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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 567

created: 2025/06/15

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Steel Skies

Stop n Think

Surfers like Us ….. composition and all guitar parts 

Hi Everyone!
This is a new (slightly longer) version of my older song in classic guitar style! 😎🎸
Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🍀
Thanks for listening and any support.
Artur

Because of You

xzuirt(3) - zuirt fuil remix

I was bored so i made this would love some feedback on it.

bleak disparity

I did the painting. couldn't find a Vogon alphabet so wrote the title in pig-pen code.

Sounds to accompany Vogon poetry

END USER

Jackals tells of an initiatory experience, a journey through the desert, which will lead to an unexpected encounter and a profound acquisition of consciousness.

At times we are prisoners of an invisible circle, surrounded by shadows and presences that do not inspire trust... all this is Jackals.

"God created deserts so that men could know their souls there" says a Tuareg saying.

The jackals are out there...

Jackals

Gold Smoke

Dreamchaser

Dusted off the trusty old Volca Drum machine to create the beat for this one. In years past I used it quite a lot, including on many of the early Smoking Trout tracks, but it had been a little while. I'm also continuing to experiment with longer stretches of guitar, and incorporated most of the synth arsenal on this one. This was kind of inspired by reading the news here in the US, a strange mixture of depressing and ridiculous weirdness haha.

End Time Blues

Depths of Hallowed Redemption; Outro

Just The Way You Are (cover / Billy Joel)

Para escuchar la versión con Stewart MacLean  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/heliodoras-song-feat-stewart-maclean
Para escuchar la  versión instrumental  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/heliodora
Para escuchar la versión en inglés con Martin T.  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/heliodora-feat-martin-t/comment-2344409538
Para escuchar la versión a capela con MV  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/heliodora-dorita-ac
Para escuchar la versión a capela con Martin T.  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/heliodora-ac-mt

Verso 1
Al salir el sol siempre estaba ya en pie
Una prueba de lo dura que la vida fue
Su mundo ideal lo construyó 
A base de fe y dedicación.

Verso 2
Un fuego interior la impulsó a ser quien es
Una luchadora por su tierra y por su mies
Pero la suerte no le acompañó 
Cuando el amor despertó en su corazón.

Estribillo

Hoy Heliodora no puede evocar
Vivencias, recuerdos, la bruma los cubrió
pero el fulgor que brilla en su mirar
mantiene viva toda la pasión.


Verso 3
¡Cuánto trabajó por su entorno familiar!
A pesar de que no siempre consiguió acertar
Todo lo hizo con el corazón
Y pensando que era lo mejor.

Puente
En su cara está esculpida toda su labor
Las arrugas son las medallas que ganó
Su pelo, las cenizas del fuego que ardíó
Las ojeras, de todo lo que lloró.

Estribillo

Heliodora in Spanish

Verse 1
When the sun rose, she was always already standing.
A testament to how hard life was.
She built her ideal world
Based on faith and dedication.

Verse 2
An inner fire drove her to be who she is.
A fighter for her land and her harvest.
But luck wasn't on her side.
When love awoke in her heart.

Chorus

Today, Heliodora can't recall
Experiences and memories; the mist covered them,
but the glow that shines in her gaze
keeps all the passion alive.

Verse 3
She worked so hard for her family!
Although she didn't always get it right,
She did everything with her heart,
And thinking it was for the best.

Bridge
All her hard work is carved on her face.
The wrinkles are the medals she won.
Her hair, the ashes of the fire that burned.
The dark circles under her eyes, from all the tears she cried.

Chorus

Heliodora-Dorita (Feat. MV)

🌌 Moon and Aries – The Arrival (Remastered 2025)
A hypnotic, cinematic trip-hop journey—The Arrival is a sensual calling into higher love, inner liberation, and deep transformation. Reminiscent of 90s icons like Massive Attack and Portishead, this remastered version fuses retro textures with futuristic soul, pulsing with seductive vocals, poetic emotion, and atmospheric production. It’s the moment pain dissolves, desire awakens, and you stop running... and finally become.
✨ You don’t just arrive—you BECOME. Let it convert you. 🌕♈
www.moonandaries.com

The Arrival

The Arrival (Remastered 2025)

Spotify

The Arrival (2025 Remastered)

Math and music are supposed (or suspected?) to be connected some way or another. Dive into music theory to learn more ... Anyway, math and poetry go together well too, just look at Leigh Mercer's limerick “A Dozen, A Gross and A Score”. 
I had 'em all three at my workplace for a nice collab ... 

