CLEAR MESSAGE: I CHANGE. But OK to DIE TOO 🙏🏻

A cool funky backing for all sorts of delicious sound bites to feed off... from the expressive avant-garde guitar, the vocal samples and the manipulation of ambient sounds.

Earwigism

For song and album art visit Wou-Wou & the Wormling at:
https://www.facebook.com/wouwouandthewormling

This is the second song posted from the album Bitzone, Stricknice, Wou-Wou & the Wormling, and I have been working on together with a number of other friends on SoundCloud. The first song shared was the late 80s indie American underground inspired song, Ghosting Out, that include Bonetender joining with his transistor organ and guitar. The Show / The Shrike Pt. 3 is one of the 4 songs on the album inspired by Wou-Wou & the Wormling’s graphic novel, the Shrike, which inspired this project. 

Massive thanks to Carlos Vivanco and Belial Pelegrim for joining us on this track. This is the 2nd song Belial has joined me on and the first song I have had the privilege of working with Carlos on. It is amazing to have them both on the same track together. I feel so lucky to get to work with all my favorite musicians.

Carlos Vivanco: Keys, Horns, Synth
https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1
https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com
Belial Pelegrim: Guitar, Synth, Treated Chimes
https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com
Stricknice: Samples, Production, Intro and Outro
https://soundcloud.com/j-nice-6
Bitzone: Drums, Mix and Master
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
Wou-Wou & the Wormling: Lyrics, Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Drums, Samples, Original Demo Track, Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling
https://wouwouandthewormling.bandcamp.com
the Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:
Slowly the room will fill with smoke 
Mirrors help occupy the hoax 
Laughing when no one gets the joke
Millions waiting for the quote
Tell me what would you do for fame
How do you plan to win the game
Can you fit in the mould they make
If I asked would you scream my name
For the show

Simon says I will take the lead
Stick with me and you will succeed 
Come and get it come and chase this dream
All you need is a sob story
Like a moth to a flame so bright
Your a slave to the stark spotlight
Cheshire cat with her teeth so white
Tune in and see it all tonight
In the show

In the show

Later that evening as smoke from the chimney was pelted by the rain
Slain and dismembered my head fully severed and mounted and displayed 
It’s hard to explain I’m awake with no pain and hallowed out in the brain
I wouldn’t complain, a life that’s mundane, is all I could hope to attain
except i was detained by bird with a man and this is what he was saying  

Are you having me on?

In the show

You are out all day and this sorry excuse is all that you bring back?
This second rate stag you decided to bag isn’t worthy of a plaque 
Did I make my self clear I can’t tell from your sneer are we still on same track
Our collection is nearly complete I conceit but there is only one thing that we lack

One human head 
One human head
Don’t disappoint me now
In the show
You’re a freak, an animal and most importantly a killer
You’re a freak, an animal and most importantly a killer
A killer
A killer
A killer

The Show / The Shrike Pt. 3

Carlos Vivanco, Belial Pelegrim, Stricknice, Bitzone, Wou-Wou & Couch - The Show / The Shrike Pt. 3

I've been away for a while.  Restaurant business has been very demanding lately.   Thought I'd come back with a remix of one of my absolute favorites of the old school blues men, Bukka White.  He recorded this track back in the 30's!  Amazing that something recorded so long ago still moves me in this day and age.  Bukka had this very percussive, tribal way of playing that was incomparable, and the timbre of his voice conveyed so much emotion.  Still gives me goosebumps every time I hear him.  Hope I've honored his legacy with my remix, and I hope you enjoy it.  I'll be visiting your pages soon to hear what you've all been up to.  Cheers, Joe
Check out the original here : https://youtu.be/6Z0HXaT0zCE

Fixin' to Die

Fixin To Die

Magnet Auf Band

Press f to litigate

Time and Space

Elemental Vol. 1 moves through earth, air, fire, and water not as metaphors but as emotional states. The songs drift like weather systems, mixing tenderness with atmosphere - acoustic guitars and field-warm vocals meeting the pulse of understated techno rhythms. The production is deliberately porous: wood and wire breathing alongside soft synths and spectral drum-machine traces. It's an "acoustic techno" album in the sense that rhythm and resonance share the same dirt. The songs carry the physical textures of wind in rafters, gravel underfoot, or rain on a roof, yet they shimmer with digital light. This meeting of folk intimacy and electronic timbres gives the album its peculiar gravity - part back-porch confession, part after-hours heartbeat.

