Loving Their Flo

San Anto

The New And I Knew

Shadows! Don't let the bass drop hit you on the way out!

Shadows

90mph

Cloud Walking

One of my favorite tracks I've made so far :)

Remember When (Mastered)

This song is about humans making humans and how the machines started mimicking

Even Steve

Man and Machines

The Four Vows (in Buddhism).

Sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them.
Desires are inexhaustible, I vow to put an end to them.
The Dharma Gates are boundless, I vow to practice them.
The Buddha Way is unsurpassable, I vow to attain it.

At Zen River Temple, and other Zen temples and Zen groups, these vows are chanted at the end of the day after meditation (zazen). This new recording is the same song I uploaded to SoundCloud in 2017. It had been recorded using a small mobile phone microphone that my brother gave me as a starter kit because a few months earlier, I had sent him a folk song recorded with a Skype headset, the only microphone I had! He had to laugh.
This time, I wanted to add something extra. While practising improvising, with the help of my guitar teacher @digmon-roovers, I decided to give it a shot and weave it into the song. 

"The Four Bodhisattva Vows are the fundamental vows of the Zen Buddhist path, expressing the bodhisattva's resolution to attain awakening in order to liberate all sentient beings. With enlightenment comes a realization of the fundamental equality of all things, and the understanding that to liberate oneself one must liberate other beings and that to liberate other beings is none other than to liberate oneself. 

In this lies the unity of wisdom and compassion. The Four Vows are chanted in Zen monasteries at the end of daily services and memorial services for the departed."

Kobun Chino Otogawa (1972)

A modern, ecological version of these vows has been written by
Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen.

Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Consuming desires are endless; I vow to stop them.
Bio-relations are intricate; I vow to honour them.
Nature's way is beautiful; I vow to become it. 

(Source: https://terebess.hu/zen/szoto/vows.html)

Dawn Song

The Four Vows

Darling, I've just had the Worst Dream (P. Michael Harrison)

#RECYCLETHEBEAT

There’s a rhythm beneath the surface, ancient and unrelenting—a heartbeat lost to time, still echoing through roots and soil. “Pulse of the Forgotten Wood” is a dark, driving instrumental that taps into that buried current: fast-paced, hypnotic, and raw, but without the screaming this time.

The track blends fast EDM percussion with gritty guitar layers and deep, atmospheric textures. It feels like running through an overgrown forest under a moonless sky—disoriented, breathless, but guided by something older and deeper than thought. The energy never lets up, but it doesn't explode; it churns, it builds, it pulses.

This isn’t about rage—it’s about instinct. About surrendering to something wild and wordless. The sound of the woods remembering you.



Pulse of the Forgotten Wood

When the façade's projector loses power and what's true is shown, will your image change?

Lyrics:
[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside
I see your fun, it's ending (It's ending)
Just got a gun you lent me (Why have one if you're friendly)
Why have some if it's empty

[Verse 1]
Got a magnifier and rent-free
I can see anywhere without fee
Just zoom right in, and the dot’s right there
Now you're on your way doing 60, ah (I got)
I got friends who are better than me at life (ah)
I barely respond 'cause I'm busy
I want to catch up, so don't hit my line
Know I wanna
I want to catch up to you, don't hit me
I know I look nice on the surface
I think I'm ugly—some think that's pretty
Some say that's pretty, I don't know at all

[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside
I see your fun, it's ending
Just got a gun you lent me (kyrigo)
Why have one if it's empty? Ah

[Bridge]
But I'm weak, and we know I don't keep my word
I spring into action with shock absorbed
Then I lay down, like an s550
I'm tired, Airmatic is hitting
The floor, I feel like I'm sinking
I cannot afford what's blinking
What I know exists can get me
So I play pretend 'til it gets me
One day it'll end, it's fixing
Paranoid in a way, please get me out
I feel like I'm stuck just rinsing
No repeat when I'm sat just stagnant
Stagnant sat with a loaded gun

[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside (kyrigo)
I see your fun, it's ending
Just got a gun you lent me
Why have one if it's empty, ah

[Outro]
Let's see a fallen sky

Produced by KYRIGO
Released via dear gradient, / The towne
© 2025  unkept

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AURA

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

success is so facetious
I could never see that
(from) where you are

how you fall off
I won’t let you slide

(and) if all the ink is bleeding
oh I hope you fucking mean it
I’ve been telling you to feel it
won’t you
tell me did I do it for ya?

hold my words to heart I swear
I take it from the morning air
its broken from the moment
that I held it 
and its every time

I
took on your breath
and I made that my life 

I
watch all my feelings collide 
hol- low myself out every time
see write through but don’t see my eyes

tear my prints on guitar strings
I gotta grow up

(heart ache x2)

all its meant to be

Chasing Shadows

VickStiX has created a lovely tune (https://soundcloud.com/vicky-adair/voice-at-ninety), that probably deserves even a bit more enrichments. So I did that with Vicky's permission. See her track for lyrics ...

Voice at Ninety (APi remix)

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Cloud Walking

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