may we fight well and live to see the other side

interesting times

Composer: Guillaume
Guitarist: Naldo
Artwork: Ronaldo Farelli

The Occultation of Arcturus
    by Charles Gerard  Piggot-Tyrell

When Arcturus fades behind the veil,
A whispered shadow falls across the sky.
Its golden light, once bold, begins to pale,
As night consumes the star that lights the high.

The heavens tremble with a secret lost,
A cosmic dance that none can comprehend.
The ancient light, now hidden, pays the cost,
And bids the wandering eye its gaze suspend.

Yet in the dark, the silent truth remains:
The star, though gone, still pulses in the night.
Its absence marks the world with subtle chains,
A fleeting glimpse of endless, secret light.

For even in the dark, we know the truth—
The stars still shine, though hidden from our youth.

Occultation of Arcturus

“Sheer”

I dedicate this song to the memory of my brother-in-law. He passed away a few weeks ago, leaving an unfillable void. Rest in peace Brother! We will meet again in our next life! 🖤🖤🖤

Cover pic: Arpad Kajel www.instagram.com/bergarpi

Sheer

Original Soundtrack for the Tower of the Ice Lich game (available on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/3087730/Tower_of_the_Ice_Lich/ and as a card game elsewhere). 

So you survived? No more shall the tyranny of the Lich instill fear in the... and all that. Well done anyway. You still can't play guitar very well. But at least the arpeggio is automated. A mix of modern and retro synth strings for the tension in the victor who feels compassion for the evil thusly slain. And a waily slightly overdriven guitar. Mike Oldfield would have nightmares.

13 Just a Flesh Wound

Now into my seventh decade of living, and celebrating my fiftieth anniversary this month as a guitar player (I should play better than do;), I wanted to drop this "little ditty" as my attempt to keep up with the likes of Bill Liggett (@soundcloud.com/greenfleamusic/tracks) and other notable players on this fine platform.  Actually it's an attempt to keep up with myself, seeing if I can still play what I learned 40-plus years ago, in the case of this song, the introductory licks I learned from a very fine Kansas City lounge musician, Mark Bell in 1979.  For those keeping score, you may remember it from the song "This Motel Room" by Jimmy Buffet--a fun and clever song that details the many nights touring musicians have to endure staying in motel rooms.  I took the initial licks heard throughout the song and built an independent melody line around it, half blues ditty, half musical joke, with a serious moment (you know I have to have one of those:), all with the hope of bringing a smile.  I'm proud to say I can still play it, and maybe, just maybe a little better now than then:)  Bill, just don't ask me to play it live;)

A Little Ditty (David, solo guitar)

new LP available here:
https://ceruleanascent.bandcamp.com/album/off-hand-ways

Visuals here:
https://youtu.be/7ujgG7-Y5g4

Mooch

A character theme song for our game series in progress 'Parallel Tales'. Composed March 2025. Synth work by @masha-solo and @rob-ulysses. Art by Masha. Gradually we're finding more time for making the next album that this song will be on: Realm III [Instrumental Prologue].

Made using Reason Compact and lmms DAW. Background photo from Canva.

Thank you so much for listening.

Realm III [Instrumental Prologue]

Reigus - Instrumental

Look to let you accomplish it

Love is Peerless, 2 Ships in the Night

Scène de séduction

The dragon has been felled. This world has been scorched. What will you do now?

Original by DM Dokuro.

Catastrophes Before the Calamity [Arrange] (ft. vlkr)

Kraftkabel is the artist name of Philip I. Buckland. I am a musical scientist in a parallel universe living in a studio flat orbiting Jupiter. My keyboards are suspended in gravity nets, and my mixer is controlled by the power of the mind. My cosmic sequencing software masters through the power of emotion, and my keyboards are simultaneously both retro and new.
My music originates from the point of divergence of these universes - the mid-late 1980's, but is spliced by genre splicing interludes. I use a time machine and dimensional portal to get to work.
For the other nerds out there:
Hardware synths: 
Moog Subsequent 37; Roland Jupiter X, JD-Xi, VR-09, S-1; Korg Prologue, NTS-1, Monotron Duo; Sequential Take5; Yamaha DX7; Akai PRO MiniAK; Novation Mininova; Arturia MiniFreak; Modal SkulptsynthSE; Teenage Engineering PO-20.
Main software: Ableton, Arturia Analog Pro, InSidious, random free stuff from the interweb and Dexed to program the DX7. Audacity. All played through Arturia Keylab and Keystep (which has a better arpreggiator).
Plus some guitars that I can't really play very well. And an mbira, tin whistle and an alien head-shaped ukulele.

13 Just a Flesh Wound

Kraftkabel

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