https://open.spotify.com/track/05xAHGcHKylBTeMzxgaM8t?si=1eb407ed10b146b8

No Apologies

Surely Come My Way

Z-Pieces of Fears

Tuning 444Hz A Standard
Tempo 60BPM
Timing 4/4
Key C#

Instrumentation
-Finger picked Acoustic Guitar (-1 semitone)
-5 String Bass
-Piano played on keys
-2 meditative pads played on keys
-eBow Electric Guitar
-Vox runs x 5
-Modern house beat with a Chinese drum kit
-Lead electric guitar
-Bells played on keys
-added double timed outro phrase to fade

To do
-EQ some of the very high end out of Lead guitar

An Apocalypse for Fear

Change is here
Crystal clear
In range new gear
Skilled solar seer
Watch winds of old fan final flames
Old thought burns out it's charred remains
This range of fear is weak and waning
Who hears awareness wide
Awaking

Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Good conscious dear
Engage that gear
Cogs of calm
Clutch of clever
Smoothest shift
Sagacious lever
Endeavour for deep
Most mind turned to nought
Forever, a feast
Brain brilliant taught

Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
Crystal clear
Good conscious dear
Engage that gear
Skilled solar seer
Be near

An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
Be near
It's near
Be near

The song image was taken just under a year ago over the back wall of my garden. A beautiful winter morning. So the shrubs are leafless and the mist is quite prominent in a foreground darkened by the rising sun. It's an unedited photo and for this piece I guess shows how looks can be deceiving... And the camera can lie when tying imagery to an idea 💡 Movie makers make careers of it convincing us of their imagined realities... The pic is totally Terminator 2 though minus the playground and fence... haha 😆 😎

If we find an end to something for the human condition, let's make it fear. If we let go of our fear then a lot more becomes clear and beautiful about this world. As we continue in an age of constant over stimulation and a generation that has grown up to learn only that, I believe more then ever we have to try and teach younger people that it's nature that will stimulate our own internal balance and for them to realise that maybe they need to learn to not just go with the crowd of humans taking those doses of fruitless over stimulation. To avoid an actual climactic apocalypse we all need to actually synchronise with Earth and learn it. I don't believe they will find that glued to an ever more biased internet that young minds must find it difficult to navigate without switching off to what is important... Earth and themselves

I feel we find that by becoming more aware of truth that is relevant to our time and our experience. The Internet and media can be difficult to navigate as it is full of so much misinformation and power circles within society wanting to keep people in fear mode. It's easier to profit from that and retain the power of imposition. We need to start asking the right questions about our reality and stop listening to people planting imperfect truths in our heads.
We all have a slightly different version of the truth, but we only find it by asking ourselves that version honestly 🧬 That's how knowledge evolves, by combining those new truths, not by parroting what other people convinced you was true

A lot of scholars are starting to talk about how we are echoing periods that ended in destruction, but all those previous periods didn't have widespread good information like we have for people to train their mindset to the evolving reality. Yes we have the disease of misinformation to tilt away from, but the good stuff is there and more and more of us have access to it if we just look. That's the big difference this time for me... We have the power now of amazing good information to form a conscientious collective and become conscientious individuals. We don't have to be told what's up anymore and we don't have to be afraid of our changing world. As Eddie Veddar said...  "It's evolution baby" 🍼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI&list=RDaDaOgu2CQtI&start_radio=1
Rock and Roll!

An Apocolypse for Fear

Komposition988 SchalgzeugKlavierStreicher

Wanting And Not Wanting

dedicated to my extraordinary former colleague Christopher Bartlo
(pictured) - a man of style and grace and pure brilliance
made with casio, zoom h1 and other mic, looper, stylophone, match
and the world turn yellow, orange and red i live is pain knowing a wind will come
and take it all away without my consent
one day
and i grieve even tho
i should rejoice

the beauty of autumn is painfully transitory

Junk Drawer

Brazil

Original by Bob Dylan 1965

Inspiret by John Mellencamp's version at Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert

Vocal, acoustic guitars: Docvet
Other instruments, chorus & mix: PJ Project

Like A Rolling Stone

Cast of Characters:

Cgmaness – @hiddenhands-760647700 – Chris – acoustic guitar, synth, and composition

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- vocals, lyrics, mix, and production

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – four string fretless Warwick bass

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano, B3 synth voice, synth sax, and JJ's angels (voice synth)

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– master and production

This song started as a project that was begun on his guitar and synth, then shelved by our master songwriter, Chris. He always gives us magic to work with, and as soon as he shared this one with the rest of Eclectic Collective, we all jumped on it.

