December '22

I Can't Find My Way Home

READ THE ACCOMPANYING POEM HERE >> https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-gravedigger/

All drums and percussion: R Thomas
Guitars, synths, scraping sounds, vocals, bass, lyre, slide lyre, lyrics: PS Perkins
Mix and master by PS Perkins and R Thomas

E'en that...

Who'll supply the shovels used to split the sacred soil?
And who will help the spirit shuffle off this mortal coil?
Who'll embalm the body, who will mummify the husk?
And who will sail the flaming ship into the drowning dusk?

And who will dig the grave digger's grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will bury them?

Who is going to drive the hearse and consecrate the wine?
Who is going to build the box from the gnarled and knotty pine?
Who will be the artifex to decorate the tomb?
And who will bribe the jackal waiting at the gates of doom?

And who will dig the grave digger's grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will bury them?

E'en that...

"In youth, when I did love, did love,
Methought it was very sweet,
To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,
O, methought, there was nothing meet."*

But age, with it's stealing steps
Hath clawed me in it's clutches
Age, with its stealing steps.

E'en that...


*From Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 5

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Grave Digger

Thank you so much Bonetender for another lovely collaboration!

Music and Lyrics, Guitar and Vocals: Ben-Tam Jennifer
Drums (AD2), Keys, Mix & Mastering: @bonetender

Lyrics:

Listen to the waterfall flow
It will tell you all you need to know
Listen to the waterfall

Listen to the bumblebee fly
Don't let this moment pass you by
Listen to the bumblebee

All roads no longer lead to Rome
But if you follow your heart
Any road will take you home
Take you home

Slow down slow down stop now
Let your heart rate drop now
Remember you are alright
Right now

The past has past and
You know you'll face the future somehow
So listen to the waterfall
Waterfall

Listen to the waterfall flow
It will tell you all you need to know

© Tam Hastings, Bonetender, 2022. All rights reserved.

Waterfall

Waterfall ( with Bonetender )

HELPLESSLY HOPING-Crosby Stills and Nash

Helplessly hoping
Her harlequin hovers nearby
Awaiting a word
Gasping at glimpses
Of gentle true spirit
He runs, wishing he could fly
Only to trip at the sound of good-bye
Wordlessly watching
He waits by the window
And wonders
At the empty place inside
Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams
He worries
Did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for-or each other
Stand by the stairway
You'll see something
Certain to tell you confusion has its cost
Love isn't lying
It's loose in a lady who lingers
Saying she is lost
And choking on hello
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for-or each other
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Stephen A. Stills
Helplessly Hoping lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing

WARM COVERS

HELPLESSLY HOPING-Crosby Stills and Nash cover Lyric here

The Highlife

A spicy collaboration between the two great minds of MrMules and the Ultrasonic Pest Repellent.  Huge thanks to MrMules for working with me.  I had a lot of fun working on this, and could not have done it without him.  Here are the links to his pages:

https://soundcloud.com/user-402326148
https://mrmules.bandcamp.com/releases

Personel:
MrMules - Vocals, lyrics, drums, bass, piano, percussion
Big Pharma - Guitar, slide guitar, piano, bass, sound effects

The Demon Drink

The Demon Drink - MrMules collaboration

SOULVIVAL SOULVATION DUB (remastered)

Indie shoe gazing blues psychedelic classical soul space rock gospel

Spaceman blues

Part of the FREE collaborative Mixtape album: Free Hands In A Blender
soundcloud.com/themysteriousdecibel/sets/free-hands-in-a-blender
FREE FOR DOWNLOAD

Music: Composed, written, mixed, mastered, and performed by: Bloom https://www.youtube.com/@bloomprod

Lyrics: Written and performed by: The Mysterious Decibel

Vocals mastered by: Mark McClellan

Lyrics:
I can't see, In front of my face
But that's okay, It's part of this grace
The toker express and i'm here to stay
The hemp note address is underway

One nug is all you need to plant your seed,
On this existential, confidential railway pull, come get a stench full
Take a whiff of that seat me boy
That ain't leather, that's hemp enjoy!

We got your nuggets and all of your trees
These buds will make you tremble weightlessly on one knee
Get ready for the ride of mentation
At twenty after four we leave the station

Double digit hits and i'm feeling derailed
Double vision blitz my chimney exhales
Little green nuggets
On a train that won't quit!

Ahhhhhh ahhhhh

The smoke is bubbling
the engines are screaming
the speed is doubling 
the nugs are steaming
Follow you nose where the ganja goes
The ghost in the smoke can guide your toes 
I got a seat where everything I feel
I got a seat where my receptors squeal
As the bacon rides down with a whopping meal
As the flavor takes hold of pecan pinwheels 

Mary Jane press your nugs on my wand
Let's make some magic let's descend in the pond
I don't mind if I bathe in your vapors
We can float to the moon over lighted skyscrapers

Deep down In The dank pit
Where The lighters are lit
The buds burn  For The bong stacks to billow and  spit 
The dank disciples above and the skunk caboose
The noose is tight but I still feel so damn loose 
The window reveals a painted sky 
Of bustling green, the all seeing red eye 
We have arrived at our destination
The north bowl and all of its creation 


Rastafarian Santa at the edge of this rainbow 
Snoop lays beside him, his golden chains glow 
Tommy Chong I see you peaking
Is this real anymore or am I over tweaking?
Open arms they conjoin the embers of a blunt in each hand 
Bewildered I couldn't even understand 
United in a puff of magic 
United we stand  as the smoke grows thick
Talking towels repeat vowels mask what lies behind 
Apparition is forming but I'm already blind
They pull back the towel to reveal a figure 
Marley has rose my nuts quiver and purr
As he hands me the goose rod of the gods 
The ultimate testament of reefer roulades 

Double digit hits and I'm feeling derailed
Double vibrant blitz my chimney exhales
Little Green nuggets 
On A train that don't quit

The Mysterious Decibel x Bloom - The Train (FREE DOWNLOAD)

"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

December '22

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)