October Rain

Rodolfo Planes @rplanes : Bass, Guitar Solo.
Pichy Sotomayor : A Guitar, E Guitar, Orchestration.
Picture: Su Sotomayor
Original song ©2021 Pichy Sotomayor

October Rain

October Rain (Planes / Sotomayor )

Artwork: Gontran Saucin
Recording, mixing, mastering and co-producing:  Pasquale Caruana 
Thank you to all of you who will share our song to help us reach out to as many people as possible.

Your Mystery

I'm in the middle. I'm not yet 9 years old, but I already knew I was going to teach music even though I had only started playing at age 7. I would bring my friends inside and give them lessons on how to play Chopsticks and later, Heart and Soul. The family in the photo doesn't exist anymore, and hasn't for a long time.  Some of my family is still living, but there is absolutely no communication. There is only animosity and disrespect directed at me. At least that is how I feel. I'm alone.  There is no love or caring. Sad, isn't it? I gave up.

Growing up between 1954 and 1972, when I left home to go to school, I had no intention of moving back to my hometown.

I had a wonderful childhood. Children today don't experience the joy of being a child whose sole objective was being able to play outside with a dozen other neighborhood children. 

My parents were still kids when they got married right out of High School and had three babies in four years. My sisters did the same thing, never finding out who they were and what their talents were. Could I sell cars for 35 years? Never. We were just so different. There were many reasons that tore our family apart. My father turned to alcohol after his kids were grown,  in his 40's and was dead at 54. My mother couldn't maintain the family business herself and lost everything she had worked for and had nothing to show for it. I haven't talked to my sisters in years. They are angry at me for reasons I don't understand, and I gave up trying to figure it out. They don't even talk to each other. I don't know what it's like to have a sister. Are they lonely, too? Is it pride that stands in the way? Is it too hard to admit tha

Creating music is my way of understanding what I feel. It is my diary. From the time I was a young child I tried to play the music I could hear inside, but I couldn't. I didn't know how, and there was no one who could teach me that because they didn't know how to play their own music. It took a long time to understand, and I'm not yet quite there, learning how to play the piano from the inside out. It has changed the way I teach. Anyone can learn to read music, but only a few can actually hear their own music. I've written a lot of music for people as gifts and music for my own family, especially the newest babies. Number 5 great grandbaby is due in a few months. Hopefully, my music will be something they will keep and use it to always connect me to them.

I can't change what my sisters think of me. I believe it is regretful, but it is their choice, not mine. If my parents could have looked ahead and saw how we ended, how sad they would have been. When I uploaded this music to SC last night, I sat and cried, overwhelmed with hopelessnes of it. It is one thing to lose your family to death; quite another to lose them when while they still live.

Broken Family

Sumthin a little different... the vocals are edits from her brilliant track Side Effect! You can listen to her page here @https://soundcloud.com/nekochan

OneKind- Wandering Tide ft. Nekochan

Another piece from the album  Elsewhere,. Available in full on Bandcamp. https://chimeramonde.bandcamp.com/track/back-it-up Hope you enjoy it

Back It Up

Grime Scene

Happy Friday to my SC friends. Today’s musical offering is very special to me because it signifies a breaking away from my old patterns. Long story short… old Justin was pretty set in his music making/production routines (solo work belongs on solo albums. Collab work belongs on collab albums. And never the two shall meet). 

But new Justin is proving to be surprisingly more flexible in his thinking; an interesting (I might even go as far as to say… shocking) result of my new paradigm. And while it might seem like a ‘nothing burger’ to most people… the way my brain is wired, this is a huge change… and one I am grateful for.

So today I happily offer my first collab song, also intended for my first hybrid album. The song is called ‘Life In Twilight’… and my guest artist is our dear friend, Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1, https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com), offering up the lovely Alto Sax and Guitar you hear in this piece

If you haven’t already crossed paths with Carlos, you are missing out. He is one of the most prolific people I have encountered in my travels. He plays about 30+ instruments, each with impressive skill. And if the instrument doesn’t exist... he creates it himself. And 'musician' is just one aspect of his inspiring and adventurous life. He is a great example of a person who discovered his passions early, and is now living a beautiful life pursuing those passions. We need more people like him in this world, reminding us of what is truly important.

On a personal level, the stuff Carlos has taught me over the years has helped me ease into this new sober life with tremendous grace. The music theory and instrumental lessons have helped make my sonic worlds more sophisticated (and therefore more rewarding to craft). And the moving and breathing meditations (Chi energy exercises) have proven fundamental to my mental/spiritual well being too. Needless to say, he has been a major influence in my evolving life; and I will be forever grateful. 

Carlos, I am honored beyond words that you are the guest artist on my first hybrid album. It signifies a great new direction for me. I’m excited to be on this path, and I’m glad you agreed to join me. 

To everyone else, we hope you enjoy “Life In Twilight”, the first of two new songs with Carlos that will ultimately wrap up my upcoming album “What Color Is Your Paradox?” 

(And yes... this is the last song I still had in the archives from my little break; originally finished on 1/20/2024. It's all going to be new content from here on out). :)

Paradox?

Life In Twilight | Carlos Vivanco & GrevusAnjl

Paul Amlehn - Vocal, stochastic process, editing, mixing, production
Paul Eluard - Text
John Cage - Composition for prepared piano
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared piano
David Lynch - Visual art

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One Before Here (Mattgerald)

ALBUM:Heuristic Orchestra

1 first attack
2 crescent moon ceiling windows
3 my page tutorial 
4 digressss
5 Uncertain space
6 Homeroom
7 side effect
8 funckloud
9 amend﻿

Bandcamp
https://matt2witter.bandcamp.com/releases

Amazon MP3
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Spotify
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