I got all wavy in my studio and built this dark blues track - it became an exercise in melancholia..

EDIT: I cleaned up the mix a bit, but I cannot replace the current file until the next subscription cycle. The cleaner mix can be found here: https://www.reverbnation.com/totemspectre/song/33950391-slipping

lyrics:

While I stand looking over the water
In the dark
With a handful of thoughts slipping
Into the dark

Faces from the present
From the past
Times now felt much deeper than then
Way back when

Make it count
Every moment
If even just a handful of thoughts
Slipping into the dark
Make it count
Every moment

Smell the roses
Touch your hair
Kiss your skin
For a handful of thoughts
Slipping
Into the dark
Much deeper then

Slipping

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0aj2MbHyKQ

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboard, Master Mix https://soundcloud.com/brian-butts-565934842
Cosmic Keanu - Vocals, Lyrics

Upon The Rock

Won’t stop, keep building up,
Until we reach the top 

And when the rain comes 
Falling down,
What was built on sand
Crashes to the ground

Everything we cling to
Will wash away
The only thing 
left standing 
is built upon 
the rock

The only thing that we can trust,
Is what's built upon the rock

And when the wind beats
upon the house,
What was built on sand,
Scatters across the land

Everything we cling to
Will blow away
The only thing left
standing is
built upon 
the rock

All else we seek is 
idle vanity
Everything else
will disappear
Eventually

Video

Upon The Rock (Brian Butts & Cosmic Keanu) VIDEO AVAILABLE

Entropy Will Wait

Dedicated to the wonderful life-giving cornfields
 peaceful fields has now sadly become a brick in the cynical destruction of war
Music: Torbjørn 22.07. 23

Rolling Fields

Mick mac on drums, Big Pharma on Guitar and bass

Firetwerks Demo 1

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Steve Roy (Canada) Electric Bass. Fender Rhodes Rhythm. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Godin Nylon acoustic Guitar Rhythm. Gibson SG Electric Guitar Rhythm. String Quartet, 1st & 2nd Violins, Cello, Bowed Acoustic Bass. Tenor Saxophone solo. Vibraphone solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Flute solo. Trap Drum set Full kit. Percussion Tambourine, Ago go bells. 22" Zildjan Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Release Me

Rain Flower 2

Number 19

Cast of characters:
Steve's Planet--@steve-vervaet—Steve—acustic guitar, vocals, lyrics, composition/arrangement
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman–Stephen–electric guitar, production, and mix
J.J. Terrell--@j-j-terrell—JJ—organ
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara–Ken–drums, percussion, and low vocal harmony
Llanpsych–@llanpsych–Tez–electric guitar 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–Fender precision bass  

This song began as an acoustic guitar and vocals stem written and performed by Steve. He sent it to Josh, who added the undulating staccato bass line, with the help of Ken's always well-suited drums. They went back and forth a couple of times, as is their process, until it clicked. Tez added some really dynamic leads and fills throughout, and Stephen filled in the rest of the electric guitar in a Keith/Ronnie kind of way, which is very tasteful. JJ then added some perfectly complimentary organ. Finally, Ken pleasantly surprised us with the low vocal harmonies. 
  Stephen also mixed and produced this one for us. He's brilliant behind the board, and we're lucky to have him aboard. This one came together in a matter of a relatively short period of a fortnight, which is rare for the Eclectic Collective. But, when something is hot and already put together, it comes quickly. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Lyrics:

Fallin’
Wandering aimless
Couldn’t shoot straight
No ability
Not much to say
There was no sign of me
Good times, bad times
Leaving out the sad times
Easily
That’s what they’re telling me
Mend or break
Looking over rooftops
Coming to a full stop
Suddenly
On a sad height
Raging endlessly
Breakline, beeline
Picking up the freeline
Easily
Follow my way
Leavin’ the fast lane
My- My mind is fallin’
When I think about, losing out
There’s no doubt, you started fallin’ x2
And I – I’ve been going my way
One more time, only today 2x
My- My mind is fallin’
When I think about, losing out
There’s no doubt, you started fallin’ x2

Fallin' - The Eclectic Collective

(I Remember) Berlin In The Seventies

Nadia Selvaggi, Voice & Piano
William Blake's 'London' set to an old English melody.

London (1794)
by William Blake
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

William Blake's London by Nadia Selvaggi

This morning I came across the phrase ‘locking in’, which basically means to focus for a short time — short-term pain for long-term gain.  However, I would ask ‘where is the sustainability in that?’.  I would argue that truly great things are developed over time.  Indeed, true value is often not realised until many years after creation.  Many artists rely on this fundamental truth.  What do you think? 

30 Nov 25 Locking In

Many thanks for listening to my songs. 
Some of my solo projects can be short lived as I am using this platform like a playground for many sorts of musical experiments.
The album «ten waves» by Jimena Arroyo and me are now available on Spotify
"ten waves" ℗ 2020 Jimena Arroyo & Torbjørn Vagle
open.spotify.com/album/49F0sSLfSsfWOpAfr1EgJe
Check also out my songs with Oddrun Eikli https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fp2HGStdCYNJHWvlBQsIK?si=GVqRPRyTTkyfy9WIz5ZLjw
 thanks to all of you I`v been so lucky to create music together with!!