Broke my rot.... Decided to write one about the heart and it stuck. Had a good few days of everything I tried sounding the same and needed that reset ❤️‍🔥 Thanks Heart 🫡

If we are lucky enough to grow old it will beat around three billion times and pump 159 million litres of blood through itself and around our body. What a beast 🫀
I'm trying to make sense or pay homage to the filterer it is for morals. In conjunction with a well wired head it's the feelings in our chest that work with the brain it seems to deliver our morals and absorb and deliver that well felt empathy we share. I guess it's our experience of pain and pleasure that we know and the love we have for eachother which allows that empathy flourish solidifying our shared morals. Or we let apathy mute it. Either way its the shared experience that delivers them to us and the natural knock on effect of us knowing we don't like pain and knowing others don't either... so ego aside... Morals should be the easy bit haha!
What happened.... 😆



Heart

Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat

Huge human heart
Filterer of feelings
Fear sent below
Love flow to cranium ceilings
Three billion beats
Spark to grim reaper
One million barrels as blood pump speaker

Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat

Humans of heart
Beings of brave
Lumens like lark
Virtuous made
Body seer of moral
The feeler of feel
Fuelled well being of wise
Good stealer of steel

Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat

Governor of grief
Body seer of empathy
Good decider of right
If mind tend peremptory
Four chambers chime
Tuned to physical realm
Feeder of conscious through feelings to helm

Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat
Heart
Beat

Heartbeat
Beat deceit
Heartbeat
Be that empathy
Heartbeat
Beat deceit
Heartbeat
Be that empathy

Heart

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)

Melencholy of Mystery (Poem)

Check out joerxworx on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/McPzP0woIt4cxsdhD2
Shout out to Jörg for the VST recommendation. This is my first time using this world of wind instruments.. I got it to have a Duduk!

www.taqs.im
SOLO: World Synth
Worked out at $79.20 if you use their current coupon code of SOLO20 (This is on the banner of shop webpage)

Check out mistermark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/qpwbEE5UQkS9ulANjP
Shout out also to Mark. Very lucky to work with our Canadian friend through EC and musical collabs, but Mark seeded this whole idea with a comment about going to the dark side with music


Check out Neowakan (Aileen Asatouri) on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/074OShLpTu1QmocXBq
Also shout out to Aileen who introduced me to Duduk properly last year

Here's the Duduk Jedi Master...
Listen to Djivan Gasparyan, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/TSydG2253pnWCrOvQs




The whole idea of embracing melancholic music as a package for me is an incredible therapy and has been since I was a very young. Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Inspector Morse Theme Tune by Barrington Pheloung and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone would be the three big examples that come to mind. The first two in particular... Then a more popular example from that period of my life would be All by Myself by Eric Carmen. That sits up there as a brave wtf song that's just incredible in it's vulnerability. More recently Id put Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead in a similar beautiful mind bending melancholic box.

The song image is a picture of a sunrise over my back wall and in the foreground is the micro world we never really see. It's moss growing on the wall and for me it represents visually, perspective is everything. We can't see the world like an ant does unless we get in amongst the weeds and get close to look. Even then it's difficult to share the same point of view an ant has.
I guess that can be an analogy of where your soul goes in the land of melancholic music. Although it can invoke feelings of sadness I think that's therapeutic for our overall beings. I think maybe psychologically, like a poem can do also, we are reflecting our emotion with something words as plain language cannot fully explain but where sound and poetry maybe can do a better job of helping them materialise for you. So they become a solidarity of sorts for those hard to understand feelings we all feel from time to time in our lives. A safe reference that maybe forces you to feel them instead of oppressing the feelings


Instrumentation

43bpm
Tuning 440Hz A
Key A minor (A hat tip to Armenia where Duduk is from)
-Mellow Duduk 1 low drone run and 1 melodic run played on keyboard
-2 x runs of Tremolo Acoustic Guitar (Ovation)
-Airways pad in Logic mirroring Duduk drone played on keys
-Middle Eastern Kit with roots rock beat
-4 vocal runs - Two Low & Two mid
-Piano played on Keys
-Electric Guitar Lead


