Late 2025 Soundcloud Playlist

Rock

The Beautiful Dark

Let's vibe

metal head

So here’s to you, Carl, friend and guide,
In every rhyme you stand with pride.
May your music sail on open seas,
With love, from us, across the breeze.❤️‍🔥

The Beautiful Dark - Carl on the Edge

Shock the Algorithm

Related tracks: Flowers

Related tracks: Left Behind

03 Couldn't Stop Caring

Dancing snowflakes - Valentino

In a place of darkness it takes one spark to light up the space.

Sparkle - Valentino

Blacktop Voodoo drips with Southern heat, haunted swagger, and swamp-rock danger. It’s not just a show — it’s a ritual. With syncopated drums, smoky vocals, and a boot-stompin’ voodoo groove, the band faces down the devil himself in a backroad bar where the bartender’s eyes blaze and the crowd’s already hexed. Play it loud or don’t play at all.

you tude video:  https://youtu.be/P0AIHxyG6bI?si=j6hSA6JcHBKtY4xZ

Blacktop Voodoo

The Floating Island is a metaphor for the challenging goal of achieving peace among all humans, and a respectful relationship with nature throughout our world.
Music, Poem, Composition: Andrew Janik https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/
Voice: Oddrun Eikli
Photo: by MAR 
https://www.instagram.com/michaelanthony333/

Thank you Andrew, for your beautiful music, and for this JOY.

Floating Island


Seek. Peace
Water. Sunlight
Sleepless. Night
Waves. Caress


Sand.  Storm
Inner. World
Lost. Found
Radiant   Diamond


Floating. Floating
Floating. Floating
 Free


Fish. Speak
Stars. Sing
Plants.  Nourish
Angel. Wing


Floating. Floating
Floating. Floating
 Free

Floating Island . Music: Soundpainter. Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Nothing Ventured

Update: Ukulele added

The initial intention here was to make a heavy number but I think after what came out I'll keep it folky. It's too nice to not retain that feel I think

This is about and for this wonderful band
Check out Beating Edge on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/AFohXS0FFXREcMZuIu

To mark the moment. My three wonderful half Italian kids play connect four with their amazing Mum in the background 🏠🌍


Lyrics

Once upon an Alien rhyme
Five tifosi broke free from line
They feel with time
Paint BE melody
Easel frames morph to instrument hegemony

Seed of instinct
Sponges of love
Nicknames to normalize mystery glove
What spaceship
Andromedan Starseeds
Grounded in greatest transcendence knead

Good musical hedge
From the Beating Edge
Good musical hedge

Viscious vampira
Vixen of vibrant
Brad beats on brains
Rolled rhythmically highest
Silence for D
It's bass bed were making
Maux moulds aid
Lucifer tuned to soul station

Grafting the good
Tuned life building blocks
Substance for sustenance outside of most box
Harmonized clouds
More blue sky for crowds
Beating Edge grounds new galactical allowed

Good musical hedge
From the Beating Edge 

Food for our ears
The proof through tougue taste
Mood for our eyes
Fear finds loosened like lace
Paces for pathways
Heavy and high
Energy for us made on Earth from the sky

Once upon an Alien rhyme
Five tifosi broke free from line
Harmonized clouds
More blue sky for crowds
Beating Edge grounds new galactical allowed


Notes 🎶 
Musically this turned out very different. I'm away so tools are limited. In my view that should never limit you from still expressing an idea. Michael Jackson used to humm bass-lines I believe... That tells me a lot if it's true and it makes complete sense. It's the quickest, easiest and most convenient way to not forget an idea. From my experience doing that over the years... A dictaphone (your phone) is the most important tool if you never want to forget something. Your musical memory will take over when you humm something close to what you want then execution later can still be perfect with that instinctual reference. The other really handy thing about doing that is you can leave yourself voice notes. A faster arguably less distracting method then writing them down especially if you are trying to honour a pure train of thought on a subject. For me shower time is one of the most important times to have it to hand afterwards. I always think of stuff in the shower even when I'm not trying to. I heard an emotional intelligence expert talk about that on the radio and it seems to be the white noise and random noise of the water that allows our brain to rest from reasoned thought and during that time secondary processes take over that solidify memory. So I regularly have notes to make straight after the shower which is pretty cool. Just sharing this as BE and moi have been chatting in comments together about playing to your instinct. In my pea head opinion being ready to always honour that and you'll capture ideas all the time as opposed to just when you sit down to try. The sit downs more become a process to process your ideas as opposed to writing the whole thing in one moment :-)

Beating Edge (Raw)

For those of you not familiar with the management abuse which took the lives of Badfinger's Pete Ham and Tom Evans. They died without seeing any of the benefits from their million selling songs.

