@user-936947521 SHELLF LIFE appreciate all our fellow creators

Wonderful 'syncretic' splendour! All the cool hallmarks of FMT quirky style...stop/start randomness and precision. Long live SHELLF life!!

wow das klingt super!! irgendwie erinnert es mich an prince:-D ich glaube das ist die percussion und gitarren arrangements. tolle arbeit!

Stellar lyrics by Jo R...Wow! Awesome playful beat terrific XOXOXO

Fascinating interview--funny and strange that the band members would probably not recognize each other at stop light--had to chuckle :)

String folk riffs merged with driving analog synths to make a melodic pop anthem

The Physical Laws

Misk - Echoes

Domingo

Now playing: Version B2*

WHO ARE SHELLF LIFE? They are as elusive as evasive and have never coveted the limelight. SHELLF LIFE are a musician's band, if there ever was one. It is a rare occassion to have the opportunity to hear them perform. Now, VU METRICS has managed to engage three of their members in an interview. Actually, it is the only public interview we know of, apart from some unverified appearances on the darknet. To call this interview E X C L U S I V E, therefore, would be an understatement of bluntest kind.
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The full interview, revealing some of SHELLF LIFE's  strangest quirks will be available on the Furico Music Team's blog: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life-interview.html

More info on SHELLF LIFE, collected by the Furico Music Team: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life.html (btw, personally, I do not believe TI that "we had no contact with them before that". I think, he just does not want to violate some secret underground code, the New Wave omerta ;-)

Production notes on former iterations of Vermillion Syncretism: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/vermilion-syncretism.html

lyrics (copyright jo richter): 

first-class wormhole
from boston to berlin
new kids on the old dole
vuitton vermillion   

where are the tigers
on the swank, sunlit border
sunflower hiker
first drink, second order

syncretic synthetics
wormwood for banshees
three musketeer flicks
david bowie four-d   

galapagos penguins
freezing the stations
inflatable ice rinks
legal hibernation

[*There are five versions of this iteration of Vermillion Syncretism. It can not be guaranteed that you will hear the same version for longer than a few weeks at a time. The lyrics, though, will remain the same.]

vermillion syncretism - version

SHELLF LIFE: Vermillion Syncretism - version

Transdifferentiation

https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/earth-sky-open-collaborations

Journey Through Soundz W/ Tea R. Sea (Earth & Sky)

Invitation To Rock'n'Roll

Recorded 13th January 2025. 

I joined SC ten years ago and haven't yet shared a half hour long track, weird that :) 

(Music created by AI makes me feel ill)

I played in a band many years ago, never sang and never performed solo. 

I later used Audacity to cut out some noise where I dropped a cup and once where I took too long before starting the next song, and added reverb.

Photo - Me in Lincoln Cathedral

1. The Cooler's in My Head 
2. Bitter
3. Going Down This Road Feeling Bad (Traditional)
4. Lost Cause 
5. I Won't Play Along
6. Jaguar
7. Tree of Life Blues
8. What I've Found 
9. Don't Blow Your Cool (The Caravelles)
10. Needed Healing Sound
11. Exchequer Square
12. Give Back Love (Featuring misremembered lyrics)

The Cobbled Moth Live at Home

There's an interesting delivery thing here... Sonic tou know me Im not afraid to bolt on whatever to my music. I think the complete absence of doubt in that maybe stems from me not being face to face sharing it with people as that kind of interaction is different whether we like it or not.

So when reafing this I'm sitting at the back of the car, my neighbours near by... so you can notice a slightly more reserved delivery then normal..
 Beats a long deep chat about the poem haha and explaining why I'm not nuts

I am a Butterfly

I'm 417Hz A here and wanted to throw Matilda's tin whistle in but couldn't make it work and didn't want to pitch shift it... Then I remembered I wanted to try Bath Flutes in a song. Pitch is controlled and tun-able by adding and removing water. A great toy for teaching kids pitch recognition or if you're Randy Marsh use them in a song!.... 'Hey Shaaron. Come check this out.'

Lyrics

Song Salmon heaven is here
New navigations still unclear
'Lateral Line
'Magnetic define
Their instinctusl map
Earth's mind of mind

I am Atlantic, Pink, Sockeye, Coho
I'm Chum, Chinook. Hunchen, Eosalmo
Born to a river
My venture covers thousands of miles
When the end is nigh
Home returns through magnetic smiles



I am a Salmon
With evolution I imagine
I am Salmon
With my body examine
Streamlined I teach you how to reach
My instinctual beach
To big field I'm a leech

I am a Salmon
With evolution we caught on
I am Salmon
With my kind examine
Unspoken finds beseeched
To broken human minds
Earth says,
Human planet bleach!

