https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHs2freNptx/?igsh=MW9rNmNuMXBleXIydQ== Living room live 🔆

I love this captivating atmosphere with the different instruments and the reverse, a real performance! 👏

Consider this... Lose the behind the tracks and read each one instead with a silhouetted piece to camera. An actual beautiful dark character and use it to grow YT channel

This is so genius man. First time I come across someone who writes lyrics like my brother Dave. And hell yeah - fake everywhere, but I do think AI IS a part of that list of fake personas. People who like music but are too afraid to do it themselves, so they write a prompt into a bot and think the output is a good enough portrayal of their soul. I'd say that's pretty fake, wouldn't you?

What a unique sound! Bravo!!👏🏻 What makes you unique is how you churn out high-quality lyrics at a steady flow. One of these days, we’ll dedicate a song to you!😅 You’re really catching our attention!

Raw and real music, very fluid guitar playing!  Excellent!

Someone pushes the red button.........and now there are more of them in other places pushing their red button.....

In our skies fly a handful of intercontinental robots....carrying nuclear warheads.......

What does man feel in this moment of stillness and silence, before hell breaks loose around us in an exterminating firestorm.......

Armageddon - Seagull

Original track
Music made in Garageband

I wrote this when i lost a very good friend to cancer..
He always hade hope, and a smile on his face.... <3

Lyrics:

A new morning
A new day
Another chance to get luck on my way
I still belive it will be fine
That I can fight this away..

The storm rages
The rain is cold
But i still hope that I will grow old
Each new day is all I have
And I'm so grateful for that...

Never take for granted the life you have
What you have been
What you are
Life is so fragile
But you never know
If you get luck on your way...

I will keep smiling
I will pray
Enjoy the feeling that I am still alive
And if luck comes my way
I can get another day.....

The storm rages
The rain is cold
But I still hope that I will grow old
Each new day is all I have
And I'm so grateful for that..

Never take for granted the life you have
what you have been
What you are
Life is so fragile
But you never know
If you get luck on your way...

Oh, life is so fragile
But you never know
If you get luck on your way...

And if luck comes my way
I can get another day......

Luck On Your Way (Original)

Walking on our dreams

The sun is high 
I feel it will burn my skin 
but he gives flowers 
when mixed with water 

this world is beautiful 
of colors of notes and words
but we play to be afraid 
to ruin everything like idiots

We all want a better world 
from the pole to the equator 
no more promises in the air 
of speech that we know by heart
we all dream of one elsewhere 
from a part of happiness 
but the earth turns upside down 
from walking on our dreams

The sun is high 
I feel it will burn my skin 
but the time will come 
or he will dry our sobs

this world is beautiful when we love each other 
in the other’s eyes 
whatever his god 
regardless of skin colour

We all want a better world 
from the pole to the equator 
more promises in the air 
of speech that we know by heart
we all dream of one elsewhere 
from a part of happiness 
but the earth turns upside down 
from walking on our dreams


Marcher sur nos rêves (translated)

Gray Morning

Thx Project
https://soundcloud.com/thx-project

Rive gauche

Lyrics

//Who are you?🤷🏽‍♂️
Agnostic 'ism to me!🤷🏽‍♂️
Who are they?🤡
Anointing fake...📣

Where to follow?🤷🏽‍♂️
Most where seems stale and hollow☠️
Just points being raked💰
Personas faked🪞
Self matrix make!👨🏽‍💻
Blue pill to take🅿️
Where's the mistake?//:⤴️
I know no-one perfect💔
Yet that not many project💩

I made a mistake✅
Let's celebrate🥳

Who are you?🤷🏽‍♂️
Who are they?🤡
What ya make?💰
All I'm seeing is fake🤡

Who said it was a simulation?😆
Self assimilated monsters emerging,💀
Insular and sieved from the sun,🌑
Their blue pill gone,🌑
It's just Merovingian,.🤎
Self matrix made...👨🏽‍💻
You wanna fight?🤌🏽
Fight thee...🧘🏽‍♂️
Cause I'm free.🫠
Blue pill seed. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Knead blue pill need🔆
Seed truth now seed🔆
Feed youth now feed🔆
Peace proof proud Peace🔆
Knead blue pill need🔆
Selfless senscient deed🔆
Feed dullest free🔆
Plentiful with me🔆
Plentiful if you🔆
Plentiful with truth🔆
Feed youth🔆
Now, feed youth🔆