"I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody". "This is better".
(Pete Ham's suicide note)



Everything falls into place
The future is secure
The golden boys,the chosen ones
The sellout world tour

Did you get what you deserved baby blue
Day after day
A world without you

Million selling records
Validation from the best
Just four boys from Wales
No one would have guessed

Legal fights and corruption
Greedy businessmen
The took your money took your soul
Again and again

That avaricious businessman 
He bled you dry
All the starry promises
Were nothing but a lie

Six long years 
And nothing to show
A rope a note in a garage
It was time to go

Did you get what you deserved baby blue
Day after day
A world without you

Pete & Tom

Update: Added Owl sound used straight and pitch shifted it - 7 and - 5 semitones to make a melody (Track 1 ~ Owl Straight / Track 2 ~ Owl -5 / Track 3 ~ Owl -7 // then place each owl where you need it to follow a chord) Interestingly we are tuned to 432Hz here and the straight Owl sound fits like a glove also making the even pitch shifts workable as a melody.. Maybe it would work at 440 too I might reverse test that at some point to see if we sound in tune at concert pitch too. Maybe we would as the owl would be vibrating either side of both 432 & 440 frequencies tuning references significantly so might not be a good test of 432 vs 440

Lyrics

Vampires, Owls, Foxes, Bats
Shape shift with me good dear night hacks
Headphones, high and tuned to silence
Distraction proof for art compliance

No interruption,
Inner comes out
Ears mute brain blindness,
Day machines see muted pout
Just you and melody and words and wise
Just laser tuned,
Sixth sense gets eyes

Nocturnal aliens return to planet
2am, dock to space port
Bring life to the inanimate
Headphones, high and tuned with silance
Distraction proof for art compliance

Nocturnal aliens
Get that new brain born
Arts salient norm
See sustenance seed
New pathways
Mind breathe 
Good nocturnal aliens learn with me

Nocturnal Aliens

This is an acoustic jam of the idea. Original track is here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/7vFx9WxImqCzzUKcQq

Notes
I'm thinking of the mentalists who fascinate me in this tune as well as other things. The idea of neuroplasticity and actually wiring your brain towards a path that offers content feelings by releasing negativity just by intending it or doing the same conversely if that's your frame of mind. There lies Einstein's famous quote, "The most important decision you will make is whether you live in a hostile universe"
We decide how we feel about everything and those decisions are what let them effect our mindset either positively or negatively. I used to look at that quote as having your head in the sand on reality and that maybe thinking like that didn't factor in other people's suffering properly. But I think I get it how he meant it now. No matter what is happening that's not in your control.. You still decide what your mindset is whether it's about a war or a relationship with one other human. They can both profoundly effect you if you let them. But maybe his point is it doesn't matter what the reality is that you are processing, you still chose to manifest it in a positive or negative manner as only you can build your own mindset and only you can control whatever level of connectivity you have with that other human or that war you may be in our not... Both scenarios can suck and be a challenge but the true power is being at peace with what you do control, your own brain...

Derren Browne and Keith Barry are two great mind specialists worth a rabbit hole each.

I don't believe  what they have discovered and teach has to end with enjoying them as entertainment. We can be that if we learn our own versions of what they've found and get that positive for own own beings. It's all about mind set, not magic... It is more control over the universe of neurons we all have inside our skulls. The stuff we can and should learn to control because then we move towards the greater good with common sense


432 A - EADGAD - 96 bpm

Lyrics
One can never know
Ones suffering
It might not show
You might just get a glow & a grin

Brave faces found
We know deep down
Their light flickers sound
Pain as Earth pounds and pounds and pounds and pounds and pounds ...

So give me your pain
Let me release it
Let me find some peace for it
Give me your pain
Let me release it
Let me find some peace of it

Then it gets hard
Untenable
We disconnect
We end this fake mirrored show
We sleep
We wake
Hands tied
Joints and pills to take
We're trying to feel alive
May we all survive

Oh give me your pain
Let me release it
Let me find some peace for it
I'll be your devil drain
Let it out to cease your sore
Lets find peace for more

Give me your Pain

Jackson Jewel

It's too cruel this morning light
It was just in dream
I held you tight
Bare, touch, felt real, felt right
Asleep we coming alive tonight

I should stop, it felt way too good
A dream inside
The deepest wood
The screams are real,
Loud tongue roughed
Sleep for these dreams...
Aw fill me very much

Too cruel
Too cruel...

The suits are gone we obey this scene
With most infinite tantric beam
Wrapped up timed fast rhythmic duo
Bend my back green Jackson Jewel
Way too cruel these open eyes
Too cruel was dream you gripped me tight
REM embrace like no other
Word tantric trace
Dream lover

Solo heard we were there locked
Hands held head and back and shock after shock
After shock - Too cruel as climax
Just dream wrapped in slumber finest

Too cruel
My Jackson Jewel
It's too cruel
Green Jackson Jewel
It's too cruel
Green Jackson Jewel

Too cruel this morning light
It was just in dream
I held you tight
Bare, touch, felt real, felt right
Asleep we come alive tonight

Sensual sense saw full fantasy
Reel me in
Real world Adriatic Sea 
I’ll be forever waves of the deepest light
Maybe our insides will find that out
As melody moon I got my sun
Gem Jackson Jewel stroked heart strings on
So I'll tilt to you JJ toned one
Keep me on
To real wrapped fun

Ah aw it's too cruel
My Jackson Jewel
It's too cruel
Green Jackson Jewel
Aww it's too cruel...
Oh green Jackson Jewel it's too.... 

"Caaaaaaaarl, Where are the Cups"👽



Notes
This one's a good test on my desire to project my music exactly the way it comes out and be honest about it... At the risk of exposing myself too much! Fuck it!

