This PL i dedicate to the more smoothin' groovin' and definately moooovin' songs and tracks i encounter, which i find somewhat "cool" and highly enjoyable and melodic, somewhat toe-tapping and beard twirling songs. Something between becoming maybe a touch funky ,spacey, slightly crazy n dreamy, 60,70,80s vi-bey, sexy, soundtrackalike and way toooooo much enjoyable to be NOT put on a list :). Lets call it .... the "grand" feeling, while listening to those. 

Too hard to start dividing all my otherworldly listen experiences right down to each artist , gotta collect em somehow, so please apologize if you might encounter something in this list which you did not exactly "expect" :)

Thank you all wonderful artists who keep constantly the bar so high and my feelings so excited!

smooothin groooooooooovin moooovin

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More', and by clicking the BandCamp link above)

Although I’ve worked with Darren on a few pieces now, this is my first true collab with both Darren and Kelley (the magical, musical duo that are Keldari Station: https://soundcloud.com/keldari-station, https://keldaristation.bandcamp.com/). If you enjoy 80s/90s style electronica and alternative music, with an esoteric approach to lyrics, you’re going to love this band. They are thoughtful musicians, with a genuine desire to share the positivity. And in this day and age, that is a breath of fresh air.

This one also has a cool detail happening behind the scenes. We were fortunate enough to get Mahayana mixed and mastered by our good friend, the very prolific and detail-oriented Russell Sinfield (https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield, also Mad Scientist behind Chaos Cookhouse; a full blown mixing/mastering service). This fellow knows the industry, and knows how to prep a song for multiple musical environments. In fact, I was joking with him early in the process, because where I would usually stop and call it good, Russ was on about stage 4 of 10 in testing the final master for different conditions. It was awe inspiring, and humbling (and a healthy reminder of what the professionals have to go through to get this stuff sounding perfect). So thank you from all of us, Russ. This wouldn’t sound quite as awesome without your thoughtful involvement.

So with great exuberance, Darren, Kelley, Russ and I offer you our first truly collaborative musical effort… ‘Mahayana’. :D

Lyrics:

Here today but gone tomorrow
Built to last the interim
Gaining wealth won’t lose your sorrow
Fortune flows out from within

Words are more than ink on paper
Books all turn to dust with time
Manifest with your intention
Through your deeds reach the sublime

Here today but gone tomorrow
Built to last the interim
Gaining wealth won’t lose your sorrow
Fortune flows out from within

Essence / Enjoyment / Transformation
These three bodies make our one
Knowledge helps us break the cycle
Ignorance will make us come undone

Here today but gone tomorrow
Built to last the interim
Gaining wealth won’t lose your sorrow
Fortune flows out from within

(Bonus Note: I’ve now done an abundant number of projects specifically with the people I met through Eddie Shook’s ‘Anything Goes’ radio show (https://www.mixcloud.com/DJMenamenasta). So in celebration of this song’s launch, I’m also including a full playlist (in chronological order) of all the songs I’ve done with other ‘Anything Goes’ musicians. These are talented folks, and it’s a great collection of diverse music. Plus, if you enjoy these songs, most of these musicians have also been working with each other on their own projects. So there you go; a whole new corner of the musical world to explore.)

Justin Mackay: Synthesizers, Beats, Sound design
Kelley Donovan: Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizers
Darren D. Danahy: Vocals, Guitars, Drum machine
Russ Sinfield: Production, Mixing, Mastering

PWWO06

Mahayana | Keldari Station & GrevusAnjl

It ended up a lot more 80s than I originally intended.
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Fish with anxiety problems
Lobsters with anxiety problems
Squid with anxiety problems

They think about
Disturbing facts
They think about
Things I don't want to
But I don't want to
Come across as
The kind of person
You'd walk away from so

I'm trying hard to be happy
Even though everything is wrong
I'm trying not to be down
Even though that doesn't really work

Girls with anxiety problems
Boys with anxiety problems
Robots with anxiety problems

They think too much
They focus on
On all the things that
That could go wrong but
But I don't want to
Come across as
The kind of person
You wouldn't talk to so

[Repeat chorus]

Fish with anxiety problems etc.

