You could just grow a beard and drive a Morris Minor.....love the 'mellotron' patches :)

I've just realized that you've changed the title and description?  Fun reading the story:))

Awesome sound, mix, arrangement and music!!

Tripped out imaginings = mind blown. Sterling work agent McWalter.

@dan-s-blackard Thise speakers sound gooooooood! Thanks so much Dan :-)))

Wonderful atmospheric dance. Solid stuff guys.

Wonderfully adventurous - borderline nuts - yet somehow works as a coherent whole.  Rock lunacy at its very best.

Cloud Occlusion-45

MIRAGE

"Micro Jam" (demo v1) 

A short one minute jam or sketch I played this weekend using my 37-key Korg microKEY AIR as a MIDI controller. The VST sounds come from Arturia Mini V4 (Minimoog bass sound), Audiolounge Key Affair 3, Spectrasonics Keyscape, UVI FMX2 XL, Gospel Musicians' Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2 and UVI Emulation III. Drums and the fantastic drum beat come from UVI Beatbox Anthology 2 (The 7o7 kit).

Recorded and mixed in Cubase Pro with significant help from iZotope Neutron. Mastered with Ozone 11.

Here are links to a short video where I played the bass line: 
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2nyKmNNCI_o
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH1mauaSv8M

Micro Jam (demo)

Please welcome to join Syntaleta community on www.patreon.com/syntaleta
Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

But I've Got the Wings

Another great tenor solo from My mate Georg !!!

BRUTAL w/ Georg Boehme

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Saxophone and female vocals (reworked) are courtesy by Daze of Nostalgia and Cinematic Vocals.
Cover picture: René Magritte, The Art of Conversation (1963).

Posted on SoundCloud:  2025 June 1.

Talking about our lifetime

My second time to try covering my favorite John Denver song.

Country Roads - Cover by Tony

Recorded in Modesto Ca.  Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Hammond B3 Electric Organ solo. Flute solo. Acoustic Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Godin Acoustic Nylon Strings Guitar Rhythm. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Electric Organ Rhythm. Drums Acoustic Full kit set. Percussion, Tree Chimes, Rainstick, Nature Birds Chirping, Crickets.

Carmel

Nesting

Archy has finally reached the elusive land of his dreams. But is it really all what it seems? Is there something evil in the air? Is there dark clouds at the horizon? Archibald Whim may step ashore, but what awaits him in this ever changing America?
This track was recorded in corporation with the ever so talented BribedAnt, that supported with bass and solo guitar along with a critical input in the mix and master process. Do look up BribedAnt on Soundcloud - it's a blast.

America – Archibald Whim X

The idea for this song came to me randomly while driving down some backroad a few years back, and I recorded the initial idea spur of the moment. For whatever reason, the rather morbid theme came out in the process and I just went with it. Nat is a daring soul and surprisingly encouraged that we record it and with her considerable help we fashioned this recording. Notable is that Nat has taken on the ability to add some beautiful pedal steel guitar throughout the song using her well established keyboard skills and this first run at it was very satisfying. Let us know what you think!

Craig Durgy: vocals, guitar
Nat Daniels: vocals, piano, pedal steel, bass, percussion
All music written and performed by Daniels & Durgy
Produced by Nat Daniels of Gentle Rain Records 
©2025 Daniels & Durgy

Lyrics:
It took me a while to believe it
If you’re stuck in a bad place, you leave it
And I was that place, that she had to erase
A place that suited me just fine

Then one day I put away my rosy glasses
As I waited for her to come back home.
But watching dust settle, 
On the couch and the kettle
I could see it was me, that made her have to leave
Me to build this coffin home of mine

Yes, I’m building a coffin to live in
Surrounded by forests of green
‘Cause if I ever knew love, 
I guess that I threw love
Away with the girl of my dreams

Well, it don’t feel like living, without her
Though the sun still shines brightly through the pines 
I can tell I have a pulse, 
But my heart has tested false 
If only I’d seen the warning signs

It’s the simple things that seem so complicated
Thought I knew what I should do, to make it 
But then the ship that sails, 
Leaves you pounding coffin nails
Now it’s, twenty-four seven, this coffin that I live in
With all the “could have beens” that it confines

I’m just building a coffin to live in
Surrounded by forests of green. 
‘Cause if I ever knew love, 
I guess that I threw love
Away with the girl of my dreams

Pounding away, day after day
Waiting for the girl of my dreams
Someday, she’ll be back

A Coffin To Live In

lyrics

On some summer day
You'll be mine to stay
On some summer day

Then on winter nights
I will hold you tight
Mine, Mine

When the seasons matter no more
Matter no more
Matter no more
When the seasons matter no more
Matter no more
Matter no more

On some summer day
You'll be mine to stay
Some summer day
Then on winter nights
I'll hold you tight
Mine, Oh Mine

When the seasons matter no more
Matter no more
Matter no more

no more

when the seasons matter no more

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

A Japanese dance troupe celebrating Hinamatsuri discovered this dangerous waltz procedure inside an un-pulled and otherwise empty Christmas cracker in an underground bunker in Buckingham Palaces' grounds after an early Spring  garden party. 

