excellent swing dear friend🙇‍♂️👏🏼⚒☕⚒🤝🔥🪓🔥🪓🔥🪓🔥🪓🔥🪓

This is great, Carl! You keep getting better and better! :)

Kudos Thom Yorke for that line.. You know before I might have changed that line doubting I could use it without encroaching on originality. I have managed to here without encroaching on them at all so I decided to give him a sung mention. Adlibbed... Just like Thom says, It's like spinning plates. That's maybe a nice recycling of an artist that has inspired me and maybe down tastefully. Moulded me man

A regretful song about not seeing a friend  in need.
Fake Leonard Cohen in a higher register

Lyrics:
Sara, I never knew
How this world was killing you
I was so fucking oblivious
You did what you had to do
You could worry about the labels
For labels, they can't be peeled off you
Oh put me
Into the diving bell
Sink me down below
Into your private hell
I'll scrap the bottom of the floor
For the secrets you just can't tell
Put me in your diving bell

There's fire in the fuselage
A bizarre entertainment?
I just can't watch
Put me
Into your diving bell
Sink me down below
Into your private hell
I'm a weak man
I just had to come up for fresh air
Put me in your diving bell

I never asked
How you wore your mask
With your ritual tasks 
Seen through your jewelers glass
Oh drop me down
Into the diving bell
Sink me down below
Into your private hell
Diving bell

Sara , I never knew...

The Diving Bell (For Sara)

Venus

This is a live version of Coming Up For Air recorded at Gomshall Sports and Social Club using a TASCAM DR-05X on 20th Dec 24. Not the best of mixes, but not bad considering it's recorded on a small handheld device.

Coming Up For Air (Live)

Cast of characters:
Jonathan Beckenstein — @jonathan_beckenstein — acoustic guitar, composition

Cgmaness – @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – bass, vocals, and lyrics

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

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Roland FP-10 piano and Collings mandolin

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson custom T slide guitar, production, mix, and mastering

Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – harmonica, edited fiddle samples, and jaw harp

This song began when Jonathan wrote it on his acoustic guitar several months ago with the intention of developing it into a larger song. When Josh approached him about doing a collaboration, Jonathan thought this one would fit the bill. I should say at this point how much we all admire Jonathan and enjoy his music. On the unlikely chance you aren't already familiar with his music, I suggest you go hop on his page and check it out. 

  All that to explain the level of excitement that ran through Eclectic Collective when Josh shared the project with the group. Chris was first to jump on it, coming up with his intricate bass line even before Ken added his moving drums, although they went back and forth a couple of times to create the rhythm section. Josh jumped on right after that part was complete, adding his mandolin and piano to the mix. Steven was next up, adding his howling slide throughout. Last, but certainly not least, Mark came up with the driving harmonica and twangy jaw harp, and the raspy fiddle, adding them all to complete the instruments. 

  At this point, we had a pretty good instrumental song on our hands. However, Chris decided to give it the extra kick by adding the vocals, the lyrics for which he wrote himself. Our multitalented drummer, Ken, added the vocal harmonies shortly after, too.

  Now that it was in the bag, we needed some production for it. So, we turned to Stephen, who mixed and mastered it in his always expert fashion. 

  This song is a real treat for everyone in the band, as I mentioned earlie. We are all very grateful to Jonathan for sharing this song with us, and had a wonderful time helping bring it to life. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by cgmaness:
 Come on now let's break a leg,
We've got it made in the shade.
One more day, go out and play.
I guarantee we've got it made.
Oh, we've got it made.
Happy to be with my friends today.
Fill up your drink whatever it may take.
I guarantee we've got it made.
~Gibberish~
Don't need a reason,
Or wait for the seasons to change.
That's what I claim.
Go out on this limb with me,
And realize, we've got it made.
We got it made in the shade.
Can't you see we got it made?
Oh, we've got it made.
Happy to be with my friends today.
Fill up your drink whatever it may take.
Can you believe that we've got it made?
Come on now let's shake a leg.
We've got it made in the shade.
Don't need a reason,
Or wait for the seasons to change.
That's what I claim.
Go out on this limb with me,
And realize, we've got it made.


