Cast of characters:
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four string bass, Collings mandolin, Rogue banjo, Roland electric piano, and composition
K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Taylor T5z acoustic guitar, production, mix, and mastering
This song began with Josh coming up with it on his electric piano and fretless bass, to which he added some banjo, then mandolin. Once he had a solid basis for the song, he shared it with the rest of Eclectic Collective for them to add their parts. 
  Ken was first up, adding his drums in an such a creative way that matched Josh's bassline perfectly. It was originally recorded to a looper disco beat, but that was blown out of the water by Ken's creative drumming. Tez jumped in next, adding his thrilling guitar to the second half of the song. Not to be outdone, Stephen batted clean up, adding his textural and melodic guitar to the first half. He also added some subtle, but brilliant acoustic guitar to the first half, too. 
  This is a great example of Eclectic Collective coming up with an original band sound out of one of Josh's seeds. We're always pushing boundaries and trying to find fun and exciting ways to build a song. Lots of teamwork in here, too, of course. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

The Plot Thickens (Eclectic Collective)

"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

I am currently not replying to comments or liking comments. Thank you for your understanding.
Please listen to my songs and reposts. Please check out reposts too. These are carefully selected reposts. These are songs by artists I have carefully selected. 
I listen to a lot of songs. That's because your songs are great. Please don't be offended. I am not trying to appeal or cheat you by asking you to listen to a lot of my songs because I want you to listen to mine. It's because I want to hear them. Because I need them. I make a song with Synthesizer V for vocal voice. Thank you for listening my songs.
If you like the songs, please like or repost them, but if you don't like the songs, you don't have to like or repost them. I appreciate your honest feedback.

Composer and Media Producer from Kent, Ohio, USA.  Has released works as Xyst, Sonoxia, and JeffRay for Hypaethral Productions, Pearls Before Swine, and Mesa Publishing. Now focused on creating mostly instrumental music for video, tv, games and motion picture scores. 

Although the thumbnails are created using Dall-E or Stable Diffusion, NO AI WAS USED TO CREATE ANY MUSICAL COMPONENTS. 
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There are far too many people to thank, but I'm going to try: 

FIRST AND FOREMOST: 
Image-Line's FL Studio DAW
https://www.image-line.com/
https://soundcloud.com/fl-studio

I cannot begin to express how much this software helped me find my musical voice. (Image-line has not paid me anything for my endorsement.) Buy it once and get lifetime unlimited upgrades. I've used it since 1999 and since then, they've introduced dozens of new synths and effects I received for free. It just keeps on giving. I absolutely love FL Studio because of it's step sequencer core, beautiful interfaces, ease of use, robust help, versatility and incredible sound quality. 

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I'll be cycling through a list of FAVORITE SOUNDCLOUD ARTISTS here. So many incredible musicians worth mentioning...

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary) 
https://soundcloud.com/josh-clary-1

Thrillmonkey
https://soundcloud.com/thrillmonkey

FlexHead
https://soundcloud.com/flexheadfunk

Seiso Sanshu
https://soundcloud.com/sanshu-seiso

AnandaTuk
https://soundcloud.com/user-11396379

Ni!
https://soundcloud.com/ni-ni-shrubbery

Earnest Woodall
https://soundcloud.com/user-235089528

Werner
https://soundcloud.com/wejfi

Frans Beelaard
https://soundcloud.com/user-936947521

Fabiano Matiolla
https://soundcloud.com/fabianomatiolla

Shaddenhook
https://soundcloud.com/schaddenhook
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If you follow me and haven't heard from me recently, send a message. There is so much great music out here, it sometimes take a while to get back and listen to the wonderful stuff you are all making.

My name is John. I have been a broadcaster for five years and have been writing music and poetry for twenty years. I didn’t even realize I could read and write until I discovered I have mirror-touch synesthesia. I perceive everything from right to left: my poetry, words, and compassion. My childhood was challenging, to put it mildly. However, God showed me a way to help others through the words I share. Every song I write serves as a ministry. By addressing various issues, I hope to assist those with troubled pasts find healing through my words. I am a pastor, and this is how I spread God’s message—by feeling the emotions around me and understanding the feelings of the people I encounter, because I have experienced similar struggles. God allows me to see you in ways that others cannot.

