Thank you, Stevie. What a true honor is was making this tune with you. We must love ourselves, for only then will we have the supply to love others......<3

FANTASTIC emotion and urgency conveyed in this section... WOW.

What a great way to end it... precious, precarious, and potent -- absintheolute-drenched in the frenzied emerald bloodbeat of bipedal Desperation!

DAMN. Overall, a divinely wicked duet that is laced with razor-wire lyric steeped in superb backing sub-techsXt sonics -- the inevitable result being this delicate tug of war between the oh-so-human default (m)Odes of Despair and Desire. ANd all in the Name of the brace-faced, Rough Beast that is Some How simultaneously the Holey Gray Ail-meant of Be-Longing we often miss-codify as feeling [a false feel-ty borne of fraudulent pre-intense?] and the Higher, Purer You-for-(h)Ear-Yeaaaaaaahhhh Stay-t of What's-Mine-is-Yours that is Self(not)less(but more), TRUE LOVE..

I love your guitar parts Stevie. The smooth, melodic jams just always remind me of frusciante's best jams. Keep it up!

Imprint is Rachael's second single of 2022, a mystical, grief-fuelled exploration of her relationship with the coast-dwelling Cormorants of her New Brighton home. Referencing the physical landscapes of the Mersey Estuary, the Irish Sea, and the Liverpool city skyline with its ever watchful Liver Birds, Imprint evokes a Beatles-esque, Kate Bush inspired, time-tripping spin around the strangeness of grief and the beckoning solace of the natural world.

Imprint

"A vagrant with a feckless heart
Preparing to depart again
Eyes are strained upon the dark
Ever searching out the stars

This darkling world a wilderness
And we are doomed to wander it

Stumbling listless, roaming blind
By a legend ill defined
The firmament that separates
Is firmer than his trust so desolate

This darkling world a wilderness
And we are doomed to wander it"

wander

Shattered Dreams

This song takes you on a darker, but colorful journey through re-discovering feeling everything. It was written during a period of time where I was struggling with the most difficult bout of depression I have ever experienced and the numbness that ensues after. “Rain” is about feeling everything again and not being afraid to go into the darker places we tend to keep buried. Its about feeling the emotions we may distract ourselves from and even avoid in order to find healing.

When I wrote “Rain” in 2020, it was quite literally raining outside as I was exiting my car to return inside my apartment. It takes me back to the re-discovery of bodily sensations that my depressive episode had hijacked. As I felt each gentle rain drop on my skin, it felt like I was in my body again and I just stood standing in the rain soaking in every sensation I was feeling. Taking in the fresh smell of the rain, the gentle breeze, and hearing the soft pitter-patter of each droplet landing on the sidewalk. Each moment of stillness had the most profound effect on me. Its with this in mind that I share this creation with you.

Raindrops on my skin
Who knows where we’ll go from here
When I breathe you in
There’s nothing else I’d rather feel
Here

Staring in my eyes
Your gaze is my redemption
Crystal pouring down
Bathe me in your darkness
Here

Take me down
Out of this oblivion
Lift my hands
Into the grey

Wash me, wash me in your saving rain

Darkness casts its clouds
Stars are far away from here
Feeling all of this
No turning back away from you
Here

Wash me, feel me, touch me, call me
Hear me, need me, free me, love me

Rain

Aftermath is my most vulnerable release yet. It is a journey through dark, ambient, yet cinematic, and electronic elements that shed light on how personal rumination takes us out of the present reality. Aftermath tells an incredibly visceral story of how ruminating on past experiences can destroy our inner equanimity.

Aftermath was written in 2016 while I was dealing with immense feelings of guilt and shame. I kept allowing my mind to delve into the past and dwell on the events that brought these feelings. This song is a reminder to both my self and others, to not let the past rob you of the beauty, peace, and joy that is in the present moment. With this message in mind, my producer Nicci Gomez and I crafted a track that feels mysterious, haunting, and reminiscent of how these thoughts slowly make their way into our conscious mind until they take over the entirety of our mental environment. Elements in this track were also inspired by the Diablo 2 soundtrack

Aftermath

I am ME, and I am You-min. Anything else within these two lines is simply... All Good. 