Melancholy of Mystery

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

From mountain flutes of finest native
To slow bent strings move contemplative

Dawn drama drowns a mind afraid
Good mind prepared through sounds that save

These sounds are sage
'Fill in true meaning
Soothe honest zen
With deep thought streaming

Heart pounds a rush
Thrill of uncertain
New found feeling
On fear we pull a curtain

Good meandering mind
Knead this mystery
Warm sound sine waves
To cool great history

Sad for some
Tranquil for this one
An aide to not fear pain
Through music and sum

Dinnseanchas of history
Melancholy of mystery
Filling true meaning
Mellifluous streaming

Melancholy of Mystery

Special guest @joerxworx on EWI Duduk and also mixed and mastered the track

Thanks a mill bro
Connect with Jörg here:
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx


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

An Apocalypse for Fear with joerxworx

The track image is courtesy of our wonderful Norwegian friend, Janne Hennie. Janne's Son sculpted Cartman in school and gifted it to his Mama. Thanks a mill Janne 🥳

Check out Janne Hennie on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/DRtskMv1Pp2m3HKjf8


It took our Jobs!

Hey folks!
We have this computer...
Some say it's better then you
At designing and programming and singing in tune
One small issue
All it does is robs
Here it comes
It's gonna take your jobs

Well folks
It's a few years off but still it can't clean a toilet
Or make a table or give you car an oiling
You an cut the grass and harvest peach
Bit pretty soon too it will take that niche
All it does is robs
Here it comes
It's gonna take your jobs

Oh and btw
The capitalists say
Don't you worry
We need fine workers to build in a hurry
Loads of data centers to feed the digital knob
Build them now so they can take your job

I make movies...
Can it do that?
Drive a dolly and face focus on act
Build a crane or no steady cam jerk
Enjoy it while you can
Soon know is taking that work

So what for humans?
This is what we do...
But the 1% want the rest too?
Most of the pie just wasn't enough
They want it all
So get ready to be fucked

All it does is robs
Pretty soon its gonna take our jobs


https://youtu.be/APo2p4-WXsc?si=AOmEtJvbb2ngNRiN
playing the pun of this south park ep 😆
They took our Jobs ♻️

It Took our Jobs

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Prove pure path
The right eight show way
Good vision
Good thought
Good speech
Good day
Good livelyhood
Effort
Mindfulness and action
Weaved wisdom concentrated
Content has traction

To Dukkha debonair
Satisfied with real
Ruse rooted Samudaya
You suffer thirst by feel
Nirvana, be known
Nirodha find light
From Mārga
Our eight fold path meant right

Born beneath the Bodhi tree
Cyclic Samsāra sits
Transcience for fear food free
Karmic Dharma fits
Not torn with our time
Minded body synced
Not shocked
Transcendence through rhyme
Be harmonic miner clocked

We shall not rise until we know
Come noble truths
Salvage this show
Why do we suffer?
Why do we crave?
Say,
Cessation of desire to meet light old age

Notes 🎶

Key B Harmonic Minor
Tempo 33bpm

Instrumentation
-Vox drone backing x 4
-Vox Backing melodic x 1
-Vox Narration
-Vox Lead x 1
-Pads x 3 played on keys
-Acoustic Lead line

I don't quite believe in reincarnation of a single spirit although the discovery of DNA in a way sheds a bit of light on it being possible at least in potential code as traits that are passed on. They are either honed and retained or lost through long term positive or negative behavior and discernment of honest or dishonest action from our beings. Epigenetics looks to be starting to show that nurture, particulariy early in life actually enables and disables chemical signals in our genes. This has been shown in rats by a mother that licks her offspring vs a mother that doesn't and the different effects on those baby rats growing up and those scientists believe that translates to humans although they can't stick us in labs to prove it yet. So it looks like nurture may end up holding more influence then early geneticists told us and less is set in stone then we had previously thought. Epigenetics is a young science so it's difficult to make a solid reality from is so far but it does appear to have huge relevancy with our tendencies throughout life and towards addiction and habits. 

Whether we have a spirit that inhabits a body and fully comes back I'm not sure we will ever know that but I guess elements of past spirits and all past life does exist in our code at some level.

This has a lot more potential to bear fruit with our world of knowledge of course because we can actually teach ourselves what other humans think and have thought and what they did with their lives and make our own version of those truths based on our unique life experience.

