Ross Smithe and friends asked me to lay down some organ on this well known Dead tune. What a privilege!! 
Credits:
Ross Smithe- Vocals, E Piano https://soundcloud.com/ross-smithe?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Craig Clontz- Drums
Ross Manariti- Guitar
Fabian Bono- Bass
J.J. Terrell - Hammond B3 simulated organ played on Yamaha Genos 2

Sugaree - Grateful Dead Cover

made on my bajo quinto, converted to a  7 string bass and guitar. with only an mpc and a shur sm-57.

Lotto

Cast of Characters:
Cgmaness – @hiddenhands-760647700 – Chris – acoustic guitar and composition
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano, organ
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh — acoustic upright double bass
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — mix, mastering, and production

This song began its life in rural Arkansas, when Chris came up with it on his acoustic guitar. He genreously shared it with us along with a treasure trove of songs some months back. This one's time has come, though. 
  The first one of us to pounce on the project was Carl, who immediately heard his melodies, and added them with the skill and passion he's known for. JJ came in next, adding his beautiful piano and organ to the song. Josh went next, still reveling in the new upright, and added it to start the rhythm section. Ken very skillfully matched Josh's groove and added his drums soon after to complete the rhythm section. If anyone has any idea how hard it is to add drums to an acoustic tune that's already recorded, you'll appreciate Ken's work in here doubly, because he got the swing down perfectly. 
  All that remained was for Tez to juice it up with his trademark thrilling guitar solo. When it was finally complete, we asked Stephen to mix it for us, which he did in his always pro way. 
  This is just the latest, but not the last, song written by Mr. Maness. We all love his music, and consider it among the best on any of our pages. This was definitely a team effort, though, as the song was simply an acoustic guitar part when we got a hold of it. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we all enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by Carl of The Beautiful Dark:
Plateau of proof
I see a tree made root
Holding the fort
Great above and below tree sort
 
Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound

Elevations
Grounded revelations

Oh very best incline
Move us forward in time
Good golden ratio curve
Paint our lives
Give nerve

Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound

Elevations
Grounded revelations

Oh very best incline
Move us forward in time
Good golden ratio curve
Paint our lives
Give nerve

Plateau of proof
I see a tree made root
Holding the fort
Great above and below tree sort
Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound
We found the sound
We found the sound

Elevations (Eclectic Collective)

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

From Here to Eternity

Cast of Characters:
Cgmaness – @hiddenhands-760647700 – Chris – acoustic guitar and composition
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano and organ
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh — acoustic upright double bass
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — mix, mastering, and production

This song began its life in rural Arkansas, when Chris came up with it on his acoustic guitar. He genreously shared it with us along with a treasure trove of songs some months back. This one's time has come, though. 
  The first one of us to pounce on the project was Carl, who immediately heard his melodies, and added them with the skill and passion he's known for. JJ came in next, adding his beautiful piano and dreamy organ to the song. Josh went next, still reveling in the new upright, and added it to start the rhythm section. Ken very skillfully matched Josh's groove and added his drums soon after to complete the rhythm section. If anyone has any idea how hard it is to add drums to an acoustic tune that's already recorded, you'll appreciate Ken's work in here doubly, because he got the swing down perfectly. 
  All that remained was for Tez to juice it up with his trademark thrilling guitar solo. When it was finally complete, we asked Stephen to mix it for us, which he did in his always pro way. 
  This is just the latest, but not the last, song written by Mr. Maness. We all love his music, and consider it among the best on any of our pages. This was definitely a team effort, though, as the song was simply an acoustic guitar part when we got a hold of it. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we all enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:
Lyrics for behind the track

Plateau of proof
I see a tree made root
Holding the fort
Great above and below tree sort
 
Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound

Elevations
Grounded revelations

Oh very best incline
Move us forward in time
Good golden ratio curve
Paint our lives
Give nerve

Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound

Elevations
Grounded revelations

Oh very best incline
Move us forward in time
Good golden ratio curve
Paint our lives
Give nerve

Plateau of proof
I see a tree made root
Holding the fort
Great above and below tree sort
Graced level ground
Purge the pedestals
We found the sound
We found the sound
We found the sound

Not everybody knows how to take care of a garden

Edén

LA LENA MOON COME TO ME X TIMMY REGISFORD With You In My Life x Mashup

Cast of Characters:

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- organ, vst horns, vst tremolo guitar, and percussion, vocals, lyrics, and composition
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Fender Precision bass
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Statocaster electric guitar
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – percussive tea kettle 
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T electric guitar and mastering

