I like the harmony between the guitar, the background pad and the voice.

this sound gives me these mixed feelings! sorrow! pain! war! then happy tears! peace! ...

youe managed to turn the feelings into notes and harmonies! before any words and right at the entro, those feelings kicked in! right after the second guitar loop

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A past lover keeps showing up in my dreams and reminding me of my failures.
From my new LP " Low Profile". My best tracks from 2023. Thanks for listening!

Lyrics:
I get my melancholy straight from the IV drip
A Xanax, a red eyed flight on the sky ship
That's when you appeared
I'd been gorging myself on 
Televised violence
It's like synconized swimming
You were grinning while the plane was rapidly descending
(You smiled all the way down)
The atmosphere was colorless
Odorless
Void of all surface and all texture
I'm reveling in my psychosis
You reminded me I never finished my
Junkyard magnum opus
You still show up in my dreams

We were entering into 
An impressionist painted landscape
With a language that we just didn't understand
You reminded me that I'm a big believer
In blindly believing
And I need to start drinking in
A little bit more in what I'm seeing
We're like suburban dadaist
Coming in, out of the rain
My mind was racing
Like those 808 beats
There all the same
Well, that's the way the Goddamn wheel rolls
You headed off into the night
You never told me to change the angle of the light
You still show up in my dreams

"You never even had it even when you had it your hands,"
You've got to bring it right down
To where the sideways ends in the light
I'm digging down deep
I'm digging down slow
I'm striking oil 
Or the fires down below
You still show up in my dreams

You Still Show Up In My Dreams

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Evolution

The 'Dawn of Dawns'. was orignally called the Yawn of Dawn, but we didn't think that worked.

Dawn of Dawns

Piano Concerto 1 - Movement 1

Unboxed August 2024

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A View From Here

Written and recorded to 8 track tape then mixed straight onto cd around 2009.

The drum percussion sound, because I didnt have a kit back then, was created by using crusty old paint brushes on a textured vinyl album cover. If I recall, it was the Eagles greatest hits. Where theres a will, theres a way.......

Silence And The Dark

This is getting finished at the moment. I would like a woman to sing it too. The hunt is on....🧘🏻

Notes:
-dropped a semitone from original version to open up higher range a little and improve the portrayal of the darkness we see
-Your P45 is a form you get when you lose your job in Ireland. so the 'Put in' his P45 is Putin losing his job. He used to die in that verse. Well in the top 3 planet Earth dickheads at the mo...
-The question towards the end to the warmonger. Where's your inside? The answer is meant to show what true inside is from the artists mentioned
-halve the length of intro or put choir like voicing on it to fill it out and justify the length. A string arrangement could help this too
-Improve delivery if the first Why?
-Improve delivery and timing of Earths' at the start - In fact vox delivery is bad all through. re do!
-Add an instrument that Ukrainian & Russian people both play


Lyrics

Earths yeast on the rise
Now our skies are burning
And our sons and daughters are learning
To kill or die in that hell fire

Why? What is this greed formed from a creed…
Don’t you see no one here gets freed
The autocrat just fogs the lights
Here’s some inside

So its less yeast
For our beast out east
Should we make friends?
Hell no he’ll just do it again
This time,
We won’t cry
One man to purge
Put in his p45

Why? What is this greed formed from a creed…
You see no one here gets freed!
Don’t you see no one lights

Where’s your inside?
Bold Barman buddha
Raged Reznor razor
Voiced Vedder flutter
Mind Morrison mutter
Yearned Yorke photo
The Bat for Lashes show
Harvey’s hints, bravo!
Perry’s got to know
Jeff the real devine
Good Winter fell in line
Layne went for all time
Bowie left the king of pine

From Greece
From Ireland
We watch Ukraine transcend
And Russia's decent
Where's the revolution my friends


Original song version here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/wvQpJ

YEast (Demo)

Written 2002

Why go beyond this face 
To no longer replace and only embrace this soul
It kinda likes it…
You’ll find it might fit...