Making up boxes, no matter how one frames it, is just prop-a-gating the same ole' divisive cracks under a fresh coat of bad faith-paint. So stop marking up tribal bounds, and instead, let's all BOND within the only Spectrum that should really matter: this gorgeous You-n-I-verse that we all share.

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LYRICS

How do you grope about
with eyes popped wide when there's no view 
of what stretches behind the salt suss-pression of 
your sticky-sweater skin?

Do fingers ball up, full exploratory-like
Flail away in fistfuls
Fuzzy flurry of Punch & Ply
Do digits dance delicate 'twixt the dunes
to dowse what fiery diary swells within?

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Why do we trope around
Big Lies plopped down wide open, peer-review
a spectrum skew molded by-the-bi trap within?

Genitalia vibrant stroke impressions
Hexadex or Binary, veiled hue expression
'Box be box' in spite of facets or dimension --
it still walls us in...

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What makes a fellah-fellah
...stakes a sistah-sistah
...slakes a mallow-yellow
...wakes a mistah
Whoda howda whyda focus on special 
kindsa tribal lines and gloves?

What fakes a feelah-feelah
...cakes a mistah-sistah
...shakes a twistah-listah
...breaks a blistah
why wouldn't ya want an all-encompassing 
kinda it's-all-good full life to love?

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Why do the hokey-pocus
...lose the larger focus
...choose the lie that chokes us
...rue the roost with spose-dahs?

You R you N you Are you-min
time to toss the tribes
and share one

LOVE

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Gro(w)ping Thru The F(l)og

Originally this was going to be a sing-songy track, but then my fingers couldn't stop strolling in the deep end deed-tales, and now we're all entangled by yet another instru-mental.

Soar-y.

In The Weeds, Fingers Entangled Firmamently

Note to self (Interlude)

Written and recorded by Vtop1a, track by Timothonius.

Vault of 2022

Paradox

This song was written and recorded in 2022. Track was produced by Timothonius, lyrics written and recorded by me.

It is a song about being willing to claim everything (todo) that life brings, including the heartbreak that comes inevitably as we expand and grow, forever reaching for more.

Songs are the final result of my alchemical processes. At this moment, I was coming to the realization that the relationship I was in probably needed to end in order for me to expand further. And that is what happened. Listening back to this song brings me back to that summer of 2022, when things seemed like they were getting back on track, but they weren't.

Nothing was to be the same ever again.

Like and leave a comment if you enjoyed this song.

Todo

Collaboration with Ryan ( @goodboycheerleader )

Weeooww! Thank You Ryan! This song is so wonderful, and it was a powerful experience to pour and bare heart on it with You. I Love it - and I Love You! <3

Cover sketch (of the sprightly Dragonette Boy named Maude) done by Ryan (The Good Boy Cheerleader) and effected by me (The Sketches... orrr..  The Effects in this case hahaha)!

The meaning of this song is in it's title - it's all about Self-Love.

The song was initiated and inspired by Ryan, and his incredibly sincere heart - The poetry was written based on my own journey towards Self-Love.
It can be a very difficult and terrifying thing to Love oneself, but if we don't try, then how can we truly and deeply Love any other?
It is no kindness to ourselves or others to leave our heart a mess, and our soul a war-zone.

You are not alone -

But there are things that only You can face, that only You can accept, that only You can forgive.

No one else can do it for You.

To Love Yourself isn't a one-time accomplishment. It isn't a noun. It's a verb, it's a constant unfolding, as we unfold and grow as people and souls, there is always something new that will arise within us that will require our acceptance and our Love.

This Love will take the fragmented, and make it wholesome again.

Don't condemn Yourself - You are worthy of Love and Life - You always have been, and You always will be.
Forgive Yourself, and do Your best to stop hurting Yourself - one day at a time, one step at a time, begin to Live the Life that makes You happy. Begin to nourish Your heart, and it will reveal many things to Love.

I hope this song can make You feel something soft - something sweet - something real.

I send the impossibly grand Love that fills my heart and overflows, to You.

Because You deserve it.

I share this song with You as an invitation into my heart. :) <3

I want to let You in.

