Social Fabric -- Collaborations!

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Subterranean

Bright Nights, Dim Days

The Quest for the Holy Dumpling is the second concept album from the Smoking Trout, a SoundCloud collaborative band started by me, Stonerjazz (Jeff), and Uziel in 2021. We build these albums by releasing one song at a time, so the story is a work-in-progress. This is the first track on the new album to contain words/lyrics so it's really kind of launching a new tale that we'll continue to develop over the next year or who knows how long! In addition to Jeff and Uziel, we were fortunate to be joined by TexMexShaman (Stephen) and Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Jo Richter). For me, this was a really rewarding collaboration and perhaps one of my favorite tracks I've been involved with. Thank you so much to all who contributed. See below for more detailed credits (in chronological order of when each person contributed to the track) and to read Jeff's fantastic lyrics.

If you're interested you can find our first completed album, the Land of Zed by going to the 'albums' tab on my page or by looking up 'the smoking trout' on BandCamp. 

Stonerjazz (Jeff) @user-911083679 
Lyrics, Lead vocals, bass, and cowbell percussion

Tea R. Sea (Terry) @tea_are_sea 
Synthesizers, quirky percussion hits, production

Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Jo) @sonic-textures
Additional drums and percussion, especially on second half

TexMex Shaman (Stephen)@texmex-shaman
Guitar

Uziel @user-455619833 contributed
Background vocals, fluttering and modulated clarinet sounds 


lyrics:

you may have heard the creaking noise and tiny footsteps n the darkened corridors
that stretch to the southern boundaries of the unpolluted parts
where souls are living with total disregard for the nature of the Holy Dumpling
floating on the cosmic stew that simmers horizontally to your soul ln your heart

Traveling with the HOBO CYBERPUNKS, l learn a thing or two from the leader of the band Cosmic Stu who n a wild tangent and a Rant, described a different spot
a flthy plot, lnvaded by tribe of bots, who stank of superficiality
an opportunity that he lost

The teachers teach ln empty auditoriums to pupils lost ln 4 inch screens
sequestered ln squalid scenes, that go unnoticed as useless lnformaton ls gobbled up and gobbled down ln every home and every town
Put the monster down and walk away He sald
lron John ls not afraid of the queen
and even though the prlnce ls doomed
the purpose doesn't change

let me introduce you to some members of the band
there's Sally and Roberta who play the clarinet with beauty and with Grace
who plays the violin and Viola who makes the Djembe
bounce around the brain
with subliminal referrels to her pleasure and her paln
The horns are played by the twlns
Maurece and Nostradamus, their trumpeting sublime

the accordlan of course ls played by Johnny who you might remember from the land of Zed, He did eventually get out of bed and sald
Ths reminds me of a time when thngs were real and l could feel the rope of
hope wrapped firmly around and round my throat
before l knew the truth about the Lle
before l knew the meaning of goodbye

Now Stu he claimed to know or knew the whereabouts of the holy condiment that grew only
just outside his windowsill (and was essential to the Dumpling's flavor)
where he lived ln another life with Mary-Ann his ex-wife
who left hm for a guy named Sid who was a maestro on guitar
and had a band that traveled wide and far
including Mary Ann, and Larry too

Looking for that very thing
Hoping for just one bite
of that heavenly delight
before the turning of the light

The Holy Dumpling (Smoking Trout #2) w/ STONERJAZZ, TexMex Shaman, Uziel, Jo Richter

Stephen a.k.a. @texmex-shaman and I have worked on some epic multi-artist collab tracks before (like The Holy Dumpling), but this is the first time that just the two of us have worked together. I came up with the beat and synths and because of the dubby kind of style I thought it was just dying for some guitars. I was stoked that Stephen agreed to take a run at this and even more so after hearing the results! The mixing on this one is a joint effort too.

Watered Down - w/ TexMex Shaman

A big thank you to Jo Richter @sonic-textures for offering up this inspiring open collaboration poem! His recording, also quite strange and experimental, can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/the-passing-crave-voice-effects

The rhythmic background in my track was created by taking Jo's recording and chopping it up into fragments, then running it through a sample arpeggiator using an app called Samplr. Jo's recording is also used in the backward tape effect at the beginning and end, also created with Samplr. 