I wrote this half awake after an actual dream that the lyrics paint... I managed to write it and almost retained that period of time where you remember what happened, this is normally only a very short time as we all know but because I managed to retain that lucid feeling... It worked to sustain that period of remembering some what maybe as I got stuck into the writing so quickly after starting to wake up! It was actually really cool and I've never and may never write another song like it again. A very unique experience. The music came later but the words were born in a pretty lucid state! Schweeeeeeeeet


Some people might not do this and feel ashamed to! Great! That might be someone else...

Shame is only something that exists in a person's head if the person gives a shit about what other people think of what you are. Be what you are and be proud of that. Just Be. My auntie always says .. "Other peoples opinions of me are none of my business" And I love having that truth for myself too. You have to read the room and be respectful but ultimately best not be afraid of this world 🌍 There's too much fear out there as it is so may as well create all the love possible

Be conscientious... Then für moi...
Real Love Darts = Fear Bubbles Burst
Yes please 💙🫵🏽👽

Jackson Jewel

Attempt on this inspirational track: https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/kalia-beach-personal
I just added keyboard and tenorsax, each in on go.
I recommend listening to the Original, which is perfect !
The image is simply showing the Dead Sea ... not Kalia Beach !

Kalia Beach by Petrus Major // Keys Sax remix

This is a song about using your wings :-)
I used my workbench to record and sample some of the sounds used in this song. Please let me know if you like it.

"Fly away" written by KL
Recorder (Blockflöte) by SL (my 9 year old daughter)
Vocals, Synthesizer and Drums by KL
Cover art painted by SL & KL

Fly away

create human time 4 bar loop with bodhrán / bongo and guiro for the DAW version
50bpm 6/4 I think
it's setup for strings this and that would allow guitar line as is as in it wouldn't need to get fancier

The Love Beside You

Look around
They're right beside you
Love doesn't change
It's forever new
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love, be beside us,
Cue breath merge deluge

Love is strong
It 'need not presence
It's miracle maker
Magic cosmic essence
'The love beside you faces contempt
Judgement of two
You and Me
Too much is meant

See, love is meaning with no explanation
Unconditional first to station
Spacial glow as Earth shines brighter
Heaven alive births peaceful mightier

Love is for now to make forever
It stays as love in accepting clever
Conscious of the mirrored being
Beside you, don't reflect that mean

Mean 'aint me
Mean 'aint you
Tilt away from scenes that don't ring true
Proof of love is just a feeling
Let's beautify Earth's eyes with beaming

Shining out to the other life
Look, Us humans do it right
We love their cells and not their look
We love existence framed how all eyes hook

Look around you
They're right there
Love doesn't change
Love is the forever prayer
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love beside us cue breath merge deluge
Our love is beside us
Our love is beside us

The Love Beside You (Demo)

Mark says - 
In the 5 years I have been working with Rod, I have been encouraged to reach as far as my experience allows me to, with complete support at all times. So far we have completed 11 songs and have experimented with several others that made for a great learning curve for me, with several more at other stages of development... Watch this space, however as we are methodical and patient, therefore it may take some time to get them off the ground.

The subject matter of this song may be based on a different scenario but it is also a token of my gratitude to my inspirational collaborator and friend Rod, who has given me much confidence to rise to the ambition of his musical creativity and meticulous arrangements. Thank you all for giving this song your time.

Rod says - 
This song was conceived a long time ago to be sung in Spanish, but Mark did a magnificent adaptation with his English lyrics, and the meaning is 100% faithful to the original spirit, even though he hadn't heard the original song in Spanish. Technically, there are three voices together, consolidating a multi-vocal performance. The synth sounds emulate my old analog and FM synths, and the guitars were routed through an old console to achieve the vintage sound I was looking for.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - @rplanes
Me - Vocals and lyrics
Image by Douglas Corrance

Thank You (Rodolfo Planes/Mark J Bennett)

I would like to tell you just how grateful I am,
And also how important you’ve been here in my life.
I know I don’t need to draw you a diagram,
Thank you for being there all this time as my wife.
I have to tell you just how good you’ve been for me,
And I hope that I have also been there for you,
When you needed me through all this trouble and strife.
 
No need to show me all of your gratitude,
I already know how much you show that you care,
When you were prepared to move to my latitude,
Then I was convinced I was ready to share,
My life with you whatever it threw at the both of us.
I know that it’s true, no matter what you care to say.
I’ll always need to express all of my thanks to you 
This will always be true on that I swear.
 
I would like to tell you just how grateful I am,
And also how important you’ve been in, in my life.
I have to tell you just how good you’ve been for me,
And I hope that I have also been there for you,
When you needed me through all this trouble and strife.
Then I was sure that I was ready to share,
My whole life with you, whatever that meant for the both of us.
I know that it’s true, whatever you say.

This song on Continental Collision's own cloud - https://soundcloud.com/user-517923604/thank-you

Also available on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5pfvPjop9XCJPrVL9a60U0

Thank You - Continental Collision (Rodolfo Planes & Mark J Bennett) on Spotify

Flowers.

Written in January 2024.

Published in July 2025.


During the first few months of last year, I was ill with my recurring kidney stone problems.

Fortunately, that passed.

I left some of the compositions I started unfinished, and some sketches were barely started.

This is one of them.

My mother lives in a typical Andalusian house in Seville.

One of the characteristics of these houses is that they usually have a courtyard where there are all kinds of flowering and non-flowering plants.