We've Got it Made - (Eclectic Collective w/ Jonathan Beckenstein)

A song I will let you make up your own mind to what you think it’s about.
Another solo effort as I’m trying to get a better understanding of organic recording & mixing while pushing the limits to my mini boss.
Gaz Brownie gives you ……..

Glide Across The Lake 

I’m breaking bread inside my head
After every single word that you said 
Your the closest thing to perfection 
I need another fix
just just another one of your injections

Chorus 
I watch you 
glide across the lake 
With elegance & grace 
I watch you 
glide across the lake 
With elegance& grace


V2
And the papers headlines reads today
She glided even better than yesterday 
The Angel of the water doesn’t make a splash
She makes it look easy for love or for  cash 

Chorus 
 
M/8

Angels on earth are now 
a witness to my life
The past doesn’t have to be the 
future 
please take me across 
tonight x4

Outro
I watch you x4
Glide across the lake

Glide Across The Lake - Gaz Brownie

File Update 3: Added Electric guitar

File Update 2: Added cello and viola sections throughout

File Update 1: Bass / Piano and more solid vocal delivery in... Its just spinning plates


Money really is the route of our evil. In this song I made a nice connection with Earth having never really had anything to do with money. It doesn't give a shit what we do but it will cycle and change to rebalance based on what we do...

Money is really the poison of our spirits. Or at least because it's so attached to materialism then way too many of us wake up and go asleep and in-between.. just work for money...

We've created this amazing. tool called AI which we are being sold as making our lives better.. ok how? There's enough money in the world to feed everyone... we now have this amazing AI to do all that work... So where's the lifestyle shift coming from towards the greater good. It's bullshit because the top 1% of the capitalistic shit heap will benefit from AI and people won't unless we demand that. Meanwhile most get tunnel visioned programming it with LLMs making it easier for that top 1% to manipulate the situation...


Where are people doing whatever they want more with their own lives... Not seeing enough of it yet but I'm hoping we get there... Like poisonous ideas latch on quickly... Positive ones should too when enough people latch onto them and project that. We learn empathy from each other according to emotional intelligence experts so maybe we have to stop projecting how fucked the world is and start amplifying the little bits of light that make it amazing and give us a future ♻️

A Spirited Collective

Lyrics

Back from the Future
Brought to present
Nurture from skills past
Service like feathers of a pheasant

Mom moulded by cello
Dad grooms with graft
The boys grew up
The very best at their craft

They found me one day and we bonded naturally
And together became our very best at IT

The rules!
Make something better EVERYDAY
Win with rapport & honesty
Do to theirs as you would do to yours
All must end positive for all through the doors

Nice and profound when you re write it down
The boys the strongest men in town
But neither would ever hurt a fly
Because they fix with their souls
And can hear you with their eyes

Back from the Future
Brought to present
Nurture from skills past
Service like feathers of a pheasant

This song is for my old bosses in the last job I worked in. Hard to call them bosses with the ethos the company had. I haven't worked for them since 2021 but they left a lasting positive impression on my life and this is to properly appreciate that in what I do now.

I'd like to dedicate the song to their Mum, Monica Baker who passed away last year. Rest in peace Monica.

Monica was a wonderful person and superb musician, cello being her main focus musically so I popped a cello or two in there as a hat tip to that and what Monica chose as one of her expertise.

Their Dad is a very inspiring individual who in the zone I know him for ... is one of the hardest workers I've ever come across and taught me deeply and directly how to get things done in life. He truly leads by example or the most direct chats you'll ever have... That depended on your performance... I received both the hairdryer and the passive example thankfully haha...

Colin and Wesley are brothers and they run the show.

