Not to sound like a broken record here but once again Ken you put EXACTLY the drums that this song needed!! Bravo!! This one is getting off to a good start too!!

Wow excellent ambiance, wounderful instrumental and music. Great collab 👍👏

Hey Ken, really nice and smooth drums in here, great work man 🙂‍↕️

Hey Ken man, it would be very hard to overstate how much I love and am impressed with your drumming in here. You not only found the perfect groove to suit my bass, but your overall vibe is absolutely perfect. Carl really gave us some gold to work with here, didn't he? Hey brother man, always a joy and a privilege to get to create magic with you!

Super drumming man. Like a glove as always. Fair play 🫡⚽❤️

As always you keep this sweet little tune on it's tracks my friend:)

Daily Drops

By My Window

© Liberty 2025, all rights reserved

Amor fati - "love of fate".
Venal ressentiment - A resentment rooted in a corrupt or self-serving motive, where the resentful individual may be motivated by greed or personal gain rather than a genuine sense of injustice. 

Fabulous Failure	

wage slave wage slave
To a protestant work ethic
Birthright destiny 
amore fati

The smart exec knows where the wages are low
Nothing personal now just business you know
Egalitarian principles oh what a bore
How much is enough just a little bit more

Rose coloured glasses
Kissing assess  
Believe your own hype
That’s a leadership type


Fabulous failure
Fabulous failure

Cannibal capitalism 
Pandemonium
Craving idols 
Patchouli dreaming

The smart exec knows where the wages are low
Nothing personal now just business you know
Egalitarian principles oh what a bore
How much is enough just a little bit more

Peccadilloes
Na’er-do-wells
Venal ressentiment


Fabulous failure
Fabulous failure
Fabulous failure

FabulousFailure

Arizona covboy Rides far

Souls in Harmony

(No AI Gen involved - I use my voice and Vst Instruments)
Traduit plus bas
-----
I walk the streets with my head down, fleeting shadow
I do not see you face passing slow
lost in my phone’s glow

And I feel sad, I don't know why the silence stays
I don’t see the time slipping through the haze
In this empty days

In these silent days

Many time, many miles, many left behind
for the single one, once in you life, closer to your mind
Anyone, anytime, may reshape your day
Cause everything, everywhere connects in a way

To change my eyes, to feel the wide, I'll dig inside
A single word can turn the tide
Your smile is the guide

Forget the screens, embrace what's real, I miss my friends,
The path goes on, but never ends
Till the darkness bends

Till the darkness bends

Many time, many miles, many left behind
for the single one, once in you life, closer to your mind
Anyone, anytime, may reshape your day
Cause everything, everywhere connects in a way

Everybody needs to believe
Everybody needs to find someone somewhere
----
Je marche dans les rues, la tête baissée, ombre fugitive.
Je ne vois pas ton visage passer lentement,
perdu dans la lueur de mon téléphone.

Et je me sens triste, je ne sais pas pourquoi le silence persiste.
Je ne vois pas le temps s'écouler à travers la brume,
dans ces jours vides.

Dans ces jours silencieux.

Beaucoup de temps, beaucoup de kilomètres, beaucoup de personnes laissées derrière
Pour cette seule personne, une fois dans ta vie, plus proche de ton esprit
N'importe qui, n'importe quand, peut remodeler ta journée
Car tout, partout, est connecté d'une certaine manière

Pour changer mon regard, pour ressentir l'immensité, je vais creuser en moi
Un seul mot peut changer le cours des choses
Ton sourire est le guide

Oublie les écrans, embrasse ce qui est réel, mes amis me manquent,
Le chemin continue, mais ne finit jamais
Jusqu'à ce que l'obscurité s'incline

Jusqu'à ce que l'obscurité s'incline

Beaucoup de temps, beaucoup de kilomètres, beaucoup de personnes laissées derrière
Pour cette seule personne, une fois dans ta vie, plus proche de ton esprit
N'importe qui, n'importe quand, peut remodeler ta journée
Car tout, partout, est connecté d'une certaine manière

Tout le monde a besoin de croire
Tout le monde a besoin de trouver quelqu'un quelque part