This track is paying homage to Buddha

Buddha, as far as I am aware is one of the rare old teachers who said go find yourself and the power is inside you and around us. We generally escape the reality of ourselves with desires and indulgence in materialism but have the ability to find our true spiritual selves with discipline and an honest lifestyle. His main realisation was, we suffer, like it or not and his teachings allow us to not amplify that suffering with cravings or self harm but become one with it via a balanced approach  ⚖️  Re-living or re experiencing feelings from the difficult parts of our lives so they don't become a controlling factor in how we react to any situation seems to be central to finding that zen place where we can respond rationally to any situation no matter how trivial or significant. The reason I mention epigenetics and early life is a few scholars seem to allude to a lot of our problematic traits and strengths being born from trauma or solid nurture early in life and are not something we would usually medically consider when contemplating our own shadow searching for that oneness in ourselves...

So in that light I think rebirthing thought in our heads may actually be quite important to deal with any grief from our experience so it doesn't manifest itself as physical ailment from the hidden stress it causes us.

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

Upload 777. Can't think of a better subject for that.

Peace 🕊️

De-radicalisation can begin with acceptance of each other and acknowledgement of the radicles that exist within both societies poisoning the planet for the ordinary people that just want to live. Jews/Arabs/Secularists/Christians etc etc. Much love from a pea to you all 🫛 Here's to a lasting peace being found. We won't find it with an overblown ego we will find it with our hearts and compassion for eachother

We found peace in Ireland by coming together and guess what... The IRA & UDA extremist groups weren't at the table because their way was the wrong way so we didn't need them to find a lasting peace. The rest of us found it the right way and once the British army fucked off and the north was demilitarized... The radicle  groups went away. We still have an imaginary line there but time will heal that too in my view. it may take another couple of decades to be fully rid of the hatred that was taught based on divisive religious beliefs to young people but we will fully neutralise that eventually I reckon and very luckily it's no longer strong enough to cause unrest on our beautiful little Island. Here's to peace 🍀🕊️ 


Instrumentation
Tuning 440Hz Standard
Key Dm
Tempo 61 BPM
4/4 (or 6/8 at a faster count)
-Vox and Acoustic as live base (Capo 7)
-Piano played on keys
-4 x atmos pads played on keys
-Vox runs mirroring live lead line x 2 with feint delay at 30bpm
-Bongos played with tuning fork mallets

To add
-Falsetto backing from Matilda and the 🫛 
-Bass
-Either lead acoustic or electric guitar maybe use slide again



To Middle Peace

Two more years of hate
We see slim hope
We're glad some came back
Grave loss
It must be hard to cope
Your hearts taken hostage by all iron fist
These fists miss all points to acknowledge each jist

The jist of the Jew &
The jist of the Arab
Each fundamental clue sees other as scarab
Acceptance is key
Acknowledgement of other
It's evolution we see
Old thought only smother...

Executions by God?
Performed by lost ego
Finds restitution for fraud
Making your neighbours see through
They're there
Let's name them
The deradicalised start
Recognition of reality
Where all humans play part

Not apart
There's one together
Borders aside
We find real clever
Decisions not made by imagination
But precision of love and reconciliation

The egos way loses
It emboldens the past
The past didn't work for a peace that can last
We all must stand up and say
I don't agree
Yet I still love you
For your own decree

Some neutral yeast
For a middle peace
True love finds feast
In the middle east
Some neutral yeast
For a middle peace
True love finds feast
In the middle east

To Middle Peace

Tempo 61bpm
Timing 4/4
Tuning 415.30Hz A
Roots B / Bb

Instrumentation
-Epihone rhythm guitar
-Les Paul lead guitar
-Bass
-Vox Lead and backing
-Logic Indie rock beat
-Lost reverse and dystopian pad played on keys

Lyrics

Erase
Begin it again
Heaven remade in a moment with air
What will we save?
Can we still care?
Too peace depraved
Gaming with God
Truth or dare

Poisoned by the autocrats
They’re up for murder
Small minded fucking rats
Wars to lies
Broken laws
Insane cause
Line the cells up...
Justice for each one

The Enchantment

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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