After three times of listening: Dark Synth Pop at its best! Great stile and wonderful melancholic mute😃👍

very cool dark synth pop, melancholic vibes, great track...! :)

Good song. A bit sad, but sometimes live is like that.

Love Is The Mistake

with big thanks to https://soundcloud.com/xian3 who had sent me a song idea for collaboration.
__________________ xian3 - musical idea, concept, guitars, bass, lyrics & vocals
__________________ myself - drums, synths, flute, arrangement, final mix
... for lyrics & background info, please check out his post !
... steampunk illustration/keyvisual by Prettysleepy on Pixabay (modified)

Mimetic Desire by xian3 (ft joerxworx)

Beggars      (c2023 remix)

Music: L.Cohen
Lyrics: L-Cohen
Guitars, Keys, Bass: JayK
Vocals: JayK
Background Vocals: Kate & Ava - AI generated on Altered Studio

Text:
if it be your will                              
That I speak no more 
And my voice be still 
As it was before 
I will speak no more 
I shall abide until 
I am spoken for 
If it be your will 

If it be your will                               
That a voice be true 
From this broken hill 
I will sing to you 
From this broken hill 
All your praises they shall ring 
If it be your will 
To let me sing 
                         
From this broken hill                           
All your praises they shall ring               
If it be your will 
To let me sing 

If it be your will                               
If there is a choice 
Let the rivers fill 
Let the hills rejoice 
Let your mercy spill 
On all these burning hearts in hell 
If it be your will 
To make us well 
If it be your will 
To make us well 

And draw us near                                 
And bind us tight 
All your children here 
In their rage of light 
In our rage of light 
All dressed to kill 
And end this night 
If it be your will 

All your children here 
dressed to kill
dressed to kill

Oh let me sing
Oh let me sing
if it be your will

all your children
here, dressed to kill
In their rags of light 
if it be your will

All dressed to kill 
end this night
All dressed to kill 
end this night
All dressed to kill 
end this night

If It Be Your Will (adaption of the great Leonard Cohen Song)

Xian asked me for a drum track for his absolutely phenomenal existential song about the mythical Atlas, and related it to today! This came together very quickly, as his instruments and vocals were already mixed near perfection! Hope you all enjoy, and I get a chance for another. I dig this one, immensely, and it was a true pleasure recording with him.

Xian3-composition, guitars, bass, tambourine, vocals mix

K2 and the Three-drums, mastering

Lyrics:

Atlas

1
You’re a mountain of a titan of the old times
Gaia is supposed to be your mother
You’re a pole at the coordinate system
You were the prison of your brother
One could’nt really quite imagine
All the masses

You were condemned to hold up
Celestial heavens
After the battle of the gods

Since then you carried the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

2
You’re responsible and of purpose
You’re imperatively necessary for structure
You are stabilizing and decorative
You’re the leitmotif for architecture
There is a 2nd century sculpture cut of you
In the museum of archaeology in Naples

You are condemned to hold up
All the statics
Between the basis and the rooftop

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

3
You contain of corpus, archi and processi
You have ligaments like wings
Articulating in every moment
Here and now right inside of the body
Sometimes there is a pain in the neck
That makes everything just worse

You were condemned to hold up
And move yes and no
Between the axis and the occiput

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

Will you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders ?

Hope, it isn’t too shrugged yet

Atlas-Xian3/K2 and the Three

The original version of "Atlas" always gave me a slight pain in my neck when I listened to it. I was never quite lucky with the generated drums, and the song also had a somewhat slushy note.
So I asked K2 and the Three (https://soundcloud.com/k2andthe3) if he would like to play drums and refurbish the song. Luckily he did and how... and now I feel very released about this rerelease... :) 
A Big Thank You for that... :)

The picture shows a cut out of a photography of the so called „Farnese Atlas“ in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, source: Wikimedia Commons

Atlas

1
You’re a mountain of a titan of the old times
Gaia is supposed to be your mother
You’re a pole at the coordinate system
You were the prison of your brother
One could’nt really quite imagine
All the masses

You were condemned to hold up
Celestial heavens
After the battle of the gods

Since then you carried the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

2
You’re responsible and of purpose
You’re imperatively necessary for structure
You are stabilizing and decorative
You’re the leitmotif for architecture
There is a 2nd century sculpture cut of you
In the museum of archaeology in Naples

You are condemned to hold up
All the statics
Between the basis and the rooftop

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

3
You contain of corpus, archi and processi
You have ligaments like wings
Articulating in every moment
Here and now right inside of the body
Sometimes there is a pain in the neck
That makes everything just worse

You were condemned to hold up
And move yes and no
Between the axis and the occiput

Where you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders

Will you carry the weight of the world
Upon your shoulders ?