To further experiment with tape manipulation effects I did my own reading of the poem, then snipped the vocals into fragments and pitch-shifted them, this time using the Abu Dhabi dynamic loop slicer in Korg Gadget. Of course I also layered on some synth and keys (arturia microfreak, minilogue xd). Quite a different approach for me on this one, but it all came together surprisingly quickly considering the relative complexity. I hope to experiment with similar techniques going forward, I'm finding it fun to work with poetry and spoken word, so am definitely open to more collaborations that go in this direction!

Lyrics copyright Jo Richter (Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches)

the day slopes
down the hill
his residence rests on

the clouds in his gaze
match the clouds in the sky
as the winds gently shape them

he has a slow meal
within shifting structures 
of people who rush by

stopped at a corner
he sees squatters evicted
from ivory lodgings

matching his steps
to the patterns of stones
he rewrites the pavement

past the outskirts of town
he watches a beetle
scuttle along a fencepost

he walks past the tree
he has been dreaming of
for ten years in a row now

in liquified air
this moment freezes
unseeing his life

The Passing: Fragmentary Mix - w/ Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Poem by Jo Richter)

This is just the second time that @texmex-shaman / Stephen and I have worked together one-on-one. We are really liking what happens when we combine our efforts! This piece came together pretty quickly, it was co-produced by the two of us with Stephen doing a lot of the heavy lifting toward the end, and producing the final mix. As you might expect I am on synth (and drumbeat) and he is on guitar. We were really having fun with all these wild sounds, and amusingly the weirdness of this track seems to have broken SC's genre suggesting AI: when we first uploaded one of the later mixes SoundCloud actually suggested all of the genres that are tagged below haha. I've never seen such a range and variety in the auto-suggestion... Thanks for listening!

Clouds Dissolve -  w/ TexMex Shaman

Wandering Mind

This is the third track I've worked on in the Departure series of experimental poetry readings, inspired by a set of 13 cantos written by Jo Richter a.k.a. Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches @sonic-structures. 

Jeff -- Stonerjazz/ @user-911083679 -- took Jo's reading and added his own reading plus a little bit of bass and drums. I thought the direction he took it in was delightfully weird so tried to play that up by adding more percussion, and a melodic lead that sounds a bit like electric guitar but is actually a synth plugin with tons of saturation and effects layered on. 

This was another unique experience with a couple of wild and unique artistic explorers! Thanks for the journey guys!

Art by Stonerjazz

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Departure:
canto VIII (poetry copyright Jo Richter)

What goes around: Unless familiar minds adopt
a major work of art, it cannot be recognized,
not even by the finely tuned, academic apparatus
of the scholarly persuasion. It longs to be gently
directed out of obscurity by intimate alignment.
It unequivocally needs to be claimed by readers,
by listeners, and by those who take it to their hearts
and minds. Then, only then, it comes around.


Most poets, though, feel little inclination
to join the showy, self-assertive blaze of what
the market forces call a fair. There is a dis-
connect within the meanings held within this term.
He remembers public events pertaining to focus on
poetry that only captured the self-congratulatory
sensations of those who spoke the welcomes and
thus abused the art to elevate themselves.


In Schlegel, in Schiller and in Borges, he tried to
find the remedy to reconcile this rift, but
neither understanding nor play nor underlaying fantasy
would overcome that star-crossed constellation
that casts a valley made of shadows between the
divergent meanings of such a simple word as fair.
If those he spoke to found beauty only in the advance-
ment of their social fortunes, nothing could be saved.


Of course, he drifted off the course his art
demanded. He tried to quiet down the insurgent
poetry that sought expression through his puny
skills. This very nearly drove him to seek refuge
at the place ineptly called asylum which gathers all
the muted voices in wanton seclusion. Spiteful, he
wrote once again trying to outline all hope that
remained for aesthetic rigour and beauty to survive.


