Electric guitar, silver flute, electric water bottle, overtone drone vocal, bodhrán. Don't be coy and sweet: walk your mastodon.

Art commissioned from Grimfrost.

Walk Your Mastodon

Dystopian transhumanism.

http://www.droned.eu/ art by Waclaw Traier

Death of Ages

Plasma Fields

Double wind wand (similar to a bull roarer) and penny whistle.

Whistle the Wind Home

Falling Leaves

An expanded version, by demand, of "Sea Smokes."

Pearlescent Sea Smoke

A jam with XAW on guitar and SA on silver flute and simultaneous percussion.

Nest

Accompany

By Voicelight

A Life

God loves a sinner
On Valentine's Day
So come on, baby
Let's have another lay

God loves a sinner
On Valentine's Day
So come on, baby,
Say okay

I drew you while you were sleeping
I drew you while you were a cat
I drew you while you were on me
You know God loves that

God loves a sinner
On Valentine's Day
God loves a sinner
Okay?
Baby, okay?

You know God loves
A little this and that
Come on, do a little splat
Ha ha ha ha
God loves a sinner
God loves that.
God loves that

Let me draw you again
Let me draw you in the bin
Let me draw you on the floor
I won't say it, little whore

God loves that
God loves a sinner
On Valentine's Day
God loves a sinner
On Valentine's Day
credits

God Loves a Sinner on Valentine's Day

God Loves A Sinner On Valentine's Day

Screamer

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar.
SA on drums, keyboards, production

Run Play Now

Head for the Hilltops

Sound Animal X AJ Kaufmann -- Head for the Hilltops

AJ Kaufmann on bass with wah
SA on keyboards, vocals, lyrics, production. 



Alligators in the sewers gonna getcha again
They wantcher money 
Come on and gamble
You know they’re gonna win
Yeah, yeah

Hold onto your honey
The gaters are gonna grab
Gonna grab her and your money
Nab, nab, nab  

Gaters are commin’, 
Gonna gotcha now
Somehow  

Gater's got a suit on
Dandied up
Gater’s got a getcha on
Better wash up
Uhuhuhuh

Gater's gonna getcha
Gonna getcha good
Gaters’d getcha
If they only could
Again and again
Oh no

Bonkers at the end

Gaters in the Sewers Gonna Getcha Again

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Gaters in the Sewers Gonna Getcha Again

With Steve Gilmartin on guitar.

Steve Gilmartin came over to jam with his bluesy electric guitar, with on my Peavy modeling amp while I played bass. He called the cat horror theme.

After I sent him the preliminary modifications of our playing as a foundation, he, after doing some unbiased research, emphatically stated that the title wording and substance should of an all out attack by cat zombies be as scary as possible. 

On Halloween, I made it so. 

I added many layers of synth, screams, effects, and darkness.

Attack of the Cat Zombies

Attack Of Cat Zombies

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar
SA on drums, keyboards, production

Luster

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Luster

Glory Storm

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - - Glory Storm

The long journey home to the families seems endless, the water, the ice, the aurora, the narrows, the memories of death and destruction, the wounds, the morphing, the crystalline flying. The memories of children back home waiting for their baubles brought from the journey. And their dreams of peacocks. 

The galleon's peacock wings flap over the water and plunge back into it, covered in ice and dark delight.

Lyrics:

Are you coming home Papa
Are you forgetting about me?
The ice drives nails into your eardrums
The ice make you forget about me.
Papa, Papa I dreamed of peacocks again.

(Peacock screams)Ah. (Peacock screams)Ah.

(Peacock screams) 
Papa where are you are? 
Did you forget my crystal galleon?
My little crystal galleon... again?
When will you love me Papa do?
When, when? (Peacock screams)

Papa where are you Papa?
Where are you?
There's ice, there's nothing but ice out there.
It's only ice and dark. It's darkness and Ice, Papa.
Come home. Come home. Come home. 
(Sounds of ice chunks hitting the galleon)

Do I see you, Papa, coming home?


Credits:

XAW on ambient drone guitar.

SA on bass, slide whistle, penny whistle, boatswain's pipe, melodica, antique wooden toy piano, voice, lyrics, production.

The Crystal Galleon

Nightwind Territories

Nightwind Territory

The armada has come together and apart, flying, swimming, stuck in the ice, breaking the ice, made of ice. The wind is brisk on the cheeks. The man is dead at the helm.


SA on keyboards synth, production.

Fleet

Outlaw Edge

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Outlaw Edge

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar
SA on drums, bass, keyboards, production

Back Room

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Back Room

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar
SA on drums, keyboards, voice, production

Autophay

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann -- Autophagy

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar. 
SA on drums, melodica, harmonica, voice, lyrics, production.

Light pouring in 
Comes pouring in
Light comes pouring in 
Eeee, light, light, through the window
Of the everyday
When you wash the dishes
Light, when you say goodnight 
Whee! Light in the middle of fright
Delight
Light, light comes pouring in 
Light, light comes pouring in
When you’re sweeping the floor
Just when you thought you couldn’t 
Stand any more, light comes pouring in
Through the window and the door
When you’re mopping the floor
Don’t forget to turn on 
The daylight
Don’t forget to turn on the you light
Against the blustery night
Light

Light Housekeeping

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Light Housekeeping

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar. 
SA on drums, melodica, slide whistles, penny whistle, harmonica, voice, lyrics, production.

