Trippy and magical atmosphere, love it right from the beginning!

Excellent! Wow, sounds like this one was some time in the making...

Cool vibes, fantastic synth arrangements. Nice sound design. 💛🎶

@user-936947521: Huge thanks for the detailed and kind review! We're all very happy with your comment. ~Masha

Lost Vibrations of Forgotten Dreams

Piano Impro #3 - Par Les Soirs Bleus D'Eté

originally recorded as a solo piano boogie, now with a whack of instruments added to sound like a country rock & blues band. With different instruments taking turns at solos, this one’s a pretty fun romp. 

instruments include piano, bass, rhythm guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, slide dobro, organ, drums (all instruments are electronic samples, except me playing piano live, and some bits on drums, organ, and harmonica)

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve.   :)

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here's some pictures I took: www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/
my best photos on 500px (safe site): 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Backroads Boogie & Blues

out of control

Alice

Lights Out In Wonderland

lamentations lament

DOOWINIT (music: Mark Paton / words: Justin Paton)
Recorded on 4-track tape, London 1997
* Justin Paton: voice, guitar, keyboard & percussion
* Mark Paton: keyboard & percussion

an introduction to The Fear Of Muzak

Doowinit (1997)

The talented Mike Donnelly from Music For Magicians (@music-for-magicians) joined us here for a fun new collaboration, where he expanded on our song "The Noble Ghost Club" - 
https://soundcloud.com/archmageband2/the-noble-ghost-club-instrumental

Thank you Mike, it turned out excellent!! We love what you added to the song.

This song's beginnings were in December 2020. We combined two of our songs: 'The Happenin' and 'The Noble Ghosts'. The place is fictional and we made the song loopable for a game setting.

One of the last songs on the upcoming 'Realms' album.

Synth work by Rob Ulysses (@rob-ulysses) and Masha Solo (@masha-solo) and Mike Donnelly (@music-for-magicians)

Art by Masha. The marble background and Victorian sketches are royalty free from Pixabay and Canva.

Realms

Night Of Illusions At The Noble Ghost Club Ft. Music For Magicians - Instrumental

Night Of Illusions At The Noble Ghost Club ft. Music For Magicians - Instrumental

Because, I'm insane. The Ianuarius EP of 2023 Jamuaries has a second set of the exactly the same songs (except for a unique one on each) but handled by a different mastering engineer. This time, a straight digital master from our friend, RDT. All the clarity that I'd hoped for he achieved on the first shot.

RDT is available to master your track on Fiverr. While he gets rolling in this service, his rates are basically nil and the results sparkling. If you're interested in getting your track mastered beautifully for the price of a venti latte, here ya go :

https://www.fiverr.com/rdtmakesmusic/

The plan was to get one done from all corners of the mastering world. A brick n mortar pro, a DAW super-ninja, and AI services. Except for the AI ones, they aren't meant to be compared with each other. These are different approaches and both humans exceeded my expectations. I have been making new AI masters based on the two provided by humans, using one as the source file and the other as the reference to mimic the dynamics/color. The consensus appears to be that these are the best of them. But I can't post them because I already feel crazy for doing two masters. xD If you'd like to hear these, please reach out to me personally.

Maybe by now, some of you are as burnt on these tunes as I am but the idea here, and for all of these is just to learn, familiarize myself with the process and connect w ppl Thanks for putting up with it. :)

Discardi B (RDT Master)

My first-ever song.  I wrote this in 1997, as a 17-year-old child, at which time it was just called "With You." I've changed a couple of the lyrics, to make them a little better, just a little but otherwise tried to keep it how it was, however it's still rather schmaltzy.  Recorded 2023, day of upload actually, after finding this song among scraps of paper I had in an old folder.  

There's a particular chord progression in this that I know I used in a number of songs I wrote soon after this, this little thing in particular Eb - D - Gm, which I had a strong liking for at the time.  I can remember why, but it's a shame I got stuck writing the same kind of thing initially.  

Anyway, I was inspired to write this, as a child, after watching "An Audience with Elton John," minutes after it finished, someone who I became a keen fan of for a while after that, who also is a particularly heavy influence on my earlier output.  I just looked up the date that aired on ITV, which means I wrote this on the 27th of September 1997, while my parents were out with friends, unaware of what their son was up to at home, alone - striving to be a STAR!!!  

One of the original lyrics I had to change, a particular line, goes on about this love interest "blowing out my candle," which was clearly a vomit-enducing Candle in the Wind reference, thing, in some effort to be a little more like Elton at the time, I suppose.  CRINGE!!! Anyway, that's been amended now, some 26 years later! 

Anyway, it's still schmaltzy as hell, given I wanted it to be as close as possible to how it originally was, way back when.  

It's a pity I can't find a recording of this, as much as it would sound dreadful.  I know that I did record it at the time, and a little later, with the limited means I had.  I haven't gone through all my cassettes and mini disks from back then though, so who knows, it may grace my ears again at some point in many years to come. 

I'm worried that this might get more traction than my other tracks.  I couldn't bear it if this particular one ended up at the top of my most popular list, but then it's a risk we have to make when we post stuff like this.

The artwork is just a load of Ai generated rubbish!

Anyway, here are the words.  It's clearly about being obsessed with someone or other, though I don't remember who! 

Lyrics

Love is a storm
It rips your heart out
Tears though your mind
They say true, true love never really dies
I can’t move through this wreckage deep inside

Pain can be deep
So deep your soul can’t
Take any more
If only, someone knew what I’m going through
They’d dig me in so deep that I can’t see you

Cause I think that if I could be
The one to hold your hand
My life would be free from all the pain I’ve had
You know I want you in my life
You know that I need you by my side
This feeling just takes over 
Whenever I’m with you
Whenever I’m near you

I fail, to believe
That I don’t need you 
When you come near me
I need to blow out this fire
When you come to spark
Find time for me to guide me Through the dark

Cause I think that if I could be
The one to hold your hand
My life would be free from all the pain I’ve had
You know I want you in my life
You know that I need you by my side
This feeling just takes over 
Whenever I’m with you
Whenever I’m near you

Whenever I'm Near You (1997)

Key: B Minor
Rhythm: 4/4

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COOKIN WITH GAS

Archmage Band was founded in 2013 by Rob and Masha, who are a musician couple and synth pop duo from Australia.

Big News: We're planning out the follow up to our previous album, 'Realm II [Instrumental Prologue]' and it has a release date of May 15th, 2024 (15/05/2024) but it is all almost done! It is a 20-track album exploring an experimental blend of synth-pop, phonk, gothic synth pop, chiptunes, fantasy and sci fi themes, and is also the soundtrack to our story/game in progress 'Parallel Tales' (as is the previous album).

More about Realm I:
In late 2023 we released a debut 12-track album, as part of the 'Realms' series, 'Realm I [Instrumental Prologue]' on December 12th, 2023 (12/12/2023) We're ecstatic that it's finally finished and we hope you enjoy it. It will be streamable both on Soundcloud and Bandcamp without limits.

Here's our website: http://archmagemusic.com/

Gear:
We use just one synthesizer, the Roland Gaia SH-01, for most of our work, combining it with sounds from Reason Compact and Figure on occasion also using a midi controller.

All art by Masha unless stated otherwise on the release.

For enquires, collaboration or remix ideas, or just to get in touch with either Rob or Masha, contact Archmage Band at mail@archmagemusic.com

Additional Accounts:
@archmageband (2020-2022 Music)

Solo Accounts:
@masha-solo
@rob-ulysses

Thank you all for listening to our music, have a lovely day.

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