You can’t grow while running from this
Down clenching your fist,
Your hot head is too mystical
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it

Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
There really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

I know to look to this place
Search every last little trace
Find why all’s interlaced with the cold
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it.


Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
there really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

📜The Other Side

Written 2014

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin! We're all the furking same. The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a biggited NBA team owner. the good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands. the racist gesture is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment.

apparently the amount of melanin changes Iver time in our skin depending how long our decendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there. That's it! apart from that we all shit piss and whine

A magic slur,
This  biggot must go!
It seems he don’t like ‘em too dark,
All monkeys roam free.
The Sun, relatively!
In this mercury mould a banana thrown.
It seems these don’t like em too dark,
Good Dani, Let’s eat!
All colours seep just melanin skin deep.
All colours leak just melanin
Why oh why do you take just your side
Won’t you learn that you’re no different.
Living with how the past framed their thinking…
Why oh why? Won’t you learn?

Let it rain
Pave the way
With Luther light
We learn tonight
You want the truth.
If this sits loose with you.
Oh what to tell our youth…
Here’s a clue!
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
For all of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for ‘the force’
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…

	“Sweet land of liberty at thee I say…”

Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride
Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride

Horns by Simon Culliton

📜Scribe

"City Of Dance"

Lyrics:
Dancin' through the city (Do it)
Groovin' with the lights (Alright)
Can't stop movin' feet, feet
From morning to the night (Let's go)
The beat controls my way, way
It's how we live our life (Feel the vibe)

Now watch me step (Feel it)
Now watch me glide (Okay)
Now watch me jump, jump
Watch me slide (Move it now)

No walkin' in this town (Check it)
Only steps that flow (You know)
Dancin' to the beat, beat
With rhythm in the show (Let's go)
Every street's a groove, groove
In sync, we all just flow (Take a bow)

Now watch me step (Feel it)
Now watch me glide (Okay)
Now watch me jump, jump
Watch me slide (Prove it now)

In the city lights, we can't stand still
Movin' every night, dance is our thrill
Everywhere you see, steps are the deal
In this jangle life, rhythm we feel

Now watch me step (Feel it)
Now watch me glide (Okay)
Now watch me jump, jump
Watch me slide (Move it now)

From rooftop to the ground (Jump in)
Movin' with the beat (So neat)
Shufflin' side to side, side
On every urban street (Oh yeah)
A city made to groove, groove
Where life's a constant beat (Feel the heat)

Now watch me step (Feel it)
Now watch me glide (Okay)
Now watch me jump
Watch me slide

City never sleeps (No way)
Dancin' through the night (Alright)
Every pulse and beat, beat
Invites us to take flight
In this groovy place, place
We'll move until the light (Feel the vibe)

Now watch me step (Feel it)
Now watch me glide (Okay)
Now watch me jump, jump
Watch me slide (Move it now)

#pop #janglepop #newwave
#AIMusic #luefh

While utilizing AI generation for initial concepts (pictures, album art, lyrics, musical foundation), this music is the result of extensive and documented human creative direction, editing, and production. Manual and complex AI-prompting shaped the raw material. Lyrics underwent significant manual editing for narrative, flow, and emotional impact. The core musical composition was refined through human arrangement choices. The production involved intensive manual mixing and mastering: multi-stem editing, stem correction, octaving, precise cuts, gain staging, dynamic balancing, low-frequency mono processing, pocketing and boosting energy points, bass excitation, sculpting bass harmonics, detailed sound design, effect application, side-chaining, compression, multiband dynamics, tempo fine-tuning, equalization for clarity and reduction of muddiness, loudness optimization, panoramic placement, frequency analysis, targeted high/low-frequency cuts, and LUFSi correction.

City Of Dance (AI-aided)

I saw her by the market stone,
a basket in her hand.
The sellers called, the buyers passed,
all alone she’d stand.

