Miss Terious

Basically we're all the same
Gifted with a body and a brain
And a heart that beats us through all those ways
Through glorious nights and fatal days

Still there's something...mysterious

We have changed the world so much
In different ways we lost the touch
But we don't want to take the blame
There's no reason in this game
Basically...

Still there's something...mysterious

Working hard in all different ways
Winter, spring, summer and fall
All the time again and again
To deny who is to blame
Basically...

Still there's something...mysterious

Still there' something more above
A mysterious thing called love

Miss Terious

FLOATING

Clouds Scribble hazy    - hieroglyphs across a blank blue page of sky whispy creeping tendrils of other peoples Dreams  fragments of  Dreams  trees writhing twisted limbs dropping dead wood  The wind so cold  from the east Drying their roots  but killing the rot in the soil  sometimes the harshest winds are needed  to thrive    blowing other peoples dreams across the sky,  fragments of our dreams across the sky   i wonder what they think of Mine we are open we are the tree we are the wind  we are the ocean we are the dreams    that blow across a summer sky  say goodbye   we are open we are the tree we are the wind  we are the chosen we are the dreams    that blow across a summer sky  say goodbye  say goodbye   not forever  for now

Fragments

Makeup My Mind

Thank you for checking out this Highlight reel of Eclectic Collective's greatest moments in the year 2023. JJ made this compilation of a bunch of our music from the past almost year. He asked us to ask a question and then answer it. Jeff kinda disregarded our questions and asked his own. So, the answers don't really match up. We thought that gives it a bit of a Spinal Tap effect. But we are all talking about things relevant to the music and the group. So, if you want to hear from us directly, this is the place to do it. The Eclectic Collective is a band of musicians who collaborate over the internet and communicate via email.
Not interviewed in this piece, but a big thank you from all of us goes to Artur of Surfers Like Us, Steve of Steve's Planet, and Chris of @cgmaness fame for their contributions to the group in 2023! Also a huge shout out to The Mysterious Decibel for adding all the great vocals our songs need.
Cast of characters:

Hosted by: StonerJazz on.soundcloud.com/6qwFQ

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary) - Bass, Lap Slide, Guitar, mandolin, synth, piano, organ @josh-clary-1
K2 and the Three - Drums, Percussion @k2andthe3
Llanpsych - Guitar, Effects @llanpsych 
TexMex Shaman - Guitar, Effects @texmex-shaman
J.J. Terrell - Keys, Synth, Organ, production on.soundcloud.com/ivM1E
MisterMark - Lyrics, Vocals, keys, drums, mix editing
on.soundcloud.com/qMWgp

The Eclectic Collective Rockumentary--Bits of Hits

Closing track from the new collaborative EP "Surrender" -
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/mood-exhibit-pfaender-surrender

This experimental union with German electronic producer/cellist Pfaender https://soundcloud.com/pfaender
brings out a unique blend of ambient, post classical, granular soundscape, and abrasive industrial percussion.

Pfaender - Cello
Mood Exhibit - Piano and electronics

Free EP

Mood Exhibit & Pfaender - When we Felt

Cast of Characters:
~Mark F--  @mark_fosella  -- bass guitar, composition
Llanpsych --  @llanpsych  -- Tez – first screaming electric guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman  –Stephen– second psychedelic electric guitar, production, and mix
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell  –electric piano 
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3 , @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1  –-organ

This song is the first The Eclectic Collective has done with Mark, and we all had a great time making it with him. This song started with Mark, who is a bass player's bass player, giving his raw bass track to Ken, who brought it to the group. Ken laid down his exciting drums to match Mark's bass line before anything else happened, though. Once we had a rhythm section, JJ laid down his dancing electric piano. Once that was in place, Josh laid down the organ. Then it was time for the guitars, played electrifyingly by both Tez and Stephen. Tez plays throughout most of the song, and Stephen added his part towards the end. Stephen also mixed this for us expertly, as always. If you have a beverage in your hands, you might want to set it down. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

Esophagus Metamorphosis - (Eclectic Collective) w/ Mark Fosella

Captain 1.2

kevin wrote your best work

Just riffing on the guitar in springtime ... playing a Hargreaves classical guitar, "Grace" ...

Spring Toks

Billy Strings
2025-12-10
BOK Center 
Tulsa, OK

Source: DPA 2012 > Zoom F3
Location: Clamped to right SBD cage, 7’ high

Recorded and processed by: Jimmy Lu

Set 1
1 Happy Hollow
2 Sugar Hill Ramble
3 Nothing’s Working
4 Pyramid Country >
5 Must Be Seven
6 Doin’ My Time
7 Brown’s Ferry Blues (1)
8 Country Blues (2)
9 Dos Banjos (3)
10 She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
11 Stratosphere Blues / I Believe In You (4)
12 Love Like Me
13 Highway Hypnosis

Set 2
14 Leadfoot (5)
15 Secrets
16 Walk On Boy
17 Enough To Leave
18 Hollow Heart
19 Sally Johnson
20 Wait A Minute
21 End Of The Rainbow >
22 Dawg’s Rag
23 Doin’ Things Right
24 In The Clear
25 Wargasm

Encore
26 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
27 Streamline Cannonball

Setlist Notes:
(1) Billy Strings solo
(2) Billy Strings solo on clawhammer banjo
(3) Dos Billys (Billy Strings on clawhammer banjo and Billy Failing on banjo)
(4) Billy Strings on a Martin Grand J-28E, Royal Masat on a Nord Stage 3 88-Key Keyboard & Billy Failing on Masterton ML-1: Missing Link Béla Fleck Baritone Banjo
(5) Billy Strings on his Masterton ML-1: Missing Link Béla Fleck Baritone Banjo & Billy Failing on Guitar

Thanks to the band for allowing taping!


21 End Of The Rainbow

"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

The Eclectic Collective Rockumentary--Bits of Hits

Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)