your VERY talented and gifted my DEAREST FRIEND

You have such a way with words, Tanisha. I'm wrestling with that idea 'the poison is me', but it's a truth I have to face. I'm responsible for my own thoughts. :)

My visits here are always rewarding, Tanisha. You have a loving and passionate (but also very honest) perspective on life.

So peaceful! 😊 ... Definitely could play this on repeat while meditating.

GodKing MajorLucre Ft Joon Da Great ( I Hussle )

rere 23 - act up remix

lady of fire poetry and music and video 

Here is the official music video for "Earth Child":
https://youtu.be/o4zID_01fvY

Earth Child
I am my own medicine
the poison is me
but I am not bound
by my word
for the sky is me
as well as the scent
from a wild flower
when you see me
I am also the mountain
you cannot move
to know my strength
is happiness
in the elements of earth
to know I am the still
water flowing
is peace
I am calm

arturia key step 37/ableton live: Tanisha Jackland
mixed and mastered by Tanisha Jackland

Earth Child (video link in description)

Three Manifolds

Gin Blossoms Cover.  Story about a time ago:

I lived in Tempe, AZ from 1987-92 where the Gin Blossoms originated. When I was 21 in 1989 I was able to see them play at Long Wongs. Before I turned 21 I listened to them in the street in front of the bar along Mill Ave with the other underage kids. Long Wongs (now gone) was a chicken wing and beer joint with live music on Mill Ave. A fixture in Old Town Tempe. The Gin Blossoms sometimes also played at Long Wongs incognito as the “Del Montes” and played for about five hours straight and played old TV theme songs along with all their original material and the hits before they were hits like "Mrs. Rita" and "Allison Road". Hearing Allison Road ring-out over Mill Avenue late at night was a common sound and anyone could hear that song a hundred times and still love it, a great tune.  Once I saw the Del Montes with Elvis The Cat, a neighborhood street artist and overall character. Robin Wilson is also a truly kind man. He once set me up at an open mic at the Sun Club in Tempe around 1990 so I could sing a few songs for my new girlfriend. He also worked at Tower Records where I was a regular.  Anyway, I just met this amazing girl and wanted to impress her and sing her some songs and he also hosted an open mic at the Sun Club, another local dive bar and Tempe music institution at the other end of town. That ended up being the girl I took to Seattle and married. And I never got to thank that Gin Blossoms singer for setting me up, introducing me, and doing my sound to make a good impression - he became a rock star and I moved to Seattle with the girl. But all remains well to this day with thanks to him. Robin Wilson is a Class Act  JT
🐣
https://wc.arizona.edu/papers/92/catalyst/edition8/05_1_m.html

Follow You Down - Ode To Long Wongs

Follow You Down - Ode to Long Wongs (Kitchen Pop)

Memories

The sky is drowning, the fields are weeping
In the darkness mothers sleeping
I’m feeling lonely, like no one knows me
The gods foretold this, I get to own it
The cold stares of the angels
The long fall from the heavens
A last walk in the garden
Dark trail through the forest
Then oblivion

The rats are at the apples
The shadows are long
The stable is silent
All the horses have gone
Riding off to the sunset, leaving you all alone
Touch the grass for the last time
and now you have known oblivion

Oblivion

I funky groovy tribute to the old Woodstock vibe, the artists and their groovy music. 
Real artists that played an instrument and made history... a long time ago...

"That day of mud and tents
Strings played a groove intense
No pads, samples, no fortune won
The kiss, the dream, the love
The funky way, a long time gone"

Sexy Retro Funk - (Messing around with a 70's vibe)

A soundscape evoking anxiousness and uncertain territories while being able to find the confidence to embrace the journey.

Shimkari

Ahhh, the 90's Grateful Dead revival years! I dedicate this to the women that I met during a Grateful Dead concert during the early 90's. Never to be seen again, gone like a ray of light. Having some fun with the band name in the title of this one. Thanks for listening!
From the EP "Smilers"
 
Lyrics:
I'm not looking at you , she said
I'm looking a those auras spinning around your head
At this music festival
A Ticketmaster time machine
It's not what's real
It's what you believe

(chorus)She has a way
Of getting into your mind
And she likes to stay
To the morning light
Until that sunshines just right
I feel so gratefully fed
Gratefully fed

All these trust fund kids
Dressed like hippies
She does her hippy dance
She spins and twirls with all her beads
She does her hippy dances
In service to capitalism
She works during the week
At Chase Manhattan
"The friendliest bank in town"
They're the friendliest folks around!
(chorus)
Gratefully fed

Gratefully Fed

Collab with Damga. First track of a set of 3 instrumentals.

Chaos of Forgotten Melodies

Irony Of Chaos - Love In A Magnetic Cloud

Irony Of Chaos - Love In A Magnetic Cloud (Damga & HyLGZ22)

Altrove (Another time, another place)

Colours ( Lindentronic Mix )

I am curious how my, or anybody's, musical output is altered by actual life. Usually, well, at least over the last bunch of years that I've been posting here. I can't really say because both the music and life are in a constant flow. This last year though the music and my normal day to day life were somewhat interrupted. I seem to be settling into a familiar but slightly different approach. Although most of my curiosities remain. This piece is really a reframing. That's what I like to call it when I cover a song by someone but keep the original vocal. In this case Ian Stephen. As a change of pace I am actually playing, as a bassist with Mr. Stephen. I must say it delights me that for once I can share one of my musical portraits with the subject. It's also fun to ponder why I've changed, in my own music, what I have.

Let Elvis Free

Beach Destiny

scattered

Blazed

Codex Scrolls + Anam  Hermit     Blazed

"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'm usually in the musical kitchen cooking up my own sound. I love collaborating and have collaborated with many great musicians here on SoundCloud. If you are interested in cooking up something great, then give me a holler!

Never forget.

And a BIG thank you to anyone who has ever listened, commented and shared my poetry AND music.  I appreciate you immensely.

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