Use. Abuse. Obtuse.

The City

New version with vocals and lyrics from Neons Gone Mad

Watch their fantastic video:

https://twitter.com/BigfootChurch/status/1701057713466126750

"Shout it Out"

Crypto-zoologic
Tap my window 
Awaken me
Waiting my whole life here in the dark
I am open as a wild grove

Crypto-logic and proof
Wilders pour
My long slumber ends
Amenable to follow your prints
May we meet not as strangers do

Rationale
On what grounds

Crypto-logic and truth
On the shoulders
Gargantuan
Like sunlight in shade, ever to shine
You are more than all woods to me

Shout it out - ft. Neons Gone Mad

I was feeling particularly inspired working on this one. It's probably one of my favorites of the solo tracks I've done lately. After making this odd song structure that feels to me like it has three distinct movements, I heard someone reference the idea of a triptych, a picture or artwork displayed on three panels. The word was new to me and I thought it was kind of a fitting title. Thanks for listening friends!

Triptych

On Sundays, I'm used to play my acoustic guitar by the windowsill. I don't even know which chords I play, I just got the blues and jammed along. Michael found the perfect words for that little song. Pensive, calm and yet beautiful like a rainy sunday afternoon.

This song is part of the album "Quarterlife Blues" that can be downloaded on Bandcamp. 
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com/album/quarterlife-blues

Nadine de Macedo: composition, guitar, arrangement, production
Michael Karns: vocals, lyrics

Where to find us:
https://www.soundcloud.com/nadinedemacedo
https://www.soundcloud.com/jamkar

==== LYRICS ====

Relaxing on a Sunday afternoon
In a porch swing
Sitting upon a cushion
Eyes closed
I can tell it's raining
Pink Lilies reaching up
With long blooms

Regal moths await the evening moon
Dark clouds release the nourishing drops
In the distance
Comes reply
Of forest murmurs
And then the sound of drops
Upon the leaves

Sad feelings melting into a puddle
This day brings
A new page of lessons
Rising I stare into the window
People walking
Carrying 'round all their worries

Thoughts surround
Clouds pushing down upon me
Outside a stream flowing
Into the meadow
And a leaf canoe
Bidding goodbye
On it's way as it sways
Into the ocean

Relaxing washing my cares away
Relaxing on a Sunday afternoon in the rain

Quarterlife Blues

Rainy Sunday Afternoon

This is a song that JJ came up with on the electric piano and shared with the rest of us. He's done a significant portion of the songwriting for the Eclectic Collective, and always gives us quality songs, to which are easy to add our voices. When he sent it to us, he had a rough bass on there that sounded like Lust for Life. Ken came up with a killer and appropriate beat, which, if you can picture Lust For Life, included a lot of accentuated bass kicks. So, Josh took and went with that, and came up with a funky bass line. Ken and he kicked it back and forth a few times till they linked up. Then JJ added some funky ass organ and trippy retro synth to spice it up.
  Then it was time to send it to the guitarist. Tez laid down some smoking lead solos throughout, with his signature fiery guitar tone and amazing licks. Then Stephen funked it up even more with a fonky-ass wah guitar track.
  Ken produced and mixed this one for us, and what an excellent job he did, too. This was so much fun to create. We all hope you enjoy listening to our jam as much as we did playing it.

Home's Album

Tonkas and Matchbox Cars - by The Eclectic Collective

Cast of characters:
Mysterious Decibel--@themysteriousdecibel - lyrics and vocals

TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman–Stephen–foundational guitar in first half, solo in the coda, mix, and production

J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell– piano and composition

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara–Ken–drums, percussion, and background vocals

Llanpsych–@llanpsych–Tez–guitar solo and fills in the main section

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–mandolin, four string fretless bass guitar

This latest Eclectic Collective song was probably the most collaborative in a true sense as we've yet released. The song began with Josh trying to piece together a couple of ideas that he'd come up with on the piano. He sent his ideas to JJ, who took out a connecter section that Josh had no intention of making anything of, and turned it into the body of the song. He returned the song to Josh complete with a signature JJ Terrell climactic coda. Then Josh added the bass to JJ's piano, with some help from the always solid drums from Ken. The way it usually goes is that Josh comes up with a scratch bass line to accompany the song, then Ken adds drums, then Josh goes back and adds the bass to fit the beat. Sometimes they go back and forth, but not this time so much.

Then, Stephen added the foundational guitar in the first section, and came up with the idea for the coda. Josh added some mandolin to the coda, too, after which Stephen redid the guitar in the coda to make it very dynamic and part the clouds. Tez finally came along and added the fiery solo and the charming fills in the main section. Most of this time, MD had been working on the narrative lyrics and refining his melodic vocals. Finally, Stephen put it all together for us and mixed it in his expert fashion.

We hope you enjoy the thrill of the climax, and also get a chuckle out of the lyrics, which are included below.