Reshape Your Day

Embrace Me

Taylor 114 CE (Strumming my guitar)
Logic Pro BeBop Organ (Playing my MIDI keyboard)
Logic Pro Classic Electric Piano (Playing my MIDI Keyboard)
Drums (EZ Drummer 3)
Bass (PG Music Real Track)
Vocals and Back up Vocals (me singing).
Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino
***
Cover art:  photo of Halloween skeleton edited with Adobe stock images.
***
Won’t You Please Just Go
Verse 1
It used to be that right and wrong were clear cut, black and white
And people had the courage still to stand and fight the good fight
It used to be that folks could bridge across the partisan divide
Do the right thing and set their differences aside
Now the tech bros want to colonize Mars, and create a brand-new utopia
And if you’re skeptical of their vision, you’re just a luddite with myopia
They’re dreaming of a world of like minds, a place with no dissent
But too much group think has a way of becoming malevolent

Chorus
Won’t you go, won’t you go, won’t you please just go
Get on that rocket ship and fly to Mars (good riddance)
You say you’ll build a better society on the fourth rock from the sun
But there’s lots of work on Earth that still needs to be done.

Verse 2
Columbus sailed west and began a bold new age of exploration
But life on a barren rock seems like a recipe for frustration
It’s easy to be seduced by all that science fiction snake oil
but once you get to Mars, it’ll be nothing but drudgery and endless toil

Bridge
Seems like there are better ways for billionaires to spend their cash
Than living in a tin can on Mars like high-tech trailer trash.
They say the higher you fly, the harder you can fall;
Why trade a living planet for a dusty red ball?

Verse 3
Things can get kind of messy down here on good old planet Earth
You can turn tail and and try to escape this place of humanities birth
You can wipe the slate clean but there’s something in our DNA
You can make people march in lockstep but eventually there will be hell to pay.


Chorus
Won’t you go, won’t you go, won’t you please just go
Get on that rocket ship and fly to Mars (good riddance)
You say you’ll build a better society on the fourth rock from the sun
But there’s lots of work on Earth that still needs to be done

Won't You Please Just Go (to Mars)

Mac , music , lyrics , vocals
Scotty , lyrics , vocals
Shane , lyrics , vocals 

True, I'm still in love with you
despite all the bullshit that we have been through.
Even though our hearts have been torn in two,
we can grow, be strong, and build atop the ruins. 
You know you're worth every ounce of fight I've got left in me and I can't try to rest knowing that I won't sleep until this is right. So, pick up and fight for this, darling. True love is calling. And if you are willing, we could be happy together a lifetime. But, is it worth it?

Don’t listen to his hippie shit 
If your your looking for the king of love it’s gotta be a brit
And I think I might be it
Or at least a little bit
I don’t know if you’ve heard about me ?I’m quite exotic , tall  and swarthy and more sensitive than most
And have you ever heard of Byron ?cos I’ve spent half of my life trying to resurrect his ghost
It makes me more adept to understand the fairer sex
Let me take you home 
Cos baby there’s been something I been meaning to tell you
The smiles you give to him are causing pure living hell to  my heart
Oh let’s not start that shit 
I’ll just regret it
And I know you know that my loves the strongest 
Probably cos I keep going on for the longest 
But Christ 
I’m so fucking nice
And yeah true love is calling
But I’m singing softly 
It might be worth stalling 
Cos true love is costly

So what is true love if it ain’t true at all ?
Is it calling?

Every ounce of fight

DRUMAX No. 70 // AUTUMNAL // Warm Colours in the Air ...
@joerxworx // Composition, Instruments, Arrangement, Tenor Saxophone, Mix
@docfritz // Rhythm Design, Awesome Drums & Percussion, Tracktitel & Cover
© 2025 | DRUMAX PROJECT | All Rights Reserved

DRUMAX // AUTUMNAL

💥C'est une histoire vieille comme le monde, un homme convoite deux femmes mais n'est amoureux que d'une seule. La maitresse lui clame sa détresse et met un terme à la relation. Malgré la douleur, elle en ressort victorieuse, car elle se débarrasse de l'emprise que cet homme à sur elle. Merci à Nadja.K de s'être prêtée au jeu, une correction de la voix avec Melodyne et autotune pour un résultat presque naturel.🎶 J'espère que vous apprécierez ce titre autant que nous avons eu plaisir à le travailler.🤍
💥This is a story as old as time: a man desires two women but is truly in love with only one. The mistress voices her despair and ends the relationship. Despite the pain, she emerges victorious, freeing herself from his hold. Special thanks to Nadja.K for joining in this project. A touch of Melodyne and Autotune helped refine the vocals for an almost natural result.🎶 We hope you’ll enjoy this track as much as we enjoyed creating it.🤍

