Our fairly faithful to the original version cover of "Summer" by Blackfield.

Full covers complication can be found on my Bandcamp page:
https://azurekevin.bandcamp.com/album/covers-2010s

Credits:

Abhi: bass
Eric (@ericgutierrez-1): guitar solo
Erin: backing vocals
Kevin: other guitars, vocals, drums, production

Latest version 5-10-2022

"Summer" (Blackfield) cover featuring Abhi, Eric, and Erin (2022 mix)

A acoustic cover of the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows".  Updated 12-21-13 with proper and accurate bridge harmonies.

"God Only Knows" (Beach Boys) acoustic cover

"On Fire" (Switchfoot) acoustic cover

"You Look So Fine" (Garbage) acoustic cover

Quick little Kiss Me cover done in the wee hours of the night.  This is by far the manliest song in my repertoire.

"Kiss Me" (Sixpence None the Richer) acoustic cover

No joke, this is a cover of a Backstreet Boys song, which itself is sort of a "cover" of a PM Dawn song with new/extra lyrics, which itself samples a prominent vocal melody from "True" by Spandau Ballet.

"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" (Backstreet Boys acoustic cover)

An arrangement of "The Land Unknown" from Final Fantasy V, and "Searching For Friends" from Final Fantasy VI.  Both are my favorite overworld songs from each game, and I came up with a way to mesh them together.

This is currently very much a work-in-progress, as I'm still tweaking/working on the instrumentation and guitar parts.

WIP "The Furthest Voyage" ("The Land Unknown" and "Searching For Friends" from Final Fantasy V & VI)

We're planning to add vocals but we've decided to release the instrumental version of this because it's already worth listening to.

Resolution Blue - Dirt Bag (preview)

Full song with drums, bass, guitar, and vocals: https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/mercy?in=azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Resolution Blue - "Mercy" (piano, strings, and music box ending)

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Lyrics:

Could you believe me
if I told you there’s a man who has no shape
Dripping promise
he pours into the contours of your faith
When you believe you see
because he fills the frame
And if you follow in vain
Well, who can you blame?
Who can you blame?

Some secrets are necessary
If everyone knows what their role should be
Some secrets are necessary
When nobody knows
they still want control

So now I know I’ll be the deceiver
No matter what I tell myself
Sacrifices made in belief
Are such a relief
(Such a relief)

Eyes are traitors
When you smile it looks just like an empty cup
Shadow of the future
Does it have to be so hard to fill it up
Disappointed again
Truth is circling the drain
If you followed in shame
What would you change?
What would you change?

Some secrets are necessary
If everyone knows what their role should be
Some secrets are necessary
When nobody knows
they still want control

And now I know I’ve been the deceiver
No matter what I tell myself
Sacrifices made in belief
Are such a relief
(Such a relief)

So now I know
So now I know

And now I know
And now I know (that I'm the deceiver)

Full WIP album on Bandcamp:
https://resolutionblue.bandcamp.com/album/ecliptic

Erin: lyrics, melody
Me: instrumentals, vocals, production

Resolution Blue - "The Deceiver"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

Performed by:

Brandon: guitars
Sven: guitars
Michael: bass guitar
Ben: drums
Kevin: vocals, backing guitars, keys, strings arrangement, production

ArcDream - "Game of the Sentry"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

Credits:

Michael: composition, bass
Kevin: vocals
Brandon: guitars
Sven: guitars
Ben: drums
Dave: lyrics

ArcDream - "Out of my Head"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

Credits:

Me: vocals, acoustic guitar, strings, piano, mixing, production
Erin: lyrics
Ben: drums
Michael: bass
Brandon: guitar soundscape
Sven: lead guitar, guitar solo

ArcDream - "The Past is Gone"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

Our centerpiece song as @ArcDream!  This one's been a long time coming, so we hope you enjoy it!