Lyrically, Elemental Vol. 1 abandons conventional pop architecture. Instead of verse–chorus–bridge repetition, each piece unfolds as a field poem - free-form, continuous, and responsive to its own inner weather. The writing treats structure as tide rather than grid: refrains return when they need to, not when they're told to. This openness lets the language breathe in sync with the natural imagery that drives it - storms, light, stone, silence - and invites listeners to inhabit the songs as evolving spaces rather than predictable forms. Across the various mixes of its six song poems - We Learn the Sky, Don't Sightsee This Heart, Be a Storm in Me, Til the Heat Is Gone, You Happen Like Weather, and Wild Gifts - the album traces the cycles of intimacy and impermanence, finding in their motion the same quiet power that turns seasons, wheels, and hearts.

Wild Gifts (IV)

MokyDuke Translation

Everybody has had a Jelly Belly sometime in their lives.  They come in all kinds of flavours and colors.  What if each flavour was an instrument?
This is a fun song with a funky/jazzy/bluesy beat.  Hope you enjoy it.

This is my first time using drum loops.  I don't think I could have pulled it off with two fingers banging on a midi keyboard.

Jelly Belly Jam

Decided to take the road less traveled, at least for me. I think in these times people sure wish for something like magic to take these troubles away, but as with anything that we don't understand there is a great potential price to pay in these arcane experiments. Enough with the jabbering, take a listen and really hoping all is as well as circumstantially possible in your life.

bandcamp

Magic Stones

vídeo : www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBiw57ExpU&t=28s
dark flow... dope time! 

Peace

Occult [video in description]

この曲は、以前アップロードしました業を手直しして再アップロードしました。

業~karma

meditative ambient exploration jam w reichlich effekte ;P - foto aus dem "deutschen museum" in münchen

twilightzone

1st Track from The Guiltless, October 2020 release by Softlands.  Recorded at Shadowbear Studio, CT.  Mastered at Black Knoll Studios New York.

Change Or Die

Lyrics:
Chkachka da um ga 
Chkachka chi da um ga, 
Chka Chka chi chi ta — um-ga
ChkaChka tsh tsh ka (Sharp breath in while clicking tounge)

(Idk what I did in the fifth bar, thanks to quantization it just lumped stuff together)
ti ka ti ka tsh tsh (sharp breath) ti-ga (glitched) 
Ti ka ti ko ti ko ti ku ku tik tik -ga 
Pa Ti tish tsh (sharp breath) ti-ga

Livin’ in the Groove. (Oooooooooooooo) (Livin in the groove)
Livin’ in the Groove, 
Livin’ in the Groove,
Livin’ in the Groove,
Livin’ in the Groove, (just livin)
Livin’ in the Groove, (4x)
(Livin in the Groove)

Livin’ Livin’ Livin’ Livin’,
Livin’ Livin’ Livin’ Livin’,
Livin’ in the groove,
Just Livin’.
Livin’ Livin’ Livin’ Livin’,
Livin’ Livin’ Livin’ Livin’,

(Oooooooooooooooooo)

Aaa, oo, ooo, ooo. (4x)

Just Vibe.
Juust Viiibe.

Let the groove, take you too, 
A place to vibe,
Let the groove, take you too,
A place to vibe.

(Vibe, Vibe, Let’s Vibe) (2x)

Let’s Vibe. (A bunch of Let’s Vibe’s)
Let’s Vibe. (A bunch of Let’s Vibe’s)

Just Vibe. (Vibe, Vibe, Let’s Vibe) (6x)

Livin’ Livin’ Livin’ Livin’, (In the Groove)

Livin' In The Groove (Vibes)

Desktop

Flying over an ancient temple

An intimate frontier.  A melody lost on waking.  A memory from childhood.  A hope for forgiveness.  A season ended.  A photograph of a moment you don’t remember.  A treasured object found and lost.  A thought interrupted.  A mirror in an empty room.  The dust of an evening.  An incomplete equation.  A discussion with possibility.  A missing adversary.  My impression from our last meeting.

Additional Music and downloads available on Bandcamp: 

https://softlands1.bandcamp.com/

On Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5YG49h7BY6wDxSpnDZpHDo

Change Or Die

Softlands

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