the collection of collaborations nic has been part of outside his regular band constellations.

the worx

Yeah, the crazy funkies! We need those. They keep us sane. Makes sense? Then you are definitely listening to the right playlist here.

The place where insanity keeps you sane, where mending lies in pain. Here we go all mad and bad and crazy together. Oh , i hear the commands from the mistress with the leather. 

See ya!
Later!

The funky crazies (or the other way around..)

This is where I'll keep the collaborations i'm part of.  I've been fortunate to be in several lately and have a few in the works.  Lots of fun and always interesting to see what comes out the other side.

TexMex Combos - collaboration playlist

My July Favs

The Mighty Himalayas

a compilation of the songs TexMex Shaman and I've made so far.
Started in 2021 and counting.

...so far

TMS and Nic

This is a remake of the song "Triumphant" from Jan Schonander, which he released half a year ago on his site at:
https://soundcloud.com/thegats/triumphant
We both thought, that a small portion of guitar and bass would not harm and I thank Jan to trust me to determine the guitar and bass dose finally :-)

If you like this one, I am sure you will also like a further remake we had created a while ago, which had a similar receipt:
https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer/break-out-of-this-cage-thegats-nobs

Please use the opportunity to check out Jans site @thegats

Lyrics:
TRIUMPHANT

We can be triumphant
You can be triumphant
We can beat the odds
We can breathe through it

I can be triumphant
I can see the end
I can see all the people
I can feel the love
Feel the love

From start to end
From way down under
Through all the seasons
From doom and gloom to doom and gloom
Such a long summer
Oh it’s been such a bummer
Over the oceans
I feel the love

We can be triumphant
You can be triumphant
We can beat the odds
We can breathe through it

It’s so beautiful
Brothers and sisters
You’re so beautiful
We walk together

From east to west
Far from our best
From the great wall
To the depths of the canyon
Wave after wave
An endless cycle
We walk together
6 ft apart, 6 ft apart
I couldn’t feel number
And it’s still such a bummer
Deep in your eyes
I feel the love

We can be triumphant
You can be triumphant
We can beat the odds
We can breathe through it

I can be triumphant
I can see the end
I can see all the people
I can feel the love

Triumphant

Triumphant | TheGat(s) & N.o.b.S.

The long awaited video is here !!

https://youtu.be/KPhCzu6Qne0

Enjoy!

This is a track that has been in the works for a while.  Doing a collab is  something Fullyard  @steve-fullyard and I had talked about since last Fall really.  It finally made it and it's pretty far out. Big thanks to his fiancé Night Owl  for the amazing vocals there in the 2nd half of this thing.  I expect we'll do more of these as it was a lot of fun and getting to know Fullyard better was cool.  For more background on the tune and the process - check out the song on his page @steve-fullyard

Way Out Here ft. Night Owl - collab with Fullyard

This is "Taking it Back",  an open collaboration with rapper @ipg1 
The vocal track is from Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)
Here are the recent productions from this track:
soundcloud.com/ipg1/sets/taking-it-back
and here is the original vocal track
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/taking-it-back-vocals-95-bpm

vidya : https://youtu.be/N7K-FK0Tghw


I saw that @llanpsych Llanpsych did this and his awesome version inspired me to want to do it.  

I immediately thought of doing a heavy / hard rock version. So I go to the collab page and see that @nobsmeyer N.o.b.S. had already done a rock version - which of course is badass, so I decided to just do it however it came out and this is it.  It was fun.  

IPG1 is a really cool dude and I think it is awesome that he shares this track for anyone to have fun with.   Special thanks to Alkdale Horovitz for his help on the low end!  Enjoy!   Getting my Ernie Isley on in this one. 

IPG1 Let's Rock NormaL......"Taking It Back"

Been to Venus and Saturn now I've returned
to set the beats on fire so let the fire burn
this is IPG1 Spark a fire first phase was the
Beat and the lyrics now here— comes the blaze
When hip-hop went sideways I brought it all back
The styles I displayed as I put it back on track
Don't be afraid IPG1 is back
Taking it back...