Eventually, he gave in and all his art served
but for one end: to represent the conundrum of
his being who he is within a stoic pattern of
existence he could not but accept. He wrote
for stones, for plants, for lakes, and for hills that
listened more intensely than his fellow men. He starved
for lack of response but refrained from complaining.
That‘s when he first came ‘round, beheld the spire.

Insurgent Poetry (Departure: Canto VIII) - w/ Stonerjazz and Jo Richter

This is the third one-on-one collaboration from me and @texmex-shaman , I think Stephen and I make such a good creative team, have loved working with him! I had been holding onto this track for some time because I felt it was missing something. Finally sent it to Stephen and he immediately could imagine guitar played with an e-bow weaving in and out. He absolutely nailed the vibe that I was going for, I think his part perfectly builds on the mood that I'd been trying to develop. Hope you will also enjoy giving it a listen!

Space Face -  w/ TexMex Shaman

Future Shock

The Smoking Trout is a SoundCloud collaborative band that released the LAND of ZED concept album in 2021-2022: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/land-of-the-zed ... and is now developing this new work-in-progress follow-up project, the QUEST for the HOLY DUMPLING: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/quest-for-the-holy-dumpling 

The SMOKING TROUT is:

Stonerjazz (Jeff) -- Vocals, lyrics, concept/story ... @user-911083679 
Uziel -- vocals, special effects and production magic during end section ... @user-455619833 
TexMex Shaman (Stephen)-- guitar and artwork ... @texmex-shaman
Sonic Structure and Silent Stretches (Jo)-- lyrics/poem and orchestral soundscape ... @sonic-textures
Tea R. Sea (Terry)-- drums & bass, synth, production ... @tea-are-sea

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Lyrics, by Stonerjazz and Jo Richter

I just wanted to get out of the house for a day or two
I got my little backpack out of the closet
and put It on
put my thumb out on the road
and I was gone
And the next thing that I know
I'm standing In the middle of new Mexico
one thousand miles and two months down the line
Along a two lane blacktop ln the desert sun-
A bus A bus
with a destination of infinity
comes by and stops right ln front of me
and as l board, l begin to spout a verse of poetry that l know nothing about
and lt does not belong to me 
ln someone else's voice
l did not seem to have a choice--
(The poem, by Jo Rlchter)
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To feed the foodless
you require fire
but how do you nourish 
those wanting a mind of their own?
do you mess up their lives
with Olympian lre
or serve them a dish
of the altered kind-
The old one who spoke made pause dramatic
then asked the question
ln a very low voice
or would you invoke
an old myth cathartic
to force into action
To colour each cholce
The divine assembly
all nodded their chins
and sald "Sanat Kumara"
you've got what lt takes
We'll teach some Hag ln Albuquerque
The ropes of how the dumplings begins
and these guys will come from near and far
to taste the wondrous dish she makes
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Stu sald: Turn this Bus around
we're Albuquerque Bound
This guy just sald
there's a dumpling cooking ln that town
You may ask why some of us are looking for another paradigm
Trying to stop the world for just a moment
searching quietly as l think
Pessimism ls completely underrated
lt's lt's own worst enemy
as emotions go
There's just the wind ln the windows
Remlnlcent of distant overlapping chatter
of souls that came before and after
as we're all staring ln disbelief 
at the panorama through the Stink

New Mexico (HOLY DUMPLING #5) by the Smoking Trout: Stonerjazz, Uziel, TexMex Shaman, & Jo

Here is another track making heavy use of my favorite synth, the Minilogue XD

As Far as the Eye Can See

Very happy to present my first collaboration with @storm_0101101 !!

Always fun to make a new SoundCloud connection, and I hope there will be more to come from the two of us. This was a really fun blend of styles, and Storm,,'s production chops are awesome -- he gets full credit for the final mix here, produced after I sent him some beat and melody stems.

