@oyxxx  Thank you so much however this is an instrumental piece but thank you for the kind words.

A lovely piece of Colorful intertwining bass work. A great calm and curious feeling this gave me. Beautiful work🌹

Well I never! A bass orchestra! Very cool. Great composition

love this melody. soft/smooth just goes along then the deep tones come in....

Beautiful sound multiplied harmoniously - soothes the soul, great piece!!

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Sinister Serenade begins with a haunting minor feel, immediately setting a tone of melancholy and quiet despair. The track features a combination of electric guitar, ukulele, subbass, claps, choral pads, Rhodes piano, and additional piano layers, creating a rich but sorrowful soundscape.

At a tempo of 105.63 BPM and in 4/4 time, the track moves steadily, evoking the image of walking through cold, rain-soaked streets of New York on an autumn night. The third section of the piece introduces a cool arpeggiated guitar figure, panned to create a sense of movement and depth. Although the track maintains a single, melancholy emotion throughout, a shift in the middle introduces a hint of something more sinister, with subtle magical harmonies lifting the mood before returning to the somber melody.

The longing melody, which bookends the track, reinforces the feeling of solitude and contemplation, making Sinister Serenade an ideal choice for cinematic scenes that require a blend of sadness, quiet tension, and a touch of the supernatural.

Sinister Serenade

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I’m a ladybug in your dirty garden
And I fly around every morning
To every corner
Flapping my wings and I get them all wet
With the summer rain falling from the turquoise sky
And no, we don’t care for the Turkish guy
Or the Kurdish guy, or the Swedish or whatever
You woke bitches never finish a thought
This whole shit is like a Finnish art movie
About a British cunt who be really down with the left
You motherfuckers wanna copy identities
Why the fuck you asking us to be down with the theft?
Fuck the left and everyone in it
A new genocide starts every five minutes
A new generation born with advanced trauma
And that’s that democracy you’re yapping on and on about

How many more massacres do you have to fund?
How many more fake pride laps do you have to run?
Do you have to, like, post a story too?
Maybe even go and protest
Oh it’s too gorgeous of you
You’re just a true force for goodness
Doing all the things you’re supposed to just do
The soldier of truth
The wokest hocus pocus joker, shit
Ain’t no limit, you can be anything
A man, a woman, or something in between
Or out of it, whatever you feel is genuine
You can be a motherfucking penguin
You can fix the world
All it takes is to keep progressing 
‘Til we all get you live the dream
In the fields, where the cotton’s digital
And everyone’s in, no color limits y’all

Ladybug

We're back.

Janine: voices, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson
Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix
David Levinson: image

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Nature has conspired to bring a basketful of obstacles 
Pesky interfering things, not the things she ought to bring 
They pile up in my way like spiky beaver dams 
They just accumulate like unbrushed tresses,

Well surprise surprise, they can be wonderful

An infantry of shoulds and bags of promises 
Have all transmogrified and curl like willow branches 
That crown around my head and vine around my feet 
And where the fire burned, they slurp the ashes

But surprise surprise, they're kinda beautiful
 it’s all so beautiful


Surprise surprise, it’s pretty beautiful
Nature is a wild thing with no philosophy 
And where the atoms turn is helter skelter 
So on the sides of trees forever lichen grows 
And mossy destiny is in their shelter

Surprise surprise, it’s all so beautiful


Surprise Surprise (with Janine Levinson)

Here is a new composition about the simple fact of loving.  Once again I could find many reasons to Hate, but I choose Love.  It's more pleasant.

Voici une nouvelle composition sur le simple fait d'aimer.  Je pourrais encore une fois trouver de nombreuses raisons de Haïr, mais je choisis l'Amour.  C'est plus agréable.

Embrace the Winter

ThrillMonkey/AnandaTuk collaboration

Check out AnandaTuk's music at: https://soundcloud.com/user-11396379

Be Like That -with AnandaTuk

Let’s stay inside, the weather’s bad today
Come back to bed, we can dream this rainy day away
Do we really have to face the world again
These stormy days don’t seem to end
Just draw the curtains, stay in the dark and we’ll sleep in

Dream with me, and we won’t come to any harm
Only we can see us through the winter storm
A love like ours ain’t likely found
Just once in a lifetime it comes around
This kind of love it leaves you ten feet off the ground

Let’s hibernate through the winter time
‘til a warm spring day when the sun shines
And the sky is blue, the grass is green
And the world returns to fine
Winter’s here but spring ain’t far behind
Let’s stay in bed today, you precious love of mine

Let’s turn off the news, it’s getting worse and worse each day
There’s too much going on, and i’m afraid to look away
Do we really have to face the world again
These stormy days don’t seem to end
Just draw the curtains, stay in the dark and we’ll sleep in