Before I worked for them I worked for a company called Into IT. I personally did really well but unfortunetly bad management ran it into the ground inspite of all our efforts keeping it above water. Colin visited me in that shop one day towards the end and brought a tear when he told me it was me that kept the place a float for so long. Our supplier Paul must have made him believe that (though I had great help from the inside too) I developed a skill for putting out fires I didn't light. So I rang Colin after a month or so and we never looked back until I went my direction. It was a truly amazing feeling though to hear that initial appreciation for what I had poured my soul into in Into IT... Not long after that I locked the door of the store I didn't own for the last time and felt like I had failed... I cried my eyes out man but knew I had done my best, my reputation intact and Colins voice in my head for those moments of pain was nice..
So I followed that BFTF light
https://backfromthefuture.ie/

Special mentions for
Paul (sold me to them initially I think), Alexis, Evandro, Maelys, Thomas, Gonzague, Darius, Maruisz, Seb, Sten, Filipe (gifted him my old Yamaha DX  that first recorded the other side, which he repaired after removing all the weed from under the keys🔆), Bogdan, Luke, Gus, Rob & I'll add on whoever I forgot as they remind me while they learn of their superstardom 😆🔆
I love yee all ♾️
I remember my first meeting we all went out for lunch. Test # 1 I ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and confidently said.. Don't worry lads I'll pay you back or maybe I was just thinking that... But it was a funny ice breaker all the same 

The most memorable interaction skill I learned from Maruisz which I think he learned on an Irish times course on conflict resolution... It's a question for difficult interactions when there is a disagreement and that is you ask the person...
"What would you like me to do to?" When dealing with any rational person stressed or not, it's an incredible leveler that allows both people to figure out the reality of the situation by spelling out the actual solutions and the focus is shifted from the other problems that have been created for both parties but are not actually relevant to the solution

Back from the Future

File Updated 26/04/2025 @ 12:58 GMT - Improved Vox lead line and removed layering of that. Added some more keys and extended with a timing change from 9/8 to 3/4 as an experiment. It's not perfect but should work with tlc... will scrap that change if I don't improve it

Lyrics

Bargain serpent sits on top
A common fate we measure up
Real as army
Rhythmic troop
Invested in leveling liers with truth
Creating unique as free mind can
Actual feast feeds soul where we stand
Good brain at home ai can't ever clone
Eternal with free will megaphone

You're right...
I am the best version of me
Or at least that I believe wholeheartedly
Damian Dempsey lays it bare
He says, kiss a mirror
Then all love becomes clear
For how can we teach if we dont know
Positive highway to emotion reform

Oooo Oooo Oo Ooo
Ahhhh ah ahhh

I used to feel fear
Then I found me like you
Path oh so clear
Disillusioned, but true
The barricade is for the fake
A caged poison
'Throw away that key...

They may get some numbers
May get some money
As their souls fall asunder
We can shine sound like honey
Beehives of beasts who love art receipt
Lasering love
Towards their meaningless deceit

used to feel fear
Then I found me like you
Path oh so clear
Disillusioned, but true
The barricade is for their fake
A caged poison
'Throw away the key...


Oooooon ahh ah
Hey ha ha





File Updated: Day mode vox in first attempt... It's very different! I liked the soft version too so might do a more ambient version again and bring that back but I think this is where I want to go for the main version. Acoustic rhythm and Acoustic rhythm/lead lines put in also

This is for artist Barricage. Song kudos for saying it like it is!
https://soundcloud.com/davemillz

I'll gradually fill this out properly but first note is the lyrics were written on the back of the page the lyrics for Symbiosis were written on. They appreciate the connection with that song so I think that was a nice nugget for writing a song for them on the same bit of tree 🔆

The other worthy note for now is this is the first ever song I've written in 9/8... also a hat tip to the lads thinking outside the box

Discuss how we are the last generation with a pre artificial intelligence reference so have a great responsibility to pass onto the next generation what its like to be creative without it at all and how as we fully integrate it mechanisms have to be put in place for it to expand not retract general human creativity. This is also critical in an existential sense as we need to evolve minds to be more creative to move passed current negative bottlenecks holding us back...

AI certainly has a part to play in helping use become mroe consciously good as a collective but there has to be an allowance for the indivdual to be empowered by that transition also and not dumbed down by it. That cedes more power and the top 1% becomes the top 0.5%...

