Ohh awesome use of Persian/Arabian percussion here!

The fusion of the powerful melodic movement and the wonderful acoustic rhythm soothed my soul.

P-Throwback Thursday

Cover Art: Wilhelm Grimm (left) and Jacob Grimm (right), portrayed by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1855) PD-US
Music and Lyrics Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino

Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest all alone.
They stumbled across a delicious looking candy-coated home.  A cannibalistic witch captured them and put them in a cage. Those were the kind of stories they used to tell children at a young age.

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty and things were not going fine 
We had to sanitize the stories because our modern stomachs are weak
And you’ll get in trouble if you read a book to kids, and it makes them shriek

Three little pigs were in a brick house trying really hard to survive 
The big bad wolf came down the chimney, fell in a pot of water and was boiled alive.
Cinderella’s stepsisters wanted to marry the prince, but they couldn’t fit into her shoes so they chopped off their heels and toes because they had so much to lose 

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty, and things were not going fine 
Little Red Riding Hood in the bedroom with a wolf dressed in human clothes.
Wondering why her grandmother had sharp teeth and a snout instead of a nose. Jack climbed the beanstalk, there was a giant who wanted to grind up his bones and make some bread. He stole the magic harp and the hen that laid golden eggs and the giant ended up dead

There’s days when you want to take a sheet of tin foil and stick it in your baseball cap
To keep all those negative thoughts from getting in your head and making you a miserable chap
Did it all start when you were a child, and your mother read you that bed time story that perhaps in retrospect may have been a bit too dark and gory

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty and things were not going fine 
Now we environmental devastation, nuclear weapons and milk that might have bird flu
Just turn on the news you don’t need a fairy tale to put the fear of God in you
But if you take away all the parts that are dark, sick twisted and gory. 
Do you have anything left that actually resembles a good story.
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Vocals and backing vocals -  Joe Stroffolino 
Guitars - Joe Stroffolino ( 2 Strumming tracks: Taylor 114ce and Fender Squire and I picking track:Taylor114ce)
Bass, Saxophone, Horns: PG Music Real tracks
Piano andi Strings: PG Music and Native Instruments
Drums: EZ drummer 3
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro 11

The Brothers Grim

just in my head

Thanks to Carl @TheBeautifulDark for inviting me to work with him in creating this version of an already beautiful song 🙏✨💖

Listen to the original here
 https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark/the-moment

Find your frozen flower. This flower appreciates it's time left way more then most human beings do. It makes itself as beautiful as it can to hold onto its niche and attract other niches of life to help it. It's doing everything in its power to weather the cold and for us it can represent what humanity needs to do. We are a frozen flower except we have the ability to thaw ourselves and expand our own existence yet we choose to mostly stay frozen. Maybe we should thaw ourselves out before the planet melts us altogether. We thaw ourselves living in the moment one human at a time

Lyrics

(We genuinely hope they make your moment better. The fact that this has your senses now is improving ours so 🔆 thanks a centillion 🔆)

Now they say
This is me!
To the moment I pray
It's my only deity

To the moment

But what of tomorrow?
What of yesterday's marrow?
I figure my past has future answers to borrow!

To the moment
To the moment

But now they are answers
Brought to present in solution
Taught to oneself,
Fear is mind pollution
Chemicals in brain figured, not dithered
It ejects us from our now
In fear our energy is withered

The moment
The moment
The moment
The moment
For the moment
The moment
Just the moment

Lament the moment
It's your sanity enrolment
Fear is relegated
As it's never an opponent
Lament the moment
Now, in today

Fear mind profanity of old self
We've sent presence to present... hold it
In now, fud can't even get a shelf

We're in a moment
Be the moment

Now I say
I am me
To the moment I pray
One singularity

One moment
Now
Here
How
Water clear
Light
Sound
Now

It's near
Come over here
Comb over fear
Love is presence
Wow

The Moment

Basic track mix - straight off my Zoom R24. Leaving it alone for a while..(earworm!) 
Synth bass with multi-clarinet riffs / alto flutes/oboe sections with tenor sax on bass pedal. Flute solos with synth middle sections.
Picture by Cathy Alexandre (c/o Pinterest)

RED ADMIRAL [CLA158M2 early mix]

Desert pulse

Unreal Bridges

Insight

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Retrofit-1012055053

Rebuilding Purgatory

Seemingly Sad

A journey from soulful Spanish guitar to an electrifying disco-electro groove. ‘Flamenco’ is movement turned into sound. A dance between tradition and club energy. Olé

flamenco

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Some various loops and most vocs from loopcloud.

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arranged, mixed @ mastered by J O R D I .


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