Obviously, they need to be cared for, watered, fertilized, etc.
My mother loves doing it, and in spring she reaps the rewards of her labor.

I always give my flower icons to the women I follow (I hope I'm not annoying them by doing that), so I thought it was interesting to draw inspiration from all of that to put this together.

17 Tracks native instruments MS2 & Old Xewton forum.
3 XPad 
2 iMini Arturia
1 iProphet Arturia
2 korg IM
1 Ob-xd 
1 flowtones 


Mix: my hear 
Software. Music Studio 2
Hardware.ipad

Cover. A part of the courtyard of my mother's house

Thank you for your comments

Next…. Crossroad

Flowers

Added a since original upload ~ Bass. I was going to call my bass a bitch but I couldn't that. Harley is worth too much (59 euro on Thomann) to insult! Added Electric guitar /  Transistor piano / Cello, Violin and combined String sections 3 seperate runs /

Shout out to Single Use & Recycled. Whilst playing this electric line I'm thinking of them. There is no way I would have tried playing what I tried playing without their direct influence recently. So far I could only dream of expressing on a guitar some of the scaling they can but that highlights for me a few things... Over the decades bands are starting to disappear. Thats an industry driven thing but also a natural bi product of the ability of a band or a huge amount of what a band can do is possible by one person. That sucks for bands but it's very empowering to the individual musician. If you think pre internet, we had hubs of cities and regions where bands were spawned.... SoundCloud is like one big Seattle for me. How I learn everyday from everyones interpretation of music is astounding to me especially given a band was also for me a dream at one point as a boy. In a way even if we aren't directly collaborating it's still like we are all jamming with one another on some level and thats I guess a really positive thing in the light of less actual bands breaking through to mainstream...

Check out guitar you probably can't play and amazing songs... here: https://soundcloud.com/user-995867230 ~ Artist name: Single Use & Recycled


I bet you wouldn't be allowed to make this with ChapGPT!
I won't waste my fingers valuable energy testing that shit


Lyrics

Vaffanculo, Fuck off, Ayreh feek
Vā se foder, Foutre le comp
Gûndàn, Fakkuofu, Bhaad mein jao
Multi-continental curse with me now

Cagna, Bitch, Šarmûta
Cadela, Chienna
Mûgôu, Meinu, Kutiya
Multi-continental bitch ass wow

Where is the profane?
What gives these words power of propane
Too much? You're a clown
Rare then make impact
A ya cunt is in town

Multi-continental curse with me now
Multi-continental bitch ass wow
A ya cunt is in town

Notes
I hope nobody is offended by my terrible pronunciation. I endeavour to get that focking perfect eventually

I don't think words should ever be taught as bad. Context & frame of reference contain the meaning and intent. Calling words bad and limiting their use is limiting expression in my view. yes we should inspire younger generations to express themselves in more articulate ways but maybe our culture says curses are needed to truly express this reality. 

Multicontinental Curse

This track is inspired by the Jazz in Duketown festival in our city Den Bosch. 

So, is it jazz?
Not really, but as in jazz there are influences of all kinds of music, from electro to rock and from Dub Step to traditional jazz.

All used instruments;  bass, synths, guitar, sax, drum programming, vocals, vocoder by Carlo Neve

(when the beat kicks in) BOUNCING

Every year, late spring,
there’s jazz in our Duketown
Jazz, that’s what it is
you can let it get into you

There are several stages,
Some are bigger some are small
But the little stage at the church square
is the best of them all

There’s a small blind man in the audience
holding his guide cane with both his hands,
his eyes are closed he’s stands quietly
when the music gets deeply in

There is a moment
where the rhythm takes control
when the beats are getting louder
he starts bouncing

And when he starts bouncing
we start bouncing
we start bounging

Releasedatum:
6 juli 2025

Bouncing

Bouncing (when the beat kicks in)

Cast of characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — Ovation acoustic guitar, lead vocals, lyrics, and compostion
Scratch Kelly -- @scratchkelly — Sarah —  vocals
one man verity show – @one-man-verity-show – Scotty – Epiphone melodic guitar and vocals
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino --  vocals
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – triangle and vocals
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – (?) electric guitrar, mix, and production
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen -- (?) electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass

Mr Bringer-er Together-er is Josh. You may also know him as artist Entheogenic Psychnought or the spine of Eclectic Collective. We all came across Josh in our own lucky ways but he really sets a high bar for spreading constructive musical love and encouragement on SoundCloud. This song started out as a comment. I went to call Josh Mr Bringer-er Together-er and my phone auto corrected it. the next morning K2 swooped in and said what I wanted so I used that as a trigger for the song.
So TBD had a rough arrangement. We then invited a few artists except Josh to paint it for him. Scratch Kelly aka Sarah beamed through some amazing vocals. Not long behind Joe Stroffolino painted in some brilliant backing vox.Then Scotty (One Man Verity Show) chimed in with some amazing guitar, trippy backing vocals and the super artwork you get to enjoy. Mistermark brushed in a triangle and some vox and then K2 added those trusty drums. Llanpsych then strutted in and added some super lead guitar and not far behind him was TexMex Shaman with epic rhythm guitar that showed the way for the song from that point of view showing a much better space to all the other instruments then the original demo guitar. That was a lovely lesson on less is more...

The song was now ready to give to the main man and get it painted and he chose his trusty bass to put some strawberries on his own musical cake.