Who are you?🤷🏽‍♂️
Agnostic 'ism to me!🤷🏽‍♂️
Wheres the truth🔆
How can lies roam free🌑
Who are you?🤷🏽‍♂️
Agnostic 'ism to me🤷🏽‍♂️
Tell the youth🔆
Truth is light to takel🔆
A good mind matrix made🔆
Ahhh😌


Shout out to Neno J.
A fabulous guitarist. After listening to Neno... I picked up my only nylon stringed guitar because I wanted to give a few classical scales a try. I got distracted from that and wrote this song on that guitar. Possibly the first ever song written on it. I used to. e my nephews and he gave it back to me a short time ago because he doesn't play.

Here's Neno
https://on.soundcloud.com/bAnmgdrB25Rhe8M99 = Permanent Rabbit Hole / 🎧👂🏽

When pining too many fake personas in our world - Im not talking about AI... I'm talking about how humans portray themselves... It's nice to celebrate the very real and brilliant like Neno J.'s musical craftsmanship. So inspiring... What Bach would do if he landed today maybe 🎧

Real or Fake

alonealonealone

File Updated: 13/04/25 @ 02:51 GMT ~ Added piano - bass guitar, acoustic guitar picked and melody vocal line on top of spoken line that was there

Try - 148 bpm... consider up tempo extension with chorus  guitar 


"me" refers to you yourself discovering 

1.618 seconds between each reverse effected beat. It's actually just a pitch less bass slap 100% reverse effected and then re reversed to forward in DAW. But retained the flavour of reverse being 100% effected from the start


Lyrics
Let "me" be your guide
Stream spiritual insight
There's a shape shifting prize
Where your will shakes the show to shine

Tease tuned tonal Toltec dream
To please this whole reality
We are not afraid
We have it now and everyday
Limitless self
One deeper way

Mesoamerican mind
Bending space and time
Universal fabric
Where intention fabric wind

Our spirit was moulded to know
Aside good Gulf of Mexico
Where names forever mean
Dinnseanchas from real
Like all water forever know
Good GULF OF MEXICO 🕺🏽

Good Gulf of Mexico...
We all know


Incase I've made you all serious....

My Worm names in Worms Armageddon

1. Carlos
2. Don Juan (Carlos Nagual)
3. Don Genero (Don Juan Nagual)
4. Silvio Manuel (Don Genero Nagual)

"Reinforcements" 😆


Trump's desperate move to try and rename the Gulf of Mexico shows how weak he is. He shows how badly a mind can be poisoned when it blocks out their spirit. Whatever you believe about what he's doing/trying to do/has,hasn't done... He's a racist c*nt and that's a fact ... and the only way he's not is worse .. He plays on racist stereotypes and xenophobic poison within American culture and amplifies and nourishes it (🟧Scumbag {sorry orange square}) Both scenarios mean DT will always find history books as the divider he IS... His ancestors destroyed most of the culture that brought the wisdom this song discusses to light. So he ain't ever changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico as long as I'm alive. Not in my world anyways. If only the world reacted to his monopoly game with real money like they did to this attempted name change. We could accelerate the inevitable decline of this poison if we did put it up to them... I know that would mean a temporary pain and shift for all of us but we would come out the other side a better less greedy humanity.

It does paint very very nakedly how insular the people that celebrate that change of name without a very very bad taste in their mouths. Not a care in the world for anyone else but themselves. They urinate themselves all over the world "thinking" they are the pinnicle of civilisation. Well the smell is getting a bit rancid for everyone else and soon they won't be able to bare it either. Headline humans dumbing themselves down to oblivion. They'll burn away soon. Change is coming for the greater good 🍿

Nagualism

I wrote this song back in 2018 timeframe. I had a moment of realization from broken relationships. I felt tangled and pulled in so many different directions. The past has such an impact. Sharing these types of songs isn't the easiest, but it's part of my life, and how I felt. I recently changed a single lyric in this song which is why I wanted to do another take, and honestly I was really feeling this song tonight. Recorded live on my old baldwin. This is my only song where I do a piano crossover. Maybe I'll have another in a song one day.  I hope you can take something from this song. Thank you for listening! It truly means a lot!

