Long Overdue Introduction (Remastered).mp3

Track 10 in "Ephéméries" (2023) by Alex M: piano composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS, 12 February 2019, all other instruments composed, played, arranged, edited, recorded and mixed in Logic Pro X, 23 February 2019; posted on SoundCloud on 24 February 2019 (before the release of the album as a whole).

The initial piano version is here: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/am190212-ephemerie4piano

And the whole album "Ephéméries" (2023) is here: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/ephemeries

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, is based on a photo taken on 28 June 2018, then resized and annotated in MacOS Preview by Alex M on 26 January 2019.

Duration: 4:00 minutes
Tempo: 116 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: A minor

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

1. Piano - Yamaha Grand Piano
2. Bass - Subby Bass
3. Electronic Drum Kit - Drum Machine Designer - Seismic
4. Synthesizer - Plucked - 16mm Dream Sequence
5. Orchestral - Strings - Full Strings
6. Arpeggiator - Synth Chords - Emotive Melodies
7. Synthesizer - Classics - Luminous Tines
8. Arpeggiator - Synth Chords - Echo Chords

Ephémérie 4 (Extended Orchestral)

Journey

Stranger

New original song by Social Deception recorded at home on August 15, 2019
Lyrics:
It’s not about my feelings,
It’s not about your hurt,
It’s not about the hearts,
Been left in dirt,
It’s not about the future,
It’s not about the past,
It’s all about the present,
And if I come last,
It’s not about the money,
Or lack thereof,
In our poverty,
We push we shove,
It’s not about the guilt,
Not about the lies,
Not about the neighbors,
And their midnight cries,

4x Weigh me down, too much pressure

It’s all about alone,
It’s all about the lost,
It’s all about the ones,
Who paid the highest cost,
It’s about the forgotten,
The left behind,
It’s about the people,
Who lost their minds,

4x Weigh me down, too much pressure

It’s not about the secrets,
It’s about the hurt,
It’s not about authority,
That we subvert,
It’s about the honesty,
It’s about the truth,
It’s about the casualties,
Of our lost youth.

4x Weigh me down, too much pressure

Weigh Me Down

Come April  				c. 2020 by M. A. Manetz

V1
On these four gray walls I've painted her picture with my mind.
Holdin' her in my dreams the only comfort I can find.
One more lonely winter in this cold and lonely place.
The only thing that's kept me sane is the memory of her face.

Chorus
Come April, I'll make it better,
Come April, it'll be so fine.
Come April, I'll make it up to her,
Come April, she'll be mine.

V2
Six months in this prison, six months till I'm free,
Six months since her last letter, does she still care for me?
My brother came to see me, said she's movin' to L.A.,
I tell myself come April, I'll find a way to make her stay.

Chorus

Bridge
Am I a fool to think that she would ever wait for me?
I don't blame her for leavin', but yet I still believe...

Chorus

Come April

Funny Kind of Sad

"Photos In My Mind" was written on day 15 of our social distancing and stay at home orders during the coronavirus outbreak of 2020,  I was already missing doing all the things I did and wondering "when will this go by?"

ALL OF MY TRACKS ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD direct from this page or at this link: lenaloise.bandcamp.com/music ........... CD's are available in the USA for the cost of postage at this link: lenaloise.bandcamp.com/merch

Photos In My Mind

Seminole Wind - John Anderson  (vocal cover) by  D B Keith

"This Vision" by My Black Dress
Music by BCS
Lyrics & Vocals by Michelle
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I'm in a shadow
I'm in your deep blue sea
I dive to be in your darkness
It surrounds me
And we keep sinking further
Like we don't need to breathe

I'm in a shadow
I'm in your deep blue sea
I can't seem to get away

This vision of him

This Vision (demo)

'Microcosms Of The Macrocosm' is straight ahead Jazz Fusion track....

Dancing Forests and Singing Sands

Microcosms Of The Macrocosm

Veröffentlicht von: deutsche musikalische Hilfsmittelgesellschaft.ev aka https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-ratzzz
Music, arrangement, final mix - Cosmic Ratzzz; Alto Saxophone - joerxworx

Lebensfreude /  Cosmic Ratzzz & joerxworx / Lunatics 17

PLEASE STOP SENDING ME OFFERS OF MUSIC PROMOTION.
 
AI is not an option I use or intend to in the future. All of my music is composed, played and produced using the following equipment:
Cubase 14 Pro on Windows PC
Arturia instruments (full suite) some FX
Native Instruments - Instruments and FX
Toontracks -Superior Drummer 3 and Percussion
Korg Triton Synth
Roland RD800 Piano
Native Instruments - Komplete Control S49 and S61 keyboards
Icon Mixing desk
Yamaha & KRK active monitors
Congas and various  LA percussion instruments.
Various String libraries including: Spitfire/ IK Multimedia/labs/Orchestral Tools and The Crowhill Co.
Orange Tree Samples - Guitars and Flute
Musiclabs Guitars
Spectrasonics Trilian Basses
Soundpaint: Strings/Brass/Wind/Guitars/Percussion/ and a multitude of other things.
Various FX from a multitude of companies.
Various Programs from the Spitfire Original range
My trusted "Drum Stool"
Fridge (for Guinness)!!!!



Now retired from a life 'on the road' as a freelance keyboard player, I compose and record in my home studio, situated in the Carrick Hills in Southern Scotland. My music is mainly instrumental in nature and is a reflection of my life experience, sometimes real and sometimes imagined.
My influences are many and I have quite probably been shaped by listening to the very many "giants" of music, both players and composers. From classical to contemporary jazz and everything in between. My main instrument is the keyboard, whether that be piano, organ or synth. But I also play banjo, flute and percussion. I have a special relationship'with bass, whether upright or electric and use virtual and synth basses from numerous sources, but mainly Trilian by Spectrasonics.


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Microcosms Of The Macrocosm

Alan Hamilton