U-Pained Balance

"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

Thank you to all my supporters. Much love <3
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Vocalist; songwriter; poet; author; D-grade philosopher.

#anderssonarte
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Collaborators/Affiliates:

> Salvatore Nuccio
[ https://soundcloud.com/salvatorenuccio ]
>> Angelo Annicchiarico
[ https://soundcloud.com/angelo-annicchiarico-1 ]
>> Tracey Cracknell
[ https://soundcloud.com/user-656984672 ]
>> ZODALITT
[ https://soundcloud.com/lise-jonsson ]
>> Jostein Kihl Svarthe
[ https://soundcloud.com/jostein-kihl-svarthe ]
>> BlueToad 
[ https://soundcloud.com/dan-lemiel ]
>> Kenny Dyer
[ https://soundcloud.com/kenny_dyer ]
>> Behold the Sludge
[ https://soundcloud.com/beholdthesludge ]
>> IPG1 aka LOU
[ https://soundcloud.com/ipg1 ]
>> #WEATNU
[ https://soundcloud.com/weatnu ]

No A.I here
I'm not a DJ
I just like creating beats and melodies
to your pleasure...
 I hope....
Peace Sharing and Music✌️😊
© musics & art cover ©

J J Samuel
33 | Norwich, UK
Songwriter since 15 | AI-Powered Producer
#RnB #Soul #Pop #EDM #WorldFusion #YODETRONICA

New songs coming soon‼️🚨

I WRITE EVERY WORD. EVERY STORY. 100% ME.
Love, family, resilience – or wild new worlds from scratch. ✍️❤️
I invent fresh concepts, twist genres, and just created:
🎧 YODETRONICA – yodeling meets futuristic EDM. First of its kind. 🚀
AI? MY TOOL, NOT MY VOICE.
I design every prompt, every vibe, every twist.
AI turns my lyrics + ideas into sound.
I don’t sing the main vocals – but I DO use MY VOICE for:
🎤 Yodels
🎤 Ad-libs
🎤 Backing layers & sound effects
All raw, all me.
I’m now TRAINING AI to match HUMAN SOUL.
Through deep research + endless experiments, I’m teaching it real emotion, breath, and phrasing – the way I would sing if I had a studio band.
AI isn’t replacing talent… it’s learning from mine. 🎙️🤖
Vocals: SUNO V5 + my raw demos (yodels, falsettos, emotion)
Mix: I tweak, polish, obsess till it hits hard. 🎧

🔥 NEW COLLABS LIVE
🎵 Climb That Ladder w/ King Chico
🎵 A Little Closer w/ Eric Georgesco
MORE DROPS SOON. STAY READY. 🚨

OPEN TO COLLABS – LET’S CREATE TOGETHER
Got beats? Need lyrics? Want to test AI or build in YODETRONICA?
I’m here to HELP – for FREE.
No hate, just music. Let’s grow together. 🤝🎶

Father | Partner | Day-Job Hustler
Running a business by day, scribbling lyrics at night.
Every idea jotted in spare moments – then AI brings it to life. 📝✨
Hit play. Feel the climb.
Like | Repost | DM me
#SongwriterFirst #AIisMyAlly #WeRiseTogether #YODETRONICA

Melinda Klotz Mercer is a songwriter, music producer, television producer, professional photographer and creative entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Argyll Music, Isle of Myth, Spirit Sound, and Sound Vault—four distinctive labels producing faith-inspire, across multiple genres. Her dream is to work with performing artist to hear her lyrics brought to life on 
Stage. Seeing the artist and fans loving her music is the ultimate reward. 

With over 330 original songs registered through ASCAP and Song Trust, Melinda’s work is featured across Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer and more. Her lyrics and compositions blend storytelling with deep emotional insight, crossing genres like contemporary Christian, indie pop, country rock, EDM, and cinematic instrumentals.