Credits:

Brandon: composition, lyrics, lead guitars, backing guitars, guitar solo 2
Sven: guitar solo 1
Michael: bass guitar
Ben: drums
Me: vocals, backing guitars, keys, strings arrangement, production

ArcDream - "Spirits"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Credits:
Erin: lyrics, verse melody
Me: instrumentals, vocals, production
Brandon: lead guitar intro melody

Lyrics:
Salty bridges a cut overpass
Lies in deep snowy secrets
Revelation is taking it slow
before it's too late I want you to know

I will find a way into your heart
If you consider
trust in time then this is just the start
Of what we’ll remember

Black ice midnight the stars seem more bright
If there’s a chance it’s worth taking
Just relax like nothing is holding us back
Till the dawn breaks our mourning

If you lead the way into your heart
Then I will follow
We can build a dream, a bridge, an ark,
Rein in tomorrow
If you leave a way into your heart
I’ll follow it higher
Take my hand and we become our spark
And from there we spire

So I will leave a way into my heart
That forever changes
what will stay and what will be apart
Let love rearrange us
So if you lead the way into your heart
Before and after
Will always be a part of our disintegrating axis of tomorrow

Full WIP album on Bandcamp:
https://resolutionblue.bandcamp.com/album/ecliptic

Resolution Blue - "Seasons"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

Credits:
Sven: composition, lyrics, lead guitar
Ben: drums
Michael: bass
Brandon: guitar
me: vocals, acoustic guitar, strings, mixing, production

ArcDream - "Khwarezmian Shah"

Full song here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/khwarezmianshah

Full ArcDream album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

"Khwarezmian Shah" (strings bridge and ending)

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Credits:
Abhi: bass, composition, backing vocals
Erin: lyrics and melody
Kevin: vocals, guitars, drums, production

Lyrics:
Hope is selfish
Hope is helpless
She leaves you carrying her score
And when she’s hungry
Grinds your bones
Soon she won’t need you anymore

Go on without need or reason
With nothing to justify
Sacrifice expectation
Fall into (the) empty sky
Forgetting a sad delusion
Hope alone gets by
Ambiguous contradictions
Where meaningless answers lie
Forgiveness and retribution
I chose another day with Hope

Always reckless
maybe foolish
She’ll leave everything behind
She’ll be the last thing
You remember
Give her everything you find

Go on without need or reason
With nothing to justify
Sacrifice expectation
Fall into (the) empty sky
Forgetting a sad delusion
Hope alone gets by
Ambiguous contradictions
Where meaningless answers lie
Forgiveness and retribution
I chose another day with Hope

Full WIP album on Bandcamp:
https://resolutionblue.bandcamp.com/album/ecliptic

Resolution Blue - "Hope"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

A tribute to our beloved cat, Emory, who passed away too young.  RIP Sept 17, 2019. 

Lyrics:
Dwindling sun rays
Shaded pathways
Love is always bound to find
In the garden
On the altar
I sent my hopeless prayer

I thought I was prepared
Thought I could be there
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

In this silence
I can focus
On the life I have to live without
And the faded
fond remembrance
I believed would never end

I thought I was prepared
Thought you would be there
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

What I wouldn’t do for another chance
What I wouldn’t do for a change of circumstance
What I wouldn’t do for mercy if I could
What I couldn’t do for you

Thought I could be there
I thought I was prepared
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

Resolution Blue - "Mercy" (new ending)

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Lyrics:
Goodbye old friend
now we go our separate ways
let the chips fall where they may
Goodbye

Goodbye old friend
whatever chapters we append
bitter ends or sweet amends
Goodbye

Everyone deserves a story
of love and redemption
Everybody finds a moment to try
Each of us deserves a chance
to be who we believe we can be
even if that begins
with goodbye

Goodbye
Goodbye old friend
Expectation and suspense
Lives in stasis end stranger lands

Entrapped in a forest of futures, infractions, and fractional lies
A freedom embarking for nowhere is better than staying behind

Goodbye
Goodbye

Goodbye old friend
Now we shed our looser ends

Resolution Blue - "Goodbye"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Credits:
Erin: lyrics, vocals, composition
Kevin: composition, guitar, mixing, production

Lyrics:
Legendaries exchanging the same advice
Luminaries selling a change of life
Shoulda signed on the line now you’re losing time

Actuaries playing a waiting game
Reactionaries always know who to blame
Till the cause and the loss start to feel the same

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know

All considered you’re lucky to have a friend
Keeps your mind from thinking what could have been
Pay to win sit and spin till you lose control

Rising tide washed up refugees
Got the faithful spreading the new disease
Hate sex love death work will set you free

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know about it all

Don’t talk about it
Don’t say anything anything at all
Don’t talk about it
Don’t say anything anything anything at all
Don’t talk about it
Don’t say anything anything anything at all
Anything at all

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know

Don’t tell me I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna know

Resolution Blue - "I Don't Wanna Know"

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

A song that I had originally conceived, but was majorly improved and expanded upon with my former bandmates, @ArcDream.