Lilias, Lilias, we cried for you,
our tears tangled in our hair.
Lilias, Lilias, men hunted you,
they were looking everywhere.

Your hair was dark, your dress was plain,
your eyes were made of rain.
You healed broken men with root and leaf,
and took away their pain.

Lilias, Lilias, we cried for you,
our tears tangled in our hair.
Lilias, Lilias, men hunted you,
they were looking everywhere.

The cowards called it sorcery,
the liars called it sin.
Their torches burned with ignorance,
afraid of strength within.

O foolish men, O cruel priests,
you judged what you could not bear.
You chained her light, she held the truth,
we filled the night with prayer.

Lilias, Lilias, we cried for you,
our tears tangled in our hair.
Lilias, Lilias, men hunted you,
they were looking everywhere.

I hope in life you tasted love,
I hope you’re smiling again.
And may the men who damned your soul
burn in hell until then.

Each dusk the lanterns start to swing,
and shadows climb the square.
Some see her ghost, so young, so still,
at Scottish markets everywhere.

I thought I saw her at the mercat cross,
her basket full of loss.
I swear she smiled, I swear she wept,
and walked straight through the cross.

Lilias, Lilias, we cried for you,
our tears tangled in our hair.
Lilias, Lilias, men hunted you,
they were looking everywhere.

Lilias… Lilias… Lilias…
Everywhere… everywhere… everywhere…

Lilias The Witch

The photo used in this tune is my actual wall in an old apartment I lived in. I had started fully using hard drives so ze CDs went on the wall in the shape of a head with a line of them also making a wave through it... Awww miss the old physical albums but sure we're spoiled now with detail



Written 2015

Colour me in
Fill in your own meaning
Welcome the world after the wonderful you
As you’re winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
You’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Covered in sin
I let the werewolf win.
This strenght straddles the world
No further fools.

As your winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
Who’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Colour me in.
Colour your sin
Two minutes tamed time
Now the fear is thin

📜Fill

Written 2015

The shivers in this song refer to the rush of a feeling you get through your back and body when some idea or someone has inspired you. A flow of nerve energy I suppose. I associate relating these feelings to reading shaman texts in my late teens and early twenties and when I was first going.... What the fuck is that? Those words gave a solid answer back then for me 🌿🌎

When the world wakes up from fear I believe we will revisit all these old cultures ways of life and truly embrace the truths we may have missed. There was possibly a less insular approach to imaging their own existence back then. Found, inside each of us and discovered in maybe a simplicity muted by the noise of the modern world.

Lyrics

Some shiver should sharpen this world.
We’re putting shape to the shamans soul 
Aligning old paradiso
These inner movements in you

Each shiver comes raising your game
Fruit truths trapeez to being again
They  align what the sorcerer say
Shiver inner movements in me

Hold me close
That me is you
An inner party of proofs
Yearning for your truce

Let me know
Of your fears or your foe
Gotta talk to that soul
Shiver inner movements in all

The shaman shiver
Gifts your shine deliver
Emotive river
Feel the shaman shiver
The spirits spine
Good quiver
Ease wisdom hither

The Shaman Shiver

This is my bro's favourite song of mine. He's my best friend


We're keeping it real...
Where could we go?
I know!
I can only be me
You can only be you
For each just one vision
Their life long live tv
Be gone superstition
Truth to keep this life real

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

If your highest values are still Romes imagined lies
Then your God is a lie
They have these mind diets and false beliefs
To control the eyes of the weak

But this is modern life
And we have real visionaries
Who gobble up ologies
The passed soul
Philosophise be a plato
The truth in time answers infinitly
This evolutionary rhyme where hope springs discovery
The perfect solutions
Intellect to all sentient beings
The final freedom of our inner liberty
Some day they’ll realise how the truth can free
Some soldered light born in string theory
The strings of you and all the beauty bowed all through

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

We're keeping it real

Keep It Real

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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