[Repeat chorus]
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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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Original photo (I've messed about with it a bit) Sigmund https://unsplash.com/@sigmund
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I'm Trying Hard To Be Happy

Screach - voice, lyrics, lead guitar during verses https://soundcloud.com/bobby-brady

Jonathan - lead guitar during bridge, initial music, instruments

Thanks Mike!

soul of the night (with Screach)

Don't Give Up

Hills and Highways (The Celestial Song)

Urban folk/pop
On the edge of infinity
 
As the smoke files the air
She’s gonna blast off outta there
She’s boarding her space ship
Going out into orbit
She can feel the sonic boom
From her bedroom
Reverberating/evaporating memories
Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On The edge of infinity

Alice in her wonderland
Lucy in the sky with her diamonds
Where dagger words are popsicles
That twist into rainbows

Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On the edge of infinity

Bridge
love activates an energy
With exponential gravity
On the edge of infinity

She feels her heart explode
With unbounded love for those
Who misunderstand her
in misguided anger

Chorus
On the edge of infinity
Discarding her effigy
On the edge 
On the edge of infinity
Creating make believe
On the edge of infinity



Beauty of the Brave

On the Edge of Infinity

On The Edge of Infinity

Lyrics

Come In
 
The wind is warm
The night is black
I don’t really know
Where I’ve been at
The rain is falling 
On your skin
In the moonlight I want to let you in
Let you in

I know lately
I’ve been preoccupied
With bitter memories from another time
You’ve been givin’ 
All your love to me
With that selfless
Oh generosity

Come in
Comein

I promise to
Throw away the past
And make this good lovin’
 The one that lasts
Come in
Come in

I’m ready to make it right
Heal that pain inside
Liberate my body and free my mind
Come in 
Come in
The wind is warm 
The night is black
Wanna tell you that I know exactly where I’m at
Come in 
Comein








Come In

The Walrus Of Love

Produced by Sule Heitner
Written by Kathryn BERRY
A Patrón or Two
A couple of hours past Saturday night
You slip your hand between my thighs
As you lean across to grab a light
Sunday morning has arrived
The sheets are as tangled as your hair
Yesterday’s bad decisions, they are everywhere
Black mascara crease
Poster child for 90’s heroin chic
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two
The lights are dim, the curtains low
My body aches it needs u so
I can hear you breath
My muscles are weak
It’s a couple of hours past, I don’t give a fuck
I’m ready to jump
Risk that mess we might need to clean up
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two
Bridge
You got me falling and breaking and taking and starting again
You got me hiding and faking and hating then making amends
Ya, I still come back to you
After a Patron or two
Chorus
No, I don’t need a man who’s strong
Who walks with fire and conviction
Don’t hold my hand
Just scratches my back
Cause I’ll still come back to you
After a Patron or two x3

A Patrón or Two

'TheDelta57' came up with a great idea for a track and was kind enough to let me get my hands on it. When I had finished playing around, I asked Skyline Tigers if she was interested in coming up with some lyrics (shown below) and singing on it. Luckily for everyone, she was and wow, what a fantastic job she did. Her voice is just incredible on this. 

https://soundcloud.com/delta57  https://soundcloud.com/lisa-p-442529239

Lyrics below, by Skyline Tigers:

 You belong to me
Till I set you free

This one night only (you belong to me)
Make your love own me
Need you to show me (till I set you free)
Make your love own me

You belong to me
Till I set you free 
You belong to me

This brief encounter
That single hour
Gave me the power
To devour
Your pleasure and your pain

That deep attraction
That spiritual reaction
Giving me action
Satisfaction
Exploding in my veins

Feel how I want you (x3)
You belong to me
Till I set you free

This one night only (you belong to me)
Make your love own me
Need you to show me (till I set you free)
Make your love own me

This brief encounter
That single hour
Gave me the power
To devour
Your pleasure and your pain

That deep attraction
That spiritual reaction
Giving me action
Satisfaction
Exploding in my veins

That brief encounter
That single hour

That brief encounter
That single hour
Giving me power
Devour
The pleasure and the pain

Satisfaction

I want you baby

Play on Spotify

First Encounter (feat. Skyline Tigers and TheDelta57)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More', and by clicking the BandCamp link above)

It’s a joy creating with Stoney (https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye) again. He’s a great guitarist, great singer, and writes genuinely evocative lyrics; and he’s the catalyst for today’s ‘stuff to think about’ write-up.

