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MelancholyFminor

Uprising in Blue

In The Spotlight:

Recorded / mixed: Audacity. 
Guitar / Beat: Synth Mashup
Keyboard: Roland E-X20 
Mic: Rhode USB Mini

LYRICS: 

I used to think
That I would be someone
If you called my name
I used to think that
Every day

I used to think 
That I would feel something
If you held my hand
It was perfect 
In my mind

You were the melody
And I was the harmony
You were a symphony
And I was the leading beat

You were the band
And I was a fan
Then you walked walked away
From my open hand

Cos this is a song
For the artist's way
This is a song
To know it will be okay
We are the art
And the road on which art is made

This is a song for the girl
Who turned my head
Caught my eye
Now she's all alone
In the spotlight

I used to think
That I would be someone
If you called my name
I used to think that
Every day

I used to think 
That I would feel something
If you held my hand
It was perfect 
In my mind

© Tam Hastings, Ben-Tam Jennifer, 2022

In The Spotlight

In The Spotlight (2022)

Walking with another leads you to choose paths that you would not travel and to discover new places.
Thanks Zeph.
For more Sonic Kitchen please visit: https://on.soundcloud.com/MZw8

NEURALINK (WITH SONIC KITCHEN)

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboards
Marc Freak - Vocals, Lyrics https://soundcloud.com/marcfreak?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Adro the Toxic Waste - Guitar Solo https://soundcloud.com/user-941806022?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Kristopher Bolin - Mix and Mastering https://soundcloud.com/bawl-slant?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Lyrics:
It's all in vain
But all the little I am worth was all for you
I can't explain whilst I'm hanging from the words that you can spew

I will try anything but there's nothing left to show
I sold my life story to someone I don't know

For what it's worth it's suicidal altruism at best
There's just one thing that I'm busy trying to get off of my chest
If I had spent just a little more of time all for myself
Instead my fun is covered in dust rotting on the shelf

I can try anything but there's nothing left to show
I took a picture and I saw a bright halo

A tarot card
A daily reminder of who I am
The axe felt sharp
I surprised myself that I could stay so calm

I can try anything but there's nothing left to show
I'm waving fast as I disappear way down below

Negentropy

Bandcamp

Suicidal Altruism (feat. Marc Freak & Adro the Toxic Waste)

Produced for the wonderful https://citiesandmemory.com/ as part of their SOUNDS of Italy project. Original field recording by Giuseppe Calisti. I just turned it into the mess you are now hearing : ) Official arty blurb below

Leaving Sicily is a poetic remembrance, expressed through sound, of my travels across the Island in 2017. For me the Island was a constant  barrage of wonder; both beautiful and terrifying, welcoming and isolating, modern and ancient and familiar yet alien. The piece heavily manipulates samples from the field recording captured at The Falcone Borsellino Aiport to express some of the dichotomies above. Leaving Sicily finishes with the ‘raw’ sound of the crowd of the airport terminal representing the transition from my surreal and personal travel back into the world of normality - just another tourist in the crowd about to return to his normal life.

Leaving Sicily

Well, my good friend Paco dropped me a note to say he had a piece of music to which I might like to try and add something, were I so inclined.  Always a good day when that happens.

Now, I can't honestly recall the precise sequence in which the neurons fired inside my skull to yield the result we have here, but we are where we are as they say.

Don't go looking at me for rationale.

Thank you, Paco, as always my friend, for inviting me to come out to play, and for mastering the end result in the midst of untold techno-horror grief.  I hope your DAW world resolves itself very soon.

Find Paco's brilliant music here: https://soundcloud.com/sonido-reflexivo

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Socrates at Sundown

I lie bewildered, here, in my sphere of cubes,
On crushed silk cushions sprawled.
I sketch the cool Palladian dudes
In charcoal, on Aleutian walls.
They think I know what thoughts are theirs,
And beg to trade their graceless airs, 
But I left them there to climb their stairs
Ever downward through Athenian halls.

They say my knowledge is remiss,
The diabolical's back in town.
Seems ignorance is bliss
For this philosophical clown.
I'm seeking emptiness of mind,
That's where I hope to find
That old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

My associate, Plato knows the game
Survives through pretty dialogue
He suffocates but bestows his shame
On city states whose statutes fog
The heads of people in their ranks
Attentive on the Eridanos banks
Dispensing death by way of thanks
As justice shreds its cogs.

Deep mental grasp of social structure
No need to ever write it down
Accused outcast for youth's corrupture
Where the bleeding of democracy is bound
To seek the causal end of time
Of Aristotle and Nietzsche's kind
The men of Athens rendered blind
Killed that old, old friend of mine,
Socrates, at sundown.

Socrates At Sundown (with MidiSound)

Always a pleasure to participate in IPG1's awesome open collabs!
Thank you once again for the opportunity, Ian :)
This one is more of a Hip-Hop/Electro/Psych fusion (new genre alert lol!)

Open  Collab
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/bouncing-off-the-beat-92-bpm

Vocals/Lyrics written and performed by Ian Greaves aka IPG1 (https://soundcloud.com/ipg1)
Music, mix/master by Electrometis

Free download if you like it :)

So many rhymes written - styles bitten
Tracks so sick - they'll leave you bed ridden
Word play written with shadow-rhymes hidden
Visions that occur with lethal precision
Insight for dayzzz - experience that pays
You'll be amazed - rhyme after rhyme - phrase after phrase
How the hell he do that — and the message conveys
Cohesion on the track I’mer set it ablaze
Another Track turnt up - set this one on re-play
Yeah - I got it….yeah - I got it like that

Let's pick up the pace - Dropping bass in ya face
Locking haters in place - Rocking the whole damn place
Kicking ass…..more---Bass!!!!----more---Bass!!!!
Let’s keep it going!!!
I'll share the knowledge - keep the drumbeat flowing
Get yourself a taste — a full embrace
Rhymes tighter than the knot - on top your shoelace
Guarantee! — to put a smile back on your face
Gimme some space - Gimme some space!
Unplugged! so why not try to interface
Addicted to the sound like it's free-bass
like coke! — the real thing without the aftertaste
more be Tha beat-----more-be Tha - Bass!!!!------more-be Tha-Bass!!!!

All I've been through - leads to this time -this moment
Grinding night and day - while most lay dormant
Always bring my best - dress to impress
Full court press - the opposition seem ---stressed
I stay intentional - multidimensional
Verse after verse -totally exceptional
Wait a sec---here’s a reality check
Bet a bottom dollar that a brother don't sweat
Go ahead groove on - ain't done yet
Rock another beat - so my haters —upset
Track is getting---lit like a--------Newport cigarette
Why the confusion y'all - too unconventional
Must be delusional - Call it phenomenal
Solid ambition - creative composition
Adjust your position - cause I'm still on a mission
Track them down - take them out friendly disposition
Grab the track press play - sit back and listen

Repeat Verse 1

Outro
Volatile like nitro — don’t shake or stir
Wanted signs posted - don’t let the lines blur
Creative juices flowing so go for what you know
This is what I was born for so come on let’s go!

Drop!

Bouncing off the Beat

IPG1 & Electrometis - Bouncing Off The Beat

DmitryArshin - Ghost [Iparallels Records]

in the box..

Techno Time

I had something inside that must fly free.
NeoClassical
Modern Classical
Soundtrack
OST
BSO
Not Quite Classical
And ….  Prog rock. 

https://youtube.com/channel/UCFn6yvzY1gKi7lheBTK-Ftw
@TheBirdInside

NEURALINK (WITH SONIC KITCHEN)

The Bird Inside