She is the creative force behind several signature
 virtual acts to demo her songs, including:
	•.    Pink Pixies – girl group, pop, kpop 
	•	The Retrievers - boy band - pop
	•	Artemis & Nymphs – EDM, Alternative, Pop
	•	Duke Campbell – Country, Rock
	•	Apollo, the God of Rock – classic rock 
	•	Kitty Carmichael – country and indie
	•	Mills Harrison – Indie 
	•	Pepper Bluebird – Indie 
	•	Andromeda Galaxy – R&B, Pop
	•	Aten Khufu - R&B, Hip Hop, Soul

She also created Sound Vault, a boutique instrumental catalog perfect for chill, romantic, zen, and cinematic moods, ideal for licensing, background scores, and mindfulness playlists.

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, Efdemin, Underworld, New Order etc.

Featured Friend:
Listen to Joe Strofolino
https://on.soundcloud.com/vI7zPkarJico4UmQC3
Joe is a fabulous writer and musician with some very unique angles on song writing. Joe emalganates his comedy skills and experience very well with his music and offers a great mix of feelings throughout his repertoire.



Howdy,

Welcome to TBD.


All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs.

Thanks for all of your wonderful support.

Peace and Love to Everyone,

🫛



What playing music does to your brain🔽

https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng?si=KJt33NWjUo63ieAm



A nice David Bowie Interview🔽

https://youtu.be/JRtZc_Nmo5w?si=1g1Wag87NdEumAc4




My Favourite Book on mindfullness🔽

Waking Up Audiobook | Free with trial https://share.google/xsAhpRSbEubR5MO7g

by Sam Harris



My favourite book on physical reality🔽

A Short History of Nearly Everything Audiobook | Free with trial https://share.google/YXkAxGmKhrGLuXvhr

by Bill Bryson


My new 🎹  🎺 piece is called..“Smokey Hornz”
                         

All music posted on this channel created & composed & played & arranged & produced in house by myself (Luke)

I’m a 🎶 writer / composer / musician / producer always creating & producing new Piano 🎹 arrangements / scores / themes / compositions / tracks from scratch ..
 
all my work is Original.. 
one of a kind …
played with old school instruments including my 100yr old upright piano & Yamaha keyboards 🎹 my old school skins 🥁 and trumpet 🎺 etc…
 
👉🏻NO Artificial Intelligence  aka A.i. 👈🏻

I don’t do Covers 
I’m to busy to Collaborate at this foreseeable time..

so stay tuned & check back weekly / monthly..

In between creating major  Piano & Symphonic music,
I like to wind down by creating quick “fun music” using “Found Sound “ & samples & loops & libraries along with a few bars from my piano / keyboard or synthesiz..
 (they are usually of a “ Trap “ genre) 

Use your headphones 🎧 to really experience my music layering to its fullest... 

Lastly..thank you for being a loyal fan supporting all my “experiments” and successes..

Luke 😊   Attention:👉🏻  Name change coming soon..
               from 👉🏻  Beats by Luke 
                    to 👉🏻  Luke H.  S c h ü ß m a n n

Recorded / mixed / Mastered by Luke 
a 🥶“Frosty - Nutz Production”🥶 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Composer, Sound designer, Recording Artist
Electronic / Ambient / Soundscape
MUSIC FOR FILMS & TELEVISION
Original music from real synths.
© All rights reserved

PLEASE NO PROMOTERS . I DO MY OWN !

"Fear produces money while the absence of fear creates culture"
Vangelis Papathanassiou

AI music and voice production infects human creativity and inspiration.

As a kid starting play keyboards for fun. Then I played live piano in piano bars and restaurants. During 90s also compose and recording my first audio tracks. After a 20 years break I came back with more love for music creation especialy for electronic sound.

🐳Thank you for your support. It's very encouraging.🪼
🐱I do not use AI in my music.😊
🌺Have fun! Bandcamp!💞Thank you for your purchase!💞

U-Pained Balance

Sanshu Seiso [Experimental Artist]