Before I paste my "Satiricom" blurb here, is anyone else having problems accessing SoundCloud via forum links? Today is the 2nd time SC won't let me listen to anything without logging in: when I click the Play button a window comes up requiring a log-in. After the first few day that happened a few weeks ago it began letting me in again, but today it won't. I assume it's something to do with the new SC layout. Apologies to those posting on SC as I can't now listen to your posts, so I'll keep on trying until I can.

And now "Satiricom":

I coined the term 'satiricom' in 2021 as a contraction of 'satirical comment', which I like as it's virtually the same sound as 'Satyricon' as in both The Romans' "The Book of Satyrlike Adventures" and Fellini's 1969 movie. From 21-22 I created text and images for 6 satiricoms, which were posted on various social media sites, so in 2024 I decided to create a video of them and composed this music for the video, though this is an improved remix of the original;.

Bass: Oleo Bop w/ Acoustic Bass ~ Neil Swainson
Drums: Oleo Bop w/ Acoustic Bass ~ Craig Scott
Strings 1: Crooner Solo n Strings Orchestra ~ Steve Kummer
Guitar: Crooner Solo n Strings Orchestra ~ Oliver Gannon
Piano 1: East Dock Piano (2 sample hybrid) ~ Jeff Lorber
Piano 2: Aisling Celtic Air Cello Ballad ~ Blair Masters
Sirius Warm Pad & Strings ~ uncredited
Strings 2: Jazz Orchestra String Quartet ~ Avery Bright
Horns: Big Band Shout 11-part Horns / Crooner Big Band 9-part hybrid ~ Jim Clark
Vocals (solo): Rum Runner Old Time Vocal Jazz ~ Britt Savage
Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ ~ Blair Masters
Background Vocals: Speakeasy Old Time Vocal Jazz ~ Britt Savage
Bell Pad: 80s Pop Ballad w/ Bell Pad ~ Miles Black
Guitar Solo: Bricks Indie Rock w/ Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham

From my Timeline notes:
Horns are a hybrid of Big Band Shout 11 part Horns & Crooner Big Band 9 part Horns samples, but as the centre part is way louder than what precedes and follows it, I had to cut the hybrid sample into 4, then decrease and increase the db of each section as needed. I also did a 1 second adjustable fade 1:35-1:36 to kill a single way too deep note.

84 bars; 4/4, G; tempo 110; Time 3:12

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.