Work in progress From Silent Monkey
Leo Nitemynks phoned up Stone MkInyel and read his new work about Delores Ibarruri, that left-wing firebrand of the Spanish Civil War. Always prepared, MkInyel had his tape machine wired up and pressed 'record' then wove a track around Nitemynks rendition, "that sounds like a bunch of Spanish communist musos entertaining the locals in that Bistro where you got the most proper serious coffee back between the wars".

Lady Of Spain (with Phoned-in Voice)- Silent Monkey

Nitemynks liked the Hot Chocolate backing-track but was feeling laid back. “Slow it down, so it’s 3 times as long”, he said. So MkInyel did.

Iced Chocolate - Silent Monkey

Nitemynks has been working with Andrew Florides, and wrote some descriptions of his astonishing artwork as only Nitemynks can. MkInyel made a backing track for this one that he reckons sounds like the image looks. (https://andrewflorides.co.uk)

Hot Chocolate - Silent Monkey (image-Andrew Florides)

Me and my Sons get together with Phoenix when we can, and just make shit up. That's Ken on Guitar, Tom on Bass, Mr P on Cajon Drum Kit, and myself on keys. There's no prep, we just set up the gear, make sure the 'tape recorder' is working then just start playing whatever comes into our heads. These tracks are warts an' all, they've just been mixed nicely, not carefully edited. Sometimes you can hear the cogs in our heads working. Sometimes we just keep going and stuff keeps developing. This one's 19 mins long. (26/4/19)

Plenty Spicy Jam (26/4/19) - Clan McDan and the Man

Me and my Sons get together with Phoenix when we can, and just make shit up. That's Ken on Guitar, Tom on Bass, Mr P on Cajon Drum Kit, and myself on keys. There's no prep, we just set up the gear, make sure the 'tape recorder' is working then just start playing whatever comes into our heads. These tracks are warts an' all, they've just been mixed nicely, not carefully edited. Sometimes you can hear the cogs in our heads working. This one happened right when we started on this particular occasion (15/3/19)

Pretty Spicy Jam (15/3/19) - Clan McDan and the Man

Throughout March 22, when covid infections in the UK reached their all-time peak, Ukraine was under appalling attack, and nuclear annihilation seemed imminent, I was suffering deep fatigue. All I could do was hide away and create music. I started exploring some dark Spitfire Audio 'Originals' and this track evolved that embodied the ubiquitous sense of unease. I've got this project  gradually taking shape that I’m calling 'Funk', which experiments with groove and bass, and melodic and moody jazziness, and this sits right there.

Funk

'Fatigue' - Steven McDaniel

There's a well kept secret in Milton Keynes known as the 'Cathedral of Trees'. It's a plantation of trees designed to mirror the layout of Norwich Cathedral. This resonated with me because although I live in Milton Keynes, I spend a good deal of my time in Norwich and know that city like a second home. I saw the Cathedral of Trees as a symbol of the power and beauty of the natural world and Norwich Cathedral as a symbol of the power and beauty of human civilisation. This piece is about the juxtaposition of the two. 
This is another piece realised using samples; I'm looking for instrumentalists and singers who could beat life into the piece, to release later this year.

Tree Cathedral - Steven McDaniel

I spent Christmas 14 with my girlfriend in Norwich. It may have been all the carols, but I found myself composing a chorale at her piano. Then that 16th note/triplet figure immediately followed. However, the piece formed slowly and took the whole year to complete.  It seems to fall into two 'movements'. The first begins with natural instruments and then the electronics gradually emerge. The second is constructed using the haiku numbers 5,7,17; it's got 5 beats to the bar, in 7 bar patterns, with 17 repeats. But that's almost irrelevant.  The music is my impression of  Christmas in Norwich. 
The last few pieces uploaded to Soundcloud are realised using virtual instruments provided by 'Sample Tank' and 'Logic'. I'm now engaged in replacing the samples with real players who can breath life into this music. The plan is to release an album later this year.

Christmas 14- Steven McDaniel

I had a day making music with a great bunch of kids with multiple learning difficulties. They chose instruments and made up fragments of music that I recorded. I then went home and created some pieces out of those fragments, and this is one of them. I did just enough processing to make it all fit, aiming to enhance (rather than destroy) the original fragments.

Bells - Kids from The Collet School w Steven McDaniel

Here's where many of Planet Zyz's Stuff-In-The-Pipeline can be heard.  Most of the released stuff is on Bandcamp. But The 'Planet Zyz' website site tells the whole story - Steven McDaniel, CEO

Planet Zyz

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