MTD Mixtape July 2021

Red Hats are a Red Flag. Or a Red Armband.

Co-written with Cole Leon.

Lyrics
It was the marching of the Red Hats
Guess they thought that there was something they could take back
but it was just a terrorist attack plain and simple mass confusion
lily white losers playin' revolution
in a Red Hat

You couldn't catch me dead in somethin' like that
Got love for my people, where they at?
When you see it say fuck a Red Hat

Last week you said don't tread on me
Now you change the tune to Peace and Unity
How stupid can a motherfucker be?
Here's a lesson that I'm givin' you for free

Fuck a Red Hat
Oh man fuck your stupid Red hat
I got love for my people, where they at?
Everybody say fuck a Red Hat

Heard you wanted to bury the hatchet
I ain't seen you burn your Red Hat yet
How long you think it's gonna take us to forget
some fuckin' merchandise could make your pussy so wet?

Fuck a Red Hat
Oh man fuck your stupid little Red Hat
I got love for my people, where they at?
Everybody say fuck a Red Hat

Fuck a Red Hat
Oh man fuck your stupid Red Hat
I got love for the people swingin' bats
At everybody still wearin' Red Hats

Red Hat

Little to say but... enjoy !!

https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson: original instrumental theme on keys and drums, vocals.
Ruizzoidman: lyrics, vocals, bass, guitars, production.
Mahatma Ghandi: speech at Inter Asian Conference, 02/04/1947

Lyrics:

A renaissance is needed
in this present we’re living.
Now is the time (2)
Recognising one another
as a friend, as a true brother.
Now is the time (2)
We need empathy…

By sectarian politicians
humankind is being confronted.
Now is the time (2)
Troubles they want us to see,
people live them more easily.
Now is the time (2)
We need pragmatism …

We’re all part of minorities,
the red haired or left handed.
Now is the time (2)
No more talk about left or right,
no more minding if black or white.
Now is the time (2)
We need global thinking …

A renaissance is needed
in this present we’re living.
Now is the time (2)
Love flows freely in every heart.
Revolution inside each one.
Now is the time (2)
We need empathy…

It's The Time (with Janine Levinson)

Nobody Listens

Remind me

My new favorite thing is mixing the Omnichord with the autoharp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard_Dog

Junkyard Dog

BARBWIRE GARDEN (Carrie: Bass Guitar / Flores: drums & keys  /
 Myrh: vocals / Scotty: vox, guitar, xylophone, keys ) Special thanks to Flores for the amazing beat and Myrh for upping the ante with magical vocal stylings! 

yes, friends, the world Has been set afire of late. as the prophet once sayeth: "strange days indeed!"

. in march of 2020, the Secret Caves took a pause, a planned "brief hiatus" that then extended on as things got more and more....  you know. you were there. I saw you there.

BUT in august Carrie and Scott ventured back into Room 8... driven by the need to keep going, to try and make Something happen...  thus, masked and staring across the room at one another, they started making some noise. 

and so! between august and... well, yesterday, C & S have been working up music sketches and ideas down at room 8... some of the songs reflecting on the wolves at the door, others drifting into fantasy worlds full of monsters and sinister revelation, and then also the usual doom gloomy love affairs that one might expect from these two ne'er-do-wells.  using drum bits begged and borrowed from a few friends and allies (including, on several tracks, Cave member Peder!), and then playing some drums themselves along the way (the credo being "whatever gets it done"), Carrie and Scott found themselves with a growing arsenal of demos...   but what to do? here was a large stack of songs with bass guitar and vocals. for awhile, they despaired. what shall we do with all this unfinished songs?

suddenly, various and sundry pals stepped up, instruments leaning over their shoulders as they came whistling down the lane, a veritable rogue's gallery of 15 collaborators who helped finish 'em up, remotely adding keyboards, guitars, synth, lap steel, and yes, even saxophone (some might say Especially saxophone!). it's basically a party and you are invited. step right up, chum o' mine!  we are excited to share these 24 new songs with whoever deigns to listen!  deign, won't you? "Plague City Demos: songs by Carrie & Scott" will be released on our bandcamp page on June 12, with choice cuts also being shared here on Soundcloud.  

