I've never had New Year's resolutions, but then the new year started and I was thinking, why not challenge myself a bit and see if I'm able to create a new track from scratch every week.

2023 Challenge

Track from my 2023 weekly challenge, one song recorded every week of the year.
Elevate was made with Cubase, using VariAudio to manipulate audio files, and Soundtoys' Little Alter Boy to create polyphony for some of the vocal tracks.

Elevate

Part of my challenge to create one song every week of 2023.

Octopus

Lick my lips or embrace me
Wasting
Wasting
Loosing our time
Getting so many questions
Boy I am tired of feeding on hopes
Stop holding back and start holding on
Your assumptions are fake
I’ll predict your fate
Love is team play
I’ll crush your template
You used to be good boy
I was a bad girl
I messed you up
You were only twenty
But I’ve been drinking since eighteen
I hope you don't hate me
I've become crazy lately
Say come to me lady
Cause I’m looking so pretty

Template feat. Kasha

Sometimes I can't believe it's true
Sometimes I fly into outer space
My dreams come true and I am still the one you loved
I feel the attraction between us
And other things can turn to dust
Don't even need creature comforts
Baby I just need you by my side
Ohh
Let's stay kids forever
Ohhh
Cause this time will be never enough

Never Enough feat. Kasha

Poison poison fills my mind
I don't need to run at this time
And hide
And hide
Poison poison hurts my heart
I don't need medicine to come back to life
Everything became useless and meaningless
I unravel all this shit from the past of my life
But I don't think I would change anything
All I have left is to scream and cry
All I feel inside is poison, poison
All that's left inside is poison
I need no sympathy
Better come and kill me
All I feel inside is poison

Poison feat. Kasha

Take me home
I'm tired to walking streets alone
Take my hand
Cause your hand is cold as well
Let me be ur light in the darkness
Cause where you are i want to be your
Me-e-e –lody

Home feat. Kasha

Song #7 of my 2023 challenge to create a new song from scratch every week. Somewhere between learning to play A Day In the Life from 1967 on the piano and dusting off my DJ equipment from the 2010s, this track came out. I hope the disco fever takes a hold of you while listening!

Deep Breath

Flying through mountains
Flying through the sea
I feel like I’m homeless
Lonely in my dreams
Please come here and save me
Only for one night
That love that you gave me
Enough for both of us

Louder feat. Kasha

Kanheri Caves is a large cave complex near Mumbai, India. This track is based on Sandunes' excellent recordings from those caves.

Kanheri Caves feat. Sandunes

I wanna feel ya
I wanna feel ya tonight
Don't wanna grow up
Be little girl all the time
Now and forever
We'll grow up together
Hearts are beating
I'm wide awake in the dark
In our city
Looking for you so hard
In our city
You're the only one
And only you
In my arms
Catch the moon
And the stars
C'mon c’mon c’mon c’mon love me
C'mon c’mon c’mon c’mon love me
Wake me up
When the time comes
Make me love
If you feel it's right
Never look back ohh never look back

Never Look Back

Never Look Back feat. Kasha

Oh crushing myself
Running away
Where I will be safe
I wanna touch your skin
And bleed it out from the wound
To make it easier
Boring vision
Oh crushing myself
I've nothing to lose
When I fall into the dark
And I slowly fall apart
Oh killing my dreams
I see it, I feel it
Tonight you with me
In my mind
You in my mind
I need something mine
I need something right
Feel that you are here
And I will be fine

Something Right feat. Kasha

Don't call me by my name
We were not friends, but we are not enemies
So you
Try to forget my face
I will ever come back here again
Everything is perfect,
But I don't deserve it
Every day i hate myself
For being sad
Let me run to my place
Where we both were happy
That's the last thing that I have
I will ever come back there again

Never Come Back ft. Kasha

Song #14 of my 2023 challenge to write a new song from scratch and release it. Here are Kasha's lyrics:

I paint a heart on misted glass
Instead of what I want to say,
But I will never say
And nobody knows what I’m feeling inside
I need to fix myself and not be so shy
Every time I hear voices in my head
And I can't stop thinking that I’m insane
I know everything lies on the surface
I'm afraid to admit to myself that I'm a fool
I am still trying to find my own courage
And live without lies only you and I

Heart On Glass

Baby I guess that you think it's more than friendship
Maybe we should stop and keeping things the same
I could go on, but this vicious cycle endless
I don't wanna keep on lying to myself
We just let the joke go on for too long
This bad idea starting to take off starting to take off
I'm afraid I will jump into this abyss
There will be no turning back it's last kiss
It's our last kiss
Don't forget my face
It's our last kiss
Nothing will ever change
It's our last kiss

Last Kiss ft. Kasha

I said hello to you
But I heard only silence
Don't even know your name
But think you are just silent
Don't be so shy
Oh baby I won't try to bite you
Just tell me why you're hiding
I still see your eyes
You remained a mysterious stranger to me
But I want to get to know you better
You turn me on so I get overdose
And I feel like I need you most
Oh baby you and I
We are beautiful strangers
Me and you
We are beautiful strangers

Beautiful Strangers ft. Kasha

This is a song to hear while swinging on a swing, or wherever you prefer to swing. 45 minutes, 90 bpm, 180 degrees of music.

Sway

Composer, instrumentalist, and producer from Berlin. I like all sorts of music, from pure noise like Stockhausen over pop/rock/hip-hop to classical music (with Bach being a favorite composer). I live in a universe of frequencies - everything is a waveform, and often those waves are sound discernible to humans. I prefer female voices - I wish I had one myself. :-) Physical instruments I play include piano, violin, mandolin, and guitar, but mostly I create music by pressing buttons.

Ashakan

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