really enjoyable..a pleasure to listen..catchy  tune..great production..high respect!🥁🎸🎤🎧

a radio tune.. starting with the hookmelody..perfect.. even the most spoiled radio presenter will be attentive provided it fits their genre.. good job, Phil!

fantastic Song Phil:) in the grand tradition of storytelling:)

great sound and vibe Phil! You mixes are always stellar!

Sorry to be late to this gorgeous Country tune, filled with a yearning we all know yet will never satisfy.  Truly lovely vocals, sweet guitar and as always, spot-on perfect drums from yer man Rick.  An absolute gem, Phil...

one of these immortal tunes, so absolutely great!!!

This song rolls, like a giant, slow boat.  And we're gonna find it - it'll be in the last place we look.  I just know it.

This year I've been studying jazz.
Have fun!

Jazztastic

Daniel

I wrote this song for my daughter. 

Heaven Blessed

A confident woman for all to see
Taking on life, so easily
She’s the kind of person, I’d like to be
Thoughtful and kind, a little wild and free

Now, rumour has it, she was born this way
Came to the game, ready to play
And she’s winning hearts, along the way
This raven-haired beauty, does what she may

Can you see who she really is?
Love’s her target and she can’t miss
Puts God and dogs at the top of her list  
The kind of girl who’s heaven blessed

Tough as nails, but as soft as love
She doesn’t suffer fools no, g’head pack your stuff
A beautiful soul who’s pure and true
A better friend, I never knew

Can you see who she really is?
Love’s her target and she can’t miss
Puts God and dogs at the top of her list      
The kind of girl who’s heaven blessed

	Like a wild horse that you can’t tame
	To break her spirit would be a shame
	Let her be her that’s why she came
	A divine gift I can’t explain

Can you see who she really is?
Love’s her target and she can’t miss
Puts “must love dogs” at the top of her list       
The kind of girl who’s heaven blessed (repeat)

Cover Art: Wolf, Todd J McLean

All rights reserved

Heaven Blessed

Emilio, aka https://soundcloud.com/stranger-something and https://soundcloud.com/olla-de-insomnio send me this wonderful instrumental. A very special thank you to Alejandro Venegas for playing these great drums. Later on he mixed and mastered it, he also provided this picture. It was a great pleasure to write and sing along, a Big Thank You for that…

Vuelo Lejano

1
Oh,
Wait
Is it already that late ?
And we still hesitate
Let us concentrate…
Let ’s collaborate…
Yeah…
Seriously…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
But 
We cannot sort out heart from mind, 
And that won’t be different this time

And with  .4 k per second
Just spinning around ourselves

No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…

Let us concentrate - ah -
Here today
There is no escape…

No giggling please…
Let’s collaborate…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
We won’t sort out heart from mind
And that won’t be different this time

And with 3.2 k per second, 
Ahaa, ahaa…
Circling around the sun
Ohh,
No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…
It’s only one way…
One way-y-y-y-y-y-y-y…yeah…

- solo - 					

2
So many lovesongs have been sung
So why again now a further one ?
Because it must not be left undone
Cannot leave it undone
Just cannot leave it undone…

Ohh,
There are turbulences

No joking please
There is trouble ahead
Hitting the unprepared -
Ohh, this is a hard way…

While we float
With some 30 k/s 
Around the milky way
And other hundreds of k/s
Trundling other ways
Within a thousand days
That is quite a stray
Even if you don’t move a single hoof…

No giggling please
This is supposed to be another love song
No joking please
This is a far flight
No giggling please
This is a heart’s way
And it’s only…
It's only one-way,
It's only one way…

Vuelo Lejano (wt Stranger Something)

Mr. Right
Vocals: From Music Maker
Paploviante: E-Bass, Composing, Arrangement, Picture, Mix and Mastering
Picture made with Swift Publisher
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Mr. Right-Paploviante

A song for us all

@rick-4-1 on Drums
@phil-mcwalter on The Other Stuff

Do You Know What I Mean

D' Ya Know What I Mean? - [revisited]

English-Columbian musician Vanessa Forero is based in a mountain area of Columbia and was featured in a UK TV feature documentary New Lives in the Wild, about her life and work.  

No One's Singing Today  (Cover)

Cast of characters:

The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — Ovation guitar, lead vocals, lyrics, and composition

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

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST timbale, production editing

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – electric piano and synth

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Telecaster HSS electric guitrar

This song began as Carl's tribute poem to our drummer, Ken. Carl came up with the chord progression and started a project, to which he invited the rest of us. This is the third song Eclectic Collective has done that is a tribute by Carl to one of our members.  We couldn't feel more honored than to be the subjects of his wild and boundless creativity.

  Fittingly, Ken was first in line to add his magnificent drums. Once we had drums, Josh had something to work with to add his bass, which he did shortly after the drums were up. Mark paid the project a visit next, not only editing it to fit the cool drum and strings bridge, but supplying the VST timbale drums, as well. Stephen jumped in soon after, adding the melodic electric guitar riffs that appear throughout. Not to be outdone, JJ added some sonically thickening electric piano, as well as the throwback psychedelic synth that pops up towards the end. Finally, Tez came along and added the electrifying solo that appears about a third of the way in, as well as the one at the end. 
  Once the recording was finished, we turned it over to Stephen to mix in his always professional manner. 

