Magnificent !!! ... a great piece, Alex !!!!

Track 8 in "Etats d'âme" (2022) by Alex M: composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro X, 20, 21 and 22 December 2021, and mixed in Logic Pro X, 23 December 2021; posted on SoundCloud on 30 December 2021 (before the release of the album as a whole).

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in Tayasui Sketches on 4 February 2021, edited and annotated in Paint and saved in its final form on 5 March 2021.

Duration: 4:26 minutes
Tempo: 90 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: A minor

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording:

1. Strings - Modern - Cello
2. Strings - Cinematic - Bass
3. Keyboard - Keyboards - Grand Piano
4. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Rhythmic - Mystic Timespace (Passage)
5. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Guitars - Sparkling Fireflies (Rusted)
6. Studio Horns - Single Instruments - Trombone 1

---------- CELEBRATING TODAY, 30 DECEMBER 2021, 5 YEARS AND 200 TRACKS ON SOUNDCLOUD ----------

This track is my 200th since I began composing and posting on SoundCloud, and celebrates exactly 5 years since I released on SoundCloud my 1st album, Return to Equilibrium [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/alex-m-return-to-equilibrium] (comprised of 8 tracks), on 30 December 2016; I had opened my SoundCloud account two days earlier, on 28 December 2016, and had completed my first compositions in the autumn of 2016.

Over the past 5 years, I have released on SoundCloud 200 tracks (of which 66, or almost precisely 1/3, in collaboration), 18 albums (of which 13 own and 5 in collaboration), 1 medley album in collaboration and 1 single in collaboration. I have had 54562 plays, 8524 likes, 3897 reposts and 4799 comments. My tracks have been included in hundreds of playlists. On SoundCloud today, I have 1623 followers and I follow 1527 colleagues, music creators or fans. The 8 more recent of my own 13 albums are also available online via the major music stores. My 5 earliest own albums and all collaborations are exclusively and freely available for streaming only here, on SoundCloud.

My top 10 (i.e., top 5%) tracks (by reposts, and - then - likes), so far, are as follows:

1. I Can Now Only Recall Distant Music [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/i-can-now-only-recall-distant-music]: 99 reposts, 244 likes
2. Ephémérie 4 (Extended Orchestral) [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/am190212v23-ephemerie4extended]: 97 reposts, 224 likes
3. Beyond [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/beyond]: 76 reposts, 152 likes
4. Going Back in Time [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/going-back-in-time]: 71 reposts, 124 likes
5. Aqua (collaboration with Andreus) [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/aqua]: 69 reposts, 132 likes
6. Nature morte [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/nature-morte]: 65 reposts, 120 likes
7. Phoenix (collaboration with Tom) [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/phoenix-tom-alex-m]: 59 reposts, 114 likes
8. The Lost Innocence of Childhood (collaboration with Tom) https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/the-lost-innocence-of-childhood-tom-alex-m]: 59 reposts, 104 likes
9. Did I Survive? [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/did-i-survive]: 57 reposts, 116 likes
10. Optica (collaboration with Andreus) [https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/optica-alex-m-andreus]: 57 reposts, 107 likes
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Etats d'âme - Sadness and Hope

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)

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