Kicking ass with rhythm patterns until now-unknown
I'm light years ahead like another-time zone
More than you can handle in another-rhyme zone
Thought I was done not till your minds blown
This is how I do it not being conceited
A cosmic contingency mission completed
I rock reality phonies defeated
Hungry for HipHop automatically repeated
Chorus
Ain't no sense in being so damn formal
I'm incognito so let's rock normal
this is IPG1 on the inside track
traveling through time taking hip-hop back

Check the rhymes the style and the literature
as the Rhythm evolves you'll see the spirit is pure
I'm going to rock the beats like never before
And when I'm done you'll be waiting for more
traveling through time could be a blast from the past
present or future but built to last
now as the beat hits it knock you out your daze
remember the beat was just first phase
Riding The beats with a hip-hop groove
now I'm rocking normal I just can't lose
taking it back...
I Stay alert and always at the ready
don't mean I'm dangerous just means I'm deadly
There'll be casualties as a matter of fact
Personally I can guarantee that
Cause I rock reality phonies defeated
Total calamity My patience depleted
Empowered by the beat raining down defeat
so cry me a River cause I'm here to deliver
another verse to make you shiver
Taking it back...

Ain't no sense in being so damn formal
I'm incognito so let's rock normal
this is IPG1 on the inside track
traveling through time taking hip-hop back
thought it was over hell no I'm back
Run it through your headphones and add it to that stack
of tracks you have that hit like crack
then eliminate all that other crap
they had the nerves to calling rap
replay it again Because this jam is packed

Ain't no sense in being so damn formal
I'm incognito so let's rock normal
this is IPG1 on the inside track
traveling through time taking hip-hop back
thought it was over hell no I'm back
Run it through your headphones and add it to that stack
of tracks you have that hit like crack
then eliminate all that other crap
they had the nerves to calling rap
replay it again cause this jam is packed
Copyright © 2014

Taking It Back  | collab TMS &  IPG1

From the album The Opaque Vessel- https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/the-opaque-vessel

Part 1- https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/malaise-casualties-copy

Mood Exhibit - Malaise Casualties II

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco
https://youtu.be/SuZKzRjD4oU

Nightfall

Time Dilation

This is a good time here.  I've had this idea and this song pretty well done for about a year now but until I started doing a few collaborations lately I couldn't find the right opportunity for it.   

This vocal nic @nic_nic_nic put over it is totally opposite, not even opposite, it's in an alternate timeline from where I saw it going, but when I heard it, I thought it fit in a way possibly too cool for me to understand.  

Lyrics for this one come from a public domain poem credited below:
https://poets.org/poem/afternoon-hill

Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950



*Special shout out to my brothers in Natt Brus for loaning me this guy and also thanks for all the inspiring kick ass music you guys create.  Love all you guys & keep rockin!


bow 
Guitars, Music & Arrangement : TexMex Shaman
Vocals by Nic

lyrics : 
I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
    With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
    And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
    Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
    And then start down!

Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!

bow - Collab with nic and TMS

i don't think i'm going home, this thing won't leave me alone..I've got fragments of the sun and moon imbedded in the core of my cerebral stem.. and of course there is that key That's allegedly buried in this pile of sacred rocks 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 feeling at the present moment..Some times i can feel the giant moving slightly in it's sleep.. just like Vishnu dreaming high in the mountain valleys of the mighty Himalayas.

The tiny silver thread, transcendent of the reckless life we led, A raging river way down below. The moment when you finally realize it's finally time to go..
oh beloved sister's of the Storm, thank you for appearing in your human form 

what could i do, what could i say, i guess i thought 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...

These lyrics are to be found in an entirely different  setting in a collaboration with Furico Music Team and Teth Sin, on Teth Sin's site called "The Mighty Himalayas"

Beloved Sisters Of The Storm

News for tonight show 15.7.21 at 8pm CST: Audiovisual experience!

Radio Ensayo: https://radioensayo.com/via
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/viadeacceso https://soundcloud.com/ois-agver https://soundcloud.com/enternetboy
Instagram: https://instagram.com/viadeacceso.radio
Facebook: https://facebook.com/viadeacceso
Twitch: https:twitch.tv/viadeacceso
Mixcloud: https://mixcloud.com/viadeacceso

