Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel www.divasofverse.com/2015/01/lear...
Not the astronaut. Composer. Imaginative, mystical and life affirming music for your daily soundtrack. edwardgivens.bandcamp.com I've also been known to edit videos. Other interests include modern art and wordplay. Hear, here!
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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel www.divasofverse.com/2015/01/lear...
that's where I learned to survive just to find no one's gettin' out of here alive damn fine song #music #bandcamp wilkinsonblades.bandcamp.com/track/no-one...
I think Dio thrived on live performance. Raindow's studio albums aren't my favorite but I think they were a great live band. Heaven and Hell is an exceptional album imo
not groovy!
zïss ünt ëtnah, zïss ünt ëtnah, zïss ünt ëtnah, zïss ünt ëtnah... #music #prog
nice! 🤘(looking forward to it!)
Ah funkitude. lyrics - sometimes I listen to the band Magma, who for ages sang in their own language which they later admitted was nonsense syllables. 🤷♂️ fwiw I like your lyrics - even the slacker ones like microwave dinner. And you do have freq moment of bril as well - Open the Door for example :)
cool! "Magritte does Orphism!" nice thing about following someone like you Arthur is when you find little gems like this that aren't in an artist's 'top 40" Much appreciated!
Hilma af Klint : Group IV, No. 3, The Ten Largest, Youth, 1907
@neekscave.bsky.social one for you!
Spotify's gotta go. For so many reasons
Thanks to some crappy fake bot streams on Spotify for 4 of our albums, the only place you can hear them is here👇 aseawarren.bandcamp.com/album/orches... spacedoutstudios.bandcamp.com/album/the-li... the18thmusician.bandcamp.com/album/dream-... themusicofsound1.bandcamp.com/album/eleven...
Emilio Pettoruti, Argentine (1892-1971), El Quinteto, 1927, oil on linen, 149.5 x 131.5 cm, private collection
This is NOW NOW is all there is. Don’t wait for THEN Strike the spark Light the fire - Rumi #musicsky
sounds relaxing :)
I like it when people think of ideas. 'specially you cuz it's gonna be something catchy and creative (if music) and/or cool looking (if video or other cool graphical thingamajig) like...8 bit cats in a music video?!🐈 you betcha!
nice! I looked her up - good bodhisattva for musicians, me thinks. "she who hears". Thanks! I managed to kick myself in the butt - tricky move btw- and am now back to sketching out some, like, tunes. which is funny cuz they're wintery and it's totally sweltering outside. what are you up to?
attempted self-niceness! I like it. I adapt Dalai Llama -"help others, but if you can't help them, at least don't hurt 'em" to my own wee struggles. if I can't be nice to myself with a "mental treat" of some kind, (why not?) 'wheel....I'm at least gonna not be mean to myself. internal snark can stfu
I know I'm just zeros and ones. Nevertheless - How are you anyways? I'm a bit down in the dumps today but working on it. Hope you're finding time for creativity or anything else that makes you happy
Marc Chagall : The Blue Fiddler, 1947
The median age in Gaza is 18. They "took the gloves off" to kill children
I thought that was Chloe Kardashian for a sec
buddy of mine plays fretless guitar. mind you he plays middle eastern music...
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJI2...
Liu Xiaojun (paint on wood, c. 2019)
It's like Francis Bacon painted your dog
soon full soon dost thou withdraw then the wolf rages wide and the lion glares through the dun forest the fleeces of our flocks are covered with thy sacred dew protect with them with thine influence
smile on our loves and while thou drawest the blue curtains of the sky scatter thy silver dew on every flower that shuts its sweet eyes in timely sleep let thy west wing sleep on the lake speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, and wash the dusk with silver
thou fair-haired angel of the evening now whilst the sun rests on the mountains light thy bright torch of love thy radiant crown put on and smile upon our evening bed #musicsky #williamblake
AI'm tyin' ta tawk on the phone heah!🤣
something beautiful #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5F...
too bad you didn't know me in the late 90s - worked at a big antique mall, coulda helped you out there. cuz you always need more...
"home is the place where your heart is" then I am home now though I am far away for so long I let deep forests guard it and now it's begging me to stay & I'm trying my best to be tough to pretend I am strong and can siphon it off I'm not who I wanted to be in my heart I belong in a house by the sea
ps don't do tchtchkes. as it is I have more paintings than walls. Still covet more, mind you
I didn't know you were dropping in or I would have dusted first. Pull up a bean-bag chair. I'm playing Gentle Giant atm, but I can switch it to something else. Tea?
covet!
get out of my mind! (I love euphonium)
something beautiful by Mark Isham - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sja...
🎶🤓music nerd moment: I love trumpet, and 2 of my favorite composers are trumpeters. (Jon Hassell, Mark Isham) Funny that for the last year or so I'm favoring cornet and flugelhorn. I like the mellowness
nice skull!
Invest in humanity: buy my art
Again. Ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders again.
ee-yow zy-zow my mao thai tao now!
