Mixed for Shock the Algorithm

lyrics:

No matter what you say
All words will fail
Repeating yourself again
and soon you'll fade away
From here till the dawn
Gonna try to be a son
and then it's all for fun 
Don't wanna die alone..

Through the window pane
or heaven above
I'm feeling blue again


© 2022  Ion / Alex / Seyh Su- ℗ Opal Tribe
All Rights Reserved

Music by: Ion, Alex

Alex: guitar solo, bass

Ion: piano, synths, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, bouzouki, drum programming, back vocals

Seyh Su: vocals

Pericles: bass

Yannis: acoustic guitar, bass, back vocals

Mixing: Chris Tsiolis, Ion

Mastering: Steve Dickins

Artwork "The Trees Have Eyes" 
© 2022 ℗ Opal Tribe


Gaijin (Medley)

© 2022, Ion - ℗ Opal Tribe, All Rights Reserved

Artwork "Dollhouse"
© 2022 ℗ Opal Tribe

Heart of Ice

© 2022, Ion 
℗ Opal Tribe
All Rights Reserved

Artwork "Dollhouse"
© 2022 ℗ Opal Tribe

Nancy Comes Home

Dollar General

Room With a View

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #08 album)

Greetings to our SC friends. For those in hotter climates, we hope you’re enjoying the slow broil this fine mid-July. :) 

Today, Jo (Minimal_Drone*GRL: https://soundcloud.com/minimal_drone_grl, https://minimaldronegrl.bandcamp.com/) and I are thrilled to share our second collab, ‘Anima Unbound’. It started out as an ambient piece, but somehow evolved into something very… different. We hope you enjoy. 

Along with the new song, we’re also excited to share some ideas/excerpts from a book we discovered we both love, ‘The Untethered Soul’ by Michael A. Singer. :D

This book has some great suggestions for modifying unconscious daily routines into conscious activities designed to raise personal awareness. 

One of our favorite chapters is about ‘The Inner Roommate’, and is a surprisingly simple experiment. The idea is to imagine the voice in your head as an individual separate from you (like a roommate). Every time you have a thought, imagine those words are coming from someone on the outside (rather than in your head). If that voice happens to be ultra-chatty, and often negative, the experiment proves quite effective, quite quickly. 

As Michael suggests “How would you feel if someone outside really started talking to you the way your inner voice does? How would you relate to a person who opened their mouth to say everything your mental voice says? After a very short period of time, you would tell them to leave and never come back. But when your inner friend continuously speaks up, you don’t even tell it to leave. No matter how much trouble it causes, you listen.”

That was definitely an eye-opening experiment for both of us; with surprising results from very little effort.

Another chapter that struck a cord with us is ‘The Secrets of the Spiritual Heart’. This is an intriguing idea that when the heart is open, you fall in love with life very easily. But when the heart is closed, you lose interest and desire very quickly. It’s all about energy intake (or blockage).

A healthy heart will witness things in our surroundings, process them, and let them go… which keeps us in a state of constantly renewing energy intake. This is the way we are meant to process the astounding amounts of info coming at us. Witness, experience, learn, let go… then witness the next thing with equal openness.

But a heart trapped in fear handles things a little differently. If you encounter something that upsets you, it makes an impression (coincidentally, the Yogic/Sanskrit term for this is Samskara, meaning ‘Impression’). Since energy is a constant, but you aren’t able to release it, you find yourself trapped with that impression, although you might not realize it at the time. It’s like an audio loop that is always ready to be queued up, even if you’ve forgotten you have it stored on your hard drive. The way you know it’s still trapped inside you is when it surfaces under other similar circumstances… and that might be the first time you realize it’s still there.

Where this concept really helps is the idea that looping energy gunks up the system, like a hairball gunks up your plumbing. If the hairball gets too big (or there are too many of them) there will be a direct impact on other things flowing through the pipes effectively. This disturbing clump of negative gunk is actually interfering with more positive elements flowing through you. So if you want to return those pipes to a more natural flow of energy, you first need to clean out the gunk of those trapped old emotions. 

Sometimes the simplest analogies are the best. And this book is full of them.

