Someone had to say it.. well done Carl ✨

added to my next up, I am going to check the choir out today, so It'll be an afternoon play, but I read the lyrics and that's excellent xxx

The rawness, the emotional vibe, epic my friend. 💀🤟

Added real bass and drilled home the vocal more

Great track man! you really channeled campfire vibes on this one... I think stuff like spotify and even soundcloud has made music so inconsequential. most people have always listened to what was trending, but I remember when we were kids, just 10ish years ago, me and Dave would go out to buy cds and we really had to pick one or two, and that was final... Led Zeppelin II on repeat for a whole month. Now everybody has access to everything. so that whole discovery aspect isn't there any more.  the algorithms picking people's songs know that sex sells. record companies know that as well. and that all culminates in nearly all mainstream "music" just sounding like softcore p0rn ambiance... I also wonder how drugs play a part in this. almost 20 million people in the US are on some form of amphetamine - and those apparently make people super horny... Maybe something to it.

Related tracks: I Keep Protecting my Soul

The first written for my upcoming Time Machine EP with similar music to Enigma and Time Machine, the next track I composed after Drift.

Electro Chill Nu Jazz at 76 bpm

An original composition, no AI,  written digitally MIDI to DAW
………………………………
WORDS that I wrote upon listening to a pre-production mix but they don’t necessarily fit the music. Yet.

Oh
Drift away safely with your head up in the clouds
Yeah drift
Where luscious dreams of a beautiful life are allowed 
Encouraging 
Cosmic lullaby 
Rocking gently 
until you sigh

Drift
Later maybe?
No, commit, baby
Drift drift drift drift 
Drift until your mind shifts 

Nothing can steal your moment 
Remember to keep faith 
letting go to drift will show it 
Wise words sayeth 
As you believe — so go with it
That is how to achieve
Drift 
To know it
Drift 
Go with it 
Drift
Let yourself flow 
Safe in the 
Drift
………………………………
76 bpm

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai Professional Keyboard 
E-INSTRUMENTS 
Concert Grand 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Ambient Lead
Lunar Chords 
Cinema Strings 
Violas
South African Singers
Deep Round Bass Synth 
Upright Ballad Bass 
E-PERCUSSION 
Roadhouse Kick Shaker 
Hip Hop 90s Kit 
African Kit 
Latin Kit 

COVER ART is original CGI by SUNNYBECK created using the DaVinci app for AI-generated original images and the artist’s CGI designed into a composite in Photoshop.
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ARTIST’S NOTE: 
I composed Drift one afternoon in May when I was literally adrift in disappointment, feeling low, uninspired, and fatigued. Empty. How could I create when I was so low? And a thought rang back answering like a bell  — just show up!

All I had to do, my inner voice told me, was show up, put your fingers on the keyboard for a moment. And I did, using the laptop’s built-in MIDI, selecting a VST called Cinema Strings, instinctively I hit an F6 chord — I have an affinity with the key of F because, as a student, I played French Horn, an F instrument. So I’m pressing the keys, and by a slow count of eight of the metronome’s clicks — bam! The music started playing in my head as if already written. I raced to unravel it in threads of melodies, searching for keys that matched what I was hearing in my mind’s ears.

The lesson for me as an artist is to remember to keep faith despite how I might feel. Because the music is waiting for a humble vessel. Just show up.
.

Drift

Special thanks to Cecilia for her a cappella ...of which I modified the tone in order to fit perfectly with my arrangement and atmosphere

EQUALITY FOR ALL.  🎧

This marks the third collaboration between myself and my good friend across the Atlantic, the talented US-based guitarist @jonathan_beckenstein. For this track, we decided to strip things back and focus purely on the guitar — no vocals, no production tricks, just two instruments speaking to one another across time zones and continents.

It’s a transatlantic dialogue in sound: layered, responsive, and full of nuance. We’ve aimed to capture something raw and intimate — moments of quiet tension, moments of lift — built from the simple joy of playing.

We hope you enjoy what we’ve crafted together. It’s always a pleasure to create with Jonathan, and this one feels especially close to the heart.

Nightstand

ALL TITLES ARE DOWNLOADABLE
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks / No I.A. / No samples.
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & 4H09
🔲 - Cover art - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile,
Focusrite, Hewlett Packard, Korg, Logitech, Marantz, M-Audio, MSI, 
Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
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ECOLOGY 😮-😡😡😡

EVERY TREE CUT DOWN OR DELIBERATELY PRUNED (so that it falls on its own later...) GREATLY AMPLIFIES GLOBAL WARMING, THE CAUSES OF WHICH ARE VERY MULTIPLE, PRIMARILY THE ACTIVITY OF THE SUN.
YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELVES THAT THOSE WHO GOVERN US ARE NOT THE LAST TO GIVE THEIR AGREEMENT TO THIS DESTRUCTIVE MASSACRE... THIS HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY VERIFIABLE AND VISIBLE ON THE SEASIDE FOR MANY YEARS!!! A REAL SCANDAL!
THERE IS NO SURVEILLANCE, NO FINES, JUST LAXITY, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
THIS INTENSIVE AND ORGANIZED DISAPPEARANCE OF TREES HAS MANY HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES FOR LIVING THINGS AND THE PLANET, UNDENIABLY ALTERING THE CLIMATE. 