Vía De Acceso

News from Vía De Acceso 12 on taRka+

Retransmision del primer año de residencia de @viadeacceso en Radio Ensayo, explorando las obras visuales y sonoras de artistas emergentes del área new media experimental así como trabajos de colegxs que han aparecido en transmisiones pasadas. Con las creaciones de: https://soundcloud.com/ombeach, https://soundcloud.com/tunadisplay, https://soundcloud.com/ivan-abreu-ochoa, https://soundcloud.com/cndsd, https://soundcloud.com/enternetboy, https://soundcloud.com/ois-agver, https://soundcloud.com/deserticgarden, https://soundcloud.com/morlita, https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish, https://soundcloud.com/tony-morris-308328247, https://soundcloud.com/digitonica, https://soundcloud.com/user-541428630, https://soundcloud.com/dianaazzuz, https://soundcloud.com/rina-priduvalova, https://soundcloud.com/sabiwa, https://soundcloud.com/queimadaa77, https://soundcloud.com/agarwoodduo, https://soundcloud.com/vincent_eoppolo, https://soundcloud.com/swimminginhyperspace, https://soundcloud.com/noxpox5, https://soundcloud.com/funa-t, https://soundcloud.com/user-806072699, https://soundcloud.com/lijel, https://soundcloud.com/cmn90, https://soundcloud.com/antimateriasonora, https://soundcloud.com/standard-deviation, https://soundcloud.com/chinabot, https://soundcloud.com/systemma1 y más.

Audiovisual experience: https://www.twitch.tv/viadeacceso

TRACKLIST: Tony+Morris - The House of God
Desertic Garden - Fossil Fuel Extraction
Morlita M - Right Here, In This Place
DIGITONICA - Galaxy
Sabiwa & Queimada - Tomorrow You
Sabiwa - Display Me
Future Light - Ist es denn ein Wunder
Agarwood - Chaotic
DROME (INRGD, Motion X, Tur Cois) - Speed of Sound
Tuna Display - X
CNDSD - Flux
Om Beach - Naurrari
Fun.at - PEHRESOMNI109º
Sofia HT - 1100 (Sz9090 remix)
Oriental Love - 胎動 ( fetal movement )
Vincent Eoppolo - Theater of Consciousness
Rina Priduvalova, Diana Azzuz - Now and Then
noxpox & LIJEL - Wrong Planet Syndrome

Artwork: www.instagram.com/vda.adv

www.radioensayo.com

Playlist en Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/viadeacceso/sets/via-de-acceso-12-radio-ensayo
En Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/viadeacceso/via-de-acceso-12-radio-ensayo-17621/

Vía de Acceso 12

Audiovisual experience

Showcase: Vía de Acceso 12 @ Radio Ensayo (17.6.21)

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...

---

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 FURICO Music Team, Teth Sin & Stonerjazz

This is a great ambient type track that my friend @nic_nic_nic nic had written and asked me to lay down some guitar on.   Here's what we came up with.

Now hear this one on Spotify if you so choose :) 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1h6xZtNUHL7AylXnxCMLKh?si=G3zz8ohbS9eGie4Hq-R8uQ&dl_branch=1

a dreamy summer serenade to the vast fields in our minds or out in the wide open

dream on

bass, rhythm guitar, rhythm section and vocals: nic
lead guitars and bell: TexMex Shaman

Vast Fields - [ nic ]

a fog lightens mix of the song Torres Strait

Without drums and a different guitar mix than on the original version.

all instruments NIC and TEX MEX SHAMAN

Lyrics is lent from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The original mix: https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/torres-strait-nic-and-the-texmex-shaman

Torres Strait - the fog lightens mix

TexMex Shaman

TORRES STRAIT - the fog lightens mix [TexMex Shaman]

A new collaboration from @nic_nic_nic NIC and TEXMEX SHAMAN

All the instruments are played by NIC and TEXMEX SHAMAN

I always enjoy working with Nic so when he showed me this cool moody tune, I was happy to add some love to it.  I think it turned out well and I look forward to another down the road. 

Lyrics is lent from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers

The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
270 Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down Greenwich reach

Ah ah aaa leia
Ahh ah ah leialala

Torres Strait [NIC and the TEXMEX SHAMAN]

Here's another cool composition that @nic_nic_nic Nic sent over for me to color on.  Like Vast Fields and Torres Strait, it's got an understated moody kinda vibe to it.   This one really grew each time one of us would touch the project.  It's been fun to hear it evolve over the past month or so.  

It's a 12 minute plus commitment should you choose to make it, but hopefully you'll find it musically interesting throughout.  Nic likened it to a big Italian meal with lots of delicious side dishes.  I thought that was appropriate.  