Carl now stared at 37 tracks and went... Hmmm Stephen/TexMex Help! Stephen mixed and mastered it to its crisp current form and it was a very difficult mix. He basically had to merge 3 projects to one and really aced the challenging mix and master like the true shaman he is. We hope you enjoy the song that brought us together again. May it give us more togetherness like Josh so wonderfully demonstrates everyday

You da brother man Josh 🤘🏽

Lyrics

Magnet of human
Moulded by melody mind
Just jester Josh delivers this kind
Collective of creed worth all our belief
Friendship
Togetherness through skill and relief

Sharing, Caring
Composer of purr
Human vibrations of the highest occur
Let's celebrate this human some more
It's Mr Bringer-er together-er

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er

Loving, Not shoving
Honing, Not moaning
Positive to give
In music he live
Loving his kids
Like he loves us
The luckiest kids who take this EC bus
Josh is the driver
Mr Music Jeez
More Mr Bringer-ers together-ers please

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er

The Joshua Tree collecting collective
Physical dreams
Metaphysical pleasures
Skills. New.
Unconditional prime time
The only thing we tow is how we making new time line

Mr Bringer-er together-er

You are the rod
You cast your spinners
You reel us back in from lake bitter winter
It's Spring all the time in your World and Page
Our Mr Bringer-er together-er sage

We all love ya mate

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er Oh oo
Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er Oh oo

Mr Bringerer Togetherer - [Eclectic Collective]

This is the lyrics version of my piano piece (https://soundcloud.com/konrad-spittelberg/the-clap-of-one-hand). (Roughly) same melody, but now with lyrics. 
If the melody left you puzzled about the title, maybe the lyrics will connect the dots. Hope you enjoy it — drop me a comment, I’m curious what you think!

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The Clap of One Hand - Lyrics
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The high priest looked the monk straight into the eyes 
“You search for wisdom, want to see through disguise 
Then hear the clap of only one hand, 
Imagine tasting the kiss of only one lip!”

The monk was puzzled, did not know what to make of this question 
His mind was racing without the slightest suggestion 
The meaning was hiding so deep 
He could as well go to sleep

And as he lay down he thought and he thought some more, 
And soon he’d snore a Monkish snore 
Deep in his dream he saw the cosmic law 
As it is and will be and has been before

To find the truth you need to see the world through different frames,
As place and motion, time and energy play Heisenberg’s games
The one single truth, the clap of one hand deceives the ancient lore

And then his dream shifted to our world
Where flags of dogma are unfurled
Where it’s en vogue to scorn the views of those 
Whose minds are differently curled

They yell their slogans convinced that it's only their kind who knows truth
They silence doubt and debate to keep everything smooth
They vote in blocs convinced others mean harm
They don't want to discuss they don’t want to disarm
They spit poison and phlegm - 
Them is us, us is them

The monk awakened quite surprisingly rested – and something like pride filled his chest 
The dream had opened his eyes and he knew the deep meaning that the koan expressed 
And so as fast as his feet could carry him he ran to the temple ground Requesting to see the high priest and as soon as he met him he told him the solution he found:

“Avoid the clap of one hand 
'Cause you can not understand 
The world in all its true colors if your mind cannot bend 

Every Current or Tide 
Must with others collide, 
A single stream is quite boring, nothing happens inside.

Seek out the voices that are not like your own – 
Don’t guard your comfort like a dog protects its chewed upon bone 
Be cautious if all of your friends do agree – 
You might discover greeater insights without cheap harmony

A field of only one crop may spark in sunlight like gold, 
But slight disease might turn these fragile monoculture to mold 
No coral alone can just survive with it’s kind – 
Reefs only thrive when hundredthousand curious creatures entwine

Don’t flatten the ground so that your pace can be faster –
'Cause if you don’t train your balance each false step means disaster 
All life, all vision needs to ripple and bend – 
Not frozen in uniformity but free to transcend”

The monk fell silent, his speech was complete - 
He wanted praisal, but the priest kept his seat. 
An awkard silence filled slowly the air, 
The priest just sat there with a calm, timeless stare

“I like your thinking—it rings wise, it rings bold, 
It has reason, it's crafted, it's gold. 
But, dear monk, there might be one subtle twist: 
There is one aspect that you seem to have missed.

You see the truth where opinions compete, 
That wholeness only grows where none is complete. 
But if no single view should stand out alone 
Then even your own view must be overthrown

You praise duality, the joining of two - 
But what if your view in itself is not true? 
What if the world isn't built as you claim? 
What if we’ll never know the rules of the game?"

Hear the clap of one hand 
Avoid the clap of one hand 
Hear the clap of one hand 
Avoid the clap of one hand 
Hear the clap of one hand 
… Reflect on the clap of one hand

The Clap of One Hand (Piano Poetry)

I started making this piece with the intention of it being a set of songs that could stand on their own as well as being an open collaboration, but then it took on a life of its own, and things just got out of hand from there, lol! 

But I still managed to control myself and didn’t add too many samples though, haha! 

I was listening to 1985 and 1986 hip hop singles when making this so….

You can download this for free as well as some of the unmixed stems on Bandcamp. The lyrics can also be found on Bandcamp since SC didn’t provide enough space in the song info. I reached my description limit!