This song is about the various aspects of thinking. We can probably all agree, the mind is a noisy beast. If you’re in a good space, it can be a very loving voice. But if you’re like the rest of us, it can be a cesspool of swirling noise and emotion.

Lets focus in on the word cesspool, and what that suggests. A cesspool is defined as a container of standing liquid, where waste and sewage reside. What keeps it a cesspool? The fact that nothing fresh ever comes in to clear out the pollutants. Its stagnant, and it’s rotting. 

Now let’s superimpose that idea onto our thoughts. As soon as we’re capable of storing thoughts, society is all too happy to fill that storage for us; logically skewed to its perspective. I often ask myself where my ideas came from, and the honest answer is always… elsewhere. There really are no original ideas in our heads; only variations on themes we’ve learned over our lifetimes; combinations of ideas we’ve been influenced (or forced) to accept as true. 

And once the vessel is full, it usually gets left alone. They did their job. We’re somehow now willing to store that refuse on their behalf. Left alone, it becomes stagnant. Without fresh material coming in to stir up the waste, we get trapped with some pretty funky material; probably best not to touch it, but it’s in our heads, and we’re stuck being the keepers of other people’s sewage. It’s all a little dizzying. But what to do?

This is where the ‘Waders of Consciousness’ come in. It’s time to don the rubber pants, head to the deeper parts, and start cleaning the tank. We do this by lifting each idea up (remember to wear gloves), studying it very carefully in the light, and deciding if it’s worth washing off… or if we should permanently dispose of it. This is a big clean-up job, but the benefits are massive. When we’re done, we get to enjoy a clean storage tank; free of all the other people’s garbage we’ve been holding for so many years. Here’s the catch. We have to keep it circulating with fresh ideas in order to keep the stagnancy at bay. It’s a lifetime commitment, but the work is so very worth it. 

Stoney and I hope you enjoy our latest creation, ‘I Think Too Much’. :)
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Lyrics:

I think too much, my brain works hard & fast & often still
I lost the touch to feel the sun upon that windowsill
Lost in the rush, my mind is burdened by such overkill
Thoughts turn to dust as I set fire to the matter mill

Why is this always on my mind?

I know that there's problems
You know that there's despair & hate
Thought can bring solutions
Minds should be our saviors & mates

I know that there's secrets
You know that there's revenge & rage
Well, I think we can fix it
You don't think and therefore, don't save

You think too much, your brain works hard & slow at sitting still
Soft to the touch, I say we keep it there, inside your skull

Why is this always on my mind?

I know there's solutions if we keep on digging deep
Buried treasure looting it's right under your feet.
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Song Credits:
Stone Catcherye - Vocals, all real Instruments
GrevusAnjl - All make-believe instruments, mix/master, and song art

PWWO04

I Think Too Much | Stone Catcherye & GrevusAnjl

I was fortunate and honored to have a visit from Janine a few weeks ago. We had a great time. Somehow, and unexpectedly, this came out of it.

Janine: voice, vocal melody, lyrics 
Jonathan: guitars, bass, drum programming, music

Please visit Janine here: https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

at the beginning we carved out a message
into a monolith tower of stone

we were searching for our home

he was the mountain I climbed from the valley
I was the water he drank from the hole

and we searched for a home

so in the meadow
we dug in the soil
to find the root of plenty
and a child began to wail

at the beginning
at the beginning

at the beginning we shouted our message
holy vibration from hollow to dell

and our voices rang like bells

his was the rhythm that rose from the valley
mine was the melody born in the sun

and we harmonized as one

at the beginning
at the beginning
at the beginning we carved out a message

we were searching for our home

At The Beginning (with Janine Levinson)

As there was no one and the sum of all was none.
The summoner started to hum out a summoning to all.
Eons passed and slowly summoners began gravitating.
The platantain and the stain connecting and befriending.
The summoners and the summoner of the summoners.
Summoning.

Organ, Drums, Bass - Monkey Blood Lowdown 
Lead Vocals, Lyrics - Barthaarschneider
Backing Vocals, Harmony Vocals - Nic
Rhythm and lead guitars - Admiral Krank

Greatest Hits

Summoner of the Summoners

Summoner Of The Summoners

HAVE YOU EVER known the real fear of losing someone you love?  this is what this song is about.   we must nurture and protect those close to us.

