Poetry by Claude McKay
Vocals, vocal melody, poetry selection, arrangement: Nadia Selvaggi
Instrumental (composition), arrangement & mix by Brian Butts: https://soundcloud.com/brian-butts-565934842
Sax by Nigel Manning of The Windscale Blues Experiment: https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues

America
BY CLAUDE MCKAY (1921)
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

AMERICA by Brian Butts & Nadia Selvaggi (with The Windscale Blues Experiment)

Rhino.04

"People keep you company and serve you for a motive;
 
Real friends are hard to find these days.
 
People are insincere, 
clever in pursuing 
their own ends; 
They wander alone like the rhinoceros." 

Like the Rhinoceros.

As translated to English from 2nd century AD birch scrolls on Buddhism

Found this quote years and years ago.  If anyone can further enlighten me or point me to the original (Chinese?)text, I'd appreciate it.   Thank you to S, A, L and J for humoring me - hope you like it!

Rhinoceros o04 (feat. S, Lalita, A and J on Vox)

Anything is possible when you work on old tapes …
Anyway this master matters 🎈✌️

Art cover : Nataly NGM 

I composed the song, programmed the drums , played one bass, one guitar, and sung the two voices . 
Recorded and mixed on my good old Yamaha 4tracks tape … few years ago !

D’you hear me ?  Enjoy  ❤️‍🔥😉

Feel The Fire - Bruno C

This is the part of Witches, Junkies, and Weirdos where we slow it down and take a moment to appreciate those around us, the ones that give us a reason to keep on living.  Do You Remember? is a song dedicated to the love of my life, Wendy, and inspired by old 50's doo wop!

Do You Remember?

The Work of Art

This collaboration was born out of a desire by Diogo https://soundcloud.com/diogo-terror to create a track with a 'live', dynamic and improvised feel.

Diogo came up with the original song idea and arrangement of the track by playing in live the synth pad tweaking the notes and configs of the arpeggiator, distorted guitar and running bass line.

Trev then played in live drums using roland v-drums electronic kit to continue the live feel we wanted to create. Trev added some extra synth and lead melodies, ear candy, a little bit more fine tuning the arrangement and then mixed and mastered the track.

Fusion- Diogo Terror/Trevphonic Collaboration

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

For this composition, I use the Mela Keeravani scale.
Keeravani (pronounced keeravāṇi) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 21st Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. The 21st melakarta rāgam as per Muthuswami Dikshitar school of music is Kiraṇāval̥i.
This rāgam is a popular scale in western music as well. The Western equivalent is the Harmonic minor scale. It is said to be borrowed into Hindustani music from Carnatic music.
Keeravani scale with shadjam at C
It is the 3rd rāgam in the 4th chakra Veda. The mnemonic name is Veda-Go. The mnemonic phrase is sa ri gi ma pa dha nu.]Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):

ārohaṇa: S R₂ G₂ M₁ P D₁ N₃ Ṡ[a]
avarohaṇa: Ṡ N₃ D₁ P M₁ G₂ R₂ S[b]
The notes used in this scale are chathusruthi rishabha, sadharana gandhara, suddha madhyama, panchama, suddha dhaivatha, kakali nishadha.
As it is a melakarta rāgam, by definition it is a sampoorna rāgam (has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the shuddha madhyamam equivalent of Simhendramadhyamam, which is the 57th melakarta.
Janya Rāgams
Keeravani has many janya rāgams (derived scales) associated with it. Kalyāna vasantam is a popular janya of Keeravani. See List of janya rāgams for full list of rāgams associated with Keeravani. Other popular janya ragams include Sāmapriya and Vasantamanohari.

Far Away Reality

Oriental Wind

Composition by Brian Butts: Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Keyboard, Mix, Mastering & Cover Art.
Check out Brian Butts on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/5q5p1

Bastacho: Alto Recorder.

Enjoy from Both!




Downfeather

Remember

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