Eternal Delight - Storm,, & Tea R. Sea

@texmex-shaman and I are making a regular habit out of collaborating, and I really dig the strange fusion of sounds we are concocting! I feel like his more organic guitar element is the missing ingredient to my electro melodies and beats. Hope you'll enjoy listening to this one as much as we did making it.

The Buzzness - w/ TexMex Shaman

Chartreuse Juice

Sun Reflections

I came up with this weird jazzy beat and sent it to my good friend STONERJAZZ @user-911083679. He added these incredible vocals and took the whole thing to a completely different level... wow 

Thanks Jeff for another fantastic collaboration!

Lyrics:

What was lt ln that day
That turned away so arrogantly
While leaves twisted and glared
obviously Angry
and repulsed by the very Air
lt's not the way my Mother said that Trees would be

Sitting ln the garden ln the early morning hours
while the cows are sleeping soundly ln the meadow cross the roadway
Against his leg, his dog Moon ls leaning
While he's waiting, all aquiver, for the whistle
that signifies the starting of the workday

Drinking Coffee, Thick black and steaming
contemplating nothing but the quiet swirling
of the smoke that's curling
ln the stillness of the moment
from the cigarette that's burning brightly
ln the darkness that he's smoking

Even as l think lt
knowing that lt's futile
hoping for a resurrection
of the love that left me
ln the labyrinth of the brokenhearted
while the monster slumbers ln the featherbed
savoring lt's self inflicted wounds
and dreaming of Revenge

Digital Molasses - w/ Stonerjazz

This song has such a rocking drum part that I thought some guitar would be the perfect addition, so invited @TexMex-Shaman to work with me on it. This will be the 5th one-on-one collab we've put together... maybe building up to an album or an EP one of these days. Here is Stephen's playlist of previous tracks from the two of us: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

This one was a bit of a challenge since there is so much going on but fun to work on, and I we eventually got it dialed in to where we wanted it. Thanks for listening!

In the Thick of It - w/ TexMex Shaman

I was feeling particularly inspired working on this one. It's probably one of my favorites of the solo tracks I've done lately. After making this odd song structure that feels to me like it has three distinct movements, I heard someone reference the idea of a triptych, a picture or artwork displayed on three panels. The word was new to me and I thought it was kind of a fitting title. Thanks for listening friends!

Triptych

This is my second collab with @mralchemy , I love his sound and style, check out his cool productions and thought inspiring hip hop from Australia if you haven't had the chance yet. He and his son both worked on this one with me, I think it turned out great!

At the Root of It All - w/ Mr. Alchemy

The Smoking Trout collaborative is back with another installment in the story of the Quest for the Holy Dumpling! On this one, me, Jeff, Uziel, and Stephen are joined by Tot for the first time. He sent us an awesome beat to serve as the rhythmic backbone to this new song. Then Stephen totally funkified it with guitar, Uziel gave a stellar performance on vocals with some original lyrics, and Jeff and I contributed just the right amount of weirdness. Hope you will enjoy!

* Uziel @user-455619833 -- Vocals, Lyrics, and Vocal Production

* TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman -- Bass & Lead/Rhythm Guitar funkiness

* Stonerjazz @user-911083679 -- Modulated Guitar & Vocaloid melodies

* Tot - @tot-beat -- Beat & Drums

* Tea R. Sea -- Synth, Sound Effects & Production

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Catch up with the first 5 tracks of our work-in-progress concept album, Quest for the Holy Dumpling: https://on.soundcloud.com/FR63a

Listen to the Smoking Trout's first album, The Land of Zed (2021-2022): https://on.soundcloud.com/WB34q
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Lyrics:

All those normal little things... pass us by, pass ussssssss
mirage of migrant, trucks full of food tiny boutiques nose up looking down
street dancers, performers, the arts little stalls selling fruit

and the bus tumbles through

HOWEVER GUS, You remember Gus? The driver of this bus...
Regretfully informs us that our engine food is at the edge of E, and the only thing we'll be running on soon is fumes

And as we approach, We can hear
A dusty massive heart beating city industry eldritch being and foreboding
Sitting atop his sky scrapers gloating
"Hungry enough yet?" It's beastly maw cries! "It's 10 for 5 and the price only went up 6.7%
Nothing to you, you're worker bees and you can make more honey, can't you?"