So there you have it. Jo and I hope you enjoyed this inspirational little write-up (perhaps enough to spark a little interest in the book). And we also hope you enjoy our latest musical offering, ‘Anima Unbound’. :)

F.W. Friends

Anima Unbound | Minimal_Drone*GRL & GrevusAnjl

It’s all illusion
I see that now
Why did I fight so hard?
So much power 
It wears a human face
Maybe there won’t be a fight
Don’t kid yourself old man
There’s always a fight
Dying is not a tragedy
Forgetting to live is the tragedy
What were we taking about again?...Oh yeah…
We are the machines that bleed
The organizing principle
Looking for the sculpture in the stone
Looking for the sculpture in the stone
Looking for the sculpture in the stone
We are the machines that bleed
Looking for the sculpture in the stone

Looking For The Sculpture In The Stone

Producer-Art-Guitar-videographer  Texmex Shamans
lyrics vocals- StonerJazz

check out The vldeo     youtu.be/vYRrSahKHng
'"Disclaimer"

"Any similarity to real or imagined events ls probably not a coincidence
No TOADS were injured or molested ln any way during the making of this song--

The headwaters of this song came from Stephens rendition of that Toad ln our New Mexico song's cover art-- We were discussing that toad and lt's significance  to the riders on the bus--as the conversation became more Hilarious We resolved to write a song about that toad and that ls what we did--😎- Huge respect and gratitude to Stephen for hls Production and art skills and of course his amazing guitar Play and his Excellent Friendship--- Welcome to those of you who find your way to this tune We hope you enjoy lt!!

THE TOAD
l was flying down state 95
just ten miles East of Blyth
Hot Rod Lincoln blaring on the radio
My ole pickup truck lt overheated
l had to stop and find some shade
underneath a Palo Verde tree
a blg ole Toad There he spoke to me
He sald "Why don't you give me just a little lick Right here, Right behind my ear

Now you may think lt's a little funny, but l can guarantee
You will thank me ln the end my Friend--

Not wanting to disappoint my new found friend
l took a little tiny lick
and washed lt down with a Beer
After Frothin at the mouth for a little blt
my Consciousness lt took a hit
and headed south ln a flood of light

There are no word that can describe what happened next-
but l can say for sure without a doubt, unequivocally
My brand new Paradigm got tangled up with my Epiphany!!

Shit kickin Toad lickin with TexMex Shaman

Too Much

Too Much (natemorgan X bossa)

T-Pensées

A Song about a prostitute from Asia. 
This song was our first ballad, we wrote it before "From the Other Side" or "Bipolar Disorder".
Video-Link:
https://youtu.be/1_NgDD6Z1Bo

RedlightV2 (Video-Version)

Homage to Robbie Basho who I discovered via my love for John Fahey. This is in no way meant to copy or compete with American Primative style. Just use what you like to kindle a feeling of your own.

Sprit Of Eagle Mountain

Now I see them

Lofi Lowrider

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

I am honored that Maestro Rafael Serrano has arranged my composition
'A Peace of Love"
"Dedicated to Chris and Caroline".
Rafael Serrano: https://soundcloud.com/virtualoperahouse
Video by Pamela Illaes- Tatsuoka
©2023 Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka. All Rights Reserved.
Here is the video!
https://youtu.be/71726QGxwKk?si=EmX3pUENQd7Yg5Gj
This composition is on Pandora's radio. and Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ynv0wVHEpONieZfOYbJDe?si=vlrUFyjxTuG5vf5wzbBV5w
https://pandora.app.link/qMszjjvMhFb

A Peace of Love

大きな鳥 Ⅲ (a large bird Ⅲ)

“この樹は今鳥かくせりとおもひつつ眞下より見る枝葉のうらを”
木下利玄（1886-1925）

The tree must be hiding a large bird behind its thriving branches and leaves. I thought so and looked up the tree, trying to find the bird.
Rigen Kinoshita(1886-1925)

出典：『木下利玄全歌集』五島 茂 編　岩波文庫
Source: “Complete Collected TANKA(Japanese Short Poem) by Rigen Kinoshita: editing by Shigeru Goto”　Iwanami Shoten Publisher
Art work: Hans via Pixabay

大きな鳥3

Nächte Im Park (Techno Remix) TikTok Version

MOON

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14 MS2 tracks (Including Native and Xewton Forum Instruments).

1 Alchemy track.

DAW MS2
Hardware. iPad

Mix and sound. My car.

Cover by Ponciano (Pixabay).

My first synth external to MS2 was Alchemy. This software disappeared when the company was purchased by Apple, which introduced it in GB. Apple did not introduce the entire wonderful collection of sounds that the original, including this one that I used for this composition.

Thank you, as always, for your comments.

Paco.

Moon (Remaster)

#1 on SoundCloud
9 November 2023

Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4AOmbzSbM2QtlIr2OKqXzN?si=RRKIhHbATeGefcEirWXcmw

damn late

LISTEN W/ HEADPHONES FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE!
(:play on repeat for suprise:)

Original beat by: DJ SoulChild AC

Slvmbrs - Throw it(want her) prod. Dj SoulChild AC

Slvmbrs - Deposit

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos