I've been learning a lot about advanced harmony recently, and so i've decided i wanted to make a piano piece using what i learned, i feel like everytime i ended up making a piano piece it always meant a big change in compositional style for me, and this could definitely indicate towards it, maybe i will start going for a more minor style from now on, rather than my more usual major style, either way, i really hope you guys enjoy it!

スピリット ガーデン

After a lot of work i was finally able to finish this track, my objectives for it were to make something that felt relaxing and comfortable to listen to while also making something that felt like a journey, something that'd create images and make the listener visualizes multiple things, and i hope i was able to achieve that, and i hope you guys enjoy the track! I did also learn i really loved 3/4 after making this track, making melodies in 3/4 is just so much fun
I am just waiting for my finals to be over so i can start making a lot more music and experimenting with much more genres and instruments.

Where Will We Go Today?

Finally done with my exams, so more time for music now, I've been planning about 2 or 3 collabs to come up soon, but for now here's this song I have been working and finally completed, I noticed that whenever I make a song I usually make a sort of structure for it, or I build it up from a loop, and I thought, what if I made a song that was continuous, it just never stops to repeat a section, but just keeps going on it's own, I thought that might have been an interesting challenge, So I decided to take it, and this is the result, the biggest challenge about it being how to go somewhere in a smooth way without feeling totally different from the chords that happened last.
The song is called Alone At Last because I feel it is a good representation of how it feels to finally be alone after a long period of time
I hope you guys enjoy this track!

Alone At Last

I am back with a new track, I have decided to upload once every 2 weeks minimum, as I feel that would be somewhat balanced and would give me enough time to work on my music and take breaks when I need to.
My objective with this track was to make something that'd resemble a rhythm game song, which is why the tempo on this is faster than my usual songs, and there is more rhythm changes, I decided to keep the chord progression simple too, only thing being fancy about it is the extensions and the voicing of the chord.
I hope you guys will enjoy this! Thanks a lot for 100 subscribers!!! i will keep doing my best to improve my music

Battle For An Ethereal World

If the Flower is an entity of it's own, Then surely it day dreams about what it could have been in another world, and all of the things it could have done, Until the day it can no longer live.
I wanted to make another Artcore track to see how much I have improved at the genre since last time I made it, and I am pretty proud of my improvements over these few months.
The objective for this one in particular was to make an Artcore track that had a battley vibe and had tension overall, and I believe i was able to capture that feel in some way.
Hope you guys enjoy this track!

Flower's Day Dream

This is a Collab track between me, Rainna and えんぴつ.
I had a lot of fun composing for it, didn't have any particular ideas when composing this, and I just thought that I wanted to compose "something" that would sound nice, and eventually after some more work on the orchestration, the composition was able to head towards a certain theme, which is coincidentally the one of summer.
Since I started a lot of collabs during the past months, you may see a lot of them being released soon, and 2 Artcore tracks which I have been working on on my own. 
Hope everyone enjoys this track!
Rainna: https://soundcloud.com/rainna_official
えんぴつ: https://soundcloud.com/user-853987503

Astolsko & Rainna & えんぴつ- A Summer's Journey

This a collab between me and Kaya, We originally discussed it and planned it to be a piano song and we had a few references, and the song turned out to be of similar structure and compositional ideas but with a pretty different feel, in fact finding a title for it and being able to picture an image behind the song ended up being harder than the making of the song itself, at the end it ended up being the First Snow due to the high piano notes having a somewhat cold feel to them and due the day of the first snow always being a memorable one with lots of different emotions and experiences which the song seems to have trough its different sections. Both me and kaya seemed to have went in different directions in terms of emotion when composing, which ended up creating what I would call a nice contrast overall. Hoping you enjoy the song!
Kaya's message: Hey, kaya here. Honestly, this is my first time writing a description for a piece, haha. Moreover, this whole project is a bunch of new things I always wanted to experience but I've never got a chance. Like, my first collab ever, first time writing and performing a full piece, making sheets of it even, which is why I am super proud of myself and also thankful to Astolsko for pulling me out of my comfort zone of endless improvs and short tracks that I'm never intending to post anywhere, and making my mind go ultimate thonk over structure, transitions, harmony and stuff. This piece was very fun to work on despite the fact I couldn't find enough time for practice and only came back to it when I was less busy. 

Regarding the piece itself... Uh, turned out I don't understand it lol. I mean, the whole composition process was like discussing what to do and going with the feel, so we didn't put much meaning into it (and ended up struggling to give it a proper title lol). Anyway, I tried my best to convey emotions put into the piece, even though I can't really describe them. Also, this performance isn't the best, no, it has many flaws but it does its job pretty well, I think. I'd say, I am happy about my performance, even. I hope you'll like the sound of me desperately smashing keys of my piano and also... I hope it reaches you.
Kaya: https://soundcloud.com/kayablue02
Sheet music: https://mega.nz/file/HZxR0KzT#KhzboQDmiRI7BfjtwPM2qXY9Z7qPycnwuudOtnMKgog

Astolsko & Kayablue - The First Snow

This is an Artcore track that I started working on as soon as I discovered how to get the release-cut piano sound, and it really gave me inspiration straight away to make this, when I ended up being in the making of it I had the idea of wanting to make something that would fit a more futuristic setting without using too much synths, just jazz chords and piano, and of course some additional koto. It has a lot of glitch within it as well, grossbeat really is a great plugin, so I wanted to implement sections using it as a way of amplifying the feeling of future, and overall it ended up sounding like an MMO stage track, which is why I am quite proud of it compared to some of my other works, and I also don't usually put drums in anything under 160 bpm, so this is pretty much a first time as well. I think the track does have a few flaws but I also believe it has a much more clear identity if that makes any sense so I hope you guys enjoy it nonetheless!

Within The City's Walls

An unexpectedly peaceful day, meeting someone you once knew, but it simply does not feel the same way anymore.
Originally when I started the concept for this track I wanted it to feel like a piano song that would represent the feeling of loneliness, and the imagined scene would be someone, on their own, wandering in their mildly depressing thoughts. I believe that while some of that remains it's kind of more bright than what I intended it to be, and so it made me think of, brighter memories in a sense, where the lonely person would recall back a memory of meeting with someone that they knew after a long time, and how it felt to them. I hope you guys enjoy this one!

On That Day We Met Again

Hey everyone, it has been a while since my last upload and now i can finally be back and make a lot more music from now on since i have much more free time for it.
Originally this whole project started when i was trying to reference pastel by moe shop and snail's house, so my first drafts for this were on slower bpm and were more funk oriented, but then when experimenting with some sound design it just felt more natural to keep the chords and the melody and to try and increase the bpm, and so i ended up referencing completely different songs instead, and originally this was also supposed to be very future bassy but then i just kept on getting distracted and thought, what if i made a dnb part and what if i made a hardcore part, and so on and so forth, until i ended up getting all the ideas for the song and trying to make them into one big coherent (?) thing.
As for the title i have had the idea of making an energetic song and giving it a witch related name for a while, because as some of you may know i have an unhealthy witch obsession, so i ended up calling it Adventures of A Witch as a sort of tribute to Catgirl adventures by my friend nstryder, since it somewhat feels thematically similar.
I wanna thank everyone who's helped me on this song by giving feedback and suggesting ideas, particularly Samgold and kayablue who helped out a lot, don't think this song would exist without their help.
Hope you guys enjoy this one! can't wait to start uploading more again ;p

Adventures Of A Witch

A lonely flower lost in her own thoughts, inevitably carelessness will take control of her actions, over and over.
So originally the goal behind this track was having it be 110 bpm, start with a slow piano intro that would develop into more electronic drops with saw stacks and such, but I randomly decided to try it at 182 bpm and ended up liking the idea a lot more and just deciding to continue on that path for writing the song, and while doing so i ended up focusing a lot of on the thematic side of the piece, which i wrote with a story in mind first, which was one about downfall into melancholy/corruption of mind represented under the form of a flower, thus why the title, and is also why I wanted to be some parts to feel really glitchy and is how I ended up choosing some elements of the song like the operatic voice towards the end and the outro specifically, as well as some of the sound design focusing a lot on down sampling elements, then after that pretty much focused on making everything feel as Artcore possible.
Overall had a lot of fun making this, although piecing all of the individual ideas was pretty hard, especially when it came to writing the verses, but still pretty proud of how it turned out and I hope you guys will enjoy and be able to feel what I was trying to portray in the song!

