Chalk It Up to Distortion

Here's the track I wrote for Sinecraft volume 3. It's in 17-tone equal temperament, mostly using the Blue[9] scale (222222221) with some slight chromaticism at certain points. I hope it kind of has the aura of a disembodied voice...

Watching From Sin Valley (17-EDO)

If you have a hobby that allows you to retreat from the world and the hustle and bustle, you can consider yourself lucky. We have our music for that. Whether you compose music yourself, play a musical instrument, or simply listen to music, you have something that allows you to retreat and recharge, even though music itself can be demanding. This song is a tribute to “our secret downstairs room” where our music becomes reality. The song is 100% improvised. Each of us played his/her musical instrument and created this part: Benjamin E-guitar and E-bass, Michelle 1st/main piano, Jasmin strings and the 2nd piano. All of us wrote the lyrics and created the melody for the lyrics.
Our secret downstairs room
Our secret downstairs room, our secret.
We sneak down the stairs tonight/ our secret downstairs room, our secret.
 Escape and get out off sight/Our secret….
To the secret room we have the key/Our secret…
A place of magic we wanna be/Our secret…

The walls echo our sound. Guitars played and drums pound. 
We play all our songs no one’s ever heard and the music starts to take over our world.

A place of magic and mystery where our own music can set us free
The guitar played hard, piano so soft, you hear our sound also above

Our secret downstairs room, our secret.
We play and the music gets loud/Our secret…
In this room we let it all out/…
We can Rock until the dawn/…
We hope this room it will live on/…

This place is more than just a room. It’s where we come to resume.
We play all our songs no one’s ever heard and the music starts to take over our world.

It’s our own small secret getaway where we can forget the hectic of the day.
The guitar so  fast, piano so slow, that’s our own little private show.

We play all our songs no one’s ever heard and the music starts to take over our world….

Secret Downstairs Room

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) Avril/2024.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:

Instrumental Jazz-Fusion

Iron Lady

fidalgo

footprints

music by
Marco Lucchi : piano

with
Cristina Blarzino : harp
Laura Polato : piano
Geoff Warren : flutes

*

"In 1986 - after two years of militancy in a couple of Renaissance and Baroque music ensembles - I started composing music again and around 1988 - together with a group of friends and colleagues - I recorded a part of it. In 2008 I released that bounch of tracks on the American label Webbed Hand Records. Some of these pieces had already set out on the way, others had remained - as they say - in the drawer. However, they show the initial phase of a musical research that is still in progress, despite having crossed new roads and traveled new paths, meeting new travel companions. I hope you will find it interesting."

*

6 agosto 2024

[1988] della Perla Lunare

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 09/2024.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

Thanks to Anne-Lise for this magnificent photo of Lanzarote.

Jazz Fusion instrumental

Sunset in Lanzarote

Sunset In Lanzarote

friend inside me.

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 12/2024.

Merry Christmas to all and many thanks for your continued support.

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

Lyrics

Like every morning,
I turn on the radio,
like every morning,
Bad news makes the show,
depressing grayness,
absent brightness,

war wins everywhere,
the climate change,
floods everywhere,
drought even stranger,

Before it's too late,
let's sing of love,
before it's too late,
let's pray to the lord god,
let's forget this nightmare,
let's stop all these wars,

Alone glimmer of hope the Music

Song about Saturn's wonderful moon Titan!

3. It's Gonna Rain Today

Dont Ever Look At The Face Of God

i see you all
you sang to me
surrender to me
all your shame
i will burn it away
surrender to me
all your pain
i will kiss it to flames

ॐ

in f major (a=440)
written, performed, and recorded by viola moonshape in october 2019
mixed and mastered by brahma
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

korg minilogue xd > apollo twin > ampex atr–102 > logic (tracks 01, 02)
lowden f–25 > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (track 03)
gibson es–335 > vox ac15c1 > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (track 04)
vocals > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > logic (tracks 05–11)
fender squier precision bass > apollo twin > logic (tracks 12, 13)
korg wavedrum > boss rc–505 > apollo twin > logic (tracks 14–16)
yamaha reface cp > apollo twin > logic (track 17)
vox guitar > neumann u87ai > apollo twin > uad raw > logic (tracks 18–20)

ॐ

cover by brahma
photography by viola moonshape
copyright © 2019 viola moonshape

ॐ

All Your Shame

Live in the Studio

Terrence is a dinosaur living in the present day.* One day he realized that people who lived in other periods of history did not know how to be extreme, and he thought that was bogus! So he built a time machine and travelled all through history!
   He taught Christopher Columbus how to snowboard! Awesome! He went base jumping with Alexander the Great! Bodacious! He even went to the far future of 2006, where people had forgotten how to be extreme, and showed everyone how to roller-blade!
    One time Terrence even used the internet. Not!!! The internet is only for nerds!! So watch Terrence and his adventures each and every week, and never stop being EXTREME!!**

* The present day being 1993.

