AN UNINHABITED METROPOLIS ... A POLICE SCANDAL ... TWO PEOPLE WHO SEARCH WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE ... THE TENSION, THE FEAR SCANDED BY THE PASSING OF THE INEXORABLE TIME THAT WILL END THIS INTRIGUE.

TIME MACHINE

Grunge Rock Demo

Our family mascot in the cover photo is a pottery piece created by me and my wife.

Our Family Mascot

Yoshi & Chie are friends of mine from Osaka, Japan, where I lived for a year back in 2002-03. They now live here in Toronro, where I got to know them while busking together on the street, and jamming at my house with a few other friends. Here's a medley of music from that day:
https://on.soundcloud.com/UtPSC

Yoshi is an incredibly talented and super creative sitar player, sometimes playing with a violin bow, or with trippy electronic effects. He participated in a performance of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band full album re-enactment here in Toronto several years ago. Together with wife Chie, who plays didgeridoo, sings, and plays various percussion and electronic effects, they form the group Kaminari. Kaminari is a very popular act performing at various music festivals around Toronto, with shows now including dancing performances by their daughter.

This is a song from their early album Triangle, where I was honoured to be asked to play the drum (djembe) part - the only other artist on the album. 

Here's a video of a show they did a while ago to give you a sense of their stuff. I just like to plug them cause they're a super nice couple and a joy to play with. 
https://youtu.be/xAsKFPaRp24?si=thr44agGgN1ZXWND

thanks for listening!

(Written by Yoshito & Chie Yamano)

Triangle

Running Carpet (Kaminari with mistermark)

Music : Janne Hennie & PJ Project
Vocals & lyrics : Janne Hennie

Lyrics:

If you feel tired and can't find any pleasures
Unable to see how things really should be

You need a long break
To heal your heartache
And for Gods sake don't blame yourself
Take a deep breath
A good rest
To regain strength to get through the day

If you don't know how to love
And don't know how to live
If you feel split in two
And have nothing to give

You need a long break
To heal your heartache
And for gods sake don't blame yourself
Take a deep breath
A good rest
To regain strength to get through the day

If family and friends see you as only strong
They may not be aware of
That you struggle all day long

And need a long break
To heal your heartache
And for Gods sake don't blame yourself
Take a deep breath
A good rest
To regain strength, to get through the day..

To be able to help others
You have to help yourself
Don't be ashamed
To stop up and say

That you need a long break
To heal your heartache
And for gods sake don't blame yourself
Take a deep breath
A good rest
To regain strength, to get through the day..

So take a long break
To heal your heartache
And for Gods sake don't blame yourself
Take a deep breath
A good rest
To regain strength to get through the day...

Take A Long Break W/ Janne Hennie

Once upon a time in a distant land called Synthiopia, where people lived in harmony with music. But one day something extraordinary happened. A wise musician named The Master of Electronix created a synthesizer of unparalleled beauty and power.

This synthesizer was no ordinary instrument. It could produce sounds that touched the hearts of people like never before. The Master of Electronix played on the synthesizer and his melodies filled the air with a magic that changed the world.

The people of Synthiopia were fascinated by this new instrument. They listened as the synthesizer produced tones of incredible variety and depth. Soon, they began to compose their own songs and tell their stories with the help of this wonder instrument.

The world of music was never the same. The synthesizer found its way into every corner of Synthiopia and beyond. Its sounds were heard in the palaces of kings and in the cottages of peasants. People danced to its music and felt more alive than ever before.

But the greatest triumph of the synthesizer came when it conquered the hearts of people in other lands. Its melodies traveled across oceans and mountains, touching the souls of those who heard them. Soon, the synthesizer was no longer just an instrument of Synthiopia, but a treasure of the whole world.

And so the synthesizer lived on forever, its sounds continuing to unite people and fill the world with its magic.

In the magical realm of the Electronix

Over The Pop

Crash the Piano

An open collab with the amazing Paploviante And Friends!  From the original track I slowed it (Belgian New Beat style!) re pitched and added several layers of noise, strings and assorted weirdness. Christina Lindberg's voice guides us through the world of Swedish Mushrooms as well from her rare video Christinas svampskola! 
Original track is here!
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/obfuscated-open-collab-offer

PAPLOVIANTE And FRIENDS - Obfuscated (Christinas Svampskola Mix)

method: sounding, stretching, morphing, etc
narration: how to talk about the absent ? (this is not the first time I try to sound this poem - that's why there is "ii" in the title)
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

wir vermissen
die tiefen sprachen
der wale und elefanten

wir vermissen
das synchrone schlagen
hunderter vogelschwingen

ihr seid
nicht-da da
nur im phantomschmerz wahr

interlinear translation: phantoms // we miss / the deep language / of whales and elephants // we miss / the synchronous flapping / of hundreds of wings // you are not-present present / real only as a phantom pain //

phantome ii

Phantome ii

[PuppyDog Online- Spiral of Doom] (Board - Level 13) On The Rocks

Carnet de croquis
Carnet de route
  ---- ----
Sketchbook
Travelogue

Over The Pop

Tom Régnier