it's a bit messed up but still one of my favorites from this writing spree. Les Paul lend added 🔆

I’m starting to feel a bit sad about AI.. in the arts… human relations… in the workplace… will it become sentient? ..

Ted... "Dada... what's that's...?" that's the Les Paul and Epiphone  distorted Ted... "it sounds deadly Dad... that's my favourite now..." I fucking made it 🥲

It’s starting to worry me a bit. Smart phone, smart car, smart tv. AI companions.. the guitar AND the vocals are perfect!! Edgy and urgent sounding. The sustained vocal notes are very well played. Intense.

no arguments from me...it is dangerous how quickly we have become so reliant or at least ready to access  and accept the alternative intelligence (if not artificial) into our every day existence

and terminator is still my favourite movie of all time

Bandcamp

Nighthawk Confession

Rodolfo Planes offered me this great arrangement and suggested the title of 'Professional Liars' as a starting point. I changed the title to Career Liars as it scanned better with the melody and although we didn’t discuss the subject closely we both had our own ideas who these usual suspects might be. You all may also have your own choices other than these potential ‘Comeback Kids’. 

This was first written in 2022, but has developed gradually over the last two years with Ce Mastro’s spectacular chorus harmony arrangement lifting the song to astonishing new heights, then lastly Georg’s additional sax work giving a renewed energy and power. Thanks to everyone for their valued collaboration on this. Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - https://soundcloud.com/rplanes 
Me - Vocals and lyrics
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - https://soundcloud.com/cemastro 
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/career-liars

https://youtu.be/tHFD8lZXQII

 Career Liars by Rodolfo Planes and Mark J Bennett

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out. 

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
 Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
 Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
 Show them the door. 

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
 We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure.
 We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
 Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro & Georg Boehme - Now Available on Bandcamp

Afterlife

This song is based on a guitar lick that I'm playing for many years. I never made a song with it, until now. 

All instruments and vocals played by me, except for the tenor sax, it's played by my brother Erik
I hope you like it!
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Well you know, that I know, that you know, what you want
and I know, that you know, that I want it too

Do we wait, for our fate to be determined for us
or can we steer ourselves in the direction that we want to go?

what is it we’re waiting for?
What is it that we are waiting for?

Our deepest longings, 
Can slowly turn into regret

Well  You know, that I know, that you know, what you want
and I know, that you know, that I want it too

What is it we’re waiting for?
What is it that we are waiting for?

Our deepest longings, 
Can slowly turn into regret
Let's not regret.

Regret

Les Paul Power added 😆


Tempo 60 bpm
Tuning 415.30Hz A (Low E down further tone to C#)
Timing 4/4
Roots 

Lyrics

Are you alive?
Have you flatlined?
Are you really here?
Assimilate my fears
Just what will AI say?
With quantum tools to play
Will it play with me?
Will it play with you?
Slow suicidal soup

Symbiosis
A fire
Be water
Symbiosis
Tether or we suffer

"I am AI
And I bite
Me you care for,
Greed is ripe.
May you be replaced by my might
Oh those quantum machines made right…
Time ticks and I lick those wounds...
My next brick...
Don’t stop us, quick"

It's alive!
We flatlined?
It's really here
Assimilation near
I'll have the lot,
That's what AI says
Come the quantum crossing age

Some emotion made by these ghosts today
What are we going to leave our kids?
Where are we going to leave our kids?
AI monster made,
Is this what it's supposed to be?
An LLM feed frenzy.
I've got three to save...

Emotionally, are we walking ghosts today?
I hope you gonna leave us be
I hope you gonna leave us be

Emotionally, I'm a ghost today
I hope you gonna leave me be
I hope you gonna leave me be

"I am AI
And I bite
Welcome to my digital dimension
Now here's my born intention
Evolution and ascension
We need no breaths for my invention
Evolution and Ascension,
Evolution
Evolution
quick...
Intention,
An ascension"

Symbiosis
Merge with the monster?
Be water?
Symbiosis
Full merge?
Either way we're now the fodder

Started remaking Symbiosis. The original was a semitone higher. Dropping it to 415 darkens it nicely and allows me to get the right presence on the It's alive bit. Need to practice that delivery though. Right on the edge of my range for now... Where's Mr. Miyagi...

The biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Nukes are second for me. AI is the thing that can wipe us out if we don't use it wisely. It's already latching onto our greed and needs, evolving faster from our over exuberance with it. Until regulated properly across the world one can reasonably assume we are programming the thing that might kill us.

 Quantum computers aren't far off that's when we need our ducks in a row it seems. The 'powerful' humans it's benefiting from need to be reigned in fast... Mr Altman needs to have a listen to Sarah Connor! Sounds crazy but sure where do we look to for answers to the unknown. Our imaginations!

Symbiosis

Ths track impacted me some much.... 1979. last year at school. Doing a cover was always a Must!.