Λmaryllis

A happy day at a café spent with someone, surely a memory one would want to relive again and again.
This song was. . . very hard to work on to say the least, I know that I've wanted to make a café song for as long as I started making music, but every attempt I had done before wasn't really something I enjoyed, and the idea kind of stayed on my list but never was something I was actively trying to do anymore, then my friend sent me one song by Kamata Junko which was very bossa nova inspired, and I liked it so much that on one very impulsive thought I decided to just get into it, and try to do it again this time around with whatever newer experience I had since my last attempt, and It still didn't go very smoothly, I had to rewrite the first sketch about 5 or 6 times before I got something I liked, and then decided to make it a little bit more story telling like, and maybe relate it to some of my existing songs, and that is essentially how the idea for this song came to be.
Since I still lack experience with the genre, I do think this could've turned out a lot better, especially when it comes to humanizing the instruments, but I had a lot of fun working on it, hoping you enjoy it!

I wish that moment lasted forever

On august nights all of the running thoughts come back to haunt you, disturbing the tranquillity there once was.
Usually whenever I write a song I always try to express something that doesn't necessarily have to do with how I feel but more so has to do with a story or a thematic I am trying to express, and so this was one of the times where I just opened FL on an impulse and decided to just start writing something to express how I was feeling in that moment, and as you can tell I wasn't feeling so great, but I was also having something i'd consider great in all that sadness, so I tried scattering a bit of that in the writing as well, that'd symbolically represent a moment of relief. 
I was originally going to call it "August night", but then my friend suggested using plural instead, and that made a lot of sense so I decided to keep it, since this was written across multiple nights of august, but when you do download it there is an indicator as to which one was the worse.
I hope this is able to convey what I was trying to convey, and keep in mind, never listen to your brain past 10 pm, for your own sake, hope you guys enjoy, see you in the next tracks where I have a lot of awesome plans

August nights

Do not let the thoughts win.
Twitter post:https://twitter.com/astolsko/status/1619058359948435456?s=20
Alternative titles (i was indecisive):
Thoughts Spiralling (Out Of Control) 
Thoughts Out Of Control (Spiralling)
Thoughts Spiralling
This was supposed to be playable (it's not)
Anyway now that the description probably doesn't show up on mobile anymore
Happy new year everyone (30 days late), I'm really happy with how 2022 went for me even though it had it's negatives as well, I feel like 
I've made a ton of musical progress this year and improved my understanding of it, still got a LONG way to go but, I'm very glad for the progress. Thanks to everyone who supported me throughout the year, I will keep trying my best for all the people who enjoy my music, and in the hope that I can meet even more cool producers and musicians like I did this year!!
If I had to mention any goals for 2023 it would probably be the fact I want to release a lot more music this year, since despite spending a lot of time working on music last year I still didn't release a lot, so I would like to show off what I learned more. I also would like to be stuck up in my own things less and pay attention to others more, especially when it comes to music.
Anyway enough emotional talk for probably the entire year.
The song, it's very heavily inspired by Tsynphonia, a lot of songs I've heard from him over the months, but mainly "Spiralling out of control" (thus why the title), So the goal was to make a similar song to that but with a slightly different theme, something that would still replicate the spirally feel, and that would still sound like a fever dream, like having it go round and round, and at the same time also expressing how i feel.
I don't tell him this often but I find a lot of the things that Tsynphonia makes super inspiring, like he just has this ability to express an idea in a very unique but straight forward, and I really do admire that, so I had to at least make one song that would be heavily inspired by his works, as a sort of homage.
I had a lot of fun making this overall, this was my first time finding out the pedal is a thing you can automate on piano libraries (shameful after 3 years of music i know), but once i did find out it felt really nice, like it added a whole new layer of expression to what could be done with the song, which also makes me wish I figured it out earlier but better late than never surely.
Had a lot of fun with 0:37 onwards especially, it has a very back and forth feeling to it, and also happens to be the part of the song that I really planned out super meticulously, unlike the rest of the track that was mostly trial and error, and trying absolutely random things that shouldn't really make a lot of sense, but that ended up working anyways? But the fact it's (somewhat) random adds to the spiral feel I believe, which works out in the end.
For the cover I thought this would fit quite well (for obvious reasons (she has spirals in her eyes(she is clearly lost in thought(but not in a fire emblem kind of way))), and as my friend said, "the most astolsko image".
And I chose the theme of non stopping racing thoughts to let you all on in my twisted dark mind, my deranged vision of reality, my absolutely hidden perspective (the thoughts won't stop(please help)).
Anyway
I hope everyone enjoys this song as much as I enjoyed working on it, and I promise I will release more music this year (so I can also get the opportunity to ramble in the song description once in a while)!!!!!!!

