an updated version of one of my favourite Beatles songs, written by Lennon / McCartney (primarily Paul, with producer George Martin doing the heavy lifting with the string arrangement). I've redone this a few times, as I find better & better string sounds to work with. this is the latest...   ;)

Eleanor Rigby (cover - strings only)

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

Second account for … -@k2andthe3…totally appreciate everyone’s support…. First songs will b one’s that didn’t “resonate”…  i 🙏🙏😎🤩homepage pic is my two boys’ camp out in Scouts USA… and me solo @ the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA… or my downstairs bathroom, ha!… be  good🙏😎🤩👏🏻🍺… leave a message if u can!!!! It’s my ONLY social media!!!Stayed off Facebook and Twitter for reasons!!!  
    if you don’t like, I don’t mind… just trying to write my own “White Album”… but thanks for the listen!!!

International indie music project, based in the Netherlands and South-Korea. Debut Album 'IDEALISM' released August 2019! 
We share our music and music that we love on this channel (and on our spotify list). If you want to hear some great tunes we discovered here on soundcloud and elswhere! You can find our monthly updated list here: 

https://open.spotify.com/user/blue-return/playlist/6uvgGB98PksReLVOdjCFe9?si=jXRYcoYHRqO03P8bi6mnCw

If you are interested in collaborations just drop us a line!

"more fun than i deserve" 
" stepping off the ledge with desire"
NEW album released 10/31/2025 SCALAR FIELD ON BANDCAMP listen for free or own it for the price of a couple  Frappuccino's   :)

Psych sounds, dub vibes and a whole bunch of FX in operation
SoundCloud collabs most welcome. Remixes, guitar bashing, conceptualising (a big word for a guitar player, I know) or whatever you have 😎

Member of the transatlantic music machine that is The Eclectic Collective

Member of Mid-Wales’ premier cheezepunk band The Recursives - watch us get down and boogie!!

https://youtu.be/f0CnN7FsIzM?si=4yCzlCMsylbIjKLx

https://youtu.be/E_tYwc83XPs?si=MjmQbwNeRpNXRhQS


Logo and cover art by Marianne

You may wish to check out my older dub based stuff here 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/TwJYv9QgWsDdKNvu9

I will be posting my new music here and supporting Indie Music all over the world 🤩

Find all my music  by using my linktree https://linktr.ee/mandyalicia
Music is life ♡ 

Make sure to continue to  check out my main page if you want to hear all of my original songs and collaborations :) https://soundcloud.com/mandyalicia


Much ♡ MA

I’m not an @ echo chamber!  I am a @ real musician!!!..  I’m a poor singer! Very poorly sung tunes! if I like or comment.. it is always @ genuine.. Gen X duder… born of 1969… that would b the day that Rock n Roll died.. Shouting into the Void!  Apparently…Don and Don and Glenn and Joe and the rest … they haven’t @ had @ that @ Spirit there, since my birthday!!!!  🤩🤩🤩Music for those who like music ...eclectic and varietal-in search of the perfect balance of rhythm melody harmony lyric and audio using garageband iphone
     I play guitar and drums and the rest... I’m also singing... a drummer and writer, and arranger by past diy profession... never got to record at leisure, until discovering GarageBand... this is all done on iPhone...awesome app!... leave a message if you can...
    I’ve been told I’m not doing myself any @ favors by singing.. don’t really care!🤩
Trying to write my own “ white album” a la The Beatles “, ha!😎🙏👍🤩🍺 homepage pic taken on bus, summer 2019, Niagara Falls, Canada…or Grand Canyon , 2022… or Hilton Head Island, SC 2023…or my downstairs bathroom, ha!…depending on mood, ha!!!… 
    If u don’t like, I don’t mind…. But thank u for the listen!!!… my first name is Kenneth ( go by Ken). Music for the beginning of the end…. And a new beginning….🙏 I rarely unfollow anyone….Can’t listen to everyone and everything, but if I follow…. U have stuff I dig…. And sometimes SC glitches, and removes them!? Message me, and I will re follow…
     I try to mix for my truck speakers… not always successful, but you can try to hear what I am trying for… AC/DC pop mixes, ha!🤣🤣🤣… starting to realize that I am in my own tree… might be sorry if you follow me, but might not!

Proud member of the Eclectic Collective! 

Second account is K2 and the Four

Here’s a link to my Beatles cover band! No longer playing with these awesome musicians, but I had a ton of fun, for 10 years!!! They continue on with a better drummer!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4JvtHzHkI&t=669s&pp=2AGdBZACAQ%3D%3D