Extrait :
[Verse 1]
Tu m’appelles juste parce qu’elle t’a laissé en plan
Tu aimes venir me prendre et faire semblant
Dans la tête, t’as encore les courbes de mon corps
et sous tes mains, des caresses qui me jettent un sort (ugh)
[pré-chorus]
Ouais, maintenant je vois clair dans ton jeu… je vois clair dans ton jeu…
Tu aimes, me mettre en feu et me laisser seule au pieu 
et j’ai le seum, j’ai le seum.
[Chorus 1]
Dis-moi, où est Luna ce soir ?
Tu sais, c’est l’amour de ta vie
Cheveux noirs, yeux bruns
Un corps plus beau que le mien
Alors, Où est Luna ce soir ?
Je sais qu’elle squatte tes pensées
Comme si elle hante les miennes
Elle est ta lune, je n'suis rien pour toi,
Pourquoi tu perds ton temps dans mes draps ?
Tes mains glissent sur mes cuisses
Et moi je me demande pourquoi,
Alors, qu'au fond, elle est ton supplice  :
Alors « Où est Luna ce soir ? »

Où est Luna ce soir ?

I used a phrase from a comment I received from Stars Mighty Fine as the title.
First, I see a chaotic array of tones, and then I try to create some kind of structure from that chaos. I think the process of composing is simply trying to control the song and sound with all my might.

We Control with All My Might (357)

Symphony in E Flat Minor - Conflictus 
I have attempted to create a potent emotional and technical foundation in this composition by using E-flat minor, to portray two critical intervals to define conflicting characters,  the minor second and the minor seventh.

To create an emotional profound darkness I have used cello melody in (E-flat minor) to immediately establishes a somber, monumental, and deeply introspective mood, setting the stage for a serious dramatic work that follows.

Acute Tension (Minor Second) has been deliberately used to injects the music with sharp dissonance and anguish. This abrasive, element drives conflict, often suggesting the intensity of the E-flat Phrygian mode.

Somber Depth (Minor Seventh) strings provide the essential melancholic color and stability of the minor key to allow for broad, cohesive irritating melodies to define chaos and conflict.

The use of alchemy pads & strings in between the abrasive, close tension of the minor second and the deep has successfully created a reflective sorrowful mood of the minor seventh.

Produced in the
ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney - Australia

Artwork:  #azcreativestudiosydney

Symphony in E - Flat Minor, Conflictus

Was discussing The Replacements with a friend and had the urge to write a tune in that vein, and, gosh, there was inspiration right there in the daily news.  This was a quick & dirty one day write &  record, but then quick & dirty seems to be the order of the day.

hey mr tangerine man you're not fooling me
I'm not stupid and we all know what you're trying to do
hey mr tangerine man you're not fooling me
and you know we won't be mourning when they're burying you

you rake the air incessantly with your heinous flapping lips
while your golf shirt hides your tits
and your tiny grey hands twitch
all the citizens feel gypped
we're all waiting for a massive stroke to do you in
i'm ready to move anywhere I want to emigrate
but come back for the parade past the golf course where you're laid
i'll fight the urge to urinate

Mr Tangerine Man

Cast of Characters:

The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl -- vocals, lyrics, Ovation acoustic guitar, and composition
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ and upright piano
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass and Collings mandolin
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST fiddle
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Earle Scruggs custom banjo, production, mix, and mastering

This is the latest in our series of songs Carl has written about us. Being as both Tez, a lifelong, and to a lesser degree, Carl are Manchester United fans, Carl siezed on the opportunity to celebrate their shared fandom. Although the lyrics are a little inscrutable to us Americans, we love that football (soccer) fans from across the pond will know exactly what he's talking about. 
  Carl wrote this song on his acoustic guitar, and upon sharing it with us, we weren't sure as to the direction we wanted to take it. JJ threw down first, adding his good-time-sounding upright piano and strikingly beautiful organ to the mix first. Enchanted with Carl's composition, Josh next added his bass and mandolin both in the same recording session, without even closing his DAW. Mark was in right after, adding his friendly fiddle solo as well as fiddle fills throughout. Being as the song is about him, Tez came along shortly after and added the tuneful intro and outro on his guitar. Then, as it was just about to sit for a while, Ken added his very tasteful, perfect drums to the mix, thus completing the rhythm section. 
  Before we put a bow on it, though, Stephen made it back from his week in the Colorado wilderness in time to add his magical banjo to the mix. Speaking of mixes, now it was time for one, and we turned it over to him, our in house pro, to do the honors.
  We all really enjoyed working on this one. It is an example of Eclectic Collective taking one of Carls songs and having our way with it. Always a team effort getting it over the line, but we always manage to do it. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Division Two Champs, '75
Small consolation for '74 cries
Fan wow land psyched
True Red Devil in this life

