change these lyrics. They'll be misunderstood from your intention

Hey Carl man, love this beautiful song, especially your memorable vocals in here. Wonderful guitar composition and performance, too. Way to go here, my friend!

love it. the recorded vocals x 3 without tweaking obsessively the timings works really well. gives the vocal and the meaning layers that perhaps would not have been there or as evident without the ear catching / candy of the vocal textures. lyrics themselves are just brilliant. we should all strive towards the better version of ourselves and less the worry about the other stuff.

Use this song to upgrade on piano. Try and express this as is on piano

so, seeing as you pulled your heart out all over this, does it still work proper

From the album "Cairn" (2024)
Featuring Pete Toigo on bass.
Watch the music video:  https://vimeo.com/914503413

Ship on the Horizon

Inka binka ball of 
Ink is in the water 
There’s got to be a ship on the horizon

Cause here on the island 
It’s cold and it’s violent 
There’s got to be a ship on the horizon

The children they say it 
In their rhyme games they play it 
There’s got to be a ship on the horizon

Mother nature’s got the ocean 
Put on your boots you’ve got the notion 
To splash in the rain 
I know you want to
Jump in every puddle of water

Tsunami is brewing 
It could be our ruin 
Don’t let it sink that ship on the horizon 
Look up in the sky now 
Children learn to fly now 
You can up and fly right off this island 
Inka binka ball of ink is in the water 
There’s got to be a ship on the horizon

Mother nature’s got the ocean 
Put on your boots you’ve got the notion 
To splash in the rain 
I know you want to
Jump in every puddle of water

Inka binka ball of ink is in the water 
There’s got to be a ship on the horizon

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Ship on the Horizon

Harpsichord On A Box Spring

Beat Battle BB96 by Celaeno
Rules: on the thematic of the movie "Bullet Train", introduce randomness into your workflow and see where it takes you. You can do this in 2 ways:
-Make a song in any genre you like using 1 sample or MIDI file from the pack. You may change keys, and you may use your own sounds.
-Alternatively, you can go your own way. You don’t have to use my samples and MIDI if you don’t want to 😸 Pick a random chord progression and run with it. Flip coins, roll dice to determine song parameters. Randomize synth and FX patches!
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DAW: Logic Pro X
Samples and SFX: 3rd party and Apple
Synths: Xfer Serum (using Celaeno MIDI samples)

Make It Simple (ft. celaeno)

File Updated: Added What I be (Michael Franti) section and It's a Fine Day (Opus 3) section. Emphasised the Carly Simon and NIN samples too better. One clear vocal line starting to emerge now


An important note:
This could obviously be considered suggestive.
I am strongly against the intense sexualisation we see in society. However I find it annoying that you need to tip toe around that when coming at it from from an honest non suggestive point of view like I am. Limiting art for the wrong reasons is not evolution and limits the thinking of younger people...

Taking that power back! My only intention in this song is to project and maybe even protect the funk! So I stand by it and I don't mean to offend anyone. Cancel culture only gets fixed when we have proper conversations about hard topics and suggestiveness can be both positively and negatively poignant for us I suppose...

If after reading this your still offended... Have another listen... Your life needs more funk imo... 

I have two daughters and one son. 9, 4 & 6.. Rising above the bullshit vein sexualisation of humanity will be their ticket and I'll help them flap those wings with songs like this. What does it achieve..? Enjoying words and ideas for what they are in the real world...  I'm hoping I'm transcending sexualisation with my intention and they'll be taught that when the time is right. What other adults make of this is none of my business...

If you read the words there is my non sexual intention in every single idea...

This is a very important thing society needs to learn for me. More widespread critical thinking. This train of thought reminds me of the Columbine shooting where so many young souls lost their lives needlessly. Most powerful circles blamed Marylyn Manson and other perceived brands of fear. Lyrically, when you read him, this couldn't be further from the truth .. Power circles with bias motives will always blame whoever they can creating cancel culture. We don't have to eat at their table though


Songs to consider for this:
-Cant touch this - MC Hammer
-Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
-Michael Franti ~ What I be
-Its a fine Day ~ Olive
-Blackbird ~ Song without Words (pitch shifted)
-Ocean between the Waves - The War on Drugs


