Mystic Ukulele by The Spooky Blue Translucent Moons

A Historical Documentary of Words.

In January 2015 Ryan Bousquet started writing songs for what would become Mystic Ukulele.
He had owned a Ukulele for quite some time and had written a few songs like the ghost and the sun on the
Ukulele but never set out to record them. The Ukulele used on the album was bought in 2010 in Virginia
when Ryan was in the navy. At the time Ryan didn’t really have a lot of time to write songs let alone record.

Album Cover Art By: Ryan Bousquet

At the time The songs the ghost & the sun were both written in a hotel Ryan would frequent in
Portsmouth Virginia in 2010 and both were in a live video performance on YouTube. The mystic Ukulele
album spans 4 years in the making... after Ryan’s 2013 release of temples and pyramids by
Eshniner Forest. The whole idea of mystic Ukulele started because Ryan had the ukulele but never wrote
much with it. He had always liked the idea of making an entire ukulele album of songs.
There was one song written and recorded using the ukulele in 2011 which was Dream off his album
Spectacle Sunrise of the same year but not really much more. Odd fact about the song Dream the song is
track 9 on the album spectacle sunrise, which is a John Lennon reference to a song he wrote called number
nine dream.

In 2013 Ryan was honestly discharged from the Navy and immediately started working on Temples and
Pyramids which also released that October. After Temples and Pyramids Ryan didn't really record much.
Not until after his death of his mother in November 2014… did Ryan even consider writing and recording
more music. In Ryan's words “I wanted a fresh sound and I didn't want to make another guitar and piano
oriented album and the ukulele seemed like a good direction!” Also Ryan had no real knowledge of any
of the chords on the ukulele and mostly made up a lot of the chords and played the entire album mostly by
ear. He did not know the chords he was playing until he started overdubbing other instruments like bass guitar
and piano did he know what exactly he was playing… note wise.

In 2015 Ryan had just started college and had a lot more spare time especially on the weekends.
So he started fiddling around with the ukulele and writing songs. These are the songs he wrote...

THE SUN: This song was the last song to be recorded for the album. The sun would have never been
recorded if Ryan’s now fiance, Katie hadn’t said how much she loved The song starting in late 2016.
Lyrically it has a great introduction. “Wake up it's a brand new day!” It has Ideas that just seem to fit in
with a beginning of an album… so it's the first song.

MYSTIC UKULELE: Is a short little instrument that in Ryan’s mind mocks how the ukulele is used in a
modern sense in commercials and modern pop. The song starts off being used in that typical modern
commercial way but changes when other instruments come in and fill out the song in a much more
non-commercial way. The song transforms itself in a way saying… if a song could speak that…
this is not your typical ukulele song.

WHERE ARE YOU... KATIE?: This song was written in early 2016 when his girlfriend at the time went to
New York City for a month. Its a cute little love song for Ryan’s one and only Katie.

NEW HORIZONS (THE PLUTO SONG): Is One of the first songs that came along in 2015.
The reason being Ryan was following the New Horizons spacecraft set to arrive at Pluto that
coming mid July 2015. Lyrically the song hypothesizes what might be found on Pluto.

EMPTINESS IS NOWHERE 2: This song has a predecessor which is on an album that Ryan recorded in November 2014 called Emptiness is Nowhere which also features a song called Emptiness is nowhere. It's just a simple idea really that is referring to earth's inhabitants. The song features a fun musical break down that features an old car horn.

I’M A DESK: This song is just a humorous idea that is lyrically a play on words. The opening lyric is a
reference to Kiefo Nilssons twitter account. Who is the son of Harry Nilsson. Kiefo tweeted “No one is a
hipster anymore” at one point in time in 2015. Ryan thought it was funny so he wrote it as the opening
line of the song. I’m a Desk is also a mild nod to Good old Desk By Harry Nilsson. Ryan thought by
combining a current generation family members words to a song that was inspired by Harry Nilsson
was a good idea.

MOONS WARZ: This song is a free spirited instrumental with a tribal vibe to it. The title is again a
Kiefo Nilsson reference. Something that at the time Kiefo would tweet randomly multiple times a day.

Side Note: Ryan is in no way good friends with Kiefo Nilsson. Ryan is just another one of Kiefo's followers.
Kiefo has no clue that Ryan even wrote this song.

THE MOUSE: This song is just that… a song about a mouse.

THE GHOST: The ghost would not be revisited until 2015 in Ryan’s Duluth Georgia home when
Ryan was looking for more songs for the album. He knew he wrote a few ukulele songs prior to 2015,
so he searched his YouTube channel and The Ghost was fully written and ready to record.
The song is about a ghost that his mother and father saw on different occasions in the house he was
living in. The song was written however quite far away in… Portsmouth Virginia.

THE YOU, YOU LEFT BEHIND: This is song is about a fall out of friendship… nothing more, nothing less.
This song is one of the more interesting songs as a whole. It features nice transitions and is a bit of a
pop song with depressing lyrics and happy melodies… sound familiar? I bet you wonder if this song is
about you?

MYSTIC BLOOD SAILS: This song is an instrumental much like moon warz.

NOT ALONE (A CALL FOR PEACE): Is the final ukulele song on the album. Continuing with the theme
that we are not alone on earth and that a call for peace is required.

ONE NIGHT AT A TIME: This song is about being a night owl is a subpar nod to a few songs by
Brian Wilson off his 1988 self titled solo album.

GHOSTLY LIGHT: Is what Ryan calls Folky Proggy. The song starts off one way and ends in a
completely different place. It's full of emotions like sadness, happiness and love all within a spooky
package. It is one of Ryan’s favorite songs he has written along with the next and final song on this
album…

AND FINALLY...

