Published on SC 13 November 2021

Pic: Broadway Tower, Cotswolds, England, UK. By Geoff Descartes

In the comfort of your own mind

85% Dark Chocolate

This song is inspired by "Dream Catching", a previously released collaboration between Thommo, Ren Faye, and David Dunham.  David and I changed it up a bit here with a different take, giving it somewhat of a Latin flair.  You can hear more of David's superb guitar playing @david-dunhamuser589535203

Dancing on the Veranda (Thommo, David Dunham, Debra Buesking)

Progressive funk rock by the Dragonsail Puppets

Shapeshifting cobra with an image burned behind my eyes
This image I give off to you is another disguise

I'm travelling far away because this layer's growing thin
Your world's an onion I am peeling away skin by skin
Yes skin by skin by skin by skin by skin by skin by skin

How many skins till I'm in?

Shapeshifting cobra, still that image burned behind my eyes
I die and I'm reborn into the same familiar light
I'm torn but everything in form is something recognized
The same old visions spun and now I think I'm finally done

I'm going back to the labyrinth to stay
I'm going back to the labyrinth to stay
I'm going back to the labyrinth to stay
Or wear a layer away

A Layer Away

!!!    For Valentine's Day   !!!
❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect
When your heart beats so loudly in your chest, she is there... 
You are and will always be my beautiful memory my beauty. Nothing can alter this love, you are so wonderful!

🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, MSI, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space

❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

You, my pretty memory !

You, My Pretty Memory !

Single: Desafortunadamente. 
Genre: Jazz/Noise/Punk. 

Bandcamp; https://mathematicianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desafortunadamente
YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWX76gRjsgEwiizPAQtyUkeO8Rtz3VEb_
Spotify; https://open.spotify.com/album/5DvlUfEKlKyVPMEmFKsuIz?si=FoJp2N3XQgOYFtLqHXuX9g

Cover art by Stewart Emery.
Recorded and Mastered at Mathematician Records studio A.

01 Desafortunadamente

Released February 23rd, 2022.

Desafortunadamente was produced by and Juliet is the Sun.
© Mathematician Records 2022. All rights reserved.

Desafortunadamente | Single (2022)

Collaboration with "sonic structures and silent stretches"!!

<< Poetry >>
it‘s not like
she doesn‘t understand
what this silence
around her
is for

after all
there‘s this desire
feeding meditaton industries
monetizing inner calm
awareness

each human being
a kettle about to boil over
spill watery, bubbly, glittering marbles
sweet nothings kept for
nobody‘s sake

each mind‘s mouthpiece
a pressure valve, vibrating
under strain not to let off steam
verbosely explode
right nto her face

she still wouldn‘t mind
for this audience of roaring silences
to turn a listening ear
towards her artistic endeavours
every now and then

Poetry

The Silent Treatment (collab with sonic structures and silent stretches)

SixFour

piano and sax each played in one go, some vst effects and synths. drum loops .... photo by Alexei Scutari, Moldova on unsplash

all we want ...

I am basically an IT person but I've been making music as a hobby for decades.
When I was young, my parents hardly bothered about what I was doing as long as I made my grades.  So they never seek to listen to my music.   Same can be applied to my wife & son.  At best I got was “nice songs”.    I recall somewhat fifteen years after graduation, I had the chance to meet the old folks again.  Those whom we either sort of played or at least listened to music together.  I thought perhaps I could share some of my music.  So I dubbed about 15 CDs and handed out but that's the last time I heard from anyone on the subject.   Couple of years later, I was foolish enough to repeat it with relatives and of course ended up similarly.

I shared the story with Mellina and said I should make a song out of it as the phrase “no response, no reply, not even a single lie” just kept circling in my head.   Ten days later she came back with this piece of beautiful lyrics which I gladly used with gratitude.   Then I went on to complete the melody.

So this is it.  Hope you like our work.
Thanks for stopping by.

[CREDITS]
Music / Vocals / Keyboards / Programming – Michael C. Lynn
Lyrics – Mellina Barnett
Electric Guitar Solo – Darin Favorite @Band_in_a_Box

[LYRICS]
Those long paths of childhood
Were sometimes spent on my own
While my heart was full of music
I never felt I was alone

So I thought they'd be proud
And that they'd all want to share
Because I remember there was once a time
When they always seemed to care

CHORUS
There was no response, no reply,
Not even a single lie
When I handed them my dreams to share
I have to ask them why 
There was no response, no reply,
Not even a single lie
No word of support, no open arms,
And no questions why

With time we all grow and change
Yes I know that now
But where once we'd laughed together
It's like they'd forgotten how

Instrumental

My music has been my constant 
A friend and my guide
A part of my life that didn't change 
And that I never left behind

Repeat chorus

Pending Replies

No Response No Reply

The absence 
Of presumption
Is not
My gumption
But
To embrace
My function.
The introduction
Reconstruction
Induction
A conjunction
Past 
Obstruction
Construction
By abduction
The seduction
My divine
Hyperfunction
Becomes my
Redemption
The entrance
Into
Non-duality.
This reality
Of possibility
Illusionary
Neutrality
Representing
My mortality’s
Awareness
Of
Immortality.
In generality
The brutality
And liberality
Part of
Normality
Or some
Formality
Of equanimity

My reality
Is the expansion
Of my soul
As I become
A golden pillar
Standing
In the center
Immaculateness
To vacuousness
Just damn foolishness
The bliss
With my function
Of forgiveness.

