Only really had a chance to hear Carl’s vocal tracks in the ‘making of’ stage, and what you came up with for the sound on this is fantastic! Really enjoy the bright dreamy guitar tone, which I think JJ’s synth subtly helps with too.  Love this one a lot. Brilliant stuff.

Excellent work, Stephen 👏 Dreamy ethereal sound ✨  Love the awesome acoustic vibe 🫶😀✌️

It is so amazing the transformation this song took when Carl came in with these awesome vocals and then your mixing and mastering just blew it over the top!! Love everything everyone did and you really made it all shine brother!! 😌🙏🏻

Hey Stephen man, can't tell how impressed and pleased I am with your final mix. I've gotten a few comments on my page, too, about how outstanding this mix is. Very grateful to have you on the team, brother man, whether it's on your favorite playing stool or in your comfy chair behind the board, you always come through with extraordinary work. Always an honor and a pleasure, bro.

The musical highlight of the week is on my screen. All I have to do is turn on the mixer and your magical sounds will fill the speakers. As usual, I won't have to adjust the sliders much because the work is so well done. Okay, I'm ready. Are you ready, guys? Play, friends. I'm listening. 👏💥

*Listen with Headphones
~ It's beyond me that humans can be so Resourceful and Creative but on the flip side so Destructive and Systematically Evil! Get ready for a rough-ride.

Tribute to the movie Beasts of no Nation (2015)

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Ted speech / Emmanuel Jal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_dHdNOgSA
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Spoken Words

There are no heroes
just Heroin killing kids

Holding you at gun point
just for another hit

People killing people
even after death

Spoon fed with voilence
eating human flesh

Fighting a war
while getting high

Only after the carnage
you understand why

There is no faith
everything shatters and breaks

My childhood consumed
we are all doomed

You all being played
just another cog

So many slayed
manipulated for WAR

No moral codes
just plain " Fuck it "

Following orders
while Politicians fill their pockets

Creating the problems
so they can work on a solution

Fake News bullshit
corrupting and pollution

Big foreign countries
hiding behind the scenes

Never even mentioned
never ever seen.

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Docu [Warning graphic content]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMwI5unlK9M&rco=1
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Words and Remix by LS / 2023.

War Child II [Explicit Content]

Lyrics
I look into that mirror,
Not liking what I see
Just a shadow of the man I was
Just a shadow of me 

There were times when you needed me
There were times when I needed you
There were times we needed each other
But those times were so very few

See you staring in that looking glass
Just holding back the tears
Too scared to go, too frightened to stay 
Just too many wasted years

There were times when you needed me
There were times when I needed you
There were times we needed each other
But those times were so very few

Instrumental

There were times when you needed me
There were times when I needed you
There were times we needed each other
But those times were so very few

When love becomes a habit
It sneaks right up on you
But I would sooner have it
Than no love at all

There were times when you needed me
There were times when I needed you
There were times we needed each other
But those times were very few

Repeat chorus to fade

There Were Times (when you needed me).wav

Be yourself

After the Goldrush (Neil Young cover).wav

GHOST by Zitou & Wildsilences

Sun World

Hold me tight

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Prove pure path
The right eight show way
Good vision
Good thought
Good speech
Good day
Good livelyhood
Effort
Mindfulness and action
Weaved wisdom concentrated
Content has traction

To Dukkha debonair
Satisfied with real
Ruse rooted Samudaya
You suffer thirst by feel
Nirvana, be known
Nirodha find light
From Mārga
Our eight fold path meant right

Born beneath the Bodhi tree
Cyclic Samsāra sits
Transcience for fear food free
Karmic Dharma fits
Not torn with our time
Minded body synced
Not shocked
Transcendence through rhyme
Be harmonic miner clocked

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Notes 🎶

Key B Harmonic Minor
Tempo 33bpm

Instrumentation
-Vox drone backing x 4
-Vox Backing melodic x 1
-Vox Narration
-Vox Lead x 1
-Pads x 3 played on keys
-Acoustic Lead line

