A jazzy, hip-hop ode to frogs and toads 🐸, clearly the funniest of all amphibians. And an homage to DJ Shadow, clearly the greatest of all DJs. 

H/t to https://soundcloud.com/Dynameks for the drums and samples.

The Funny Frog Express

7_Kintsugi

This precious piece is particularly suitable for driving through a city in a modern car. An older model can also work if it has hi-fi audio.

Everyday Streetlife

method: A50 and microphone  before input - pedals and effects before output
narration: these days one has to cope with these days - that's basic dialectics, isn't it
copyright for the poem, the composition, the sounds and the image: jo richter

behold the golem at the helm
made of silence, made of clay
this is your home, this is your realm
how much does an inked word weigh

bailiffs live the coral life
elder masters clad in kelp
men may snorkel, hegels dive
words confuse, there is no help

if the undead self arrives from voodoo space
if the unmet I is just AI
if shadows shed redeeming grace
if jojo dialectics are all lie
who will prompt the prompts and question questions
who will prompt the prompts and question questions

dial 0 for landline services

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Circle of Life - Your Space Your Place (Fulfill Mission)

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lyrics written, vocals recorded and provided by Special Cecilia @specialececilia - merci beaucoup, you are so Special Cecilia!

This drop that needed to sneak in has turned out to be the right song to announce an upcoming introspective series.

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music, carefully used, is a track written, played, mixed, produced, and provided by courtesy of mobygratis and its crew, licensed

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vocal arrangement, mix, final mix, and track produced by fictionalive

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artwork street poster photography, image editing by fictionalive

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fusion of it all -
fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports
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friday, november 28th, 2025
11:55 am central european time zone
love is in need today
it's needed also tomorrow


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Circle of Life - Your Space Your Place (Fulfill Mission)

After taking a break from this story for a whole year, The Smoking Trout is so happy to share with you all the final chapter in our epic ongoing tale, the Quest for the Holy Dumpling! Thanks to all who've joined us on this fantastic ride, as either listeners or musicians. See credits below to learn about the crew who contributed to this memorable final episode. You'll also find links to our BandCamp and our earlier album, plus Jeff & Jo's incredible lyrics!

Stonerjazz @user-911083679 -- Lyrics, Vocals (intro/outro) Guitar (intro/middle)
Tot - @tot-beat -- Beat & Drums (intro/outro)
Tea R. Sea - @tea_are_sea -- Beat (middle), Synths (throughout), Production
Nadia Selvaggi - @nadiaselvaggi -- Vocals (middle)
TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman -- Guitar & Guitar Special Effects (intro/middle/outro), final mastering
Nic - @nic_nic_nic -- Vocals, Synths/Keys (middle)
Jo Richter @sonic-textures -- Lyrics, Melodion

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Catch up with all 12 tracks in the Smoking Trout's now-complete concept album, Quest for the Holy Dumpling: on.soundcloud.com/FR63a

Listen to the Smoking Trout's first album, The Land of Zed (2021-2022): on.soundcloud.com/WB34q

Find us on BandCamp! thesmokingtrout.bandcamp.com
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Lyrics (by Stonerjazz & Jo Richter):

Everybody on the bus, Gus and Stu
and some others from Uriah, too, made up their minds
packed up their kinds and kith and kin
and decided unattachedly to pack it in
and Johnny, all nostalgic for the solitude of melancholic bedsheet ascetism, said
"We should go to Zed" and smiled in mild remembrance
"I saw a crack a couple light years back in the space time continuum,
with a sign that read, Zed, 50 miles straight ahead.
We might get there in time to liberate my lost accordion
from the clutches of the local patron
a relative of Mr Smith’, if I am not completely wrong.“

Uriah had a riot
when the dumplings disappeared
trampled by the herds of lust, desire
lampooned by the nerds of rust and fire
gobbled up by fast food throats and street flock trucks
and someone farted, burped and said they wanted seconds
and that was when the trouble started and ursurped the mental landscape
and who’s to blame but some minions from that moppet, Alfred Rufus Smith
who to his simian bewilderment was headed back to earth
in that stolen starship that he stole again, restole and stole for just another time
(the way rebirthing beings rack up karma by incarnating ceaselessly)
from the only holy spaceport of that karmic spacelord on the potted planet
frowned upon by Gus and Stu and all the riders of experience on the nirwana bus--

--"And so it was , they crossed the boundry into Zed, and landed lightly on the purple plain
and when they did, all the holograms on board the bus turned into real Girls and Boys
Would love to say thing turned out well but what the hell , who can tell
Uziel Wivress, Neal Nic and Nadia, jeff and Jo, Stephen Tot and Terry too enjoyed the view as the bus it hit the ground
in the golden grass near the end of June--
Gus and all the crew were happy to have arrived safe and sound
and without a scratch on that sacred patch of rock in space--

see the tarmac flotilla in karmic espandrilles
sharpen their common intuition
and like expanding armadillos
overcome respective inhibition
and cross across the crucial rift and ,riffing, raft the cosmic shift
and wake up in the place where Jonny is remembered as the bringer of the dumpling and the player
of the most beautiful instrument Divine --

The Smoking Trout - Quest for the Holy Dumpling: The End of the Line

THE HILL OF THE SKULL (Ft. Molly Barnett)

Pilot 3000

Wave Goodbye

Demo song “Wintertime” was written back in December 2023 and is now being published🙏

Your Child of Nature ✨🌟❤️🌟✨

X-Mas Album

Wintertime (Remix 2025)

Music by Ambient Annie. Production & mastering by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Qarenthe.

Live Improvised Abstract Electronic Sandbox Audio / Falmouth Cornwall