So easy to listen to this... frees up the mind to wander... ✨

cool guitar ideas in here... i have always enjoyed your strumming.

It wasn't until I was 61 that I discovered that I could compose with DTM. I was absorbed in composing 120 songs from May 6th this year to today, August 20th. I am delighted to be absorbed in the age of old age and to connect with new people. God may have given me a reward.

Samba 3 Soundcloud first post! 2021 - 08 - 17 1216

The Karma Trees Update: Improved vocal by adding unison lead and bass vocal run. Added bass guitar and two keyboard pads, Lost Reverse and Boarding Area (logic built in) - still to add piano to this build

Back on the chopping block to prep for a collab. Original was human timed so just shared a metronome version as I'm rebuilding the whole track at the mo

https://youtu.be/RqQRARPl5Mw?si=Ufza1cuFP5eqsEjd
Practice Jam if you're bored there!

Full Live Jam to drum machine bonjos:
https://youtu.be/b0xX0EunHSk?si=B7jc13CWLCu9rrXq
With mini rant 😆

Lyrics

I am tree. I got my buddy bees.
We all got roots.
Space time life we see
Through my eyes
New reality

I am a tree
My roots go far
My gravity shows what you are
I am whole
I am me
I am tree

I bend space
I root all time
I am beauty
I am life line
Many friends have roots
They pull like me
In space nightclub we gettin' jiggy
My leaves, they paint the universe
They put your hallow thought in a herse
I am water
Water is me
I am human
Ah karma tree

I am free when minds align
I am new old Buddha kind
I am him
He is me
Alive forever
Truly free

Yes I am a karma tree

A choo choo life
Our train chugs on
Our fuel is solar
We converting that charm
Phenotype of existence
Photosythetic worth
I make you
You nearly make me
Lose the axe
Chainsaws don't see
They repel good future
Mechanical choppers muting heart
Whenever you're ready
We can start
To treat our life as one whole part
I am the moon
Cometh comet
Twin of tuned
Reality sonnet
I am system
I am nebula
We wist One
I am love and existence just met ya

I am Earth
Earth is me
Together we making jiggy gravity

Oooo ahhh oooo ahhh haha haha
You know... I love you
Oooo ahhh oooo ahhh haha haha

~Consider cutting:
"I am free when minds align
We are new old Buddha kind
I am him
He is me
Alive forever
One energy( move this line to mirror verse above)"

Yes I am a karma tree

Seed spiritual sidewinders sipping soul
Musical universal wine tasters
As one system we bend space time
As good intentional behavioral we find
Since we were nurtured by the Nile
Our love and hate has spread far and wide
We create the hate
The rest just love and mate
A truly aware true intelligence state
See city birds...
We oppress them
But they use us
They found feast from waste
Earth balanced with good bird taste
Insulated cities
The pot of gold soon wrapped in green
Photosynthetic system
A big bang to keep clean
Pretty soon we're past this neroli scene
Limited lithium ain't going to fill out dream

Water...
Good sons and daughters
Good Mothers and Fathers
Brothers and Sisters
Friends and digital blisters
Mrs and Misters
His and Hers and Yours and Theirs
Collective compassion we share
Mum, Dad, My Girl, My Lad
This confusion is just a fad
A symptom of the better days ahead
Just like today
We gonna make it the best one we ever had
The only way

K Karma Tree

~Consider Cutting:
"Water...
Good sons and daughters
Good Mothers and Fathers
Brothers and Sisters
Friends and digital blisters
Mrs and Misters
His and Hers and Yours and Theirs
Collective compassion we share
Mum, Dad, My Girl, My Lad
This confusion is just a fad
A symptom of the better days ahead
Just like today
We gonna make it the best one we ever had
The only way"

The Karma Tree
Aw Karma Trees

Oooo ahhh oooo ahhh haha haha
You know... I love you
Oooo ahhh oooo ahhh haha haha

The Karma Trees (Build 2)

in this version I'm just jamming over the first voice recording. I tried to pick all the way with the second guitar. There's some nice rakes to find and a lovely arpeggio developing

the change then is impulsive but should end up a good bridge or expressive outro

Lil spacejam (change transition)

You Tube Jam
https://youtu.be/c_HVIdR2zR8?si=uyZKq6aa-Xxu7Ib6

Lyrics

Give me some jazzy dream
Come on fill my heart
It's an abyss in there for your good clean
Call it storage for making art
Children can learn whats real
If they're lost, Here a soul they'll find
Who lays it all bare for the team
Just to show the truth can still rule our kind