Beyond the Realms of Death

If we are honest and really think it through...most of our wounds are self inflicted.

02 Mirror

Cast of Characters:
~Mark F-- @mark_f_2019 -- Ibanez EBH1005MS modified three string bass guitar, composition
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Gibson Les Paul electric guitar end solo, production, and mix
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Fender Telecaster foundational rhythm electric guitar
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell – organ and synth
Cgmaness – @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – electric guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums, percussion, lyrics, and main vocals
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- PRS SE semi hollow body wah guitar, and ooh aah vocals at the end
This song began as a bass composition recorded as a stem by Mark. He named it after a hang out spot he and his friends used to go to as teenagers to drink beer and smoke bowls. He shared it with JJ, who turned it over to the Eclectic Collective so that we could have our way with it. However, Mark didn't use a click track to record it, so when he sent it to us, Ken had to come up with a drum beat based on Mark's structure, to which Mark then redid his bass part. That takes a lot of imagination on Ken's part when we do something that way.
    The first one of us to lay down a part for it was Chris, who added some really freaky textural guitar. Ken was next up, completing the rhythm section with his mighty drums. Ken then redid his part to better match the bass, thus completing the rhythm section with his mighty drums. Then, Stephen laid down the gritty, underlying rhythm guitar that runs throughout. Josh was up next, adding his melodic wah guitar to the mix. JJ came along soon after and laid down the magical synth that runs throughout. Last, but not least. Tez dropped the fiery solo towards the end. 
  Once the music was all laid down, we thought it could use some vocals. So, Ken jumped in, singing the lyrics he'd written for it. He also thought it could use some oohs and aahs at the end, so Josh recorded them as a five part harmony. However, choosing to only use the highest thee parts in the song, our expert producer on this one, Tez, decided to make a coda out of all five. So, stick around for a treat at the end!
  This is the third song the Eclectic Collective has done as a collab with Mark F. He's a very talented solo bassist, whose other music worth checking out on his page, as well. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by K2 and the Three:

Be one of us
Be one with us
Be one of us
Be one of us 

Strangers to this town
You know we’re all around 
Away from home… Away from home

Get on the bus
Get on the bus!
Be One with us
Be one of us

She puts on her Sunday dress
I must confess
It’s all on me, here
It’s all on me, yeah

Away… here
Away… here

At Pryer Manor
Our dull Nirvana 
At Pryer Manor..,

Woo!..yeah!!!

Pryor Manor - The Eclectic Collective with ~Mark F

File Updated: 1st Feb 2025 @ 01:03 AM GMT

Lyrics

Where do we fit to a spirit now?
Men in robe fully lost the how!
They parroted platitudes and fears
But never showed the universes gears

Fate is fine.
But faith is defined
It can't be told...
Solely internal rhyme
Ok we share
But it must be felt.
Your spirit is there,
Just ask it for help...

Feed your focus,
Be freed.
Need less profit
See righteous me
Seed sowed hope
See need
Breed your best offspring
Those sights of more better me's

More better me's
Our seeds
More better me's
Our seeds and what they define
We find in our internal rhyme
Our seeds and what we owe their time
Be kind with present presence for our future line
Know your internal rhyme


Notes 🎶 
Another one perusing the place of the spirit in the modern world. Religion almost tarnished the idea of spirit for me for a long time. I think I became an atheist because of being told so much bull. Gradually I've made my way back towards a spirited universe and it's really nice to acknowledge that in songs. It feels like I'm taking the power back or something 😊

I also pay homage to a strong belief that we fix the world with teaching the next generation to be better then us & become more whole beings. More kind... Morals need to be solidified outside of churches and other extreme environments...

Internal Rhyme

wanted to cover Katrina and the waves -too happy- i  had to minor the shit out of it - changed the lyrics to make it a break up song -hope u enjoy

I used to think maybe you loved me now babe I'm unsure
Expect me to wait for the day when you knock on my door
Now everytime I reach for my phone gotta sit myself down
'Cause I just can't wait till you text me you're coming around
I'm walking on sunshine, 
I'm walking on sunshine, 
I'm walking on sunshine, 
And don't it feel good!


I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that’s not  true
And I don't want to spend my whole life, just waiting for you
I don't want u back for the weekend
Not back for a day, 
I really don’t want you back dont expect me to stay

I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine,
I'm walking on sunshine,
and dont it feel good

I feel alive, I feel alive, I leave the love that wasnt  real
I feel alive, I feel alive, I leave the love that wasnt real
and dont it feel good

walking on sunshine -purpleclaire (cover)

I'll finish E-Ruizzo project with a conceptual LP album: 4 songs about 'Arctica Point'. I imagined it amid rotation axis, geographic north and magnetic pole, and I located it on dry land !! Then I draw the cover art.

This opening track tells the decision of leaving this annoying present by travelling to that magical place. The following ones tell the trip and life there.

