Twilight Me

The flowers that I send you, are not uprooted. They are the notes that inspire me.

FLOWERS I SENT TO YOU

Beckenstein: guitar parts, musical composition and mixing @jonathan_beckenstein
Wheelwright: other instrumental parts, musical composition, vocal, vocal melody and lyrics

Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com is a transatlantic online collaboration between Wheelwright and Jonathan Beckenstein. Notes for the Fictive Sisters curious appear after the lyrics below.
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Man running from burning building
He says why does everyone, everyone have to be on a journey
What if I don't want, I don't want to be on a journey

And you can fight the flames
Try to salvage what remains and tell yourself you're someone good
But there's a part of us that's wild
Doesn't want to be rewired to live in tidy neighbourhoods

Man running from burning building
He says why does everything, everything have to be for a reason
What if I don't want, I don't want to know if there's a reason
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Image credit: Unseen Histories unsplash.com/@unseenhistories
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The ongoing online collaboration between Jonathan Beckenstein and Michael Wheelwright has been named Fictive Sisters.

Fictive Sisters does not have an SC page and so all tracks will remain exactly where they are on SC. This is also the plan as/if/when we ship new ones, and all Fictive Sisters tracks will of course continue to be free to stream on SC - so no change on SC at all really.

We have though setup on bandcamp https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com and corralled a selection of past and present tracks into Immaculate Distraction, an album-type-thing, so anyone who wants a download (of a single track or the whole lot) can now obtain the original files for a modest consideration.

bandcamp

Wild (with Jonathan Beckenstein) (Fictive Sisters)

The Quest for the Holy Dumpling saga continues! This will be the Smoking Trout's third track from their forthcoming second album. Thanks Jeff, Stephen and Uziel, this was another incredibly fun collab in this awesome series!

Stonerjazz @user-911083679 - Vocals, Lyrics, Drums, Guitar
Uziel @user-455619833 - Vocals, Lyrics, Vocal effects
TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman - Guitar and Effects (second half)
Tea R. Sea - Synths, Samples, and Production

Lyrics:
The rain the rain, lt finally came, not the rain of May, By the way-
Wet and freezing cold and clean and clear, my dear-
Falling down on my head-
The fire and smoke of summer gone
all cleared away ln a single day,
miraculous, some might say-

The bus broke down along a Pastoral stretch
had to hitchhike lnto town
the wood got wet
the stove lt smoked
the band it choked
And yet, a wheel bearing lt was found
ln a dusty corner on a shelf
ln a Rusty little Town of No Renown-

Still time to make the Date At Joe's Garage ln Sante Fe
where some members of the band await,
Antlclpatllng a packed house
who've come to hear the hit song that's Playln on the radio--

Oh, Stu of the blues
Got the band back together again!
Sink or Swim
Around the Mystery Mobile
Made of mushroom patches
Round the back where we grew ourselves
Just to meander the intergalactic block
With our caravan of travailing home
and the wooden smell of campfire coffee

Oh, the rain, the rain it finally came
not the rain of May
By the way...
Finally
Finally

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Holy Dumpling full playlist (so far): https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/quest-for-the-holy-dumpling

The Land of Zed (Smoking Trout's debut album)
https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea/sets/land-of-the-zed

The Rain (Smoking Trout: QUEST for the HOLY DUMPLING #3) w/ Stonerjazz, Uziel, and TexMex Shaman

My take on this lovely open collab from Laar.
https://soundcloud.com/user-325797522/sets/hydrochloric-open-collab
@user-325797522

Hydrochloric | Laar | Titanium Twilight Mix

As The Bluebird Flies

Above & Beyond

Above & Beyond (Apr. 2023)

Drums & Sitar - The Pharmaceutical Phaggot
@pharmaceutical_phaggot

Bass - Lofi Menta
@user-672449547

Guitar, Lyrics, Vocals & Art - Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Lyrics & Vocals - The Mysterious Decibel
@themysteriousdecibel

Mixed, Mastered, and Screams by Hobocop
@metrocityrecords

Lyrics:

(The Mysterious D.)
Rain falls from the light
The vows of the fox burn bright

(Cosmic K.)
Sun shines as the rain falls
Shadowy forest filled with lights
Silently processing forward
In the trees, flashing bright

Foxfire flicks between realities
Lures unwelcome eyes
If they catch you watching,
best atone --
if you are wise

(The Mysterious D.)
In the land of the rising sun, where legends,
myths and magic is spun
There's a tail of a fox bride
who comes with the rain by her side

(Cosmic K.)
Foxfire flicks between realities
Lures unwelcome eyes
If they catch you watching,
best atone --
if you are wise

(Mysterious D.)
In the land of eternal forest
where the love lies deep in root
If the fox groom sees you looking,
You might meet his overbearing tooth

Kitsune No Yomeiri - (Pharma P / Mysterious D / Cosmic K / Lofi M / Hobocop)

Virgo is the last piece that closes all the work of the Zodiac Concept You can listen to all of Concept Zodiac's Sound at https://on.soundcloud.com/yyaE4 Cover Art designer Rosa Scognamiglio

Virgo

Remembrance

ACT I.

Someone else again,
Running towards the Ocean,
Grew up in a Mound of Dirt,
And we keep falling.

You still grew up better than,
Some of the rest, but you're still living in the past.
And we keep falling

I'm still holding onto memories,
and someone else again, someone else again.

ACT II.

Rest now, don't try to test me.
I've been up for days I'm running empty,
put your trust in this,
you put your trust in me,
find your peace in something, even if you're cool with agony.

I guess I've seen better things,
My life it is everything, seen the best; the rich, 
and lived within the subtle gaps of things
the real it gets the best of me,
the priviliged never live to see, existing part from everything,
a world full of collision bleeds,
and I've experienced everything,

both the sides of the scale and grief,
I end up sinking in my sheets,
dwelling over everything,


Rest now, don't try to test me.
I've been up for days I'm running empty,
put your trust in this,
you put your trust in me,
I've been up for days I'm running empty,

Mound of Dirt

This song is a haunting meditation on humanity’s choice between greed and compassion. I leaned into an inspired soundscape so the words feel timeless, floating in an atmosphere of spacey guitars and ambient echoes. For me, this piece is a reminder that love, kindness, and unity still matter in a fractured world. It’s not just a speech, it’s a song of resistance and hope.

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The Dictator’s Plea

Music's got a hold of me.
I am also half of Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com

I have a soundcloud manifesto too (I know almost no one cares):
(1) I do not want to win at soundcloud
(2) I respect people who listen by trying to do work that is as good as I can make it but I may attempt (and possibly fail badly at) different kinds of music so you will probably find some of my tracks suck quite badly even if you like others
(3) If I follow you please feel no obligation to follow me back or to listen to my tracks because I know different people like different things
(4) If you follow me please don’t expect me automatically to follow you back because as I said different people like different things. I try to listen to most new uploads of the people I do follow, so there are only so many people I can meaningfully follow (and only so many reposts I can cope with) at any one time before it all gets a bit overwhelming
(5) If I add a track of yours to my likes that means I particularly like it and if I comment on a track that means I really did want to communicate something. I do not do these things expecting or wanting anything in return or fishing for listeners/followers etc.
(6) Soundcloud (still) can be wonderful and has wonderful people in its universe but some aspects of it do my head in and so I am putting this out here so everyone knows where I am coming from. This is not intended as criticism of anyone else, it is just what works for me