A Higher Path

A-Der Schmetterling

Cast of characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — VST orchestration, vocals, lyrics, and compostion
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums, percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass, Fender Precion four-string fretted bass, and Roland Phantom synthesizer
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T model electric guitar
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – VST string arrangement
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitrar, mix, and production

 This song began as a musical letter written, composed, and sung by Carl to Eclectic Collective. Carl and Josh had been sniffing around each other's pages, admiring each other's work and collaborators. So Carl reached out with this friendly, uplifting song, as a gift to the band. 
  Ken was first in line, adding his awesome, driving drums to give us a heartbeat to build upon. Josh came along next and completed the rhythm section with his trusty four-string fretless bass. Stephen was next up to bat, adding his dynamic raspy guitar, which almost sounds like an electrified fiddle. Next up, Mark followed with his trippy synth and powerful strings to add to Carl's original composition. 
  We had it pretty much done sounding, but wanted to spice it up a bit, so we came up with the idea for a coda. Josh added his bass and synth for it, and Tez came up with the thrilling guitar part of it, as well. Tez also added the thrilling guitar intro, too. 
  Once it was in the can, we asked Tez to mix and produce it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion.
  This is the first song EC has done with Carl, but we know it won't be the last. We all admire him for his creativity, proficiency, and prolificacy. His page is worth a stroll, too, as it contains a lot of gems.
  We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark: 

Hey Collective Seeds,

Let's work things out across that water
There's a cable under sea,
We can send all sorts of...
Music/Words/Sounds - It's insane!
Look Lads,
That's life in the fastlane!

So it's ones and zeros
Mine and yours and theres
We are all heroes...

Watching the fire,
From a distance we're warm
But not from their mire,
From this musical charm.
It's a bonfire,
An inferno.
Earth got plenty to turn off...

So we can sing to love
And we can play for more dove.
Let's combine our powers. Collective!
A Paddy/Yankee toasted sandwich

Tex festival streak
Psyched for more free
K2 to peak
Mistermark chimes ' found life fought
Give, You Entheogenic Psychonaught
Collective lands
Psyched for more free

I got to experience the best behind the track writer on SoundCloud above. Amazing Josh, showing the TLC way man...

TBD's thoughts...
The Collective. Earth gets fixed when we become a true collective. When we love each other for what we are unconditionally. A collective that doesn't have left and right or at least doesn't judge people based on their beliefs. It's acceptance... The final battle for the greater good. Maybe I'm just a drama filled ball of whatever... But in my heart this is a taste of what we need on planet Earth right here and I'm proud to be part of it. It's love that's all. Love that will cancel our the fake horrible energy challenging our mission.
Take that love 💪💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 Let's grow it 🔆

Dear Collective - [Eclectic Collective]

The Approaching Storm

"Stockhausen Meets Coltrane" is an experimental composition that merges electronic and acoustic worlds in a series of evolving sections. It opens with abstract electronic textures and flute motifs, followed by a layered chord sequence for synthesizer pad, electric guitar, and bass. Clarinet motifs introduce a more melodic thread, which gives way to a voice-like bass motif and a choral section supported by improvised harp clusters, claps, and jazz rhythms on cymbals. The piece continues with ambient piano playing jazz harmonies alongside vocalizations, then shifts into a dense, textural atmosphere featuring low-frequency growls, percussive vocalizations, and free jazz saxophone improvisation. The work concludes with a richly-layered synth pad, layers of electronic effects, vocalizations, and sax motifs that gradually fade.

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Valhjim—Synthesizers, samplers, guitars, keyboards.

Buy on Bandcamp: 
https://valhjim.bandcamp.com/track/stockhausen-meets-coltrane
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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Stockhausen Meets Coltrane

piano three

I bid you Relax ... music lovers, 

and with an Open heart ... 

may you enJOY my latest heartfelt Piano improvisation.


Here's to  harmony, melody, and the rhythmic inflections make it all that wondrous thing we call... Music!

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2020
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2025

Welcome Home *

i can't think straight, my mind is a nonfunctional broken mess full of hate and anger.

hate

Classical orchestra, supported by a solo singer and a large choir, with the music continuously building up and then fading out with a few calm string sounds.

Klassisches Orchester, unterstütz von einer Solosängerin und einem großem Chor, wobei die Musik sich immer weiter steigert und klingt dann mit ein paar ruhigen Streichertönen aus.

Voices of Resonance

Tempo 148 BPM
Timing 4/4
Tuning 421.6Hz A ~ Wolfgang Amadé style 🫡


Cleansed

I hold my hands up
I was naive
That AI poison made it to my feed
I gave them real
The full passion
But right now music needs full real ration

Deleted
Forgotten
Cleaned
Fixed
Deceiptors
Fake flocking
Deceived
Tricked

Now to protect this musical world
I am an an artist
I am this pearl
No more poison until conscious time
No more fake melody tainting my rhyme

A small part of me felt sorry for the human
But the human made the lie
The fake profiles they perusing
That's the problem in a nutshell (Sorry Layne)
So all AI music can go to hell
(So sayeth Staley)

Cleansed in the end

I won't name names I mean not hurt
But I'll save the spirit of Cobain, Kurt
You plagarised him
You spit on your child
How about Morrison
Pêre-Lachaise losing smile

I'll do this for Bowie, Buckley & Cash
I'll protect their Spirit from AI music rash
How? We'll make new just like they did
We'll inspire new humanism with beautifully candid

Music is Soul
Music is Spirit
I am it's role
I am no limit
I am brain new with ego controlled
They'll feed your Spirit with mellifluous gold

Cleansed in the end
May the real win
The real will win

https://youtu.be/3Nlb-m_vKYM?si=XLoXT2W047tQkIj8
Rock Beato doing his best to call out a fake there!
It's a fucking disgrace to music that Spotify allow this. TBD ain't going near Shitify anytime soon. They are ruining music

This song is an acknowledgement that I had actually collaborated with a couple of AI artists. I decided to delete them and I'll say no more although I was happy with my input and if I'm honest it hurts to do it for lots of reasons and I could have just zipped it too but.... Not in these moments  unfortunely there is too much at stake. We musicians take this stuff to heart so in a way we are a gauge of how we should be emotionally intelligent with this very dangerous scourge on creativity. So I needed a good cleansing.
Now my bio doesn't lie 🕺🏽 🙌🏽

Technically associating with AI profiles is most likely a negative thing... or at least it should be if the algorithms at work were actually clever enough to manage this stuff! We need innovation for transparency and education on why projecting these fake profiles is very harmful to a business which already has very questionable fairness aimed at younger artists. We need to inspire them not turn them into dummies happy with a fake song and 8 hours of Tik Tok instead of making real music and expressing it with their voices and fingers and actually wiring their brains with more abundant connections. It's all related for me. Social media short dose info/ quickly making shitty songs with AI... it's a bonfire of bullshit limited thought and we need to face up to it or kids are going to be content with that matrix! Schweeeet 🤘🏽🔆

Cleansed

2025

under a shade tree with a cardinal and a squirrel

All songs labeled (NNLF) = lilxflirt and Nicky Nukem 
Logo art, timeline art, and all cover art labeled NNLF made by lilxflirt
All ambient tracks and instrumental tracks made by Nicky NUKEM
My music is all over the place. I recently found out I have low T, which explains the swings in themes and moods throughout my work. 
Also, I'm trying to be entertaining, don't take the artwork or lyrics or titles too seriously.