This song began at the very beginning of Mark's life, when his parents visited Jamaica on holiday, where family legend has it he was conceived. There is also another true family story reference in his lyrics about his grandfather, or "papa." He wrote the song recently, though, within the past couple months, on his synth. He came up with not only the structure, beat, and bass line, but the vocals, lyrics and melodies, as well—a rough sketch of all those, at least--on almost all of the instruments you hear in here.  
  Mark shared it with the Eclectic Collective immediately, as he had the rest of the band in mind when he wrote it. Ken was first up to bat with this one, adding his thrilling drums and making the beat his own. Once Josh had a beat to work with, he added his trusty fretted four string P-bass to complete the rhythm section by also making the bass line his own. Tez, who is as much of a reggae aficionado as Josh, which is quite a bit, added his rhythmic skanky guitar to the mix. He also added the thrilling guitar solo in the middle. Then, JJ came through with a reprise of his funky tea kettle. It's a Fender Teacaster. Filling in the intro and outro like the true guitar master he is, Stephen put the finishing touches in here to wrap it up. 
  After it was all said and done, we asked Mark to mix it for us, which is a change from our normal duties, but a welcome one for this song. Of course, Stephen mastered it to bring up the volume and give it a dynamic edge.  
  This is our latest Mark composition, as well as the latest in a series of reggae tunes we've done over the years. It really showcases not only his mighty songwriting ability, but that of his singing, as well. This was a team effort, though, as always. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Original lyrics by Mistermark:
Brother brother, I’m calling to you
I got a problem and I don’t know what to do
can you help me, I’m searching for that sound
the music of my memory, it was always around

I hear it brother, a heartbeat through the walls
just like a cool breeze, it echoes down the hall
through my window and out into the street
and once you feel it brother, you just got to move your feet

The rhythm moves me like a Caribbean queen
from Rome to Rio and everywhere in between
I wanna take you to the home I’ve never seen
I was made in Jamaica if you know what I mean

My mama told me about papa long ago
a man of music, he could really steal the show 
he had a secret, my mama made it clear
a 'musician' turned 'magician' cause one day he disappeared 

The rhythm moves me like a Caribbean queen
from Rome to Reno and everywhere in between
I wanna take you to the home I’ve never seen
I was made in Jamaica if you know what I mean

Grandmother hummed an old Mento refrain
sun on the field don’t mean there’s no rain
just like the ocean, calm face and deep under
the smallest seashell can still carry thunder

The rhythm moves me like a Caribbean queen
from Rome to Reno and everywhere in between
I wanna take you to the home I’ve never seen
I was made in Jamaica if you know what I mean

Rock me mama, my Caribbean queen
from Fez to Fresno, it’s gunna be a scene
I'm gunna take you to a place I’ve never been
I was made in Jamaica and you know what I mean

Mistermark is responsible for the AI thumbnail art for this one.

Made in Jamaica (Eclectic Collective)

About a girl who doesn't want to be bothered while she's dancing

Lyrics

She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say
Don't bother me
She's deep within the groove
Mind and body wanna move
Right where she want's to be

She was just a little girl
When music filled her world
She'd dance her favourite tunes into the night
In her room with all the things she loved
The moon and stars high above
It was everything that made her feel just right

She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now
She gonna dance her night away
You gotta heed the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now

With ones she loves around
She falls into the sound
But the space that she is dancing's all her own
She won't invite you in
And beneath a little grin
You can see that she just wants to dance alone

A master of her time
A master of her mind
She spends her nights dancing to be free
There's a shooting star burning bright
And the wish that will be made tonight's
For the peace she finds within the groove
That gives her so much life

She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say hey 
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now
She gonna dance her night away
You gotta heed the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now

She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say hey 
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now
She gonna dance her night away
You gotta heed the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now

(Don't bother me)
She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now
(Don't bother me)
She gonna dance her night away
You gotta heed the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now

(Don't bother me)
She wanna dance her night away
You gotta hear the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now
(Don't bother me)
She gonna dance her night away
You gotta heed the word she say hey
Don't bother me now
Don't bother me now 

(Don't bother me)
She wanna dance her night away
(She wanna move)
You gotta hear the word she say hey
(She gonna get down gonna dance)
Don't bother me now
(Her night away)
Don't bother me now
(Don't bother me)
She gonna dance her night away
(Moving her body)
You gotta heed the word she say hey
(Groove in time to get her mind)
Don't bother me now
(Into the right place)
Don't bother me now

(Don't bother me)
She wanna dance her night away
(She wanna move)
You gotta hear the word she say hey
(She gonna get down gonna dance)
Don't bother me now
(Her night away)
Don't bother me now
(Don't bother me)
She gonna dance her night away
(Moving her body)
You gotta heed the word she say hey
(Groove in time to get her mind)
Don't bother me now
(Into the right space)
Don't bother me now

Credits & Acknowledgements

Music and Lyrics, Produced and Engineered by Linus Monsour, One Brown Mouse Studios, Brisbane, 2025.

