@purp4: Have you looked at Annie's? She explains "what this is" ...

Well done API. Very nicely done! Must be fun to create!

this track speaks to me, beautiful production

This sounds so beautiful and extremely well crafted... A powerful and melodic storytelling.

I like your sense of choirs plus the great story involved with this too.

A playlist of the wondrous and uplifting kind ...

Enchanting

Come with me
Step outside your boxes babe
Relax and leave all those rigid rules behind
Come with me
break out all the brightest colors babe
We will paint in bold broad strokes and spill outside the lines
Come with me

Black and white
Night and day
Dark and light
Sailing seas of grey
Can't we find some colors here
There is so much more 
Beyond what we can see

Mixed and Mastered by Woods Studio October 2023
@woods_studio

Come With Me

LYRICS

I'm just trying to breathe under water

Im just trying to hide cause I'm scared

Makes no difference one from the other 

Because it doesn't mean so much in the end

crooked lines
On these broken binds
Paint a beautiful picture
Master mind 
Behind the rhymes
Starts Describing the fixture 
Breath taking 
Art making 
Every linear stroke
Filled with passion
In every detail
In the words that is spoke
Bolded caption
Given to retail
It's a story of strife
But the reaction 
That this should entail
It's the glory of life
Cause it's vivid 
In every image
Wicked and so specific 
Despite all the parts explicit 
My masterpiece is terrific 
Moments I was at my limit
There's people who'll try to spin it
tell me the work I put in
While knowing they weren't in it
Where were you?
When I was towing on the edge of the line?
Where were you?
When devil had me locked in inside of my mind
Where were you?
For my eviction
Declining mental attrition 
Financial state in condition 
That put me out of commission 
Mom's on the brink of death
When I was holding her hand
My marriage taking a left
We're drawing lines in the sand


Man I've really seen darker days 
That some just won't understand 
How I really wish I say
I knew that God had a plan
Conflict
 blinded my vision
wasn't seeing in faith
Made a lot of decisions 
That led to failure 
I bathe
In the aftermath
Taking beatens from fallen paths
Troubled waters that crashed my rafts
Every plan that I try to graph
Never scaled 
up to Where I have to be
Always ended drastically 
If I did what's asked of me
It would turn out masterfully 
More impactful
But defeat breeds success
Once the Lord enter my spirit
I did not feed the stress
My heart beat suggest
I was way less depress
And despite all the test
I know 
I'm still blessed
even though you feel like your sinking
And your spiraling farther 
just want to keep you encouraged 
In the depths that we charter
Cause you swallow that blue pill
That numbs you
To not fill
 then wonder why life sucks
Cause you out of the Lords will
staying under



In The Deepend 2: New Depths

Underwater

Singer: 
Written, Arranged, Produced by Jah-Femi Telewa
Instrumental Producer: IIyass Kz

Lyrics 

I pray

Chant: Everyday I pray to God
He’ll be sure to give reply
To the ones who rather cry
Than to live to see me fly

Poet: Only God knows, I don’t fear my foes
They speak in hidden codes, words that I oppose 


Sing: Why can’t it be, a good life for the free
Everywhere I look there’s someone envying me
It’s been like that since start of time
The devil hated one sublime 

Poet: And the story goes, where darkness flows.
The devil glows


Sing: Emergency our earth is history 
For those who Choose to care
Let’s start to handle this affair 


Chant: Everyday I pray to God
He’ll be sure to give reply
To the ones who rather cry
Than to live to see me fly

Poet: I don’t even know where I get the strength, 
But every time I get knocked down,
I get back up


Chant: Everyday I pray to God
He’ll be sure to give reply
To the ones who rather cry
Than to live to see me fly

Poet: It’s an underestimated phenomenon, 
This all powerful being,
That foresees everything.


Sing: And when that time should come
When everybody is one
The world would be at peace
He will silence the beast

Poet: There’s only one main focus,
And that’s a united mode of thought,
Instead of thinking me you should be thinking us.
Cause when push comes to shove,
You can’t fight wars alone,
You need a team of back watching warriors to ensure you get safely home.


Chant: Everyday I pray to God
He’ll be sure to give reply
To the ones who rather cry
Than to live to see me fly

Poet: Everything has to get better, 
It can’t get worse than this right? Right? 


Chant: Everyday I pray to God
He’ll be sure to give reply
To the ones who rather cry
Than to live to see me fly

Poet: Power to the child that holds his own,
For in that hour his heart would be still and solid,
The light from within would shine brighter than the finest chrome. 

Poet: Death shall not speak of his name,
With an air of boldness and fortune to his Acclaim,
and through his actions you will know that the devil is a liar, 
For through his works he refused to appease to his desires…

I Pray (Version 2) feat. Cory Lamont

This was written and finished on the same day, June 1st when Donald's felony counts were read-out in court.

Being clear here: this doesn't exactly take sides:

Except it's ridiculous that we're in the situation in the first place.

Just aghast that both candidates should be far better candidates, we're in some awful alternate timeline.