Feel free to treat it as an open collaboration if you like. The song list, BPMs, and time signatures are listed below. 

I Like To Sample Old Drums Bandcamp Link: 
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com/album/i-like-to-sample-old-drums

Funny we are now moving to Portland. Bye, bye Hillsboro. I guess this is now a farewell song. 

Track Credits:

The Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
Russell Sinfield: Mix and Master
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

I Like To Sample Old Drums
Rap Attack: 112 BPM 4/4
Take The Max Down To Hillsboro: 189 BPM 4/4
Peach ’N Plum: 132 BPM 3/4
What, Would, When: 112 BPM 5/4
I Like To Sample Old Drums: N/A
This One Goes: 101 BPM 4/4
Bllll: 92 BPM 4/4
The Couch Can’t Help It: 87 BPM 4/4

Here are the lyrics just for: 

Rap Attack

I will
Put you in a tourniquet
Bleeding there’s no stopping it
Got a pimple 
I be popping it
Tripple nipple
Don’t be knocking it
I be chopping it off
Now blood is slopping  
I ain’t mopping 
You be dropping
When you slippin’ in it 
Finna sit and watch as I scoff
Maybe lickin’ ice cream soft serve, huh
What cha sayin’ I can only seem to catch ya gurgling brah
Nah, No one can hear you scream 
When you got a severe stream of
Foam bumbling, bubbling from your mouth, tumbling gravitationally south
Bro, i’m feeling bad for your health
See you reeling keeling over looking so sad 
had I know your noncongealinkg slow at healing
I might have
Not tried to put you in a tourniquet 
Tried to put you in a tourniquet
Tried to put you in a

I Like To Sample Old Drums

Bandcamp

Russell Sinfield and the Couch King -I Like To Sample Old Drums

R.I.P Prince of Darkness

Text:
[Intro – whispered, with echo]
He bit the bat, he broke the night,
He walked through hell and held the mic
Now silence falls… but not for long
The Prince still howls — inside this song

[Verse 1]
Born in smoke, raised by flame
He carved his throne with no shame
Brummie son with a devil’s grin
Fell, rose, and fell again

The world called him mad, called him done
But Ozzy laughed and cursed the sun
He sang of war, of blood and pain
He made the broken scream again

[Chorus]
Prince of Darkness, ride the storm
Through power chords and uniform
You never died, you just went deep
Where shadows play and angels sleep
You're not gone, you're not dust
You're every scream, you're every trust
Ozzy, howl through amps and steel
You're the madness we still feel

(Guitar-Solo)

[Verse 2]
He bled through decades, torn and loud
A haunted king beneath the shroud
The drugs, the fame, the shattered breath
He danced with every kind of death

Yet somehow lived, and loved, and stayed
A broken god we all obeyed
He showed us fear, he gave us grace
With every riff, with every face

[Bridge – Spoken Word/Whispered]
He never asked to be a saint
Just louder than the world’s complaint
He took the pain, made it a spell
He showed us life… inside of hell

(Guitar-Solo)

[Final Chorus – Huge, like thunder]
Prince of Darkness, raise your hand
One last bow for the damned and the grand
We'll turn it up, we won’t forget
You lit the stage, it’s burning yet
You're the howl beneath our skin
The storm outside, the war within
Ozzy, forever in the sound…
Our Prince still walks the underground

[Outro – quiet, then roaring one last time]
“All aboard…”
Crazy train… still runs…

Prince of Darkness (Still Howls)

Whatever about my song... As promised in the poem track here is a person who can potentially help you change your life 🫶🏽

Meet Gabor Maté

https://youtu.be/66cYcSak6nE?si=1hnPhfgdqEhheE34


Also 🌈

Listen to Rainbows & Dreams by No killie fish on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/6zxTUha3vdmkgVmdaZ

Please feast your ears on my fellow country man Johnny. What a ball of positive love Johnny is. We just connected last week but this will be a permanent ear rabbit hole. Well worth connecting to this Irish man.
I got distracted half way through these lyrics and got poked with that song and that's where the rainbow in us reference came from so thanks my friend 🫡🫶🏽🔆


Song Pic
This was my breaky this morning. We call it eggs and soldiers. We luckily regularly had it as kids. So boil an egg for 4 mins so it's soft boiled and then cut strips of buttered toast and dip them in the egg. it's so amazing. I had forgotten about it for about 30 years and a couple of years ago it roared back when I gave it to my kids which they now love. A yummy breakfast indeed 🫡😊🌍 Thanks Chickens and Bread and Cows and well you get the jist... for keeping me ALIVE 👌🏾

Then the most important part of the song was delivered by a very close friend that needed help so the BE lyrics were born from me wanting to send them all the healing power I could as they needed it. So thanks for that and I hope you're all good 🫶🏽♾️

For the record I ain't no healer but I believe good intention is the way forward for us all so 🤷🏾‍♂️ Just keeping it pure and real where possible 

I do have a hunch though that pure intention holds way more power then science currently knows or considers and accepts. Just a hunch I don't get too hung up on it and I think that's part of keeping intention clear.

