African Blades

Revolved a

Having received a wonderful selection of inspired takes on two simple guitar pieces which I posted for open collaboration, I figured I should collect them like a little bouquet of musical flowers. Here they are for you to enjoy : ) The original pieces -- out there . . somewhere & writ in air -- are free to download and to tinker with and re-interpret, should you feel so inclined. 
(Please let me know if you do : )

out there . . somewhere ~ writ in air :

learningtoplay and friends -- collaborations : )

. . withtheotherkids . .

ISN'T IT ALL STRANGE?

Beginning this New Year that We All Wish Better with Original Eclectic, Progressive, Avant-Garde, Awakening & Hoping Sounds & Songs
from some of our Lovely Wide Artists & Friends Community, here on SC...
Hope you enjoy it all! Thanks in advance to SC members for like the Playlist & the Tracks in it :)
Let's Show Love & Support to Each Other...
PS > as there is a limit of 100 likes a day on SC, if you did yet like more than 23 others tracks elsewhere, you can manage to like some today & some tomorrow...
Art Cover by Shiloh Sophia

WISHING TIME OF CHANGING Season Starting 2020

Follow Simon ++++ Link for collab https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay
Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/writ-in-air

This track has been publicly released under a Creative Commons License.

Perfectly Good J BeAt Remix Collab Simon Learning To Play Instrumental

I actually wrote and recorded most of this in one day back in September of 2012. At the time I was really obsessed with late 50s/early 60s lullaby doo wop songs from bands like The Flamingos and The Fleetwoods. Since then I’ve become aware of an unexpected parallel in subject matter between this song an entire genre of teenage tragedy songs from that era. I never posted it because I was unhappy with my vocal performance, but I’ve realized there’s no point in letting it waste away, unlistened to, just because it’s not perfect.

First Kiss

Composition - Guitars - Production - Chris Dargay - 2014

Turned Up!!!

Original music by MOON DUST -- 
https://soundcloud.com/petri-kiviniemi

Lyrics, vocals, mix by learningtoplay

Talking Heads (MOON DUST & learningtoplay)

I Hear The Day Has Come

Very thankful to learningtoplay to have worked with me on this song. You can hear his music here : 
https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay from Australia.

Clip here https://youtu.be/zO7r8Qa7mRs
the picture is a still from The devil's hand (1962) that was remixed in the clip

As they lowered his casket
I caught your look
There was nothing I'd read about that
In the book 30 

When you came towards me
It was like a dream
In my mind I saw a gun flash
Then I heard a scream

I've got a few leads
But I think I'm gonna need . . to check this out

Now you've told your story
Not what you've got to hide
All I really need to know is
Baby are you on my side?

In your fancy car you
Could take me for a ride
Are we heading for heaven or hell?
I think I'd better decide

I've got a few leads
I've got a heart that bleeds
I think I'm gonna really need . . 
to check you out

I'm following hunches
Is there something I've missed?
Well, that body count keeps jumping
Since the night we kissed

The streets are dark
With something more than night
And it's time for me to figure out
If this is wrong or right

I'm looking for signs
In your lovely lines
I'm gonna have to take my time and check this out
Without a doubt

I need to check, check, check, check
to get, get, get, get, get, get hold of your love
your love

These are dangerous people
With their secrets and lies
But I'll risk it all, baby
For the look in your eyes . . for the look in your eyes.

Check this out - learningtoplay & oorlab + clip

Music by KamiKamii: https://soundcloud.com/kamikami-sc
Lyrics/vocals by ltp.

Children are our future. Love them, care for them, protect them. Always.

SoundCloud Collabs

Anyone . . KamiKamii ft. ltp

Wishes

The Dust

Very happy to have had the chance to collaborate with The Ghostfather, on his incredible instrumental tour de force - 'exhaustfumes'. It got into my head and wouldn't get out. Save our planet.