Let me tell you 'bout a dancer yeah!
A mysterious one
She dances to the decibel
She's a A shape shifter from the stars
She doesn't cast no shadow
The light makes things bizarre
She'll mold a new soul in you
And get your grandmother too
She'll bleed you from afar

It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
Yeah!
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white!

Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about

Oh baby you caught me off guard I think it's gonna be a early time and a Late night

Hubba bubba max
Hubble space snacks
I'm playing galaga
Waiting for climax
It didn't take long
A few setbacks

One and done in the black hole
With the Shape shifting of my gun
The time was short but the blast quaked
It was all over before it begun
The frown Came over her like a storm cloud dropping down torrential rain
The frown came over me some time later when the little fetus from Mars slopped onto the terrain

It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white

{Get that thing away from me
Stay on your home planet}

Just One minute altered my universe
My reputation outside of the earth
Flys away in a hearse
Now I'm just the minute man of the cosmos
With an infant out there somewhere they call him... space Frankenstein that's what she knows

It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white

The Eclectic Collective x The Mysterious Decibel - Early Time Late Night

The Mysterious Decibel - Materialistic Decay

Lyrics, instrumental, Vocal performance, Sounds, mix, song structure - Written by - The Mysterious Decibel

Lyrics:

Death, regret and dysfunction
The same three always turn the wheel
Rejoice a word that is lost
Is peace what we really crave to feel?

Just have my death be like a dog
So all can't fight over what's left
Only memories will remain
So greed doesn't suffer at the hands of theft

Deviation away from simplistic
Grimy palms so sadistic
First come first serve, Materialistic
All the way down to the last biscuit
Budding a true characteristic

Bury me with all my things so they can rot with me
Save yourself from all the stings of a degrading family tree
Gold china cabinet is where it splattered, Until I was dead
The blood stained wood where I bled where the remnants were shed.

"Oh my heavens would you look at that" my auntie dearest said
"That's gonna look fine so fine so fine right behind my bed"
"too bad I have my plans to take it, you should've planned ahead"
"I'm gonna fill it will all my tools and books, right up in my shed"
"Hey asshole you can't just claim are you insane to put it in such a place of shame"
"Listen here woman, I don't give a damn, It's mine now fuck off with the names!"
We'll see about that. I'll never forget this, I never wanna hear from you again. This house will be ransacked before you get back I'm gonna call my boys and Uncle Ben!"

Materialistic Decay

This jingle was prepared for a radio program called 'Özlemle Yaşam Yolu', which is broadcast on Bayrak Radio every weekday.

jingle for radio program 'Özlemle Yaşam Yolu'

Welcome to The Water Planet Project-Part 3 of our trilogy about one of our most endangered resources, fresh water. In this part we consider the relative present. Certainly mankind has accomplished many good things during the course of human development.  But in his ignorance, greed, hunger for power, etc., also many bad ones. And it's all the bad ones that give us an increasingly broken planet and world to live in, where fresh water reserves are quickly running out, or becoming polluted all over the world.
We are not judging anyone, we are just asking you to think for a moment, because what we have done and continue to do to our planet and each other, is actually unsustainable for our future generations. We must ask; "how will the lack of vital fresh water in a few decades affect humanity's possibility of continued existence?"  Part 3 ponders the painful answer to that question.

For the best experience, see the visualization of our story, which you can find here: www.youtube.com/user/wcifarout.

First song - Paradise Fades Away by Ed & Seagull
Second song - Paradise Lost by Ed, Dan, David, Peter & Seagull
Third song - Roots of Germinal Hope by Seagull, David & Peter

All narrations, lyrics & vocals by Peter,
Except on "Roots of Germinal Hope" The lyric is selected parts of an ancient Latin poem/song called Dies Irae - Judgment Day (almost)
Extra voices on Roots of germinal hope: David, Seagull & Mrs. Seagull
Contributing vocalist. Clara Sorace

Here you will find the fantastic musicians I have been honored to collaborate with:
From Sweden-Seagull: @farout-music-studio
From France - Dan-DT: @dan-t-3
From Canada - Ed Cunningham: @westtracksmusic
From England - Peter: @soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks

As Soundcloud for some reason does not allow more than 4000 characters, you will find the lyrics to the songs on my YouTube channel.
We wish you a pleasant musical and visual journey.

The Water Planet Project-Part 3--Watch It On Youtube

くもりぞら（Cloudy Sky）

Art work: icsilviu via Pixabay

鳩落ちるまた鳩落ちるくもりぞら

A dove suddenly fell from the power line.
Another dove fell from the wire.
The sky is cloudy.

くもりぞら（Cloudy Sky）

くもりぞら (Cloudy Sky)

Vocalist
Guitarist
member of @ModesAboutMe
Songwriter


Expect the unexpected!

Themysteriousdecibel@gmail.com