Brus’s followers never gave up hope that their spiritual and musical guide had faked his death in order to achieve the long sought for state of pure “monomentality,” a pure permanent hypnotic state of groove.

Here's a playlist with exemplars of monomentality:

-monomental!

EXEMPLARS OF MONOMENTALITY

some favorites i like to listen to around the workshop...a growing list.

Some Favorites

wc 19 October 2020

Mood Cake

Energy(3)

A collection of high production value alternative pop tracks from various Soundcloud artists for your enjoyment.

This playlist will naturally be populated further.

Mood Cake (high grade)

Aurora

For Rachel

Lost Tapes

a celebration of being a woman.... a sister.... a friend....


"Sister" is the 5th of 13 or so songs from my debut solo album, Year Zero.

"Sister" will also be available on all other digital platforms to download and/or stream... iTunes, Spotify, Napster, Deezer, GooglePlay, AppleMusic, TikTok, YouTube etc etc etc...

AVAILABLE TO BUY here:  https://miaowmcdonald.bandcamp.com/track/sister


(c)(p) written & performed by Miaow McDonald


Miaow McDonald only plays Fender Guitars.


lyrics:

hey... my sister
won't you come to me
we can walk on the wet sand
and cry in the sea
hey... my sister
won't you come to me
i'll brush your hair
until you fall asleep.......

hey... my sister
i'll be home soon
we can sing in the kitchen
and howl at the moon
hey... my sister
i'll be home soon
and we'll dance in the forest
and sleep until noon...

and sleep until noon...


released March 12, 2021

credits:

Engineered/co-produced by Robert Davidson, the 'Aged Choir Boy'.

Miaow McDonald: Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Synths, Tambourine Tickles & Scratches

Additional Musicians:

Robert Davidson: Drums, Additional Bass

all rights reserved

Sister

Track list:
Paft Dunk
Disko2
Root canal House
You Can
Sessile Oak Funk
Discroat
Roundabout
The Wave
Morehouse 2021
Freedom
Trancebahn
Carnival way
Who do you know
30 minute Brain check
Alone
Depoh.
All tracks by U426.

U426 mix March 2021

U426 Mix March 2021

A CONTRATIEMPO

I would like to depopulate your heart,
of useless promises that they encouraged,
life in the winter,
and force you to resign,
at a time that we dream
less fierce.

I would like to remove from your balcony,
the green clarity of hope
stuck in the cement.
And tell you that it is today
the time of a future
that it was ours.

It suddenly hurts us to bear
the daily insult of a life
still gripped by fear.
We were hoping, perhaps,
that was less harsh,
of course.

Don't ever look back again,
that there is no one left in the place
from those old days.
Don't try to escape
that here we are tied
Without remedy.

I would like to agree with you here
that the impossible may still be future
freedom that you carry inside
and show you that it is already today
the time to start
all over again.

I would like to confess that I do not know
because reason I need to suppose
that I'm not lying to you
maybe it's this song
like a cry of love
setback.

Give it and give it way
to life, you have to walk,
give it wind, clear water,
seed and you will see
that sooner or later
life starts again.

Javier Maestre

The Bullonera

Tribute Against Time

Once again a somewhat experimental song with a touch of the Orient. A mix of digital and analog sounds, matching the beautiful lyric and vocals of Cecilia. Let's dive into hypnotic oriental sounds.

Open collab by @specialececilia 
Open collab site: https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/

Original Version: https://soundcloud.com/specialvocals/aca-could-be-so-wonderfull

Lyrics & Vocals: Special Cecilia  
Music & Arrangement: OMCB

Cover Picture: Image by pixabay.com/users/johnhain-352999/


Lyrics
        
How Wonderful is the Nature & all the living creatures
such Beautiful landscapes, arts & architectures
There is Treasures all over the Earth
and
Life could be so Beautiful
Life could be so Wonderful
But so many act as a fool

Oh Why oh Why I don't know why

Life could be so Beautiful
Life could be so Wonderful
But so many act as a fool

Heart they don't Love, Soul they don't Feel

Oh Why oh Why I don't know why

Some people seems so heartless
they think they are the best
just look their own interest
don't care about the rest

Oh Why oh Why I don't know why.....

