An apocalypse we actually need!  As FDR put it, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself!"  How much we would accomplish if we weren't so controlled and motivated by fear.  Truly would be a better world.  Brilliant lyrics as always, deep from the heart.  I love the buttery smooth production, excellent vocals and finger picked guitar.  Played so soulfully, brilliant work Carl!

Oh well, Carl… we had to talk a bit among the five of us before commenting… this is not a light topic! Anyway, musically, that bass is as low as it gets.. smashes!! And we really love everything else too. As for the lyrics and the whole description, you could write dozens of books… let’s just say, extremely briefly, that we share your hopes in this very post-Eddie Vedder meets Alan Watts reflection… Funny coincidence that, around the same hours, without talking to each other, we used the same words in our song descriptions and titles! From Evolution to Apocalypse!! Who knows… maybe this connection is really expanding…❤️‍🔥

@joerxworx Fancy sticking something in this? Was thinking sax or even your Duduk VST might work if you're interested. No sweat if it doesn't tickle the taste buds ✌🏻

Great work my friend ! .... of course I would contribute something, but there's a lot of stuff going on, so I think it would be an overload to add a wind instrument ?!

so very happy you're into the darker sounding music as much as you are. Probably doesn't seem like it now, but it used to almost all I would ever try to write back in the day. The Beautiful Dark indeed.   :)

Really beautiful and moving stuff, Carl. I’m always impressed with your vocals and all instrumental additions, brother! This is epic and perfectly done! Love that iconic movie,  too, of course! 🌟 Thanks for sharing, man! 😎👌🩵

Amazing track!!!! (And I just came from Jorg's place and listened to the version there. Highly recommended! An added dimension.)

Instrumentation
-Matilda my daughter on Vocals (So amazing man)
{we did it on battery power, just had a power cut here}
Thanks for completing me Matilda🫂 You can be whatever you want to be. Just manifest it sweety 🧬❤️

-Breathy Pad played on keys x1
-Piano played on keys x 1
-Pop Rock kit 16 sections
-Native American Flute played on keys x 1
-Vox runs x 4
-Electric Guitar rhythm picked x1
-Electric Guitar lead x 1
-Acoustic Guitar Picked/Rhythm run x1 (needs presence)
-5 String Bass x 1
-String arrangement of basses, cellos, violins and violas played on keys

To Add
-Running Water/ Stream sound


Earth

Good mighty one
Parent planet of worth
You are our father and mother
Earth
Once danced as dust around our star
All grains of char and trance we are

Great graviton of physical friction
Cloud coalesced to spawn all fiction
You have the zone for fable of forest
Just time now tunes existence upon us

As melted pot
Heavy sent to core
Space cooled your jets
Lava crust time pour
We cooled some more
Cured continental crust
Grand core feeds gas for baby atmos trust

Strong crust now ready for meteor a many
We take space punches of water a plenty
Born our seas and carbon cycle
Now light and liquid married seeds for life's title

Magnetosphere
Dimensional tamer of sun
Fierce solar storms won't stop life's run
Filter fire form
Not Venus sphere
Sown Martian cold
Gold spot sewed clear

Tepid planet
So green
So great
So many mutants
Evolved on your plate
Tectonic trained
Innate of know
Some hope we glow
To be selected next flow

{Enter Matilda (9)}
Earth
Mother
Father
Worth
Earth
Mother
Father

Earth

FEARS FOR DREAM

'strike two'

scotty: acoustic pearl export, epiphone casino, fender squire 3/4 bass. Just blowing off some steam, y'all. 

strike two

They bend beneath the grammar of shapes,
their spines spelling out the circle’s weight,
the triangle’s sharp silence,
the unfinished mouth of the arc.
On the striped earth they move like broken metronomes,
measuring a rhythm only the sky remembers.
It is less a dance than a translation
flesh carrying the burden of thought
bodies turned into symbols,
symbols turned into prayer.

Jonesy

an older tune I cleaned up a bit
it is a tribute to actor, singer, dancer, artist, and author Russ Tamblyn, who turns 91 in December.