A Song For Winter Weather

Mats Demotape

Alla dagar. ( 1994 ) Eddy Mango - Margareta Theorin ( Eddy )

Hermosa

Lyrics

There’s a smell of cheap perfume
Laced with something dark
A promise whispered in your ear
A bigger lie now starts

Candy dusts your finger tips
Painted on hooker lips
One more tiny taste
One last final kiss


Your the taste of fuck
Hidden behind your candy shell
The sticky tangled mess

Cheap Perfume

"A Quiet Room" is played on a Jeff Bamburg FSC guitar. Carpathian Spruce/Macassar Ebony, DADGAD tuning. A short tune which gradually "earned" its title as I made my way through composing this piece. Recorded Feb/2025. Thanks to all who might have a listen to this new track!

A QUIET ROOM

Composition and Sampling collage by Synline.

Let's Talk About Love

Cast of Characters:
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition 
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender HSS Telecaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass with a plectrum 
 
This song began as one of Joe's, lyrically centered songs, which he wrote and filled in with VST instruments. He came up with the lyrics by sharing ideas with fellow SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani.
   Knowing that Josh is a fan of his work, Joe offered this song to him in hopes that he'd share it with the rest of the band. Of course, Josh jumped at the opportunity to work on his song, and immediately shared it with the rest of the group. 
  Ken went to work first, adding his driving, excting drums. Josh was having a hard time coming up with a good bass line for it, until Ken suggested that he use the power of the 1/8 note to propel it. Tez was up next with his clever fills you hear throughout the first half of the song. Stephen came along right after and matched Tez's energy for the guitar fills in the second half of the song. 
  It was still missing a solo in the designated spot, though, so Mark stepped up with his innovative piano solo you hear in the middle. If it sounds a little mechanical, that's because he's using an arpeggiator to achieve the effect. We thought it sounded good in a song about AI, though. 
  Once all the parts were dialed in, and Joe had gotten all his vocals tuned up, we asked one of our resident pros, Stephen, to mix it for us. He did that and mastered it, too, expertly, as always.
  This is the first song we've ever done with Joe, and don't expect it to be the last. We all really enjoyed putting together, in no small part because Joe is such a competent, receptive, and gracious collaborator. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino (and Michele Ansani):
When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers 
But I continued to play
And the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will think your songs are great even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure
And a catchy vibe and beat
It was overly verbose but when I played it people tapped their feet
In my forties I stopped wasting my time
Work was more fun I was doing just fine

AI Sucks! (Eclectic Collective with Joe Stroffolino)

special thanks for their acapella to : Ashes and Dreams
Additional voice " On sight"  thanks to :  Deadbitctrosa.....

Lyrics : 
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you

You got jump-scared so bad in your waking hours
You thought you were seeing stars
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you

Gonna see it, gonna see it, gonna see it, gonna see it
Gonna hear it, hear it
Only when you’re not listening

Gonna hear it, gonna hear it, gonna hear it, gonna hear it
Gonna see it, see it
Only when you’re not looking

It’s the same from Winnipeg to California
Punishing your intuition in the corner
It’s the same from Winnipeg to California
Punishing our intuition in the corner

The clue stuck to the bottom of a shoe
The mud trail she tracked through the living room
Told you what you already knew

The truth
The truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you
Yeah, the truth sure likes to sneak up on you

THE TRUTH. 🎧. Feat  Ashes and Dreams

Original The Beatles 1968 this is a cover of Jeff Healey's version

PdB Orchestra : Guitars & Organ

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Lyrics:
She was wrong for me
I knew it from the start
I'm not very smart
I left a spare key under the mat
To my broken heart

I'm kicking it
One step ahead of the blues
I'm kicking it 
One step ahead of the blues
I'm sleeping it off in those Sunday pews

My boss had an epiphany
When I was working at the mortuary
He said: Dig them holes faster!
"This business has no room for uncertainty!"

That may be
Oh, can't you see?
When I'm working for you
I just don't feel like I'm being me
When I'm working for you I ain't following my muse
And there she goes...
(There she goes!!!!)

I'm kicking it
One step ahead of the blues
I'm kicking it 
One step ahead of the blues
Hey friends, won't you help me spread the news?

I get all my blues for free
Don't you know I'm so low I can't see?
A lousy day...
A lousy pay...
I'm a lousy lay...
I think I'm everything
That everybody say

I'm kicking it
One step ahead of the blues
I'm kicking it 
One step ahead of the blues
I'm sleeping it off in those Sunday pews

One Step Ahead Of The Blues

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

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I just want to say that nothing would have been done here without the encouragement from the really great people here in the SC community.  Thank you.
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Hermosa

~Mark F

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