Dos por aquí. Y dos allá. Vos la cruzas, el la va a buscar.
Y todos atentos. Se viene el rebote. Todos atentos, se viene se viene.
Uno es mejor hay mas lugar. Recuperas salis a buscar.
Y todos atentos. Se viene el rebote. Todos atentos, se viene se viene.
Vos para mi sos como un rey, de lo que mas me importa.
Daria todo por volver a ver tu pique corto. Quien te dice gordo, no sabe nada.
No sabe nada. No sabe nada

Todos Atentos

Original Composition / Lyrics / Vox / Guitar / Production : Chris Dargay
Original Drums / Vox : Scott Tumino
Original Electric Organ : Laura Peskin
Original Vox : Tracy Dahl Cucuzza

Your Eyes (TL) *demo

This is a simple one mic recording, just me and guitar. I've been wanting to put a recording out like this for a while now, just nothing felt right.

My amazing, autistic 9 year old son Harrison inspired this one. He's a great poet, so maybe one day he'll knock me off my perch. So it's me imagining I was him, and writing how I think I would feel, and thinking about my 9 year old self, how I did feel ( too long ago) He often needs to walk around stimming or just needs time alone to himself, just to process the day, the world, I suppose. I can really relate to that myself, and knowing how content I can be in my own company, I suppose I just think that's a cool thing. Autism is a real learning curve though, the spectrum is vast and complex, probably quite misunderstood too. But it's been quite therapeutic, now he's at an age where he can talk about it, and we can all talk and learn about it together as a family.

The Conundrum Kid 

So leave me on my own, it's where I wanna be

no I don't want no fuss, maybe I just want some peace

and I don't want no friend  come and walk me down the road

and I don't want no pity, I just want to be alone

I am the mystery boy

I am the Conundrum Kid

sometimes I need a plan, to get my mind from A to B

my feet they can be slow, but strong enough to carry me

and I don't want to talk, and I don't care how you are

and if you're always near, why do I seem so far

when everybody's loose, why do I feel so tight

and if I'm always wrong, then why do I feel so right

I am the mystery boy
I am the Conundrum Kid

so leave my on my own, it's where I wanna be


thanks for listening, reading and inspiring always greatly appreciated

Michael 

The Conundrum Kid (Acoustic)

Shamans Boogie

READ THE ACCOMPANYING POEM HERE >> https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-gravedigger/

All drums and percussion: R Thomas
Guitars, synths, scraping sounds, vocals, bass, lyre, slide lyre, lyrics: PS Perkins
Mix and master by PS Perkins and R Thomas

E'en that...

Who'll supply the shovels used to split the sacred soil?
And who will help the spirit shuffle off this mortal coil?
Who'll embalm the body, who will mummify the husk?
And who will sail the flaming ship into the drowning dusk?

And who will dig the grave digger's grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will bury them?

Who is going to drive the hearse and consecrate the wine?
Who is going to build the box from the gnarled and knotty pine?
Who will be the artifex to decorate the tomb?
And who will bribe the jackal waiting at the gates of doom?

And who will dig the grave digger's grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will dig the grave diggers grave?
Who will bury them?

E'en that...

"In youth, when I did love, did love,
Methought it was very sweet,
To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,
O, methought, there was nothing meet."*

But age, with it's stealing steps
Hath clawed me in it's clutches
Age, with its stealing steps.

E'en that...


*From Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 5

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Grave Digger

いーやーさーさぁ / yi Ya Sa Sa

Scotty: guitars, lyrics, vocals
Tommy: bass

Cigarette Burns

A big thank you to Jo Richter @sonic-textures for offering up this inspiring open collaboration poem! His recording, also quite strange and experimental, can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/the-passing-crave-voice-effects

The rhythmic background in my track was created by taking Jo's recording and chopping it up into fragments, then running it through a sample arpeggiator using an app called Samplr. Jo's recording is also used in the backward tape effect at the beginning and end, also created with Samplr. 

To further experiment with tape manipulation effects I did my own reading of the poem, then snipped the vocals into fragments and pitch-shifted them, this time using the Abu Dhabi dynamic loop slicer in Korg Gadget. Of course I also layered on some synth and keys (arturia microfreak, minilogue xd). Quite a different approach for me on this one, but it all came together surprisingly quickly considering the relative complexity. I hope to experiment with similar techniques going forward, I'm finding it fun to work with poetry and spoken word, so am definitely open to more collaborations that go in this direction!

Lyrics copyright Jo Richter (Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches)

the day slopes
down the hill
his residence rests on

the clouds in his gaze
match the clouds in the sky
as the winds gently shape them

he has a slow meal
within shifting structures 
of people who rush by

stopped at a corner
he sees squatters evicted
from ivory lodgings

matching his steps
to the patterns of stones
he rewrites the pavement

past the outskirts of town
he watches a beetle
scuttle along a fencepost

he walks past the tree
he has been dreaming of
for ten years in a row now

in liquified air
this moment freezes
unseeing his life

The Passing: Fragmentary Mix - w/ Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Poem by Jo Richter)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #08 album)

Happy Monday my SC friends. Today I am supremely excited to offer you (the listener) my next collaborative creation of 2023; and for those keeping track at home, this is my 4th collab with the legendary (at least, in my mind) Stone Catcherye (https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye, https://stonecatcherye.bandcamp.com/). 

Stoney’s lyrics speak for themselves; but I gotta say, I am sharing the sentiment. We hope you enjoy our latest collab, ‘Scintilla’ (and we hope you have some bell bottoms lying around… cuz this is not a drill). :D

Lyrics:

there's a small piece inside of me
defenselessness be thy name
it's a party where nothing's free
who would care to explain

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you brilliant or just smart
then dig down deeper

there's a small piece inside of me
that's shown interest to scream
it's a riot inside of me
and my brain's the police
in contempt and unbendingly
I surrender, it seems

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you brilliant or just smart
then dig down deeper

heart. need to get back my spark
get in the state of the art
not let this peel me apart
and dig down deeper

if I dig deep enough,
maybe I'll bury me...

heart. need to get back my spark
get in the state of the art
not let this peel me apart
and dig down deeper

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you just brilliant or smart
then dig down deeper

if I dig deep enough maybe I'll plant a seed
put in all that I have just to feel that in green
if I care for this deep, it will grow to a tree
and I'll save all it's sap and pick up all of it's leaves

F.W. Friends

Scintilla | Stone Catcherye & GrevusAnjl

so hard to love

recorded by TexMex shaman and One Blind Mouse in late Dec 2020

check out STONERJAZZ's handiwork here
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/shrooms-1

Shrooms

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