spent a weekend in Ullswater and wrote this chord progression whilst there

Ullswater demo

this alternative rock tune by @Earth-Patriot was recorded in May of 2025 based on fragments from 2017. in use are a Les Paul copy by Santander, a Warlock by Bc Rich and a Fender Start underneath.

https://soundcloud.com/earth-patriot/stranger-than-friction

still waking up late at night
not knowing what to do
it´s not the same without you
just not the same without you

and know I wonder,
if it has to be this way,
when so many weird peops
cross my way

just like the  hangar is closing
and there is n way out
al our promises broken
not a single one left out

Stranger than Friction

What seems harmless at first might turn out to be a powerful opponent. Thanks for the inspiration to P.I. Tchaikovsky and my daughter, who sang and played the lead in The Ugly Duckling so movingly.

Black Swan

Wake up...Alice

میچینینه دونه دونه کارامونو فرموله جهان
تا به خودمون بیایم میریم تو کمبود زمان
ماها خاصه خودمونیم و کابوسه عوام
پرده های خیال رو دریدم و رسیدم به گمان

فقط من اینجامو خودکار و سیگاره رو لبام
شمشیره تو غلافم ولی تیره تو کمان
این خنجر جامعس که سر میخوره روی رگام

اینقد اینوری و اونوریت تیغت زد
که مجبوری هرروز بشی بی حس تر
یجوری روزگارمونو گرفته نکبت
که غول بدبختیامون داره سه متر قد
میدونی خیلی از آدما برام جالبن
که جنگ رو ول کردن و فقط مواظبن
یکی زیره ذره بین و بقیه ناظرن
بعضیا هم با غیبته بقیه حاضرن
یکی تو میدونه و بقیه عازمن
یا سیرن یا عشقه سو هاضمن
بین اینا زمین تا آسمون فاصلس
دارم با دردامون میزنم لاسه فست

اکنون چه دانی تو که در آتش و آبم
چون خاک شوم باد به گوشت برساند
آنان که ندانند پریشانی مشتاق
گویند که نالیدن بلبل به چه ماند

واسه جاودانگی نمونده اکسیری
فقط به گشنه ها میگن بگو هی سیری
واسه آتیشمونم نمونده بنزینی
تو چطوری با تاکسی میای با بنز میری
تو چرا از روز گار ماها دلگیری
فقط میری و میای چارتا اسم میدی
نگو به من چرا مسئله رو کش میدی
تویی که حتی صورت مسئله ها رو هم بش ریدی
خواستم واسه مغز جامعمون بشم پادزهر
ولی جامعه همونی شد که روم فاز زد
اونی برد که براشون لاف زد
از گر د و خاک خوابیده رو عقیدهاتون گرفته آسمم
از این بعد کلماتم میشه مشته تو دهان
قلمم میشه چاقو فقط میبره زبان
لازم نی اینا رو گوش بدی حتی توی عوام
با بیان عیان کردم نهان و رسیدم به گمان

Gaman

A few songs recorded after moving to Brighton last Summer with hopes of a fresh start somewhere new, leaving the bad times behind.

LUKE'S MAGIC BAND BOOK

Watch the 📹Video: https://youtu.be/PhE7afina30👈
Lyrics interpretation, here: https://beatingedge.blogspot.com/2025/08/vacant-stares-interpretation-of-lyrics.html
Here we are with our last track of the month.
Lately, Carl @thebeautifuldark has been working on some important projects to raise awareness about the indiscriminate use of AI in the world of art. This track came from deep conversations between us, exploring themes of identity, authenticity, and the growing trend of music that’s “AI-made” but never truly felt or played.

Vacant Stares is a cryptic, cult-like vision of a digital future, where prompters replace creators, and artistic expression is reduced to hollow commands.
Blank stares. Selfish prayers. Fake songs for simulated feelings.
This track is a warning. A question. A reversed ritual.
It asks you: who are you, when you no longer use your own voice?

