Name: LOSING TOUCH WITH INSANITY by ATHENS DEATH DISCO aka GOTHIC FUNK
Duration: 5 min 54 s
Description: My biggest fear is I might one day lose touch with insanity, what would become of my creativity if that happened, oh my!

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Margaret Maria and Tréson COVER GORDON LIGHTFOOT'S 'SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT' 

The new music that is Margaret Maria and Tréson is as unique as the artists themselves. The classical world is colliding with the genres of funk, soul and pop, with a fresh new sound and a musical playgroud for Margaret Maria's creativity and Tréson's songwriting and vocal talents. Being courageous and brave to collaborate and venture into uncharted territories, this duo is set to change the world in a way that will not only surprise you, but delight your sonic sensibilities. 

Their first single 'Music Can Change the World' was released December 15, 2023.

Song For A Winter's Night - credits 

Composer: Gordon Lightfoot 

Vocals- Tréson 

Cello- Margaret Maria 

Instrumental Arrangement: Margaret Maria 

Mix and Master: Craig Robert McConnell 

Producer: Margaret Maria 

Recording Engineer: Margaret Maria 

Videographer: James Nickle - Cleveland Sound Labs
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Song for a Winter's Night - Lyrics  
The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top 
The snow is softly falling 
The air is still in the silence of my room 
I hear your voice softly calling 
If I could only have you near 
To breathe a sigh or two 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead 
My glass is almost empty 
I read again between the lines upon each page 
The words of love you sent me 
If I could know within my heart 
That you were lonely too 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 

The fire is dying
Now my lamp is growing dim 
The shades of night are lifting 
The morning light steals across my window pane 
Where webs of snow are drifting 
If I could only have you near 
To breathe a sigh or two 
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love 
On this winter night with you 
And to be once again with you

'I rarely make covers, but this one came in May 2023 just after Gordon Lightfoot passed away. My dear friend JC mentioned it was his favourite Lightfoot song, and I decided to make him a special Birthday present. So the cello instrumental was a present at first. 

I met Tréson at another friend's Birthday Party in July 2023. We connected and said we would do music together! We were talking about covers one day, and I mentioned to him that I have one made already!! He was thrilled when I said it was a Gordon Lightfoot tune! Tréson came into my closet studio to record the vocals (my first time doing any vocal recording!) and it was mixed and mastered by my amazing Rage Angel co-creator, Craig Robert McConnell. 

So here you have both versions...which I love dearly.' - Margaret Maria

Song For A Winter's Night

Vocal Version

Song For A Winter's Night - Tréson and Margaret Maria

ambient early foray in atmospheric cinematic soundscapes from 1987's album Resonance. 8-bit samples courtesy of IReverend Brainskan XIII, Rest in Peace.

of dreams (1987)

Hands, So beautiful, We can do so much good with our hands, reaching out to other person as a sign of Peace and love, to play an Instrument, to paint a picture or just to hold someone else's hand when they need someone. But we can also do so much harm with our hands, we can hit, break, hold a gun to kill someone wave a fist in Anger. My hands are used to Love and play my Guitar. What are your hands used for ? 

Written, Performed . Produced by Johnny Mc Farlane

These Hands

Hermit Metal (HAGURE-METAL)

My biggest fear is I might one day lose touch with insanity, what would become of my creativity if that happened, oh my!

LOSING TOUCH WITH INSANITY

I hope you all like this one, it's been brewing since 2020. Written as one of a pair with "To Confess - Vocal" which are both emotional story songs. I haven't sang in decades, so these tracks represent a renewal and a new direction. They've inspired me to craft a new vocal rock anthem based on the track "Aviva" and that one's coming down the pipeline soon.

Some unusual production techniques were used here. The vocal is reinforced with synthetic backup formants and harmonics, and the only "effect" used on the real vocals was doubling produced by performing multiple takes. No Melodyne, autotune, or saturation effects were used.

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Instruments:
4 Contrabasses
Piano
Lead Violin
14 Violin Section
Nylon String Acoustic Guitar
Voice
Synthetic Voice (Alter-Ego)

Taiko Drums
Ride Cymbals
Brushed Snare Drum
Snare Drum
Buzz-saw (literally, it bled into the vocals) 

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Amuse (2020 - Jeffrey A. Trott)
Lyrics: 

I wanna love all of you 
Everything you want to do 
To feel the sun of holding you 
To be the one you're turning to 
be the one to carry you home 
carry you home 

You're on a way to something new 
Experience you never knew 
Can I be the one you're turning to? 
Let me make a love with you 
and maybe it will carry us home 

How do we get, to there from here? 
Where is there, is it somewhere near? 
Will you take my hand, and still be amused? 
Just who are we, and who is who's? 

Can I be your angel? 
Will you be my muse? 