Listen to The Ghostfather's excellent sounds here: https://soundcloud.com/user-805491886

Lyrics and vocals -- learningtoplay

slow disolve

exhaustfumes -- The Ghostfather (+ ltp)

I had a lot of fun working with this amazing beat from EllE -- Cycle of Hands. Awesome, inspiring music which just lifts you and sets you afloat : ) 

Check her excellent songs here: https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands

Lyrics and vocals -- learningtoplay

azure - Cycle of Hands (+ltp)

la fiesta de los dioses está a tu favor
from: COllAb CHaLLenge 1. by SMH
https://soundcloud.com/sarahmegahertz/collaboration-challenge?in=sarahmegahertz/sets/collaboration-challenge
ღƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♡ƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♪ღƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♡ƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♪
https://soundcloud.com/sarahmegahertz

Sarah Mega-Hertz x SSOMMA सोम / عيد الآلهة في صالحك.

music by gordin bones
electro drum beat by quint baker
percussion by gordin bones
keyboards by gordin bones
vocals by gordin bones 

Mannequins Inhabit this Place

blued

for you, bro : )

Invitation to an OPEN COLLAB:

out there . . somewhere
are you? 'f you feel like adding a bit of anything you like to this
please, be my guest : )
or put it in yr 
blender
: 0    Playlist of originals and subsequent collaborative interpretations is here:
https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/sets/out-there-somewhere-writ-in

out there . . somewhere

Jumped at suggestion from $ad for some vocal flow lines through my lost in space guitar. Thanks so much for yr inspired musings, $ad : )

Check out his amazing work here: https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee

music & mix - learningtoplay
lyrics and vocals - $ad

out there . . somewhere (ltp + $ad)

I'm very happy that Terry was inspired to lay down some improvised, free-style, clear-eyed observations on where the ? we're going : )to the tune of 'out there . . somewhere'. https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere

If you haven't discovered Terry's wonderful music, writing, performance yet, do yourself a favour and go directly to: https://soundcloud.com/user-536194718

guitar by learningtoplay // beats, bass, free-style poetry & vocals by Terry Wigmore (improv transcript below)

I have half a mind to write something profound: something that would not easily be forgotten.
And then my thoughts run away with my logic 
Running to the extremes of existence, thoughts of the cosmological meaning of
a grain of sand, on a polluted beach, soon to be underwater, from global warming.
Temperatures rise, people's feeling's rise, dough rises, yeast...
Flat bread, Flat earth... how can we connect all these tings?
Line ups on the top of Mount Everest! Who would have thought that this would be a thing that you could see in a movie clip on the evening news? Breaking News! Mountaineers fall to their deaths waiting in line, through lack of oxygen. Maybe we should give a few politicians some lack of oxygen and see how they fall?! Too much air on the airwaves, not enough content. A million channels, high -speed delivery system...no one listening...no one cares.
Shoe-box size satellites, 60 of them released. Supposed to be putting the internet to every space available on the surface of the earth. Internet? How about food? How about clean water? How about a place to feel safe? How about a place of refuge for a refugee? A place of comfort for those who traveled and struggled all their lives, escaping one form of persecution only to fall to a legal entanglement that keeps them dying in cages. So much to ponder, so little time.
Life is full of these enigmas. Or is it that life is full of mystery wrapped in an enema?
A whole lot of house cleaning to be done.
What does it take? What would it take for us to to work together for once, just once? Solve the problem of , “I don't like you, but I'm willing to work with you?” “ I don't like your...thoughts, your clothes, the colour of your skin, the books you read, the celebrations you have,...but I'm willing to work with you...”
Because I don't need to be right, I just need to be free...free from HATE.

We all came from somewhere. We're all migrants from a place that we called home. Whatever that place looks like now, home is where the heart IS...where you feel connected! You might have been unplugged, perhaps forcefully unplugged, but you're here NOW. THIS is home! This is where we have to work together, to love, to live, and to build together, to Be Free...