I like you a lot I like you I like you I like you lots I like you a lot I like you lots I like you a lot. Haha ahhh haha ahha I like you Ah haha Ah Yes I do like you a lot I like you a lot We’re kindred spirits you and I We’re kindred spirits you and I I like you a lot You and I Look at you all the way over there Look at you everywhere I like you very very much very much Like

Paradise Birds

Sound Animal X A. J. Kaufmann - Paradise Birds

Unimaginable

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Unimaginable

A.J. Kaufman on guitar
SA on cajon, shaker, tambourine, bodhran, keyboards, production

Escape Vista

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - Escape Vista

The exploding head syndrome is said to affect around 10 percent of the population. Non-existent explosions are seen and heard. Sometimes voices and other sounds are hallucinated briefly.

Lyrics

(Be my baby)
The exploding head syndrome
(Be my baby)
The exploding head syndrome
The exploding head
Explode head
Told ya so 
Right? Right. Right. Right.
Pew!

Real Strange Delusions

Exploding Head Syndrome

The Jumping Frenchmen of Main Condition is named after a small number of 19th-century lumberjacks who developed an exaggerated startle reflex causing them to jump, and there was also yelling, dropping, throwing, and hitting involved.

People with this condition repeat vocalizations and movements made by other people.

They were ticklish and shy.

Lyrics 

Wah! Ah! 
indistinguishable Nah! 
Parlez vous Francais? Parlez vous Francais?
Ah na! Wah! Ah! Yeah! Ha!
Parlez vous Francais? Parlez vous Francais?
indistinguishable brbrrbrrbrr
Parlez vous Francais? Parlez vous Francais?
indistinguishable Ah! hahaha! Ah!
Trees! Trees! Ah! Trees, trees, trees
indistinguishable hahahaha!
Ah! indistinguishable Argh
Trees!, trees, trees trees trees 
Trees trees trees trees trees
Trees Trees Trees
Ah! Brah! Ahbuh! Grrrrrrah! Rauh rauh 
ARggggggg, lesgrrooooo
Rllllllllll Rbrbrbrbrbrbrbrb Arrggggggggggle
Argggggrrr!
Bllllllllggggggrrrr
Fulcibible Auuuuuggggggghhhh

Jumping Frenchmen of Main Condition

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Condition

Stendhal syndrome is becoming overcome by awe for beauty they admire, such as art of historical importance, to the point of perhaps fainting, fast heart rate, bewilderment, and even hallucinations.

It was named after French author Stendhal because of his 1817 visit to Florence, detailed in the book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio. At the Basilica of Santa Croce he described being in sublime beauty, celestial sensations, hearing everything deeply so that much it affected his body. 

I'd certainly like to think most people have glimpsed this state. I mean, what about a Rothko?

Lyrics

Ah! Look at that! 
Look at that!
Ah! Oh! Oh ah! 
Ooo! Ooooo! Oooooahhh!
I'm overcome, oh. Overcome.
Oh!

Stendhal Syndrome

What can I get you, sir?
Can I get you, sir?
Get you, sir?
What can I get you, sir?
Can I get you sir?
Get you sir?
Get you.
Get you.
Get you, sir. 
What can I get you, sir?
What can I get you?
Can you.
Get you. Sir.
Get you, sir. 
Get you.
Get you.
Get you.
Get you, sir.
Get you, sir.
You won't know what's coming.
You won't know where you've been.
Like you ever knew before.

Glitch In The Dominatrix

Can I Get You

The minimal repeated lyrics are simply referencing the name of the intense, great actor, Klaus Kinski. If you are fascinated by the dark and complex personality of Klaus Kinski, you might resonate with how his name is all that's needed.

KINSKI

Everywhere

Experimental music that ranges feral beyond human constraints. 

The music covers a lot of non-genres. Multiple resonances include Dark/Ambient, Psych, Doom, Drone, Noise Rock, Kosmische, EDM, Trapwave, and Romantic Era and Post-Romantic, with special nods to the bands Swans, Earth, Caspar Brotzman Massaker. Dystopian Inspirational for noble outlaws.

Electric guitar, bass, drum kit, lap steel slide and electrified dulcimers played with a violin bow, bodhrán, Peruvian triangle drum, snare drum, silver flute, double shepherd's flute, regular duclimers, spring reverb tank, suling, jaw harp, pungi, khaen, melodica, harmonica, broken cymbal, double wind wand, recorder, boatswain's pipe, penny whistle, slide whistle, MIDI controller to trigger computer's internal synth, voice, found objects, electric tennis racket...

Labels: Kryrart Ambient, Kryrart Records, Camembert Electrique, Cousin Silas Emporium, Dark Stereo, Sounds for the Soul Records.

My name is Rosemary Bensko, and SA is my artist name. While most songs are just me, and I do all the production, when other contributors are involved, they become part of the band for those songs.

Collaborators who contribute a stem to a track or were involved in a jam are always credited: XAW, Igor Iofe, Chris Nolte,Tom McCarthy of TM's Sundae Sauce, Steve Gilmartin, Psychedelic Mayhem, The Fall of Saigon, A.J. Kaufmann, with remixes by The Infinite Wimshurst. There are also joint ventures and SA playing and singing on other people's music.

Lots of music here you won't find elsewhere. Smaller amount is also on Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Last.fm, Instagram.

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