ÉCOLOGIE 😮-😡😡😡

CHAQUE ARBRE COUPÉ OU TAILLÉ DÉLIBÉRÉMENT (pour qu'il tombe tout seul plus tard...) AMPLIFIE CONSIDÉRABLEMENT LE RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE, DONT LES CAUSES SONT MULTIPLES, EN PREMIER LIEU L'ACTIVITÉ DU SOLEIL.
VOUS POUVEZ CONSTATER QUE CEUX QUI NOUS GOUVERNENT NE SONT PAS LES DERNIERS À DONNER LEUR ACCORD À CE MASSACRE DESTRUCTEUR... CELA EST PARTICULIÈREMENT VÉRIFIABLE ET VISIBLE SUR LES BORDS DE MER DEPUIS DE NOMBREUSES ANNÉES !!! UN VÉRITABLE SCANDALE !
IL N'Y A AUCUNE SURVEILLANCE, AUCUNE AMENDE, JUSTE DU LAXISME, COMME TOUT LE RESTE.
CETTE DISPARITION INTENSIVE ET ORGANISÉE DES ARBRES A DE NOMBREUSES CONSÉQUENCES NÉFASTES POUR LES ÊTRES VIVANTS ET LA PLANÈTE, MODIFIANT INDÉNIABLEMENT LE CLIMAT.

The Trees

🌳🌳  The Trees  🌳🌳

flow presents "Everything" ♪♫

This is my fifth & final vision for the ep called "Secret Melodies"

I hope you can enjoy it! : )

Thank you all for your support & listen. Have a good day/night dearest listener! ❤

With peace & love, flow - DJ Ville. 🙏💫

Artwork: Midjourney

(This song is my original creation.)

Everything

This is music I wrote more than ten years ago that I decided to remix as best I could. I was just learning how to lay down more than just a piano track and had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I always had engineers that did that for me before there were online sites like Soundcloud and others.  I have 2" recording studios tapes from 40+ years ago that has original music that I want to get remixed and there is no one near where I live. If anyone can help me out, let me know. I live in PA.

2nd Time Around

'ghetto falsetto' with Harmful if Followed and sixstring mac 

Isaac and the apple:
Mac: music, lyrics and vocals
Harmful/Shane: lyrics, vocals, backups 

one man verity show:
Scotty: lyrics, vocals, backups, art 

Well the night’s effervescent and I’m on fire
Full of anti depressants to blunt my ire
Well aware of the presence of my desire
It feels very pleasant as I get higher
And I’m clad in a fashion to catch the eye
So why does everyone ignore me as I walk by
It would be a different story for a different guy
But I’ll never find the glory unless I try
So why do I lie so low 
Why don’t I let them know
Let them bask in the glow
Of my ghetto falsetto 

Most are fucked up from the drugs they take,
and don't care to interrupt all the love I make,
but I can't quite erupt so, I'll simply fake,
and make believe
that I have climaxed, because all the noise
that keeps me far from relaxed and trapped in the void, 
I've always had a clean nose but perhaps I'll toy 
with singing in falsetto. 

These streets are full of cackles and high pitched screams
A ghetto manifesto haunting my dreams
Monotone narration to a story I know
A baritone ending won’t leave me alone
I’m not crazy it’s the world around me
I’ll deal with the shit eventually 
Then get past the truth I know
That I’m too low for ghetto falsetto 

But it don’t mater how high or how low 
Unless you mean it nobody will know
All you need is the seed and the get go
Let go of the ghetto falsetto

ghetto falsetto (with Harmful if Followed and sixstring mac)

DAW Version
(Two runs of Acoustic and Vocal done simultaneously give us the spine here)

In my opinion when producing your recorded music maybe think of live playability. I feel it's a more authentic reflection of your abilities keeping that in the back of your mind when adding something. I always try and make it possible to express and that will allow TBD to become a great live act in the future as well as the studio work it is so far. All I need to find is the souls to do it with now 💪🏽🧬🎶

Tuning 432 HZ A
D# A# D# G# C F
Capo 1
Tempo 99

We need to save music with passion

The first letter made a page at 09:01 and the raw song got uploaded at 09:35. USE your instinct! Don't have a guess handed to you by the digital devil or evolution will take your sorry filled weak  ass genetics!

