Very nice, Jim! What I'm drawn most to are the harmonic choices & sone ofctge more plaintive keyboard parts. Very dramatic & has a distinctive swing in there!

Such a highly strange,  yet captivating atmospheric piece full of twists and turns along the way. Very cinematic!

Peaks and troughs of interweaving textures paint a colourful landscape.

Some lovely harmonic shifts here , Jim. It is music to listen to with eyes closed and mind open.  A journey through imaginary worlds.

A luminous and sophisticated journey into the very depths of sound and dynamic expression. The shift into the interpretive jazz passage midway is utterly captivating—like stepping into a new world of colors and rhythms. This stands among the finest artistic offerings you have shared. Bravo, with deepest admiration.

"Topographic Meadows"
Valhjim 

In Topographic Meadows, sound moves like light over changing landscapes—soft chords drifting like mist, clarinet melodies winding through open spaces, brass surges rising like sunlit hills. Near the horizon, a jazz quartet stirs the air with bright syncopations before the scene dissolves into distant, fading clarinet echoes, each part conjuring a different aspect of these Topographic Meadows.
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Valhjim: Synthesizers, samplers, SFX.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Topographic Meadows

Long story short, tried to start my Poly 800 - disguised as a EX800, and no sound came out, the internal battery was drained. Luckily, I had modded this in the past, so swapping the old battery was pretty easy. Gotta love loading the presets via cassette input.

You can hear it as part of the bass sound. Enjoy!



No Rom

SOMEDAY

free keyboard improvisation of yesterday 15.10.2025, sax impro added today the 16th

Sad songs

-Tribal voicing from the kids and myself
-20 famous peace quotes narrated
-Duduk/Kawala/Native Flute played on keys
-Airways pad played on keys
-Electric guitar rhythm/lead
-Chinese drums & percussion
-5 String bass guitar
-Tambourine drum, bodhrán & bongos added played with rubber mallets

1) “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

2) “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela

3) “War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.” – Elise Boulding

4) “The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.” – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

5) “Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.” – Jack DuVall

6) “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.” – Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

7) “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” – Leo Tolstoy

8) “Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.” – Hafsat Abiola

9) “We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.” – Jackie Chan

10) “If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there’d be no wars.” – Sophie Kerr

11) “Community responsibility, when it is managed well, results in peace. And peace benefits everyone. Taking care of someone or something to which you are not immediately genetically related pays you back in other dimensions, and the payback is part of your wellbeing. Compassion is useful and beneficial for all.” – Katy Payne


12) “Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.” – Pablo Neruda

13) “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines is one line of the law, bringing peace.” – Gautama Buddha

14) “I’m not disturbing the peace. I’m disturbing the war.” – Ammon Ashford Hennacy

15) “A people free to choose will always choose peace.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

16) “Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is–whether its victim is human or animal–we cannot expect things to be much better in this world… We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.” – Rachel Carson

17) “There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.” – Kofi Annan

18)  “Unless we teach children peace, someone else will teach them violence.” – Colman McCarthy

19) “War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.” – Alice Walker

20) “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” – Abraham Lincoln

21) Peace is a feeling you learn from your heart and suspect all other life can feel - TBD

A Peace of Cake

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Mother

Cast of Characters:

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ, synth and composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – custom five string fretless bass and PRS SE semi-hollowbody electric guitar
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
SunnyBeck-- @sunnybeck — Beck — synth and MIDI composition
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T model electric wah guitar
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – production, mix, and mastering
 
This song began as a looper beat that Josh created in BandLab. He does that often to start an idea. However, this beat sat on the shelf for almost a year, until he shared it with JJ for one of his Saturday night music sessions. JJ put an arrangement on it with his organ and bass. Josh quickly replaced the bass idea with his own version of it, though. 
  Now it was Ken's turn to replace the dull looper beat with something alive and organic, which he did in the most creative and solid way possible. We had a skeleton now, and it was time to share it with Beck, with whom this is Eclectic Collective's first song. She added her magic via the synth you hear sprinkled throughout. Stephen weighed in next with his funky wah guitar. Josh then wrapped things up by adding the simple, melodic guitar lines your hear throughout.
  It was almost done at this point, but of course, we wanted Carl to add his greatness to it, as well, which he did by writing and singing some compelling vocals. He took the working title, which Josh came up with having just read The Odyssey, and wrote a whole song about it! The Odyssey, of course, is the ancient Greek story of a warrior, sailor, and displaced king who survives many perils on his epic quest to regain his kingdom.  
  Once it was all laid down, we asked Tez to do his expert work with the mix and production, which he did perfectly, as always. We're very lucky to have two very talented producers in the group, and grateful to Tez for ironing this one out for us. 
  This is, as mentioned, the EC's first go round with Beck, and we couldn't be more thrilled to work with her. Not only is she a skilled, creative musician, but she is a delightful ray of sunlight to work with, too. We have another collab with her we plan to release in the coming weeks, as well. There will be more to follow. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Hold on dear crew
Cruel winds fly north
Our tenth foul day
Land found fresh worth
Untameable sea
We survived people
Ashore
Fresh water
Food
Lessen our feeble

Three of company
Greet these inhabitants
Find what land lends their habitance
Trio arrive and find not hurt
Then found local food
Good offering flirty

Three watered mouths by nicest taste
Who needs home
We stay
No haste
Love lotus buds
Don’t mind the captain
Let’s stay and munch this tuck of trapping

Captain bemused All aboard!
No more shall eat this food mind sword
What of home!
What of love!
Weep not dear three
Cold turkey tough

Smite that sea
Hold tight your oars
Now heave to Ithaca
South-westwards

Bye Lotus eaters
Trip like land
Love lesson lives 
Myth mystery scanned

Isle of the Lotus Eaters (Eclectic Collective with Sunnybeck)

Mein halt in einer lauten Welt ist meine Musik. Aus einem Experiment wurde ein Album. 12 Songs Gefühl und Herz für alle, die es gebrauchen können. 

Korbi - Song 2 MASTER


In difficult times music is the hope that the listener . A positive message through street language and harmony make this new Latin American style. Music connects you with a story.

Anthony Williams Trilogy

Salgo pa la Calle.

Salgo pa la Calle - Anthony Williams ft Daniel el Cmt.

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.

Topographic Meadows

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