21 year old aspiring solo musician, creating weird, groovy instrumentals 
Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Folk
☮️DeadHead☮️

Music Soothes Morals
More music:
https://www.youtube.com/@RavenCrowBeat/videos

Music fan and hobbyist musician.  I love to listen to everything and there isn't enough time in the world for all the music there is to hear.

The name JunkHeap came from creating song ideas and leaving them for later, and then picking through the junk heap of ideas to enhance a new song idea.  Explore my discography, find something you like.  

All of my albums on Soundcloud have been reduced to a sampling of a few songs.  The complete albums are available on all streaming sites.

JunkHeap is a solo, alternative rock music project.  Unapologetic, thought-provoking, emotionally raw music for the masses...

It's about you, the listeners.  I hope you get something out of my songs.  The lyrics are in the song name link.

Tricky Cat Records,  The exclusive label for the non-profit 'Rose Pro Studio'.  We work with artists that are non-professional and do something in the local community and we don't charge. 

This page is for Demo's of up coming tracks to get some kind of feedback before release.  Also for our back catalogue of previously released Albums, tracks and keepsakes.

Absolutely no money is made, gained, sort or demanded from the artists who record with us. 

Sound Engineers - Kit Gratrix
                             - Will Sidebottom
                             - Mike Bryant
Head Producer    - Kit Gratrix

Tricky Cat Records Artists & Band Members

The Mand'rols (Mini Mand'rols)								Kit Gratrix - Guitars & Vocals
					Shadow - Vocals
					Alex Nuewham - Vocals
					Dinky - Drums
					Chuck Batsmear - Rock Bass

Tom and the Cats
					Tommy Catalos - Vocals
					Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
					Les Shipperbottan - Drums
					Nick Botham - Bass
					Kittarix - Synths & Pianos
					Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
					Betty Roadford - backing Vocals

Tabby and the Cats
					Tabby (Shadow) Northford - Vocals
					Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
					Les Shipperbottan - Drums
					Nick Botham - Bass
					Kittarix - Synths & Pianos
					Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
					Betty Roadford - backing Vocals
Radiance
					EVERYONE

Hawks Quest				
					Kit Gratrix	- Vocals, Synths, guitars
					Mike Bryant - Vocals & Acoustic & Electric Guitars
					Will Russell - Vocals & Ac Guitar
					Jana - Vocals & Bass
					Saz - Backing Vocals
					David Higham - Guitars, Drums & percussion

Oracles Oath
					Rob Lehane - Vocals
					Kit Gratrix	- Vocals, Synths, guitars
					Psi Hancock - Guitars and Lead Guitar
					Mike Bryant - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
					Jana - Vocals & Bass
					Gwynn - Vocals
					David Higham - Drums & percussion


The Magick
					Muffy Numpitt - Vocals
					Will Russell - Ac Guitars & Vocals
					Kit Gratrix - Guitars & Synths
					Mike Bryant - Guitars & Vocals

Betty and the Boohoo's
					Betty Roadford - Vocals
					Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
					Les Shipperbottan - Drums
					Nick Botham - Bass
					Kittarix - Synths & Pianos
					Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
					Tommy Catalos - Backing Vocals

Head Case
					Bad Boy Lew - Vocals
					Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
					Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
					Les Shipperbottan - Drums
					Chuck Batsmear - Rock Bass
					Kit Gratrix - Synths

Shadow 
					Shadow - Vocals
					Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
					Les Shipperbottan - Drums
					Nick Botham - Bass
					Kittarix - Synths & Pianos
					Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
					Betty Roadford - backing Vocals

Falcon
					Mike Bryant - Guitars & Vocals - Writer
					Kit Gratrix - Synth’s & Percussion - Writer

Muso’s

Dexter Rohan -  Lead Guitars
Phil Limpton - Rhythm Guitars
Mike Bryant - Guitars & Vocals/Writer
Will Russell - Guitars & Vocals/Writer
Psi Hancock - Guitars
Dave Higham - Guitars Drums & Vocals
Kit Gratrix - Guitars/Writer
Tommy Catalos - Vocals

Chuck Batsmear - Rock Bass
Lyndon Johnson - Soul Bass
Nick Botham - Pop Bass

Kittarix - Synths & Pianos

Dinky - Drums
Les Shipperbottan - Drums

Jana - Vocals
Saz -Vocals
Kerry Bennett-King - Vocals
Betty Roadford - Vocals
Shadow / Tabby Northford - Vocals
Muffy Numpitt - Vocals
Alex Nuewham - Vocals

Welcome - It all started when I was 6 and studied musical school on the top of normal school. We learned classical music - notation, scales, chords, etc. By the age of ten, I got pretty good foundation of music theory, and I kept playing flute for next 5 years. 

