This track has been produced as an entry for a compilation which might possibly be released someday as digital album on BandCamp. A link to it will be added here whenever it will be out. I'm grateful to the organizer for having been invited to participate, I'm sure it will be an awesome set. And it has been a honour and a pleasure for me to collaborate once again with Her (Vocal) Majesty Myrh (@myrhyum | @tariqa-kali) on this piece, which wouldn't make sense without her contribution.

Myrh : vocals & their premix
Teth Sin : electric guitars, bağlama, samplers (drums, percussions), synthesizer, vocals, sound design, final vocal arrangement/mix

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

SMH Sarah’s Friends Compilation

We Control Your Dream

We Control Your Dream | feat. Myrh

I am proud to introduce my first collaboration with Mizero (@mizero-two), an artist that I deeply admire and respect. She wrote some awesome lyrics for the weird backing track I had sent to her, and her beautiful, peculiar singing inspired me to further develop the music, overdubbing a bassline and a couple of guitar parts. Quite surprisingly, this piece eventually turned out to have a sort of a rock'n'roll vibe, even though we didn't do that on purpose. In fact, I guess it's a spontaneous combination of several musical styles, just for a change...
To say a word about the concept, I would simply describe it as a love song concerning time. We've thought of time as dark, heavy sonic matter relentlessly leaking out of the hands of a clock and slowly creeping its way into the distance between two lovers, be it a real or a figurative space. Of course, the nature of these lovers itself might be interpreted metaphorically...
Huge thanks to Mizero for offering me this great opportunity to create new music together!

Oh every minute of
every day I'm
dreaming of your
illuminating smile

Every second of
every minute
I'm dreaming of
a life with you
in it, my love

I wake up in the morning
and I'm missing your face
You're so far I feel
so out of place

When we talk on the phone
I'm dreaming of your eyes
I miss you more than
I even realized

Oh how the days are long
Oh how the day drags on
without you

Floating on this feeling I have
everytime I hear your voice
I would be there
or you would be here
if I had my choice

Oh how the days are long
Oh how the day drags on
Without you

Mizero : lyrics, vocals & their premix

Teth Sin: guitars, bass guitar, samplers (drums, percussions, violas), sound design

Original composition by Teth Sin & Mizero
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Every Minute | feat. Mizero

This is a song about a dehumanized human being inserting code strings on the terminal console of his computer, and convincing himself of being somehow almighty or immortal, thanks to the privileged relationship he thinks he has established with the processor. But his computer's crude response is that he's just a freaking out mortal creature...

Teth Sin : guitars, vocals, bass guitar, sampler (drums)

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

LYRICS:

[Computer:] lns/dev/dsp/lsd/
[Dehumanized human:] I really won’t surrender… I’m gonna live much longer
[Computer:] I got your words misplaced… I ain’t no friendly interface
[Dehumanized human:] Terminal, please save us all
[Computer:] You’re terminally ill – pacmd; load module; remap sink; sink name equal mono
[Dehumanized human:] I’m gonna live forever… C’mon babe, let’s have a drink together
[Computer:] Your mind is really messed up, I’m gonna have a drink from your cup
[Dehumanized human:] Terminal, please hear my call
[Computer:] You’re terminally ill – cat/proc/bus/user/usb U.S.A.
[Dehumanized human:] I’m gonna mock the devil, increase the fighting level
[Computer:] Your code is certainly wrong, so I believe your time ain’t long
[Dehumanized human:] Terminal, I guess I’m losing control

Terminal

This is meant to be a tribute not only to the rights owner, but also to those who had recorded previous versions of this traditional blues number: artists like Charlie Patton and Memphis Minnie, for instance... And of course it represents a humble homage to Sir Brian Jones.

Teth Sin : acoustic & electric guitars, vocals, bass guitar, samplers (drums, organ)

Original composition & lyrics by William James Dixon
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

The little red rooster

The Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon cover by Teth Sin)

This tune is meant to be a meditation about the results of the so-called “Arab Spring”, or possibly about some of the relationships going on between the "Third World" and Western countries...