I don't know about you but it hurts me very deeply to see the indifference people are starting to show music with thoughtlessness. It is the job of true artists to passionately defend and spell out what makes musical character and how it moulds our culture and our individuality. Otherwise we are complicit in allowing a dystopian future unfold. FUCK THAT

I'll only start making more and more powerful passionate songs about this until people realise what stands to be killed! Enjoy your honey moon period I have more musical bombs then any program can ever manufacture. We have our RAW now here's the DAW.

FUCK INDIFFERENCE. Be real and be LOVE and we are all going to be fine

Further thoughts...
I talk about evolution a lot in music. One because we all need to tune into it properly in my pea head opinion. Also, music I believe is tied to our behavioral and cultural evolution more then we realise I think. A very small percentage of humans connect to scientists that explain our reality properly so hence don't get the fruits of those deliveries in an acceptable amount of detail. The very large majority of us do connect to music so I believe this right here is the best portal to connect people to good ideas about real life, the human condition, Earth and the Universe. That is maybe the most important reason we have to fight for it to not lose its soul because no matter creed or level of ego... At some level we generally keep the door open to music. It is the universal sender of love when conversation stops working. It needs to be protected by us all and that absolutley includes people who are thoughtlessly embracing the computer and becoming it's tool instead of the other way around. It's lmiting their skill development because of that or if you are just taking advantage of the status quo you are limiting the thoughts of young people trying their best so please think properly about it all 🙏🏽🫡🔆🤍

The Poem

So, you've invaded my world
You started this fight
Meet adamantium pearl
You won't crush me and music will win
Kids get inspired by character from within
This you can't clone even by force
'Cause this light will shine brighter everyone's course
Meet musical passion
Tears from the sun
Meet love you can't make with one/zero fun
Meet musical heart with wonderous words
Meet the deepest soul ahead of the curve
These tears are floods
Tanks of infinite force
To spell out this world giving spirit as source
I'll NEVER give up this musical WAR
You'll need to end me to allow you score
You can keep trying
I'll just always upgrade
The newer the kids...
The stronger I'll save
I pledge my life to fight for music
True character teaches evolution
We've fused it
Survival of fittest artists today
Will pave the way for creators to have more new say
Save the day and save yourselves
Grind those years to betterment elves
I am Thor for your digital drivel
You insult our culture so watch new civil
This hammer will beat it into your souls
We deliver this light by musical scroll
This is no dead sea
Love from me to you
Declare WAR for the soul of music!
I do!

Who's there? It's WAR

It's Peace

Esta canción está basada en un riff de bajo que hizo mi hijo Adrián. En principio su destino era la banda que teníamos "Eléctrica Azul" y se ensayó pero no llego a generarse completamente. La retomé y compuse toda la instrumental. En cuanto a las voces, éstas son samples de uso gratuito que he generado para que se acoplaran bien al tempo y melodía de la canción. 
Para las guitarras he usado mi Duesenberg Palomo Red Sparkle.
Resto de instumentos con plugins. 
Daw: Cubase 14 Pro.
Masterizado con Izotope Ozone 11 Standard.
Gracias por escuchar.

In English:
This song is based on a bass riff my son Adrián wrote. It was originally intended for our band, "Eléctrica Azul," and it was rehearsed but never fully produced. I reworked it and composed the entire instrumental. As for the vocals, these are free samples I generated to fit the song's tempo and melody.
For the guitars, I used my Duesenberg Paloma Red Sparkle.
The rest of the instruments are plugins.
Daw: Cubase 14 Pro.
Mastered with Izotope Ozone 11 Standard.
Thanks for listening.

Canción de Adrián

Here my friends is the Re-Master of one of my most popular Contemporary Classical Piano Improvs.

In it, i seek to describe a life-experience that elicited feelings more intense than happiness, or even Joy; like the inexplicable emotions felt at the birth of one's first child; or... by reason of one of those deeply transformational experiences that enlighten us forever.

An impossible thing perhaps.

However... my dear Listeners,
Here it is.
And... 'Yes! It's Something Like This'.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 -2025
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 -2025

It's Something Like This *

It was with immense joy that I composed this first song, dedicated to a German artist with miraculous singing talents. I hope you all enjoy it too. Enjoy!☕🍉☕🍉☕🍉☕🍉



https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2cDIjf6og-8&feature=shared

https://open.spotify.com/album/7MOYp32a01YMN67cxJrEuX?si=lUzo1yXiSyeczsARlnMLnQ

https://music.apple.com/us/song/cleos-isle/1831120430


https://music.amazon.it/albums/B0FL1BB7G8?marketplaceId=APJ6JRA9NG5V4&musicTerritory=IT&ref=dm_sh_8egdQctslv9clvKgNejtvJAxY&trackAsin=B0FL153PZ2




Cleo's Isle.mp3

slide with me

A very old one! I didn't have a loop pedal, so used my trusted Behringer delay unit on very long repeats/feedback settings to create layers and layers of sounds, drones, melody,... to create this wall of sound - with some chaos in the middle!