I wrote the song around the time I retired from my  medical career. So  along with references to  Russ and childhood memory, there are veiled allusions to this strange  new exciting but a bit unsettling life circumstance in the lyric.

As per Russ 
He danced and acted in Westside story  and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers most famously but was in a bunch of movies in the 50s and 60s.. and ....my favourite as a kid was the War of the Gargantuas, which  for Russ was a creative low point ..but  it got him to Japan
opening clips from WotG...the middle and end clips from his movie Highschool Confidential



PS The line in the last verse Words stuck in my throat..lifted from the song The Words Get Stuck in My Throat From the movie War of the Gargantuas...sung by the wonderful Kipp Hamilton who has to contend with a Gargantua groupie..dont worry she survived....clip of the song in the movie is here
https://vimeo.com/358726099?fl=pl&fe=sh
Devo did a cover of it years later


Russ Tamblyn

I'll get a Tokyo life                             
Say some words off the script          
Monsters in play                                
Career gone adrift                               
I can make it in spite                          
Of the way they dub my lines              

I'll sail to the East
Maybe take me a bride
Dance out regret
Act up with pride
Let me do it 
Let me do it
Let me do it brother, what do you say?
My little boy brain wants to be Russ Tamblyn for a day

I wanna be cool
I’d like to be strong
A fighter who dances
A singer of songs
Add some rhythm 
Put some muscle on these rhymes 

The streets of the West
I'll be taking a side
Living forever 
This world’s opened wide
Let me do it
Let me do it
Let me do it, what do you say?
My little boy brain wants to be Russ Tamblyn for a day 

In 1970                                         
I saw him on the TV screen        
With those creatures, one             
brown, one green                         
My Gargantuan celluloid dream   

They said I could bail    
I’d much rather swim
Head above water
Life on a whim
I can make it in spite
Of their doubts and their goodbyes

Words stuck in my throat
What's left to say?
There's only myself
I can't stay away
Let me do it 
Let me do it
Permit me if I may
My little boy brain wants to be Russ Tamblyn for a day
My little boy brain wants to be Russ Tamblyn for a day





Russ Tamblyn(the Ballad of the HotR)

Years ago, my brothers and I had spent several weeks getting my dad's house ready to sell after he had passed. I was in the realtor's office ready to sign the paper work when the prospective buyers asked why I wasn't buying the house I grew up in.  I said (not thinking) "Too many ghosts".  The realtor immediately jumped in and said, "he means memories" to which I smiled confirming the needed clarification:)  It does beg the question however, how many "ghosts" haunt our lives; bad decisions, fractured relationships, things we did or failed to do.  I have found hope and forgiveness in the Christian faith, others have found healing in the passing of time, others still carry a heavy burden of what could have been or should have been.  Peter explores the theme in poignant verse to Seagull's quixotic soundtrack.  I am honored to  contribute a few colors to the tapestry;)
Acoustic guitars left & right; David Dunham; @david-dunhamuser589535203
Superb Poetry/Lyrics, Narration; Peter the Poet; soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Master of the music, lead guitar solo, mix & production;  Seagull @farout-music-studio
Wonderful voice: Clara Sorace
Track art: Bing images
Ghost of a Sense:

Yes, I know you.
I can feel your presence.
I can touch you, smell you.
I see you not by sight of eye
And yet I ken that you are I
That vespered wraith that writhes within
To test my faith, try my sin
Push the bounds to cause offence
A moral, soul thing, ghost of a sense recalls myself, so well defined
Entrenched, walls behind, built so sound of dust that crowned the pity, falling soft amiss,
Deep inside the tears I cry as here I find my self-abyss.

Whispers bringing shadows, filled of secrets therein held,
Memories, morose, piece me still, to wear in time, my wasted face.
And now reside, cast aside, to forge and ever meld,
Of haunting, ringing echoes, that will alone their chime erased.

