Name: Funky Clav by Stephen Sink
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: "Funky Clav" is one of my personal favorite instrumentals of 2024. I later turned it into the song "Don't Go!" but I'm now liking the instrumental version much better than the vocal singing version. In spite of the funky clav throughout the piece, I'm doing most of the lead on Hammond B3 organ, with NS/Stick 8-string bass, and some Fender baritone guitar and lots of 12-string acoustic guitar.

This piece started as a progression I stumbled on while playing with a Hammond B3 organ VST, and over the course of months, grew into this epic you hear now. I hope you will enjoy listening.

My deepest thanks goes to the collaborators listed below, by whom through each of their contributions, and by each of their talents, this piece became more than I could have imagined.

Collaboration Team:

David Marconi: Original concept, Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar, Organ

Allan Cook: Bass Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Audio Engineering
https://soundcloud.com/amcook1971

James Cook: Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@MezCook

Ron Adamski: Piano
https://soundcloud.com/user-264583290

Ron Lewis: Intro and Outro Synth
https://soundcloud.com/ron-lewis-779503933
https://www.youtube.com/@JustADudeInABasement

Please note, each collaborator composed their respective parts, so composition credit rightly goes to all involved.

Somewhere Beyond the Horizon

Somewhere Beyond the Horizon: Collaboration

Original melodic guitar blues-based rock instrumental.

Featuring a collaborative effort between multi-instrumentalist me (keys, NS/Stick bass/guitar, drums, etc.) and several different algorithms to generate melodic lines. I generate several versions of the melodies using "algos" (algorithms, but shortened to sound cool and techy), wade through them and edit them, and prune them, and splice them together; or stitch in new MIDI captured by me playing keys. I also feed my melodies into the algos and have them chop them up and drop mathematical equivalents of psychedelics and generate new variations of my lines. A true collaborative effort between man and machine to make music.

Once Upon A Time -- Rock melodic instrumental

Blues rock piano with the crooning vocals of Synthesizer V's Hayden, and then backing vocals by Solaria (Soprano), Natalie (Alto), Kevin (Tenor), and then Ritchie (Bass). Blues rock piano using a classical A Harmonic Minor chord sequence that I invented for several classical piano pieces in the past (Am Dm G C F Bb E Am) and have thrown all of my favorite blues piano tricks and riffs onto that classical structure.

“I Want the World (You)” by Stephen Sink

As a young boy I swore
I’d never sell out.
Now I’m older and I’m
Selling every way.

As a young man I swore
I’d never lose out.
Now I’m older and I’m
Losing every day

Chorus
I want the world to see
I have you girl with me
I need no guarantee 
What I want is what I need 
And that’s the two of you and me
 
Making it anyway we can
We won’t find out now 
Until the end of time
How this all ends

Chorus
As a young boy I swore
I’d never get out
Now I’m older and I’m
Getting it every day

As a young man I swore
I’d never make it out
Now I’m older and I’m
Making it every way

Chorus
Making it anyway we can
We won’t find out now 
Until the end of time
How this all ends
Chorus

I Want The World (You)

Funky rock bluesy jam with electric clavinet, Hammond organ, wah guitar, acoustic fingerstyle guitar, crunchy high-gain lead guitars, funky bass, and drumming with a funky swing.

Featuring the vocals talents of Synthesizer V's emulated singers Asterian (Baritone and lead), Hayden, (Tenor BG), Natalie (Alto BG), Solaria (Soprano BG).
“Don’t Go” by Stephen Sink
Intro Crooning 

So know bro, flow grow slow 
Show crow below, no yellow snow 
Show hello, po faux glow 
Escrow, oh no, oh no no 
Bro go slow, chateau flow,  yo

Chorus:
Wah-ah-ee go, yo 
Wah-ah-ee go, oh no no 
Don’t go 
Wah-ah-ee oh, bro 
Wah-ah-ee oh, if you go 
Go slow

Overflow bio dough
Quid pro quo, fellow mellow foe
Hoe agro, mow fro toe
Tarot, oh no, oh no no
Bro go slow, Merlot flow, yo

Chorus

Nouveau crow, tableau glow
Know dough forgo, pro although slow
So shallow, flow fallow
Shadow, oh no, oh no no 
Bro go slow, Cabot flow yo

Chorus

So know bro, flow grow slow 
Show crow below, no yellow snow 
Show hello, po faux glow 
Escrow, oh no, oh no no 
Bro go slow, chateau flow,  yo

Bridge (X4): 
Na na nani nani
Na nan ni nani
Na na nani nani
Don’t Go 

Chorus X2
Ending (Woe, Don’t Go)

"Don't Go" - Synthesizer V vocals

I started out trying to make a J-Pop style pop tune, as you do, and all I had was a MIDI drum loop that I found on the internet that was labeled "J-Pop Disco" and no other backing tracks. So I thought it would be fun to bring in country-flavor baritone guitar, and some Celtic fingerpicking on a 12-string acoustic, and make a country J-Pop song. And then I added fiddle to the whole thing, and suddenly I had my hook with a catchy melody and real song sections. I actually have vocal melodies all blocked out and ready for me to figure out what this song is going to be about. 

But for now, here is the instrumental I'm calling "J-Pop Country."

J-Pop Country (Instrumental)

Psychedelic Prog Rock with analog keyboards, big stadium drums, pyrotechnic guitars, and layered vocal harmonies.  

"Infinity's Canvas" by Stephen Sink and Udio.

A mandelbrot set in motion, don't blink your eye
Zooming deeper, there's a world to unveil
In the heart of the math, a truth that never fails
Preceding 
As it unfolds, the beauty grows, ah

Verse 1
In these geometric throes
In patterns bold, and edges sharp, ah
Let these shapes compound, 'cause I'm drawing near
To Fractal Lands
Infinity's reel
And chaos forms the perfect bout
Fractal dreams forever

Symmetry spirals, it's a wondrous sight
Across dimensions, we take our flight
Chasing borders that will never end
Through the fabric of space, we blend

[Chorus]
Edges twist, they turn, they dive, ah
In this complex world, we're alive

Every line's a journey, every curve's a tale
A never-ending maze that we traverse
Infinite in essence, in this fractal grail
We're riding on the edge of the universe

[Chorus]
So we soar through this fractal dimension, ah
In a dance with the echoes of mind
In a dance with the echoes

[Solo]

Now gaze upon the Mandelbrot shore, ah
Castaway in a sea of math and lore
Escaping time in an algorithm's bind
Complexity that's one of a kind
Absorbing the chaos, pure and raw, ah
Within the silence, a hidden awe

Infinity's Canvas

Latest goa track i've created to express my feelings after Etnica party in Belgrade
Possibility track may encounter small additional changes, but here's nicely listenable version! :)
3D Fractal artwork made in Unreal Engine 5 is frame from my recent FPV Fractal video, my own project with this track so here's full version of it!

you can take a look at video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfr9ZcFhCj8&lc=UgzO6bbOme9r5DwnsCl4AaABAg

Spherical Inversion

Guitar instrumental featuring melodic rock riffs and searing solos over crunchy guitars and piano and finger-picking acoustic guitar.

Laid Back, Laid Forth -- melodic guitar instrumental

"Funky Clav" is one of my personal favorite instrumentals of 2024. I later turned it into the song "Don't Go!" but I'm now liking the instrumental version much better than the vocal singing version. In spite of the funky clav throughout the piece, I'm doing most of the lead on Hammond B3 organ, with NS/Stick 8-string bass, and some Fender baritone guitar and lots of 12-string acoustic guitar.

Funky Clav

Stephen Sink

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