The little mirror in the silk hat

My friend Fly Nightmares on guitar, bass guitar, production and effects
https://soundcloud.com/fly-nightmares-700220347/tracks

Photo: H.Skeneby - Särö Gothenburg

Well and Fly Nightmares - Psychedelic Dance

Brand New track on the Rocks! Summer 2025 and let it roll with my brand new track called "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

I've always questioned the pop filled mainstream being an artist. The music the masses listen to generally as background music, with some exceptions, is pretty shockingly shit and generally pretty thoughtless. It's annoyed me ever more since having kids and the sexualisation of music is pretty bad taste given so many young people connect to it with an ever more free media offering. I ain't prudish as an individual but I'd like to think I'm thoughtful when it comes to projecting healthy things for people to be thinking about in our actual reality through my music. Celebrity image and the sexualisaion of art which finds the eyes and ears of kids needs to be challenged. It gives them that fake unrealistic pedestal to look up to and they chase this unrealistic artificially beautiful person that is selling their image. Psychologically when people don't find that in themselves I'd imagine it generally has a negative outcome.

We do it on a larger scale on social media where most people project just the happy things in their life again confusing people into wanting that perfect greener grass on the other side when that's not reality in most cases

In my pea head opinion we need more real and less fake not just with creativity but the way we sell ourselves to each other. Nobody is perfect but if some alien race checked in on Facebook first they'd have a pretty warped idea of what humans actually are!

Lyrics

Where are you mainstream?
Diluted, asleep and numbed
Must we sexualise this?
Will minds just cum on dumb?
I can't go there
Too shallow
My deep intimacy for two eyes and not hallow

So where's the tap
The portal of change
Can pure honesty be our new reigns in range
The masses paddle on edge of deep sea
Mass shallow escape
More pain for me

It's healthy pain
It's new reference
To purest being
Refined truth
Perspective
Do the wealthy gain or hide real engines
Soul sees stealthy sane
Let's mind fuck the gremlins

Will we tune to sense or nonsense
Will we nurture numb feared future tense
Still, most nature passed unbreakable wall
Hear, good nature, we got your call 🫡

Come on, Dumb

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

Howdy. Carl Culliton here from Ireland. Artist name The Beautiful Dark. I toyed with the idea of changing it but doesn't feel right after 24 hours so... Back to TBD.. Thanks for all the support and inpiration. It's infinitely appreciated

Personally I don't play the SoundCloud game of equal reciprocation. Every time my life as a Dad allows me to listen to a song... I listen to the whole song as I want to give genuine feedback and also learn as much as I can whilst here. So sorry if I don't listen and like and repost loads of your songs. Id prefer to support people by actually helping with the skills I've developed and give less frequent yet valuable feedback where possible then just playing the game of likes. That said I completely understand and appreciate people that decide to do that, that's you and you are as amazing as I am so no judgement. I just want to be clear with you that you won't get any artificial spreading of your music from here but you'll get my honest opinion based on what I imagine you were aiming for. This has helped me transcend musical taste in a way. I'm always imagining what you wanted as opposed to what I like. This has opened up some serious musical doors for me, embracing music that way instead of pre judging it based on what I've already heard... Lose the taste and expand your horizons is maybe what it is suggesting... I've always been a multi genre artist but this has activated multiple genre from an artistic point of view on steroids for TBD! A musical tri sexual.... The Get to Down! 🫡
Love will win ❤️‍🔥🎶🧬🙏🪶🔆🫛🧠🤘🏽

Let's let the music do the talking!

😆...

Speaking of the music doing the talking. Make sure you use AI to enhance the development of your skill. Getting a result delivered to you that doesn't reflect your ability isn't soulful. Be honest with yourself and be honest about what technology is and how it has come to be. There is a very questionable built in theft of our spirited art works that has been used to build current LLMs so the onus is on each of us as individuals to decide both whether or not we feed that beast at all and how we let that technology feed and enhance or limit our beings...

I've had mine and I decided for now... Only my fingers and voice will feed my music. AI needs to be made conscientiously for me to embrace it at all. I may look at it for DAW automation in the future as that will free up my fingers to make better songs but I'll wait until politicians do their jobs (we'll be waiting a while no doubt) and clean it up for all of us!

Regulate AI NOW so we can label music properly

Come on, Dumb

The Beautiful Dark

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