Hope, it isn’t too shrugged yet…

Home's Album

Atlas (wt K2 and the Three)

EDM 4 SideChain

Nightmare...

This track was made with CS 80, Pigment 4i, Modullarr3, Emulatôr V. Prophet V
Graphics was made with AI

Crazy

Cast of Characters:
xian3-- @xian3 – vocals, lyrics, and beat programming
Holger Engel—bass
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- guitar, mix, and production
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)-- @josh-clary-1 – lead guitar, organ, and synth
 
This song started when Xian and Holger came up with the rhythm section. Xian reached out to Josh about adding some guitar and keys. Josh happily accepted and added some electric guitar, organ, and synth. Once he was done, he sent it back to Xian, who added his excellent vocals. Tez also added some subtle, yet thrilling psychedelic guitar to it, too, before producing and mixing it for us. 
 During a little odyssey Xian recently undertook, he came across this snippet of text, from which the lyrics were drawn, in the Museum of Literature in Dublin. It's from "Ulysses" (1923) by James Joyce (1882-1941) and he liked it immediately. The passage can be found in the episode "Cyclops", in which the novel's hero, Bloom, opposes division and prejudice.
 This is the first time Xian has collaborated with Josh and Tez, but we hope it won't be the last. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.
Lyrics:
Alf And Bloom
(But it’s no use) …
(- What? says Alf) …     
But it’s no use says he
Force, hatred, history
All that
That’s not life 
For men and women,
(- What? says Alf) …
Insult and hatred
And everybody knows that
It’s the very opposite of that
That is really life.
- What? says Alf
- Love, says Bloom
(- What? says Alf)
(- Love, says Bloom)
(- Love)

Alf and Bloom (with Xian3, Entheogenic Psychonaut and Holger Engel)

A big Thank You to my dear friend Holger Engel for playing bass and to   
  https://soundcloud.com/josh-clary-1 (Josh) for guitar, organ and synth and to
 @Llanpsych (Tez) for subtly adding guitar, mixing and mastering. 
Very skillfull performances, that made this song possible in the way it is now. It’s been a great pleasure and honor to collab.

During an odyssey I recently undertook, I discovered this snippet of text in the Museum of Literature in Dublin. It’s from "Ulysses" (1923) by James Joyce (1882-1941) and I liked it immediately. The passage comes from the episode "Cyclops", in which the novel's hero, Bloom, opposes division and prejudice.

The picture shows the very first printing of the first edition of the book, exhibited in a display case on the third floor of the museum.

Alf And Bloom

(But it’s no use) …				

(- What? says Alf) …			    

But it’s no use says he
Force, hatred, history
All that
That’s not life 
For men and women,

(- What? says Alf) …			

Insult and hatred
And everybody knows that
It’s the very opposite of that
That is really life.

- What? says Alf			

- Love, says Bloom		

(- What? says Alf)
(- Love, says Bloom) …			

(- Love)

Alf And Bloom (wt Holger, Josh and Tez)

Music: Xian3
Guitar: JayK (Gebr.K)
Vocals: Xian3

Text:
The mute years

Dear it’s me, haven’t seen you in a long while 
i wish we could have had more time to talk
when we were eye to eye

There’s still hope in me that one day we will meet again
that we will meet again somewhere, surely it won’t be the same

The mute years, we  are just watching them walking by and sometimes i cry, i cry tears
secretly into my self and all one hears might be  a slight sigh

There’s still hope in me…

those early memories were full of happiness and magic for me
We were sitting under a blooming tree and would have three wishes for free

There’s still hope in me…

… and that we at least could try to talk about it

The Mute Years (Xian3 feat. JayK)

I know that the ukulele is often ridiculed, but exactly this naivety of the instrument suits me. As a child of the No Future generation, this naivety is the only thing that gives me a spark of hope for a better world…
Love and peace to everyone! Thank you for listening.

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