Barricage

Back in 2003 I was in a covers band called Airplay and we went in the studio off the advice of our agent to record 3 live cover tracks for promo.
This was so we had a product to use as a reference for bookings. 
The Darkness -I believe in a thing called Love
James - Sit Down 
& The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 

I read recently that 
The Darkness have scored a Number One on the US iTunes Rock Chart after Taylor Swift was seen dancing to the band’s seminal hit ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ with boyfriend Travis Kelce at the US Open tennis.
Thinking to myself after reading this I thought I’m sure I recorded that track the same year it was released in 2003 as it was a great energetic party track for the set. I’m sure there are many covers of it on SC but this one was literally months after its number 2 chart position in England. 
I finally found it and converted it over,  so for a bit of fun I’m thought I would release it and maybe release the other two in the future at some point.
First time I’ve released a cover so should be interesting how it’s received.
I give you Airplay the covers band with me on lead vocals.
Lee Hughes - Guitars
Andy Harris -Bass
Kev Smith - Keyboards 
Dave Robins - Drums 

I believe in a thing called Love……


I Believe In A Thing Called Love (Cover) Airplay

CHASING MY REFLECTION (Prod.66Smokey)

the switch

Welcome 🕺🏽

There is plenty about moi in the music and I tend to waffle in the behind the tracks so all I'll say is... Look for your truth.. Fuck the people who live by lies and project that. Our truth is what will nullify them eventually. ALL music here is created with Actual Intelligence and no artificial intelligence was required.
Create yourself. I suggest not letting something else do it for you unless you are learning something from that process...

The track 'Art in Life' spells out my feelings on AI music and what it's doing to art nicely... At time of writing it's a top 3 top TBD track here on SC... 'Symbiosis' which has been connected to less shows my feelings on AI for us existentially in the near future. Most recently 'Actual Intelligence' takes the real power of AI and starts making that acronym we all now use and giving it a proper meaning. Real AI... ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE!

I'll throw up the odd cover to promote an artist that has inspired me but I never monetise these obviously and don't ever leave them up for more then a few days. it's always just a poke of light with the renditions. It's these artists that founded me as a musician and writer so I like appreciating them from time to time. The covers are usually born from me trying to absorb them more deeply practicing them. A proper way to use old art unlike AI plagiarism...

Ok, last & by a long way least... here's what matters on SC to me the most...

... The other humans here 🫶🏽

Below are a few of the musicians and artists I have been lucky enough to get into musical bed with! If you are not here yet I'll update it as regularly as I think of it and thanks a million for sharing proper music with me. Be assured my input is always with my all so if you ever work and create with me you'll get the full TBD. I work very fast ordinarily so it's an easy peasy process for all...

Collaborations (please connect to these artists if you wish, thats what it's all about)

#1 Scribe remixed by Belgian Artist BeART
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/SuBE7ZUrL6JQ9HCYA 

#2 Miss you Dad ~ Magi©️Ian
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/WTjushdWBHDVjsTTA

#3 Solas Amháin ~ Jeamland & Bolt
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/U4QJqxoY1XVhS34C9 


#4 One Love ~ Joerxworx
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/Vd5D1zQW3h4SRNxt7 

#5 The Sith ~ $uper Acid $un$hine
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/GW2Foa9gSJnZjKvT8 

#6 Windswept ~ Tea or Sea
Listen to Windswept
https://on.soundcloud.com/X4DQhav21oDxgLSR6 


#7 Nitro ~ Well
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/9eg3eTSVRk6q2yAXA 

#8 Kardia ~ Neowakan
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/rZWqHBncWXfHKpib9 

#9 Song with no words ~ Blackbird
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/d4mh5mkufwC5mx2s9 

#10. Summer Ball ~ Oj22
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/AHnmMKLkCghFToye9 

#11. Shadow Surgeon ~ BOUYA BO-YA
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/aiNvkFVYLFJboeTk6 

#12 Autumn in the Wind ~ Shoocrane
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/uLHpBNKbVNBaZ4BRA

13. For Palestine ♾️
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/y8AWER2DevpnVWfz8

Open invite here to add your voice saying "For Palestine" Have managed to get 15 humans and my cat Yoda in it so far. Just PM me if you'd like to. With your name or listed as an anonymous friend, whichever you wish.

14. Neonverse ~ NB Nakita
Listen
https://on.soundcloud.com/mmwKvKL2ZwKzUrBX9

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