Name: El Elegante by Seelensack in The Upload 30-05-2018
Duration: 5 min 45 s
Description: Another sunny sunday, another soft guitar tune ... recycling some of my melodic preferences. Sound effects via old mini kaossilator and the electro hamonix "canyon" ...

In everything the cases it is good!! Elegant!!!

wow, beaming up! I like that upright type bass sound in here too.. this is sweet

horn punches remind me of old foreign films

Gorgeous, rustic sound on this track. Some lovely chord changes. The rubber-ball-bouncing guitar licks are wonderful. Makes me want to go to the old town and dance until the small hours.

The Upload 30-05-2018

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Lyrics and all vocals - David Cooper

Lyrics:

Catch a whisper on the wind
Catch a bird up on the wing
Catch your breath, breathe it slow
Concentrate and don’t let go

Chorus

What do we stand for?
Give me a clue
What is it all about? 
What are we gonna do

Across the sea in a land so far
Sits a girl in a rundown bar
What she wants she doesn’t know
Time passes oh so slow

Chorus

Solo

Break

Far, far, far away – The flame keeps burning etc

Far, Far Away (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

This is a re-upload of a track that was recorded a few years ago.  It was originally recorded in 2023, and it consists of 3 different segments of sitar and drum jams spliced together with subsequent sitar and bass tracks added after.  Drums were played by Mick Mack, sitar and bass by Gremescer Fuckburger.  I generally like the way it turned out, but I always wished I had tuned the sitar better before recording.  I have edited this track a bit to fix some of the tuning issues, but there is only so much I can do.  Either way, I hope you enjoy.

Orchid (Remastered)

Find Seagull's brilliant music here: @farout-music-studio

Find David's sublime guitar work here: @david-dunhamuser589535203
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You know, don't you?  Oh, yes you do.  
You know you're being monitored, observed, assessed by something that knows you intimately.  
Knows you better than you’d like to think.  
Your secondary semi-subconscious once-removed.  
That's why you talk to yourself - or pretend to.  
Admit it - you're not really you, at all, are you?  
In fact, you're not real, are you?  You are watching “you”.  
You are nothing but your alter ego's doppelganger temporarily encased in a piece of warm, wet meat.  
A transient instantiation of a mirrored reflection of some lump of sentience from precisely one, of an infinite number of parallel universes.  

It’s called “conscience”.  

Handle with care.  

You were gifted it for a reason.
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"…..Neatly packaged, all my doubts, the rationales and bellyaches,
Wracked without, passion in thrall to humanity's handicap diamond stakes…."
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Ghost of a Sense

Yes, I know you.
I can feel your presence.
I can touch you, smell you.
I see you not by sight of eye
And yet I ken that you are I
That vespered wraith that writhes within
To test my faith, try my sin
Push the bounds to cause offence
A moral, soul thing, ghost of a sense recalls myself, so well defined
Entrenched, walls behind, built so sound of dust that crowned the pity, falling soft amiss, 
Deep inside the tears I cry as here I find my self-abyss.

Whispers bringing shadows, filled of secrets therein held,
Memories, morose, piece me still, to wear in time, my wasted face.
And now reside, cast aside, to forge and ever meld,
Of haunting, ringing echoes, that will alone their chime erased.

Ah! But you won't twist me, nor bind me fast, to the sandy doctrines of the misty past, 
With its beards and staffs and crinkled testaments.
My future's sprinkled here present with your crass irrelevance and matters not that sat right there, 
The blackest chasm in my simpling world so spare, 
Where space and time have overspilled the leaking psyche of a crippled mind,
That barely copes, unfulfilled, a crooked, limpid moral health of broken shrines
That hopes to find ....
   .......some worthwhile inner self.
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Photo by Marten Newhall on Unsplash

Ghost of a Sense ... with Seagull and David Dunham

Here today

Sign Of The Chimes (2025)

Drifting Tide (Remix)

yes, i have only been a non-addict for less than a week,
since quitting nicotine candy
but i have compassion for all yous guys
zero addiction i have, not even phone or drug or p*rn or junk food
suddenly i am tall, and alone
it okay
i did not even realize until i was done
that i have got the last one
made with casio keyboard multitrack
(is remix of old song)
zoom h1, and NCH

i am a giant standing on a mountain looking down at the tiny addicted persons

Poirot Theme Composed by Christopher Gunning

Hercule Poirot Theme

WUST: https://soundcloud.com/wust
Creative and wonderful collaboration with Uwe WÜST🎶🙏🌿

Black Snakes

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Prove pure path
The right eight show way
Good vision
Good thought
Good speech
Good day
Good livelyhood
Effort
Mindfulness and action
Weaved wisdom concentrated
Content has traction

To Dukkha debonair
Satisfied with real
Ruse rooted Samudaya
You suffer thirst by feel
Nirvana, be known
Nirodha find light
From Mārga
Our eight fold path meant right

Born beneath the Bodhi tree
Cyclic Samsāra sits
Transcience for fear food free
Karmic Dharma fits
Not torn with our time
Minded body synced
Not shocked
Transcendence through rhyme
Be harmonic miner clocked