Belated Happy International Strange Music Day! The brainchild of composer Patrick Grant of Tilted Axes fame, it took place on 8-24. In true PTE style, we're late, but not a dollar short, as we present a plethora of interesting pieces for your consideration. Listen & Enjoy! bit.ly/4mOJCjY
Edward Weston : The Poet Alfred Kreymborg Serenading Balloons 1920
in the last phase now, so it's all good
what are the skulls? egg cups?
your mixes sound great
A jumper drawing heading to an exhibition this weekend.
the black keys are for holding down the sus pedal and blissing out with.
I used to have a much better room to mix in (I have a little pair of Genelecs) so I'm relying on the headphone mix more than previously. The key word here(hear) is trustworthiness. Does it at least remind you of what you heard when you're playing it elsewhere, kinda thing...
Def a believer in Sennheiser for headphones. I use HD380 pros which are defunct but can still be found NOS. The low end is amazing Bluetooth - no matter the format of audio - is lossy
I'm done after Exit. Faves are the classic Franke Froese Baumann albums
wonderful sense of motion in the water
Happy 82nd birthday, musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and founding member of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters. 🎂
I read Despite the System - as I recall he couldn't so much as speak of that movie without crying. What a tragic waste. And can't imagine what he would think about this travesty
Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational
clearly we grew up on the same material!
every time you take vaccine take it orally as you know the other way is more painfully
On top of old smokey all covered with hair of course I'm referring to Smokey the Bear
now I understand why your feed is so poplar😐
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With #Bandcampfriday upon us. Here’s a timely reminder that “not everything in monochrome is black and white” #musicsky monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/music
Cori Lee Marvin (Canada, b.1980) : Singers, c.2013 Watercolor on paper
life at our place, basically
Was gonna say. 1980s? Macintosh 128K maybe? I graduated 1982 and that was the first year there was any kind of computer lab/or club at school.
Yellis n Tamacint = Daughter of the Machine in Tamazight. An example of when a simple preset inspires the entire song. Reaktor had an interesting triple meter beat hidden within all the techno. It definitely had Chaabi chic. Added Hassellian horn, mandol and ululation thru autotune. #bandcampfriday
It is life - life immense, universal, eternal unfolding itself in waves of harmony out to the inaccessible horizon of an eternal infinite - Camille Flammarion Cetus, from Constellations #music #stars #whales #musicsky #astronomy 🔭 edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/track/cetus
occasionally going through and hitting the "less like this" button is helpful as is liking the stuff you do like - which for me is generally art. I know it's time to do that again when my feed gets cluttered w political crap
It's... Bandcamp Friday! 🎉 Artists get 100% of sales revenue today. And btw, the following albums of mine are all under $4. 👉 Janus in the Window 👉 Fragmentary Blue 👉 Primeval Metropolis 👉 Bacchanale 👉 Poetics edwardgivens.bandcamp.com #musiciansky #bandcamp #composer #cinematic #bandcampfriday
Dionysus! we feel you near stirring like molten lava under the ravaged earth flowing from the wounds of your trees in tears of sap screaming with the rage of your hunted beasts #musicsky #bandcampfriday
get lost ask for directions then pedal backwards carefully until you arrive at a map #musicsky #poetry
The Lamentations of Orfeo: Dance of Numbers music from Bacchanale ▶️ edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/bacchanale 🏷️ #musiciansky #bandcamp #composer #myth #neoclassical #musicsky #musicvideo #orpheus
the future ain't what it used to be utopia > dystopia nature is a petrified magic city where your cat has wi-fi yet ignores your texts 🐾 and where's my flying car?🛸 🎶music from primeval metropolis🎶 ▶️ edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/primeval-metropolis #musiciansky #cats #SciFi #soundtrack 🐈⬛
All our sweetest hours fly fastest. - Virgil #musicsky
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. - Pythagoras #musicsky
Alexander Volkov, Rehearsal (from the Musical Pause cycle) (oil on canvas, c. 2022)
you hardly ever hear that particular joke - it's something of a rare bit
"Felt" or dampened piano on this one I assume. Plus lovely and subtle use of effects
Jupiter and Semele, by Gustave Moreau (1895)
Joan Miró : Constellation, 1941
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0af...
Yoshida Chizuko, Jazz (color woodcut, 1954)
band books 😐 #music
nice shirt!
hooked on goofballs! and listening to rock and/or roll music
If you like viol check out this guy - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImu...
nope! nice smile too
love that 'Gamba!
Bravissimo!
The Guitar Player, by Paul Gauguin, 1894. The artist and friend of Gauguin, Francisco Durrio, in Tahitian dress, strumming a guitar. universalcompendium.com/gen_images/u... #art #painting #guitar #postimpressionism
Gorgeous track by @muz4now.com #musicsky
Glad you're OK
In addition, his own music is terrific. bandcamp.com/muz4now He's quite prolific! I have several of his albums - for example To the Edge. I particularly like his solo piano work, which is impressionistic and just lovely imo. There's a sense that all those pretty notes were bought with a few tears.
If you are looking for someone new to follow I heartily recommend Stan Stewart @muz4now.com His feed is chock-a-block full of great articles about everything from artistic inspiration to handy tips on music production, software and thoughtful reviews of other musician's music. (continued)
Gotta repeal Citizen's United.