I would also like to extend an invitation here, to anyone who would like to talk about their troubles or experiences with Self-Love - 

Send me a message - I am here, I can hear <3

Thank You to all who inspire -

My Love is with my family - musical, biological, spiritual <3 <3 <3 

Welcome to the Family! :D 

Poetry:

Am I even worth the space I take up?
If You knew the things I've done You'd probably turn around and run the other way.
Too afraid to dream, too dark to wake up.
Tell me, which Horizon hides the mourning sun? Did I hear somebody say -

Love Yourself, You've got to Love Yourself.
(It's easy for You to say - You ain't me)

I just wanted a break from all the heartbreak.
So I made a mistake and locked my heart away, inside a cage.
I don't want to wait to shed the dark weight.
But what if it's too late for me to change? To rearrange and turn the page?

Love Yourself, You've got to Love Yourself.
(It feels so strange - to change)

I chase the edge of the evening light.
Cuz I'm afraid of the dark of night.
Cuz I'm afraid of the dark of night,
I turn and face the dark of night.

I'm tired of chasing a day that's done.
Instead of working towards a better one.
I'm tired of chasing a day that's done.
I want to rise and meet the morning sun.

Love Yourself, You've got to Love Yourself.
(I spilled my lung - I could scream...)

Okay...
I give in...
I've got so much Love to give,
But I've been so caught up waging war,
Without and Within...
But that's no place to Live...
That's no place to Live!
Not if I ever want to let somebody in...
I want to let You in.
I want to let You in.
I want to let You in.

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Original Song Bones by Good Boy Cheerleader:

https://soundcloud.com/goodboycheerleader/love-yourself-1420-226-pm

Donations <3

Love Yourself (feat. Good Boy Cheerleader)

^-^

Be Yourself - Funk Everything Else!

Music is Magic.

Sing, Create, Connect, Share from the Heart.

Welcome to my Soundcloud-Love-Circle,

Lets call it the Lovecloud! :D

These are the Sketches, penciled quite meekly.
You paint the picture, with Your life's graffiti.

I'd like to make You smile.
I'd like to warm Your heart and make it dance.
I'd like to make You feel something.
If You see fit to give me the chance.

With so many songs to write, so many feelings to express, so much love to give...

I am Stevie, the man, the band, the singer, the composer, the player, the pseudonyms, the collaborator, the creator, the amateur, the goof, the writer, the poet, the lover, the friend, the heart and soul of Los Sketches,

And these Sketches are for You.

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Love and Gratitude to dear friends, fans, and supporters <3

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Collaborators:

Adele
Anais - @anais-avilez
Ange
Aniya - @hazysofia
Ann & Eric
Ale - @kireina_michan
Ash
 Ashley  - @schlay
Ayje - @azra-ayje
Barti - @itsyourmovie
Bataa
Beth LeBlonc
Brenda & Glenn
Brice
Cameron A M
Cassie
Cole
Darlene
Darrien - @bassickbeats
Doug
Egemen
Eireen - @eireenmusic
Elijah - @elijahsangs
Erin - @erinboltonmusic
Ewan - @ewanmacintyre
Francois  - @francois-john-cormier
Graeme - @cat-came-back
Ian
Jackson  - @jackson-petroni
Jacob - @user-jacobdeboer
Jay
Jess & Rose
Jim & Laura & Lisa
Joanne - @joanneaika
 Kaelem  - @peurpayne
Kate B. - @thebeanieful
Kate W. - @disco_cowboy
Karli  - @ikarli03
Kristoph
Lil - @l-o-t-m
Lottie - @lottiefmusic
Makana
 Marcus  - @andersandedgar
Mark - @liquiduniverse
Mark A
Martina  - @martinadinardo
Mary
Matt - @unupe
Maxwell  - @max-808814741
Mia  - @missymiaa
Natt - @nattsounds
Nikola
Paula  - @themetaphorsenthusiast20
Pete - @petevagabond
Rachel G M
Ryan - @goodboycheerleader
Sam  - @zeyabreeze
Seaton
Silva  - @silva-westera
Siska
Sophie  - @sophiestewartmusic
Spencer
Taryn - @taryn-e-1
Terran   - @terranjreinsel
Tina - @tina-nesa
Tony
Tove
Veselina
Vietta - @hmmvietta
Winnie & Willie & Jo
Will - @officialwillelliott
Yohna - @yohna-lln

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