dozen

Update: Changed name from NIN to Nailed. Even thought it's a genuine tribute I don't want to be seen as highjacking their brand so... Also added a loop of 9 nail strikes per bar throughout and gave it sox on the vox... oh and bass guitar in there somewhere too

This is a tribute to Nine Inch Nails the band. Very luckily I saw them live on the Peel it Back tour in Dublin and they solidified their status as the most influential 'active' band for me in my world. An amazing show and well worth checking out if you can. The notes below the lyrics are elements I want to build into the song. Obviously not trying to rip them off but I guess I'm trying to paint a musical picture with some of their brushes and canvas. So far I'm happy the base tune appears to be original and also relevant to their material. Maybe it has enough to be obviously NIN influenced too. I'd welcome opinions on that if you have time 🖤

Lyrics

NIN my Sin
Nail all Nine Inches in
Give me Meadville grin
Peel it back
We win

Thanks lads
You're still the bar
Trent at 60
Many more years fill stages far
A forever reference in my head
From heavy to light
Lyrical love brain bed
Some friends don't dig your music but love your words
Proper heresy
Transcendence of blur

NIN my Sin
Nail all Nine Inches in

Keep it together
We want more Hurt
Yeah Cash took it,
But it's always your worth
This is something I can have
I will find that stage
I got Reznor rasp
You gave me growl and finesse
Closer to God within my chest

NIN my Sin
Nail all those Nine Inches in

Ruiner of my negative side
Head was a hole
Ego tamed from pride
(add a line here - Maybe: "Pensilvanian tone")
A Warm Place
You fill these moments
Like Buckley Grace
Mimed music moulded
Into the Void for all our sakes
Lyrical real washes away the fakes

NIN my Sin
Nail all those Nine Inches in

I bite the hand that feeds us lies
I almost Gave Up
But, still Wish for prize
It's you man
You kept me going
You're amazing music
Keeps BD flowing
Never say never
Churned love from rage
Maybe someday we'll share a stage

NIN my Sin
Nail all Nine Inches in

We spiral down with you to the darkest depths
We saw you in hell and together, wept
Old self destruction,
Marching swine power
Reptilian darkness
Musical genes
One timeless over hour

Sin to bin
Right where it belongs
NIN my Sin
Nine Inch Nails
Let's get it on"

Further orchestration:

- Consider dropping drums for the last two lines of each verse to emphasis the lines and make them the double emphasis you learned from Papa. RE read what he said about that and link and pass on the lesson if relevant

-consider setting up a synth to create a spiral effect with panning and pitch shifting to honour the Downward Spiral

-Use breaking glass effect to honour The Fragile. Maybe make this a positive flip by using a reversed breaking of glass effect making something that's impossible at least possible in sound. That can be a powerful metaphor

- Add a Machine sound of some kind to honour Pretty hate Machine. Tie this machine sound to the reverse effected glass breaking effect and tie that positivity to the hope we keep machines & technology under a better control collectively

Nailed

The post promotes "SIRENS - ΣΕΙΡΗΝΕΣ" by CHRIS JUNOS, a track on SoundCloud, with the Greek title hinting at a connection to the mythological sirens from Homer’s Odyssey, known for their enchanting voices, as detailed in a 2025 Wikipedia update on siren mythology.
This release coincides with a Netflix series "Sirens," launched in May 2025, which blends Greek mythology with modern black comedy, suggesting CHRIS JUNOS may be tapping into a cultural resurgence of siren themes in media.
The timing aligns with a 2025 Metacritic report on new music releases, indicating a peak period for electronic and ambient genres, potentially boosting the track’s visibility among niche audiences.

SIRENS - ΣΕΙΡΗΝΕΣ

2025/12/12:
Anybody else prevented from accessing SC servers via VPN?  All of them are blocked for me.  This is the first time it happens to me in six or seven years of almost daily SoundCloud activity.  I use a VPN in SC because when I don't I get horrible delays that show up in many different ways.  The only explanation I have found is that somehow their security/identification system has flagged my IP address and introduced all kinds of speed bumps.  It makes the experience very unpleasant, irritating.

2025/12/06:
Why was Jonathan Bellot's account
[https://soundcloud.com/jonathanbellot] deleted?
...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...
My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
Sorry Joe. =(
...
sometime in 2025:
I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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