The Great Wayfarer DG

Winter 2024

Some of my Soundcloud Favourites #205

Daily Drops

After En El Mar

Related tracks: "FREE TO LIVE IN PEACE" Vocals Special Cecilia - ❤️🕊️🙏

Inspired by "The Invincible" a novel by Stanislaw Lem. 
I started with some synth sounds that reminded me of classic sci-fi I read in my youth.
For the tech-minded:
I used a Gibson 335 for the guitar parts, split the signal, used a tape echo for one channel and delay on the other, then put the whole lot through a vintage reverb... The reverse bits were done using a sampler.

Stanislaw Lem

It's been a while since I used my looper to jam. Anyway, these are the bits I recorded and tidied up in Cubase.

Psych 06

Dedicated to skaters!!!

Full instrumental with only guitar, bass and drums.

2023/4/2

WebSite

moment

Another track from the project inspired by Paul Kingsnorth's "The Wake". Tove is one of Buccmaster's group of "green men", though when he joined he was just a boy. Orphaned by the Normans, he latches onto Buccmaster; I don't think idolises is too strong a word. His loyalty is tragically misplaced. Sad.

tove - a lament

After Midnight. Still Playing.

11 weeks furloughed, during the pandemic of 2020… was starting to feel a bit knackered… poured my energy into writing and recording, exercising and trying to find out what the heck was happening 😎

Furloughed Idiotic

Deep in thought with the trials & tribulations of life reflections  ,highs ..lows .hopes  ..changes ..all that & everything 🤗 Thanks for listening 😊🙏 this is a DAW-less production one take live recording made using Concert mate Mg1 moog ,Micro-granny 2,Dave smith Mopho,Juno 60 ,recorded to H5 Zoom recorder via Allen Heath pa 12 mixer .

Pensive Pt 1 (light & dark mix) Daw-less one shot live impro recording

Another track inspired by Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy. Psychohistorians predict the gradual collapse of the Galactic Empire so they set up a Foundation in the periphery of the galaxy to preserve knowledge and reduce the duration of the galactic dark ages.
I used a Fender Telecaster through a modern amp to create the slightly bitter, flattened guitar tone; I'm hoping it adds drama and tension....

Psychohistory

I connected with @blackmarketbrains when he responded to my open collab, Social Fabric. I really liked his take on that one so asked if he wanted to do another collaboration. He offered up this open collab he had going as well as a couple other ideas. Working on this one, my remix came together right away. I am digging his post-nuke post-apocalypse aesthetic.

David is responsible for the beat and many of the synth and sound effect elements (we discovered he and I use a lot of the same hardware-- microfreak + volca drum!) ... my additions include the kind of light epiano keys in the background and the main melody ultra filtered sounding lead lines. Thanks for checking this one out!

After the Bomb (TRC mix) - w/ Black Market Brains

Conversation With The Last Dragon

De nos jours, chacun d'entre nous accomplit des choses bien plus spectaculaires et plus complexes que par le passé. Savoir  imaginer, motiver, coordonner, sont pour beaucoup d'entre nous des objectifs.
Mais au présent, il faut reconnaître, que chacun « travaille » pour soi, et que hélas, les États se substituent aux volontés collectives et, l’individualisme est devenu roi. Chacun paie sa redevance dans tous les domaines et considère ainsi, avoir sa part de bonheur, sa part de liberté ....
Nous déléguons de ce fait, toutes les taches de la vie collective, et même trop souvent de la vie domestique, perdant ainsi la capacité d'avoir un semblant d'autonomie, et devenant dépendant de l'argent …. nous empilons les chèques, avec l'espoir d'une certaine tranquillité de vivre. Est-ce vraiment une bonne chose ? 
Je vous laisse méditer sur ces quelques lignes ....

Maintenant pour parler, de ce qui nous intéresse musicalement ici, vous pouvez écouter de cette nouvelle collaboration, avec notre ami David, qui donne avec sa guitare, tout son sens à cette logique harmonique conçue en égard à cette voix si belle et particulière de Clara Sorace.

Merci David d'avoir usé de ton temps pour cette excellente collaboration ….

Vous pouvez découvrir, ou le redécouvrir ici: @david-dunhamuser589535203
Participation virtuelle, au chant Clara Sorace: https://clarasorace.com/

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These days, each and every one of us achieves far more spectacular and complex things than in the past. Knowing how to imagine, motivate and coordinate is a goal for many of us.
But in the present, we have to recognize that everyone is "working" for himself, and that, alas, states are replacing collective wills, and individualism has become king. Everyone pays his or her dues in all areas, and thus considers that they have their share of happiness, their semblance of freedom ....
As a result, we delegate all the tasks of collective life, and all too often even domestic life, thus losing the ability to have any semblance of autonomy, and becoming dependent on money .... we pile up cheques, in the hope of a certain peace of living. Is this really a good thing? 
I'll leave you to meditate after reading these few lines ....

Now to talk about what interests us musically here, you can listen to this new collaboration, with our friend David, who gives with his guitar, all its meaning to this harmonic logic conceived in consideration of Clara Sorace's so beautiful and particular voice.

Thank you David for responding positively to my request, and for giving up your time for this excellent collaboration ....

You can discover or rediscover it here: @david-dunhamuser589535203
Virtual participation, singing Clara Sorace: https://clarasorace.com/

Shadow Or Light .... With David Dunham & Clara Sorace

Written, performed and recorded by  Neli CoKo, 2024, all rights reserved. 
I tried to create a real big space. Not easy! Thank you for listening :)

Now it´s time
Remember and release
Now it´s time
The pain will come and ease

Now it´s time
To get back on the ground
Now it´s time
Declutter what I found

I can´t believe it´s over, a new beginning
...