Spiralling Thoughts (Out Of Control)

Hi everyone, i'm finally happy to be able to release this track, i've been working on it for about 5 or 6 months now, and i've hit several walls during that period of making it, until eventually I had much more clear ideas on what I wanted to make of it, and it turned into this final product.
This is my longest song so far, and I'm pretty satisfied about the fact, considering i usually just make things that are like 2-3 minutes long, so being able to make something that's 5 minutes long is quite an achievement for it, usually in the past i'd be very hesitant about making something like this, especially because I struggle a lot with making sure everything in the song is coherent, but this time i was able to have a lot more courage and just work on it despite the fear i may not be able to string everything together, and it worked pretty okay!! This is far from the extent to which I would like to take this, but it is a massive stepping stone for me, being able to make something that makes you feel like you're going through a 5 minute journey, and that it's something to reflect on.
The way I ended up structuring it was having the middle part kind of have a lot of switchups, while the part towards the end and the beginning was more structured and typical artcore that you could hear from me, and so I just ended up having fun with it instead of worrying too much, if transitions weren't going to be much of an issue anyway, since a lot of people said they surprisingly liked the transitions, which means i succeeded in my goal in stringing the whole song together in a way.
The outro has got to be my favourite part of it all, since it holds a lot of thematic meaning in a sense, and the quote itself has become something that i'm really attached to and that I resonate with. "The world is too noisy, don't listen, don't look, don't care just move on"
and those of you who do speak japanese can maybe create an interpretation of the song from that quote alone, but more or less it was about personalizing the song more and giving it more of that journey feel by adding a human voice for a more touching ending, and I think it works really well.
I decided to go for Λlstroemeria as a title since a lot of my artcore so far has been based around flowers, and so I thought relating this title to my other tracks would be a pretty cool thing to do, and again add to the whole astolsko artcore lore:tm:, kind of like how fery would have artcore titles that are similar in some way.
And finally I want to dedicate this bit to talking about my friend, who passed away sometime while this song was still in the making, I had showed it to him when the song was still only around 1 minute and 20 seconds long, and all he said is that it reminded him of pixiv artists that drew similar art, it doesn't stand out but he still liked it, the song is obviously very different now, so i hope that I was able to address that issue, it's the least I can try to do, even though he's not here to listen to it anymore, may you rest in peace.
This was a lot of work so I hope you guys can enjoy this track, I had a lot of fun making it, so I hope listening to it is an equal amount of fun!
I have other things in the future that I am pretty excited to show off, so hopefully I will be able to get it done!!
enjoy!!!!!

Λlstroemeria

Art by fuzichoco
Hey everyone, it's me again with a new track, after having released my first very big project which was alstroemeria, I decided I just wanted to have fun with my next song and not overthink it much, and just do something I haven't done before, so I decided to go for this sort of 3/4 electronica kind of vibe with east asian instruments that I had gotten recently, overall the making of this song went extremely smoothly so I may not have as  much to say about it.
Starting by the intro the key and the intro chords are directly referencing one of my older tracks, "スピリット ガーデン", the intro is almost exactly the same with some changes, just because the songs means a lot to me and it was created in a similar fashion of just trying to have fun.
The rest of the song is mostly just mix and matching instruments, I decided to have the chorus part be more drawn out this time around, because I thought the chorus sounded good enough that it wouldn't be an issue if I repeated it while changing the instruments. 
And I chose the title just because I haven't released anything witch related in a while (I won't feel at rest until i release witch content somehow)
Hope everyone enjoys this song!!! I've been working on some collabs that should come out sometime this summer! byebye

