Track from  the Instrumental Rock Album 2022 from MODVÆGT:
The World is Burning - https://soundcloud.com/modvaegt/sets/the-world-is-Burning

V. 1.3 m
Released May 2021

Breakdown (Instrumental)

Sashiburi 久しぶり w/ Lapra$

Apple Sauce it

Cover Art by Alexander Krivitskiy (Pixabay)

All Music By Me, "Satellite" co-written by Dani Ford

Very Special Thanks To Dani Ford

Satellite

I have been making this track for almost a month, a little bit every day. Time is of the essence lately. It all started with the piano sample chopped, diced and cooked with the MPC. The bass is made also with the MPC, it was such a delight making it, really starting to feel the MPC as an instrument. The trumpets were made in FL studio and the guitar parts with the old trusted guitar. I hope you enjoy it, peace out!

Bhs - Trumpets In Delay

Spring Songs
Duration: ca. 20'
Instrumentation: tenor and piano
Performers: American Modern Ensemble - Alok Jumar, tenor; Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recorded at Opera America's National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, New York, NY, USA, June 4, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs-version-for-tenor-and-piano

I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II.  April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

PROGRAM NOTES
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller and Kathleen Rogers and was premiered at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall by the American Modern Ensemble, Alok Kumar, tenor, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano.

Spring Songs (Piano/vocal) - IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)

Beat produced by ayesean 
Performed by Belch. 
in association w/ [sofa gang] 
from the album "Greenhouse"

The Roses

A subtle and gentle introduction, followed by a swift kick in the teeth.  Let this one take you over the edge of the falls.

The Shadow's Light

A song about the forces of attraction and repulsion

LYRICS:

It's time we turned the corners of the lines we draw in sand
We'll find another boundary for the mines we dug by hand

Too far apart, the gravity's too weak to hold us down
Two proximal polarities repel us back to ground

Polar opposites attract
it's a paradox in a magnetic unknown
Are you coming home?

You're in orbit around each other
A binary star colliding with another
and you're hiding under the covers from your brothers
You're attracted to another
It's an unknown force you're trying to discover
but you're lying to your lover
and you love her

Polar opposites attract
it's a paradox in a magnetic unknown
Are you coming home?

You're in orbit around each other
A binary star colliding with another
and you're hiding under the covers from your brothers
You're attracted to another
It's an unknown force you're trying to discover
but you're lying to your lover
and you love her

Polarities

Rêverie

A slightly country-rock-esque song about arguments and compromise

LYRICS:

Again we're starting over in another town
The friends we made, they drift away
like clouds on the wind
I'm tired of waiting
My body's aching and broken
The separating
This meditation is over
and now I'm open to suggestions

November brings a chill into our open minds
It's when we'll take our pills so we can try to find
some relief from it all
You're always hating
but it remains unspoken
And you can stare at the painting
but this conversation's over
unless you're open to suggestions

We can't ignore it
We're gonna have to explore it
And I'm gonna call it:
This one's a forfeit

We can't ignore it
We're gonna have to explore it
And I'm gonna call it:
This one's a forfeit

Nothing else for it..

Satellite

Benjamin Nix