And all we'll feel is right 
Like sapphires in a satin sky 
Tonight (Your eyes) 
Your eyes so bright 

Warm and snuggled down by my side, 
For seasons come, through ebbing tides 
We'll rise (Alight) 
So wise your eyes 
Alight

There's somethings I should say to you 
You're someone I'm so afraid to lose 
Can we take the paths the other choose? 
Entwined to be a better two 

I wanna love all of you 
To feel just what you're going through 
You mean the things I say to you 
Though I don't know what you see me through 

Eyes of gray or eyes of blue 
Eyes of gray or eyes of blue 
As if we were ever new 

How will we know when we reach there? 
Is there something here, that is good and fair?  
In your shining eyes and flaxen hair 
I can see an angel, who could, who would be my muse 

And chasing down a dream 
That's partly blind 
and all obscenely fine 
[sapphire shine] 

This world has been turned upside down 
Let me be the one, to right you son 
Re-bound 
Sun found 

I wanna love all of you 
(be your angel) 
It's precious and it's old and new 
(my precious muse) 
Will you let me fall in love with you? 
(and you with me) 
Maybe make a dream come true 
Maybe we can dream a way home 
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[Ver. Amuse_94_FINAL]

Amuse

Amuse - Vocal

Lyrics from poems by Robert Graves.

If your heart is broken
There’s a law, unspoken.
Chard love token.

Love never forgives & never forgets.
Love never leaves an unpaid debt.

Clouds of your hair, like a storm go by.

You’ll hear me
In time, you will fear me.

Love never leaves an unpaid debt.

A Law Unspoken

A new composition.......

Lyrics:
How am I doing in this crowded room
Where the mirror's more a friend than a soul could ever be
People casting shadows, lost in their own glow
Do they hear the silence? Or is it just me


Neighbors like strangers, we hide in our caves
Emerging when we must, and hoping someone saves
The rich keep on wishing, their pockets feel so light
While the hungry just hunger for a warm place tonight


What does it mean to be human, with our hearts on display
Is legacy just a whisper that fades with the day
Is happiness, a fading dream, slipping through our hands
In this selfish world we wander, do we even need plans


Tell me another story, where love finds a way
Where my dreams aren't falling to decay
Can we rise from the ashes of a life once known
To the sound of compassion, where kindness has grown


So how are we doing in this tangled dance
Let’s meet up as friends, give each other a chance
For when we’re all gone, and our tales disappear
Wouldn’t it matter if love was the reason we’re all here

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk Copyright 2025

Hearts on Display

a blues track with a dark story line...

#blues #texasblues #southern #serialkiller #regret #garymoore

****LYRICS****

Wake up broken again,
Stumble round for my keys,
Get in the car,  crawl for couple miles,
The Heavens heavy with ill ease... 

Ohhh oohhhh what kind of life is this.....
...
'Penny for your thoughts' I hear a voice say,
As I knock back another round,
Beer with whisky side, 
Pretty soon I'm going go be gone!!!!! 

Ohhh oohhhh what kind of life is this, 

Lights fade and the room spins,
The booze doing its thing,
Come around in a dark room...
Feeling kind of sick ...
My hands and feet are tied,
Oh Lord, I think im in real deep shit 
Yeaaaaaah yeaaaah 

All my misgivings right before my eyes,
In the hands of the unknown,
'Don't you worry you won't hurt no more'..
A voice says to me,
Forgive me Father for i have sinned...
And then he plunges the knife into my skin...




Hurt  No More

And this is the strings version, "Wait for Me (Strings)", of my piano composition "Wait for Me (Piano)", https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/wait-for-me-piano, in my work-in-progress album "Again" (2025). The track was composed spontaneously in GarageBand iOS in the late evening of 7 February 2025 and arranged, mixed and recorded in Logic Pro on 8 February 2024. There is also a synths version, "Wait for Me (Synths)", https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/wait-for-me-synths. The strings version was released here on SoundCloud in the evening (in Europe) of 26 February 2025.

The artwork cover for the album and all tracks in it uses a photo of mine of 1 June 2024 I cropped and annotated in Mac OS Preview on 2 June 2024 and again on 15 February 2025 (to change the year of the - expected - album release from 2024 to 2025).

Duration: 2:03 minutes
Tempo: 100 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: C

Digital instruments used, in the order of composing and recording:

1. Orchestral - Strings - Strings Ensemble

Wait for Me (Strings)

In order to relate to your music most listeners need to be able to #pigeonhole it, if they can’t do this because you create tunes that are unique they'll likely dismiss your creativity, absorbing it years later when musicians, thinking they got there first, stumble on your sound!

I say it the way I see it, not the way THEY want me to see it!

Influenced by Gothic Music, lots of Funk, lots of Fusion, Post Industrial, Psychedelia, a smidgen of Post Punk, elements of Death and Dark Disco, traces o Trip Hop, Trap, EDM, Trance, Techno, House, Glam Rock, Nu Disco; Dub; I think you get the picture!

LOSING TOUCH WITH INSANITY

ATHENS DEATH DISCO aka GOTHIC FUNK

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