BANDCAMP: https://kybelean.bandcamp.com/album/zenobia
BEATPORT: https://www.beatport.com/release/zenobia/3297888
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1199l9GdIyAFkrOgBDxONg
APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/album/zenobia-single/1554725977

An EP about finitude and infinity, about awareness and the subconscious, about gratitude and love.

All music written and produced by Karmakind
Special thanks to Dennis Osterholz

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KYBELE Records - Karmakind - Bãb al-Hawã

Faces Drift Past Me

I am at an age where “back then” is really a long time ago. an intangible eternity. a period of time that was beyond abstract when I was in my mid-20s and understood the future to mean the next 5 years. interestingly, I also had a very different understanding of the past. even my youth, just a few years ago, felt far away – comparable to the phenomenon that music was called an "oldie" if it was more than 10 years old (probably due to music was developing way more rapidly at that time and was constantly coming up with something innovative, surprising, and completely new). 

during this time, I met my wife, carina. we had both been through extremely chaotic first relationships. with all the wild excesses that go with them: massive parties, any kind of drugs, crazy trips, the entire range of juvenile madness, intense emotional ups and downs, and both paths with a really nasty ending.

in our early days, we loved spending nights telling each other about it, preferably in my band's rehearsal room, where we often spontaneously made music out of our experiences.

this resulted in, among other songs, a piece with the plain hook “looking back at you, looking back at me, looking back and all I see’s absurdity” and a super simple chord progression of Fism/D/E/Bm, which repeated itself the whole time without any variation. 

we could sing all sorts of different things to it, and it always worked and sounded funny. I kept coming back to the subject with countless recordings (as I did to many others). until today, more than 40 years later, in a future that was unimaginable back then and that held experiences for us that made our retrospective view of that time seem like a piece of cake.

now, after all, I combined some text fragments from '83 with new lines, made them a little more english (hope so) and briefed my virtual singer along with a playback. 

you can't imagine how it feels for us to hear this song interpreted like this today, on our 41st wedding anniversary this weekend. or maybe you can. and will smile.

©music and lyrics by Hans-Michael Albers, instrumental cover & vocal performance by suno 4.5+

You were fire
I was the flood
We burned
We drowned
We made it good
I am looking back 
at you

In the chaos
I saw the stars
Bright and cruel
They lit our scars
I am looking back 
I am looking back 
at you
 
I am looking back
At the cracks
I am looking back
At the glow
At the pieces we let go

I am looking back
Not with tears
I am looking back
Not with pain
But with love for the insane
 
We built a tower 
to watch it fall
A kingdom of glass
Shattered by it all
First kisses felt like 
endless springs
Last words cut like 
broken strings
I am looking back 
at you
looking back 

High, low
Yes, no
I am looking back 
at you
truth, show
wait, go
I am looking back 
at you

I won’t regret the end
I won’t regret the start
Your chaos still dances somewhere in my heart

I am looking back
Nothing more
I am looking back
No encore
I am looking back
Nothing more
I am looking back
No encore

Looking back

Spiritual Roots "Sexy" (Groove & Roots Midnight Pleasure Dub)

Spiritual Roots  "VELVET BLADE" ( Ms. Olivia's Velvet Room Mix)

Tredici dicembre - Neil

Just say....Mœbius  😎

(complete original version)
____________________________________________________________________

Airtight Garage ©

the other day my wife carina (cover pic from early 80s of a party-filled stay with friends somewhere in denmark) asked me why I didn't publish something positive again, something just uplifting without dramatic depth. otherwise, people might think I'm a gloomy sceptic, a notorious nihilist and a pessimistic misanthrope, which personally wouldn't bother me that massively;-)

but of course, she's right, and always being a sourpuss gets boring. so, the album ‘retrospective future’ which was originally intended to be a trilogy is now getting a fourth track: a song originally titled “was ist das her?”, which I wrote around 20 years ago with duet voices in my head – at a time when I thought the previous 20 years were an incredibly long time. interestingly, from today's perspective, I feel no significant difference between 20 and 40 years. however, it's a look back not with a tear in my eye but with a smile in my heart. 

tech: the only way to translate the lyrics so that they still fit the composition, and, above all, the original vocal rhythm was to paraphrase some phrases. I hope all native english speakers will forgive me for any mistakes. 