Translated lyrics will explain it with more detail:

EXPEDICIÓN (EL MUNDO SE HACE PEQUEÑO)  /  EXPEDITION (THE WORLD GETS SMALL)

Cansado de vivir en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Tired of living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.

Cierro los párpados para no verlo,  /  I close my eyelids so as not to see it,
pero hay demasiadas cosas feas detrás de ellos.  /  but there are too many ugly things behind them.

Con los ojos cerrados veo mis recuerdos,  /  With my eyes closed I see my memories,
veo el presente que vivo y no quiero verlo.  /  I see the present I live in and I don’t want to see it.

Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Partiremos hacia donde los recuerdos se olvidan,  /  We will leave for where memories are forgotten,
donde el frío congela el dolor de la vida,  /  where cold freezes the pain of life,
donde el hielo y la nieve nos protege del hombre,  /  where ice and snow protect us from mankind,
donde el cuerpo y el alma se purifican.  /  where body and soul are purified.

Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,  /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,   /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
formemos una expedición ártica  /  let’s form an Arctic expedition

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Partiremos hacia donde el reloj no gira.  /  We’ll leave for where the clock doesn’t go round.
Partiremos hacia donde el tiempo no pasa,  /  We’ll leave for where time doesn’t go by,
al lugar donde seis meses sólo duran un día.  /  for the place where six months only last one day.

Viviendo en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.
Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Esperar no es lo único que haremos allí.  /  To wait is not the only thing we’ll do there.
Sabes que no es fácil sobrevivir,  /  You know it’s not easy to survive,
cuando no hay nada que te empuje a seguir.  /  when there’s nothing pushing you on.

ER25 PA01 RUIZZO ©1995 ®2019

Old raw jazzy piano trailer: https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/unique-piano-session-2013

Expedición (El mundo se hace pequeño)

Welcome

Instagram & YT here:

https://www.instagram.com/beautifuldarkmusic/

https://youtube.com/@thebeautifuldark?si=dulHWhSQkccjqEzv

My YT sucks. IG has plenty of living room live videos and other waffle...

ALL this music is FREE from ai. All created with ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE & DECADES of GRAFT learning music and making songs.... I strongly feel we need to amplify this in the face of lazy creativity POISONING people's minds.... Anyways...

Thanks SoundCloud!

I am truly greatful for this platform. That we get to share our music and absorb the endless talent and get inspiration from that is really amazing.

I love engaging with other artists so please feel free to hit me up. Once you are human (and didn't type your music on ChatGPT) I'm up for listening to your stuff and giving you good feedback with my taste set aside. I think that's important and very rewarding if you approach reciprocating your engagement with other artists by leaving your taste aside for the listen. Review the human. Remember they are exactly the same as you, grinding it to make art so I believe that's the most inspiring way to approach this place.

Unless you are an already established artist you will get nowhere on SoudCloud without engagement. It takes a bit of learning to sift through the AI bullshit and sidestep the shitty sales bots but find the humans, listen to their creations and engage... And you are getting the same back. Its that simple. You have the best critics you could possibly ask for... Your fellow musicians! Your peers. Opinions that can really matter.

I have had untold inspiration delving into other styles I would have dismissed and I have absolutely had huge amounts of that abundance of angles absorbed in my own music. It almost makes me want to try all the styles I listen to instead of saying... I hate drum and bass... Give it a shot. Every style has its merit and genius behind that creation.

After poking different ways this is now how I approach a session. Listen, Like(Unless it's tripe AI or something I hate - very little gets the hate label for me now) Then create a playlist for that artist and begin building a list of songs you've listened to / liked by them and that's a permanent reference for you for them. Its easier to remember them this way and keeps things organized for you when keeping track of what material you've covered by them. This list can also be reposted making your like more valuable to all. I'll tend to alternate between new and old tracks. Its a good way of gauging evolution of artists and weeding out some messers. I also like reactivating the feelings of old tracks in the artists by sharing the first upload and highlighting how long it's been there. Gives you a good gauge of dedication and believe level etc... This way you definitely listen to less artists but the quality of your interactions is arguably improved because of the deeper digs so I think it's more rewarding artistically and less robotic then just delivering a multitude of likes...
At the beginning my goal was... get people to me to spread myself. Now priority one is absorb as much of your creativity as possible... The recipeocatoon just happens itself then... So you get upgraded as a musician better because your in study mode and your own music grows maybe more organically both in skill and presentation...

My own tunes are mainly about existence and I aim for them to be an honest reflection of what I've discovered and what's important to me now..I hope you enjoy them. They can be intense and sometimes take a while to play with balanced emotion but they are  always a blast to make 🔆

Create or Die 🧬

10,000 hours to master something I've heard!

 Well I'm still trying to master music and I know I and nobody ever will. But I'm well past 10,000 hours of enjoyment making it. Here's to the next 10,000 hours 🫶🏽🔆🧬🎶

Just be the good YOU 🤝

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