(T Wigmore, in the flow with learningtoplay's 'Out There . . Somewhere')

out there . . somewhere (ltp + Terry Wigmore)

Here is the result of a collaboration with my SC friend Gina Wood @gina-wood-837506330
 Initially the collaboration was aiming to become an improvisation about Emerson Lake and Palmer, which we both like very much.
See what it has become :-)
We are sure you all will enjoy the journey :-)

Saged Fusion

Saged Fusion | Gina Wood & N.o.b.S.

End Game

encompassing the earth - [petri and soundboard tinkerers - original]

vocal - soundboard tinkerers
music - Petri of Lapin ihmeellinen luonto
produced by soundboard tinkerers sept 2019

encompassing the earth - [with petri and soundboard tinkerers - original]

EURASIA

I stumbled upon this track yesterday, an open collab: https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/out-there-somewhere and produced this remix - flute addition in a very spontanously first go. Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/learningtoplay/ ... hope he will like my idea, and of course all inclined listeners too ! enJoy !

out there ... somewhere // by learning to play - remix = flute added

Hey, here is a new collab with @specialececilia my special partner in vibes!!   
Here is our album https://soundcloud.com/ricochet8888/sets/special-cecilia-rico-collabs
Enjoy 
Dx

Forward **Cecilia and Ricø ** House Dub

This is a 80s style electronic New Wave song. The synth sounds are analog made with Korg Volca Keys. Percussion were played with e-drum. Some e-bass and e-guitar sounds complete the soundscape. Thank you so much Cecilia for all your beautiful open collab songs. Again with a important message.

Open collab by @specialvocals 
Open collab site: https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/

Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/aca-same-planet

Lyrics & Vocals: Special Cecilia 

Background Vocals: OMCB 
Music & Arrangement: OMCB

Cover Picture: Bild von Gerd Altmann auf Pixabay https://pixabay.com

SAME PLANET (We Want No More Tribal Wars)

TRIBAL WARS WE HAVE SEEN ENOUGH 
TRIBAL WARS WE DON'T WANT NO MORE
WE ALL LIVING ON A SAME PLANET
      
WANT EVERYBODY TO BE HAPPY 
STOP FUSS & FIGHTING
WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
 ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
 CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERS
 UNITE OUR LIGHTS 
 
WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ALL COMPLEMENT
 ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
 UNITE OUR LIGHTS 
TO TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS

THERE IS STILL WAY TO GO FOR A BETTER FUTURE 
KEEP GOING FORWARD
 WE CAN BE GREATER 
WITH TIME EVOLVING EVOLVING
WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT,
ALL CHILDREN OF THE EARTH

OMCB & Friends

Same Planet - Special Cecilia & OMCB

Paulo Medias Project Band Support and backing vocals...Thanks again to  Special Cecilia for the Lead Vocals, Lyrics and the Muse...

Second Chance (Special Cecilia Colab)

I was really stoked to hear from letterfounder that he'd finished his song 'back at the cave', based around my instrumental 'writ in air'. 
I love his fascinating, exploratory music, great lyrics and vocals. For more of his excellent work visit: https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
letterfounder - lyrics and vocals
learningtoplay - guitar melody

in progress 2019/20

back at the cave -- letterfounder (ft. learningtoplay)

What a great opportunity for another collaboration with Paul Racle. Couldn't resist such a beautiful canvas to work with. I changed the tempo to 104 and went for it. Thank you Paul! :)

Instrumental: Paploviante 
Vocals: Ian Greaves aka IPG1 https://soundcloud.com/ipg1

Below is the link to the original track.

https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/in-the-beginning-open-collab
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante2

Inspiration (ELP) - From the Beginning
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER were a British progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The group consisted of keyboardist Keith Emerson, singer, guitarist, and producer Greg Lake, and drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer. They were one of the most popular progressive rock bands in the 1970s.