Ah! But you won't twist me, nor bind me fast, to the sandy doctrines of the misty past,
With its beards and staffs and crinkled testaments.
My future's sprinkled here present with your crass irrelevance and matters not that sat right there,
The blackest chasm in my simpling world so spare,
Where space and time have overspilled the leaking psyche of a crippled mind,
That barely copes, unfulfilled, a crooked, limpid moral health of broken shrines
That hopes to find ....
.......some worthwhile inner self.

Ghost of a Sence (Seagull, Peter, David)

lyrics

Can't be so sure
Anymore
Can't be so sure
Anymore
I know what you're thinking
I used to think the same
I'm seeing things that I've never seen
I'm hearing things 
that I wish I'd never heard
I think
I think
But I need the truth
I need the truth
I need the truth
Can't be so sure
Anymore
Can't be so sure
Anymore

can't be so sure

Club Remixes

Artist with no name (Club Version 2025)

Tuning 444Hz A Standard
Tempo 60BPM
Timing 4/4
Key C#

Instrumentation
-Finger picked Acoustic Guitar (-1 semitone)
-5 String Bass
-Piano played on keys
-2 meditative pads played on keys
-eBow Electric Guitar
-Vox runs x 5
-Modern house beat with a Chinese drum kit
-Lead electric guitar
-Bells played on keys
-added double timed outro phrase to fade

To do
-EQ some of the very high end out of Lead guitar

An Apocalypse for Fear

Change is here
Crystal clear
In range new gear
Skilled solar seer
Watch winds of old fan final flames
Old thought burns out it's charred remains
This range of fear is weak and waning
Who hears awareness wide
Awaking

Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Good conscious dear
Engage that gear
Cogs of calm
Clutch of clever
Smoothest shift
Sagacious lever
Endeavour for deep
Most mind turned to nought
Forever, a feast
Brain brilliant taught

Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
Crystal clear
Good conscious dear
Engage that gear
Skilled solar seer
Be near

An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
An apocalypse for fear
Change is here
Be near
It's near
Be near

The song image was taken just under a year ago over the back wall of my garden. A beautiful winter morning. So the shrubs are leafless and the mist is quite prominent in a foreground darkened by the rising sun. It's an unedited photo and for this piece I guess shows how looks can be deceiving... And the camera can lie when tying imagery to an idea 💡 Movie makers make careers of it convincing us of their imagined realities... The pic is totally Terminator 2 though minus the playground and fence... haha 😆 😎

If we find an end to something for the human condition, let's make it fear. If we let go of our fear then a lot more becomes clear and beautiful about this world. As we continue in an age of constant over stimulation and a generation that has grown up to learn only that, I believe more then ever we have to try and teach younger people that it's nature that will stimulate our own internal balance and for them to realise that maybe they need to learn to not just go with the crowd of humans taking those doses of fruitless over stimulation. To avoid an actual climactic apocalypse we all need to actually synchronise with Earth and learn it. I don't believe they will find that glued to an ever more biased internet that young minds must find it difficult to navigate without switching off to what is important... Earth and themselves

I feel we find that by becoming more aware of truth that is relevant to our time and our experience. The Internet and media can be difficult to navigate as it is full of so much misinformation and power circles within society wanting to keep people in fear mode. It's easier to profit from that and retain the power of imposition. We need to start asking the right questions about our reality and stop listening to people planting imperfect truths in our heads.
We all have a slightly different version of the truth, but we only find it by asking ourselves that version honestly 🧬 That's how knowledge evolves, by combining those new truths, not by parroting what other people convinced you was true

A lot of scholars are starting to talk about how we are echoing periods that ended in destruction, but all those previous periods didn't have widespread good information like we have for people to train their mindset to the evolving reality. Yes we have the disease of misinformation to tilt away from, but the good stuff is there and more and more of us have access to it if we just look. That's the big difference this time for me... We have the power now of amazing good information to form a conscientious collective and become conscientious individuals. We don't have to be told what's up anymore and we don't have to be afraid of our changing world. As Eddie Veddar said...  "It's evolution baby" 🍼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI&list=RDaDaOgu2CQtI&start_radio=1
Rock and Roll!