But the real fun started at 13, when I purchased my first guitar, and then started composing within a year. I wrote many simple pop songs, punk songs, and some gospel, later on learned to play and compose very complicated riffs, licks, and many solo techniques, eventually landed in death metal band, where I played the lead guitar for 3 years. 
     
Of course, that is a long history now, and I gave up making music at 31. But roughly 11 years after that I came along to own my first Ipad, which happened to have Garageband app. And since then I slowly learn more and more tricks, and have now done over 2 hours of music, which you can hear for free on this page. 
     
Every song is an experiment itself, although I tend to be melodic, upbeat, and various. I'm still using diatonic scales and chords as main channel for composition, just as I learned in school as a little kid. Although some pentatonic scales now and then won't hurt, right? 
     
Here is how I see it about the music. The most basic and effective way to make the magic is the combination of good chord progression and good melody. So basically, brilliant cords, brilliant melody and how much they complement each other - that is the magic. And, of course, the structure that utilizes all that to the max. All the rest is just a gravy, (I mean, "just" a gravy) Don't get me wrong, the gravy can be very beautiful and  enjoyable, and most of my tracks so far are mostly gravy, but the proper meal should contain some meat, Know what I mean? My most "meaty" songs so far are probably Autumn Falls and Hint Of Tribecore. The biggest and dirtiest gravy so far would be probably Tribal Beginnings and Warning Immediate Noise. But you can judge that for yourself. 

Still, my main focus now increasingly becomes a sound modulation, and structures of song, because more I play with that tweaking of sound, more crazy sound I can hear. The goal here is pure magic and beauty distilled into nice 2-6 min. pieces. 
     
Also, a little disclaimer here. I don't do any vocals, mixes, remixes, or live pieces. All should be well thought through, electronic, and freshly new, and original. So enjoy listening and feel free to comment. I appreciate the feedback as it gives me more info and insight.
Peace.

Welcome

IG
https://www.instagram.com/beautifuldarkmusic/

ALL this music is FREE from ai. All created with ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE & DECADES of GRAFT learning music and making songs.... I strongly feel we need to amplify this in the face of the possibility of AI creations replacing and bypassing the amazing 'process' for people going forward. It's far from just about a result from the perspective of personal gain from the art. In fact result is possibly down the list a bit. It's the experience first. It's the doing it. I respect the excitement to be able to get a result is cool... but we need to be careful with how deeply it engrains itself in our processes and what we stand to lose allowing it do the work for us.

Lyrics: Writing a poem is like a mini book. You need to research things to get it right. You need to be skillful at relying on your brain for getting those words.'if' you want to be original. AI writing lyrics for you just teaches you how to read poems. Please don't be offended if you are passionately doing this. This needs to be a transparent  conversation to learn and come out of it with the best outcome for life. It's more important to inspire new artists then worry about offended the fake ones 🤷🏽‍♂️ So you fire off a couple of neurons telling chatgpt to write a song... Where as making it you are accessing a huge amount more of your brain. The originality then arrives from the barely countable amount of neurons we have, making your connections and mine different Everytime. AI music sounds the same because its a sum... But the sums we do in our heads can never be simulated. They are amazing and there is no way in hell I am allowing people miss out on the satisfaction you get in delayed gratification for grafting the skills... That's what makes the feelings last when you finally get it right. Being fed an AI sound splat that you accept as 'right' ...Gone is the process and it's no longer art. And don't forget.... They plagarised every single artists work that ever existed to teach it so there's that reckoning you should maybe have with yourself. They basically stole all art that inspired you in life up to you using it.


Create or Die 🧬

10,000 hours to master something I've heard!

 Well I'm still trying to master music and I know I and nobody ever will. But I'm well past 10,000 hours of enjoyment making it. Here's to the next 10,000 hours 🫶🏽🔆🧬🎶

Just be the good YOU 🤝

I am not a professional musician, I write music in different styles exclusively for myself. Every month a new track! I will be glad to collaborate with interested performers and producers. 
The constant howling of sirens and the incessant shelling of peaceful cities. People are dying ... Who needs all this?
My channel: Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR_XgDbc8Yw9Z-QEwcW1kXw
for support : transfer via Western Union to card 5168 7450 3049 6407

Thanks to everyone for listening to my music.
let`s in https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu1Vp1DyBA-iV_aT-oKap7g/videos

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