FUN IS ALL THE RAGE!: This song is in Ryan’s own way a late 60’s Beatles and Electric Light Orchestra

song all rolled up into one. The song is mostly just a celebration of key elements used by Ryan’s
favorite artists. An interesting melody and transitions. Using harpsichord and electric piano with
synthesizers and swamp beats in a similar manner that Ringo Starr might have been drumming,
sort musical break downs that go back and forth into a groove and chorus that are fun fun fun on their own!

The Back Side of the Album By: Ryan Bousquet

A World Beyond Image.

The worlds an image, more beyond then color and light.
Extending beyond humanities eye.
Were crying out weather we know it or not.
A world of wonder or maybe not?
A world of love do we deny?
Love growing in pockets and tiny waves.
Humanity hides for future days.
Long for something more then love can brave.

Mell Street, Show Athens Georgia, Early 2000's.

Photos By Addison Godel

NASA RECEIVED AN SOS CALL FROM ANOTHER GALAXY?

I think information like this is fascinating. I am not sure if it true or not, but I want to believe it is true. Below is the text that is in this video.

"NASA detected, intercepted, and decoded a mathematically-based distress signal from a purportedly doomed planetoid outside our own galaxy.

The signal was detected in January of 1998 but, however and as it might be expected, it took many years to properly decode the message.

NASA experts claim to have intercepted an intergalactic distress call from an alien civilization that had already peaked and was actually dying when saber-tooth tigers still roamed the earth.

The 80,000-year-old SOS was received and digitally recorded in late January 1998.

But only in 2011 have radio astronomers and language experts found the key to the complex mathematics-based language that enabled them to translate the 'frantic plea for help'.

The world press has been suspiciously silent about the startling message, though lengthy scientific reports are scheduled for publication in two professional journals, Radio Astronomy and Universe.

According to a highly placed NASA source in Houston, Texas, noted Russian superior officer Gen. in ex-Soviet Union’s army, Viktor Kulikov was leading a United Nations research team from a state-operated observatory 50 miles northwest of Moscow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_K...

Gen. Victor Kulikov told Universe that the signal emanated from a point beyond the galaxy nearest to our own, Andromeda, and was sent by beings that had apparently achieved a civilization no more advanced than our own here on Earth.

“The simple fact that we received and decoded the message proves beyond any doubt that their knowledge and technology were, at the very best, within our reach.” Dr. Kulikov explained.

“And while there are years of study ahead of us, I can say with certainty that the death of their civilization was not the result of some cosmic catastrophe. It was the result of the civilization turning on itself, possibly with devastating nuclear weaponry.”

Dr Kulikov flatly refused to provide either of the magazines with a transcript of the message, but he did say it began with the plea, “Help us,” and went on to give data pinpointing the exact position of the doomed planet.

There was a quite lucid account of apocalyptic devastation, hellish explosions, widespread death and terminal illnesses,” he said.

“A Shower of meteors? Perhaps. But what stikes me, and this is just a feeling, is an underlying acceptance of guilt. It’s as if the senders of the message are acknowledging blame for what happened.”

"Whatever it was, they apparently had no means to evacuate the remaining population. Interplanetary space travel was available to them, but only on a very limited level. The message makes it very clear that they were trapped on their world,” said Dr. Kulikov.

The article was written by two journals. NASA simply managed to not get much publicity. At that time the newspapers wrote very little about this issue. When after thirteen years managed to decrypt the message fails to hide from the media."

The Sorry Sods - Athens Georgia - Early 2000s.

The Sorry Sods are playing Magma By Eshniner Forest. It was a covers night, I played as well. I played Fragile Tree by Natural Bridges.

Athens Georgia Photos from Early 2000's.

Crunchafus.

Travis and Ryan outside the Ultramod Compount before a show.

Photos from the Apartment I lived in.

Doctor Casino

Green Bean Go at the Ultramod Compound.

Room mates for the most part.

Me in my bedroom at the time.

I am wearing a Donkey Hat I made... I use to perform as a Donkey because I use to play a song called Donkey and Plow.

Me and Emma the dog and Me and Travis, both were taken in Ila, Georgia.

Bellhouse playing at the Caladonia Lounge. It was Kimberly's birthday show, she made her self a birthday dress.

The one and only time I performed Buffalo Run.

Halloween in my Donkey costume.

Back seat of some car, Me, Javier, Missy and Travis.

Either Bellhouse or The Orchid Pool playing a backyard show in Ila, Georgia.

Kimberly was a middle school teacher and needed a little backing band. Javier on drums, Tony on guitar, me on Bass.

We all went on a road trip so an amusement park in North Carolina.

Crammed in the back seat again.

Show Flier for Green Bean Go! - Kabuki Track Stars and Omar Mathatron.

Doctor Casino at some house show.

I am not sure who or where this picture was taken.

Extreme Animals. That the back of my head in the top photo. It was a very loud show.

Some random party. That's me looking at the fire extinguisher.

Green Bean Go! - April 13, 2002. Apartment Show - Athens Georgia.

I don't remember much from this show and I am not sure why we switched around so much on instruments. There was always a lot of talking between songs from what I do remember, mainly because music practice always happened maybe an hour or two prior the show.

In this photo I know were trying to play, Eye of the Tiger. I remember we practiced figuring out the song, by listening to the recording upstairs for maybe 15 mins. Javier is on the drums in this photo, he is a multi-instrumentalist and just recently made an appearance on the Late Show playing sax with Deerhunter.

Matt the guy on the left wrote a lot of songs in Green Bean Go & I was rarely involved. Julie would sing the lyrics. Travis the guy on drums would also write songs. This was most likely one of maybe two times I played with Green Bean Go.

These photos were taken by Addison Godel.