An Apocolypse for Fear

Cast of Characters:
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST Middle Eastern instruments (Duf Drum, Daire drum, Darbuka, Riq, Qanun, Zurna horn, Ney flute, strings), female vocal sample, 'ululation' (high pitch yodel), and composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Custom fretless 5-string bass 
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – saz, shakuhachi, and synth
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — cymbals and Chinese percussion
Llanpsych - Fluffer for the keyboardist and key grip
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — traditional gourd-body sitar and mastering.

  Josh had the idea for doing a traditional Palestinian song, as he is an avid fan of their music. He wanted to raise awareness of this music and everyone in the band was immediately on board with this idea, and set about to make it happen. 
  Mark, who is an expert percussionist, learned a basic traditional Palestinian drum pattern, in a very authentic fashion. He laid it down, along with an Arabic sounding modal melody line portrayed by the quanun, which is a kind of zither. Josh found this pattern fascinating, and added his five string fretless bass to the it shortly after. Carl jumped in very shortly thereafter, and came up with some really amazing vocal melodies, as well as wonderfully prescient lyrics. He even learned more than several phrases in Arabic, which he sang in there, too. We were all very impressed by this, of course.
  JJ was next up, adding his magical, melodic, and exotic saz, shakuhachi, and synth to the mix. Ken threw in next, adding his perfectly timed brass and Chinese percussion to the mix, too. Last, but certainly not least, Stephen recorded his subtle, exotic, traditional sitar to the piece. 
  Once we had it all recorded, we turned it over to Mark for a mix, as the whole thing is really his baby. Stephen mastered it, though, as he is our resident professional producer.
  Our hope is that this song inspires you to dig into Palestinian music, and through that, you recognize the magic and the humanity of millions of Palestinian people who are suffering unimaginably right now. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.

From Carl...
Music is our key to permanant peace on planet Earth in my view. If written thoughfully, it is our unimposing tool where we can share our different cultures like EC have done here to celebrate with our Palestinian friends stylistically the light of their music. I don't speak Arabic so I hope I don't offend anyone but I learned the Arabic as best as I could phonetically. It's done with the best of intentions . The eight Arabic lines are famous proverbs and show us how similarly all of our truths evolve from our hearts and souls

Peace and Love to everyone


Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Sisters and brothers
Daughters and Sons
We would give you food
But the road is blocked to sun
Proud Palestine
Brave brethren
Our hearts are with you
Our souls are weeping

Inhumane blockade of bread
Pains collective minds 
We want gone this dread
Let's find our kind
Please be strong
As we right this wrong
Hope prays that day will not be long

We pine with your God
To find a normal truth
Where your kids can grow and learn good youth
Sisters and Brothers
Daughters and Sons
We are with you Palestine
Sending love through song

The eye sees but the arm is short ( العين ترى والذراع قصيرة )

We are in the same boat ( نحن في نفس القارب )

Winds do not blow as the ships wish ( لا تهب الرياح كما تشاء السفن )

Being alone is better then being with someone bad (أن تكون وحيدا أفضل من أن تكون مع شخص سيء )

What is hidden is more then what has happened ( ما هو مخفي أكثر مما حدث )

Every problem has a solution ( لكل مشكلة حل )

Good intentions count for as much as good actions ( النوايا الحسنة لها نفس أهمية الأفعال الحسنة )

All is well that ends well ( كل شيء على ما يرام إذا انتهى بشكل جيد )

Oh My Darlin' Palestine (Eclectic Collective)

We’re not bound by our pain, our past, or our mind. We can still let go, float free, and find our way home.


Were not trapped forever (Prod Segway)

Howdy,

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



What playing music does to your brain

https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng?si=KJt33NWjUo63ieAm



A nice David Bowie Interview here:

https://youtu.be/JRtZc_Nmo5w?si=1g1Wag87NdEumAc4

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