  This song is all about our very talented teammate and brother, Ken, and it is well deserved, too. As mentioned, this is the third song from Carl about one of us. It's hard to describe the feeling of having someone who you respect take the time and energy to think about you in such a positive way as to produce a song about you. Then to have all your buddies join in to amplify it to a solid song is just mind-blowing. We are all very grateful to Carl for not only sharing his music with us, but for his thoughtful consideration of each of us as subjects. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.


Original lyrics by The Perfect Dark:

Karakoram human
You decorate good future
As many lose their Gods
You stand tall as suture

Rhythmic mountain maestro
Each day, graft, working hard
So kids can eat
Bruised back sees very best of yard

Still, beats get born of evenings
Deep love finds joules to jam
May generation X soothe meaning
Let's teach the younger pussies what we can

To Ken, from pen, to page, to Music
To friends, Now is when, Good sage soup soothes us
Honest and brave, To Jesus he save
Kudos our maestro of percussive wave

Karakoram human
You decorate good future
As many lose their Gods
You stand tall as suture
Sticks in hand
Cymbals a floating
Snare and bass backbone gland
Tom'ed Ringo Star man keep quoting
Keep life steady paced by hand

To Ken, from pen, to page, to Music
To friends, Now is when, Good sage soup soothes us
Honest and brave, To Jesus he save
Kudos our maestro of percussive wave


Rhythmic Mountain - Eclectic Collective w/ The Beautiful Dark

Yes. its AI




Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I live in
The USA
And theres something
I gotta say
Very obvious
I'll say it anyway
And I'm affected too
I won't shy away

Everywhere
The world say

USA
We know where you're at
And most of your citizens
Are very very fat
We can diagnose the problem
And determine this and that
Its just rooted in our culture

To become very very fat

Being out of shape
Seems to be the deal
Got a gym membership
Are you being for real
Do you really go
Or just use it to appeal
The part of you that screams

This aint right

Our portions are huge
And it reflects
In our size
Counting calories
Is difficult
Though it's very wise
Visitors from foreign lands
Will ask for a box to go
Its a common concept
But few Americans know

If soda pop
Is a regular on
Your grocery list
When you step on the scale
Don't get pissed
Regular or diet
Your body doesn't care
Its gonna make you tubby
Though the labels
Don't say beware

When other countries have
To make American clothes
Making proper sizes
No body knows
Extra large
Or extra extra
Still might be too tight
Outfitting Americans
Is hard to get it right
And don't complain
About the prices
When you see them
In the store
Keep it in your mind
That extra fabric
Will cost more

Consumption culture
Mastered at it best
Chunky people on the east
Stretching to the west
It use to be uncommon
Now thin is less and less
Because here's a fact,
That perhaps must be addressed

There shouldn't be reality shows
On the television
About people over six hundred pounds
Struggling to lose weight
Does it entertain you
To see human collapse?
A person who struggles
Does it make you feel better?

Is it okay to be
Fifty,  sixty,  a hundred pound over
But four hundred more
Is a line
Your mind can't cross over

At the grocery store
I lost count
Of how many people there
Carry extra pounds
And it wasn't just a few
You know what I do
Are they on you too?

Yeah,
We all gotta eat
And we all gotta move
We Americans are stuck
In a shitty groove
Extra effort
Just to be
Healthy

Go to Europe
Stay a month or two
And see how many pounds
Come off of you

Fat fat fat
Fat Americans
Yes
Fat Americans
I'm one too
But I bet I
Weigh less
Than most of you

Life is hard

And delicious

So true



Fat Americans

Moonrise (Inst.)

X-Slow Death

Leise rieselt der Putz

Leise rieselt es in meinem Kopf
während es von oben in das Stübchen tropft 
Ich weiß es ist
hier nie ganz dicht
Und wenn die Decke Risse kriegt
wenn sich alles immer wieder nach unten schiebt
dann beug ich mich
während die Zeit zerbricht

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war
viel zu klein war

Leise rieselt es in meinem Kopf
während es von oben in das Stübchen tropft 
Ich weiß es ist
hier nie ganz dicht
Von oben fühlt sich’s an
als käme unten nichts an
als würde alles zerbröseln was zerbröseln kann
Die letzte Schicht
zersetzt in sich

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war

Leise rieselt‘s weiter
ganz fies unverzeihbar
Leise rieselt’s weiter in mich rein
dann lass ich’s halt so sein
dann lass ich’s halt so sein

Leise rieselt leider
was sich tief in mir verbreitet 
Es lief noch seither
bisschen schief doch weiter
Nieselt und verschneit mehr
jeden Tag wird es lauter
und es bleibt da weitausweiter
als das Blau vom Wetter
Leise rieselts weiter
und das fiese daran bleibt ja
dass alles hier scheitert
daran dass man nie frei war
wie ein Vogelfreier der gefangen ist im Seither
und noch lang dagegen meutert 
dass die Welt viel zu klein war


Leise rieselt der Putz

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

D' Ya Know What I Mean? - [revisited]

Phil McWalter

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