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Lyrics:

so gather round you sigma males
i've got a rather interesting tale

the thing that confounds the ruling elite
is men needing to do a heckin' felony for a treat

something's rather less than sublime
when the charges are as sticky as the crime
if you face the prospect of doing time
don't be such a statist bro

when you know what it is to be
a justice impacted individual
it's tough to purge the stench that's residual
to overcome the knock-out blow

if they ban the box then i can shake it
there are times you know i just can't take it
as much as they say fake it till you make it
my upbeat manner might not save me
felony stigma grindset baby

if you seek to ostracize yet more
don't crime shame, man... it's twenty-twenty-four

299 : Felony Stigma Gives Me The Ick released June 1, 2024

Feature.fm link to this track:
https://ffm.to/felony-stigma-ick

SoundCloud for this track:
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/felony-stigma-gives-me-the-ick

Spotify for this track:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0im2mKVtasJCoH8njhT0Um

Douglas P Stoothoff main site:
https://exedexes1.com/

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https://ffm.bio/dbx6kbg

Master Track List on SC:
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/tracks

Artist page on Spotify:
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NovemDeka

Felony Stigma Gives Me The Ick

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This instrumental rocky piece has been produced Aug. 12, 2007

Thanks for listening and reposting :-)

Dirty Soundbag

This is a genuine Pop song with a few extra elements, like 'bombast' strings and such ... Enjoy!

Ancient Tales

The sixth of 21 new tracks coming from the new album: The Hallway, For the full album follow this link to listen all the tracks: open.spotify.com/album/42WDbSXu4KjESXjysu1zmx

The Hallway

Evermore

I had the great pleasure to musically illustrate a new "adventure" from Annie. 
All background to that journey is given at https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut/web-of-the-wyrd

Web Of The Wyrd

This track will guide you through an ancient technique which helps to retrieve and cultivate empowerment and magnetism.

@APi_ZZ has quite brilliantly used specific sound frequencies in the music which support this practice. He found that the resonance of my drumming was of the frequency 109 Hz, close to the 108 Hz which is the sound tuning used to heal the sacral chakra. So he fine-tuned the drumming frequencies to that exact 108 Hz.

He then put the whole thing to music, using flute and Tibetan sound bowls attuned to the frequency of 432 Hz. He also added a bowl drone sound (again at 432 Hz), augmented by bells chiming in deeply associated frequencies of (again) 108 Hz, 162 Hz, and 243 Hz and a second bowl at 364.5 Hz. These frequencies relate to the sacral, solar, heart and throat chakras.

Words and vocal Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, August 2024

Music and cover art by APi_ZZ 
© Copyright APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner, August 2024)

Power - a guided practice

Rage/rock  hopefully sum new old  old sound back

Dorime

Annie came up with the story -- eh, THE story -- see her entry: 
https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut/hero-with-a-thousand-faces
I had the "duty", but certainly mainly the pleasure to figure illustrative music for that. Here is our result.

Hero

My Stranger
by Libro

(I wish we never met.)

VERSE 1
I feel like the life we lived was all one big nightmare, don't you?  
(I hate you, and I want you back.)
How could just six months do all this?  
(I hate you, I love you, I wish I never met you, or let you do this to me.)

(But we did meet, and now she's...)

CHORUS
Just a stranger, the one who cut me in two.  
My friends all hate her, and all she put me through.  
But I will wait for her, and let her silence break me more.

(But she's my stranger though.)

VERSE 2
I feel like the life we lived was all one big lie to make me HURT.  
I HATE YOU. I LOVE YOU. IT'S PITY. IT'S EGO. IT'S DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE MANIPULATION.  
HERE WE GO...  

(You're all I have.)

CHORUS
Just a stranger, the one who cut me in two.  
My friends all hate her, and all she put me through.  
But I will wait for her, and let her silence break me more.

(Instrumental Outro)

My Stranger

DO YOU

Over at Mix Challenge (https://mix-challenge.com/) they run the Songwriting Competition for September 2024; the theme is "Mental Health Awareness Month". Music is said to have a supportive effect when positively dealing with this matter. My contribution tries to do so with this softly chiming, meditative track.
UPDATE 09-21: Track got replaced by a slightly remixed version.

Conciliation

When I felt you
When you touched me
I felt everything inside me

When you kissed me
Our breath was felt
I felt everything inside me

It should never end
I always wanted to stand by you.

When the time is gone I will remember
that once we were together and now we're not.

You old bitch
You left me.
with another guy
That's why I have to hate you now.
For whoever leaves me is to blame himself

You hurt me.
You lied to me and cheated on me.
But as much as I hate you.
I miss you
oh please come back
You belong to me.

Cause miss you
Come back
You old bitch.
We belong together

There is no return
To a common way
There is no return
All is over

It's over

There is no return
To a common way
There is no return
All is over
 
You hurt me
because you left me
You hurt me
because you betrayed me

I Miss You

Being musician and artist "since ages", the last two decades and all the developments in digital music broadened my interests and activities in doing music actively and passively. Not being shy of any genre (OK, leave off some Punk and Extreme Metal derivates) I engage in composing, arranging, mixing and collaborating. 

Oh, and I do all my artwork and designs as well. And as you may notice I regard AI as a friendly helper.

Have a few looks & listens into my repertoire and eventually gain some insights. I'm always open for collabs if the the interests match ...

Hero

APi_ZZ

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