While yes that's true
We are the life blood that flow through
But people like me and you
Can't afford it

Fortune cookie flavor our journey
It's the last I got
I'm looking for the old woman
The gate keeper to the other side
Where we have the wholly divide
Away from this hellish relish
And Instead:
Dumpling soup, dumpling plump, fried in foie gras butter perhaps?
Holy condiment burns through fiery on your Thai chili adjusted tongue,

BUT THAT'S JUST ME! It tastes different for everyone

"OH, I can't help it!

We are all starving, the bus is outta' gas, and spewing smoke, Gus is cussing up a storm, Roberta's lighting up her last swiff... I think Larry's getting water?... but we're all outta food"
said Jimmy to Sally and Stu

All digging through our pockets to get the last crumb or two
Looking forward to what we have to share
But it looks like
It's not a lot

Dumpling Stew (Smoking Trout's HOLY DUMPLING #6) w/ Uziel, Stonerjazz, TexMex Shaman & Tot

Hope Against Hope

Anachronic

This is my remix of a track from @archmageband2 called Workplace Challenges. It's my first time working with Rob Ulysses (@rob-ulysses) and Masha Solo (@masha-solo).

I built on the theme and concept that they had developed, but took this mix in a slightly different direction compared with their original piece which I hope you will be interested to also check out:
https://soundcloud.com/archmageband2/workplace-challenges-instrumental

I think my version here has maybe a bit of a darker vibe to it.

 It's been fun working with some new collaborators. We have more music in the works, so stay tuned!

Occupational Hazard - w/ Archmage Band

Stephen (@texmex-shaman) and I are back at it with another fun collaborative jam that we are happy to share with you! 

This is another addition to our growing Texas Tea playlist that may turn into a full album: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/texas-tea-sea

Always a blast when we work together, the production process is a very collaborative experience that I think we contribute about equally to.

True Story w/ TexMex Shaman

Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches a.k.a. Jo Richter (@sonic-textures) wrote a series of 13 poems or cantos collectively titled Departure. He shared the texts with me, Stonerjazz, and Re-Evolution Cafe Orchestra and we have been working on the project of bringing them alive with music and soundscapes. We are hoping more SC artists will join us! Please reach out if you're interested in doing a reading. Check out the full playlist of Cantos so far here: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/departure-a-long-poem-in

On this track, the poem is read by Jo. He also created much of the soundscape. I contributed the bassier and more synthetic sounding parts.

poem / copyright jo richter

How long he stayed, he could not tell.
He worked ferociously, sounding all
existence that had touched upon him into
being: the smell of meadows, the curl of
ripples, the calm that centers in a storm;
the timbre of voices, the straight lines of buildings,
the aloofness of announcers on the radio.
His desk was cluttered, his mind strove clear.

When he did not write, he‘d read up on
the origins of his ancient art: Vergil and Dante,
Marlow and Shakespeare, Homer and Joyce,
Ovidus, Cervantes, Rabelais and Wieland.
He felt the linguistic seeds, blown from foreign
stems, grow filaments deep in his native soil, he
saw them ripen, flower profusely, yielding
their beauty to ever-changing mentalities.

And as his insight widened and he gained
perspective, the rows of encyclopedias
and dictionaries that lined his shelves
slimmed down, as he gave up consulting
English for French and German, these for
Latin and Greek, those for Persian and Sanskrit,
until he only referred to Indo-European roots.
His desk turned clear, his mind became uncluttered.

Eventually, he also slept and dreamt
whenever the veil sank upon him.
Guarded by the spire‘s safe walls, he would
awaken slowly, remembering outlandish
lore, scribbling notes and poems of bizarre
truthfulness and penning recollections of his
archetypal ties. Some of his realistic verse de-
rived from fragments of prolonged poetic trance.

