The Forest of Dean: Lore of Stone
Part one of the two part series, The Forest of Dean: Lore of Water and Stone
Lore of Stone is an immersive audio journey through the ancient stone sites of the Forest of Dean. We wander through Poor’s Allotment to hear the tale of Jack O’Kent and the Devil, follow the Devil’s quoit hurled toward the banks of the Severn, and visit the places where he broods over his defeat — the Devil’s Pulpit at Tintern and the Devil’s Chapel at Bream. From Staunton, the “stony settlement,” we trace the landscape’s mythology: the Longstone that bleeds, the Buckstone where druids once initiated, and the underground mines where many a Forester met their fate.
Written, recorded, and produced by: Xena White
Original music composed by: Gabriel Cowan
Additional music: “The Long Dark” by Scott Buckley — released under Creative Commons (CC–BY 4.0)
Poetry and Songs
A Land Between Two Rivers — written by Dick Brice, performed by Janice Lightly
Jack O’ Kent — written by Claire Smart, performed by The Rum Collective, our tipple of choice
The Devil’s Chapel — by F. W. Harvey, read by Jason Griffiths (courtesy of Elaine Jackson and the Estate of F. W. Harvey)
The Mon in White — by Harry Beddington, read by Jason Griffiths (courtesy of the Harry Beddington Estate)
Poets and Readings
Aimee Bee — The Longstone
Celia Harper — Rock
Jane Spray — The Devil’s Chapel
Voice Performances
Margaret Cowan — reading Mary Jenkins’ The Longstone and The Legend of the Buckstone by W. H. Greene
Malk Williams — as the Devil and Jack O’Kent
Fawn Fae — as a historic villager
With thanks to: Melanie Benn, Steve Nott, and Tony Furmage for their stories
Additional sound effects: from the BBC Sound Effects Archive

The Forest of Dean: Lore Stone

An entry for the Torn City 30-second Horror Story Competition (2025).

Sometimes the routine white room of the hospital changes into something you can never leave.

Story & Voiceover: Kok [2316623]

Sound Credits:

"Hospital room ambience with clock, heart beeb and paging" by nixeno (Freesound.org) - Licensed under CC BY 4.0

"Tension/Horror -- Drumbeats" by BraveLittleSpork (Freesound.org) - Licensed under CC0

No Revive

Maybe I'll live to be 85.
10 books a year, so about 850 books. 
85 Christmases
85 New Years
85 Birthdays
85 Calendars

One wife
One daughter
A variety of dogs
1000s of dinners
1000s of sunsets

A fair amount of colds and flu
God knows, a billion breaths?
10 pairs of glasses? 
100 pairs of shoes?
10 or twenty houses, I guess?

200 or so bones,
Then a billion motes of dust,
Then back to eternity I go.
Pfff

A Billion Motes of Dust

The epilogue. C1PH3R-IO declares "System Failure" was an "execution". She states the new reality: "They didn't survive. They EVOLVED". There is now "only the NEW system", ending the "cyberpunk allegory". #Revolution #Evolution #NewSystem #Epilogue

Cipher Chronicles: The Network Archives

Revolution (FIle: 007) (Feat. C1PH3R-IO)

Buy Now!

Revolution (File: 007) (Feat. C1PH3R-IO)

The turning point. C1PH3R-IO detects an "Anomaly" as the 0.03% probability begins rising. She identifies "Network Venom" as the "cure engineered from their conditions" and switches "from observation to participation". #Anomaly #NetworkVenom #SPS #Psychosis #AI

Archive Update (File: 003.5) (Feat. C1PH3R-IO)

Remember The Name (File: FRM-WRK) is the final file and conclusive manifesto of the Cipher Chronicles cyberpunk allegory. The AI narrator, C1PH3R-IO, breaks the fourth wall to deliver the literal blueprint of the 3NIGMA BRED MUSIC Framework. She details the entire service structure (Cipher Syndicate, Echo Nexus, Resonance Chamber, etc.) and declares the core creed: "The purpose is the product and the struggle is the proof".

