really beautiful! It's also worth noting that your choice in artwork is also exceptional. Your sound and image is so well thought out......a true visionary!

I’m really going to have to make time to sit and have a listen right through your list of songs, really enjoying so far

Four tracks in and I am pretty much hooked. Very captivating performances that convey such a vivid, palpable atmosphere... absolutely delightful!!

@glabonon: Thank you so very much for all of your incredibly kind comments!  And thank you so much for listening to so many of these old tunes!!

I truly love your vocal style, and the vibe of your music

Enticing the listener. Love the introduction of the shaker at the end..... into the rattle snakes den.

Enchanting, mystical track. Love the stripped down sound with the whispering vocals, distant guitar and backing vocals tripping out!

A past lover keeps showing up in my dreams and reminding me of my failures.
From my new LP " Low Profile". My best tracks from 2023. Thanks for listening!

Lyrics:
I get my melancholy straight from the IV drip
A Xanax, a red eyed flight on the sky ship
That's when you appeared
I'd been gorging myself on 
Televised violence
It's like synconized swimming
You were grinning while the plane was rapidly descending
(You smiled all the way down)
The atmosphere was colorless
Odorless
Void of all surface and all texture
I'm reveling in my psychosis
You reminded me I never finished my
Junkyard magnum opus
You still show up in my dreams

We were entering into 
An impressionist painted landscape
With a language that we just didn't understand
You reminded me that I'm a big believer
In blindly believing
And I need to start drinking in
A little bit more in what I'm seeing
We're like suburban dadaist
Coming in, out of the rain
My mind was racing
Like those 808 beats
There all the same
Well, that's the way the Goddamn wheel rolls
You headed off into the night
You never told me to change the angle of the light
You still show up in my dreams

"You never even had it even when you had it your hands"
You've got to bring it right down
To where the sideways ends in the light
I'm digging down deep
I'm digging down slow
I'm striking oil 
Or the fires down below
You still show up in my dreams

You Still Show Up In My Dreams

A work in progress of  River in the Sky. My PC is goofing off at times so this is a 'just in case' demo. 


Mother Moon
flame and fire dark
painting the scene
for Brother Crow

Winter child
haunting the shaman's dream
blood on the snow

Ochre line
for a black tail fox
Inca heart
rain on rain

The painted hand 
guiding the story true
hiding the bitter truth
one last day. 

Stars. A river in the sky
familiar to our eye
Something  falls as if from heaven
yet from hell.

Mother Moon flame and fire dark...



Concept. A shaman in charge of child sacrifice is losing his mind. He paints pictograms on his hands to help him remember the great stories he must tell around the fire at night. 

Not long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors the Inca astronomers discovered a great fault in the heavens which indicated a coming collapse of their entire way of life. Check out the Youtube video 'Secret of the Incas'. I loved it. Bought the book. Can't find the T-shirt tho. 


 You may be directed to a Charlton Heston movie of the same name, worth watching for the Indiana Jones moment with the sunshine bouncing around a cave to spotlight the hidden treasure. But look for this two part documentary.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbkSxDyPp6k

The Secrets Of The Incas - Part 1 of 2 (Ancient Civilization Documentary) | Timeline (youtube.com)

River in the Sky

River Dancer

Meandering

A guy who really loves his car. Really, really loves his car!
Lyrics:
Those Yokohama's they burn 
And then they spark
At midnight
A parking lot
Abandoned office park
Ohh, those kids are crazy
It's a little shady
Those fumes make me hazy
I like to show off my Baby

(Oh yeah) My baby she is a Frankenstein
Made up of modified parts
She is a modified Honda Civic
With 19 inch alloy rims
Air intake valve
Top class suspension
I like to do things different
That's why I painted an evil clown on the hood
That's the way people know I'm misunderstood
If they think your misunderstood they're less likely  to mess with you
I like to show of my baby
I like to show off my girl
(Insert slow motion shots of cars doing donuts)
My sideshow funny car

Going down the highway
We don't pay attention to the white lines
It's my total gestalt
It makes me the prophet of the asphalt
Oh I love my girl
My sideshow funny car
Watch her go...........

Sideshow Funny Car

Hiraeth

VHS Vision

thanks for listening and leaving your thoughtful comments, my friends. stay artistically vital and shed old skin if the time has come for change. that is what this song is about. -phil

cicada man

Mark Duffield: voice, vocal melody, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/markduffieldcollaboration
Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mixing
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Across the bay
Many many many miles away
See a crescent moon
Reflected in a field of poppies bloomed

Take a step into this vision, soon
Grab a flower and throw it at the moon

(YOU)
Don’t ask me how you’re gonna get there soon
(Don’t ask me, don’t ask me, do)
(YOU)
You might as well throw a flower at the moon

Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon
Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon

Save our wrecks
Oh then, say the best
Get it off your chest
Just another shipwreck

Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
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image: Bart Ros via Unsplash

Poppies (with Mark Duffield)

As I was investigating some strange signal from an asteroid, I discovered what seems to be an abandoned digsite,
I wonder, abandoned by whom or what,
I descend into the dark extrasolar dungeon,

Notes:
I sat down to make some space music, but turned almost dungeon synth-ish.
Very busy soundstage and no mixing, so I will probably make another version some day, or maybe one or more in the same style...
Played "live" on the kitchen table.

Two tracks in mix;
Synthstrom Audible Deluge
Behringer Deepmind 6

These two pieces of equipment are amazing

Extrasolar Archeology On An Abandoned Digsite

In weightless air
the trail of layers
as the dust brings
forgotten things
in tangled layers

swathes laid bare
a faded trail
 sun soaked air
in tangled pale

a deadpan air
in golden frail
as the dusk brings
forgotten things
in tangled layers

swathes laid bare
a faded trail
sun soaked air 
in tangled pale

In Tangled Layers

Little Lone Waltz

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