Vocals + lyrics: She's Excited! (https://soundcloud.com/she-s-excited)
Keys, bass + initial backing track: Greg (https://soundcloud.com/g-c-ess)
Aleatoric method, guitar, beat + production: Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Chords, tempo, time signature and lyric themes were all picked out at random using dice, coin flips and pulling prompts from a hat.

Artwork by Wou-Wou & The Wormling (https://www.instagram.com/wouwouandthewormling)

0304: Plastic or Steel (feat. She's Excited! & Greg)

I’ve been on top of the world, and I’ve been down and out
I’ve been wasting time trying to figure it out
And I still don’t know why the world goes around

I made mistakes, and I paid the price
I watched my plans falling through the ice
I found true love, that left me high and dry

But one sweet day, one sweet day
Things are gonna go my way
I ain’t going down that rabbit hole no more
I am gonna pick myself up off the floor

But one sweet day, one sweet day
Things are gonna go my way
I ain’t being held in no spider web no more
I’m gonna pick myself up off the floor

If there’s just one thing, I could say to you
I’d tell you straight, I’d tell you true
When it falls apart, you still gotta see it through

And now you’re there alone, feeling down and blue 
When there’s someone, waiting there for you
I think you know what you’ve got to do

But one sweet day, one sweet day
Things are gonna go my way
I ain’t going into that lion’s den no more
I’m gonna pick myself up off the floor

But one sweet day, one sweet day
Things are gonna go my way
I ain’t going down that rabbit hole no more
I’m gonna pick myself up off the floor

One Sweet Day

on the wind

Cast of characters:
Surfers Like Us– @user-411502040 –Artur–composition and foundational rhythm guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–guitar solos choruses, mix, and production
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell –electric piano, synth, and intro composition
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums
Llanpsych– @llanpsych –Tez–Guitar solo in the verses
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –four string fretless bass guitar
 
This song began with Artur composing the entire skeleton, and recording it against a mechanical beat. He presented it to me, and I immediately shared it with The Eclectic Collective. Ken first replaced the metronomic beat with a real, rocking drum sound. I promptly added my four string fretless bass to it, to complete the rhythm section. Soon after, JJ added his electric piano magic, including a short solo, to the stew. Once the rhythmic framework was laid down, Stephen got to work on the choruses, coming up with solid, melodic lines for them. Then, it was Tez's turn to light up the verses with his monster guitar. When we had it mostly completed, Artur asked JJ if he'd do an intro to it. JJ came up with the whole psychedelic intro in response. 
  When it was finished, we asked Stephen if he would mix it for us, which he did with his typical mastery and attention to detail. We all really enjoy making music with Artur, and have been fans of and collaborators with him for almost a year now. If you like the sound of this song, you would do well to go check out his page, too, as he has a bunch of gems on there. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Tell Me the Truth (Eclectic Collective with Surfers Like Us)

Moves like the ocean

I wanted to create a different kind of track. Something that had a different feel and vibe than my usual dark and brooding sound. I decided to learn to play a few piano chords and this whole track came together organically from those 4 chords. My vocal tone isn't quite back to normal yet but I'm personally diggin it on this track. As usual all lyrics, vocals, music and production all done by this guy. I hope you feel it and enjoy. 

She wants a love song
The feeling of love is so foreign to me
She wants a love song
Repeatedly her words just tore into me
She wants a love song
I told her that I never felt this way
She wants a love song
I'm always trying to run 
But with her I'm trying to stay
She wants a love song

We wanted what we could not have
We separated ends of the earth
And now we've gotten what we could not have
A thousand days have passed
And we still cant quench the thirst
Everything  you always were
Everything I am
Everything we're going to be
We weather together

I don't do love songs
I'm always hating at the end of mine
I don't do love songs
Too many women speaking venom 
And straight messing with my mind
I don't do love songs
That's why it hits me any minute 
Anytime of the day
I just wanna love you 
In my own kind of way

You pulled me from the brink...pulled me from the brink

You question just how deep I go for you
And you question just how much I'm loving you
You can question every goddamn thing
Question every goddamn thing
You can question every goddamn thing
But just
Just don't question us
We wanted what we could not have
We separated to the ends of the earth
And now we've gotten what we could not have 
And we are together 
It's a new life rebirth
She wants a love song
I don't do love songs

She wants a love song

Recorded on a C. Bernstein grand piano and mixed November 2023 at GAM Studio by producer Armen Bedrossian near Paris, mastered by Coponat Records, ‘Les ombres s’animent’ is a relaxing dreamlike solo piano piece. French title means ‘Shadows are animating’. It’s inspired by twilight and campfire atmospheres, when you can feel invisible mysterious things are moving around. The music composition is also influenced by Ghibli animated movies scores aesthetics.

Les ombres s'animent

method: vst and voice
narration: a dada poem- it's that time of year still
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

der schamanenschlangentanz
geriet aus allen fugen -
die schlangenmilchintoleranz
war mehr als sie ertrugen

interlinear translation: the shaman's snake dance / got increasingly out of whack / the intolerance to snake milk / was more than they could stand

der schamanenschlangentanz

der schamanenschlangentanz, ein dadagedidicht

Jazzy folk song about the family we all have, with the bad and the good memories.
Contrebass: E. Lafrance; Guitar and voice: Fred Gosselin

Vidéo on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_jQM1uWmRpA?si=KcCmQM-76R7NvMBz

Libre et bohème

Photos de famille

Verse 1:
Broken streets and shattered dreams
Where innocence gets torn apart
The silence screams between the seams
Of childhood's wounded heart


Chorus:
These children cry, these children bleed
No playground, just concrete and fear
Their stories lost, their futures freed
From hope that never comes near

Verse 2:
Tiny hands clutch memories tight
Of homes that crumbled down
Their laughter silenced in the night
Where bombs erase each sound

Bridge:
We cannot look away
These souls are burning bright
Their pain becomes our rage
Against this endless fight



Final Chorus:
These children cry, these children bleed
Their innocence stripped bare
Their dreams scattered like autumn leaves
A world that does not care

Children of Gaza

01 - SA - KO - Hydra
02 - SA - KO - Charon
03 - SA - WE - A Simple Start

#Hydra [Kepler Orchestra]

"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