nic - tunes

With this first release in 2026 I wish all my friends here on SoundCloud a Happy New Year!

You know who You are.

I did record this during the last days of 2025 so it's a bit of cheating, soon I will release some completely new material that is also recorded this new year.

I've got some interesting collaborations cooking and I'm very excited to see where they will take us.

Make the best of the new yaer!

Cheers, nic

I went to our summer house in the middle of winter and recorded this looking outside the window seeing five fake stars reflecting in the water.

I've made a cover of the song Wandering Star by Portishead. I listened a lot to this album when it came and now I thought I would be fun to record a version of it...

All rights to the song belongs to Portishead

It became a Swedish translated lyric to this cover of 4 Non Blondes song What's Up.

All right to the music belongs to 4 Non Blondes

An instrumental cover of What's up by 4 non blondes. I'm not sure wheter I will sing in English or in Swedish yet. We'll see what will happen tonight.

I tried to make a cover of Transmission by Joy Division. One cannot make an exact copy so I went another direction to play it in a more punkish way. Different maybe sums it up.

All rights to the music belongs to Joy Division

a version of a song by Portishead originally. They call it Roades and that translates into Vägar, pronunced vaegar, more or less...

I just do it my way that is almost true to the original chord progression.

all rights to the music belongs to portishead

After taking a break from this story for a whole year, The Smoking Trout is so happy to share with you all the final chapter in our epic ongoing tale, the Quest for the Holy Dumpling! Thanks to all who've joined us on this fantastic ride, as either listeners or musicians. See credits below to learn about the crew who contributed to this memorable final episode. You'll also find links to our BandCamp and our earlier album, plus Jeff & Jo's incredible lyrics!

Stonerjazz @user-911083679 -- Lyrics, Vocals (intro/outro) Guitar (intro/middle)

Tot - @tot-beat -- Beat & Drums (intro/outro)

Tea R. Sea - @tea_are_sea -- Beat (middle), Synths (throughout), Production

Nadia Selvaggi - @nadiaselvaggi -- Vocals (middle)

TexMex Shaman @texmex-shaman -- Guitar & Guitar Special Effects (intro/middle/outro) And Mastering the whole piece.

Nic - @nic_nic_nic -- Vocals, Synths/Keys (middle)

Jo Richter @sonic-textures -- Lyrics, Melodion

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Catch up with all 12 tracks in the Smoking Trout's now-complete concept album, Quest for the Holy Dumpling: on.soundcloud.com/FR63a

Listen to the Smoking Trout's first album, The Land of Zed (2021-2022): on.soundcloud.com/WB34q

Find us on BandCamp! thesmokingtrout.bandcamp.com

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Lyrics (by Stonerjazz & Jo Richter):

Everybody on the bus, Gus and Stu

and some others from Uriah, too, made up their minds

packed up their kinds and kith and kin

and decided unattachedly to pack it in

and Johnny, all nostalgic for the solitude of melancholic bedsheet ascetism, said

"We should go to Zed" and smiled in mild remembrance

"I saw a crack a couple light years back in the space time continuum,

with a sign that read, Zed, 50 miles straight ahead.

We might get there in time to liberate my lost accordion

from the clutches of the local patron

a relative of Mr Smith’, if I am not completely wrong.“

Uriah had a riot

when the dumplings disappeared

trampled by the herds of lust, desire

lampooned by the nerds of rust and fire

gobbled up by fast food throats and street flock trucks

and someone farted, burped and said they wanted seconds

and that was when the trouble started and ursurped the mental landscape

and who’s to blame but some minions from that moppet, Alfred Rufus Smith

who to his simian bewilderment was headed back to earth

in that stolen starship that he stole again, restole and stole for just another time

(the way rebirthing beings rack up karma by incarnating ceaselessly)

from the only holy spaceport of that karmic spacelord on the potted planet

frowned upon by Gus and Stu and all the riders of experience on the nirwana bus--

--"And so it was , they crossed the boundry into Zed, and landed lightly on the purple plain

and when they did, all the holograms on board the bus turned into real Girls and Boys

Would love to say thing turned out well but what the hell , who can tell

Uziel Wivress, Neal Nic and Nadia, jeff and Jo, Stephen Tot and Terry too enjoyed the view as the bus it hit the ground

in the golden grass near the end of June--

Gus and all the crew were happy to have arrived safe and sound

and without a scratch on that sacred patch of rock in space--

see the tarmac flotilla in karmic espandrilles

sharpen their common intuition

and like expanding armadillos

overcome respective inhibition

and cross across the crucial rift and ,riffing, raft the cosmic shift

and wake up in the place where Jonny is remembered as the bringer of the dumpling and the player

of the most beautiful instrument Divine --

A cover of Hello I Love You by the Doors, I made it as practice to learn a different kind of music creation.

All rights belongs to The Doors estate

a swedish version and cover of the song Black Planet by the Sisters of Mercy

all rights belong to The Sisters of Mercy