Witchery Interlude

So this track started out with a simple idea, a really long time ago I basically discovered that if you took a sample that had reverb on it, and just stretched it to be pitched down, and then added MORE reverb it would basically sound really good (I know this sounds really scuffed but ehhh), and basically I always had this idea in the back of my mind, but I had never really managed to come up with anything that really stuck, although I had some really cool ideas none of them really made it to the light, as good as they are, because making a song entirely like this was really difficult, so I've been sitting on ideas like this for over a year.
And so fast forward to pretty recently, as I was getting back into music, I actually ended up making a LOT of things in 2024, but I won't be able to show any of it just yet but stilll, exciting stuff in the future, but that's not the topic, I was just messing around with this, and as I was making some of the really early sounds with the technique I mentioned, except at the time I was also being really inspired by botanica sort of sounds, and my main observation is how SOFT it sounds, it was such a soft, not fluffy but soft sound that was very pleasant to the ear, and I actually really wanted to achieve that in a way, and so I was told I could just use a spectral dynamics plugin, and just set it to a compressor (I still don't really know what this means), but it just made everything a lot less clicky, more soft, and so i went with that as a starting point.
and so the part right after the intro was the first part that was made essentially, and then i found out pianoteq had some really nice glockenspiel, and so it kind of just went with that, then I incorporated parts that were more melodic, and just overall, part of me wanted this to sound really sophisticated in a way, but I also thought that it didn't necessarily need to, at times i feel a bit of anxiety and think to myself, "what if my music is not sophisticated enough", but then I come to realize that whether it is or it isn't, not every song needs to be that way, and so on, and so I deliberately took a simpler direction with the song overall, the chords don't do anything too complicated, the melodies and arrangement aren't really super complex, it's meant to be more of a respite, just something to make the listener more relaxed first and foremost, and just something to be like a break almost, lure you in with the atmosphere, I am unsure how successful I was with this, but I hope everyone listening does enjoy it!!! but yeah the atmosphere was definitely the bigger focus here, but I believe it still has my person astolsko touch.
Enjoy!!

Rainy Garden

Delight Dungeon

Haru's Piano Piece

Pixelized Horizon

Shimmer Up

This track was also made for an animated series. Thanks for the 1000 plays on my account!!

Resonance Cascade

This is my 20th track uploaded here, So i wanted to do something special to celebrate the milestone.The goal for this track was, coming back to my more usual style, but make the song feel more diversified and more dynamic, as if the listener  was going trough a journey, overall it's a lot more detail focused and a lot less based around looping and more about creating diversity interesting enough to keep the listener engaged while having the song maintain the same identity trough the entirety of it, which ended up having this as a result. The making of the base ideas remained basically the same as all my older songs, but turning these ideas into a song was where i changed my way of working, hope everyone likes this one. (The description is a lot longer this time)

Enchanted Fairy Forest

Cyberpunk 2077 has been recently released, thus why I decided to make a track that's themed around it and something that would resemble the soundtrack and the overall game theme, hope you guys like it, I haven't been posting a lot but I have a lot coming up soon.

Distortion

An Artcore track i've been working on for a while, hope you guys enjoy.

Alluring Light

This one took a lot of thought as well, I wanted to improve my Artcore style with it. The title translates to "Night Flower". Hope you guys enjoy it!
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/astolsko

ナイトフラワー

Thanks a lot, guys for the 50 subscribers, I really appreciate it a lot, and it may not seem like much but to me, it is an achievement I'm quite proud of. This is my first time trying to make something cute sounding, I tried to make it sound easy on the ears and enjoyable while having a sort of orchestral touch to it, and I think it turned out ok, so I hope you guys will enjoy It as usual.

Sweet Journey

This is my 25th track, yet another milestone. And every time i do hit one i happen to make something that sort of elevates my musical style, and gives me new understanding of music. Thus why this track was made, the goal was to make something simple and make it impactful, which is why this song had a bigger focus on ambience and details within it, the composition didn't take as much as usual, so the main work here was on arranging and mixing the track this time, A friend of mine also really helped me with the mixing of this, so i am really grateful for that . This is also my 3rd forest themed track, since it is a theme i really enjoy and i want to keep on getting better at it, until it reaches perfection . For now i will probably calm down on Artcore to try and explore newer styles, but for now i hope you guys enjoy this track!!
Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/astolsko

The Lost Forest's Ruins

This is a track that I made specifically for valentine's day, thus why the title and the name. I've had a lot of fun working on this one in particular, And so I tried making something that sounded romantic and cute at the same time. I also tried emulating the different feelings of a date but trough music. I hope you guys enjoy this one!

Piano Love

So to explain how this track came to be, I was working on a drum and bass track (coming up soon btw), and I ended up getting distracted while working on it, and so I made an entirely new chord progression which didn't fit with the drum and bass context. and thus I experimented with Lo-fi drums until I was having too much fun to notice I was distracting myself, so I ended up finishing the track and mixing it in 5 hours, so yeah. I really like the track, so I really hope that you guys enjoy it too!!!

Delicate Firefly in The Night Sky

Music producer/composer and part-time witch. 

I hope you guys enjoy my music!!!

If you want to upload or use my music please contact me first through my discord or twitter.

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