We're home
We spawn
My DNA 'aint gone
My degradation neweth become

Good Planet of one

We're home
SWe spawn
My DNA aint gone
Degredation lives on
Good Planet of One

I am a Salmon

ここには一度きたことがある
地底に広がる大工場
溶けた鉄を砂型にそそぐ
コークスで真っ黒の男女
砂型の湯口が崩れ
燐のにおいが立ち込める
火炎がうねり
火の粉が爆ぜるキューポラ
おまえは深淵の縁に立ち
地底に呼びかける
「ヤッホー」
その影がトンネルの壁に映り
影絵のようにうつくしい

I feel like that I had once come to this place.
A big foundry in the bottom of the abyss.
Men and women dirty with cokes pours the melted iron into the sand molds.
The sprues of the sand molds collapse.
The smell of phosphorus spreads.
The cupola furnace emits fire.
Sparks leap.
She stands at the edge of the abyss and looks down at the bottom.
She calls to the factory persons working in the bottom. "yoo-hoo!".
Her shadow falls on the wall of the tunnel.
It is beautiful like a shadow picture.

cupola furnace

I am overjoyed to partake in something beautiful:
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out

Jeff also gifted me a visiting role on his previous album: 
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/quintessential

On his bandcamp page, Jeff points out: "This is the page where you can give some monetary support to me and the StonerJazz experiment."

.... and here is my own test account:
https://sonicstructuresandsilentstretches.bandcamp.com/track/eliza

POETRY IS VITAL

This threshold space exists for those who feel like listening to some of my quite professional poetry embedded in rather amateurishly recorded but judiciously arranged sound, a modicum of purely acoustic work notwithstanding.  Fortunately, some other artists have also transformed the symbolic expression of my words into the tangible beauty of real songs and soundscapes - just listen to Sympoetic Ultrasounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/sympoetic-ultrasounds !

SOUND, SPACE AND TIME

Tend your listening senses gently. Even though my general approach welcomes and embraces lo-fi concepts like the precision of spontaneously occuring imprecisions, headphones worth their membranes are recommended - unless you like your sounds flat, mangled, battered and helpless. You don't, do you? Be kind to these soundscapes.

STRUCTURING IMPULSE

Due to the nature of "poetry soundscapes", your listening expectations regarding traditionally structured "songs", sonically purified "raw wildlife soundscapes", keyboard-laden "ambient recordings" or voice-centered "readings" might not be met. You will find some of those in my list of /likes/. "Noise" is a recurring structural element like any other. This is what this sounds like - within its own rights, limitations, tangents and interconnections. Sonic structures. Silent stretches. Poetry emerges from the gaps between the ruts, seeps in from the undergrowth, sweeps down.

CARVING, CHISELLING, KNEADING, MORPHING

A quick glance into my toolshed rests on Zoom recorders, Samplitude software and a dizzying array of diverse sonic machinery.

LARGE AND SMALL GIFTS

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Small Gifts

the less to remember, the more to listen
gifts from the ice age reverberate
a simple story, a forest, a coastline
entangled in silence, one starts to relate
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In case you have read up to this point, you might be a sonic creator yourself. May I ask you for a helping ear? Above, there is a tiny poem of mine that I do not understand how to translate into sound. If you do - please act on it. It is a matter of common decency, of course, to keep the title (Small Gifts) and to credit the lyrics to me (jo richter). And please do notify me of your version via a soundcloud message. One bewilderingly beautiful version crafted by mono-lux has already gone public, as well as an amazing version by cthonicist.  You'll find both in my playlist Sympoetic Ultrasounds. This is just a small gift, not a challenge - life already has more than enough of those on offer, doesn't it? Treat it this way.

POETRY IS VITAL
sound, space and time
structuring impulse
carving, chiselling, kneading, morphing
large and small gifts
poetry is vital

GENERAL POLICY regarding the use of LIKES, REPOSTS and FOLLOWS:
I like what I like and want to hear again.
I only repost what I've had a hand in creating.
I follow when I see directions or arrivals I like, not when followed (though I might peek in to get an idea of what your sounds are about). I have set myself a limit of accounts I follow not to be all too overwhelmed. Not following does therefore not mean I do not appreciate what you contribute to the enjoyments of soundcloud.
Do not expect other behaviour from me.
(jo richter)

SHELLF LIFE: Vermillion Syncretism - version

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