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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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00:01:21

Unicorny

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/28

This is a song my daughter Alma has been singing in the car for days. The routine is. Dada, Dada... Here's my n'other song and she'll sing little variations of it... Alma has just turned 4. Schweeeeet. Alma is quite the motivator as you can hear from her lyrics and has the most amazing sense of humour Lyrics So go Oooh Don't give up All your wishes will come true

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00:06:22

Miss you Dad

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/27

It is with great honour I present a special first collaboration between Magi@ian and TBD This wonderful song was written by Ian for his Dad. Upon complimenting it in a comment Ian suggested it would nice to have words for all the Dads that have passed away. Ever ready for a musical party... Eh em... So here we go... For all the Dads You can connect with Ian here: Check out Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference) on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/M3j3vsd4XLX82rrx5 The original of this

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00:04:04

Harmonix (Remnant60 Collaboration)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/27

Pic is sunset this evening. A beauty 🔆... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGlysMLNJTv/?igsh=MXgyYmswc255N2VweA== A video of that and this song there on IG 🍀 Here we have a collaboration born from Remnant60 making his wonderful guitar piece available for collaboration. Connect with this superb artist here: https://soundcloud.com/remnant60 I started with a full acoustic run accompanying what was there. I then added 4 vocal lines with drawn out lyrics relevant to tuning we had a little comment

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00:02:18

Salt Fire (Session #2)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/25

Lyrics Well, your folk rocks Pristine Just over the channel Brightoned two sheen Salt Fire looped by the hour Teachers of tuned tone harmonious flower Guitars for me cornered still Their voicings will tend to your will New musical pathways the pill Everytime, ears getting that fill Salt Fire go hear their higher Salt Fire Lo-fi classical attire Salt Fire Go hear their higher Acoustic crumbs of grandeur Harmonies. The biggest aliens have landed... So come, let's all fly away in a song We do it

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00:06:29

Nitro (Dark Well)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/25

File Update #5: Added Michael Winslow inspired... 'You wanna fight... Fight me..." from Police Academy haha... kick higher in mix and more laughs lol... and a mallet based arpeggiator throughout File Update #4: Added in Tekken style intro and outro... more laughs File Update #3: Snare mixed better and more vox madness. 'Laughs' put in more regularly and slightly higher in mix File Update #2: Added an additional kick human played throughout on keys / snare too same. And took the comments to heart

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00:16:31

Meaning (An extended head Bassing)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/24

Meaning (An extended head Bassing) by The Beautiful Dark

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00:07:11

Meaning (Off with the Head)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/24

Meaning (Off with the Head) by The Beautiful Dark

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00:09:58

Where in the World (Remix)

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/24

Where in the World (Remix) by The Beautiful Dark

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00:07:00

The Wolves

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/23

File Updated: ebow added Added verse for Ukraine as well as Palestine. The hope is they get the Peace we got from these words after my Grandad wrote them 🙏 Added a Native American chant over the Ukraine verse. Wen-da-ya-Ho I have bolted on the Ukraine verse. I'll go for a full fresh rebuild of the idea soon The Orange Wolves "Oh captive Gaels across the border Suppressed by wolves of law and order With sheepish tongue and gun in hand How slyly they divide our land! Aided by our Christian

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00:07:47

Meaning {Bass the head off ya mix}

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/23

File Updated: More Bass... Listen to Meaning by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/S5vihrBFDddgKwuq6 ↗️that's the original track this is a mix of Lyrics The strangest people be, Who understands another really? Love The ghosts The quests The crimes Admit it when your out of line But their lines are oh so grey to me I suppose the black and white does move to resave The ivories are free And their niche gets tinkling making life less mean More meaning Do be silence! Woo me

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00:04:56

Some Sea Sounds

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/22

File Updated: Ebow epiphone with reverse effected delay to compliment the similar pad already in My young lad had a party with his buddy today so I had an hour to kill at the sea. Recorded 5 mins of Sea and then just added piano to it human time when back home in studio. i tried to get into the rhythm following the waves at the start... not sure if locked onto much... then added a night mode vox too and two alchemy pads That incredible sound that becomes prominent at 35 seconds is an EBow. A