drilling the rhythm of singing with its pauses and emphases into the AI was surprisingly elaborate, despite the uploaded template. for something called 'intelligence', the machine is still incredibly stupid.

but all the work was worth it because the result is very close to my vision. even if it remains a digitally simulated sketch.

all that remains is to wish you all a wonderful weekend, and to send our deepest love to our dearest friends gary and terry, who are going through a really difficult time. you are the best – and always in our hearts!

https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/a-mountain-message

©music and lyrics by Hans-Michael Albers, instrumental cover & vocal performance by suno 5

After Party we still were dancing
While the night went off we never stopped
As the sunrise hit our faces
And we felt the world was ours on top

We were running, were rushing all night
Laughing loud like nothing could go wrong 
Every heartbeat felt like a star flight
And we wrote our dreams into the dawn 

So long ago, but we still know
The way those nights could heal us so
A distant light, a fading glow
Yet in our hearts it won’t let go

All our worries drifted away, hey 
We were floating high above the ground
Every moment a holiday, yay
And nothing held us, nothing tied us down

We had sworn that we'd never land, and
We'd keep dancing never asking why,
Dreams for living and life for dreaming
Too young to fall, just made to fly 

So long ago, but we still know
The way those nights could heal us so
A distant light, a fading glow
Yet in our hearts it won’t let go

So long ago, but we still hear
The quiet songs that led us near
A sweeter time, untouched by fear
Still echoing though none stay here 

So long, Ago

So long ago

Partir heureux

Toxic(Enya Music )(Cover)

Chamada Remixes – EP Get it here!! https://nomaderecords.bandcamp.com/

Praah -productor y lutier franco colombiano- en colaboración con Festival Nómade más ocho artistas europeos y latinoamericanos, han dado forma a “Chamada”, un EP de remixes del single del mismo nombre. Esta canción fue producida por Praah con la intención de unir varios continentes, integrando idiófonos (Sanza) por la parte africana, aerófonos japoneses (Hotchiku) y flautas y ocarinas por la parte de americana precolombina. 

“Chamada Remixes” avanza desde un sonido orgánico y suave, muy profundo, adquiriendo tintes electrónicos pulidos y progresivos. Evoluciona de manera natural, logrando generar nuevas texturas, gracias a las versiones de productores amigos con búsquedas sonoras complementarias. 

Así comienza a tomar forma concreta una familia musical fundada en el intercambio, el rescate y el downtempo. Chamada Remixes es la primera producción de una serie de trabajos colectivos que ya están empezando a gestarse y serán liberados de manera gratuita.

PrΛ.Λ.H - Chamada (Ninze Remix)

I am interested in all kinds of music: from Delta Blues to free jazz, Nu Jazz, world music, folk music from all over the world, experimental music, classical music, cheesy pop music, cerebral minimalist music....
	In short: music has always played an important role in my life...  not only listening to it  but also creating it.   ;-)
	From the trumpet to the guitar, the ukulele, keyboards, my mouth and anything else that can produce a sound, I enjoy myself without too many constraints other than ‘having fun’.
	Fun that I share with you... 
	Enjoy listening to my productions as much as I enjoyed producing them.


	Toutes les musiques m’intéressent : du Delta Blues au freejazz en passant par le NuJazz, de la World au Folk de tous pays, de l'expérimental au classique, de la variété cucul à la musique minimaliste cérébrale...
	Bref : La musique a toujours occupé une partie importante dans ma vie...  non seulement l'écouter  mais aussi la pondre.   ;-)
De la trompette en passant par la guitare, le ukulele, les claviers, la bouche et tout ce qui peut produire un son, je m'amuse sans trop de contraintes si ce n'est « me faire plaisir. ».
	Plaisir que je vous partage...
	 Amusez vous à l'écoute de mes productions comme j'ai pris du plaisir à les produire.

   These voices are no longer mine, but those of an algorithm. Like a subtle alchemist, AI has changed the colour of my voice, but not its flavour, and it has enhanced its emotion.

    Ces voix ne sont plus la mienne, Mais celles d’un algorithme. En alchimiste subtil, l’IA  a changé la couleur de ma voix, mais pas le goût  et elle  en a renforcé l’émotion.

Partir heureux

BenH

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