Life could be so Beautiful
Life could be so Wonderful

Could Be So Wonderful - Special Cecilia & OMCB

You might think this song is about old girl friend !
Had fun playing some real cello and drums on this one.

Ruby

Another one of the songs, Mwayi aka Black Pace, and myself, have recorded, since shes been here on Bowen, more to come!

Tell Me

This track has gone through many versions, but I knew which direction to take it in after I heard singer Jani while looking for new music. I completely reworked the entire production and style of the song just in the mere hopes that she would respond and be up to collaborating. I was ecstatic when I got the response and I was expecting something good of course, but my expectations were far exceeded by her performance and understanding of what I was going for.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7LSuezJdhwKLdKsKGF4xJF?si=P61VmUxcRi6IRPvkT3xNTg&dl_branch=1

Buying Time

Buying Time Feat Jani

This is the second song Mwayi and myself wrote, with a little help from the Trisektor Project, coming to SoundCloud soon!

Run Away

I wrote this song after an in-depth conversation with my mother who spent years searching for her mother.  It's in 7/8; perhaps reflecting the irregularity of relationships.

Bouzouki, harp, bass and drum programming, mixed and premastered by Dónal Lunny
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea
Editing/Vocals/BV/guitar/photo of my mum by SuZanne

(Because you asked Jeff.  When my Ma met her mother she commented on the colour of her eyes and said, "They're brilliant blue..." and it's the way she said it and looked that stuck in my mind)

Brilliant Blue
Her eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
I take after my father, they say he was a farmer
My mother's at the window as I say goodbye
I've only just met her, she is 84 0r 85

Refrain: Brilliant blue eyes, greet my brown
I've waited all my life, for this

2lb 4oz wrapped in cotton wool, placed in a cardboard shoebox
given to nuns in Bloom Street
Manchester in 1940, I was one of many a child and mother
sent from Catholic Ireland

Refrain      Lahlahlahs

Sixty-two years since we met, mother
I just wanted to see you one time, if you want me too
Your eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
as I leave the white-haired woman
It was dead of winter I was found

Lahlahlahs   Refrain

Brillinat Blue Master         

Brilliant Blue feat: Dónal Lunny

I song I co-wrote with 'Hands & Voices' a choir for adults with learning disabilities in 2010. This was performed at their end of term concert, accompanied by makaton sign language used by all members of the choir.

Changing

Don't forget to Heart Runaway on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/29hae/AURORA+-+Runaway
Order on iTunes: http://po.st/AURORARunSociT
Order on Google Play: http://po.st/AURORARunSocGP
Listen on Spotify: http://po.st/AURORARunSpot
Follow AURORA on Spotify: http://po.st/AURORASpotify
Visit AURORA's website: http://po.st/AURORAWeb
Facebook: http://po.st/AURORAFaceB
Twitter: http://po.st/AURORATwitter

Aurora Aksnes is a 18 year old girl from Bergen, Norway. She strives to write music that can inspire people, through idiosyncratic tales of struggle, love, and all that lies in between. 

Running with the Wolves

Runaway

AURORA - Runaway

The true inner story of the secret lives of the percussion instruments.

The Tabla

Malamore

El Beach

All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

Lucky

I Went Too Far

Half the World Away

Black Water Lilies

Vocals, Lyrics-  Ola Szmidt
Recording and Mixing- Ola Szmidt
Mastering -  Kieran Hebden
July, 2017

Wrapped

04 Wrapped

This is the first time I am writing lyrics before melody in a song.