**The Gnarly Adventures of Terrence the Time Travelling Dinosaur was cancelled half way through the first episode due to its awfulness. Here are what some people who saw that broadcast had to say about it. All have chosen to remain anonymous for fear that people will know they have seen The Gnarly Adventures of Terrence the Time Travelling Dinosaur.

“It was so bad it instantly liquified my internal organs.”

“They couldn’t even get the theme tune right. There are no drums and the guitars keep going off tempo. I hope whoever’s responsible for that awful tune never worked again.”

“My husband and I are forever grateful for the fact that our son was born after the Gnarly Adventures of Terrence the Time Travelling Dinosaur.”

“I thought the anger and hurt would have gone away by now. I suppose all you can do is take things one day at a time and be thankful for the little things.”

“I lost faith in America that day.”

Fortunately, nobody alive today will ever be subjected to the Gnarly Adventures of Terrence the Time Travelling Dinosaur. All copies of the first and only season were burned to ash, then the ash was thrown into a volcano, and then an atomic bomb was detonated inside the volcano. Now the world can move on.

All tracks use Roland Cube 80 XL Amp

Track 1: Volcano Rockateer Bass standard tuning
Track 2: Epiphone Sheraton II DADGBE (I’ve forgotten which amp distortion setting for all but the last track)
Track 3: Epiphone Sheraton II DADGBE
Track 4: Epiphone Sheraton II using Electro Harmonix Slammi Plus, DADGBE (I changed the distortion setting for this track without looking, and when I looked later I realized I had set it to EXTREME. Funny.

Guitaranuary: https://soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/guitaranuary

The Gnarly Adventures Of Terrence The Time Travelling Dinosaur

Mowgly3 - M3 Kuku

Song written and recorded by Darren Sullivan https://soundcloud.com/darren-sullivan
Additional mixing and recording by me. Enjoy ;) 

712
You’ll be remembered someday
Forever trapped in the play
Like a cold December Day
You’ll be home-schooled away
. . . Home-schooled away
You'll be home-schooled away
 
And when you find true love
The bastards will have their say
Chasing their tails and setting their sails
Like a castaway 3x

Date with protest, you gave a shout
Mixing your feelings and laughing about
Torn by the way you held your own barking dog
And pressured friends to Network jobs

I’m was feeling kind of jaded
Self-effaced and hated
Selfish and frustrated
and never created
 
Ran through the back door and held the key
Wind screamed through the dusty screen
Scores of crows were circling the sky
The omens were bad and the adults always lied
 
I’m was feeling kind of jaded
Self-effaced and hated
Selfish and frustrated
and never created

You’ll be remembered someday
Forever trapped in the play
Like a cold December Day
You’ll be home-schooled away
. . . Home-schooled away
. . . Home-schooled away
 
And when you find true love
The bastards will have their say
Chasing their tails and setting their sails
Like a castaway 10x

Darren Sullivan / Bluedusksun Collab ~ Seven Twelve

My new album "Dreams of the Byzantines" is streaming June 13th, 2025. Please check out my new website darrencsullivan.com for videos and albums to purchase.

Thanks for the kindness and support.

I have a great distaste for not making music.

Here you’ll find all of the songs I have written , my improvisations, as well as a good few weird experiments. I aim to keep changing my music, hopefully never getting stuck in a musical rut or staying in the same genre too long. When I started it was all one guitar stuff (no overdubs), and very bad sound production (i.e, no sound production!), but since then I’ve started adding more instruments such as drums bass and saz and I’m slowly but surely getting better at sound production. And last but not least, I am slowly but surely getting into singing. I welcome all feedback whether good or bad. Or indifferent. I also want to hear from those who are apathetic about my music! I recorded three albums:

Lifespan (2018):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/lifespan
The Telescope (2019):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/the-telescope
On these first two there is no sound production as such because I didn’t understand that stuff at the time, then I recorded this one:

 Argentavis Magnificens (2021):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/electric-juniper-saz
at which point I was finally starting to get my head around the sound production thing. I’m currently working on an album called Neurotypical Empire, Vol 1: 2244, the first song of which I have released:

https://soundcloud.com/user-429211267/neurotypical-empire-vol-1-2244-edit-1-export-1

All are welcome here, except of course bigots. If you are racist, homophobic or transphobic, I respectfully ask that you go away.

The Gnarly Adventures Of Terrence The Time Travelling Dinosaur

Colm Philpott

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