album cover images created in collaboration with and photographed  by Flatchestedmama. find more of her work at www.flatchestedmama.com

a preview of our video for this song features on this month's Surrey Muse Live Stream, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6EowlMLmho
the video was made by our pal Timbertoe, who also collaborates on another song that'll be on the album! check out his musics here: https://soundcloud.com/timbertoe

now Annie’s been fiending
in the tunnel of love
she don’t wanna see you no more
dancing all night
with the junkie priest yeah
spinning across his trashed up floor

and the widows with their haunted hearts
to sing to your desire
they tend their barbwire gardens where
no one mentioned that the world was on fire

now Bertram’s going 
subterranean
no he doesn’t got a choice.  — NO MORE
spitting up pills 
through the latest manias
wonders 
can you hear his voice. -NO MORE!

and the widows with their hungry eyes
have come here for to feast
they lay their paltry weapons down
want one more night at least

and i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love
but i’ve got nowhere to go

… and down i go, down i go
laying in the path of a hungry world
down i go
i don’t need this love

now Bev couldn’t even
bring her piano
had to leave everything behind
she’d been moving on out
through the neon graveyards
weaving through the bump and grind — NO MORE

and the widows with their haunted hearts
they chew through their desires
they call out to the ghosts they’ve claimed
and swing them from the wires

and i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love
but i’ve got nowhere to go 

and down i go, down i go
laying the path of a hungry world
and down i go
crushed by my own
laying in the path of a hungry world
i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love

(c) 2021 by Secret Caves Productions

Carrie & Scott -- Barbwire Garden  featuring Myrh (album details & video link inside!)

vocals : Nick "Too Naked" 2Nick8
instrumental track : Mahan²

I will not describe this track! The two knuckleheads being devoured know what I'm talkin about.

https://soundcloud.com/mind-watching-your-elbow

I'm The Grizzly Bear

Wow! What can someone say. If anyone of you really takes the time to read my crap (thanks i appreciate) probably knows, that i had quite some troubles with inspiration and really felt like i over exceeded myself and my artistic vessel in 2k20....

So i really kept sticking more to listening and later on i had to take a complete break, step a bit back and i got to admit that i really enjoyed the off time. I was completely away from and with music, as i couldn't keep up with this intense pace and i simply wasn't able to draw any more out of that fragile "bucket" so to say.

I am really into Collaborating this year, so i put aside my (plenty of) projects and as i really befriended a few of you amazing artists out there, i got to admit, that it was (no offense towards any other closer friends here) the biggest impact for me, when my dear @texmex-shaman suddenly sent me this first raw version of the first third of what i can present to you today.....

It took me quite some time to get into it, but then it evolved, it grew into this wonderful thing here and i think it cured me... kinda... After busy months and going (wild again) with the arts for the cover to try to also convey the feeling into an image to show it to you, my fellow soundcloud friends and all other people....

..., it guided me to the point where i can now say "Here we are. This is it for me, after a long break to be able to upload again something where i put so much love and creativity and musical spirit into"...... This is also a declaration of love to Jim Morrison and his Spiritualty and his Native American Spirit......

Thank you for staying here with me my friends and its always so great to experience all this and this community and passion and love for music and so much more!

Truly yours,
Cmd. SF

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@texmex-shaman - Guitars, more Guitars, Base, Sitar, Various FX, Drums, Shamanic Rituals
@steve-fullyard - B3, Synths, Flute, Various FX, Vox, Field Recordings, and other weird stuff to hopefully entertain you!
Night Owl - Vox  (thank you my love!!)
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Thanks to TMS for going all this long way with me, and being so patient and uplifting and a real friend and man u know that i praise you from the bottom of my heart for being such a wonderful person, you resonate so deep brother. Thanks!

Way Out Here ft. Night Owl - collab with TexMex Shaman

Sometimes that's just the way they come to you.