His muse meanwhile taught him to cook, the
art of mixing individual ingredients to bring about
a taste all of its own that nourishes both mind and
physicality. The painters tend to fixate on surface
and colour, she said, the musicians on timing
the process, whereas the poets never get anything
done, enchanted by words like ‚ginger‘ or ‚yeast‘.
All of their dishes taste awful.

Departure: Canto IV w/ sonic structures and silent stretches

Moonwax

It's been nearly a year since I posted my first open collaboration, Earth and Sky. I've been meaning to give it another try and decided this experimental industrial downtempo piece would make an interesting offering to see if anyone might be inspired to adapt or remix? I'm dusting off the old Korg Volca Drum that I used on tons of tracks last year but haven't incorporated into any recent stuff in a while.

Stems can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12b2biJGg5dL2gATthvgI6CXVbzxxw8-x?usp=sharing

And we've got at least one response, woohoo! Here is a playlist that I will continue adding to: https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/social-fabric-collaborations

Please message me and let me know what you come up with if you decide to work with this one. Thanks and happy experimenting!

111 BPM and the key is more or less in A minor.

Social Fabric (Open Collaboration)

Lunar Language

From @tea_are_sea open collab https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/social-fabric

Tea Are Sea - Social Fabric (a scribal coif) | EnigmaCurry

Original
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/social-fabric

Tea R. Sea - Social Fabric (noxpox RMX)

Collab w the great @Tea_are_sea (source tracks)

FREE DOWNLOADS ENABLED

PS Perkins of Mystic Tape Deck: Lyrics, Guitar, Robot Drums, Slice n Dicer, Salad Spinner, Snuggling Bears, Toenail Creams

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Soundless syllables tumble from clacking keyboards
No breath behind them, no flapping meat of tongue
No hiss of air squirting through saliva moistened glands
Words hurled into the ether, never piercing air
Just a void of space between screen and brain
And endless war, all around us human suffering
Rattling guns spraying hot globs of lethal loathing
Led by lecherous liars, far removed in boardrooms
Rolling across their polished marble floors 
In luxurious leather chairs
Sprays of spittle, squabbling over jagged graphs
Submerged in sticky syrups 
Selling toenail creams
Stain removers, starchy stiffeners, snuggling bears
Glitter ponies gliding through morning scented meadows
Where the wallet fruit hang ripe, heavy and sweet with sap
Honey dripping from their checkbooks
Self appointed, self anointed deities, hidden dealers of death
Life affirming, fate confirming algorithmic determinations
Bloated words, puffy and gaseous, 
Farting out of flaring mouths
Exhaust pipes roaring, belching blackened clouds
The song of industry now ineludible, vibrational prisons
Noxious noise where a hundred years ago there was silence
Murmuring melodies of malodorous murder machines
Something to sell you, something to tell you
Coins to jingle gently in your pocket
As gluttonous gobs drip with drool
Leaving slobbery stains and muddy smears
Ground into the social fabric
By the twisting intemperate heels
Of four thousand dollar shoes

Tea R Sea: Social Fabric / PS Perkins: Four Thousand Dollar Shoes

Until this week I hadn't released any tracks with @noxpox13 but now we have exchanged open collab responses, so putting two tracks out into the world just recently! 

I loved the vibe of his Dreaming ov Moonrocks open collab so started working on it while also sharing with him my Social Fabric open collab. Listen to his take on my track here: https://soundcloud.com/noxpox13/tea-r-sea-social-fabric-noxpox-rmx

Noxpox - Dreamin Ov Moonrocks (TRC Remix)

Vox & Lyrics - RayKoefoed
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/1245/the-sum-of-a-body-by-raykoefoed-77bpm-industrial-acapella
Artist - https://www.youtube.com/@RayKoefoed
Music - https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/social-fabric
Artist - https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum & Sax Programming
Special Thanks to my collaborators

Tea R. Sea - Social Fabric (Open Collab) Raykoefoed - The - Sum - Of - A-body (looperman)

The Smoking Trout collaborative's Quest for the Holy Dumpling, episode 7 finds our traveling band of protagonists hitting on some good luck after we left them 'out of food and out of gas' at the end of the last installment.

