https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer - NobS

https://soundcloud.com/stoojmusic - The Welton Shipwreck



https://soundcloud.com/user-495333206-856466515 - Andy Nagle

https://soundcloud.com/user-716607695 - Reedy

https://soundcloud.com/ombtoneollaborationite - Skeleton Key

https://soundcloud.com/brian-butts-565934842 - Brian Butts

https://soundcloud.com/bawl-slant - Kristopher Bolin

https://soundcloud.com/david-sparks-795025970 - David Sparks

https://soundcloud.com/user-331751207 - Jim Robinson/Mark Butler = KeyStone Studios
https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg - Robert Grigg

artwork -EzumeImages

Pushing Daisies

Sun's Arising Again - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Road We Travel On

Barn finds vol.4

Thank you Robert, It's always magical working with you man.
https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg

Somewhere - Robert Grigg

Living a life that I can't contain
I guess it's all my fault
Run through the wild with the scars I keep
They remind me of where I'm from
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Oh, numb my mind / I've lost my sight
So come at night / And taste a bite
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Scratch away from the skin
You said you wanted to go again
Well now it's time to sink or swim
Oh, my words are running thin
In a river full of lies
Yeah, the truth comes out in time
By that time, I hope your wise
Until then, you're running blind
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Reaching for things that I can't hold onto
I'm losing all my grip
Sailing the sea on half a plank
I'm on a sinking ship
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Oh, let me in / Inside your mind
You're still right here / You've lost the fight
So give right in / Oh, sink or swim
You have no choice / Oh, in the end
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*cheesy drum roll i made on fl studio*
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Scratch away from the skin
You said you wanted to go again
Well now it's time to sink or swim
Oh, my words are running thin
In a river full of lies
Yeah, the truth comes out in time
By that time, I hope your wise
Until then, you're running blind

Sink or Swim

Today

special thanks to my friend N.o.b.S this was fun 
more of his music @https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer

Pushing Daisies - N.o.b.S

Thank you to my Bro Andy! more from AN @ https://soundcloud.com/user-495333206-856466515
Available on all platforms

Reach Me - Andy Nagle

Thank you to my buddy Reddy for his contribution to our Pushing Daisies project you Rock Bro.
more of his music @ https://soundcloud.com/user-716607695
Available on all platforms

Steer - Reedy

Acclivity - Brian Butts

Thank you to my Brotha Kris for his contribution to this track and the Pushing Daisies project vocals guitar mixing and mastering fine job man ! more from Kris @https://soundcloud.com/bawl-slant

More Than Anything - Kristopher Bolin

Thanks to my Bro David for his marvelous song more of his music 
 https://soundcloud.com/david-sparks-795025970

Sparks Will Fly - David Sparks

Thank you to my Bro Jim for his contribution to this project more of his music https://soundcloud.com/user-331751207 - Jim Robinson / Keystone Studios
https://soundcloud.com/ombtoneollaborationite - Skeleton Key

Community -  Combstead & Jim Robinson

What I Think - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Why We Play - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Blue Gills - Reedy

Skipping Rocks - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Set me free - Kristopher Bolin

Thanks to my friends Hans Kath and Robert for the opportunity to work on this, God Bless 

more music@ 
https://soundcloud.com/user-512451604
https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg

Lyrics:

Breathe and reshape, be not afraid
Underneath the pines, breathe and reshape
Oceans wide, a sign!

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify

Underneath the pines, breathe and reshape
Oceans wide, a sign!

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify, a symphony of greens
Chase your wildest dreams
We paint the sky
We unify

Unify

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify a symphony of greens
Chase your wildest dreams
We paint the sky
We unify

Unify

We Unify!

