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ANOTHERRRRRRR EXPERIMENT..... I HOPE Y'ALL LIKE IT!!! CAUSE THIS TRACK WAS VERY HARD!!  MUCH LOVE, HAPPINESS, AND PEACE TO Y'ALL!!!

KRAE-   WORK FOR IT    MORE THAN    YOU HOPE FOR IT

Sweet

Music created for

NAVIAR HAIKU 443
"just before sunrise
the quiet mystery of dawn
silences the birds"

haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

Cover by Nelson Brodon

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The Quiet Mystery Of Dawn

Naviar Records

Nelson Brodon - The Quiet Mystery Of Dawn (NaviarHaiku 443)

Write Off

flakebelly // life is such a beautiful thing

https://songwhip.com/flakebelly/behaviours
Buy now on Bandcamp: https://flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/behaviours

My advice to a new soul

(P) 2022 flakebelly - all rights reserved
(C) 2022 flakebelly - all rights reserved

https://linktr.ee/flakebelly

Behaviours

Life is Such a Beautiful Thing

Buy E.P.

Life Is Such A Beautiful Thing

Born in the basement of our shop front converted flat 477 AKA BEACH HQ, Zebras Flying is a freshly baked loaf of indie rock served up from our gentle hands to your kind earmouths. It is as direct as it is abstract, as simple as it is nonsensical and above all, the sound of two friends rocking out in their living room and singing about zebras flying and geese turning into handheld devices. Finished last week and released this week, this track has something for the whole family to enjoy! Preach the Beach xxx

Zebras Flying Across The Beach

Far from Shore

- Texturex

Empress
Give me adventures
Put me to the test

Temptress
I will do my best 
But it won’t be enough  

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right
 
Priestess
Radiant in your red dress 
And all your finery

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right

Empress
Do what you do, you’re the best
Empress
I’ll climb Everest for your love  

Empress 
Untouchable, sweet caress
Please give me your love

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right

Empress
Do what you do, you’re the best
Empress
I’ll climb Everest for your love  

c 2022N Connor

Empress Master 6 Oct 2022

Piano Explorations [1]

Looking through different windows [part 10]

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

a porcelain dream 1211 - 12:11:22, 9.20 PM

Composed with radio signals derived from Shortwave, SDR dongle, Low Frequency applications of Airspy, CB triggered synthesizer, cassettes tapes, digital feedback and intuition.

Radio Polytopes Series 2 Section 1

Veronika Lebetskaya - Plan It Earth (with backing voices)(2)

Available to purchase here: https://seadogmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cabin-fever-blues/1436207300

Seadog - Shell Shocked

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Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.

Hidden away in the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly shapes songs that wander between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and the quiet strangeness of the everyday. Acoustic warmth, blues-stained guitars, jazz-streaked piano, and dreamlike textures fold into each other, creating music that drifts between clarity and haze.

His track In Parks Of Tall Trees found its way to Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape, a small ripple in what has become a steady tide of restless ideas. From first picking up a guitar in the late 90s and stumbling through those formative songs in the early 2000s - many of which later resurfaced on Apprentice Green - flakebelly’s path has been one of constant diversion and reinvention. The early singles collections - The Orkney Tapes (2022) and The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023) - were restless, experimental documents of sound-searching, sketchbooks where ideas were tested, broken apart, and pieced together again in the pursuit of a voice. Those experiments fed directly into the indie-folk EP Behaviours (2022), the rough-edged Lo Fidelity (2024), and the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024), described by SNACK Magazine as “like being Alice in Wonderland, transported through a maze of moments in flakebelly’s imagination.”

Now comes The Boy In The Diving Bell - out now - a 17-track reckoning with past ghosts, unfinished business, and the fragments of memory that refuse to settle. It is a psych alt-folk soup of acoustic laments, fractured tape loops, and warped dreamscapes. Much of the sound was dragged through the teeth of a battered 1960s reel-to-reel, used not as a recorder but as an instrument - reels halted, jolted, rewound, coaxed into blurples, screeches, and ghostly echoes. Mistakes are left in, first takes are preferred, imperfections celebrated. The result is an antidote to the sterilised sheen of digital perfection and the creeping spread of AI-reproduced music: deliberately irregular, defiantly human.

The Boy In The Diving Bell is only the beginning - the first of three interconnected albums, the demos for which are already written. Yet even as that arc unfolds, flakebelly has begun detouring into a very different landscape: a new project built from vinyl samples, drum loops, and dirty guitars driven through vintage outboard gear, cassette recorders, and battered mixers. It is dark, abrasive, and deliberately uncomfortable - sound pushed to the point of collapse, distorted tape glued together with transformer saturation, live mixes through old delay units, dials twisted until frequencies scream. If The Diving Bell trilogy is haunted by memory, this parallel work dives into raw sound destruction and the strange beauty of degradation.

True to his solitary instincts, flakebelly writes, records, and produces everything from his home studio. The result is music that feels lived-in and handmade - always shifting, never fixed, and forever searching for new shapes in the sound.

All socials: @flakebelly //

"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of – a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game." - Lewis Wade, Is This Music?

"Refreshingly individual and very likeable" - Neil March, Trust The Doc Media

Life Is Such A Beautiful Thing

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