Ice crystals

I miss the sun
and the flowers
and the warm sand 
on a towel
I miss the rain
and the bees
and to eat cookies
under a tree

Hey, its me in my window
Im looking up to my sky
Hey, Im holding my pillow
I wish it could have made me fly

Because I
Because I
I have to look at
I have to look at

Snow , snow, so much snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white ground
Snow, snow, no more snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white

Hey, you there in your backyard
You ́re looking at your covered plot
Hey, you ´re  holding your shovel
Do you wish the flakes had been drops

Because you
Because you
You have to look at
You have to look at

Snow , snow, so much snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white ground
Snow, snow, no more snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white

Ice crystals
Ice crystals
Playing on my head
Playing on my head
Ice crystals
Ice crystals
Playing on your head
Playing on your head

Snow , snow, so much snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white ground
Snow, snow, no more snow
it keeps on falling
white ground
white

ingelas album

Ice Crystals

Another collaboration with my fellow gifted trumpeter Marc Niess, this time in a dub-electro kinda style. The whole thing is about life and what's left to live (who said "midlife crisis"?). 
 
I enjoy changing genres very often as you can notice and crossing over, bluring lines is the word ! This is also the first time I include some scratches I made, trying to learn some techniques...

Marc is part of a group called Nunc, check their page : https://nunc.bandcamp.com/

Le reste à vivre

7 songs in 7 days, one EP total creativity.
Songs from 2010, remastered never earlier released.

Deminor

Cicero

Song 4 Lovers

Here Comes The Beast

Insanity

Toast To Our Learnings

shall i simplify?
i did not see the lights
shall i simplify?
i saw the entire room
i saw it shape around you
ecstasy
we have met previously
ecstasy
but in different bodies
ecstasy

ॐ

in a major
written, performed, recorded and premixed by viola moonshape in december 2018
mixed and mastered by brahma in july 2021
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

gibson es335 > vox ac15 > shure sm57 > tascam (track 01)
gibson es335 > tascam (reverb) (track 02)
yamaha reface cp (rdi + tremolo + a delay) > tascam (track 03)
yamaha reface cp (clv + phaser) > tascam (track 04)
vocals > shure sm57 > tascam (reverb) (tracks 05, 06)
yamaha reface cp (wr + wah) > tascam (track 07)
gibson es335 > line 6 dl4 (reverse) > tascam (track 08)

ॐ

cover by brahma
photography by viola moonshape
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

Shall I Simplify?

The Music Video

Shall I Simplify? (video on youtube)

A night out in the rain and thunder.
In the bungalow, the family.
Hear us through the glass wall.
A duet of devotion.
Some grief and passings.
And a good end.

Boundless d

Boundless D

Muterial instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/expiry-date-american-instrumental

Mahan Mahan (the main posting of this track): https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/expiry-date-american-muterial-mahan-mahan

Expiry date (American) - muterial | Mahan Mahan

the Blackhole

photo by Elseh
www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

"What Wonder If So Near" by mmothejr

Composed and performed by Admiral Krank. Drums by Mo Sheen. 

Send In The Suit (Dapper Assasin Number 1)

You are Centerfold

You Are Centerfold

Illuminati

Same Side

What is the meaning of the phrase "fragrance of odipios"?  According to Her Majesty's Space Navy's leading sleep expert Vice Commandant Dubois (https://soundcloud.com/hebe-jebe), it describes the sensation of waking from the deep slumber of a "thousand hypersleeps." 

Vice Commandant Dubois's concoction of synth groove, beats, sound fx, and mysterious title. Admiral Krank is to blame for the guitars and mixing.

Video by Mo Sheen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhGUDBI0Zi0&ab_channel=AdmiralKrankandHisMightyBandofSpacemen

Bravo and the Cosmonauts

Fragrance Of Odipios

Cipher Jungle

"A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt, but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder-straps of its uniform—and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel?  
A second, smashing blow hit him on the ear. 
Then all became quiet. 
There was the sea again with its sounds. 
A wave slowly lifted him up. 
It came from afar 
and travelled sedately on, 
a shrug of eternity."

Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon.

Elegy For Rubashov

To My Jovian Lover, No More

STARLORD

In my cabin with just an nylon stringed acoustic guitar and just started my vacation. I felt a bit frustrated without any Marshall stack or my favorite axe. Thanks to the DAW I could mimic distorted guitars and the heavy bass. A short song to celebrate my newly started vacation.
Yeah!

/nic

You're a Woman

You're A Woman

A blood red sunset heralds the return of the dreaded vampire Drusilla.

Toast To Our Learnings

Sofia Mono