This playlist is a collection of collaborations and a couple of other tunes. I am so lucky to have worked with these artists. It has given me a renewed vigor and change my paradigm, thank you all!

Please checkout these artists:
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures
https://soundcloud.com/waximi_ackawala
https://soundcloud.com/inrgd
https://soundcloud.com/henry-koek
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar aka Ingvar Tatura
https://soundcloud.com/mynocturnaltwin My Nocturnal Twin

Selected Collaborations and Erstwhile Notes

Re-Dead Unicorns Can Dance w/My Nocturnal Twin #https://soundcloud.com/mynocturnaltwin is a joint effort instigated by Jacob's -aka My Nocturnal Twin https://soundcloud.com/mynocturnaltwin/deadunicorndance - lovely moody industrial trance like track, Dead Unicorn Dance. Jacob asked if I would like to collaborate and I agreed and here is the result.

Re-Dead Unicorns Can Dance w/My Nocturnal Twin ©2022 
My Nocturnal Twin: guitar and echo fx as a live performance, mastered later for the original one.
Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra: Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Synth, Vox Fx, Vocal Loops, Fx

Recorded and Re-mixed at Broken Glass Ranch, Colorado 2022.

Re-Dead Unicorns Can Dance w/My Nocturnal Twin

method: Sending back and forth, reworking and creating in collaboration with re-evolution café orchestra who composed all the music and played all the instruments. To enjoy more, listen here:  https://soundcloud.com/re-evolution_cafe. Apart from the poem, I added field recordings and partook in the editing.
narration: I live in a region that is home to some space industry – more importantly however, this region is also home to marvellous nature. This poem is nourished by many concepts and theories, most notably the colonial ideology of space as the „new frontier“ as well as Whiteheads „fallacy of misplaced concreteness“ and Nagel‘s thoughts expressed in „What is it like to be a bat“. It is also fed by the human-tamed beauty of reed landscapes around lake Federsee which can be seen in the photo I took.

gedicht / copyright jo richter:

welch unvorstellbare macht
muss die masse im erdkern
beleben, das wasser, die erde,
die wurzeln sicher zu halten

zu wahren, die landschaftsfalten
wie eine große gebärde
ins weltall zu richten, das fern
sternlicht um sternlicht entfacht

des tags wuchert das grün
höher und höher empor
bis der wind braune samen
biosphärenweit streut

welch wuchskraft, die sich nicht scheut
sich bis zum astralen
zu wenden aus schwarztiefem moor,
anarchisch und kühn

so müsse auch mensch sich recken,
heißt es, sich loszulösen,
zu den sternen zu streben,
geballte planetenmassen

mit erdensproßsinnen zu fassen,
sich aus den symbiosen zu heben
und seine bedürfnisblößen
xenobiotisch zu decken

welch trugschluss, den leib
dort zu bewegen, wo geist
sich angleicht und fragt: wie
ist es, so zu erleben

die saat darf und muss schweben,
sich aus massewucht lösen, die
sie hielt, doch wie weit sie auch reist,
das schilf, das sie treibt, verbleibt



interlinear rendition:
reeds at lake federsee // what incomprehensible power / has to inspire the mass in earth‘s core/ to hold, to keep the water, the earth / and the roots securely // the folds of the landscape / akin to a giant gesture / directed into the cosmos which lights / star after star in the distance // during the day, the lush green rises / higher and higher / until the wind distributes brown seeds / across the biosphere // what power of growth, not hesitating / to turn towards the stars / from the black deep of the moor / anarchic, courageous // thus man would have to strech as well / people say, to loosen their ties / per aspera ad astra / to measure dense planet masses // with earth-grown senses / detach themselves from symbioses / and cover their bare and many needs / with xenobiosis // what a fallacy of misplaced concreteness to move the body / where the mind adapts and queries / what it is like / to experience like that // mind‘s pollen may and will hover / free itself from the power of mass which / had held it but however far it will travel /  the reed that grows it remains where it is //

schilf am federsee -  with re-evolution café orchestra

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Logic.
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 6th Fret)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
Lyrics:
Sometimes I like to go fishing 
Down on the river side
Being out there in the open air 
Watching those fish go by

With a pole and line in the water 
Sit back and just wait 
Never catch a fish
Never get a bite 
Never use any fish bait

You would not call me a fisherman 
Happy just to let things be 
I don’t bother those fishes 
Those fishes don’t bother me 

You might find me
On a summer’s day 
Down on the river side
Listening to the sound of a running stream 
Watching those fish go by 

With a pole and line in the water 
Sit back and just wait 
Never catch a fish
Never get a bite 
Never use any fish bait

You would not call me a fisherman 
I’m happy just to let things be 
I don’t bother those fishes 
Those fishes don’t bother me

Never Catch A Fish

"Distanced" is a reflective ballad that captures the beauty and heartache of a long-distance relationship, drawing parallels with the infinite expanses of space, and the need for connection stifled by the realities of time and space. With spacey guitar tones and melancholic vocals, The Day Afters blend wistful lyrics with a modern indie sound. Perfect for late-night reflection.

Lyrics:
It’s the Distance - and the time we squandered, the days we found were- quickened.
A rhythm - as we break in two again, smash into ourselves - listen….   

If you want it - you get it - you get you let it go
When  you see it - it’s never what you’re looking for
You can dream - for more and more
What’s real is here, you feel it near - that’s yours

Absence - makes the heart grow fonder But my thoughts still wander - still with you
This system - demands you follow, Makes you swallow - puts us in this queue

If want it - you get it - you get you let it go
When you see it - it’s never what you’re looking for
You can dream - for more and more
What’s real is here, you feel it near - that’s yours

I Miss you - the earth is harder, the sun feels farther than it used to - and we’re just passing through

Trying to read you - I can't tell
Trying to reach you - No one’s there

Void Century

Distanced

lilting and layered piano and string tracks with just a touch of magical e piano chime sounds

nothing to see, hear

Calming Life Form

Thanks to Mark and Eric for feedback on earlier versions
https://youtu.be/mDz6Y6Z_lbI

Love Scandal

Tried to get in touch with you
but you seem to have gone with the wind
I did my best, what more could I do?
In these troubled times

Following the trail to lead me
to the next split in the road
within a moment I will navigate
and be crawling through

______________

Facing my ghosts, but I
won't leave my post
Better trust my senses
before I roll the dice
______________

Love is scandal
and heartbreaks galore
The life of a spy is always a lie
but still we try

________________
I will confess
my crimes to you
the measure was pleasure
the dice had been rigged
but I made it through

The ethics got hectic
stakes ran too high
did I get too personal?
when you said
"do as you see fit"
______________

Bring me to the window
where the light shines
from the mountaintop.
I can handle the scandal
But I can't handle love

Out of respect, eh,
Slightly aloof
Love was scandal 
Who needs proof
When everything breaks down

Love is scandal
Truth is cruel
If only we could
live again
in saner times

Buy at bandcamp

Love Scandal

"When one flower blooms, Spring awakens everywhere." - John O'Donohue

A companion piece to "The Long Winter".

Awakening

the Chase

Nightingale Dub

My Favorite Girl

I'm pretty sure that you're gonna be my favorite girl
I'm liking what's making you different from all of the world
Your hair's a mess but I don't care
You leave me gasping for air
I just want you here with me

You're in the running for sure to be my favorite girl
You're just so sweet and you heart is as big as the world
The mystery of your smile
I'll figure it out in a while
I just want you here with me

And I'm trying to get better
But this fever feels like heaven
I'm gonna let it take me down

Any day now you're sure to be my favorite girl
And then I'll forget about everything else in the world
I keep this dream alive until seven arrives
I just want you here with me
I just want you here with me
I just want you here with me

ISRC:
uscgj2515970

My Favorite Girl

most of this track is made by Leon Lee, I just added a little bit classical guitar, many thanks to Leon for this beautiful tune

das Heitere, der See

Hue Man Atee w/ Tommy Tune-Crafter Tamburello

How Do You Do: is a collaboration featuring the multimedia artist/poet/musician, henry koek @henry-koek, from his SC profile-  "Beside improvising and meeting the moment, I bring my poetry in a sferic of sound , interaction of fibration , using a variety of instruments ".