Teth Sin : vocals, guitars, bass guitars, samplers (electric piano, kalimba, drums)

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Objectified

Final mix of a track produced as a contribution to the Open Source Music Nexus Challenge 2019 (https://nexus-challenge.osamc.de/) which finished in 3rd place. Listen to the original "open source" mix (and download the file for free) at https://archive.org/details/michelemarangonrainbowbrain .

Teth Sin : guitars, vocals, bass guitar, samplers (drums)

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Rainbow Brain

A song about the discrepancy between the idealization of a distorted individualism, constantly conveyed by contemporary mass media, and the actual standardization, or globalization, of human behaviours and actions that can be found today in Western or Westernized societies…

In loving memory of Massimo De Gasperi (1967-1999), a great musician and friend. There's currently no trace of his work on the internet, unfortunately, but he'd published an album with a German label a few months before passing away, if I remember correctly. It sounded way ahead of his time, and it still does today. I own a copy of it, but I'm not entitled to share it. I hope someone will do, someday.
He once called me while he was working on his album. One of his numbers' title was "Dead Hendrix", and he asked me if I could supply him with any recorded announcement of Jimi's death. He was planning to extrapolate a few words from it and use the samples on his track. Sadly I couldn't satisfy his request. I used to own dozens of Hendrix LPs and tapes, always loved and played his music, but I'd never been a collector. At the time, things like that couldn't be found on the internet.
A shot of heroin laced with strychnine killed him at 32.
In November 2019, a common friend asked me to join Massimo's 20th death anniversary party: "Come over and play", he said... I had to laugh, because he hadn't considered the fact that I was nearly 1000 miles away from home, and couldn't really afford to travel exclusively to join that party. So I recorded this tune, "That's Mean", very quickly, and about a week later I sent him the file. I easily found that Hendrix death announcement on YouTube, sampled a couple of sentences and used them in this song. He was so happy with it, included it in the music set for the night and told me that Massimo was very likely smiling from heaven while listening to it. I really hope this tune will make you all smile too.

Teth Sin : vocals, guitar, bass guitar, bağlama, samplers

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

That's Mean

This collage of synthesized soundscapes and noise dates back to 2005, still I thought it was worth releasing it. I really couldn't figure out that a pandemic was about to spread around the world shortly after this upload, by the way!

Teth Sin : synthesizers

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Static Disease

A guitar improvisation dating back to 2015. The instrument's sound has been processed through a virtual amplifier for Linux (https://guitarix.org/), convoluted through an unusual impulse response file and finally rendered as a kind of a binaural beat audio…

Teth Sin : guitar, sound design

Original composition, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Eastern Saturn Skies

This track is a tribute to Jimi, Billy and Mitch. At the same time it represents a humble contribution from Teth Sin to Black History Month 2020.
You might like to watch a video clip for this track and listen to an alternate mix at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEu1PH7ICxQ . Making up a clip for this Jimi Hendrix cover gave me a chance to set up a Teth Sin YouTube channel.

Teth Sin : guitars, vocals, bass guitar, samplers (drums, piano)

Original composition by Jimi Hendrix
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Freedom (Jimi Hendrix cover)

Freedom (Jimi Hendrix cover by Teth Sin)

You might like to watch a video for this track at https://youtu.be/rDaaJu14PIo

This experimental acoustic piece is meant to portray the Phoenician goddess Tanit fighting for her life in the darkest depths of the sea… I'm encouraging disinformation here, because "true legends" about her don't relate her drowning... Fake news or T.S. Eliot's influence in this title?

Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, vocals, sampler (drums), sound design

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

How Tanit was drowned

How Tanit Was Drowned

You might like to watch a video for this track at https://youtu.be/gEGUNGA_sKo or https://vimeo.com/465584816

This was primarily an ambient track, but then a harmonic and rhythmic content showed up in my mind, and a couple of lines of lyrics immediately followed, so I guess it turned to be some kind of experimental ethnic desert blues... I don't know whether I'm right or wrong, I'm not so good at labelling music.
It's all about Africa, quite obviously. What if the same panic that many people in Western countries are experiencing now because of COVID-19 was a permanent condition? What if beside epidemics we had to face wars, famines, poverty, rapes, violence and structural corruption every single day of our life? I had these and other questions in my mind while recording this tune...

Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, vocals, Cretan lyra, samplers

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

What About Africa?

You might like to watch a video clip for this track at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_07erk0_mDs

During the first days of this newly started pandemic era, I couldn't help but rereading Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" and meditate on how it was meant to be interpreted at the time of its first mise-en-scène. Despite being normally considered today as a quintessential hero (and victim) of rational (self-) knowledge, following the subsequent Aristotelian interpretation of this character, my impression is that Oedipus, holder of the political power, is somehow pressured to investigate his own roots (and infamy) by the public of his subjects asking him for a solution to the plague infesting their town, more than by his own, allegedly inquiring will. Oedipus' behaviour, consisting in minimizing the extent of the plague and claiming to be doing every effort in order to fight it at first, then panicking as more as his responsibility (and his sin...) becomes clear to everyone, somehow reminded me of our current, global situation; so I've tried to portray it by recording this experimental track. The recited ancient Greek text is drawn from the initial verse of Sophocles' work, and this is its English translation:

"My children, latest generation born from Cadmus,
why are you sitting here
with wreathed sticks in supplication to me,
while the city fills with incense,
chants, and cries of pain?"

ὦ τέκνα, Κάδμου τοῦ πάλαι νέα τροφή,
τίνας ποθ᾽ ἕδρας τάσδε μοι θοάζετε
ἱκτηρίοις κλάδοισιν ἐξεστεμμένοι;
πόλις δ᾽ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει,
ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων

This track is dedicated to my friend Thomas @ansound-655183295

Teth Sin : electric guitars, bağlama, vocals, Cretan lyra, bass guitar, samplers (percussions, raw data, electric piano), synthesizers, field recordings, sound design

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Pandemic Aberration

A song about human and "read-only" memory marketing.
I wasn't sure I could remember the words while recording vocals, but fortunately my friend Jeff @user-911083679 checked out the lyrics before this song was released, so I'd like to dedicate it to him.

They are selling memory
for computers and for human beings
Mystifying our history
so we just don't care about anything
We are buying memory
for computers and for human beings
Let them teach our history
so the system will just work, you'll see
Manipulation is now paid
You keep repeating
whatever they say
Your opinion is their prey
They'll tell you their tales
and you will obey
Your consensus is their prey
but you keep supporting
whatever they say
Manipulation is not layered
They'll tell you to obey
and you will
I have lost my memory
Should I get me a stick or is a card okay?
I don't know what happened last year
so I don't care about what's going on today

Teth Sin : bağlama, electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, samplers (drums, raw data), vocals

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Memory

Last month my friend Jeff/Stonerjazz sent me a preview of this song he was about to release (https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/01-i-still), and he was so kind to ask me if I wanted to add anything to it. We had been planning a collaboration for months, so I happily started to work on it, recording a few instrumental tracks. I got inspired from Jeff's amazing lyrics and vocal harmonies, and we're both happy about the way this tune turned out to sound.
A wonderful collaboration that we'd like to dedicate to all of you SoundCloud maestros, wishing everyone a happy new year. Peace, love and happiness...

LYRICS:

captured in the eddy of the river bright, the still life painted with the colors of the soul, the dead-eyed and the damaged wander through the landscape of the misty light without compassion for our plight.
even in the darkest night there’s drops of paint, notes from my guitar, and tiny light that usher in such lush delights, though worthless in the merchants eye, the maestro has the wings to fly…
it’s a big mess, got a hole in my chest, taken down and crushed like apples in a press, i confess to everything i’ve ever done. every single one of us… on the run.
when minds are quiet, the stink of revolution floats in the air, and the overlords they waste away in deep despair… slippin in the deep end not so quietly. fantastic sights!!
tin can rattle in the back, living in a tiny shack, standing in the middle of a two lane blacktop gazing at a cloud i saw some thirty years ago.

Stonerjazz : vocals
Teth Sin : electric & acoustic guitars, bass, samplers (mellotron, drums, piano)

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin
Lyrics by Stonerjazz

The Maestro

The Maestro | feat. Stonerjazz

A recent astronomical event was, quite obviously, at the root of this odd musical piece. I accidentally came across a few posts on the social networks conveying a certain degree of confidence in this astrological occurrence, but I honestly couldn't afford to share their flaunted optimism. I couldn't recall any idyllic connection between Jupiter and Saturn, so I thought that a recording of an acapella singing performed by my wife about 10 years ago might have best fit my initial sonic atmosphere. It was an improvised sung rendition of an Arabic poem composed by Said Bin Ahmad al-Busaidi (d. 1803, feel free to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_bin_Ahmad for a short bio) that seems to have been used as lyrics by several modern Middle Eastern artists. I thought of it as a suitable fictional outlet for a broken hearted Saturn.
On the other hand, my everyday life subsequently offered me a chance to observe this "great" conjunction from a socio-political perspective in the country where I'm living in. I had the opportunity to take a field audio recording of a riot that took place not so far from my home in mid-January (feel free to check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dI90RFsEF4 for a short account of the current situation), and I thought that it would perfectly give expression both to the disappointment of local people against those who have been managing political power since the so-called Arab Spring in 2011 and to the sympathetic, balanced reaction shown by law enforcement and the government itself. In order to sound politically correct, I thought it was appropriate to give voice to the establishment as well, to "Jupiter" if you like, so I googled around and found an awesome video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJVq78A4Y0) starring the guy who's been behind the scenes of this brilliant democratic experience in Northern Africa during the last 10 years. I extrapolated a few audio samples from his declarations and used them in the first sequence of this piece.
I finally added a few instrumental and vocal parts, then I processed all of the audio recordings through a heavy, meticulous sound design work. Hope you'll appreciate the result.
EDIT: One year after its original release, I created a video for this track… You might like to check it out at https://youtu.be/0c9fyvCDqiU

Aroussia Riahi : vocals
Teth Sin : bağlama, bass guitar, samplers, background vocals, field recordings, sound design, vocal arrangement/mix

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

LYRICS (a partial rework of Said Bin Ahmad al-Busaidi's "Ya Man Hawah" ; sadly this text field doesn't seem to properly support RTL scripts, but I guess most of the listeners will only read the English translation I provided below):

JUPITER:

We try to avoid any sort of exclusion.
We opt for the dialogue... Consensus.
We faced many problems.
All our policies are based on the notion of consensus.
I don't deal with "if", I deal with reality.
We try to go to the consensus.
There isn't any paradox.
To avoid any sort of extremism, democracy is the solution.
We need international cooperation, regime cooperation, development, democracy, dialogue, consensus... Consensus.

SATURN:

يا من هواه
أعزه وأذلنـــي
كيف السبيل إلى وصالـــــك دلني
أنت الذي حلفتني
حلفتني وحلفت لي
وحلفت أنك لا تخون وخنتني
فلأدعين عليك في غسق الدجى
يـبـلـيـك ربي كـمــا أبلـيـتـنــي

Oh you who love
Oh you who passionately love
May you be cherished and may I be humbled
Show me how shall I ever find the way to get back to you
It was you who made me swear, and you swore to me
You swore you weren't going to betray me, but you cheated on me
So I'll pray against you in the dark of the night
May the Lord afflict you just like you afflicted me

The Great Conjunction

Post-genre sonic kaleidoscopes & visual raptures.
Freedom, awareness, creativity.

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