Arranged by Linus Monsour and Shenton Gregory.

Linus Monsour: Lead Vocal, Backing Vocals, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Drum Kit, Congas, Percussion.

Shenzo Gregorio: Rhoads Piano and Improvisation, Synthesizer, Electric Guitar.

Lecia Louise: Electric Guitar.

Special Thanks to Getano Bann, Alex Crighton, George Valenti, Anne Monsour, Simon Monsour, Lecia Louise, Shenzo Gregorio, Michelle.

© Linus Monsour 2025

Don't Bother Me Now

Cast of Characters:
Cgmaness – @hiddenhands-760647700 – Chris – synth, organ, drums, acoustic guitar, and composition
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 — acoustic upright double bass and piano in the coda
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – lead piano and synth
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — mix, mastering, and production

This song began its life when Chris composed it on his synth organ, acoustic guitar, and drums, also coming up with the lyrics and vocal melodies. His songwriting is always among the best on our pages, and we're all very grateful to him for continuing to share his magic as a member of Eclectic Collective. 
  This is a song included in the massive collection of songs Chris shared with us the better part of a year ago. Ken was the first to pick up on it, though, adding his creative snare fills and percussive sound effects to it to complete the solid foundation to build upon. When the drums were up, Josh added his acoustic upright bass to complete the rhythm section, also creating the little coda at the end. He also added the piano in that section. Not long after he did, Tez sprinkled his magic via the smoking hot guitar solo you hear in here. Last, but not least, JJ filled in the piano, and also added the ear-candy synth lead lines you hear throughout. 
  Once it was in the bag, we asked Stephen to use his magical powers to cast a spell of balanced mixing on it, which he did very professionally, as always.
  This is the latest Chris Maness tune to grace all of our pages. We all really enjoy working on his music, and are very grateful to have him on the team. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Original lyrics by cgmaness:

You know you got away,
On a holiday.
You never left,
Even when you’re gone,
you stay.
Right here with me,
Eternity.
We’re all pulling for you.
We’re all pulling for you.
On a holiday,
When the clouds turn grey,
Where will you be?

A Sad Truth (Eclectic Collective)

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, electric bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), acoustic stand-up double bass, mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

New video from Eclectic Collective!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2UlJ8s62r8ff7zMtQbuAWN4xi55Tmvp/view?usp=drivesdk
Composer/Songwriter. Proficient performer of piano, bass guitar, double bass, cello, 6 string , 12 string , drums, triangle (shall I include tambourine too?🤣), vocals, lyrics. 99% of the tracks on this page are original songs. None of my performances on any of my tracks, whether solo work, or collaboration, have any editing whatsoever. Effects and equalization? Of course! But no editing, no software, etc. Quite a substantial amount of these tracks are with The Eclectic Collective. We are like family and have been playing together on a daily basis since approximately March of 2022 as the Eclectic Collective. Before the band bore it's name Eclectic Collective; Josh, Ken, Stephen, Tez, and  CG Maness were doing some occasional collabs. At any given time we are all simultaneously working on about 15 different songs. And when we feel they are done cooking in the oven we release them.  We release a song every week on Fridays at 4AM UTC

Members of The Eclectic Collective :
The Beautiful Dark 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)
J.J. Terrell
Llanpsych
K2 and the Three [and the Four]
TexMex Shaman
Mistermark
CG Maness

Musician/Percussionist based in Brisbane, Australia, Linus has been playing professionally since 1988.

His early career was primarily playing in musical theatre and touring productions. Versatile in styles such as folk, rock, musical theatre, swing  and funk, Linus also studied jazz and obtained a diploma in jazz studies at the James Morrison Academy, Uni SA. Since studying, Linus has ventured into the world of composition, and works with other musicians in music record production and live performance.

Linus has also worked as a session drummer, playing on many albums over the years. He offers a service to professionally record drum and percussion tracks in his own studio for independent artists. Contact Linus for details if you would like him to play on one of your tracks.

onebrownmouseproductions@gmail.com

You can find another 1000  plus tunes of mine in Bandcamp
https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com

Cantante y compositora chicana.
SexyHorror, música pa’ calentarte.
Hex Hex Hex

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