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. A track that never quite settles, just like the memories it came from.

Previously featured on SoundCloud’s Buzzing R&B playlist.

Meant to Gather

Journeys is the debut album from Vega Beats, blending R&B smoothness, Hip-Hop grit, Reggaeton bounce, Reggae warmth, Afrobeat grooves, and EDM energy into one global sound. Known for melodic basslines, catchy chords, and modern polish, Vega Beats takes listeners on a musical journey through love, nightlife, struggle, and freedom. Each track is a story, and together they showcase a versatile sound that connects cultures and emotions worldwide.

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FALLIN (INTERLUDE) (ft. Lena Vaye)

Slowed ‘97

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭… 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.
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I don't want to participate. You can't sell me anything. Story in the support link.

Price of my life

Some truths can’t be hidden. “Confess to You” fuses modern R&B with Deep House, Indie Dance, and Mississippi Blues.

Confess to You

Yo, studiowhitebird community! 🐦🌊 We're divin' deeper into the lore. The 'Whispered Realms' series continues with its most emotional track yet.
Get ready for Song 5: 'The Fisherman's Keep', presented by the moody voice of Lisa! This track is a melancholic R&B ballad that tells a tale straight from the deep. With a yearning violin and a smooth, watery R&B groove, this song is about a mythical creature caught between two worlds—her love for a man and her wild, endless longing for the sea.
Listen now to 'The Fisherman's Keep' and get lost in the tragic lore.

Hallo, studiowhitebird-Community! 🐦🌊 Wir tauchen tiefer in die Mythen ein. Die 'Whispered Realms'-Serie geht weiter mit ihrem bisher emotionalsten Track.
Macht euch bereit für Song 5: 'The Fisherman's Keep', präsentiert von der gefühlvollen Stimme von Lisa! Dieser Track ist eine melancholische R&B-Ballade, die eine Geschichte direkt aus der Tiefe erzählt. Mit einer sehnsüchtigen Violine und einem sanften, wässrigen R&B-Groove geht es in diesem Song um ein Fabelwesen, das zwischen zwei Welten gefangen ist – ihrer Liebe zu einem Mann und ihrer wilden, endlosen Sehnsucht nach dem Meer.
Hört jetzt 'The Fisherman's Keep' und verliert euch in der tragischen Legende.

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The Fishermans Keep

The Quiet Takes Us All

I mourn peace and freedom. I mourn checks and balances, and the democratic consensus. I mourn every innocent victim of war—every child, every dream crushed by every tyrant. How could I not? How can you not?

Being pro-people and pro-peace isn’t being anti-anyone, it’s refusing to let pain justify cruelty. I love my Jewish friends, but I also mourn the moral consensus we once called “Never Again.” Because safety matters—yours, mine, theirs, ours. Everyone’s safety matters… That’s why my heart can’t stop singing and praying for world peace. I’m not anti-anyone. I’m anti-dehumanization. My hope is that the Jewish story can end in healing, not repetition. 

I can’t help but hope… because I believe we can protect each other without inflicting new wounds. Empathy isn’t a zero-sum game; it’s what makes us human! It’s what helps us survive and thrive as one earthly, democratic tribe. In fact, empathy is the ultimate weapon against evil! That is exactly why those who cannot feel it try to divide and conquer by calling empathy weak or dangerous.

Simone Weil wrote: “Imaginary evil is romantic; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren.” So when I hear friends glorify revenge to justify genocide, I weep… as if trauma could explain violence because it gives despair a proud story; as if moral drama, fueled by hubris, could heal the multigenerational void of helplessness left by past and future trauma. When a pacifist says “no more heroes, no more villains, just humans,” it’s treated as a threat, as if “you’re with us or against us” were unquestionable truth. 

But Nietzsche warned that those who fight monsters must be careful not to become them, and Hannah Arendt reminded us that fear of being a victim can make us accept the role of the oppressor. Real humanism doesn’t erase trauma, it transcends it! Pacifism isn’t naïve; it’s a radical commitment to ending the cycle of identification with force. 

Winning means grounding ourselves in moral coherence. Life is sacred. It’s not about picking sides between nations (or parties)… it’s about choosing compassion over cruelty. Sigh. 

And so well now, of course, I wrote yet another song—another “Letter to My Friend,” about Never Again. 💌

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@bananasutra – Lyrics: “Letter to My Friend”

Hey love, 
I’ve been thinkin’, the air’s gone strange.
We built a bridge, but fear made the range. 
When did caring turn into crime? 
Since when did heartbeats choose a side in time?

You think my tears forgot their tribe, 
But pain’s one language, that’s the vibe. 
If I cry for Gaza, do I leave you dry? 
Or can both our ghosts learn to sigh and fly?

I’m not your enemy, babe, I’m the echo that remains. 
Every love I add don’t steal your chains. 
Peace ain’t a prize that one can win; 
It’s a wound that heals when we let it begin. 
Oh, Bananasutra sings again…

Your roots run deep in haunted clay, 
I feel that tremor every day. 
But if walls keep empathy out of sight, 
Ain’t we just living in longer nights?

You guard your story like sacred wine, 
But I sip my sorrow... it tastes like thine. 
Can’t “never again” be a door, not a wall? 
Must one rise so another can fall?

I’m not your rival, love, I’m the ache that understands, 
Two trembling souls with open hands. 
My heart don’t subtract when it starts to expand; 
It multiplies truth in foreign lands.

Pain is pain; it don’t wear flags. 
It needs no borders, no tags. 
Fear’s a thief, babe, it steals our sight, 
Makes day look wrong and wrong look right.

Would you rather win, or rather heal? 
Would you rather numb, or rather feel? 
If trust could hum a new refrain, 
Would you hear my note through your pain?

I’m not against you, I’m just against cruel. 
Love ain’t a weapon; it’s the rebel’s rule. 
Let’s rewrite Never Again for all, 
’Cause peace built on pride’s just another wall.

So hey, my friend, come dance instead? 
We’ll sing for the living, not just the dead. 
Bananasutra’s heart don’t bend, 
It blooms, it breaks, it mends. 🪽


[19] Letter to My Friend (Never Again) • Gipsy Peace Duende Soul Fusion INDIE LOFI

Athen Tobias began as a way to survive loss. It has turned into a long conversation with myself about memory, change, and staying present.