Unify - Haleen / Robert Grigg & Combstead

Thanks to my Bro Mark Butler from Keystone Studios / Skeleton Key for the valued input on this collaboration💀🤘

Mixed and Mastered Butler / Combs 
https://soundcloud.com/user-331751207
https://soundcloud.com/ombtoneollaborationite

Uphill - Mark Butler

Thanks to my Big Bro Robert Grigg for rocking this tune

Wherever We Go -  Robert Grigg & Combstead

Throw Hands

Many thanks to my friend Annie Dieu-Le-Veut for the opportunity.
https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut
Even today, modern politicians are educated by what's been dubbed a "manual of statecraft", penned by the so-called Father of Modern Political Philosophy and Political Science, the 16th century Venetian, Niccolò Machiavelli. 

In Machiavelli's book, The Prince, they are taught that no matter how evil the means that they employ are, to achieve victory, the ends will justify those means. Then as the victors, all they have to do is to rewrite the history, to present themselves as the good guys. 
Words:

Last night, I dreamed of Machiavelli,
Who, it seems, hasn’t learned much since the days of the Medici.
His pretext of seizing power for the ‘good of God’,
Was straight out of the playbook of Cesar Borgia....
So it seemed from my talk with poor, deluded Niccolo.

Looking into my eyes and holding my hands
He plied me with cunning plots and plans,
Dripping in evil criminality, and base intent
To create chaos for the existing world order
No means was too foul, not even murder.

The end will justify the means, my dear,
Don’t worry your pretty head.
He said.
I wasn’t buying it, though,
And so I said:

All around us in the world today that we see,
Has been caused by those with such a strategy.
The end doesn’t justify the means, at all.
It is the means themselves which create the evil
Of famine, pollution and perpetual war,
Driven by madness, greed and holy preachings;
This is the end created by your teachings.
We now have nation pitted against nation,
Because the way, the means, IS the destination.

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, April 2024

Music by Combstead
© Mark Combs, April 2024

Cover Art by by pizarro2021 at DeviantArt.

Machiavelli  - Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Many thanks to my friend  Zsolt Némethy for his contribution to this track / project.
More Darkwave music 650553121https://darkwavemetal.com/contact/

Line In The Sand - Darkwave

Double Dome - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Cantucky - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Thanks to my friend Charlie for rocking this collaboration 
more of his music @ https://soundcloud.com/charliewillz
photo by Ashley_Minkus

Supper - Charlie Williams

Mind Streams - Robert Grigg & Combstead

I constructed this track and I asked Annie if she felt inspired to put any words to it. she said "yes, defo, if her dream fairies come through with them." And they did ... seems they couldn't wait... which was great ... except that it was at four o'clock this morning!

Here's what came through:

WORDS:

I thought at first it was a dream, just a childhood fantasy that had grown and grown.
But over the years, I realised .... it was real, it was my loved ones singing me home.

When the day is dark, and the night is long...in the still, small hours I hear their song.
The road less travelled can be full of stones, but their song makes the journey seem not so long.
When I meet the devil, at the crossing, and I have to choose right, from wrong,
I follow their attunement, and soon find, that where once I was weak, I am strong

Now the sun is glowing red, and the shadows growing longer, their song is sounding out... even louder
Rising to a crescendo, as every sacrifice is cheered, every last injury and pain is honoured,
Pulling me up the steep, craggy pathway of that last mountain I have to climb,
Until I’m released from the valley of the shadow of death, ruled by Old Father Time.

I thought at first it was a dream, just a childhood fantasy that had grown and grown.
But over the years ...I've seen that it’s real, and that it’s my loved ones singing me home.

© Lyrics and vocal, copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, August 2024
© Music and cover art, copyright Mark Combstead, August 2024

Our way home - Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Morning Breeze - Robert Grigg & Combstead

an inside cat

Virtual Array - Robert Grigg / Combstead

What a treat this was to do with my dear friend Annie ..... more of her fabulous work   https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Copyright © Annie Dieu-le-Veut, October 2024

Music and cover art by Combstead 
Copyright © Combstead Lab October 2024

We came here to Love.
We came here to learn what great Love really is.
We came here to learn about a Love so great that, just out of joy, it builds a whole multiverse.

