Been mainly working with my band Indogen. Got some cool shit coming. Here is a teaser!
Thank you for your patience. My sanity is slowly allowing me to do more. I still love you.
Been Awhile
The Bass
What does it mean to be the bass Bastard?
It means not gate keeping bass. I’m about upright Bass, electric bass, acoustic bass, upright electric bass, low brass, bass woodwinds, contra bass, synth bass, piano bass, keyboard bass, EDM bass, Perseus Cluster bass, bass drums, that huge log in the jungle you can pound for a bass, Taiko bass… All the Bass yet to be discovered and that ice missed here.
This means I’m about building the foundations of music. Blowing that gates off that the gatekeepers use to try and curate genre and style and show that the same foundation carries us all on this beautiful path to what we all consider music. Even bands I don’t like.
This is the beginning of the path to being a Bassbastard.
Brew
Coffee to the left
prescription bottle to the right.
water close at hand
the chemicals keeping me going
my own witches brew
cauldron optional
Vitamins so I heal
uppers to help me feel
cortisol cleaner so I can think
a spray so I don’t stink
herbs to lay me down
fungus for the sound
liquid fire for a laugh
nootropical epitaph
water wash it all down
water wash it away
let me flow down the drain
to a field where there is no pain
a release for just a moment
where living rebellion can foment
muted sound through liquid blanket
holding me in the temporal flow
flying past at relative speed
but leaving me moving slow
Pop the top to relax
steam fed beans refill the cup
back to reality, just the facts
another day to fuck shit up
T Time
I was threatened with death again.
Threatened with a visit from an old friend
He was as confused as was I
To be threatened with a friend stopping by
I was threatened with hell today
Filled with the memories of the places I’d play
Where at least the suffering was ordered and expected
And the quiet solitude of being left alone; neglected.
My visitor spoke of past visits we had
Small talk filling the space filled with air gone bad
Silver linings of the accidents finding a cure
The pain was cleansing of I could endure
We called up God and asked what made them irate
they said it was who made them that was filled with hate
They were dreamed up by us needing an excuse
for the shit that we did and all the abuse
We pretended that service was what we required
but in gods we created the reasons we desired
to be righteous in the depravity we sought
sold our souls for excuses and that’s what we bought
Before the sword
I am cast out
falling
you’ll find me burning
before you find me crawling
vile deceiver
screaming
Reality raw
Eden was man lost dreaming
Just creation
nature
built in instincts call
Lines between man and ape blur
Mankind was lied to
before the sword
rotting in a garden
eternity bored
good and evil
wisdom denied
light-bringer fell
when heaven lied
another death
nailed it
save from creation
once the father has failed it
blood borne flesh needs
made me
driven by my needs
until I find who flayed me
born into death
rotting
walking decomposed
what is the maker plotting
Is it chaos
no plan
fluke of the machine
that made us more than human
Mankind was lied to
before the sword
rotting in a garden
eternity bored
good and evil
wisdom denied
light-bringer fell
when heaven lied