"Ambulance" is the first of 13 or so songs from my debut solo album, Year Zero.

this song is available to BUY on bandcamp https://miaowmcdonald.bandcamp.com/track/ambulance

"Ambulance" is also available on all other digital platforms to download and/or stream... iTunes, Spotify, Napster, Deezer, GooglePlay, AppleMusic, TikTok, YouTube  etc etc etc...

(c)(p) written & performed by Miaow McDonald

engineered/co-produced by Robert Davidson, the Aged Choir Boy, who also plays drums on this track.

Miaow McDonald only plays Fender Guitars.

LYRICS:

how did we get here?
t-t tell me 'cos i don't know
what went wrong.
your door is open
another closes in my face.
i'm gonna kick kick kick it down.

pills and letters
your mind is scattered on the floor.
i'm shocked to the core.

blue light flashing
my heart's racing
your getaway car's too slow
i can't let you go

(no, no no no no)

it's taking too long
it's taking too long

22 minutes
is a fu-fu very long time,
when you're losing your mind.

blue light flashing
my heart's racing
your getaway car's too slow
i can't let you go
i won't let you go
i can't let you go

Ambulance

Instrumentation and composition by https://soundcloud.com/user-936947521 
Vocals and lyrics by conover
Guitar solo by https://soundcloud.com/matt-warnick-58962582 
© 2020 Conover/Beelaard

Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.
from the moment you arrive.
It's been such a long time
Since I've held you

And they we drive along the ocean with your hair undone
and your suitcase strapped firmly on my back. 

And so we drive and drive and drive and drive
And so we drive and drive and drive and drive
And so we drive and drive and drive and drive

Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.
from the moment you arrive.
Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
Just pull the car around.
And please let us know when your due to arrive.
cause they'll be dancing in the street.........

Pull the car around Beelaard, Warnick & Conover

Dont' Give Up

Fly On

Render to Rome
The things that are the Romans
Render to God
The things that are of God
Tender to you
The goals you always dreamed of
Send them all to her
The children and the home

I have a plan that may work wonders
I have a way to show what you may need
Hold them all …..and then release them

Just Let go...........
Music and guitar solo by https://soundcloud.com/matt-warnick-58962582


 Conover Vocals, Lyrics and production 
© 2020 Conover/Warnick
This is my first collaboration partner when entering CaliforniaThis is my first collaboration partner when entering California.

Just let go.............

Just Let Go......   (Conover/Warnick)

I have always loved the rather risqué ‘Leather’ by Legpuppy and was blown away when the band agreed to me doing a remix of it.  This really has been a labour of love for me, adding my own ideas, restructuring the track and experimenting with the stems: I hope that I have done the track justice.  

You can hear the original version at https://soundcloud.com/legpuppy/leather
Legpuppy have also done a video for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9W-qlyBYJ4&feature=em-lsp

Leather (*thommo* remix)

We Need Even More Good Vibes in these Times of Crisis...
So I bring Back this Special Collab Made 10 years ago with 2 friends from Jamaica & USA. 
Newly Released : 
BEAUTIFULL LIFE - 
Producer - Kevin Campbell (Dyce)
Sp Celicia × Hyh Volume 
Label  - Staz Gibraltar entertainment  instagram stazgibraltarentertainment
Youtube - stazgibraltarent
Listen on spotify
Distribution - Distrokid 
Email - stazgibraltarent@gmail.com
Produced by Kevin Campbell, aka Dyce @ Chillzentertainment in Kingston Jamaica. 
Song by Special Cecilia, Dyce and Volume C. 

Actually I've just being in touch with Dyce, after years without contact, so it reminds me this Beautiful Song & He agreed to put it here online...
 Slide Show Photos Clip > https://youtu.be/OcIbXx54Z2s

BEAUTIFUL LIFE - Dyce, Volume C & Special Cecilia

Video on YouTube Premieres December 11th   https://youtu.be/3eUSLZmFgBU

Corners

Getting By

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
You can rely on
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

And love it's such a cheesy song
But we've all got to sing along
Yeah love is blind it's plain to see
That love will never let us be

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
Someone who isn't me
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

[Repeat chorus]

[Repeat verse]

[Repeat chorus]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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The picture (detail) is from 'The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death' by Russell Oliver.
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20210317 Yet another attempt at a better mix
20210301 Uploaded another attempt at better mix
20210228 Uploaded attempt at better mix

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Stable Boy

Random Space-Ape Synth-Nerd somewhere out there!

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