Credits:

Me: vocals, lyrics, guitars, keys, production
Brandon: guitar solo
Ben: drums, 7/8 bridge
Michael: bass guitar
Sven: guitar, additional song writing

ArcDream - "Apartofme"

Full rock song here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/spirits

Full ArcDream album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/arcdream

"Spirits" (piano, choir, and strings ending)

Like most RPG fans who played games from the 90s, I absolutely adore the Chrono series.

Last year I decided to experience Chrono Cross again via the new remaster.  During my playthrough, a short 6/8 piano idea for the song, “Burning Orphanage” popped into my head, and after playing around with it, I decided to try building it up into a full song.

It eventually evolved into this, what I think would be classed as a kind of haunting and wistful prog rock song with piano being the main driver, but also accompanied by the usual fair of rock drums, bass, synth leads, organs, both layered and lead electric guitar parts, strings, and mellotron choir.  Some parts of the song are perhaps faintly influenced by bands like King Crimson, some of Steven Wilson's solo music, as well as stuff by The Black Mages.

Once most of the first half was fleshed out (which was originally just going to be the whole arrangement), I realized one night that I could smoothly transition into the song “Silent Light” from Chrono Trigger, so I incorporated that as a slower second half.  Eventually I figured out a way to transition it back to Burning Orphanage with a mellower tone to close out the song.

The progression of the arrangement is recounting Kid’s trauma of fighting and surviving Lynx’s attack on the orphanage (first half with "Burning Orphanage"), but then wandering alone after her escape (second half with "Silent Light") and eventually finding peace (back to a slower "Burning Orphanage"), but not necessarily closure.

The actual scene from the game is one of the most heart breaking and climactic events from the whole series, IMO, and I wanted to try giving it even a fraction of justice.

"Lost Orphan" (Chrono Cross & Chrono Trigger "Burning Orphanage" & "Silent Light" arrangement)

Original version with full drums and bass here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/mercy?in=azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

Full album here:
https://soundcloud.com/azurekevin/sets/ecliptic

A tribute to our beloved cat, Emory, who passed away too young.  RIP Sept 17, 2019. 

Lyrics:
Dwindling sun rays
Shaded pathways
Love is always bound to find
In the garden
On the altar
I sent my hopeless prayer

I thought I was prepared
Thought I could be there
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

In this silence
I can focus
On the life I have to live without
And the faded
fond remembrance
I believed would never end

I thought I was prepared
Thought you would be there
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

What I wouldn’t do for another chance
What I wouldn’t do for a change of circumstance
What I wouldn’t do for mercy if I could
What I couldn’t do for you

Thought I could be there
I thought I was prepared
Thought I won’t be scared
But the world had other plans
The world had other plans

Resolution Blue - "Mercy" (alt drums & bass version with new ending)

A symphonic / rock ballad arrangement of "Ending ~ Le Trésor Interdit" from the SNES game, Radical Dreamers.

This song got accepted by OC Remix!
ocremix.org/remix/OCR04409

Radical Dreamers is a little known sequel to Chrono Trigger, released only in Japan on the Satellaview SNES add-on. However, it's about to get a proper English re-release with its inclusion in the new Chrono Cross remaster.

OCRemix: "Treasure Beyond Dreams" ("Le Trésor Interdit" from Radical Dreamers)

An experimental arrangement of two of my favorite musical sources: "Green Memories"/"Chronopolis" from Chrono Trigger/Cross, and "Love in the Past Tense" by Porcupine Tree.

I found that the lyrics from "Love in the Past Tense" can actually kind of fit with themes / story from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, especially when you discover the fate of Guardia.

I will try to update this in the future with real guitar if I can manage to play it, but for now this will do!

Backing vocals by Erin

"Leene in the Past Tense" (Chrono Trigger cross Porcupine Tree's "Love in the Past Tense")

A cover of "Where We Would Be" off of Porcupine Tree's "Lightbulb Sun" album.  This is mostly faithful to the original, with some additional instruments, most noticeably the drums.

Latest version: 8-9-2022

"Where We Would Be" (Porcupine Tree) cover 2022 version

https://azurekevin.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-coda

AzureKevin - "Ocean Coda" (instrumental)

I'm a singer, songwriter, composer, and producer currently working on rock/pop/punk and video game music.

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