Mark heard his part first, and set about writing some great lyrics to sing with his solid, inimitable voice. His lyrics are about a hypothetical future where we've turned to technology in search of human connection, only to realize that it has only isolated us more, and that we really already had that connection to begin with. The narration is from a future perspective, like all this has already happened, and its speaking to us from the future, almost like a warning.
The rhythm section was still absent, though, but not for long. Ken added his groovy, perfectly in the vibe drums to it next. Josh, of course followed soon after, now that he had drums to work with, by adding his fretless four string bass to the song. Now that it was sounding like a well rounded piece, Tez came through with some thrilling guitar solos that you hear throughout. JJ first added some piano, B3, and sax to the song, then later completed it with his psychedelic synth and divine voice synth that provides the "choir" you hear in there.

Now that it was all in the bag, Mark spent considerable time and effort mixing it, then turned it over to our resident pro Stephen for the mastering.

This is one of our favorite songs we've ever done, and it reminds us all of both Pink Floyd and King Crimson. This is a great example of what the team is able to do with a really solid, yet open musical seed, provided by a master composer. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Original lyrics by Mistermark:
The wind by the seashore, the wash of the waves

the sand on your skin and the glance that you gave

the sounds of the carnival we left it all behind

there were words left unsaid at the back of your mind

how could I have been so blind?

It was so long ago now it’s just you and me

it seems I've forgotten the way you like your tea

the house becomes quiet as the guests head for home

the garden’s been gathered and the kids are all grown

on their own

“The robots will help” they said “it’s better this way”
“there’s no need to work and there’s more time to play”

our leaders assured us we’d never go poor

and nobody questions the truth anymore

but what did we do it all for?

Our science sustains us like fine works of art

but are we closer together or farther apart?

we’re each on an island alone on the sea

the ocean between us expands rapidly

is this where we wanted to be?

It was so long ago now it’s just you and me

it seems we’ve forgotten the way it used to be

machines tried to help us but something went wrong

the future we wanted was here all along

The wind by the seashore, the wash of the waves

the sand on your skin and the glance that you gave

the sounds of the carnival we left it all behind

there were words left unsaid…

Faded Fortunes - Eclectic Collective

I grew up in the bay area and lived in and out of several cities  about 15 minutes from Frisco.  I had a front porch session this weekend because the sun was shinning . I always like to get that outdoor microphone tone on these types of raw recordings. 
BAY AREA BLUES By Glenny G
Yeah I'm Walking down the train track between the pillar before Bart
Take me back to Richmond the place where it all starts
Catalog from Woolworth reading the news
Why I'm sitting at the diner with the blues 
Mira Vista hill top, the schools on the other side
Throwing a dirt clod The field was open wide
Yuba hill was rolling with skateboards flying by
Yeah I'm leaning on a wall and wondering why
( Guitar Solo )
Just Fifteen miles from Frisco, Golden Gate on the other side
El Cerrito and the highway, the bus my ride
El Sobrante to San Pablo, Frisco on the other side
The Bay was open wide
( Guitar Solo ) out ,,,,

Bay Area Blues (Original) with Lyrics

I like to think I know what death is.

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Une descente en groove dans les coulisses de la French Touch.
Boîtes à rythmes poussiéreuses, synthés analogiques et fantômes du Rex Club.
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The vinyl is ready — pressed on demand.
A groove-soaked dive into the backrooms of French Touch.
Dusty drum machines, analog synths, and the ghosts of Parisian nights.
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I like to think I know what death is.

Stephan B