This Forced Verse is a brilliant display of Diss-play, an inner Universal struggle riffed out just right. You have synco-spaced and metered out Just-ice with a side of spiced strum, on the rocks!

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?

***

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...

***

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?

***

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

Chapter Nine

***Sex***
 ~ Ascensions Dissent ~  

No more high paying job,  
No more big house, fancy wardrobe, or flash car.
  No sycophants validating and reinforcing Him anymore.  

Soon Geo was labelled a failure, a loser, and a fraud.  

As the hollow empire of His public image collapsed,  
Moe was deflating with it.  

He thrived on the validation of others to survive. So He was deeply chagrined by the disdainful words of others.  
He had only one place to go for hot air and solace…  
One final comfort.  

Moe wanted to indulge in the only thing that Geo had left Him with - His sexual machinations.  

Geo did not mind the labels that people attributed to Him. He did not take the ‘losses’ as hard as Moe did. 
In fact, they were not losses at all to Him. 
They were the shedding of dead-weight.
 Geo had the company of that wonderful warmth - the growing light in His heart that made things clearer and more vibrant the brighter it got.
 And the Love in His heart meant more to Him now than all these trivial things ever did or ever could.  

But that was all that Moe had left, and so it became His final stand. 
If He gave in anymore He would be no more!

  So Moe began to fight. To revolt.

  Moe was fighting for His life.  
But Geo’s life was not on the line. And He had no need to fight for such superficial things.  
Moe had no power.
  Moe had no control over His body.
  He fought for Geo’s favour only in the arena of Mind - but no action takes place there.  
Only idea.  
Only thought.  

Unless these thoughts were taken - believed to be true - and allowed to grow in the soil of the mind, they would have no strength to effect any action.

  Here Geo recognized that these thoughts were not Him.  
That they had nothing to do with Him.  
Geo was living from His heart, and Moe’s world was confined only to the mind. 
This was where Moe waged His threadbare War. 
But that world had become inconsequential to Geo.  He was not there. 
And as long as Geo had that Love in His heart, for all He cared, Moe could keep the mind, and run rampant up there all He wanted.  
He recognized that Moe was only a thought.
  An idea.  
But right now,  

TL;DR 

  The idea of Moe was being mischievous and deceptive, doing whatever had to be done to continue to have an influence on - and some control over the kingdom of Geo’s mind.  
There was a final rebellion.  
Moe had become a…  

• Mind Criminal •

I've got the Power, I've got Control.

The First Mind Criminal,
I see him as the Seminal Search for the Pinnacle,
No Settling for Similar.
Going down to the Church, Wearing Thinner on my Saint in a Sinner Role.
Yes I am.

I've got the Power, I've got Control.

My Minds Mining up the Mineral,
I'm choosing the Familiar in General, Outsider to my Inner Role.
My Worries are Identical,
the Criminal's Subliminal, He's pushing on my Limits I'm a Window in the Winter Cold.

I've got the Power, I've got Control.
It's now or never, lets let it go.

Let Go, Get Low, Get Down Get Down.

Come on, Be Like James Brown,
Only, Vice Versa, I'm forcing another Verse
about the decline of the First to the Worse, Won't Reimburse the Time.
Cursed to Disperse the Plans,
Pursed Increasingly ever more Sparse with every Burst of the Man.
No Reverse of the Sands, No Rebirth in this Land, It's Destitute and Abandoned,
Hands up and Heads up too, when You're Standing up to the Bandit.
Go on, Take a Swing if you think that you can Land it,
Or wrap your Wrists up in them Shackles and Just say that you Fanned it.

Just Say it.
Just Say This:
I've got the Power, I've got Control.
It's now or never, to let it go!

Let Go, Get Low, Get Down Get Down.

My Head is Spinning Condition very Critical,
The Issues are Centrifugal, and Balancing the Chemicals.
I Fan the Flames of the Good Fire that Rekindles Souls.
A Cold Hearted Pyro, Willing Power to the Integral.

That's us.
Here we Go.
I've got the Power, I've got Control.
I've got the Power to Let it Go.

Let Go, Get Low, Get Down Get Down.

Cranium Titanium II

Chapter Nine: Mind Criminal (Let Go, Get Lo)

^-^

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

Chapter Nine: Mind Criminal (Let Go, Get Lo)

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