We came here to Dance
We came here to learn what great Dance really is.
We came here to learn about the joy of the great weaving, spiralling dance of the web that give form to this multiverse.

But not all are here to Love and Dance,
And those who came before us, aeons ago,
Knew the trials we’d have to face, and pass
So they left us guidance in letters from home.
They drew them as stories in the night skies
On silver starships that stay true to their course,
Like messages in bottles across the sands of time,
We rely on these myths to guide us along.

We came here to make Art,
We came here to understand what great Art really is, to know the Artist who paints a glorious sunset across the sky in indescribable hues, purely out of Joy.

We came here to make Music
We came here to understand what great Music really is,
The song that the universe is built upon, the Word of God, Om, that births frequencies to create both Sorrow and Joy.

So we always look forward to those letters from home
Drawn in the stellar guides that are ever true
Like messages in bottles across the sands of time,
We rely on the wisdom of ages to guide us through.

Letters from Home - Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Many thanks to my friend Mathis for his masterful guitar on this project more of his music @ https://soundcloud.com/user-247333630

mixed and mastered Combstead

Feast or Famine - Mathis

Thanks to my Bro Robert for singing and jamming on this

Do As Your Told - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Out Of The Bag - Grigg.Butts.Combs

Thanks to my friend Annie for another cool collaboration.

Words and vocals: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Copyright © Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, November 2024

Music and cover art, mixed and mastered: Combstead lab
Copyright © Combstead, November 2024

Words:
I always thought I wanted to be free.
I didn’t know then how wonderful it would be
To be held captive in the web of love.

I always thought that I should stand tall
I didn’t know then the ecstasy of the fall
Into the arms of the Earthly love

I always thought that I would learn the truth
Through reaching further and further into space
Until I found I was lost its vastness,
And felt like a speck of dust with no place.
Our forefathers’ science was more holographic,
They drew a picture that was just as true
But it was also one where each could find their nest,
Where no wren could fall un-noted
And no blade of grass would go un-blessed,
And in which it's easy to find the truth:
When we hear it, it rings like a bell.

I always thought that I wanted liberation
Until I realised that I took incarnation
To be rooted in the love of Earth.

I always thought I wanted to be free.
I didn’t know then how wonderful it would be
To be captured and enraptured in the love of Earth.

Release date:
7 November 2024

Captured - Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Get Slick - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Shades Of Grace - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Barn Finds - Robert Grigg / Combstead

Restoration - Robert Grigg & Combstead

52 pick up

90's influence Guitar Rock cultivated in Metro Detroit.

I remember, we thought of everything. We had it down, or was it in between?
I had my legs to get me there. A hike to nevermore.
Searching for infinity, railing through the door......moving forward?

So I seized the day just like I did before, and I'm fading out.
It's the little things that keep me wanting more. Now I'm fading out.

Opportunity is bought and never sold. Wait a tired lifetime just to take control.....of a broken situation, of barely getting by.
A concept of prosperity impossible to divide.
Moving forward?

So I bare the weight just like I did before. Now I'm fading out.
And I found the things that leave me needing more. So I'm fading out.

Impossible to divide.

So I lost the hope I always had before, and I'm fading out.
It's just the little things that make me hate you more. Now I'm fading out.

Fading

Love Light - Robert Grigg & Combstead

She was a killer!

Thick & Thin

Track By Combstead
Guitar, Lyrics and Vocals by Robert Grigg

In Your Arms - Combstead & Robert Grigg

In Your Arms - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Boss Bitch - DEADi  feat. Key

Security Breach

3 music-driven brothers-from-other-mothers who live across the USA, melding their musical energy to create as much good as they can!! A collaboration of CombStead & KeyStone Studios. . . (If you couldn't tell already) All rights reserved.
https://soundcloud.com/ombtoneollaborationite

Beyond the Door

Welcome to the Lab 💀 
Creator sound designer.
40 plus years in live sound reinforcement.
currently leveraging UAD and Logic Pro
we get by with some help from our friends.

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