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The Beautiful Dark

The Beautiful Dark

Howdy, Welcome to TBD. All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs. Thanks for all of your wonderful support. Peace and Love to Everyone, 🫛 What playing music does to your brain🔽 https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng?si=KJt33NWjUo63ieAm A nice David Bowie Interview🔽 https://youtu.be/JRtZc_Nmo5w?si=1g1Wag87NdEumAc4

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00:04:05

Europa

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/13

Check out LinOnyx on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/X2y23c69jiEsGYtE6 Lino wrote this track originally and mixed in Blackbird on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/VA14pPzqeXdDbEXW7 who provided a vocal to work with 🔆 Lyrics Who's calling enthralling? Digital digits down to diminish appalling We sing to Lino as the darkest birds Now this Earth knows less absurd No princess. No prince. Mix it up, It's time to melody mince Let's rinse that wrath rolling new dice Let's scare the fake

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00:02:00

The Fibonacci Scale

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/13

Note - Add golden ratio. Chinese bongo beat to this song I purposely didn't look this up on the Internet when thinking of it. I wanted to discover it for myself and get my results. Now that I do search for it... Haven't found anyone converting it this way yet. Didn't look very hard but it seems most use it to reference existing concert pitch scale and they haven't tuned to the proportionality of it. Could be wrong and would love to be linked up to understand this a bit better if anyone knows good

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00:04:44

The Golden Ratio

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/11

Lyrics (Words written listening to Gustav Mahler #5 in C#m) Gaze now pawn upon Fibonacci Golden proportion of divinity You're free to seek a center, line! You can try but you'll fail even with forever time You're greatness is painted with Galaxies With leaves and shells and human bodies So what's this black hole of a formula? Does intention make it the oracle? One. Six One Eight Greek Phi for Maths eye Two amounts, their ratio equal To the sum of each all That equals a sequel A plus B over A = A

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00:03:58

Cycling

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/11

File Updated 11/04/25 @ 11:38am GMT - Harp and second lead vocal added and got the bike sound effect run in too A song appreciation for cycling. Best saver of heart on planet Earth. In the lyrics I refer to a few special cycling moments in my life... The first, I was maybe 3... We were going a long a path beside them main road and the wheel came off my trike... In my head it had just disappeared and I hadn't a clue what was going on... But I rember Mum saying we had to go without getting the

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00:02:22

Metal Tone Check ~ Bass

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4x2Bbnq31A I did this (Except I used "Little helper" default for one bass run and "legacy bass amp" with "Rock Edge" on drop down menu and then model is "American Deep") and I'm Insane on Line 6 spider head 60% drive for both runs. I'm unison as much as possible on the runs Why share the bass receipt? Because we need to remove any psychological barriers to playing music and actually expressing it with your body. I could say I don't play bass because I can't afford

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00:02:36

Oy, Corporal

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/10

File updated 11/04/25 @ 03:00 GMT ~ smooth lead keys added with low mix strings Lyrics Oy, Corporal That's illegal Slapping a kid You're just evil Abuse says more of your inadequacy Learn to teach and they'll be free It's war But common law... Try 2015 Some other cowards defended that team Illegal too by comman law Just cells await abusing paw It's war...Inner war A better parent doesn't shout Your kids reflect whatever pout You are most taste of what they become So project just love just real

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00:02:08

Metal tone check -Guitar

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/10

Hardware: les paul modelled on Variax 600 through clean line 6 spider head - Software: noise gate threshold -35db / razar amp in logic gain max - mids 40% bass 60% treble 60% / compressor VCA - with soft dist // EQ'ed bass out (clean up guitar default is good for starting this EQ setting actually) and slight raise of the high floor from flat - removed small amount of mids

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00:02:21

I'm Batman

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/10

Crime is high in Gotham city. I called in psyched artist Llanpsych for help. I offered him a mic and he just dropped it, picked up his Les Paul and made this song epic! Well done bro. First of many hopefully man. Really nice production here. Fair play 👏🏽 Check out Llanpsych here: https://soundcloud.com/llanpsych #Buzzing Metal Candidate (though it's totally more Rock then metal 😆) Lyrics I'm batman I 'aint no rat man I'm still not fat and I tan Call the night black clan Come over here

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00:01:53

The Super Sub

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/09

File Updated: 10/04/25 @ 12:16 GMT ~ Day time vox in and vocal line starting to show its shape Lyrics You gave me word hiss... Thank you Miss... Your name was... Miss. You had one hour You sat and watched us make flower For them the chat For me more word Any chance to explain absurd So the rhymes came Adding to sane First words saved Pleasure poetry That bell is ringing For them the chats singing Thank you Miss, I'm out the door "One second lad, Can I read your word?" Ok why not... "That's

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00:04:16

Salmons Heaven

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/09

File Updated: 11/04/25 @ 18:47 GMT ~ Andreas decided to up the lead vocal a bit and give us a new mix. Schweeeeet! Cheers bruv This piece was inspired by a trip to Salmon River in the Ghost Town of Hyder, Alaska by artist BeSinger and his son David in 2023. Be Singer further explains, "Every year thousands of salmon migrate the River of their origin for spawning. The journey can take up to a year. After spawning the salmon protect their eggs until death which occurs after a few days for most of

