC pop mixes, ha!🤣🤣🤣… starting to realize that I am in my own tree… might be sorry if you follow me, but might not!

Proud member of the Eclectic Collective! 

Second account is K2 and the Four

Here’s a link to my Beatles cover band! No longer playing with these awesome musicians, but I had a ton of fun, for 10 years!!! They continue on with a better drummer!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4JvtHzHkI&t=669s&pp=2AGdBZACAQ%3D%3D