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      A few years back an enigma from the Nederland's of the name of LYRICAL SMIRK did a retake on my collaboration with Kirk Kadish: STRANGE DAY... Whenever I return to it ...it makes me smile and so I have to keep on sharing it. Cheers Lyrical Smirk.  https://on.soundcloud.com/iud8ZkeDqccGnZHc8 From LS's original post via Soundcloud The lovely Lady Janice was so kind to send me loads of samples to mess around with. Here's my first take, just messing about! Hope you like ... This is also a lil Tribute to the wonderful Norma Jeane Mortenson aka Marilyn Monroe! Vocals ( Remixed ) Janice Carter Slater @ arterial-flow Also a special thanks to Kirk Kadish for making such wonderful music @ kirkkadish Used bits and pieces from these tracks: April Boucher - Strange Day Arterial Flow - Strange Day Bobbi Marchini - Critical Day Janice Carter Slater - Full of Thrills Also used bits from the movie Gentlemen prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_obqibKLo ...

We hope you are keeping safe in these crazy times. Here's some uplifting music for your ears.  A homage to the artists of Paris...to  Victor Hugo's Quasimodo & Esmeralda. Love the one you're with! Stay in the now!  https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti/rive-gauche-by-janice-slater-and-kirk-kadish?ref=clipboard Kirk Kadish, all instruments except guitar. Guitar Parris Spivey. Janice Slater soundscape and backing vocals. Vocals Vocalatti. Cowritten by Kadish/Scott/Slater/Spivey. Apra/Ascap 2020

Dear bentenlaughing friends. I hope you enjoy Arterial Flow's new collaboration with gifted Brazilian singer/songwriter ERLER PINHO Some months back I invited Lee to translate our song Strange Day into Portuguese. Arterial Flow's "Strange Day" beautifully reinterpreted & translated by Brazilian singer/songwriter, ERLER PINHO . Arterial Flow members live on distant shores from me so it's an often slow process in developing tracks.  We rely on goodwill and our shared love of experimentation.  After ERLER PINHO translated Strange Day he then added a vocal to our original track. I decided it required a new treatment especially for him.  Kirk Kadish brought it magically to full realization and included my original backing vocals!  Thanks again Kirk & ERLER.  I love the final mix. In the new year I hope to do an interview with Erler so that you can learn more of his own formidable music as he's a great singer/songwriter .  Cheers from the ...

Welcome bentenlaughing readers!  Thank you for arriving here! I live in the Blue Mountains of Australia & we're experiencing unseasonable weather but (currently) I'm not complaining....winter's can be bitter here!  Nonetheless it's a red alert for what may be up ahead. I apologize that I've not posted consistently over the last twelve months but now I'm back on track! Benten is still at the helm of my little boat!  We sail across calm & stormy seas and  along the way; I hope to gather more stories to share with you and any gleanings I discover along the way on the nature of change! I'd also like to continue to share with you my (albeit) brief interviews with artists, singers, writers, musicians, and healer friends. For instance; I've been creating a series of soundscapes with Kirk Kadish, and Jack Clift, my two cherished New Mexico based musician/composer friends and soon we'll have tracks for you to download via Nimbit. Ha...