Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

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Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Jo and I teamed up on this tune. To rethink and remake it. Jo felt that this song could be taken as an Allegory for what is happening in the Ukraine and all wars. 
His lovely (Russian) Rav Vast Rhythms are meant as a poignant reminder That "Governments are the war makers."  ALL OF US are trying to survive our governments.

Jo also produced the haunting voicings and  the wonderful   water wind and birds from a natural recording. 
A heartfelt thank you to jo for this. see his other works at "Sonic Structures and Silent Stretchs" Peace.

Strat/mellotron-------jeff gardiner

Hawk Caught a Rabbit: Make Music not War. Featuring Jo Richter

Wrote this one in the middle of lockdown thinking about all the festivals I'd been to in the past, and if we'd ever get them back. Nice to see it coming back now.

Big love to Richard Golddigger who helped me out with the production. He does some cracking tunes here:: https://soundcloud.com/richard-rgd

Would love to give this a blast some day. 5am vibes.

Let The Love Shine

Tea plantations on the planet Athoek, the location of some intrigue in Ann Leckie's book, Ancillary Sword.
I took inspiration from the early work of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Vangelis)RIP. I loved how he combined traditional Greek instruments with electronics on "Earth".  "Heaven and Hell"  remains a personal favourite. 



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Plantation On Athoek

Is It nearly summer time - I would describe this song as a feel good summer song. That makes you want to go on a good long vacation. So you can just chill out and do what you like on your holiday’s. Easy listening kind of song. Hope you like. it is also on my You channel. Thanks for tuning in😀👍🏻🎶🎶🌝☀️

Is It Nearly Summer Time -  Video on YouTube  https://youtu.be/xWrTQcNR06I

Taking five, waiting for the time to arrive, searching for the will to survive, on the drive of your lives
Taking four, chilling for another cold war, dreaming of the broken dance floor, falling through another trap door, hoping for more
Taking three, dominoes are falling over me, imprisoned in the land of the free, submerged in a fake reality
Taking two, power trippers calling after you, looking for another breakthrough, rejoicing at the callous menu, it’s true
Taking one, mad dogs running for the sun, fat cats have only just begun, creaming cream, having fun

Counting Down

Blackout

Updated June 7, 2023: Synline has made collaboration work for me.
https://soundcloud.com/synline/the-river?si=d85aada01c7b4a0a9c8e26a590f06cce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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In January this year, we lost the great musician and drummer of YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi. As if following him, last month, Ryuichi Sakamoto also passed away. Having lost two respected musicians, I find myself without emotional support and have been creating music daily, tracing their music and lives. Unconsciously, the songs I create are heavily influenced by their music. This song is one of them. When I listen to the finished piece, I feel it somewhat resembles YMO's "Expecting Rivers." These days, I find "HOPE" in the Milky Way, the heavenly river that spans the sky.

Rivers of Aspiration

Way Out East

'Speccyville' is a mixed genre track really and is simply a release of feelings of how I felt at the time of putting it together.

Or Is It All An Illusion

Speccyville

Lecon D Amoure

Electronic music producer from Kent, England. Some influences: Holger Hiller, Depeche Mode, Jeff Buckley, Gong, Hawkwind, Underworld, 80's Metal.

New album 'Are You There?' Out Now: https://artists.landr.com/055120870729

Let The Love Shine

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