Mashup of my collaboration with Oj22, Summer Ball / No, You Don't by NIN & You're so Vain by Carly Simon. Kudos to Super Acid Sunshine for that idea! This was in his mind for our project, The Sith and thats why i thought of it today ~ Will fix the prominence of the other two ideas just need to let it simmer for a bit and will bring them to the foreground nicely...
need to record the 'you're so vain' bit better and then should find one lead vocal to knit it all throughout... Very happy with this result so far



Adjust below funk me's to mention all the artists that end up in it and give them a relevant rhyme and shout out

Provocative because sexualistion is a problem for humanity! But for Carl and the family... It's deep thought 

Funk me
Funk me
Funk me
Funk me free

Funk me
Funk me
Funk me
Funk me TBD

Funk me
Funk me
Funk me
Funk me You

Funk me
Funk me
Funk Oj22

Mother funk me
Funk me
Funk me
Funk me love

Funk me
Funk me
Funk me
Creative

Summer Ball (Medley Mashup: NIN/Carly Simon/Opus 3/Michael Franti)

Mysterious Minds

Back with Observers rule the Sun. I'll zip it for this one The Song can do the spouting and I'll just observe... haha mostly.. Decided to go with 3 acoustic arrangement, live mic for each on a seperate run and just sang while doing them so it's vox/acoustic x 3

Human time again. I think I'll make a rule for this song.... never play it with exact time. Only what comes out. Ruling that time. Ruling that sun. Love and Light to everyone 🔆

Lyrics

'Seed to simplify
Need to sense sight
Food for prescience
Moods from heavens
Beeds had roses in flames
Deeds from men insane
Creeds of confusion reigned
Cede it to never again

Feed my control
Knead self and soul
Knurl your metal mind
Unfurl your very kind
Know one inner you
Go control no two
This onness can become
When observers rule the sun

So on this Earth, We give birth
We found our worth
So on this Earth, We give birth
We found our worth

Read, to simplify
Sieze your sense of sight
In clues for prescience
Foods from heavens
Seeds have roses with names
Beeds from humans sane
Creed dissillusion saved
Ceded to never again

Feed my control
Knead self and soul
Knurl your metal mind
Unfurl your very kind
Know one inner you
Go control no two
This onness can become
When observers rule the sun

One cannot stare naked eye
In heart, cry explain cry
I'm told our sun enrols
All backbone of our soul
Some change or well be gone
Observers cannot be wrong



Knead: Work together with your hands. Mix

Knurl: Imprint a pattern on metal for a grip etc. So I mean a grip on your mind

Observers rule the Sun

Produced by Julian Maramieri
Arranged and mixed by Julian Maramieri and Andreas Meinert
Written by Julian Maramieri
Words by Julian Maramieri and Andreas Meinert
Recorded at Oalanka Studios in 2016
Released by Sequenz Frequenz Records

Der Kontakt

Circuit C - Der Kontakt

Cette mélodie danse dans l’air
Un secret doux qu’on veut taire
Elle murmure des vérités cachées
Dans l’ombre où les cœurs vont s’échouer

Elle porte mes rêves un peu brisés
Comme des éclats qu’on n’a jamais recollés
Son rythme bat comme mon âme blessée
Une cadence que tu peux apprivoiser

Cette mélodie est pour toi
Elle plonge dans l’écho de ma voix
Sa profondeur c’est un miroir
De mes pensées et de mon espoir

Elle s’envole comme un oiseau perdu
Cherchant un ciel qui ne l’a jamais vu
Chaque note est une larme tombée
Sur des pages qu’on a oubliées

[Bridge]
Dans le silence elle crie ton nom
Un refrain doux comme un frisson
Elle vit dans chaque souffle volé
Une promesse qu’on ne peut effacer

Cette mélodie est pour toi
Elle plonge dans l’écho de ma voix
Sa profondeur c’est un miroir
De mes pensées et de mon espoir (:II)

MELODIE POUR TOI

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

4.B 547 que ferions nous Seigneur

Nébuleuse

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 ❤️‍🔥🎶🧬🙏🪶🔆🫛🧠🤘🏽



11 August 2025 - Mum just shared a pic of me on my first day in school. Check out that square 80's schoolbag haha... I was ALWAYS the dickhead in class that asked the questions... Happy days... I'm still there everyday until I die! So lucky 🧬🕯️🪶

Schweeeeet

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

Observers rule the Sun

The Beautiful Dark

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