Mirror You Mirror Me
Positive truce or negative need
Let stillness seed and silence show
The less control of others the more you'll know

Observable this Universe
Discernment grows those other views with worth
Each niche can teach
In evolution we reach
Fittest of physical traits
Good bye to that fake behaviour you make

Mirror You Mirror Me
I'm tilting away from your false realities
Let stillness seed this stern nuclear glow
I won't mirror others where fake is all they show

Mirror feed
Be positively free
Stand your ground
Don't be afraid
Defend your friends from weak bullies

It's subtle light funkamental
Shove away the dark
Get a grip on the mental
Be your brightest human light
Make your own new fundamental

Deal dust in night power moth
Let's hug a tree so sayeth this goth
Mirror Free Mirror True
Never fear rips all power from you
It's the tree wrapped arms that bring this glow
Churn that chime
Tree let know

Mirror You
Mirror Me

Mirror You Mirror Me
I'm tilting away from your false realities
Let stillness seed this stern nuclear glow
I won't mirror others where fake is all they show

Mirror Mirror on the wall
Where's that love
Now, for us all
Give us a bit
Hope to enthral
Don't be a glitch   
Our darkness will fall

Mirror Mirror on the wall
We got the love
Our biggest ball
The game is good
Game time for all
Lest scratch that itch
Light, waves, air
Enthral
Mirror Mirror on the wal

This is one peruses how we mirror eachother behaviourally and energetically. Unless we tilt away from less conscientious behaviour it's difficult to not absorb the feelings thrown at you by others and for them visa versa. That's why I call for that positive wave from people so much as the more of us that consciously project positivity the more positive Earth becomes for everyone. Live your own prayers of positive please. I try hard. It's easy to make a song about it but it's visciously hard to live it all the time, but I'll keep trying to get better at it everyday for Earth and my Kids. They deserve it and it could be their only hope at survival . The current & next generations need to finally find that positive human niche collectively or it may be game over for human planet. Earth will move on with new life with or without us. I know which outcome I'd prefer to try and mould.

That's how we wipe out depression, by not creating fear filled realities for our children. Once they start experiencing more and more positive upbringings then they won't need to figure out the fear as they will have transcended being afraid from young and there will be nothing for them to be depressed about.

A bit of Light 🕯️ 

GAA - Gaelic games in Ireland involves two sports. Gaelic Football & Hurling. For the last while the GAA has established itself in Palestine. It's a beautiful bit of light for me & they love it apparently. There was meant to be a delegation coming to Ireland from the West Bank over the coming days but red tape has stopped it. Here's hoping they get to where that bit of light was born and they can continue to amplify and expand it for themselves. Love you Palestine 🫡🔆

The struggle
https://youtu.be/z0jPYvauusA?si=YojB6DRUwO98I4DN

Another roadblock
http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0716/1523766-gaa-palestine-visa/

But we will always sing, play and call the names of our Palestinian brothers and sisters because they need our love now and forever like we need theirs

This song isn't directly about the middle east but for us all that is top of the list as the negative scourge on our reality so let's project all the positivity we can towards the people there and maybe it will help a little bit.

Mirror You Mirror Me

Tempo 111 BPM
Timing 5/4 (10 beats per line in Papa's metric)


On Writing Poetry

To walk along the mystic road of dreams
And catch some fleeting echoes from the past
Or search the memory abyss for inspiration
And capture those twilight memories fading fast.
To lean awhile upon the fence of time
And ask some abstract notions to remain
Or drift along those eery doldrum ways
And draw the blinds on sanity and pain.
To gather up poetic streams of thought
From valleys of echantment and of tears
And flow them like one great Atlantic tide
To cleanse the mind of miseries and fears.
To rest a time upon the rock of myth
And forget for now the cruelty and the pain
That in our daily news we hear about
But never can console or loose the chain

Written by Bill Stapleton ~ 13th July 1979




This is the 12th instalment in the project for turning Papas poems into songs.

