Spiritual phaze

This is an afrobeat song that I came up with based on a beat I boosted from BandLab. They have all kinds of great beasts on there, btw. Anyway, I sent it halfway around the world to my friend Mikey McFaffington in Australia. he proceeded to summon his magical saxophone throughout the song, bringing it to life. We both had a lot of fun making this one, and appreciate you taking the time to read this. I'm playing bass, guitar, electric piano, and synth horns on this one. 

No Such Thing as an Enemy (with Mikey McFaffington)

My Way Feat Emily Coy
Paploviante Bass, Music, Picture and Mix
Vocals Emily Coy
https://soundcloud.com/stemstore

My Way - Emily Coy And Paploviante

So In Love W/ UK Man

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)

I received 5 WAV files from my dear senior, xian3.
 "I wanted a vocal track." I also wanted to know how xian3 makes music.
 Mr. xian3 gave me two phrases with vocals and electric bass, and two sound effects with a mysterious bell.
 The supplementary notes read, "Please bend your intuition as you see fit..." "After trial and error, if you feel that this fits your ears, you may be on the path of inquiry." .
 "When it finishes singing, it takes on a life of its own and leaves me..." was written.
 I obsessively bent the vocals, chopped the bass, scratched the sound of the bell, and made it all by trusting my own instincts.
 This is the birth of my first song with vocals. I can't thank xian3 enough. I had a great time creating. thank you.
  I sincerely hope that there are people who like this song

Amekaze with xian3 (Collaboration) (249)

;-Jeu de l’Invisible-;

No Other

Remembering

For those who have gone ( Druid667 collab)

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

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

"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

No Such Thing as an Enemy (with Mikey McFaffington)

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)