Yepa! Muy entretenida, Paco. Suena entre pop y rock, con algún acorde raro por ahí.

https://soundcloud.com/markduffieldcollaboration/walking-the-road-to-go-paco-ros-feat-one

Published on SC 13 November 2021

Pic: Broadway Tower, Cotswolds, England, UK. By Geoff Descartes

In the comfort of your own mind

85% Dark Chocolate

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

Greetings my wonderful SC friends. I hope you’re enjoying October as much as I am. I adore all the -ember and -ober months. As seasons go, this is my happy space. It’s a great time to reflect, and a great time to reset.

Creatively speaking, this song caused a peculiar reaction I wasn’t expecting; enough to make it the topic for my liner notes. The reaction was... nostalgia. The world instruments made me pine for the experiences of my Scottish (clan Mackay) ancestors. And some of my other synth choices sparked happy feelings of being a teenager in the 80s. 

Even now, I’m strangely comforted by this song (a sort of mother’s love/lullaby effect). It makes me yearn for what I imagine to be easier, simpler times… and I couldn’t be more wrong. 

I know my Scottish ancestors had quite a brutal and destructive history. And if I’m really being honest with myself, I never expected to survive the Cold War in the 80s. In fact, I actually adopted a very dystopian view of the world because of it. So why do I (or any of us) have such a strong desire to return to ‘the good old days’, when almost all evidence points to those times being worse for the majority of us?

I’m reading a book right now that puts all of this into sharp perspective. It’s called ‘Enlightenment Now’ (by Steven Pinker); and it has less to do with being enlightened, and more to do with using reasoning to help us rummage through the inaccuracies stored in our minds. I’ll be the first to admit… I struggle with a lot of the concepts (because my ego loves the drama of believing it’s all going to hell). But truthfully, we have never seen a time when so many people were experiencing such a decent quality of life, and Steven has the analytics to prove it. For example:

On the topic of life…. The average human lifespan is now 71.4 years. In the 1700s it was 35.

On the topic of sustenance… Premodern Europe suffered famines every few decades. The typical diet in France in the 1700s was comparable to Rwanda in 1965 (the most malnourished nation for that year). Today, India’s billion people get an average of 2,400 calories a day. Hunger hasn’t disappeared entirely. But it’s nothing like what our ancestors experienced.

On the topic of wealth… the average preindustrial European was fortunate to own a quality garment only a few times in their lives. And it was not uncommon for clothing to be stolen off a dead body during an epidemic… thus continuing to spread the epidemic. Now we have to store our winter clothes to make room in the closet for our summer attire. And we order these items on our smart phones, to be delivered tomorrow.

On the topic of equal rights… Consider Michelle Obama’s quote from the 2016 National Democratic Convention, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” That is a hopeful indicator of how far we’ve come toward achieving racial equality. And there are people still alive today who were born before women had the right to vote. Now women can run for President. Another great indicator we are heading in the right direction. We definitely have a long way to go. But again, it is much better than it was.

These are some of the simplest examples pulled from the book. If you need a booster shot of positivity, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best researched, most logically presented perspectives I’ve encountered in a while; and it is unapologetically hopeful. It reminds us… the ‘good old days’ weren’t really that good; and the best days are now. So let’s focus on what we need to do next, and maybe park those fond (but faulty) memories.

I hope you enjoyed my latest musical offering, ‘Nostalgia’. :)

Vox Populi

Nostalgia

Freaky 2

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Dependency You Are

Yn Unig

Lux Life

UN AIR QUI TRAINAIT À CE COIN DE RUE
UN TRUC À LA TRENET AUJOURD’HUI DISPARU
UNE DOUCE INCONNUE D’UN REVE VÊTUE
 QUI S’OFFRE LA VUE DU PARADIS PERDU

RIEN N’EST PLUS COMME AVANT
SAUF LA PLUIE ET LE VENT 
SUR LES PAVÉS LUISANTS DES TEMPS PEU RELUISANTS
OUI CE SONT D’AUTRES TEMPS QUI ONT PRIS LES DEVANTS
ET OÙ JE VAIS RÊVANT A L’ENVERS DE L’AVANT

UN AIR QUI TRAINAIT À CE COIN DE RUE
UN TRUC À LA TRENET AUJOURD’HUI DISPARU
UNE DOUCE RECONNUE D’UN REVE VÉCU
QUI S’OFFRE A LA VUE DE MON PARIS PERDU

RIEN N’EST PLUS COMME AVANT
NI LA PLUIE NI LE VENT
NI LES PAVÉS LUISANTS UN PEU MOINS RELUISANTS
ET POURTANT DE L’AVANT ON Y VA VAILLAMMENT
SANS SAVOIR NI COMMENT NI POURQUOI ET POURTANT

TRÉNET (Lyrics)

noxpox - The Great Escape (going Nowhere Mix) ☻

Recorded with Fruity Loops

Reworked and Remastered version of the song from 2021

Limtorsion

Deep drone with Acoustic violin

Cool down,and chill

Enjoy!

Deep Space 101 :Deep Acoustic and Electric Drone

Desde lo alto de una piedra , saluda el lagarto al sol.
El cuenta una historia, el mundo bajo su control.
"Volveremos al poder , Pero sin meteoritos esta vez!!"

Lagarto Lagarto , enseñale la barriga al Sol.
Escucha Lagarto , Yo me apunto a tu revolucion.. Ey..

Vamos , baila esto , baila si puedes , .. 
Sssshhhhh Escucha escucha , escucha lagarto

Soñando despierto , cantandole canciones al Sol
"Conquistaremos el Mundo otra vez ,.. pero eso va a ser para despues de comer"
Tiempos pasados, ya sabes que no van a volver.

Lagarto lagarto , enseñale la barriga al sol.
Escucha lagarto, yo me apunto a tu revolucion.

Eh lagarto , tira pa ya lagarto ..
Trae la guitarra pa aca ..Trae pa ca..

Escucha lagarto , yo me apunto a tu revolucion.
Pero quedate un rato , aqui sentadito y disfrutando del sol.

Pasate eso anda, dejame la guitarra....

Lagarto Lagarto

Si escuchas mi musica y te hace soñar aunque sea un por un momento entonces el karma del universo encontrara un equilibrio instantáneo-temporal que bla bla bla y tal y cual.
....Que gracias por escuchar.

Lagarto Lagarto

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