All Papa Poems to Songs here:
Listen to 🧓🏼Papa's Poems ▶️ Songs ♾️, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/LKKd9jJbfyOo7SmBZo


I'm hesitant to add to Papa's perfect summary of it being easier to explain poetry with a poem. I do agree with what I understand so far from his words. It truly is a subconscious practice. This is another wonderful pre AI opinion which appreciated the feeling and the subconscious thought flow you find true poetry in. A machine can never feed you your subconscious thoughts. A machine cannot deliver the practice and focus you need to tap that subconscious consistently. Only time and your mind, body & spirit can do that

🧓🏼On Writing Poetry

Hello & thank you for checking out Emergence

Music video is here:
https://youtu.be/gydlz4ddQzk

Lyrics

Emergence, one consciousness leant
Merged, no imitation meant
Emergence, one consciousness leant
Intention sent

What do we see?
How do we do?
Resurgence like Sea
Deliver that proof
Pure positivity
Cation of conscionable use
What do we see?
How do we do?

Self control be mindset of the soul
The Spirits come clean
Good neurodiagram unfolds

Emergence, one consciousness leant
Merged, no imitation meant, Intention sent
Be Real, Be Love, Be Now
Be Water, Be life, See how

Emergence, Cationed ionization of sense
Emerged, no limitation of tense. Presence
Be Water, Be Life, See how
Be Real, Be Love, Be Now

Resurgence - Neurodivergent
Stringed theory notions - Soulful lotions
Moisturize your mind - Make real human kind
This we find when now and forever holds one timeline

Oh self control be mindset of the soul
Good Spirits come clean
Good neurodiagram unfolds
Yeah!

What do we see?
How do we do?
Be free


Emergence. Our humanity. Humans being humane... It's actually quite a selfish term when you reflect on what we mean for evolution up to this point. We are the first known beings that can reason their full existence and we have become that destroyer of natural selection from before we existed even though we have the ability to reflect on the importance of all those niches to the system itself.

This is very dangerous as we are not only affecting the climate but it looks like the balanced web of life that has built up slowly through billions of years allowing humans exist.

Gaia theory suggest that harmony and connection with everything is the way forward. We do this through endeavouring to understand this place properly and appreciation for everything. I believe in connecting with everything neuroplasticity can take over and rewire our brains to the system and a path on the greater good for all life. We need this to emerge collectively for it to flourish and become that positive beacon the present and future needs... The signs are there and we are analogies for the larger system. Just like a fake human forest is comparable but has no where near the strength of one that took millions of years and started as an amoeba... Don't insult the idea of the greater good being some confusing God wrapped thing you don't have to worry about being an atheist or agnostic. It's the greater good for a snail or you or a blade of grass and has nothing to do with anything we don't understand now.

Sending Love, Light and all good intentions to everyone.

From Sarah and Carl

One Fresh Start

Emergence

Hello and thank you for checking out Exo

Music video here:
https://youtu.be/xJY2mf41ZlE

Lyrics

Time to test time
Flow in rhyme
Exo makes jail for mind matter mine
Intuitive thought
Instinctual
No messy thoughts
Divine deliverance
Placebo proof
Chooses truths
No lies emerge when this mode is heard
Thoughts are herd, interferance
The muted one won't see that reverence
Ever present of presence
At one with the mammoth
Still alive as mutated carrot

See, I am everything
So flow chooses to bring
Standing waves for sin
Handing haze the bin
The rubbish of man
No fake thinking
It's Spirit
It's Soul
It's need for good role
It's time that we saw new pathway,
New God
It's me
It's you
It's hill of trees
Truth

We see
We do
It's for new youth
It's retention
Ascension towards my younger proof
It's real want to mute the spoof
Ryhme to test ryhme
Flow divine
We are the whole Earth
It's finally lassoed from both sides
Simultaneous prize
Just by beings alive

~Soothe~

Cometh conduit
Let's dive
Earth's cored connection is live,
Thrive holding hive,
Now is live to survive,
Drive new alive


Love, Light and good intentions to you

From

Sarah & Carl

Hello and thank you for checking out Teflon Aura

Music video Here:
https://youtu.be/q4sO1H0eeRs

Lyrics

Breathe…
Release…
Seed your relief
Call the flora and fauna
Enthral that teflon aura

It’s permeable
Your filter, control
The search is on to protect that soul
The engine is heart
It’s serviced by art
Human creation
Game, we can all play our part

Breathe…
Release…
Seed your relief
Call the flora and fauna
Enthral that teflon aura

A Teflon Aura. Water off a ducks back. In this song we imagine both positivity and negativity as something educated human beings can control. A semi permeable membrane that we control the flow of information through.

