Chills, Mono. Sigur Ros have nothing on you. Neither does Explosions in the Sky. Guitar heaven, for me. And I know I've said this before, but you do have a way with programming drums.

Love your guitars and own distinctive sound man!

The drums are so good and varied, must have taken ages to complete. The overall sound with those mighty swashes of guitar is just gorgeous.

Lot to enjoy here, the harmonies, the riffs, the atmospheric soundscapes. Indeed the drums are so cool.

Great instrumental - nothing formulaic - can feel in deep

Lost in Space

Watch the video on YouTube!! https://youtu.be/3XKWXagB3Cs

Vocals, Lyrics and Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu
Produced by HOBOCOP


Lyrics:

What can I say 
I don’t know what to think
Can’t shake this feeling
It overwhelms me

only solution
Seems to be
just to run away

That’s the way
I’ve dealt with
Everything before

every time 
I feel the fear 
and want to run away
I think of you
And I’m not 
so afraid

This tide incoming 
it feels so hopeless
There is no reason
No sense of purpose

pushed around so long
By things we can’t change
We feel abandoned
life has no meaning

that’s an illusion
Things are deeper than
we can ever know

There is infinite joy
Beyond understanding
Beyond the senses,
Living in the truth

Achieving this
no higher goal
grounded in being, unshaken
In pain and sadness

Content with whatever
unattached to pleasure
Gain true freedom
Enter absolute joy

Let go of attachments
mind grounded in the truth
At peace forever
Completely absorbed in God

Belief without faith
is a quagmire of doubt
never satisfied
In this world or beyond

Let go of attachments
mind grounded in the truth
At peace forever
Completely absorbed in God

every time 
I think of you
I’m not 
so afraid

NotSoAfraid(Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu)VIDEO AVAILABLE🎥

Ephemeral

Extracts from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

“Son,” said my mother,
   When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
   And not a rag have I”.
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
   Nor thread to take stitches.”
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody will buy,”  
   And she began to cry.
 
…

Men say the winter
   Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
   And food was dear.
 
A wind with a wolf’s head
   Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
   And sat on the floor.
 
All that was left us
   Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody would take,
   For song or pity’s sake.
 
…

Looking nineteen,
   And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Leaned against her shoulder.
 
Her thin fingers, moving
   In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
   Wonderful things.
 
Many bright threads,
   From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp-strings
  Rapidly,
 
…

There sat my mother
   With the harp against her shoulder
Looking nineteen
   And not a day older,
 
A smile about her lips,
   And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp-strings
   Frozen dead.
 
And piled up beside her
   And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
   Just my size.

The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver

am.02.140523

Experimental Improvised Eurorack  Modular . Pinging a filter ( Ripples ) from Maths , processed thru Quarks (Elements clone )and Clouds.PGH LFO2 into the rise and fall of maths ch 1 and 2 . Maths Ch 2 end of cycle into Intelijel uVCA ch A ,out into TipTop  Forbidden planet Filter. FP Filter out to uVCA ch B out to MI Rings ext in .

Caution

Created using a groove box, stand-alone synth and mastered on a computer.  Got to get a remix.  The mastering drove me nuts.   Getting it right on the groove box level will not achieve the mix that I want.  I don’t want to use a daw.

Floating, Drifting, Transforming

夏日絕句		李清照									
生當作人傑
死亦為鬼雄
至今思項羽
不肯渡江東


A Quatrain on Summer Days		Li Qing Zhao

Live to be eminent 
he should.

Die a hero as well 
he could.

My thoughts are always 
with Ziangyu.

Go home, all lost,
he never would.

A Quatrain

Written and recorded by The Blue Book Project
Mixed by Francesco Campolo
Mastering by XENNON Studios
Artwork by Yassica Arts
Released by Blue Book Records

Digital Immortality - 2 Years Later

Digital Immortality (Anniversary Edition)

Lost

The unsettling

"In Darkness, We Travel Light EP" released 05/01/23 @ https://monotronaut.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-we-travel-light
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7kV9hzBjXnJuqSCsDQ7bUV?si=rwCwNnd1Roiaahao-AeDfw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-darkness-we-travel-light-ep/1685472549

I'm in the process of renovating/updating various aspects of my studio, adding new hardware/software. New music on the way.

I'm a believer in true social interaction on SC, having intelligent dialogue with artists, and giving personal feedback that is (hopefully) more inspired than "Nice."  There are a lot of decent artists here not attempting to "go viral", sharing great music that deserves to be heard and not drowned out by bots.  Encouragement/criticism promotes growth, so say something worth something.

Ephemeral

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