lovely melodies...very beautiful sounds<3

The atmosphere is so gentle and warm.  Love the panning analog synth:)

Very calm and beautiful harmony with nice synthesizer usage on top of gentle piano! Great job!

Creation of wonderful space. The spread of the piano and the phrase and atmosphere are the best.

Always love the simplcity of a piano. Thanks for the journey!

A piece of Nordic night-time atmospherics... And wondering...

To Reach The Northern Star

Raðulfr Maganhar / P a b l o - Machine Psychologist (Session mix)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my next BandCamp solo album)

Greetings my wonderful SC friends. I hope you’re enjoying October as much as I am. I adore all the -ember and -ober months. As seasons go, this is my happy space. It’s a great time to reflect, and a great time to reset.

Creatively speaking, this song caused a peculiar reaction I wasn’t expecting; enough to make it the topic for my liner notes. The reaction was... nostalgia. The world instruments made me pine for the experiences of my Scottish (clan Mackay) ancestors. And some of my other synth choices sparked happy feelings of being a teenager in the 80s. 

Even now, I’m strangely comforted by this song (a sort of mother’s love/lullaby effect). It makes me yearn for what I imagine to be easier, simpler times… and I couldn’t be more wrong. 

I know my Scottish ancestors had quite a brutal and destructive history. And if I’m really being honest with myself, I never expected to survive the Cold War in the 80s. In fact, I actually adopted a very dystopian view of the world because of it. So why do I (or any of us) have such a strong desire to return to ‘the good old days’, when almost all evidence points to those times being worse for the majority of us?

I’m reading a book right now that puts all of this into sharp perspective. It’s called ‘Enlightenment Now’ (by Steven Pinker); and it has less to do with being enlightened, and more to do with using reasoning to help us rummage through the inaccuracies stored in our minds. I’ll be the first to admit… I struggle with a lot of the concepts (because my ego loves the drama of believing it’s all going to hell). But truthfully, we have never seen a time when so many people were experiencing such a decent quality of life, and Steven has the analytics to prove it. For example:

On the topic of life…. The average human lifespan is now 71.4 years. In the 1700s it was 35.

On the topic of sustenance… Premodern Europe suffered famines every few decades. The typical diet in France in the 1700s was comparable to Rwanda in 1965 (the most malnourished nation for that year). Today, India’s billion people get an average of 2,400 calories a day. Hunger hasn’t disappeared entirely. But it’s nothing like what our ancestors experienced.

On the topic of wealth… the average preindustrial European was fortunate to own a quality garment only a few times in their lives. And it was not uncommon for clothing to be stolen off a dead body during an epidemic… thus continuing to spread the epidemic. Now we have to store our winter clothes to make room in the closet for our summer attire. And we order these items on our smart phones, to be delivered tomorrow.

On the topic of equal rights… Consider Michelle Obama’s quote from the 2016 National Democratic Convention, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” That is a hopeful indicator of how far we’ve come toward achieving racial equality. And there are people still alive today who were born before women had the right to vote. Now women can run for President. Another great indicator we are heading in the right direction. We definitely have a long way to go. But again, it is much better than it was.

These are some of the simplest examples pulled from the book. If you need a booster shot of positivity, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best researched, most logically presented perspectives I’ve encountered in a while; and it is unapologetically hopeful. It reminds us… the ‘good old days’ weren’t really that good; and the best days are now. So let’s focus on what we need to do next, and maybe park those fond (but faulty) memories.

I hope you enjoyed my latest musical offering, ‘Nostalgia’. :)

Vox Populi

Nostalgia

In October

So welcome to the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon wherein nothing is true and everything is permissable.
For in these post-absolutist days it is better to build upon the shifting sands than the rock which will
confound you on the day it shatters. Philosophers have become no more than the keepers of useful sarcasms,
for the secret is out that there is no secret of the universe. All is Chaos and evolution is going nowhere in
particular. It is pure chance which rules the universe and thus, and only thus, is life good. We are born
accidentally into a random world where only seeming causes lead to apparent effects, and very little is
predetermined, thank Chaos. As everything is arbitrary and accidental then perhaps these words are too small
and pejorative, rather we should perhaps say that life, the universe and everything is spontaneously creative
and magical.
(Excerpt from Liber Kaoss - Principia Chaotica by P. Caroll)

track alternate title: *Taileater Jams* - turn on repeat to find out why^^
track 2 from https://neurologickthunder.bandcamp.com/album/ov-stocchastic-reality-and-agile-vibration

Agitated Neuron↯ - Ov Shifting Sands And Languid Stones

A bit of a muck around, put an old keyboard through a Boss Delay pedal to see how it sounds and built it up from there.  Enjoy

How It All Goes

Simple piece that sounded like an echo of something unheard.

Before This, Beyond That

The Echo Of Unheard Things

Happy solstice, 
Bonne fête de la musique, 
Et en soutien aux soulèvements de la Terre.

Lyrics:

I took the sun
With a cat of
milk and honey
Came the wind
Mast
And defining
My waking skin
On the brains of the sky
There
Metabolized
Consciousness is seen 
Poetry
Of the life that is said
planets
big bang flowers
And achenes of black hole
Enough
Certifies the purr
Let them break the complexion!
she whispers
Not to fear the storm
The Lush Collapse
'Cause it's time
To become a storm

Solstice Of No Return

Chapter 184 of 266
Chapters released every weekend. All TAFFETA tracks are created within seven days.

I use a complete hybrid of organic & electronic sounds within the scope of the Taffeta project. Nothing is out of the question and no limits are set on how things may evolve one way or another.

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In October

LeoneLInder

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