A contemplative exploration of being, via a downtempo synthscape..
🤍 vocals courtesy Alan Watts
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/GcAnUenl5ek

Image: Optics: spectra of various substances. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Lyrics
The feeling of being is a sort of spectrum. Just as light is at one end red, and at the other end violet. And you have to have these extremes in order to have colour at all, in order to know light.
So you see, likewise, we have to have the experience that there is somebody else, something else going on, altogether out of our control, in order to have the experience of being me.

The feeling of being is a sort of spectrum.
Why do you think you have to have something to depend on?
So, we get finally, not quite finally, to the void.
That which is void is precisely the world of form. That which is precisely form is the void.
And.. what then?
When you get to the void, there is an enormous and unbelievable sense of relief. That's Nirvana.

You mustn't cling to the void. You have to void the void. And so, the void of non-void is the great state, as it were.
The feeling of being is a sort of spectrum.

You cannot nail a peg into the sky. And so, to be a man of the sky, a man of the void, is also called a man not depending on anything.
And when you're not hung on anything, you are the only thing which isn't hung on anything, which is the universe.
🤍 Alan Watts

Speaking In Dreams

Nirvana

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Give It To Me

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Relaxing slow funky (slunky ;-)) song with duets of trombone with sax, guitar and trumpet.

slunky

This is an open invitation for a collab, this track is open for downloads. All producers, mixologist, DJ, and Musician are welcome to test their skills and artistry. The file is submitted "as is", add what you want to complete it, or simply sample parts. If you use it, please link back to this page. Message me here with a link to your production and I will repost... Enjoy fam!
To all producers you have my permission and authorization to use it as your own. I have published this as royalty free. You can monetize or do whatever you want with it. All proceeds are yours to keep. Everyone is welcome to participate.
All I ask is vocal credit, my name is: Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)Peace!
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Close Circle—I’m Keeping Score--------Lyrics

(Verse1)
Altered time cycles,—
Will we ever be whole again 
why so many different Bibles? 
It’s a battle for the soul, till the end 
one unit, sect, —-culture, tribe 
so many distractions,—- let’s pretend
that time was on our side 
same message, same word, being resend 
Over and over again

stay truth to who you are,———                      
It’s gotten you this far

(Chorus1)
To the very end,—-to the very end
We learn and educate,—-from what’s been done before 
let’s empty the cup,—-before trying to fill it with more 
there’s no way to stop,—-who is the source that pours 
where does it come from? Who’s keeping score?
Maybe we won one, 
who kept the faith, is it love or hate? 
No wait, don’t answer —the mystery can wait
drink up, another knowledge, cup, 
keep up,—-if you believe, 
learn, retain, retrieve 
always the same message 
you’ve learned everything they wanted you to know 
why is the cup so empty?——why is the cup so empty?

(Verse2)
Search for more knowledge—- tempt me, ——but I need what I want. 
Where can the answers to the questions be?
The right question to prompt
cups fill, or empty ——another sip, lesson learned 
mind occupied——- close circle 
we learn what you taught us
But I have to know more, the desire, burns, 
don’t know what’s needed but I certainly want more
Give me a different drink please, because I’m keeping score
——I’m keeping score —————
——I’m keeping score ——I’m keeping score

(Chorus)——phone vox
To the very end, 
We learn and educate, from what’s been done before 
let’s empty the cup, before trying to fill it with more 
there’s no way to stop who is the source that pours 
where does it come from?——Who’s keeping score?
Maybe we won one, 
who kept the faith, is it love or hate? 
No wait, we done won —the mystery can wait 
drink up, another knowledge, cup, 
keep up if you believe, learn, retain retrieve 
always the same message 
you’ve learned everything they wanted you to know 
why is the cup so empty?—-why is the cup so empty?
why is the cup so empty?—-why is the cup so empty?

——I’m keeping score ——I’m keeping score —I’m keeping score
——I’m keeping score ——I’m keeping score —I’m keeping score

stay truth to who you are,———                      
It’s gotten you this far

(Chorus1)
We learn and educate…
Extra: why is the cup so empty?

(Verse2)

I'm Keeping Score Vocals 92 BPM

PLEASE NOTE: this is an .mp3 file only since higher quality .wav files are currently not uploading on soundcloud

method: to distract me from the everyday task of fighting demons of the mind,  I set out with a gregorian version, only to understand that my voice was not up to standards and expectations. You can still hear that choral in the background. Well, gregorian monks might might have actually sounded like that – not everyone is a pitch creature after all. After postponing some iterations to enjoy creating UP UP AND OUT with Jeff (and assissting in setting the next project on good tracks), I  then added layers to better match what my mind heard to what the headphones belted out. Somehow, I did not let go of the initial composition, though – feeling attached to its disjointed, squealing humanity. Call me sentimental and you’re right. I also just felt like taking this ride on the RC-505, rediscovering my former companion from hitherto unexplored angles ;-) 

Narration: the poem is about an evolution – or a journey to the sea – whatever you prefer to call it. having become aware of the circumstance that I am more of a liability than an asset in certain processes, I found myself in the clutches of a transformation that needed processing itself – and a good deal of sublimation, I guess. 

Image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

all the hardly humid barrens
harbour time in arid sands

while the early einkorn seedlings
of the floodlands sway and bend

and the tides bring tidal tidings
weighing vapour, thermal scales

ah, the oceans, giant oceans
breathing water, water whales

isosem

method: recording, then overdubbing. eventually; a friend I asked encouraged me to just dish it out ;-) I like that dirty, berliny backdrop of the sound, although it comes from quite a different reach of this country and from a moment in time that has very nearly  been forotten  
narration: the poem says it all, does it not?
the title:  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compleo#Latin
image: apart from the cropping and the writing, this photograph is a hundred percent unaltered, as is. Copyright jo richter 


poem / copyright jo tichter:

lured into life 
by orpheus' silence
he has been dreaming in verse
just to survive

is there a word to express
both the presence and absence
of beauty, he wonders

observing his fingers
cradle the table's edge
he holds his breath
for just a moment too short

complerit

Billions

Empty Mall

Western Canada prairie, a native land, colonized by British, Scots, French, and Metis in late 1800's form a government with Louis David Riel as their leader, execute Thomas Scott,perceived as insurgent disruptor of the state, 125 years later become a integrated mixed ensemble of cultures and nationalities who have migrated here.

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