Electric Heartbeat

"Délirons sérieusement sous les arcades baignées de sons"
Sweet theme for piano, bass and drums.

Sous les arcades

"Dolce far niente" is an Italian expression that means the sweet pleasure of doing nothing, of enjoying life in a relaxed, slow, and contemplative way, without commitments or guilt, a concept linked to Italian culture and the beauty of idleness.
Thanks, as always, to my talented friend @georg-boehme on the clarinet.
That should have been a little, disengaged piece to easily record but while working on it we both had a lot of problems: some health issues, a couple of weeks without Internet connection, a new PC with consequent loss of a lot of musical software and a mess with projects on my new DAW [Panic!]... Boring, irritating things, exactly the opposite of the song's spirit, but in the end we made it!
Here you can listen to our previous collaborations: soundcloud.com/francescocartocci/sets/danke-georg

Composition and all arrangements: Francesco Cartocci

Lazy

Dolce far niente - with Georg Boehme

A scammer tried to lure me in with an advance payment. He wanted a personalized birthday song. I was able to keep him on a leash long enough to get details about this fictional “birthday cousin”,  which I turned into text. The profile has since been deleted, but I wrote the song anyway,  just re-dedicated it,  dedicated it to all those who simply disappear, for whatever reason...
It was an interesting inspiring experiment…

The marble sculpture "Monument to the Unknown Deserter" was created in 1989 at the instigation of the Bonn Peace Plenum by the Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy, who was living in Berlin at the time.

A Birthday Garland

ref. 

This is… , this is a…
This is a garland for you…				(3)	

This is… , this is your…
This is your birthday song.

1
Dear Unknown Deserter,
I only know you by name...
I heard today is your day.
So many candles on the cake.

Weren’t you the one with the wild hair?
What’s the color of  the socks you wear?
Always up for a prank?
Who makes the others laugh?
Who is blushing right now?

The one with the camera,
Capturing the moment?
Look around yourself,
All the loved ones, all your friends,
How they rejoice with you and they chant:

ref.
This is… , this is a…
This is a garland for you 				(2)	
 
This is… , this is your…
This is your birthday song.				(2)			

2
Weren’t you the one who dreamt of skydive?
Here's some dumb donkey jackass recommending:

Look around yourself, capture the moment
It is not the flight that matters, but the landing…

Look around yourself…
This is your life lately
All the loved ones, all your friends
Rejoice with you and they chant:

ref.+out
This is… , this is a…
This is a garland for you 				(2)

This is… , this is your…
This is your birthday song.				(2)

(... Look around yourself
Capture this moment
All your loving ones and friends
They rejoice with you and they chant…)

A Birthday Garland

Indio Tribute
Bill Liggett : Acoustic guitar & vocals

Big Hard Sun

Wooden Heart

I wanted this to be the last thing I posted for 2025.
'Firefly' is a song written & sung by a friend and previous coworker of mine, Rosemary Phelan, who was a community nurse, poet, author, and musician.  The song was part of the soundtrack for a play called "Chemo Brain!", in which her sister had performed. In Rosemary's time as a nurse, she had come to discover music as a means for comfort and healing, until she left the health care practice and delved into music full time.  She had an exquisite voice, and her music was a canvas for her incredible spirit and what was in her heart. Rosemary was one of those rare birds who you feel an instant connection to, and it's cliché to say, but she really had some kind of magic that touched your heart when you meet her. 

Rosemary was quite an accomplished and well known Canadian artist, winning several awards for her music, and collaborating with famous artists such as Murray Foster (bassist - Great Big Sea) and Juno award winning David Francey, who plays guitar and backing vocals on this song. But I never even knew that about her at the time - she was quite modest and always much more giving of herself.  I just knew her as Rosemary, the nurse, who had a beautiful new song she was working on and she asked me if I would play a bit of drum/percussion on it. 

The song of course was Firefly, and while I got to spend a few visits at her home discussing ideas, and trying out possible parts for the song, it was obviously all Rosemary's creation, together with the production of the talented multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason LaPrade, who adds the gorgeous dobro here, and would later become Rosemary's husband!  I got to perform the song once live on stage with Rosemary and David, which I only now realize what an honour that was, because I didn't understand at the time how famous these two were, living in my little bubble, lol! 

Sadly, Rosemary passed away from ovarian cancer in 2015. I don't think I ever really processed it or even fully acknowledged it at the time, but I've been thinking of her lately, and wanted to pay tribute to my friend by sharing this song she wrote. It's a gem. Just like Rosemary.

This is where Rosemary's music and writings can be found...
https://www.rosemaryphelan.com/

On Soundcloud:
Rosemary Phelan - https://soundcloud.com/rosemary-phelan
Jason LaPrade - https://soundcloud.com/jason-laprade
David Francey - https://soundcloud.com/davidfrancey

Firefly (by Rosemary, for Rosemary)

Personal dark ambient approach to Johannes Brahms' “Wiegenlied" (Cradle Song), Op. 49, No. 4, 1868, for music box, rubber bands and analog synthesizer. Using snippets from recordings with Jeanette McDonald, Elisabeth Grümmer, Hermann Prey and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as an old radio introduction (speaker unknown). All sounds  - apart from the aforementioned excerpts - , mixing, and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

Wiegenlied, deconstructed

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Check out mind travel: https://soundcloud.com/user-mindtravel
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mind travel: original guitar track 'Keep the files' - https://soundcloud.com/user-mindtravel/keep-the-files
FoF: drums, keys, virtual instruments, mix

Creep the files - 'Keep the files' by mind travel, with FoF additions

Nothing extraordinary happens here and that is the beauty.
Just the slow drift of a day that knows its path, and follows it.

Ordinary Days

Independent electronic ambient artist, crafting immersive soundscapes that blend atmosphere with deep exploration of texture and tone. My compositions are shaped by the active imagination described by C. G. Jung and the vivid landscapes of my dreams, translating emotions into evolving auditory experiences.
Influenced by ambient minimalism and deep bass tweaking with VCF filters, my music layers rich harmonics, resonant frequencies, and fluid transitions to create enveloping and transportive journeys.

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Record Label: Shadow Glass Recordings 
No promoters I handle all my own production.

Ordinary Days

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