Remember The Name (File: FRM-WRK) (Feat. C1PH3R-IO

Remember The Name (File: FRM-WRK) (Feat. C1PH3R-IO)

“Doors Don’t Open” is Track 2 of the Years Without Help concept album.
It captures the second stage of the spiral: reaching out for help, getting waitlisted, ignored, redirected, and slowly learning that silence feels safer than rejection.
Alt-R&B with lo-fi trap drums and spoken-word confessional delivery — the moment trust starts breaking.

Content note: explicit language + heavy themes (mental health, isolation, crisis, systemic neglect).

More context: https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2025/04/mental-health-crisis-california-police-response/

Doors Don't Open

Cinematic intro that sets the tone for the entire project. Street ambience, sirens, Waffle House noise, and documentary-style spoken word paint a picture of Jacksonville nights. A short verse lays out the stakes: this is survival, memory, and loyalty to the 904.

904 Forever (Intro)

A spiritual declaration. A frequency transmission. 
“WHO AM I” is Yahsinni speaking from the core of her lineage — 
light, shadow, ancestry, and divine identity.

This is consciousness in motion. 
This is truth in vibration. 
This is Yahsinni In Da House.

WHO AM I (3D Frequency)

À celle qui m’a laissé est une lettre ouverte mise en musique.
Pas un règlement de comptes, pas une chasse aux sorcières : juste ma part de l’histoire.

Spoken word / rap posé sur piano, autour de la rupture, de la dépression qui suit,
des années à porter la maison, et de la sortie de l’histoire sans devenir le bourreau.

Si tu t’es déjà senti effacé du récit, ce morceau est aussi pour toi.

🎼 Musique / texte / interprétation : AELVN
🎬 Clip dispo sur YouTube : 

Merci pour les écoutes, les partages, les commentaires.
Les projets indés comme le mien vivent grâce à ça. 🙏

#AELVN #ACelleQuiMaLaissé #lettreouverte #rapfrancais #spokenword #pianorap #drillmelancolique #rupture #depression #musiqueindé #storytelling

À celle qui m’a laissé

Jericho Records USA – The Story Behind the Sound

Welcome to Jericho Records USA.
This isn’t a traditional label — it’s the archive of a lifetime spent writing, recording, experimenting, breaking rules, and rebuilding myself through music.

The original Jericho Records was an independent label my father started in the 1950s. What you’re hearing here is something new — my continuation of that legacy, shaped by the times, the tools, and the life I’ve lived.

I grew up in a musical home. My father ran the church music ministry, my mother played piano, and I was singing before I could read. Drums at 5. Guitar at 7. Bass. Saxophone. Piano. Songwriting became the way I made sense of the world, and I’ve written close to a thousand songs — with thousands more to come. I later graduated from Full Sail University with a degree in Audio Production, blending old-school recording with modern technology.

You’ll notice the sounds here are diverse. That’s intentional.
I create under different artist names, different styles, different worlds — but the voice behind all of it is mine.

And to be fully transparent:

• Some tracks are traditional studio recordings — real drums, real guitars, real vocals, all performed by me.
• Some tracks blend live instruments, VSTs, and AI-assisted production.
• Some began as my raw guitar or vocal recording and were “covered” or re-interpreted through AI tools.
• Some are fully AI-generated compositions created from my prompts.
• But every song — no matter the method — was written by me and comes from real experiences, real chapters of my life.

AI, to me, is another instrument — another creative partner.
It doesn’t replace my voice or my story; it helps me bring more of it into the world.

Over the years I’ve worked with incredible people, including Dez Dickerson (Prince & The Revolution) and Tim Gaines (Stryper), and I’ve shared stages with bands like Drivin’ N’ Cryin, Corey Taylor, Saving Abel, Hinder, and Avenged Sevenfold. But the journey didn’t end there — it evolved.

Jericho Records USA is where all those chapters live at once:
the human hands, the digital experiments, the scars, the healing, the imagination, and the divine spark that keeps me creating.

If you’re here, I hope you find something that resonates — something that reminds you that music, in any form, is a lifeline.

— Jericho

SOUNDCLOUD ARTIST BIO — YAHSINNI | BOQ ENERGY

Yahsinni is the vessel, BOQ Energy is the current.
Her sound is forged from copper, breath, and divine rhythm —
a fusion of fire and water, soul and science, earth and ether.

