Awesome drumming and beautiful clarity of sound!

Because I am a lifelong Zappa fan.. I consider it a privilege to hear this. Brilliance.. organic artistry!!

Calm and Peaceful

To equality, democracy, freedom, and hope 💙

A joyful jazzy march to dance the tightrope to 🗽

80-85 bpm

Ordinarily I use original LoFi audio that I have recorded from live subjects, but in this song, I use a single sample in my outro from a campaign video of Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, PA, October 27, 2024.

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional 
E-instruments:
Concert Grand
Deep Organ
SoCal Ballad Piano
Upright Ballad Bass
Crystals and Voices synth
Rolling Chords synth 
E-percussion used:
Studio Brush Kit 
Warehouse Kit shaker
Classic House Remix Congas

Cover art is a derivative illustration with additions and alterations to the following photos:

Statue of Liberty in the afternoon by Eldar Kamalov in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty_2.JPG

 Didier Pasquette walking a tightrope between the twin statues atop the Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, as part of the opening of the 2010 Beyond/In Western New York art exhibition, by Dave Pape in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Didier_Pasquette_BIWNY_1.jpg

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Tightrope

🌌🎆🎪🎆  Welcome to the Freak Show ,speaking for myself ,I invite you to step right up to a Scribes of Avalon Collaboration with an awesome group called ' Mind Watching Your Elbows'....they have a very unique style and kick off Codex Scrolls Beat with a style that along with the sounds ,took my foggy mind to a Parallel Reality ,as usual!🔮  

In this reality, it's the 80s ,the world felt more free , everything was more Raw, from the wilderness that was still existing ,to the cities, towns ,strange places
....and in my imaginings and memories it felt like the carnival ,exciting but with sinister feels,it smelt of popcorn🍿 fireworks n sulphur for other reasons!🎆🎇🔥...gun oil and petrol 🏍as my family hung about with bikers and always had trouble not far away...it was like the wild west!  
🌵☠️
But this was written around the time of Corona.I was still recovering from some serious Wing clipping shit...so it's not my best verse but fuck it , it was nice to feel a difrent vibe again and work with these awesome artists.

Check out Mind Watching Your Elbow on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/jpLLq

Beat by:
 Codex Scrolls 
Intro verses by :
Mind Watching Your Elbows
2nd Verse: 
Codex Scrolls 
3rd Verse : Me 

Lyrics :

Welcome to the Freek show 
Step right when u step up
Carnival cook ya meet slow 
N Death lightin ur best tux
Cannibal took ur knees  toes
Heads shoulders  messed up
Scribes mind watchin ya elbows
knuckles whopper pop aNose 
on fake faces and melt those 
In big topper tents stretched up
Lights hooked up wi nice glow
But cnt stop alota tense sense stuck 
Inside despite a sweet smell grow
Candy floss n sights of the rides 
Coz standin off to a side hell shows
In the form of Avalons knights 
Not just as Scribes or no side show
But as one monster of the night 
Uniformed at times u n I know 
Lifes Helta Skelta  delt a blow 
Corona game over less ur land owner 
mad grands ta hand drove a land rover 
No owin loans n groans in hand over 
I Stand alone a loner the crowd a loada 
Clone ass fukin loud mouth boners 
Known as Posers Provoke us ogres 
Drag em down to our Clown house hopeless Un noticed 
Bag of lime decomposes
oderless after a time with hot fire pokers 


Circuit Boards

02 M'arracher

Futureshock

-Mirror-

The lead is blown with my Akai EWI 5000 (100 onboard sounds) + Flamma FS22 Ekoverb pedal, improvisation in one go. The EWI 5000 has an octaver function, and a fun hold-the-first-played-key function, so you can play two voices with this wind instrument :-) ... A kind of demo of how versatile you can use a sound depending on how you play it. At times it reminds me of slide guitar :-)

Here and now

My technician is no longer with me as he traveled on.  This is a song written by Jim Reedy and sung by Brandon Bailey.  One of my VERY favorites of theirs.  Please enjoy!!!!

Cowboy

NEW RELEASE 
https://tutmonda.bandcamp.com/album/distant-call

Leonel Cardoso - saxophones, percussions, synth, bass @user-474600234
João Svayam - drums
Nuno Mangas Viegas - artwork

Drums recorded by João Svayam
All other instruments, mix and master by Leonel Cardoso


«A distant call for a close encounter.
The Salamandra Duo presents us with a true and complete instrumental dialogue: At times questioning, at others imperative, but always peremptory
in the nuances of rhythm and the layers of dialogue it offers us».
𝘕𝑢𝘯𝑜 𝑀𝘢𝑛𝘨𝑎𝘴 𝘝𝑖𝘦𝑔𝘢𝑠

«Distant Call is an album created remotely, cooked about 2 years ago by drum recordings by João Svayam (three drum tracks) and the additions of various instruments by Leonel Cardoso (who recycled these three drum tracks to create these themes that we have here today, in addition to other b sides). By that time both were collaborating on a improvisation band called Salamandra, connected to our sister label Partícula Records.
Distant Call is just like a time travel: between pure science fiction and impossible-to-deny facts born from any conspiracy theory.»
𝘕𝘢̄𝘥𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶

«As if two salamanders from a larger group decided to create a new flock to explore more individual questions of their existence, this Distant Call was born. It's not the first, and it certainly won't be the last, Salamandra album that I've been asked to listen to and write about... And I always have this feeling of fulfillment and certainty that everything in the Universe is in its correct order: even when it involves some pathology of dissociation. An amazing work of recycling sounds»
𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 

The one who calls

2025-02-19

The Surface Is Slowly Freezing.

A score filled with the choir, pizz strings, and tubular bells with the organ drawing us near at the end.

For All Creation

Tutmonda is an experimental music label whose main objective is to create a fusion of improvised and traditional sounds from different parts of the world. 

*We're right now working on collaborations with our soundcloud friends*

With the mission of promoting an inclusive and diverse sound mass, Tutmonda seeks to offer a space for artists from all corners of the globe to showcase their talent and creativity.

Our sonic wizards:

@joaomsousa
@joaoaclopesms
@zelencastre
@joerxworx
@henry-koek
@stevesoundcoombes
@dean-petrovski-44100126
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