So check out "Great is the Sun"  and if you like it, take a listen to Vast Fields and Torres Strait  Also don't miss "bow" - one of my tracks that Nic did vocals for. 
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/bow-collab-with-nic-and-tms 

Music: nic and TexMex Shaman

Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevensson

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad,
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Great Is The Sun [NIC and the TEXMEX SHAMAN]

Here's another cool track from IPG1 that I had to make tripped out.   Always nice working with this guy.  Super creative and all about the music.

I was fortunate enough to do a few of these. If you like this one check out these two also

Down Like That - https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/down-like-that-collab-with-ipg1-and-tms

Takin it Back - https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/takin-it-back-ipg1


Vocals/Lyrics  : Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)
Guitar/Bass/Drum program and Production: TexMex Shaman


Here’s the link to the “Producer’s Playlist”. containing all the tracks that have been received:
soundcloud.com/ipg1/sets/the-new-direction-now
.  
Lyrics 

One word ————legit
started off right relax while I spit
rhymes start flowing without no script
my words don’t slip tongue is hitting like a whip
My haters backing off me lickety-split
they never knew what hit them eat them up like chips
I came equipped it’s about to get lit
one more tip whenever they caught on flip the script

Born guilt free breed for survival
down with me or just another rival
adapt to society the family vital
protecting the dynasty totally tribal
nothings free hand to Bible
A beat a verse or melody moments that inspire me
to set the tracks on fire be routine self discovery
I am the title and the key that’s the way it’s got to be
till pallbearers carry me
Enlightened yeah a prodigy constantly and harmony
Words spill like prophecy chance or probability
conceive and imagined this pages full of paper clips
binders full of rap hits solid hip-hop playlist
the hottest on the hot list tricked out tracks that don’t miss
Glad you showed some interest

Recognize the voice and face in the crowd
don’t hide skyline like I’m standing on a cloud
when I say my name I say it loud and proud
hide who I am hell no I boast
face plastered on every track that I post
the host with the most the last outpost
the attitude the approach is can’t do
Doing my best with the cards that I drew
to myself and the fam I’m true blue
blessed be the vibe and my a point of view

Eat it up it’s a banquet my music my focus
delicious yeah spank it my passion my purpose
keep up or get vanquished step back don’t get nervous
is turnt up so crank it just scratching the surface
cash money so bank it a product a service

inspiring greatness go ahead embrace this
keep it 100 nothing here has been wasted
slam dunking Haters Victories have been tasted
don’t get it twisted techniques unlisted
armed to the teeth my flow double fisted
Who would have thought another level existed
still underground but spiritually lifted
not conflicted keep up don’t miss this versus been scripted
revised and transmitted staying unrestricted
although I’m addicted to the sound —sounds so wicked

Everyone knows the name people don’t act the same
guessing that’s the cost of fame simply surviving the game
but my aim is still the same now you can feel the flames
light it up heat it up that’s the reason that I came
drop a little off the top fresh like a barbershop
Every day nonstop reclassified hip-hop ——
now it’s gone mainstream the American dream
different flows different techniques different rhyme schemes
you either got it or you don’t —you got it on your dome
streaming through your headphones from your iPhone
It’s so well-known I’m always in the zone
Just leave me alone audiophile syndrome
listening to my music it’s so therapeutic
I played in public tight beats on the streets —ill sounds in the jeep
at night when I go to bed I dream it while I sleep
don’t ask me to stop it—-dammit I admit it
it’s more than a habit —-I’m addicted to music
guess that’s why I love it

The New Direction Now

The New Direction Now Feat. IPG1

This is high octane stuff, hope you enjoy the rock out. 
Shout out to Rekha and Jeff for joining in and knocking this thing to the moon.  I even learned a little German!  Don't miss our other track "Give it up(Badass)" https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/give-it-up-badass-with-rekha

Jeff Roberts - bass and quality control (and new music coordinator!)
TMS - arrangement, guitars, drum software, synths, samples and mix
Rekha - lyrics, vocal and music 





WHEW - Music & Lyrics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Intro:
Gonna give ya everything ya need Baby
Was soll ich dann sagen Baby?
Was soll ich dann sagen Baby?
(Sock it to ya)
Was soll ich dann sagen?