It is a secret service adaption of a native South African weaponised waltz; used to protect one from unwanted advances for several minutes when sober. 
(Allegedly less effective if cardboard party hats are present in large numbers.)

To initiate the strike just shout the trigger  "hitch-hiker" to the band leader who will immediately start the secret count (1 and 2 and 3 and 1 2 3 and 4)and the following melee of winded dancers and limb dislocations should ensure a safe exit for the agent. 

Generally only used as a last resort by UK secret services due to the unpredictable depth of collateral damage and abnormal level of vituperative complaints from adjacent dwellings.

MUSIC TO WORRY HITCH-HIKERS (THE LOOSE SNAKE IN THE FOOTWELL MIX)

PRIVATE EYES - LIVE at The Swan, Fulham Broadway, 1992

!!! WARNING CASSETTE RECORDING !!!

PRIVATE EYES - THE MOVIE - TRAILER HERE: https://youtu.be/bTkxtORdD0s

PRIVATE EYES

Vocals: TJ Robinson
Slide Bird Whistle: @dave-heaven (2nd solo)
Keys: Tom Doyle
Bass: Fred Dunlop
Drums: @romek-parol
Lead & Main Guitar: @phil-mcwalter (1st, 3rd solos & wah-wah outro)

Live At The Swan 19.2.92

Little Wing

Little Wing - Private Eyes - Live @ The Swan, Fulham Broadway 1992 - MOVIE TRAILER LINK

RUNNING AWAY

When you've climbed up the mountain
All you can see are rivers running away
Running away
Running away

Our rivers...

Running away

RUNNING AWAY

This is an extension of a character from the Beatles 'Get Back' track...

Part II is here: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/loretta-part-two-2-m

There is also an Open Collab free download based on Part II: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/loretta-open-collab

https://youtu.be/vIRc6uQoXMs

LORETTA Pt. 1

Oh Loretta
What have you done?

Now the rain is going to wash your high-heeled clicks away
Back the way you came

Oh Loretta
What have you done?
You broke a big man
You made it look fun

Now the rain is going to wash your high-heeled clicks away
Back the way you came

Oh Loretta
What have you done?

 © Aug 2019 Phil McWalter

Rick-4-1 on the skins and just perfection as always... How does he do it?

This is based on the fictional character in The Beatles 'Get Back' track.

Spotify

Loretta - Pt. 1

BUTTER KNIFE HEAVEN (BOP BOP)

@Rick-4-1: Well, he played drums on this, if you can call it just that. It's something much bigger really, it's like the hairs on the back of your neck on new batteries for the first time in your life.
@phil-mcwalter: Well, just the other stuff.

Enjoy heaven.

PLAY IT LOUDER

Heaven

I think I had forgotten 
How to fall in love
I got it right first time 
When I was young and pure like heaven
But it’s never been as good
In fact it’s been as rough as wood
And it’s splintered me

I sort of forgot
How it's supposed to be hot
And when it had gone cold
And I looked at what I'd got
It was not a lot

I’ve wasted some time 
Heaven
Well most of our lives 
Heaven
It feels like a crime
Sharp as a butter knife
I’ve been spread too thin
By kith and kin

Original sin
But not so original
I should have told the Pope
That there was no hope
And what would you know 
He’d agreed with me
It’s not a great story
Not bloody or gory
You just get one shot
And I must have given mine to someone else
It should have ended my game
But I’ve passed it on
It’s a little bit lame 
Just the same
Like everything else 
Bop Bop
I’m now at a full stop
Bop Bop
It’s just a pensioner’s bus-hop away 
(Anyway)

I think I had forgotten 
How to fall in love
I think I have forgotten (How to say goodbye)
How to end it all

It’s just been a waste
Heaven
A copy and paste 
Heaven 
I haven’t been traced
Lost or misplaced
I feel debased 
And disgraced
It leaves a bitter 
Aftertaste
But I aint crying
I’ve just been sprayed with Mace…

Bop Bop

Heaven…

© Aug 2019 Phil McWalter

Butter Knife Heaven

Butter Knife Heaven (Bop Bop)

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! ALSO 2nd Deluxe CD+Booklet "Songs That Mean Something" See links below. 

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.

A full time, freelance children's book illustrator, introduced to Magix music making software in January 2014.  Haven't been near music production since school about a hundred years ago.  Can't play a note, and sing like a drain unblocking - Hence any music I may eventually have the nerve to upload is all created using midi/vst instruments playing compositions created in the piano roll editor.   The Magix forum dedicated to music production is the only place to suffer my creations so far.  Didn't realise it could be so much fun though.  Woohoo.

Join me and a lot of other artists at www.atomcollectorrecords.com.
Get more plays for your tracks and meet a lot of awesome people!
Cheers!

MUSIC TO WORRY HITCH-HIKERS (THE LOOSE SNAKE IN THE FOOTWELL MIX)

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