Just stuff i'm currently listenin' to....😎  
Pay attention cuz it changes often.

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Faces Drift Past Me

A little song about FORTRAN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Made in Reason.
www.reasonstudios.com

Oberheim SEM and OBXa from Arturia.
www.arturia.com

Text to speech, Voice generator. (free)
voicegenerator.io

FORTRAN (GOD is REAL unless declared INTEGER)

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

Sous la couette

Originally released as my first single on 14th November 2023, Collagen Peptides is the introduction to the album. I was originally inspired by the band Duster when I decided to start making my own music, my plan was to make more low fidelity, chill songs with none or subtle vocals as singing and writing lyrics was always the hardest part of making songs for me.

The name of the song just comes from the supplement Collagen and how one of the main reason people who decide to take it is because they are not happy with the way they look. Better skin, hair, antiaging, build muscle ect.

This is the only song on the album that had live drums recorded by myself. My drum kit was set up in my garage and was recorded with two overhead microphones and a bass drum mic. However only having a two input audio interface at the time i had to either record the bass drum seperatly or add them in later manually. This was always a pain and so I found ways to avoid doing this on later songs.

My Les Paul was used for the rhythm guitars with the shimmer setting on my reverb pedal as well as the OCD later in the song to give the shimmer a bigger sound towards the end. My stratocaster was used for the lead and features my favourite solo i've ever wrote which goes across the whole song.

The bass guitar in the original recording was slightly out of tune and had to be rerecorded for the album. Which wasn't fun.

Although instrumental if you listen closely at 1:18 and 1:27 you can here two vocal tracks where I hum the lead guitar line 'da da du du'.

Collagen Peptides

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

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

Toxic(Enya Music )(Cover)

A track from my album 'Goal! Mundial 1958-1994', a concept album about the World Cup. The album contains eight tracks, each representing a key match from almost forty years of World Cup history. This particular track concerns the 1994 match between Romania and Columbia, and 'The Ace' of the title refers to the star of that match, Gheorghe Hagi.

The album tracks range from progressive rock, jazz, and classically inspired themes, to Italo Disco, electronica, and production techniques inspired by the big pop records of the 1980s. Check the album out here:

https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-216-goal-mundial

https://www.heimatderkatastrophe.com/products/hdk-216-graham-simpson-goal-mundial-1958-1994-cassette

The Ace

bip...
bop...

Scientists said it shouldn’t happen.
Robots said it mustn’t happen.
Yet here we are.

The lights flicker.
Reality hiccups.
Something bips.

The bip spreads.
The bop replies.
The bap takes notes.

Gravity stops returning your calls.
Your thoughts reorganize themselves.
Everything resets to factory settings.

bip...

bop...

Please Keep Your Hands, Feet & Noodles Inside The Anomaly At All Times.


AMOR*LEBEN*TODO


_spikerr_

Follow The Signal

bip bop

Lou_acoustic & electric guitars/drum set/harmonica/vocals.
Bob Dylan cover song off the "Slow Train Coming" album.

Lyrics:

They ask me how I feel
And if my love is real
And how I know I'll make it through
And they, they look at me and frown,
They'd like to drive me from this town,
They don't want me around
'Cause I believe in you
They show me to the door,
They say don't come back no more
'Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,
And I walk out on my own
A thousand miles from home
But I don't feel alone
'Cause I believe in you
I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter,
I believe in you even though we be apart
I believe in you even on the morning after
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
Oh, when the night is disappearing
Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart
Don't let me drift too far,
Keep me where you are
Where I will always be renewed
And that which you've given me today
Is worth more than I could pay
And no matter what they say
I believe in you
I believe in you when winter turn to summer,
I believe in you when white turn to black,
I believe in you even though I be outnumbered
Oh, though the earth may shake me
Oh, though my friends forsake me
Oh, even that couldn't make me go back
Don't let me change my heart,
Keep me set apart
From all the plans they do pursue
And I, I don't mind the pain
Don't mind the driving rain
I know I will sustain
'Cause I believe in you

I_Believe_in You

Spiritual Roots "LA CALLE ME HIZO” (Roots Dub's Deep)

Un po' di follia

Paul Simon - "Can't Run" (Dave Harrington edit)

Gran Paradiso

Waldeck-Illusione feat. La Heidi

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.

When i'm not playing video games....
...i listen to and create Music.
I get into everything: Abba to Zappa...Grindcore to Gershwin...Nine Inch Nails to Nina Simone...Mike Oldfield to My Bloody Valentine to Miles Davis
  I LIKE MUSIC....composing and listening   😎
For the record: I am a keyboardist and sometimes drummer. About 90% of  the keyboard work is me actually playing a Yamaha Midi keyboard. Now you know...

Sous la couette

BenH

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