Wonderland

'my own hell'

Most thoughts of mine, well, they must be contained.
Yet somehow they still form words I shouldn't say.
And sometimes I need to be locked in a cage.
Until I can demonstrate that I can manage my brain. 

Why are you fucking with me?
Oh, so abundantly.
It's fucking hard when I can't trust me.
Or anybody else.
So, go on bludgeoning me
until I'm obsolete, 
for this shit will always, forever repeat.
I've become my own hell. 
But I will prevail.
Catch some wind in my sail.
And go blaze my own trail...

my own hell

'owl & wolf'
original: https://m.soundcloud.com/scottymmcleod/owl-wolf

Ruffled feathers. Midnight escapades.
Exploring through the stars above.
Warming weather. Coming of the age.
Cordially invited love. 

Owl & wolf. 

Space invader. Burning of the sage.
Foreign basement. Smokey clouds.
Wasted mater, lonesome, off he strays.
Sovereign lover, aimed to sow.
Hasty players. Conscience in a haze.
The time to live in is the now.
Mating strangers in the early days.
Modern romance. Blossoms. Found. 

Owl & wolf.

owl & wolf

J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, electric piano, drums, synth sax, synth bass, composition and arrangement 

Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – guitar 

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– guitar, production, mix, and mastering 

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–ehru  

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – lap steel  

This ripe piece of funk started with JJ essentially composing it on the e. Piano, organ, drums, synth sax, ands synth bass. He had the Eclectic Collective in mind when he did so, though. 

JJ actually is playing his drum kit on this one, so funkily that we decided to keep his drums in there. That didn't leave a whole lot of room for Ken to get in on it, but he managed to add a really cool ehru part. The ehru is a two stringed Asian violin with a distinct high percussive sound. J

J's bass line was so well played and solid, we decided to keep it in there, too, which also left Josh searching for a place in the mix. He decided to go last with the lap slide to anchor the foundation of the blues idiom. But he did that after Stephen and Tez cast their spells on the song with their magical guitars. 

Tez can be heard with the trippy, delay-heavy staccato lines, and Stephen with the silky smooth crying blues lines throughout. 

  Of course, every great song needs a great mixer and producer, and we're lucky enough to have Stephen to do the honors on this one for us.

  This song represents The Eclectic Collective at our funky finest, and we always enjoy and appreciate when JJ starts a song for us. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. 

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Sly Willy Blues - (The Eclectic Collective)

STAG

In my mind I am King
Of my Father’s lands again
I've got everything
Worth coveting
& these hooves are hands again

RABBIT

In my hand, you are Song
You are Love, you are Freedom
One for whom to long
Someone sweet & strong
Someone—something to believe in

TOGETHER

This is Infinite Spring
No one is listening
Who might confound our ripening

RABBIT

With the spoiling of Eden

STAG

I am cold for my warmth

RABBIT

I am bold for my shyness

TOGETHER

I am pining for
Those ghosts of yore

STAG

Who’d consign me to silence

TOGETHER

’Cause who am I to sing
While he lies decomposing
Who’d juxtapose your blossoming

RABBIT

With the wilting of violets?

STAG

Hold me down
Tie me to my chair

RABBIT

Close my mouth
Let me move no air

STAG

Hold me down

RABBIT

Don’t let me

TOGETHER

Walk to her

RABBIT

Close my mouth

STAG

Don’t let me

TOGETHER

Talk to her
Hold me down, ’cause
She once was mine
All mine

Hold me down, keep me in my place
Anyway, I don’t want to see her ugly face
Close my mouth, let me speak no words
Anyway, I have nothing nice to say to her
Hold me down, ’cause here comes the
Girl I don’t love anymore
Well, no big deal, I don’t care anymore

& so if she says “hi”
Don’t let me cry
& if she just walks on by
Don’t let me follow

RABBIT

This is Infinite Spring
It’s got infinite resources
It’s got everything
From hares that sing
To Fairy girls on horses

STAG

False prophets of the new
You’ll repent your dissembling
When they’re counting coup
On all of you

TOGETHER

& you’re just lying there trembling
In all your cloy & clang
Your soulless Sturm und Drang
Ten thousand sundry songs you sang

RABBIT

Not a one worth remembering.

Infinite Spring

Another section for this longer piece of mine that may or may not get finished 🤪

Trials Of Love Part 4 (demo)

For this song I used the desperately beautiful old melody from a song called Barbara Allen.  I first became aware of the song from the  Alistair Sim (for me, the best) version of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge. 

For the lyrics I broadly took inspiration from the romantic sub-plot of the same film and wrote from Scrooge's perspective... one of roads not taken and love lost.

Old Jack looks back 
Upon his life 
And sees the track he’s taken 
And he wonders why 
He had let go 
The path he has forsaken 

“Don’t hold me near 
Lest I my break 
Like the snow in summer 
For my heart is cold 
And your coldest love 
Could melt me from my slumber 

I placed your love 
At farthest reach
And took it as a token 
So I may stay 
As hard as stone 
And leave my heart ne’er broken 

I watch the moon 
As you watch the Sun
And in the dark, I stumble
For too many times
Have I wished for her
She, who makes my heart most humble”

He lived his life 
Heart in the dark
And never rose above
His hiding place
How he missed her face
His one and only love

Old Jack

Far Out Among The Stars * Instrumental

Ein lied das ich für eine verlorene liebe geschrieben habe ... eine schöne und traurige Erinnerung 

Der Weg des lebens (Ballade).mp3

the morning sessions - Christopher

Michelle Calosso = Voice
Massimo Primiero = Acoustic Guitar

Infinite Spring

Ordinary Rabbit