Q-Samsa

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

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Hi! open for collaborations and in any style 😉

https://on.soundcloud.com/y2z383meyQjZ5MC17
with jusuisse 😌

https://on.soundcloud.com/dVrP9fvESkSETh797
with [Metal] (Meditations)😊

https://on.soundcloud.com/5SeWShkHvAV4chnd9
with Chris 🤘

salut ouvert pour des collaborations et dans n'importe quel style 😉

Psych sounds, dub vibes and a whole bunch of FX in operation
SoundCloud collabs most welcome. Remixes, guitar bashing, conceptualising (a big word for a guitar player, I know) or whatever you have 😎

Member of the transatlantic music machine that is The Eclectic Collective

Member of Mid-Wales’ premier cheezepunk band The Recursives - watch us get down and boogie!!

https://youtu.be/f0CnN7FsIzM?si=4yCzlCMsylbIjKLx

https://youtu.be/E_tYwc83XPs?si=MjmQbwNeRpNXRhQS


Logo and cover art by Marianne

You may wish to check out my older dub based stuff here 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/TwJYv9QgWsDdKNvu9

I make electronic music (and also Pop, Rock etc).

Musical influences;
Tangerine Dream, Ozric Tentacles, Plaid, Air, Younger Brother, Kraftwerk, Laurent Garnier, Djrum, Orbital, Grandbrothers, Banco De Gaia, Enigma, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, The Orb, Azmari, Weval, Underworld, New Order etc.

https://www.youtube.com/@Thierrymfe.1010

Bienvenue ! Venez goûter ma « cuisine alchimique modale » ! Laissez-vous surprendre par des saveurs insolites, étranges, ludiques, relaxantes et toujours personnelles. Ces créations originales, musicales et graphiques, réalisées sans IA, sont le fruit d'un travail acharné et d'influences diverses. J'aime travailler en équipe avec Guillaume qui mixe et masterise, et pourquoi pas un jour partager avec d'autres artistes… ce serait un plaisir !

Welcome! Come taste my "modal alchemical cuisine"! Let yourself be surprised by unusual, strange, playful, relaxing and always personal flavors. These original, musical and graphic creations are made without AI, the result of a lot of work and diverse influences. I enjoy working as a team with Guillaume who mixes and masters and why not one day share with other artists...it would be a pleasure!

Don't worry, friends, 90% of my replies to your comments are deleted on their own (with the help of SC)... but I appreciate your messages and I'm listening to you.

Thanks to all my friends who agreed to lend their voices and their texts.
In alphabetical order (And out of gallantry...Ladies first):

Albert Paule
Special Cecilia
Wildsilences
Epicsoundtracks
Frawstakwa
Gommearababic
Ian Greaves (IPG1)
Jumpingbunny
Maedali
Marty Andersson
Monsieur Madeleine
Wonie Z

Je dois aussi remercier Eric Miller qui m'a donné le goût de me lancer dans l'EDM et ses conseils m'ont été des plus précieux. Eric Miller est un compositeur très estimé pour son talent de mélodiste. Il a produit un album chez pomme music en 1995, a coécrit avec     Jean- Loup Dabadie, a collaboré avec Michel Berger, Jean-PierreJaniaud, Hervé Roy, Hervé Leduc, etc... Il collabore à Performing Arts et assiste régulièrement Sarah Sanders. 

https://soundcloud.com/ericmillercompositeur?utm_source=clipboard&utm_m
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Alternative Electronic Music By Zitou Itou.....born in 2022 
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zitou itou is also elsewhere ---> YouTube !
https://youtube.com/@ZITOUITOU?feature=shared

🐳Thank you for your support. It's very encouraging.🪼
🐱I do not use AI in my music.😊
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Welcome to my stream of consciousness through sound... Bless you All.. Like and Follow and I will do the same... I listen to y'all music... Y'ALL SO DOPE!!!!!!!!!!! Blessings and keep up the wondrous works....

Q-Samsa

Sanshu Seiso [Experimental Artist]