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Notes 🎶

Key B Harmonic Minor
Tempo 33bpm

Instrumentation
-Vox drone backing x 4
-Vox Backing melodic x 1
-Vox Narration
-Vox Lead x 1
-Pads x 3 played on keys
-Acoustic Lead line

I don't quite believe in reincarnation of a single spirit although the discovery of DNA in a way sheds a bit of light on it being possible at least in potential code as traits that are passed on. They are either honed and retained or lost through long term positive or negative behavior and discernment of honest or dishonest action from our beings. Epigenetics looks to be starting to show that nurture, particulariy early in life actually enables and disables chemical signals in our genes. This has been shown in rats by a mother that licks her offspring vs a mother that doesn't and the different effects on those baby rats growing up and those scientists believe that translates to humans although they can't stick us in labs to prove it yet. So it looks like nurture may end up holding more influence then early geneticists told us and less is set in stone then we had previously thought. Epigenetics is a young science so it's difficult to make a solid reality from is so far but it does appear to have huge relevancy with our tendencies throughout life and towards addiction and habits. 

Whether we have a spirit that inhabits a body and fully comes back I'm not sure we will ever know that but I guess elements of past spirits and all past life does exist in our code at some level.

This has a lot more potential to bear fruit with our world of knowledge of course because we can actually teach ourselves what other humans think and have thought and what they did with their lives and make our own version of those truths based on our unique life experience.

This track is paying homage to Buddha

Buddha, as far as I am aware is one of the rare old teachers who said go find yourself and the power is inside you and around us. We generally escape the reality of ourselves with desires and indulgence in materialism but have the ability to find our true spiritual selves with discipline and an honest lifestyle. His main realisation was, we suffer, like it or not and his teachings allow us to not amplify that suffering with cravings or self harm but become one with it via a balanced approach  ⚖️  Re-living or re experiencing feelings from the difficult parts of our lives so they don't become a controlling factor in how we react to any situation seems to be central to finding that zen place where we can respond rationally to any situation no matter how trivial or significant. The reason I mention epigenetics and early life is a few scholars seem to allude to a lot of our problematic traits and strengths being born from trauma or solid nurture early in life and are not something we would usually medically consider when contemplating our own shadow searching for that oneness in ourselves...

So in that light I think rebirthing thought in our heads may actually be quite important to deal with any grief from our experience so it doesn't manifest itself as physical ailment from the hidden stress it causes us.

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

Blue SKY free

[Original demo]
Recorded in 2014
Remix : 2018

Secret Area

Another sunny sunday, another soft guitar tune ... recycling some of my melodic preferences. Sound effects via old mini kaossilator and the electro hamonix "canyon" ...

El Elegante

Recorded at home, instruments, lyric, vocals by me.
         
When the sea is rough
and the waves are high 
when I've missed the way
and wandered far
you will guide me through life

You will put my life together again
and walk with me step by step oh yeah

with you in my life 
i will never face my problems alone
i will know victory

With You In My Life

This is a remix of a Kathy Freeman original, she kindly gave me the vocals and and guitar to play with :-) I asked Pete https://soundcloud.com/midipunk to add some drums and shakers and Jon https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5 to add some bass, he also gave me the Vibes which became part of the overall tone of the mix. (he gave me the vibes... hahahaha, I should have said no tongues :-) )
The artwork is by the fabulous Wou Wou and the Wormling https://www.facebook.com/wouwouandthewormling/ and is in itself a sort of remix of the original tune artwork here:- https://soundcloud.com/mskathyfreeman/03-here-and-now

Once again I need to thank my soundcloud/facebook friends for joining in and making great music for me to play with in the mix :-) 

This track is also for sale on Kathy's Bandcamp, see the buy link cheers - Russ

Watch me…
I dare you
Come on, touch me.
Do I scare you?
Don’t lie to me baby,
cause you don’t know how

Don’t want you now and then
I want you here and now

We might go to heaven
We might go to hell
How much time remaining?
Well who can tell?
Don’t lie to me baby,
cause you don’t know how

Don’t want you now and then oh baby
Don’t want you now and then oh baby
Don’t want you now and then
Want you here and now

Don’t you understand?

Watch me…

Don’t want you now and then oh baby....

Buy me to keep

Here And Now - Kathy Freeman feat Jon and Pete

A little something to help ease the loss of Mrs. Adams...some Hammond blues.  I'm playing organ and the rest is a grooving backing track from Jamey Abersold.  

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Blues For Mrs. Adams

COMPOSER - PRODUCER - MUSICIAN
I PLAY BASS GUITAR AND DRUMS
IN THE BAND „4NO1“
(ALL STYLES, SINCE 1992)

No AI tools were used!

The bottom line is that the older we get and the more we experience, the less certain we are about things we once thought we knew for sure.

So life has taught me that all I know is that I know nothing!

And I look with sadness and horror at the present state of the human world!

But - 'Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.'

El Elegante

Seelensack

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