To let illusion go,
Is 
the point
We should not miss.
Gandhi's passiveness
In the face of
What had to 
Be witnessed,
From light
To matter
It’s the duality
That shatters
The blockage 
Of the mind
From within.

My reality
Is the expansion
Of my soul
As I become
A golden pillar
Standing
In the center
Immaculateness
To vacuousness
Just damn foolishness
The bliss
With my function
Of forgiveness.

It’s not 
Where you go
Or
Where you’ve been
It’s just a mind
That sees no sin
Or
Time
Controlling
The light within.
It’s the universal norm
Not the perception
Of our forms.
“Through 
The transformation
Of awareness
Into form
Each thing
Attains
Its
Nature.”

My Reality

#197 Whereabouts Unknown Part !

It's a cops n robbers story.  This is a longer story so this ong includes the first half. We plan to come back to it some time for, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The Rest Of The Story"  Hope you like it! 

Lyrics;
  Put the foot On the floor
Picks it up goes Out the door
Gets away In the car
Drives all day travels far

He hides the face
Finds the place
Stays alone
Looses the phone
He's doing his own time
For his perfect crime
Whereabouts unknown

Temptation is a mighty sin
And someone's out to turn him in
A little bee inside in the hive
But honey's good for nothing 
if you don't come out alive

Put the foot On the floor
He gets the call Out the door
Got the badge Got the gun
He'll fnd the guy that's on the run

Hit the street
Be discrete 
Using tact
He gets the facts 
Bad guy gotta do the time
For committing the crime
His whereabouts unknown

Temptation is a mighty sin
Hands over fists of greedy men
With Intimidation and sound advice
And the Information sells 
at a discount price
The fox had thrown em off the trail
But there's a hound dog on his tail

Will he escape or go to jail
Somebody's gonna fail
Have you seen this man?
Do you recognize this man?
We're searching for this man...

Whereabouts unknown

Here is a link to Part 2:
https://soundcloud.com/user-106484228/whereabouts-unknown-part-2

You can find an alternate version by tHE bLUE rOOM here:
https://soundcloud.com/the-blue-room/whereabouts-unknown-feat-the-blue-room

Whereabouts Unknown Part !

Dan X2 is Dan Blackard (Reno, Nevada & Susanville, California) and Dan Lockhart (Carmel, Indiana & Edwardsville, Illinois).  We met here on SoundCloud.  We like making music together.  We have written and published over 300 songs together.  More songs written together than Lennon and McCartney.

You can find Dan Blackard's music here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-blackard

You can find Dan Lockhart's (aka ProgRockDan) music here:
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart
https://soundcloud.com/user-276716031
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan-instrumentals

The ProgRockDan1 site was taken down by SoundCloud. It was located here:
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1

We play the music that comes to us.  Much of our music has a basis in blues and rock.  Although we venture into other musical territory.  You will find hints of jazz, country, bluegrass, soul, classical, and other music in our songs.  We have a number of songs that change time signatures and pace.

When we first started recording we called ourselves Dan and Dan. 
 You can find our music under that moniker here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-590884876

We stopped using the name Dan and Dan's because there were to many other Dan's using that name.  If you google Dan and Dan we would not show up.  We believe that Dan X2 to be a moniker that we could own.   If you google Dan X2 we are right at the top,

You can find more Dan X2 music on ReverbNation:
https://www.reverbnation.com/dananddan5

The first Dan X2 album is now available on iTunes.  Songs on the album are not available on SoundCloud.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/4114/1439066447?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

You can also find the Dan X2 album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3hEejRAQYPj9q130D5lZ8f

You can also find the second Dan X2 album:  "Playing the Odds" on Amazon Music:
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Odds-Dan-X2/dp/B08C4VNX3R

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6oI3XsqPph3v6Xkg2BjVDG

and other on-line music sites.

We have a music making process that fits our unique skills.  We each do the parts that best fit our skills and interests.  Dan Lockhart does the initial song development.  Dan Blackard writes the lyrics, perform the vocals, and adds lead guitar.  Dan Lockhart then takes the track and do all final production (mixing and mastering).

Dan Lockhart writes all of the chords, timing, changes, and develops the track.  I then send two tracks to Dan Blackard.  One track has Dan L. describing the song.  Tell him the key, the timing, and any oddities about the song (changing keys or time signature...).  In the track Dan L tell Dan B verbally where is the verse, chorus, bridge and any other important information.

Dan Lockhart then send a second track that does not have this verbal dialogue.  This is called the instrumental track.  This is a track to which Dan B. can sing and add his parts.  Dan Blackard then returns  four pieces to Dan L:  a complete version of the song, a solo track of his vocals, a solo track of his guitar parts, and the artwork to accompany the song.

Dan Lockhart add his information into the original file.  Dan L. listen to it and make changes to the song to enhance the meaning of the lyrics. He sometimes adds instruments or takes away some instruments.  As Dan L. play many instruments (guitar, keyboards, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, violin, viola...), he can make a lot of adjustments.    On rare occasions he move pieces about.  Dan Lockhart then masters it and prepare it for final production.

You can find press releases about us in the Lassen News here:
http://www.lassennews.com/former-resident-creates-album-with-near-stranger/

and in Current in Carmel  here:
http://www.youarecurrent.com/2018/12/20/carmel-resident-partner-create-album-through-internet/

You can find Dan X2 videos Here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7p2YTgLdrMAJjSBBwrgRew

Out albums are also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicvC6l-R73MzdLHLdcFuZQ

We hope you enjoy our music.