Gonna give ya
My wild sonic drive
Gonna give ya
Wild-Wild
Tronica
Exclusiva
Up-Fi-Fun-Tastica
Exclusiva
Up-Fi-Fun-Tastica

R-O-C-K (Errr-Oh-Tsay-Kah)
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock

Anti-sap, full on rock magic
Anti-mush, chargin’ hard
Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Blasen
Makin’ it clear
Distinctly ever so perfect
My true side defined
And Baby you know it
My true side defined
And Baby I will remind you of it

Rock and Roll is my True-Love
It’s my Sun-Shine-ee-World
Hey-Hey-Hey-Ee...Yeah-Oh
Uh!

R-R-R-Roll it with the tongue Darling
R-R-R-Roll for the Rock
Rock, Rock-Mobilia, Rock
Ich bin ein Super-Star-Rocker!
Rocker, bin ich ein Punk-Rocker!
Verstehst du dann dass?
Ich bin mit Attitüde!
Ohne Stress!

Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Wild-Child

Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Wild-Child

Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Wild-Child

Wild-Child
Wild-Child
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my

Wild-Tronic
Wild-Tronic
Wild-Tronic
Wild-Tronic
Uh-Uh-Tronic
Wuh-Uh-Uh
Wuh-ild-Tronic

Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Wild-Tronic
Givin’ ya my
Givin’ ya my
Rock-Tronic
Givin’ ya my
Ich bin ein Super-Star Rocker!
So populär, mit die ganzen totale flair!
REKHA, JA!

Shape-Shiftin’
Plate tectonics
Guaranteed to take ya down
Into the hot molten ground
Petrol, a need fuel, ignitin’
Tronic power side
True desire defined
And you might already know it
(I gotta keep it that way Baby!)

Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll
Just want my
Rock and Roll
(Wow-Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow)
Rock and Roll
(Wow-Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow, Wow-Wow)

Yeah, Eh-Eh-Eh-Ee...
Gonna give ya my
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock
Uh!

Whew - Main - 24042022g

Whew

Whew -  TexMex Shaman, Jeff Roberts, REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

Nic sent over this cool song and I added some things and here it is

check out our other cool collabs here...

https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/sets/tms-and-nic

Loneliness in the Modern World -  [ w/ Nic ]

A collaboration from Nic & The Bargain Basement Butterflies

This song was very enjoyable and a lot of fun to work on. A little different from what I normally do and I liked that. Thanks Nic

Links for Nic:

https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://soundcloud.com/nic_collab?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

My Decline (By Nic & The Bargain Basement Butterflies)

https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Mr. McCarthy has a mannequin that sits 
In his second story window.
Mr. McCarthy hasn’t been home at all, 
for at least a month or so.

Why would he leave 
and just leave her sitting there 
in the second story window

It seams odd that he should care 
so very, very little 

As I walk by and I look up
At that second story window
She’s dressed in red she’s got long dark hair
She looks as if she longs to know

What is out there in the world to see?
Just what could she be?
If she could just walk away remove herself 
From the second story window.

As I pass by I say hello
to the second story window
Sometimes I sing and sometimes we laugh 
to help ease her sorrows.

Each night at 8
As I pass by I tell her how my day was
She tells me about hers and it’s always the same
always unpleasantness

We’ve hatched a plan 
Tomorrow night at 6PM
I will meet her then
And take her out of this place 
Take her from here
Far away 
Anywhere but here

Mr. McCarty came home today 
With the whole thing on display 
I ought to give him a peace of my mind 

A plans is a plan, so we stick to the plan 
And nothing gets in our way now
We will have to be cautious but it stays the same 
I’m going to save you from this place 

So I ran over down below
That second story window
But to my surprise she was not there
It was Mr. McCarty instead 

My love What has he done?
What has he done?
My love, where are you now?
My love, my love
Where are you now?

Mr. McCarthy's  Second Story Window (A Collaboration by Nic & The Bargain Basement Butterflies)

I downloaded the song Escape from Dam Rekcah's SC and jammed along to it.
This is the result.

You'll find the original here: https://soundcloud.com/damrekcah/escape

Mad Hatter Escape

Dam Rekcah

Another fun track from Nic & The Bargain Basement Butterflies
Hope you all enjoy

https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

2 Good Days

ŞöļäçėŠțřëęț made a guitar track as base for an Open Collab which I downloaded and played along to.

Seven - https://soundcloud.com/solacestreet/sets/seven-open-collab?si=f230f0cb87614a28b0270e17a55bf2dd&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


I wrote some crazy lyrics and recorded it through a Roland VT-4 voice transformer.

Here's the flipped out result, fasten your seatbelts.