Think it, feel it, send it and forget it... The forget it is important because you don't allow your ego attach worry to it then which may warp the projection of your good intentions

Now, the next day, Beating Edge just sent me a version as a thank you for thinking about them yesterday and I popped some vocal on it. Guys, thats amazing and pure instinctual musicianship right there. Well done

https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge
Connect with Beating Edge here

Lyrics

Miracle me
Miracle you
Born to Earth of Sun lightened new
We talk to spirit
Eight billion versions
We speak to all
Talk soul emersions

Heaters
Lights
Love all life's
Rainbow vessels
Intent finds bright
Shine these hues on all our colours
Intelligence tuned
Floodlights of fullest

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prove proof with your eyes

Radiant potential to soothe your nerve
Guide with word, paint, musical verve
Verse for you written by any
Matter is made for reference of many

Worth to live on past it's creator
Love evolutionary thought from a maker
Manifest zest to seed good behaviour
Survival of fittest makes you gene saviour

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prove proof with your eyes

Savour this life
We suffer
We live
Savour the strife
Good reference to give
Transmute the evil
Dark poisoned with light
Here, have a moment with eternal might

We know it's hard
But we are alive
Those difficult feelings challenge our hive
You're worth the pain
We are all g.o.a.t
Keep steady your ship
Life is your boat

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes

You're Alive
The proof is in your eyes
You're Alive

Alive

An original song by J.J. Terrell

Left Behind

It’s really about the nights we shared
Underneath all the stars

Now that we’re apart, it’s hard to breathe
Thinking of the love, the dreams we weave.

Oh babe I need you back, it’s true

Memories linger, they haunt my mind
Every lonely moment, I’m left behind
I see your face in the setting sun
Without you here, I’m all but done

Time keeps passing, but the ache won’t fade
Our song still plays, in every serenade
If you could hear me, would you find your way
Back to my arms, where your heart should stay?

Ohhh babe, I need you back

Memories linger, they haunt my mind
Every lovely moment, I’m with you
I see your face in the setting sun
Without you here, I’m all but done

Oh babe, I need you back
It’s true


Left Behind

The final one of the series of rough demos created by Hubert Stytz 
Hubert Stytz: vocals, all instruments, composition and arrangement
Pee Gee       : lyrics

Inspired by the overwhelming beauty of nature and the secrets of meditation ,  calmness  and mystical miracles!
INANNA

There´s a sound as darkness grows
In the moorlands till the nightwind blows
There´s a whisper up in the evening sky
Out in the distance the seagulls cry

Inanna.. Inanna.......Inanna.. Inanna

There´s a glow, a flickering in the air
Causing a change, a change of atmosphere
When the sun goes down , it´s fiery red
The moonlight shines so bright instead

It´s the wind that whispers in my ear
Sweet words of soothing I yearn to hear
As we sit  and watch the glowing stars above
Peaceful hours bring words of love

Inanna.. Inanna..a walk in the moonlit night
Inanna...Inanna..a dance in the shine of the moonlight
Inanna.. Inanna..a kiss in the face of the goddess
Inanna.. Inanna.......

Inanna.. Inanna..a walk in the moonlit night
Inanna.. Inanna..a dance in the shine of the moonlight
Inanna.. Inanna..a kiss in the face of the goddess
Inanna.. Inanna..a touch under cover of darkness

Inanna.. Inanna.. a walk............................................

Inanna

Dead.mp3

Don't Believe What Your Eyes See

I have been hearing so much AI music lately on SoundCloud and these  thoughts have been percolating with me for a while and finally they coalesced into a song. (created without the use of AI).
***
Vocals & Back Up Vocals: Joe Stroffolino
Guitar Strumming Track:  Joe Stroffolino Taylor 114CE
Drums: EZ Drummer 3
Bass: PG Music Real track
Piano:  EZ Keys2 
Synth Bass: Logic Pro 
***
You got tired of struggling so hard to write a great original song
And then this amazing newfangled technology came along
Now you’re using AI to create music, and it’s a much easier process
And you’re convinced you found the ticket to achieving great success.
You tell yourself you’re a great artist because prompting takes a lot of skill
But deep down you know the AI did most of the work and you swallow the bitter pill
People complement you on your guitar playing and they tell you your voice sounds great
It makes you feel so good but you don’t ever set them straight
Those classic rockers used to write 10 or 12 good songs every couple of years
Now you’re posting two or three songs a day and hoping for a bunch of cheers
You’re rolling the musical dice, hoping you’ll come up with a catchy viral hit 
But there’s so much music flooding the internet that no one gives a shit
You tell yourself you’re a great artist because prompting takes a lot of skill
But deep down you know the AI did most of the work and you swallow the bitter pill
People complement you on your guitar playing and they tell you your voice sounds great, it makes you feel so good but you don’t ever set them straight
Some people believe we’re living in simulation and none of this is real
We’re just digital creations in a computer with the ability to feel
But even if that’s not the case, we’re quickly, heading to a place where no one’s going to be able to tell the difference.
You used strum your guitar, trying to capture lightning in a bottle and the songs that emerged came from you.
And now the songs you write with AI, what they’re saying, you don’t have a clue.
Music used to feel therapeutic, it was a window on your soul that you could share.
But now something feels missing because your songs no longer lay your heart bare.

Prompting Takes A Lot Of Skill

Sci-fi nerd alert! A song inspired as much by author Liu Cixin as it is by Massive Attack.

Also, h/t to the bass octave pedal. You da best, mate!

