This single collects two tracks that are a (re)mix of compositions of my 1st ever collaboration in a musical trio, from mid-February to early March 2023, plus a 3rd/final "bonus" track, added to the single on 17 December 2023. Its initial duration was 14 minutes, its duration with the added track became (nearly) 24 minutes. The single is exclusively and freely available here on SoundCloud under the title of “Trois versions d'une histoire" (or, in English translation, "Three Versions of a Story"). Its two/three tracks are ordered chronologically but also fit conceptually. The idea for this collaboration was due to DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007), who took the initiative and (re)mixed in MAGIX parts composed by DAN-DT (@Dan-T-3), himself and me. We thank Josh Boyer (Future Analysis: @futureanalysis) for the 1st track (final mix in MAGIX of 18 February 2023 by DjArtw2001) and Ivan Baskakov (Steklo: @steklovocals), found via the website www.looperman.com, for the 2nd track (final mix in MAGIX of 6 March 2023 by DjArtw2001): they both used to work with DAN-DT and recorded with him (long ago) the respective vocal samples. The collaborative single was originally released on SC on 27 June 2023, and the 3rd/bonus track was added on 17 December (in parallel with release on SC as a separate track).

We hope that you will enjoy this heightening sequence, beautifully blending the music of each of us into a common concept and style of philosophical contemplation, wisdom accumulated through life, reconciled emotion, spiritual strength and symbolic mysteriousness!

The painting in the artwork cover for the single, the same as that for its 1st track, was created by DAN-DT on 19 February 2023, and then annotated by Alex M on 27 February and 4 March 2023 - in coordination and agreement with DAN-DT and DjArtw2001.

Thank you so much, Dan (aka DAN-DT) and Patrick (aka DjArtw2001), for the beautiful collaboration and artwork!

Duration: 13:57 minutes

Trois versions d'une histoire - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

I am now particularly glad to present my 1st ever collaboration in a musical trio! This great idea was due to DjArtw2001 (https://soundcloud.com/djartw2007), who took the initiative and mixed in MAGIX a part composed by DAN-DT (https://soundcloud.com/Dan-T-3) - originally, I understand, in 2018 - with a part I composed on 17 February 2023 and a part DjArtw2001 composed himself on 18 February 2023 into a new track that we release today on SounClound, under the title of "Trois versions d'une histoire" (or, in our English translation for those who do not read French, "Three Versions of a Story"). We thank Josh Boyer (Future Analysis: https://soundcloud.com/futureanalysis), who used to work with DAN-DT and who recorded with him the vocal samples. We hope that you will enjoy the track!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 19 February 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated and completed using PowerPoint and Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 27 February and 4 March 2023 - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT.

Thank you so much for this beautiful collaboration and artwork, DAN-DT and DjArtw2001 - so talented SoundCloud musicians, creators, artists and friends!

Duration: 6:21 minutes

Our recently formed trio now presents our 2nd collaboration. It was, again, the idea of Patrick or DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007), who took the initiative and mixed in MAGIX on 6 March 2023 a part composed by Dan or DAN-DT (@Dan-T-3) - originally, back in 2011 - with part of a collaboration we had on 1 May 2021, "Double Reflection III" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/double-reflection-iii-roberto-b-alex-m) from our album "Double Reflections" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/double-reflections) that appeared here on SoundCloud on 20 June 2021. So we release this new track emerging from Patrick's remix under the title suggested by Dan "Complicity". Dan's part comes from "Sacrify", a collaboration of his using the voices of Josh Boyer (FutureAnalysis: https://soundcloud.com/futureanalysis) and Ivan Baskakov (Steklo: https://soundcloud.com/steklovocals), found via the website looperman.com (http://looperman.com/). We hope that you will enjoy the track!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 9 March 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated and completed using PowerPoint and Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 9 March 2023 too - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT. Dan has made a montage using three different profiles from a Russian creator in Pixabay.com (http://pixabay.com/). 

Thank you so much for this 2nd beautiful collaboration and artwork of ours, Dan and Patrick!

Duration: 7:36 minutes

Complicity - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

Our trio - that released a single of two tracks under the title of "Trois versions d'une histoire" here on SoundCloud on 27 June 2023 - is delighted to now present our 3rd collaboration. Like the previous two, it was the initiative and the lead of Patrick or DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007), who mixed in MAGIX during the night of 27-28 November 2023 a part composed by Dan or DAN-DT (@Dan-T-3), originally back in 2018 under the title of "Meander", with a part composed by Alex M, originally under the title of "New Beginning" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/new-beginning) that appeared here on SoundCloud on 21 July 2023, and parts and transitions composed and mixed by DjArtw2001 recently. We release this new collaborative track emerging from Patrick's (re)mix under the title suggested by Dan: "Not All Who Wander Are Lost". We hope that you will enjoy this heightening sequence, beautifully blending the music of each of us into a single composition of philosophical contemplation, wisdom accumulated through life, reconciled emotion and symbolic mysteriousness!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 16 December 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated in Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 16 December 2023 too - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT.

We also decided to now add this 3rd collaboration, as a 3rd/final "bonus" track, into the single released by the three of us, "Trois versions d'une histoire", here on SoundCloud on 27 June / 17 December 2023  (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/trois-versions-dune-histoire).

Thank you so much for this 3rd beautiful collaboration and artwork of ours, Dan and Patrick!

Duration: 9:42 minutes

Not All Who Wander Are Lost - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

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)