(White Rabbit, Come and Dance With Me)

Seven - 2 the other side

ŞöļäçėŠțřëęț

Seven - 2 The Other Side

The story about this track is simple -- made a drum track for a friend, but it got rejected ("too harsh"). Self confidence went to the bottom, and the voices in my head were insisting to produce something extra harsh. Music indeed is a good therapy. Anyway, this all wouldn't have happened if I just went to the zoo as originally planned for that day.

Fun fact: I have been owning a Microkorg for some 15 years, and this was literally the first time I had used its inbuilt vocoder. It even shipped with a swan neck microphone; it sounds exactly as terrible as it looks (and the more I keep staring at it, the more it resembles the weapon used for colonoscopy).

Should Have Gone To The Zoo

It's Funky Monday!

Credits did not fit to the title, so here we go:

Alto Saxophone: Micha Surber
Mega Bass Slappato: Dino Romano
Vocals: Micha Surber, Katarzyna Von Kopytko
Rest: me

Monty Python's Intermission Music, as never played by The Meters

Music & Lyrics, Vocal, Synth, Drums: Jan Schonander @thegats
Guitars, Bass, Drums: Norbert Meyer @nobsmeyer

This is a track from my soundcloud friend Jan Schonander, which he wrote, performed and released here on soundcloud already some weeks ago.
As he recently asked me, if I could do a N.o.b.S. Version of it, I did not hesitate as I really do like the song.
If you listen to the original, there is a guitar already creating a great atmosphere. 
I wanted to amplify this momentum with my version especially in the second part with heavy rock riffs.

I hope you all will enjoy this and bang your heads to it. It is something for rock obsessed individuals.

Please visit Jan on his site and support him, you will like the music you will find there:

Lyrics:

BREAK OUT OF THIS CAGE
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders
Better than that 
More than that
You deserve so much more
So much better than that
Round and round and round…..
Up and down
Round and round
Off the ground
I don’t want to hear a sound
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh….
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars
Is it all in my mind
The weight on my shoulders
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh…..
Round and round and round…..
My future
Your future
Our future
It’s all in the past
It’s all in the past
Get off of this circular path
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Break out of this cage
Why can’t I hold on to the bars

Break Out Of This Cage | N.o.b.S & TheGat(s)

Break Out Of This Cage | TheGat(s) & N.o.b.S

An old Eddie Harris tune, heavily based on the big band arrangement by Erik Morales. We are playing this one with the local big band, and they didn't want me to solo on it -- this is my revenge.


---- There were multiple requests for pasting the lyrics, so here we go:

So, it's really something that's been great
But you need stamina
You need physical health
And you need mental health
Like you go:
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
Could you repeat?
So, I said yah
So it's person, woman, man camera, TV
Ok, that's very good
Get it in order, you get extra points
10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later, they say:
Give us that again! Can you do it again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
If you get it in order, you get extra points
They said nobody gets it in order, it's actually not that easy, but for me it was easy
And, that's not an easy question
In other words, they ask you to --- they give you five names and you have to repeat them
And that's ok. If you repeat them out of order, it's ok, but you know, it's not as good
20, 25 minutes later, and they say: go back to that point, then I tell you this: go back to that question
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
And, I got a perfect mark!
And the doctors were: they said very few people can do that
Very few people get that. You understand? It's not that easy!
There were other questions, tougher than what I just did.
But it's not that easy! But as soon as they announced my score at that test
And they said: wow!
You have to be able to show this country that the person that we're picking as leader is sharp
Give us that again! Can you do that again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say: that's amazing! How did you do that?
And of course I have like, a good memory
Because I'm cognitively there
The last questions are much more difficult
Ah like a memory question
It's ah, like you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
And they said: wow!
Go back to that question, and repeat them! Can you do that?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say that's amazing, how did you do that?

Cold Duck Time ft. Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV

It's Bebop Monday! Once more, the fabulous Micha on Alto and Soprano Saxophone. This one is also a good occasion for showcasing the "zero tolerance for space" mixing technique, invented by the good lords of questionable taste.

Footprints (or Beavis & The Buttheads Go Jazz Academy Prep Course) ft. Micha Surber

A Captain Mirth track from 2012, with sound manipulations by Mo Sheen. Guitars by Admiral Krank. 

Marmalade (A Mirthian Fruit-Based Condiment)

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/mood-of-five.html