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00:02:57

Oulipo

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/22

Ok so this one is purposely a little out there given what it peruses. Oulipo! A French writing movement based on constraints. Fascinating! Thanks Marcin Kulik for the steer on this today (https://soundcloud.com/marcin_kulik) Marcins music is amazing - includes his family in that learning which beams good to me and is a sound chap and it seems a fountain of knowledge. The most notable music thing is that the song contains 5 time signatures. I guess musically you could call that a constraint... or at

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00:02:44

Dinnseanchas Dances

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/22

File Updated: More guitars and night mode vox Lyrics This Spirit? It's not mine. It's ours. One. One spirit. One kind. Collective. But no clones. A different together. One merged new clever. Here there's no God to boost Hear a man was Jésus Hear we are all free and loose Hear we all are conscious of good Here there's no God to boost It's all one energy Loose Dinnseanchas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dindsenchas A good explanation from The Sorceror on

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00:04:12

Give me your Pain

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/21

File Updated: Lots of goodies added Notes I'm thinking of the mentalists who fascinate me in this tune as well as other things. The idea of neuroplasticity and actually wiring your brain. releasing negativity just by intending it or doing the same conversely if that's your frame of mind. Derren Browne and Keith Barry are two great mind specialists worth a rabbit hole each. 432 A - EADGAD - 96 bpm Lyrics One can never know Ones suffering It might not show You might just get a glow & a

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00:03:57

🧓🏼The Deserted Farm

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/20

Ok this is the 6th instalment in my Papa Poem to Song forever mission. Around 35 left to do 🧬🔆 Playlist here with them all: Listen to Papa's Poems ▶️ Songs ♾️, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/Cr3cvfvT3cvBCeyp7 Tuning DADGAD 440Hz A Roots // D / B / A // Tempo 169bpm 4/4

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00:03:17

The Eagles Emanations

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/20

Rerecorded this completely today. I ran with same piano and two acoustics. Slightly differently I did two live mic runs with acoustic and vox varying both on each run. I'd normally record everything seperatly but this gives the sing a nice dreamy feel representing well the world it wonders about... The backing vocal says Nagual throughout. A Nagual is a guardian spirit for some Native American people. The idea of a Nagual was introduced to me by Carlos Casteneda. Recently as I've read up and

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00:03:00

Two Degrees

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/20

🌍Who calls me/you? 🌏 🪞Who's ears are these? 🪞 ♻️Who breaks this complicated freeze?♻️ 🧬Who wants to play and race the breeze?🧬 🎧Who needs to heed to the two degrees🎧 ✅Who wants to share the real and true?✅ 🏳️‍🌈Who wants the fair to linger through?🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️Who wants an equal sided dream?⚖️ 🆚Who wins each time on a losing team?🆚 🌎Stop demanding independence not withstanding the lions carbon share🪞 🌏In your Spirit, here is a call for the Earth 🌎

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00:05:20

As Ones and Zeros

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/19

File updated: improved mix/added backing vox and keys Lyrics I am a one I am a zero Bits battered together Build my binary hero Wait, what's that... That's not me Look! I'm normal and arguing and trying and failing But IG gots me covered To them I ain't faking I am a one I am a zero I make binary sum I am a hero... I'm an adult I can see I can type I'm mostly free Yet still I chose just me me cause The suffering turned off Good head in sand Bad luck you all For I've got shorts and reels and

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00:01:46

🧓🏼Friend to Friendship

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/18

This is the built on a poem by my Grandad Bill Stapleton. He wrote it on the 23rd of October 1969 by request of his Aunt Cora! Friend of Friendship A friend is a very special thing Warm and close and comforting A golden treasure, rich and rare Worthy of all our tender care. A friend must be a friend of a friend Never possessed or yours to lend No money can buy or jewels trade This is how a friendship is made Will friendship last or will it sever? The poor are sure the rich are never With mutual

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00:05:40

Peace or Pain

The Beautiful Dark ·

2025/02/18

File Updated: Lyrics in / More power peace vox clearer and articulated better for the weak bitches who should be hearing it. Bass added. Acoustic Guitar added... Fuck you Orange Sith! Fuck you kgb coward! We'll all learn loads from your darkness in our soon to be written history books. Then you become light you fucking evil pricks! Unfortunately you'll both be dead so, by natural causes for both of you, bring on that day. I'll happily become a teacher and spread that beautiful

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