Instrumental Rock

In The Beginning

You might like to watch a video for this track at https://youtu.be/gEGUNGA_sKo or https://vimeo.com/465584816

This was primarily an ambient track, but then a harmonic and rhythmic content showed up in my mind, and a couple of lines of lyrics immediately followed, so I guess it turned to be some kind of experimental ethnic desert blues... I don't know whether I'm right or wrong, I'm not so good at labelling music.
It's all about Africa, quite obviously. What if the same panic that many people in Western countries are experiencing now because of COVID-19 was a permanent condition? What if beside epidemics we had to face wars, famines, poverty, rapes, violence and structural corruption every single day of our life? I had these and other questions in my mind while recording this tune...

Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, vocals, Cretan lyra, samplers

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

What About Africa?

music . The Fudge Nutz @helenswambo
Instrumental "Extinct rhythm-----Twice Zero Zero"
https://soundcloud.com/helenswambo/extinct-rhythm-twice-zero-zero

partial lyrics, vocals, sample mix, cover design . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

Features vocal samples from this documentary "Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics" https://www.nfb.ca/film/whos_counting/

Cover Photo is of author Fauzia Rafique  @uddari
meditating outside the shrine of Bulleh Shah in Karachi, Pakistan
https://gandholi.wordpress.com

A COST
“The system was developed by John Maynard Canes and Richard Stone, based on a pamphlet they wrote called, literally, The British National Income & How to Pay for the War, and this became the basis of national income accounting.

...the more that you smoke cigarettes or the more that you have automobile accidents the more growth increases.

... National Income Accounting.

… we’ve just contributed to the national income of the country…

… Stone was then recruited by the new United Nation’s organization.

…. I would kind of consider that a debit in my account - a cost not a benefit. National Income accounting doesn’t have a debit side, as long as the activity passes through the market, its good for growth!

…. by 1953, that set of rules was imposed on every country. Its called the United Nation’s System of National Accounts… all nations must conform to these rules of economic measurements or they cannot belong to the United Nations.

Important decisions are made with these figures, decisions which will determines who’s needs are met first, decisions on killing the planet, decisions on who will live, or die. These measurements do not include everything, they are highly selective.

So what is included and excluded in this system? The system includes everything that goes through the market place. 

… You know, I would kind of consider that a debit in my account, a cost, not a benefit!”

> its a game, all twisted, it’s all illusion, and you twist me, all illusion<

“… this means that there is no value to peace … this means that there is no value to the preservation of natural resources for future generations… this means there is no value to unpaid work, including the unpaid work of reproducing human life itself, including the unpaid work of women who feed and nurture their own families.”

> we’re gonna take it down, we’re gonna take it down, this is a construct, we’re gonna take it down. this construct, we gonna take it down. we’re gonna take it down. border, border, this construct we gonna take it down<

“this an economic system that can eventually kill us all”

> we’re gonna take it down, i live and breathe, this construct, we’re gonna take it down, what’s a borders, take a hold on me, border border, take it down, i am the construct, take it down, border, we gonna take it down, i am the construct borders<

>history, history, show me your time, breath of soul, oh all that they build for us is lies, body of clay, history, breathe of soul, time, breathe of soul, ill be singing from a cage, tell you of rage, breathe of soul, work it in your favour, breath of soul, we’re gonna take it down, your desperation, hopelessness, your desperation, helplessness, we’re gonna take it down.<

A clever bird: builds a nest to protect all of us!*

>take it down, this economic system! this economic system<

“...that death, homelessness, injury, poverty and starvation caused by the use of these weapons is not even registered as a deficit!”

>It’s going down!!!! we’re gonna take it down, we gonna take it down.
Yay dekhay gay to! (they shall see then! / when they will see.)<

“A Cost!”

>Yay dekhay gay to! Yay dekhay gay to.<

“Not a benefit!”

>Yay, this economic system, yay, is going down, dekhay gay to!<

“Not a benefit!”

>Yay dekhay gay to! Down! Going Down! Down!<

>Body of clay, breath of soul<

>we're gonna take it down, we're gonna take it down<

*this line is based on a Zimbabwean proverb in Shona

The Fudge Nutz & Myrh

A Cost - The Fudge Nutz | Myrh

.The work used "field" recordings, noise generators, modular synthesis and tracks of other artists.

