This is now the extended and collaborative version with Roberto B (@2roberto2) of my "I Grew Up Here", https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/i-grew-up-here, in my work-in-progress album "Again" (2025). My track was composed spontaneously in GarageBand iOS and arranged, recorded and mixed in Logic Pro in the evening of 31 March 2025, The subsequent composition, arrangement, recording and final mix was accomplished by Roberto B immediately, the same night, early on 1 April 2025. This collaborative track of ours was released on SoundCloud today, in the evening (in Europe) of 10 April 2025. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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: 6:50 minutes

I Grew Up Here (Extended Collaborative Version) - Roberto B & Alex M

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)