www.henrykoek.com
www.maisonbleuecollectifartistes.com
henry.koek@orange.fr

How Do You Do You ©2020 lyrics by Henry Koek
Henry Koek: Sax, Percussion, Vocals and Fx
Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra: Drums, Percussion, Synth and Fx, Electric Piano, Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Piano and Vocal Fx

Recorded and Remixed @ Broken Glass Ranch, Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado.
©2020 Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra

Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra w/ Henry Koek

How Do You Do You w/ henry koek

One day I was traversing Soundcloud and came across the fabulous Italian poet, Ilaria Boffa. This is why I love Soundcloud. @ilaria_boffa. Her words and voice flowed out of my web browser and into my heart and soul. So  I reached out and begged her to collaborate with me. Lucky for me she agreed and then allowed me some creative license. So this is for you Ilaria, to you and your voice. May the world be as touched as I was by your words and creative spirit.

Ilaria took the piece published here on SC as "Music for Trains and Station Platforms" and captured it's mood and wrote some stellar, powerful words that created a whole new life and vision for the music. I applaud and am humbled by her multilingual approach to her art using a beautiful vividness of expression of human soul! Bravo Ilaria , bravo. 

Days in Autumn w/ Ilaria Boffa Mix 2 @https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/days-in-autumn-mix-2-re-evolution-cafe-orchestra-ilaria-boffa

Days in Autumn ©2020 Ilaria Boffa and Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra.
Re-mixed @ Broken Glass Ranch, Colorado and Padua, Italy
Words by : Ilaria Boffa
Music by : Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra.

Days in Autumn (homage to ‘You Must Believe in Spring’ by Bill Evans) 

we must believe in spring
Earth axis increases
its tilt to the Sun
dew comes, frost no more
vernal peers share light

many a time belatedly
days in autumn
prepare for cold and 
special smell of soil
many a time fitfully

oh we must believe in spring
let snow melt and streams swell
the hardiest flowers sprout
days in autumn
prepare for dark and
many a time forecast the yield

dobbiamo sperare nella primavera
l’asse della terra aumenta
l’inclinazione al sole
giunge la rugiada, scongela la brina
i pari dividono la luce in primavera 

spesso in ritardo
i giorni d’autunno
preparano al freddo
all’odore tipico della terra
spesso irregolari nel modo

oh dobbiamo sperare nella primavera
lasciamo la neve sciogliere e i fiumi gonfiare
che spuntino i fiori più temerari 
i giorni d’autunno
preparano al buio e
spesso dicono il raccolto

Days in Autumn w/ Ilaria Boffa

#agnosturaelwar & #re-evolution_cafe 

This track is another collaboration/invitation to Mr. Agnostura Elwar. Once again, as per his usual he plays beautifully! Thank you sir!
Original Composition/ Invitation 
https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/in-the-endopen-collab

In The End, But Again
Agnostura Elwar: Electric Acoustic Guitar.
Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra,  Electric Piano, Synth Fx, Bass, Percussion, and Fx.

In The End, But Again: is a joint production of Agnostura Elwar and Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra © 2021

Recorded in Grimstad, Norway and @ Broken Glass Ranch, Deep in the Wet Mountains, Colorado.

In The End, But Again w/ Agnostura Elwar by Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

More Collaborations with Agnostura Elwar
https://soundcloud.com/re-evolution_cafe/sets/re-evolution-cafe-orchestra-1

In The End, But Again w/ Agnostura Elwar aka Ingvar Tautra

Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra is an multimedia, sound and art project, featuring sonic canvasses and videos for your perusing: "eclectic musings" and "musical disambiguation", sometimes with lyrical commentary, sometimes not even a mere word. Near an unassailable flow, memory re-asserts its musicality.

Life forms commanded by code and intuition.
All code can be hacked!
Re-invent your paradigms.
Hack into your code.
Re-define who you are.
This is a yoga, 
this is you... 
Re-Evolution Cafe' Orchestra.
Always open to collaborations:

Hue Man Atee w/ Tommy Tune-Crafter Tamburello

Re-Evolution Cafe Orchestra

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