The Dark Forest Hypothesis

Cast of characters:

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

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ and synth

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

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- clavinet, VST saxophone solo, VST horns, effects, production editing

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Telecaster HHS electric guitar

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

This song began back at the beginning of the summer, when Josh was messing around on his electric piano and found a structure to which to add his bass. As soon as he opened the project to the rest of Eclectic Collective, JJ jumped right in, adding his thrilling organ and ethereal background synth. Thus, Josh dropped his original e. piano part in favor of JJ's new parts. 

Ken was next up, adding the drums in reverse order from how he and Josh usually do it. Ken is very skilled at being able to add drums to a pre-existing bass line, which he displays in here. He also added the clever auxilary percussion you hear throughout. Mark was next to the trough, adding his funky clavinet, as well as his sax solo you hear lighting it up in there. He also added some well composed horns toward the end, not to be confused with JJ's synth. 

  Then it was time for the guitarists to do their thing. Stephen added the strong, melodic solos in the first two breaks with his guitar and wah pedal. After Tez added his thrilling solos at the end, Stephen went back in and added the funky rhythm guitar part. Tez also added the funky guitar riffs throughout the verses.

  All that was left was to get Carl in on the action, as he is the newest core member of Eclectic Collective. He wrote a poem and sung it in his signature, wild style for us.

  This is Eclectic Collective at its almost full strength, pulling six musicians from two different continents and four different countries together to create a song. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.

   On a side note, this will be Eclectic Collective's last song for two weeks. As most of you know, we release a song every Thursday at midnight. Due to vacation and travel at the end of summer, we'll be skipping  next Friday, the 15th, but should be returning the following Friday, the 22nd. We may also put something out this coming Tuesday, the 12th, so please stay tuned. Can't thank enough those of you who tune in regularly and support us every week. 
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

The Get Down - Lyrics

Hey Human
It's official
The get down on fire funk
Future sizzle
All members agree
Gotta collect that love
Then give it back and well, we see
Fuel for that musical party

Initition ceremony
Transcontinental spanking machine
Uh oh it's a musical tri sexual
Try anything that melody mentioning
Do it for the song
We gonna right some wrong
Rolling rhythm unkown
The human touch
The get down

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo
The get down
Friends don't frown
We got eachother man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo

Aw man, I'm feeling back tingle
Lads, go tell Fiona Apple I'm single
Llanspych, nudge PJ Harvey
Jamming that genius soul new wave!

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo
The get down
Friends don't frown
We got eachother man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo

Thrust that rush
Sine waved funk
Flying musical J's
Aw man it's Mike like dunk
Thrust that rush
Sine waved funk
To musical 24
You get a song
Drained 81 now on this floor

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music, keep that campfire warm
The get down
Love legends loud
Rest in peace good Kobe one
This one's for you
Good G.O.A.T of stun!

The Eclectic Collective   - The Get Down

No one knows what they’re doing
Don’t believe everything you think
Some things aren’t worth pursuing
Don’t believe everything you think
Feelings aren’t facts
They’re weapons of mass distraction
Holding on won’t change the past
You can win the game by not playing
Complaining won’t change the past
You can win the game by not playing
Don’t believe everything you think
No one knows what they’re doing
Don’t believe everything you think
Some things aren’t worth pursuing
Don’t believe everything you think
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light
If everything around you is darkness, you may be the light

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Brand New track on the Rocks! Summer 2025 and let it roll with my brand new track called "I Keep Protecting my Soul".

Purchase it digitally via #bandcamp: https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/track/i-keep-protecting-my-soul

(p) & (c) 2025, STA.

lyrics:
I keep protecting my soul
There's nothing more sacred than my soul
I keep protecting my soul
The body dies, it's eternal the soul

Clear is conscience, i am free i am alive
Sleeping in peace not with fear with opened one eye
I never harmed anyone, don't owe a dime
i am keep paving with gold this road so up high.

I Keep Protecting my Soul

Zombies Never Sleep

Tom's piano melodies are so inspirational, not just to me (Mark) but also to Jussi, Georg and Boon. The energy of this piece carried us all off on a wonderful journey. We hope you enjoy the joyful enthusiasm that Tom initiated. Tom also gave me the key line, 'My Way Through' and I had to run with it as it made so much sense with this uplifting and hopeful music. Thanks for listening.

Tom Regnier -  @tom-r-gnier Music composition, piano and other instrumentation
Jussi Welin - @juswel First guitar and guitar arrangement
Georg Boehme - @georg-boehme Horns and horn arrangement
Boon Suzuki - @boon-suzuki Final guitar and guitar arrangement
Mark Bennett - Vocals and lyrics

Wherever you’re bound you know I’ll, 
Make my way through 
Sure may take a little while
 But I’ll make my way through

Wherever I’m bound I know I’ll,
 Make my way through
 It may take a longer while 
Till I make my way through

Wherever you’re bound,
…You’re bound
I know that I’m bound, yeah!

When I get there you know I’ll
Make my way through
Sure may need a broader smile
But I’ll make my way through.

Earth

Don't Fear The Reaper Pt 1 And 3

Here's a heavy original fusion recording ... Make A Difference.
Give it a try.  The beautiful photo is from Lofoten, Norway, in the Arctic Circle.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Make A Difference

Hello, Welcome to TBD.
All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs. Thanks for all of your wonderful support.
Peace and Love to Everyone,
Carl Culliton