Evaporating 

Looking at a love right down the hall
Scared to death to take the fall
It's something that I've always wanted in life
But the past is such a knife

Cutting so deep cutting so deep
Beautiful things I can never keep

I try and tell myself that this time will be different
Possessing a love that would be so consistent
But I'm wrong I'm not that strong

Watching our future crash to the ground
In my heart is the loudest sound
Scattered everywhere the pieces melting bright
Evaporating slow in the night

Cutting so deep cutting so deep
Beautiful things I can never keep
Beautiful things I can never keep

I've dreamed a lot of dreams of our shadows on the pavement
Expressing a love that would be so transparent
It's a dream always a dream

Looking at a love in a worn out sky
Feeling numb I wish I could cry
It's something I've adapted to in this life
Oh the past is such a knife

Cutting so deep cutting so deep
Beautiful things I can never keep
Beautiful things...I can never keep

Oooo Oooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo 

All music written and recorded by 
©Daniel Colter Valentine

Evaporating (Original song live)

My Method of Composing and Producing

I'm sharing my method of composing and producing music recordings in case other composer-producers like me might find ideas worth exploring in their own work. I use this method for Classical, Avant-Pop or Neo-Folk Instrumental genres, not for Ambient and Soundscape pieces. Non-composers might find this explanation interesting, but having a bit of music theory background will definitely help. I consider myself a humble learner when it comes to music theory. 

I owe a debt of gratitude to British musician and educator Gareth Green, whose Music Matters online courses and free YouTube lessons have taught me so much over the past few years. Thanks to his instruction, I’ve moved from struggling to compose music by trial and error to something more enjoyable and productive. The knowledge I've gained has taken my work in new and expanding directions. As the saying goes, “Theory is not a cage — it’s a map. It doesn’t make the journey for you, but it keeps you from getting lost.” 

When I start a new piece, I begin by choosing a key, and picking a scale drawn from one of these sources:
 
1) Western Tonal / Functional Harmony - major or minor chords I II III IV V VI VII
2) Modal Harmony - Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, etc.
3) Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" 
4) Messiaen’s "Seven Modes of Limited Transposition" 

For many pieces, I also decide on a progression, one as a simple as I IV V, or something more elaborate.  

Next I create a "scales and progressions" piano track in my DAW (digital audio workstation software) and enter the chords I to VII in my chosen key. These harmonized scales serve as a basis for writing multipart harmonies and finding pivot chords for key modulations. 

At the start, I know what instruments I want to use, making adjustments along the way. I tend to write chord parts first, then melodies created through a mix of improvisation and direct input in the DAW. Sometimes I start with a melody.

I develop melodies and variations of a phrase by some combination of: a) passing it from one instrument to another, transposing it by an interval that sounds pleasing, b) reversing it, c) inverting it around the tonic (first) note of the scale. These are well-known methods. 

After completing a section, I choose another scale and maybe a new key and repeat the process until I have a draft of the entire piece. Then I export a recording and listen to it “offline”, take notes of errors and new ideas, and incorporate them back into the piece. Often this “compose / listen / compose” cycle is repeated many times. These iterative cycles include adding new ideas, polishing transitions between sections, changing the arrangement, and incorporating expressive details like accents, and articulations (staccato, sustain, portato etc.). I’m often working several different pieces at once. 

Last is mixing and mastering: balancing the loudness between instruments and adjusting elements like reverb, compression, and equalization. I tend to mix as I compose, even though many producers frown on that approach. I find mixing as I go helps me envision the completed piece and make adjustments to the choice of instruments; it self-inspires me when the piece is starting to sound good.  At the end I do a final mix, but as the saying goes, “A mix is never finished — it’s surrendered.”

In the end, this method gives me a basis for exploration and creativity and helps me stay focused. The goal is always to make a piece of music that feels expressive, cohesive, and emotionally resonant.

Suite for Woodwinds and Percussion No. 2

No Tomorrow

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Benny the Brave is a song pinned to spotlight which gives a little more detail and all you need to know is in the above link. Your generosity would be most appreciated. Much love, Carl

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