The song is divided into two parts:

Beating Edge's part:
It’s gothic, cinematic, full of ritualistic and unsettling imagery. The atmosphere evokes abandoned temples, secret cults, carved symbols… with that sense of existential disorientation like “they’re initiating me into something but I don’t know what.”
It feels like a lucid nightmare or a hallucination induced by an intelligence simulating spirituality.
Carl’s part:
More brutal, direct, anti-establishment. Almost a rap/spoken-word poem loaded with accusations towards those who use AI in a sterile, heartless way. “Selfish prayers / Fake / Unfair” hit like punches in the gut in just four words. It’s the awakening from hypnosis.

Let’s reflect! And use AI as a tool to amplify art, not to replace it!
Love you all!🫶

Lyrics:

(Tom)

Veil of whispers, carved in stone
Guiding hands, but I'm alone
Golden masks and hollow eyes
Chanting words that crystallize

Candles flicker, shadows climb
Marble echoes bend through time
Steps resound in hollow halls
Silent lips behind the walls

And they move like ghosts through the fevered air
With their silver robes and their vacant stares
Do I kneel, do I run, do I play along?
Or is this the place where I belong?

Smoke is rising, threads unwind
Painted symbols twist my mind
Fingers trace the silent vow
No way back, it's over now

And they move like ghosts through the fevered air
With their silver robes and their vacant stares
Do I kneel, do I run, do I play along?
Or is this the place where I belong?

A voice like thunder in my head
Tells me secrets left unsaid
A crimson door, a silver knife
A choice to stay or trade my life

Lights go dim, the world dissolves
A hollow chant, a fate evolves
In the mirror, I can't see
Is that me, or what's left of me?

(Carl - The Beautiful Dark)

Vacant stares
Selfish prayers
Fake
Unfair

Unnatural wear
Expressionless
Ghost digital smile
Simulated pain
You making fake dog pile

Guesses pluggs in
Self matrix is made
Showing young kids
Their artist mind grave

Not on our watch
Sing your own feeling
Talk your reflections
Save children's true meanings

Feeding them new
They'll amplify this
They'll stay plugged out
All now's reminisce

Prompters, have that reckoning
With fake thoughts you feeding

Respect the souls of past inspire
Their spirit will help you transcend the mire

Vacant Stares

Official Music Video

Alternative indie soft song driven by  base, leyered guitars and hypnotizing melody and voice of interpreteur. Catching melody and outsider melancholic vibe is a must!😉

[Intro — slow, submerged]

[sound of bubbles, distant glass shatter]

In the water,
the light bends slow.
Shadows move
where you can’t go.

Bubbles rise,
slip from your hands,
drifting higher,
out of command.

[ acoustic electric guitar rhytmic solo ]
[ instrumental intermezzo]

[Verse 1]
You never thought
it would pull you in,
but signs were drawn
beneath your skin.
You closed your eyes,
[ bridge ]
you turned away —
the truth you hid,
[ bridge]
still found a way.

⸻

[Refrain ,whispered, layered]
Water all around you,
water breathing calm.
Your chest is slow,
your mind is numb.
Oxygen?
Just another plan… gone wrong.

⸻

Instrumental break
[hypnotic synth swells,
sharp electric guitar lines
cutting through the pulse]

⸻

[Verse 2]
Sirens call,
their voices near —
soft as knives
that you can hear.
[ bridge]
They ask for a smile,
they hand you hope,
but in your eyes
[ bridge]
the depths still grow.

⸻

[Refrain]
Water all around you,
water breathing calm.
Your chest is slow,
your mind is numb.
Oxygen?
[ bridge]
Just another plan… gone wrong.

⸻

Bridge — mantra style
Bubbles rise,
bubbles fade…
They don’t return,
they drift away.

⸻

[Outro ,fading]
([ow ocean waves,
a single synth note holding]
Water all around you…
Water all around you…
Gone.

[ instrumental outro ]

water all around

Another mood piece, with contrasting progressions and building layers. More of a traditional song in its structure with a focus on melody.

Tides and Time

DJMASTERX1  -LIVING  IN THE ABSTRACT - (FEAT. QWAY LO REMIX)

mathematica

Daw: Reaper
Plugins: Too Many
Drums: Built up of many one shot samples on separate tracks.
Vocals: Samples
Music: all hand applied on the piano roll.

Wake up...Alice

PaulC