We fell to Leeds
Last Division 1
We had the Irish
Man, I followed them
McGrath didn't train
A different breed
Golden era
Boozed up greats as seed

Then, we mostly won
But still, these moments to memories shone
Keane's end at Juventus
His team's power won
Beast perseverance
2-3 semi so they march on

Teddy & Ole
Broken Bayern lines
Videos with no YouTube
In sport mad mind

Great from great, Cantona
Flying curve ball martial artist
Old Leeds leech
A la French finest

Man Utd before Glazier fud
Old Trafford dreams
Red Devil blood
A fan forever no matter loss
Good grinding Fergie
Our hairdryer boss

True Red Devil
Hughesy's volleys
Arsenal disheveled
Good Giggsy speed
End to end
Back of the net
Great teen we get
Front of our dreams

True Red Devil
Scars from Aguero
And Barce's better
New cycles please
We've been Malcolmed
Bought like shop
These greedy Glaziers fucking up
Our theatre of dreams

If only for Fergie time
We'd be doing just fine

True Red Devil-Eclectic Collective

Inspired by a good friend...

Goodbye star falling from the midnight sky
Your dreams that won't come true
Have left you wondering why?

Your Fantasy is nothing real to me, oh no
Goodbye Star
Can't you see that nothing good is free, oh no
Goodbye star
Goodbye to all who loved you from the very start
Goodbye to your words coming from your broken heart

The love you take is all that you can fake, oh yeah
Goodbye star
Your mystery is nothing we can't see, oh no
Goodbye star

Goodbye Star

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

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SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery

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I’m not an @ echo chamber!  I am a @ real musician!!!..  I’m a poor singer! Very poorly sung tunes! if I like or comment.. it is always @ genuine.. Gen X duder… born of 1969… that would b the day that Rock n Roll died.. Shouting into the Void!  Apparently…Don and Don and Glenn and Joe and the rest … they haven’t @ had @ that @ Spirit there, since my birthday!!!!  🤩🤩🤩Music for those who like music ...eclectic and varietal-in search of the perfect balance of rhythm melody harmony lyric and audio using garageband iphone
     I play guitar and drums and the rest... I’m also singing... a drummer and writer, and arranger by past diy profession... never got to record at leisure, until discovering GarageBand... this is all done on iPhone...awesome app!... leave a message if you can...
    I’ve been told I’m not doing myself any @ favors by singing.. don’t really care!🤩
Trying to write my own “ white album” a la The Beatles “, ha!😎🙏👍🤩🍺 homepage pic taken on bus, summer 2019, Niagara Falls, Canada…or Grand Canyon , 2022… or Hilton Head Island, SC 2023…or my downstairs bathroom, ha!…depending on mood, ha!!!… 
    If u don’t like, I don’t mind…. But thank u for the listen!!!… my first name is Kenneth ( go by Ken). Music for the beginning of the end…. And a new beginning….🙏 I rarely unfollow anyone….Can’t listen to everyone and everything, but if I follow…. U have stuff I dig…. And sometimes SC glitches, and removes them!? Message me, and I will re follow…
     I try to mix for my truck speakers… not always successful, but you can try to hear what I am trying for… AC/DC pop mixes, ha!🤣🤣🤣… starting to realize that I am in my own tree… might be sorry if you follow me, but might not!

Proud member of the Eclectic Collective! 

Second account is K2 and the Four

Here’s a link to my Beatles cover band! No longer playing with these awesome musicians, but I had a ton of fun, for 10 years!!! They continue on with a better drummer!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4JvtHzHkI&t=669s&pp=2AGdBZACAQ%3D%3D

True Red Devil-Eclectic Collective

K2 and the Three

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