A pure melancholy synthwave with vocals song about loss, regret, and hanging on to the good memories.

Featuring Kristina Paulick on vocals.

Making of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4XbnPjU9Y

Also available on Bandcamp and other streaming platforms:
https://li.sten.to/thepullofthestars

The Pull of the Stars

A cozy, chillpop song about wishing you could find the right words.

Instrumental version here:
https://soundcloud.com/bluenagoon/crestfallen-instrumental-version

Album pre-order & more info here:
https://bluenagoon.bandcamp.com/album/crestfallen

Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Michael Maas except:
Vocals by Alyssa Fischer
Trumpet by João Sousa

Mastered by Jamie Hill at Department of Energy Management, Tacoma

Crestfallen

"CRESTFALLEN" is an album of chill, pretty pop songs influenced by chillhop, lofi, chamber pop, jazz, r&b, indie pop, and a mishmash of other things. But it's a Nagoon project so of course the songs still go big sometimes.

The album explores and celebrates the small moments in our lives that can feel disproportionately momentous. At the same time I was writing this album I was also making big bombastic retrowave. This project was a cozy yin to that yang: acoustic instrumentation (mostly), less diatonic chord progressions. I had a blast arranging strings and brass, channeling my inner Burt Bacharach, and dialing in some Bond theme guitar tones, to name some of my favorite moments.

But the real magic is vocalist Alyssa Fischer. When I first heard her singing a demo of "Crestfallen" I knew this was a special combination of genre and singer. I was so inspired to keep writing songs in this style for her to sing that it became an album.

The album is available for pre-order at:
https://bluenagoon.bandcamp.com/album/crestfallen
It will release on March 17, 2022. Included in the album are instrumental versions of all the tracks.

I hope you enjoy chilling out and cozying up with these songs. May they bring you some peace as we move into 2022.

-Blue Nagoon

Credits
Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Michael Maas except:

Vocals by Alyssa Fischer
"Crestfallen" trumpet by João Sousa
"Parallel" uses samples from Benjamin Smith
"Carry Me Home" saxophone by William Todd Hunt
"Winter, Holly Beach" classical guitar solo composed and performed by Daniele Belli
"In for a Penny (Wineglass)" flute by Miguel Vargas
"Rest Your Head" additional vocals by Michael Maas

Mastered by Jamie Hill at Department of Energy Management, Tacoma
deptofenergymgmt.com

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback along the way: We Suck at Producing fam, Tholos, Flashback81, The Less Dead, Liquid Modern, littlebadsnacks server denizens, Jamie Hill.

Cover illustration by Ajreh

Winter, Holly Beach

Carry Me Home

Blue Ticket Interlude

Can't Unring That Bell

Parallel

Withernsea (ft. Kristina Paulick & Elevate the Sky)

Tangent (ft. Patricia Lattime)

Past Tense (ft. Patricia Lattime & Neaon)

Live Wire

Spheres (ft. Heather Mitchell)

The Same River Twice (ft. Patricia Lattime)

Aurora (ft. Rose Alaimo)

This Isn't Over Yet (ft. Kristina Paulick)

A song about when you know you had to get out, but you're not sure where you're going next yet.

Lots of synths, vox, electric bass, and just a pinch of guitar.

Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Michael Maas except:
additional background vocals by Carrie King.

Highway 101

My space bossa nova entry for the YSAP November Supernova challenge. I leaned into the "space opera" and "space elevator music" aspects.

Uses these sound effect samples from freesound.org:
ding.wav by tim.kahn
https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/91926/
Astri : 008 : rocketship hover landing.wav by prod.astri
https://freesound.org/people/prod.astri/sounds/492850/
Quick Zoom / Slow Down by benjaminharveydesign
https://freesound.org/people/benjaminharveydesign/sounds/366092/

Voice is resampled Serena voice from MacOS.

Station Keeping

This track was made over a couple weeks for the We Suck at Producing Discord server's "Kawaiiwave" production challenge: combine kawaii future bass and synthwave into one song.

Video breakdown of the track, chords, and Ableton Live sesson:
https://youtu.be/u9vdCp-yHzA

Track also available at Bandcamp:
https://bluenagoon.bandcamp.com/track/ballistic-frizzle

Girl image by Tarishart from Pixabay
Outrun background by iywbr from Pixabay

Uses "fun-explosion03.wav" sound effect by newagesoup.
freesound.org/people/newagesoup/

Uses environmental audio from freetousesounds
freetousesounds.com

Ballistic Frizzle

New singles releasing monthly in 2021.

Follow:
http://bluenagoon.bandcamp.com
http://twitter.com/bluenagoon

http://www.bluenagoon.com

Composer, songwriter, and music teacher.

I like to bounce around genres, so here you'll find pop, rock, electronic, soundtrack/classical, and some stuff that's more left field.

For music licensing or lessons (piano, guitar, theory, composition) please email nagoonberries @ gmail.com

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