This is the first track in this work-in-progress concept album initiated by me coming up with a beat and synth score as step 1. Then Jeff added some fantastic vocals and Stephen brought in a killer guitar groove. We always have tons of fun making these, hope you will enjoy listening as well!

* Stonerjazz @user-911083679 -- Vocals & Lyrics, vocal effects
* TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman -- Lead & Rhythm Guitar, guitar effects
* Tea R. Sea -- Synth, Beat, & Production

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Catch up with the first 6 tracks of our work-in-progress concept album, Quest for the Holy Dumpling: https://on.soundcloud.com/FR63a

Listen to the Smoking Trout's first album, The Land of Zed (2021-2022): https://on.soundcloud.com/WB34q
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Lyrics:

Sally ls a hero, found a hundred dollar bill and a sack of Skittles
ln between the Cuchens of the couch-
Sid and MaryAnn are at the local bloodbank
peddling pints of plasma
for fifty bucks a pop-
Maurice and Nostradamus are at the western Union
picking up three hundred dollars
from their grandma ln Tacoma

Gus ls working on the Bus
ln the episcopalian Parklng lot
and even got two hundred dollars from the congregation-
Stu he's got a Visa card which he never uses
Ubered over to the lucky Ladles where he's playing black jack
hoping for a Major Parlay--Hoping for a major Parlay-----

Larry and Roberta, while beggin for some buckshees
and playln muslc on the corner at the farmers market
met a Sufi sitting on the sidewalk
serenely spouting scripture from the 
Transcendental Dharma of the Holy Dumpling

Along with baking soda, salt, wheat and water
A heavy leavening of love ls required ln the making--
and some mushrooms only growing ln Oaxaca
lf you wanna make that dumpling, she sald
you're gonna have to go
To Mexico

A Major Parlay (Smoking Trout's HOLY DUMPLING #7) w/ Stonerjazz & TexMex Shaman

https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/social-fabric

Another artist who loves the Volca Drum and Microfreak!  This is part of an open collab with Tea R. Sea on the track SOCIAL FABRIC.  I used the Microfreak for sample "crowd noise" and a new Volca Drum freestyle under the beats.

Tea R. Sea - Social Fabric (Desecrator Of Dunwich Mix) Open Collaboration

Hello! On this page you'll find my solo and collab tunes plus music from the collaborative SoundCloud band, The Smoking Trout.

Genre influences include electronic, downtempo, lofi, experimental, rock, blues, indie, prog, post rock, ambient, synthwave, trip hop, and hip hop. I make tracks primarily with Cubasis and Korg Gadget (iOS); Ableton Live; Korg and Moog softsynths, Volca Drum, Minilogue XD, Arturia Microfreak, and Vital, along with a variety of ipad and vst instruments with FabFilter Pro mixing tools.

Hope you will check out some of my collaborators!

@user-911083679 - STONERJAZZ
@user-455619833 - Uziel
@texmex-shaman
@sonic-textures
@grevusanjl
@dubman-9
@enigmacurry
@cerulean_ascent
@winkandwoo
@mralchemy
@dough-factory
@jerome-hearn-994307260
@zed4209819
@lala-land-361191160 - E.P. Beats
@llanpsych
@ruizzoidman21centurions
@Ladyofire
@josh-clary-1 Entheogenic Psychonaught
@nic_nic_nic
@nadiaselvaggi
@chefboyextreme
@scilentsymphony
@azealotrous
@pablomoretti
@prof-oddfellow - Neons Gone a Mad
GMO / Green Mercurial Owl 

I have been inspired by Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Tycho, DJ Shadow, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala,M83, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Pink Floyd, Animal Collective, Nicolas Jaar, Dirty Projectors, Massive Attack, Björk, Dan the Automator, Del, the Gorillaz, Reggie Watts, Ween, Neon Indian, Ott, Shpongle, Danger Mouse, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, Tool, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Hendrix, the Books, and too many others to list here.

Thanks so much for stopping by and listening!

Tea R. Sea

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