Now it´s time
To become innocent
Now it´s time
To live luminiscent

Now it´s time
To overcome the pain
Now it´s time
To let it all go down the drain

I can´t believe it´s over - a new beginning
...

New Beginnings

Neli CoKo - New Beginnings

Cast of characters:
RIch O'Brien-- @rich-obrien -- composition, intro guitar solo
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– third guitar solo  
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell -- Clave and organ
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, production, and mix
Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez–final guitar solo
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–four-string fretless bass and second guitar solo
This song started as a full composition on all instruments by Rich. He asked me if I'd be interested in a collaboration with it. I jumped at the chance to share it with the Eclectic Collective. So, I invited the gang to join in, replacing most of the original instrumentation, and adding some new. After Ken had added his driving, foundational drums, I added my bass to match. JJ soon after cranked up the funk-o-meter by adding his clave and screaming organ. Then, I added a guitar solo, which comes in right after Rich's intro. Stephen was up next with his badass licks in the third solo. Then Tez got a hold of it, and ripped a hole in the ether with his guitar in the last solo.
  Ken was generous enough to produce and mix this for us. And what an outstanding job he did, too. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed making it.

Bottled Lightning (Rich O'Brien and Eclectic Collective)

Recording sessions from 17/12/2023-21/12/2023.
4 tracks MOOG Modular (vst Arturia),
1 track Spark (vst Arturia),
1 track "FREE TO LIVE IN PEACE" Vocals Special Cecilia,
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork - Pier WILL & YoshisMom_Pixabay.
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, MSI, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Experimental 
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FREE TO LIVE IN PEACE Lyrics and singing: Special Cecilia - Music: Pier WILL
❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

FREE TO LIVE IN PEACE

"FREE TO LIVE IN PEACE" Vocals Special Cecilia - ❤️🕊️🙏

With much curiosity and just enough grace, Icyllia wanders the Frost Palace aimlessly

Mood Exhibit - Icyllia

The Legacy

I've been pretty sick lately, so due to a lack of inspiration for anything new, this is another one dragged out of the archives and brought into 2024.
Thought it would be nice to have some guitar added too, so my trusty friend Ibnu Hadi D came up with the goods once again 😊
Always a pleasure working with him!

Guitar: Ibnu Hadi D
Music, mix/master: Electrometis
Vocals: various royalty free sources

Free download if you like it.

Thank you for listening ♥

You Know Me Better

You Know Me Better (Remix) feat. Ibnu Hadi D

I'm hoping this will cut it as the first track on an album inspired by Asimov's Foundation novels.
I used a Gibson 335 Memphis for all the guitar parts.
The cover is from a Catalonian edition of the book and is by Guillem H. Pongillupi; find him on Artstation and Pinterest.

Foundation (Prelude)

https://nowyyorg9.wixsite.com/seasional-optimist/forever-in-my-heart

Album Interactive Experience
nowyyorg 2024

Forever In My Heart

And you wanna say, but you wanna know
Everything I am, inside my soul
Am I full of shit, I don't really know
All I really know is I'm original
And you wanna be kinda like me
Do you wanna know how I did it though
You gotta spend some time in your fucking mind
'Til you're fucking minds and out your fucking mind
Are you getting mad cuz I operate
In a different way than you want me to
Are you fucking glad I don't penetrate
Every mind of the kind you make weak and blind

We don't care
We Undermine your lies with our underlying guise
We won't bear
Your burdening defies our need to stay alive

And now your narrative is fucking crumbling
and your former sheep are now grumbling
And your humbled by the mumbling
Of the people you keep in the dark and underneath
And they're gonna know what you don't want them to
We aren't really free unless we're slaves to you
Until we break the chains until we free our minds
From the ones who remain dumb lost weak and blind
They try to throw it all put us all away 
Like we're a detriment to society
Only trouble is they can't facilitate
The making of a mind as strong as mine into a paper plate

We don't care
We Undermine your lies with our underlying guise
We won't bear
Your burdening defies our need to stay alive

We Don't Care

No matter how many sound effects I added, I couldn't fill the void in my heart. 
　The tone of the song was supposed to be a cheerful mood, but it ended up being a dissipating feeling of loneliness. Earthquakes, recession, and wasteful government economic policies all surround me. 
　Everything I touch casts a lonely shadow.

I want to land right in the middle between experimental music and listening music.(285)

Here's a remix of Indii's lovely vocal "Grasslands". 

You can find the original vocal here;

https://soundcloud.com/indiiwildmoon/grasslands-original-edit-vocal


And her main account here;

https://soundcloud.com/wildsilencez


Here's a link for the cover art;

https://pixabay.com/photos/reed-tall-grass-sunlight-5882427/


Peace

Dan

Indii - Grasslands (RiZLiX Remix)

Like a lunatic I dived into this 6x4 that would take me to a new day.
Picture: Tarsila do Amaral
Art with Canva

A LUA

Original by Nazareth 1982
Vocal : Janne Hennie

Dream On W/ Janne Hennie

After en el mar

Suicide Prevention Hot Line     1 800 273 8255   Once you're gone, you're gone forever....there's no chance to change The End.

THE END MIXX 1 100719 WIP - M3NT 01 - 01

I've been on Soundcloud for six years now and it's been great exploring the work of other artists.  There is so much generosity of spirit on this platform, it's just what you need when most of your music is made solo. 

I started out playing classical and Spanish guitar, then took up flamenco to ease myself away from the confines of musical notation. As a result, Latin rhythms often creep into my music. 

A friend introduced me to steel string and electric guitars just a few years ago and I still find the scope they bring dizzying... but what fun!