Every lyric drips with intentional alchemy — each note a healing vibration,
each beat a reflection of ancestral wisdom awakening in modern form.

“I don’t just sing — I conduct energy.”

As founder of SimplyStonedStore: Sacred Adornments,
Yahsinni crafts wearable prayers — jewelry made to harmonize energy flow,
now mirrored through sonic form as melanated, radiant soundscapes.

Her music is ritual, her voice an element, her aura an instrument.

✴️ Genre: Metaphysical Soul / Mystic R&B / Sound Alchemy
✴️ Vibe: Radiant • Melanated • Breathing
✴️ Mantra: “Where sacred metal meets living frequency.”

— BOQ Energy: The Copper Frequency Awakens. ⚖️

Founder & Digital Multimedia Architect of 3NIGMA BRED MUSIC.
"Empowering the Unseen, Amplifying the Unheard. We are the echoes of the voices that refuse to be silenced."

Xena White is a multispecies audiovisual anthropologist whose work explores entangled ecologies—the relationships weaving together humans, nonhumans, cultures, and environments. She recently completed her master’s degree at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. White is currently a workshop facilitator at the Dean Heritage Centre and is working on an Arts Council–funded project exploring the folklore surrounding the elements of stone and water in the Forest of Dean. She is a member of the London-based visual anthropology collective KONTEKST.

🎙️ Independent storyteller | 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | Voice through survival
I use AI-assisted tools to co-create some of my music and visuals, but every lyric, edit, and emotional heartbeat is mine.

All songs are legally licensed for commercial release. I rewrite, restructure, and remix every line until it reflects real life — mine, and maybe yours too.

This fundraiser supports a long-term mission:
• finishing my next album
• building a multi-year survival album series around real themes happening now
• creating music videos/AI visuals to bring these stories to life
• and producing beginner-friendly courses that help people grow with today’s tech and AI.

I’m not doing this for profit. I’m doing it to help people carry their trauma a little lighter.
If it helps even one person feel less alone in their frustration, grief, or journey… then it was worth creating.

🧠 Music built from survival.
🫀 Songs crafted with truth.
🎥 Visuals to make the stories real.
🤖 Powered by technology. Driven by heart.

Passionné par les rythmes et mélodies que la nature offre, je parcours la campagne depuis plusieurs années à la recherche de nouveaux sons pour enrichir ce langage des émotions qu'est la musique. En tant que musicien pluri-instrumentiste, avide de découvertes et de défis, je m'efforce de titiller les oreilles les plus averties avec des enregistrements naturels et des tableaux mélodiques uniques.

Mon parcours m'a permis de développer une sensibilité particulière pour les sonorités naturelles, que j'intègre harmonieusement dans mes compositions. Chaque morceau est une invitation à un voyage auditif, où les éléments naturels se mêlent aux instruments pour créer des ambiances sonores inédites.

Que vous soyez réalisateur, producteur ou simplement amateur de musique, je suis toujours à la recherche de nouvelles collaborations pour explorer et repousser les limites de la création musicale. N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour discuter de vos projets et de la manière dont nous pourrions ensemble donner vie à vos visions sonores.

Merci de votre visite, et au plaisir de collaborer avec vous !

Passionate about the rhythms and melodies that nature offers, I have been exploring the countryside for several years, searching for new sounds to enrich the emotional language we call music. As a multi-instrumentalist musician, eager for discoveries and challenges, I strive to captivate even the most discerning ears with natural recordings and unique melodic compositions.

My journey has allowed me to develop a special sensitivity to natural sounds, which I seamlessly integrate into my compositions. Each piece is an invitation to an auditory journey, where natural elements blend with instruments to create unprecedented soundscapes.

Whether you are a filmmaker, producer, or simply a music enthusiast, I am always looking for new collaborations to explore and push the boundaries of musical creation. Feel free to contact me to discuss your projects and how we can bring your sonic visions to life together.

Thank you for visiting, and I look forward to collaborating with you!

Music Studio, covering any genre, any kind of artist.

New tracks tagged #word,