Becoming (Brian Peters)

I am growing
I am learning
I am changing
And becoming

The world is growing
The world is learning
The world is changing
And becoming

God is growing
God is learning
God is changing
And becoming

Becoming

I am proud to introduce my first collaboration with Mizero (@mizero-two), an artist that I deeply admire and respect. She wrote some awesome lyrics for the weird backing track I had sent to her, and her beautiful, peculiar singing inspired me to further develop the music, overdubbing a bassline and a couple of guitar parts. Quite surprisingly, this piece eventually turned out to have a sort of a rock'n'roll vibe, even though we didn't do that on purpose. In fact, I guess it's a spontaneous combination of several musical styles, just for a change...
To say a word about the concept, I would simply describe it as a love song concerning time. We've thought of time as dark, heavy sonic matter relentlessly leaking out of the hands of a clock and slowly creeping its way into the distance between two lovers, be it a real or a figurative space. Of course, the nature of these lovers itself might be interpreted metaphorically...
Huge thanks to Mizero for offering me this great opportunity to create new music together!

Oh every minute of
every day I'm
dreaming of your
illuminating smile

Every second of
every minute
I'm dreaming of
a life with you
in it, my love

I wake up in the morning
and I'm missing your face
You're so far I feel
so out of place

When we talk on the phone
I'm dreaming of your eyes
I miss you more than
I even realized

Oh how the days are long
Oh how the day drags on
without you

Floating on this feeling I have
everytime I hear your voice
I would be there
or you would be here
if I had my choice

Oh how the days are long
Oh how the day drags on
Without you

Mizero : lyrics, vocals & their premix

Teth Sin: guitars, bass guitar, samplers (drums, percussions, violas), sound design

Original composition by Teth Sin & Mizero
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Every Minute | feat. Mizero

Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-cQc4tnpI8

The Edge Of Time

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry
Final mix by Jason Mowry
@asleepwithheadphones
@lazydadamusic

Hummingbird

Hummingbird by Jason Mowry & Carlos Vivanco

Produced by Alec Reid and Mariah George
at Opus Studios in Berkeley, CA

Cover by Colin Moran

How To Kill A Whippoorwill

Kinda forgot to post this at the time, one of my own personal acoustic faves...(I hadn't played a flute since I was at school!)

Observation Ward

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and wired

Where are all my electric friends
Flares that disappear across the sun
Fizzle into nothingness, the almost inaudible hum
They never turn the lights off in here
There’s locks and bolts that you can’t see

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and tired
On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, lonely, scared and wired

Look into the bright psychiatrist’s eye
Artfully lie and pretend to comply
Sweet jesus please, get me out of here
Or at least let me look at the sky
Or at least let me look at the sky
Or at least let me look at the sky

On the Observation Ward, trailing pipes and lines
On the Observation Ward, old and cut and tired

Observation Ward ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved.

Observation Ward

In the comfort of your own mind

Ambience chaser

So if an edit comes along we will share it, but the anticipation has been building to share this song.

Inspired by Holy Shitshow's Mississippi Siren which can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/mississippi-siren-light-half

It was spontaneous and improvisational style...enjoy.
This song is steamy and dreamy...

Music by Holy Shitshow
Lyrics and Vocals by Orieliel Watcher

The Mississippi Siren featuring Holy Shitshow

sublime collaboration with my great friend @ladyofire, in his bewitching vocal, I did the instrumental in lo-fi downtempo, drum & bass style.
Fluctuation energy!

Peace, Love and Nature

Switch ft. Lady of Fire Poetry

available here on bandcamp https://lealani.bandcamp.com/track/blu-masheen

https://www.instagram.com/veggieburgerr/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/artist/75tAH33KAd0BiKI23i27NK

Lyrics by Mangchi, Instrumentals and melodies by Lealani

This is a cover I made of Mangchi's track "Blu Masheen"!
mangchi.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/mangchihammer/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/track/6596SWzsbNmocWK92GB57m

Blu Masheen

Composed and performed by Admiral Krank. Drums by Mo Sheen. 

Martian Atlantis

Thank you for listening (*_*)
Written and performed by Neli CoKo, 2021, all rightd reserved.

Neli CoKo - Dance To Forget

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