Name: Meant to Gather by Athen Tobias in Aftermath
Duration: 3 min 55 s
Description: Meant To Gather is about the kind of gatherings that never should have happened. Moments that looked like joy if you squinted, but underneath were scattered, awkward, and wrong. The song moves on bongo rhythm and chant, carrying the unease of people together but never really together.

Aftermath

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Automatic

Sultry female vocals, with a smooth cha cha vibe

Your Love is Sexy Smooth Hot.wav

I Got You, Too (The Reply to Slow Down)

Love Languages is a timeless soul journey into the heart of connection, devotion, and intimacy. Inspired by the warmth of retro R&B and the tenderness of modern soul, this project explores the five love languages as melodies, weaving words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, physical touch, and quality time into heartfelt ballads.

From the intimate confessions of the male voice to the gentle, romantic response of the female reprise, Love Languages celebrates the everyday rituals and grand gestures that keep love alive. With warm horns, lush keys, and vintage harmonies, each song feels like a love letter — simple, vulnerable, and deeply human.

At its core, this album is a reminder that love isn’t shown in one way alone. It’s spoken, given, served, felt, and shared. But above all, it’s treasured in the moments when two souls make the world disappear and time belongs only to them.

Love Languages Ft My Music (Female Reprise)

This song is about promises that don’t hold, the kind that look solid one day and disappear the next. Dates circled then erased, endings that never feel finished.


Still Deciding

Late is about timing that never lands the way you want it to. Waiting, showing up, and finding out too late it doesn’t matter. It’s the sound of missed time and opportunity and the weight that comes with it.

Late

Meant To Gather is about the kind of gatherings that never should have happened. Moments that looked like joy if you squinted, but underneath were scattered, awkward, and wrong. The song moves on bongo rhythm and chant, carrying the unease of people together but never really together.

Meant to Gather

Bitter Moon is about being away and coming home. It’s about distance, the quiet spaces in between, and leaving the door unlatched as a way of saying I’ll be back soon.

Bitter Moon

This song is about people who come and go from your life. Some leave gently, some vanish without warning, and a few stay. That’s enough. It’s the opening track because it sets that truth right at the start.

Some Still Answer

Lyrics written by me vocals and instrumentals produced with ai. This ones a little political 

Shouldn't You be Happy Too?

nice to each other [flip]

Proverbs 24

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#lofi #boombap #ambient

soul sample demos! ep - mix of jazz soul & funk samples from 1970's & 1980's united states

sound design, production, mixing, & mastering via - stracct

samples are used

artwork - stracct

contact me if you are interested in using any of my beats/instrumentals for whatever reason.

i've been mistreated! [stracct] [110bpm Fminor] [soundcloud exclusive]

Dark Fantasies

Nova Bleu invites listeners into her most intimate realm with Dark Fantasies — a cyber-noir soundtrack of lust, temptation, and emotional scars. Across eleven tracks, she blurs the line between pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality.

From the hypnotic allure of “Erotic Confessions” and “Hypnosis!”, to the velvet textures of “Silk and Smoke”, every song is a sultry vignette lit by neon glow. “Leather & Chains” and “Panties to the Side” push deeper into raw desire, while “Private Dancer” and “Seductive Sex” embrace the intimacy and danger of midnight encounters. Beneath the heat, moments like “Emotional Damage” and “The Silent Type” reveal a darker undercurrent — the quiet weight of longing and vulnerability.

Dark Fantasies is more than an album; it’s Nova Bleu’s immersive vision of sensuality in the future tense — bold, magnetic, and unapologetically sultry.

Hypnosis!

Frank Ocean Pink and White,
That's the way everyday goes
Every time we have no control
If the sky is pink and white
If the ground is black and yellow
It's the same way you showed me
Nod my head, don't close my eyes
Half way on a slow move
It's the same way you showed me
If you could fly then you'd feel south
Up north's getting cold soon
The way it is, we're on land
So I'm someone to hold true
Keep you cool in this good life
Won't let you down when it's all ruined

Just the same way you showed me, showed me
You showed me love
Glory from above
Good Glory, dear
It's all downhill from here

In the wake of a hurricane
Dark skin of a summer shade
Nose dive in the flood lines
Tall tower, milk crate
It's the same way you showed me
Cannon ball off the porch side
Older kids trying off the roof
Just the same way you showed me (you showed)
If you could die and come back to life
Up for air from the swimming pool
You kneel down to the dry land
Kiss the Earth that birthed you
Gave you tools just to stay alive
And make it up when the sun is ruined

That's the same way you showed me, showed me
You showed me love
Glory from above
Where God could fear
It's all downhill from here

[Frank Ocean & Beyoncé:]
What a life, remember how it was, climb trees, Michael Jackson, all in shit
(We've come) Say what up to Magic, just shoot
Say what up to daddy
Say what up to life, I found it
And I know what you might want to know
Run from me and your team
Still ain't grabbin six (take it easy)
Give me somethin sweet
Bitch I might bite, ain't no tellin
This is life, life immortality


Frank Ocean  - Pink and White

Aftermath is the debut album from Athen Tobias, the musical project of Brisbane-based artist Adam Oriti. Known first as a visual artist, Oriti spent years painting bold abstractions before grief redirected his creative path. In the silence that followed loss, music became the medium to carry what painting no longer could.

The album is both elegy and rebirth. Each track is crafted from original poetry written by Oriti, shaped into song with the aid of AI as a creative tool, not a replacement. The process became a collaboration between human memory and machine possibility, giving form to words that might have otherwise remained on the page.

Athen Tobias is named in honor of Oriti’s late pet, whose memory anchors the project. The music, like his paintings, is made for those who take time to look closer, patient listeners who uncover meaning in the layers.

Aftermath is not a polished pop record but a document of survival. It is an album that rewards attention, an intimate snapshot of an artist transforming grief into sound.

Meant to Gather

Athen Tobias

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