Recitation 4

Five steps (each one with two parts) progressing along 3 minutes thru different styles: rock, psycho, pop, hard..., and finally back to the psychopoppy ones.

Letra / Lyrics:

No siempre he estado aquí (soy imperfecto) / I have not always been here (I am imperfect)

Cuando tengo frío, o tengo calor, / When I feel cold, or I feel hot,
cuando tropiezo, me quemo, o siento dolor… / when I stumble, I burn myself, or feel pain …

y  empiezo a pensar que no siempre he estado aquí, / and I start to think that I have not always been here,
y que todo en este mundo es ajeno a mí. / and that everything in this world is alien to me.

Pienso que este cuerpo / I think that this body
que me sirve para moverme / I use to move myself
no es todo lo perfecto que debiera. / is not as perfect as it had to.

Me siento extraño / I feel strange
donde tendría que estar a gusto, / where I should to be comfortable,
y me reconforto / and I feel better
cuando me relaciono bien con el mundo. / when I relate well to the world.

Empiezo a pensar en el tránsito; / I start to think about the passage;
que no siempre he estado ni estaré aquí; / that I have not always been nor will be here;
que mi vida es un entretenimiento / about my life being an entertainment
en el viaje a otro sitio. / along the trip to another place.

Y descubro lo profundo / And I discover the deepness
entre tanta superficialidad, / among so much superficialness,
si la meta de todo lo que hago / if the goal of everything I do
es comer y respirar, / is to eat and breathe,
¿qué clase de razón tengo en la cabeza? / what kind of reason do I have in my head?
¿qué soy yo dentro de este juego? / what am I within this game?

 descubro lo profundo / And I discover the deepness
entre tanta superficialidad, / among so much superficialness,
y me pongo a pensar, / and I start thinking,
y empiezo a pensar… / and I start to think …

y  empiezo a pensar que no siempre he estado aquí, / and I start to think that I have not always been here,
y que todo en este mundo es ajeno a mí. / and that everything in this world is alien to me.

Pienso que este cuerpo / I think that this body
que me sirve para moverme / I use to move myself
no es todo lo perfecto que debiera. / is not as perfect as it had to.

©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2013 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Image: "Rocky sprout", photo by Ruizzoidman

No siempre he estado aquí (Soy imperfecto)

Much of my music is FREE TO DOWNLOAD.
Love this space, wherever it is, and the amazing sounds of humanity. Happy to mix my music with yours, if you have an idea or no idea : ) -- if you would like to remix, remake, redeem any part of anything here, let me know.   ~ 

These are the wonderful musicians I've been lucky enough to work with so far on SC:

MOON DUST - https://soundcloud.com/petri-kiviniemi
Oorlab - https://soundcloud.com/oorlab
Kamikami - https://soundcloud.com/kamikami-sc
Spökpappa (The Ghostfather)- @user-805491886
Cycle of Hands - https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands
Wane of Summer - https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer/tracks
Ami Dreamer - https://soundcloud.com/ami_dreamer
Bonetender - https://soundcloud.com/bonetender
Shrowd ($ad)- https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee
Terry Wigmore - https://soundcloud.com/user-536194718
JBeAt {to my own drum} - https://soundcloud.com/jbeattomyowndrumindiepop
joerxworx - https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Koma Gaeshi - https://soundcloud.com/koma-gaeshi
letterfounder - https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
Dean Massicotte - https://soundcloud.com/deanmassicotte
..dusboblaze.. - https://soundcloud.com/user-430072946
Don't kill butterflies - https://soundcloud.com/dontkillbutterflies
Arma Ignifera - https://soundcloud.com/herronsound
Nicholas Ridiculous - https://soundcloud.com/nickrdavies
Rhiannon's Liquid Soul - https://soundcloud.com/bre-cabin
MingMonk - https://soundcloud.com/mingmonk
ŞöļäçėŠțřëęț - @solacestreet
arse-myth - https://soundcloud.com/arse-myth
mannu - https://soundcloud.com/the-mannu