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00:04:04

Harmonix

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/09

This song has a metaphor I've used once before. in the track Autumn in the Wind. In that song we are "Standing waves to winds of harm... In this song we are too "... standing waves" I love the idea of us being standing waves to poisonous mind sets. So, a standing wave is a sound wave that cancels another wave out because of the relevant symmetry between themselves and the surroundings and we get silence instead of the two sounds. So when using it now I'm empowering us as the standing waves to hate,

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00:04:20

Seanchaí Soul

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/09

File Updated: 10/04/25 @ 22:44 GMT - Bass choir added 4 voices manually voiced and one guide keys line for that Grian Óg (https://soundcloud.com/go-grianog) called me a Seanchaí and hadn't heard of that before so.... It means story teller or a person who protects lore within a society... Wow! My musical existence has been dedicated to explaining my own existence since I was a teenager so that felt slightly good! Check out Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference) on

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00:06:00

An Bradán Feasa

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/08

Next session notes: -Dick Dale Misourlu like picking scaled more slowly. I think 16ths.. lowish in mix... this could morph into a more pronounced EBow section File Updated: Added psychedelic electric guitar. Run 1 - 2000ms rev delay 60% & Run 2 Octave higher 1000ms rev delay Tempo 30 BPM Timing 2/4 Based on the legendary tale from Irish Mythology and of the Fenian Cycle, The Salmon of Knowledge Can't believe I'm admitting this but ah well... I sucked my thumb and "gave it up" in my late teens

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00:05:43

Tír na nÓg

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/08

Lyrics Verse 1 Off the West coast Out to sea Far from land Eternal youth fills a mind mist of proof We're making a magical land Interlude 1 Who is this bliss? Golden hair fixed Oh perfect equine, saddled These mens' hearts mixed Verse 2 We retreat to Killarney Demon dubs dealt defeat Good fianna wounded Kerry soothes brother beat Interlude 2 What is this bliss? Are crystal castles the trick? Eternal good riddle Bow brain like a fiddle Verse 3 Fionn, I am Niamh I've rode water and road To be

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00:02:44

Cú Chulainn

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/08

File Updated: 08/04/25 @ 19:38 GMT ~ Acoustic x 2 added and continued building vox line A song for the Irish legend, Cú Chulainn. Lyrics The Great Cú Chulainn Let time rewind When Setanta made days 'Finest warrior kind You just a boy Slíothar and Hurl Turned fiercest toy Scátach trained The Shadow Warrior maid Made you the demigod Illumination brave Hound of Culann Ground yourself Ahead, a monster, with pretty pout Take one last leap Who's the victim? Open wide One slíothar eaten Setanta

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00:02:09

To Dear Tone

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/07

To follow - demo mode

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00:03:06

Children of Lir

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/07

File Updated: 07/04/25 @ 22:33 GMT - Celtic Harp and Zitar added iun falling and rising scales Note ~ Consider entering this into the Eurovision song contest and see if KM and HP would do it with you 🧬 Lyrics ♾️Solas Amháin♾️ {Falsetto throughout) Good Children of Lir To Peace and Rest now our Dearest Sing sweet sweet songs Swanned Children Such jealousy jets Aoife here Wicked words of spellbound fear Oh your Dad has a life of crying It seems his love was just too much The radiance... Let no

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00:07:11

🌍 Immersion Mario

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/06

File Updated: Added night mode of mushroom cup verse written since original session. Will sing that with vigour tomorrowAn original The Jooos song born from a comment mentioning Donkey Kong... So it's Mario Kart song time. Yeah! https://soundcloud.com/thejooos/immersed For those of you unlucky enough to not have played Mario Kart on the SNES .. The voicings at the start are recreating the menu melodies on the fly

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00:02:26

Dear KV

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/04

File Updated: Orchestral Basses, Piano, one more lead vox kline for presence and full range of backing vocal added. Mainly low bass voice. When the falsetto os done werll this should sound brill... Note I tried to make bass guitar work but the svale in my head was too hard so I'll get that ansd see if it works... May also just leave it with the orchestral basses. Matches the backing vox nicely and don't want to detract from that acoustic too much A song letter for artist Katerina Vaiou. KV is a

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00:03:04

Rabbit Hole

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/04/04

File Updated 05/04/25 @ 23:09 GMT ~ Real bass added... Couldn't find my plectrum so when that comes out of hibernation it should get better again. It's all fingers so far but i need that pleck speed to drive it home better Lyrics ♾️Stockholm, August 27th 2007 SoundCloud replaced heaven. Thanks Sweden🙏🏽 ♾️ //Swim Rabbit Swim Make a hole now in the Sea Tune in your old self We're going whale tunneling Go feet first Propeller ears Dive burst Bunny scuba Depth charge Whats up! Hooking up Earth

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