I don't quite believe in reincarnation of a single spirit although the discovery of DNA in a way sheds a bit of light on it being possible at least in potential code as traits that are passed on. They are either honed and retained or lost through long term positive or negative behavior and discernment of honest or dishonest action from our beings. Epigenetics looks to be starting to show that nurture, particulariy early in life actually enables and disables chemical signals in our genes. This has been shown in rats by a mother that licks her offspring vs a mother that doesn't and the different effects on those baby rats growing up and those scientists believe that translates to humans although they can't stick us in labs to prove it yet. So it looks like nurture may end up holding more influence then early geneticists told us and less is set in stone then we had previously thought. Epigenetics is a young science so it's difficult to make a solid reality from is so far but it does appear to have huge relevancy with our tendencies throughout life and towards addiction and habits. 

Whether we have a spirit that inhabits a body and fully comes back I'm not sure we will ever know that but I guess elements of past spirits and all past life does exist in our code at some level.

This has a lot more potential to bear fruit with our world of knowledge of course because we can actually teach ourselves what other humans think and have thought and what they did with their lives and make our own version of those truths based on our unique life experience.

This track is paying homage to Buddha

Buddha, as far as I am aware is one of the rare old teachers who said go find yourself and the power is inside you and around us. We generally escape the reality of ourselves with desires and indulgence in materialism but have the ability to find our true spiritual selves with discipline and an honest lifestyle. His main realisation was, we suffer, like it or not and his teachings allow us to not amplify that suffering with cravings or self harm but become one with it via a balanced approach  ⚖️  Re-living or re experiencing feelings from the difficult parts of our lives so they don't become a controlling factor in how we react to any situation seems to be central to finding that zen place where we can respond rationally to any situation no matter how trivial or significant. The reason I mention epigenetics and early life is a few scholars seem to allude to a lot of our problematic traits and strengths being born from trauma or solid nurture early in life and are not something we would usually medically consider when contemplating our own shadow searching for that oneness in ourselves...

So in that light I think rebirthing thought in our heads may actually be quite important to deal with any grief from our experience so it doesn't manifest itself as physical ailment from the hidden stress it causes us.

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

A New track I am experimenting with with at the moment

Ominous (Rough Demo)

Heliosphere (2025) Remastered

Cast of Characters:

Single Use & Recycled -- @user-995867230 -- Bill — acousitc rhythm and lead guitar and composition

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums and percussion

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – synth strings

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — acoustic rhythm guitar, production, mix, and mastering

The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics

This song started as an idea Bill came up with on his acoustic guitar. Having found each other on the Cloud and enjoying each other's music, Josh and Bill decided to do a collab. Bill is a real deal guitarist, who's as prolific as he is skilled. Of course, Josh invited Eclectic Collective to the party, too.

  Shortly after doing so, he laid down a bass part to Bill's skeleton with his four string fretless bass. Ken followed suit, and after a back and forth, completed the rhythm section. JJ dug in next, adding the thrilling strings that highlight the high points of the melody. 

  There wasn't a whole lot of room for everyone on this, though, as Bill had the guitar parts nailed down tight. However, after sitting on the shelf for about half a year, Carl came along and added the missing piece with his raucuos vocals. Stephen also fattened up the sound a bit with his acoustic rhythm guitar.  

  Once it was in the can, we asked Stephen to work his production, mix, and mastering magic on it, too, which he came through with, as always.

  This brilliant song almost didn't see the light of day. It sat for what felt like forever, until we decided to revive it. This will not be the last collab we do with Bill, though, who was generous in not only sharing his music with us, but allowing us to do whatever we wanted with it, too. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.  

Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Shifty shire
Ah, redistrict rot
Dividing a country for power by plot
Gerry's meandering
Not thinking of sane
What colourful friends can stop red rain?

With freedom waning
Conversation is paused
A few rich men failing
With solidarity cause
Shift the shire!
At minority we've baulked
That mind inconvenient
New red lines are chalked

State turf wars are on
Ah, redistrict rot
Dividing a country for power by plot
For the rights of the white man
We missing those slaves
So legislate oppression
That skin 'aint red way


The Shire - Eclectic Collective w/ Single Use & Recycled

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