The flavour is a wish for people, including ourselves to be able to control ourselves, our feelings and the feelings we choose to project and reflect to and from other people and animals. We really do control that energy transfer and believe the planet will be better served when we are collectively an observational race of beings that have control of ourselves and leave the door always open for other people to learn from us and for us to learn from them in a positive light.

Love, Light and good intentions to you

From

Sarah and Carl

Teflon Aura

This is the first collaboration between artist Kinelle Man and TBD.

Kinelle Man is brilliant in both visual arts and in painting sound. You can find him here ...

Check out kinelle man on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/v4ZFYJUKti9uO6hbFU

This track also includes fabulous trumpet from this artist
Listen to 81 Miles Via Hulme, an album by Kevin G. Davy on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/Rfaju7os4MUANtvT2t

The track artwork is the world map beside TBD's studio desk and an art piece by his best friend from 25 years ago. The image is actually a miniturised toy soldier and for us represents perfectly the false realities being thrown at everyone to create that fog of war. It's an American soldier so that too shows the military machine that's actually at play here as all the weapons of this aggression and genocide we are seeing come from across the Atlanic.

May all the people in the area find peace and may the killing stop please 🌍 That's what this blue ball wants!


Lyrics

Too spooky
Real
Melted steel
Such pain
No feel
Not coin finds meal

Genocide
Murder
Hatred brewed further
Extreme
Obscene
No more!

Open the door
'Aid to score
Stand down your army
Come kiss stone of Blarney

Repent now evil Zion
Yourselves you are deceiving as you lie on

Lies upon lies upon lies

Ghosts of Gaza, Leave
Ghosts of Gaza, Please
Ghosts of Gaza, Leave....

Ghosts of Gaza

The Beautiful Dark is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and poet, who i find inspirational, the real deal (tho he'd be embarrased at me saying that..lol.)
A true artist and very humble guy, whose music/poetry can be found at
https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark

Featuring trumpets by Kevin G Davy, a member of the band Cymande, we made an lp together with Sonskrif, few years ago.. https://soundcloud.com/kevingdavy/sets/81-miles-via-hulme

https://soundcloud.com/search?q=SONSKRIF

The track artwork is the world map beside TBD's studio desk and an art piece by my best friend from 25 years ago. The image is actually a miniturised toy soldier and for us represents perfectly the false realities been thrown at everyone to create that fog of war. It's an American soldier so that too shows the military machine that's actually at play here as all the weapons of this aggression and genocide we are seeing come from across the Atlanic.

May all the people in the area find peace and may the killing stop please 🌍 That's what this blue ball wants! "

Lyrics

Too spooky
Real
Melted steel
Such pain
No feel
Not coin finds meal

Genocide
Murder
Hatred brewed further
Extreme
Obscene
No more!

Open the door
'Aid to score
Stand down your army
Come kiss stone of Blarney

Repent now evil Zion
Yourselves you are deceiving as you lie on

Lies upon lies upon lies

Ghosts of Gaza, Leave
Ghosts of Gaza, Please
Ghosts of Gaza, Leave....

The Beautiful Dark .. Kinelle man .. Ghosts of Gaza

Fill ideas

maybe build some strings and then re sing it. might make it less monotonous and we can avoid a key change

piano should compliment the guitar nicely try and mirror it

those drums need bass

The Darkening Cloud

Howdy Friends,

This is somewhere to put tunes when other tracks are getting digested 🤘🏽A digestion period is something I never give people so I think it's time to try it. I feel when collaborating with large groups of musicians my routine of daily uploads takes the shine off those shares so this profile was born from wanting to deliver that period but still fullful my desire to share everything as it comes to light. In the short term his will likely lessen my play count which I don't mind because this is about making TBD bigger and more financially successful in the future so experimenting with presentation should be worth it.  I think this should show an evolution to TBD's organic following better and I won't be bombarding everyone with a confusing amount of material like currently happens on the main account.
This also expands my desire to share more detail on the process and teach it more. Because I know I'm not pushing everything to everyone it will feel a bit better sharing thoughts and long jams here and will still be a door open for whoever might want to connect to that. I'll follow back genuine people here but I think I will avoid seeking people out from this page as again that should give a better outline of the reality of my music and how organic it is actually becoming for people and remove a bit of the SoundCloud routine from the mix. All going well I can upgrade this profile to artist pro and maybe endeavour to cover a sub with it and move passed the 120min limit of a free profile. Rock and Real to everyone.

Love ya all,

Carl

Lil spacejam (change transition)

The Beautiful Dark - Demos

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