I love creative music.  Music helps us to have good times, so necessary in the day to day. I hope my music fulfills that end.
  

Hey... This is a recycling page for your songs.  I am a musician who digs listening to music. Thanks for dropping by. Lammbone
I am heading off SoundCloud for the Summer months. See you when the leaves begin to turn, or maybe when the snow flies. Gonna miss ya’ all… Thank you for the love and support, the insights and ideas, the camaraderie and fellowship. Have a great couple of months wherever you are. Mark

Virus B is the musical project of Virginie Borriazzi, a composer and a guitarist interested in manipulating the sound. She attempts to create an unlimited universe...

Many of the tracks here were produced using Reaper software. Vocals were recorded with a condenser microphone, and guitars were recorded directly into a sound card with amp emulations. All other sounds were created using virtual synthesizers or real-world sounds that were then processed.

For the past few months, no software has been used in the creative process. Everything is done with two samplers that have sequencers, a groovebox, a digital recorder and sometimes a drum machine. A computer is only used for the final step of production : mastering.

Welcome here to all music lovers and thanks for your support 🎈 

[ 🛎️ Important information (October 2024) :
I’m distributed now on other - more mainstream - platforms where you’re very WELCOME TOO !
You will hear on them some songs that were here but in remastered and more efficient versions.
And also some of my new stuff in the future !!

However I keep my Soundcloud especially for fantastic colleagues and public I’ve met here, and I hope I have time to publish soon some others of my more alternative, raw and low-fi tracks ! ]


Multi- styles composer,  guitarist , bassist and author / singer, I present here a blend of very different songs or instrumentals, recorded on more than three decades

        So you can find here ones with my rock band  The CATS BLEED, who had a bit of success in France in the mid nineties.
 Some with GOLDEN AGE , an Anglo-French pop-folk duet in the mid 2000s.
And some totally solo as LOONY in the early 2000s or later
 Or BRUNO C for my first compositions, from mid 80’s to 90’s 

      


https://open.spotify.com/artist/1mDnyuPaI4RhiGaTRDjJFW?si=Z5xa7rwVRQSqwyZ_UIkE1w


https://youtube.com/channel/UC4Rf_HIxsZlLGE9sKnhzfMw

https://instagram.com/loonydebussy?utm_medium=copy_link

brunochassaigne.mus@gmail.com

Even as a small child I wanted to learn a musical instrument...

...since there was a music school in our small town where I grew up, but it was limited to the activities of the local musicians' band, the choice was rather limited... because piano, guitar or saxophone were not offered and that's why I decided me for the trumpet, which was not used for cast-technical reasons, so the FLÜGELHORN became my instrument...
In my youth I turned my back on music and was active in sports towards the end of my teenage years...


“I can do many things so intensively that perfection isn’t even necessary.”

⚡️ 581.000  ⚡️ plays since 2013*
https://www.youtube.com/@joerxworx7299
___ Drumax PROJECT with @docfritz
___ the Lunatics project with @cosmic-ratzzz
A playlist of collabs which should be updated :-))
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/sets/joerxworx-collabs-the-big
.......... band/jam cloud: https://soundcloud.com/pland-jammin
.......... my old account: www.soundcloud.com/joerxtune
.......... Also on https://hearthis.at/joerxworx-8v/
My bio (to copy) written by me in the third person :-)
"Jörg S. born in Cologne, from youth on, is fascinated by all kinds of art, so he taught himself the saxophone very early. Nowadays flutes of all kind are also part of the equipment, as are jaw harps, percussion, bass, guitars and keyboards.
He was and is always involved in many band projects and session events.
In the 80s he was a saxophonist in the Adam Noidlt Intermission Orchestra with gigs in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Basel. Very early on he also worked as a writer with live readings in the Cologne area and was a painter with large formats for many years, all in addition to his job as a graphic designer. Now, retired, he is devoted solely to music: home recording with the platform of choice, Soundcloud and global collaborations."

*32K before 2016

The Plot Thickens (Eclectic Collective)

Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary)