This cover was originally planned to be a collaboration, but it has been aborted about a month ago, since my alleged collaborative partners stated that I was "unable to cooperate on the sort of creative level that they generally expect" from those who have the privilege to work with them. Being well aware of my inadequacy, I usually try to make music for fun, simply because I love doing that. I can't spend as much time as I'd like to on my music, unfortunately, so I really can't afford to waste it: that's why I eventually decided to add a few drums and keyboards parts to the aborted collaboration and release it. Please watch out for your ears while listening to it, as it probably sounds poor and shoddy. It surely does if compared to the original, that goes without saying. May Syd Barrett rest in peace, despite of all of the slandering and treachery he had to endure.

I'd like to dedicate this cover to my uncle, who initiated me into the sonic mysteries of "Ummagumma" at a very early age, giving me a chance to open up the doors of my perception.

Teth Sin: guitars, bass guitar, samplers (drums & keyboards), vocals, sound design

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

Astronomy Domine - Syd Barrett cover by Teth Sin

It's a real pleasure for me to introduce this work, which has probably been the most interesting, complex and somehow challenging collaborative session I ever joined so far, at least in terms of rearrangement tasks.
It all started with an early version of a piece by The FURICO Music Team (@user-596493783) called "Mood Of Two" (https://soundcloud.com/user-596493783/double-beat-swing - feel free to take a look at the production notes as well, at https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/mood-of-two.html). We had been planning a collaboration for a while, so they sent me this groovy composition of theirs, both audio and midi files, allowing me the freedom to do whatever I wanted with them. 
On the one hand, I was intentioned to respect the original structure of the piece, and after listening to their own final version of it, released in late February 2021, I was literally blown out by all of the cool electro-psych features they'd added to the original tune, so my aim was delivering a rendition of that new vibe as well. On the other hand, I wanted to do it my own way, spicing it up with a typical Teth Sin flavour. 
First of all, I resampled the original drums tracks, trying to give them an acoustic feel. Then I replaced the bassline with my own, somehow developing it with a fair amount of variations; I overdubbed a couple of electric guitar tracks, and an electric piano part.
It was about time to add vocals as well, so I asked my friend Stonerjazz (@user-911083679) if he wanted to join in, remembering him being a big fan of The FURICO Music Team too. He enthusiastically accepted, as I'd expected, and a few days later he sent me a recording of him singing one of his amazing poems on the pre-existing, swingy backing track. He's recently released a ballad version of these lyrics (at https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/beloved-sisters-of-the-storm), which is of course totally different and still very cool. 
I adapted his vocals stem on the sections where I wanted the singing to appear, and I finally added to most of the tracks a few weird, stuttering effects. This final sound design stage was crucial in order to deliver the kind of sound I was looking for. My aim was distilling a proper mixture of our combined styles, and I think my efforts paid off. Regardless of the aesthetic value of this work, it has been an extremely interesting experience for us, we all had fun and we're satisfied with it. 
I'd like to conclude by quoting Stonerjazz's first reaction when he listened to the final mix: "Well, Mick... What can I say about this elixir...?"
Big thanks to my awesome collaborative partners!

LYRICS:

The tiny silver thread, transcendent of the reckless life we led,
the raging river way down below...
It's like the moment when you realize it's finally time to go.
Oh beloved sisters of the storm,
Thank you for appearing in your human form...
What could I do, what could I say... I guess that I was on my way to another nervous breakdown.
The taste of life so sweet upon our tongues...
We were gods when we were young.
I don't think I'm going home, this thing won't leave me alone

I've got fragments of the sun and moon enbedded in the core of my cerebral stem...
And of course there is that Key that's allegedly buried in this pile of sacred rock in space
that supposedly unlocks the gate that holds the dog and holds the bone and blocks the path that takes me home.
Check yourself, what are you thinking at the present moment.
Sometimes I can feel the Giant moving slightly in his sleep.
Just like Vishnu dreaming high in the mountain valley
of the Mighty Himalayas...

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The FURICO Music Team: drums, percussions, piano, organ, synth

Stonerjazz: lyrics, vocals & their premix

Teth Sin: guitars, bass guitar, electric piano, drums resampling, final vocal rearrangement & mix, sound design

Original composition by The FURICO Music Team, Teth Sin & Stonerjazz
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

The Mighty Himalayas

The Mighty Himalayas - The FURICO Music Team, Teth Sin & Stonerjazz

We did it again. I'm proud to introduce a brand new release, another collaboration with a timeless, spaceless Mistress of Vocal Time and Space. Nearly needless to add I'm talking about Myrh (@myrhyum). We started this collaboration more than one year ago, but I've been having tons of issues, so... Now it's out, and we hope you all will enjoy it.
Allow me to bore you with a few words about how we did it. Myrh originally sang along a looped section of another (still incomplete) song of mine, featuring the guitar part that eventually turned out to be the initial guitar solo in this final version. I had only Myrh's vocals, a tempo and a few bars of a guitar solo. I added a track of sampled tablas: at first I thought of it as a mere tempo reference, but it sounded good, so I kept it. At this point, I had a vision of how the piece had to sound. I pictured Myrh's vocals flowing inside a starship running through darkened depths, backed by an invisible ensemble of musicians playing some kind of an alien raga.
I found the starship on my internet browser. I downloaded an audio file called 495-AAB from archive.org (https://archive.org/details/Voyager1/495-AAB_8min10sec.wav). It was recorded on the spacecraft Voyager 1 ( launch date: 09/05/1977) and it's in the Public Domain. I did some sound design on it, and it became an awesome drone for the song, perfectly fitting Myrh's vibe. Then I recorded a few parts using my children's toy-instruments: vibraphone, oud and tambourine. A few months went by before I could start working on the organ, and a few others as well before I could record another couple of tracks with bağlama and lyra. I eventually completed the guitar solo, then added bass guitar and sampled drums. Once again I had to stop, for a considerable amount of time, before I could do some editing, the final mix and the mastering.
My humblest and heartfelt thanks to Myrh for allowing me once more to collaborate with her, for her limitless patience with my inconsistent workflow, for this gem of a song that I tried to decorate with (more or less) alien sounds and noise. One last word about this somehow arrogant use of the tag SpaceRaag: I'm absolutely aware of lacking of sufficient musical knowledge in order to compose or perform an actual raag; this is merely a spontaneous creation, I only tried to mess around with these harmonies springing from Myrh's sublime vocals and my own science fictional sonic vision.

Myrh (@myrhyum) : vocals & their premix
Teth Sin : electric guitar, sampled percussions & drums, toy-oud, vibraphone, tambourine, organ, bağlama, lyra, bass guitar, sound design

Lyrics by Myrh (@myrhyum)
Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin
Cover artwork is a rework of the following picture, in the Public Domain: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Krishna_and_Radha_dancing_the_Rasalila%2C_Jaipur%2C_19th_century.jpg

Dance For Me Now

Dance For Me Now | Feat. Myrh

After a considerable amount of time, my old friend Simone (Mome) and I had the chance to record a piece of music together: a short unplugged ballad, a cover of a great classic by CS&N that we tried to render as finely as we could, adding a bit of an unconventional Middle-Eastern flavor. Heartfelt thanks to Mome for adding his awesome acoustic bass part on a couple of guitar tracks I'd recorded before leaving Tunisia. Only recently I had the chance to complete the song with vocals and a few bağlama licks, so... That's it, in hope it won't break anyone's ears. I should add that in fact Stephen Stills wrote this tune, but since the other two guys crucially contributed to its composition with their superb vocal harmonies, I thought it was right to mention the three of them as co-authors. Since we started playing together, about 36 years ago, we'd never covered anything by CSN, so I guess it was about time.
I warn you: despite of its partially exotic vibe, this one definitely sounds way more "traditional" than usual, and I must confess that it was in first place a way to try out my new mic and home studio setup, and a nice chance to jam with one of my best friends ever.
I went through quite a lot of changes these last months... I apologize to everyone because I haven't been around for a while, and I sincerely thank every friend who found the time to drop a line or listen to the stuff I put here. I'll try to reply to your comments and messages as soon as possible, and hopefully I'll have the chance to be more active in future, with new releases and reposts. I still have plenty of strange sounds hanging inside my brain, that's for sure.

Mome :  acoustic bass guitar
Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, bağlama, vocals, tambourine, sampled drums

Original composition & lyrics by Stephen Stills
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

You Don't Have To Cry

You Don't Have To Cry (Crosby, Stills & Nash cover) | Feat. Mome

A couple of months ago I had the chance to jam with a couple of friends on guitars at a dinner party. We played a few Stones covers, and the vibe was ok. Then suddenly someone named the Velvet Underground, so I started strumming and singing a classic number we used to perform pretty often when we were young, "I'm Waiting For My Man". I could really feel it, and when I got home I thought it was worth trying to record it. In the past we used to cover the Live 1969 version, but this time I tried to blend it with a couple of other renditions, namely the 1972 Transformer Tour performance and an acoustic demo recorded in 1965. Quite obviously, I ended up adding to this bizarre jumble my own touch. I completed most of the tracking in about a week, but it took me a long time before trying to record vocals. It somehow sounded dull and trivial to my ears, so I had lost interest in finishing the song. Then a couple of weeks ago I felt inspired and I did the vocals. I also added an organ and a Cretan lyra parts, to make the ending section sound a bit more exciting.
Hope you'll enjoy this studio jam, I think it sounds quite unusual if compared to the rest of my stuff, but at the end of the day it's not so bad to listen to.

Teth Sin : acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar, vocals, organ, drums, Cretan lyra

Original composition & lyrics by Lou Reed
Arrangement, mix, mastering, photo & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

I'm Waiting for My Man

I'm Waiting For My Man - VU Cover By Teth Sin

This track has been recorded and produced by Teth Sin (@teth-sin) for the Open Call to COVER A SONG BY A 70'S OR 60'S BAND organized by the electronic/experimental netlabel CIAN ORBE (https://humanfobia.jimdofree.com/cian-orbe-netlabel/), and it's been included in the compilation "V/A - 60's/70's Bands Tribute"  (https://archive.org/details/va-60s70s-bands-tribute) - November 28, 2020. This version released on SoundCloud features an alternate mix and mastering of the track included in the compilation.
Big thanks to Sábila Orbe (@sabila-orbe - @humanfobia - @filmy-ghost) for including this cover despite having been quite a rushed job.  I hope John Lennon won’t roll over in his grave… But I’m afraid his soul has endured much worse than this, during these last 40 years. May he rest in peace.

Teth Sin : vocals, bağlama, acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, samplers (percussions), synthesizer

Original composition by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

V/A - 60's/70's Bands Tribute

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Lennon/McCartney Cover by Teth Sin [Alternate Mix]

First album, "That's Sin", is out on Bandcamp @ https://tethsin.bandcamp.com/album/thats-sin

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