This is now the extended collaborative version B with Roberto B (@2roberto2) of my "Hoping for the Future", https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/hoping-for-the-future, a track in our almost completed album "Again and Again" (2025). My parts was composed spontaneously in GarageBand iOS in the late evening of 6 April 2025 and arranged, recorded and mixed in Logic Pro in the evening of 19 April 2025. The parts by Roberto B were composed in MAGIX on 27 April 2025, and he also did the final arrangement and mix on that date. Version A with the same title, https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/hoping-for-the-future-extended-collaborative-version-a-roberto-b-alex-m, was released here on 2 May 2025 , This version B was released on SoundCloud this Thursday afternoon (in Europe) of 28 August 2025.

The artwork cover for our album "Again and Again" (2025) and all tracks in it uses a painting by Roberto B titled "Horloge - Le Temps" of 20 November 2024 annotated by Alex M in Mac OS Preview on 21 February 2025 - in coordination and agreement with Roberto B.

Duration: 6:20 minutes

Release date:
38 August 2025

Hoping for the Future (Extended Collaborative Version B) - Roberto B & Alex M

Эмбиентная электронная музыка
Авторская песня
Классическая гитара

Ambient electronic music
Singer-songwriter
Classical guitar

***Update 12/20/25 - Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!! All of y'all have made this year for me so special with all your likes reposts and comments on my songs, it's been very encouraging!! So uplifting and motivates me even more. There's so much talent on here and I've enjoyed listening, connecting and making new friends. Keep doing what you love! Dream forever. God loves you all...blessings to you all. 

Hey! Thanks for stopping by!:) All recordings done on my old Baldwin piano that my amazingly talented grandma gave me. I'd like to think it holds some magic. All original songs, recorded live. I took a few years of classical lessons when I was very young. Fond memories bicycling down E. Brown street to my lessons. Dearest Faye...sweetest teacher ever. 

Throughout the years I'd always tinker on my Mom's old 1900 Ludwig piano through passing, playing songs I had learned, like Fur Elise and The Spinning Song, but it wasn't till I was in college when I fell in love with those keys. There was an old upright in the student center that I'd sneak off to late at night, and ever since then the playing has never stopped, and it never will. I never knew I could even make up melodies, let alone write a song. What a therapy it has been over the years, expressing myself through experiences, and feelings of the hopeless romantic in me. God is good! I'm so thankful. I hope to connect with many and make new friends. Hope you enjoy the songs!:) 

No Ai whatsoever, just my voice and piano, playing and singing simutaneously. 

All music written & recorded by ©Daniel Colter Valentine All Rights Reserved 

I can do all things through Christ which strengeneth me. 

Paul - Philippians 4:13 

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable!

Beethoven

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always admired music, of diverse styles. Like most of us, I have tried learning to play a few instruments at a basic level in my teenage. But it is only now, in the 21st century, that modern software allows anyone to fool around being the composer, the designer of a whole composition, simpler or more complex, organising together the parts of the various instruments - and to hear the results of this experimentation or inspiration instantly! That is how I have recently begun enjoying the distraction of attempts at composing during my leisure, discovering an amazing dimension of life, and art, perhaps the most intangible, heightening and hypnotising one, and the closest to the soul... (21 August 2017) ... Forgot to mention: music is for sharing - that's why we are all here! (4 September 2017)

Chansons Françaises écrites, composées, arrangées et enregistrées à la maison.
Elles sont toutefois déposées à la SACEM.

Electronic music artist since the mid-'80s.
I create tracks of different genres and moods.

Thanks to all musicians and music lovers
on soundcloud who support me with likes,
comments and reposts. That motivates me
to record new tracks.

On SoundCloud since December 2017
© All rights reserved

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++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.

Every time I am sincerely surprised that the music came together again, that it worked. I don’t often write music , to enjoy nature of this wonderful process.
All tracks AI free!
Big thanks to SOUNDCLOUD for the wonderful opportunity to be heard and to my invisible friends, musicians and composers, whom I hear well thanks to SC
As an architect, I am interested in the question - if architecture is frozen music, then music is melted architecture? In this case I'm the freezer unplugged.🤗
The iceberg from the freezer is still dripping, but over time it can leak heavily...
My musical education is modest - 4th grade piano in childhood at the cultural center named Mikhail Kalinin in Kharkov + SC now