Name: Still Life by Brandon Michael in Autumn 2025 Support List - Volume IV
Duration: 3 min 19 s
Description: A song about the ache of watching life move on without you. You are stuck between who you were and who you wanted to be. Still Life turns that stillness into something honest, fragile, and human.

Autumn 2025 Support List - Volume IV

Melodic Solid Rock to give you something to think about.

Midnight Oil

Primitive Soul

We are the Animals

Amy Stevens vocals
John Russell guitars, bass, keyboards, drums/drum programming
Recorded at PORKCHOPS! III May-July 2025
Produced by John Russell and Amy Stevens
All tracks composed by Amy Stevens and John Russell c/p 2025 Solstice Music INC/The Chocolate Era LTD

Cartoon World

The screen flickers
The table yawns
We sit
We wait
We vanish

This hour is gone
You will never get it back

You could have walked the forest path
Heard the crow
Touched the moss
Lit a fire
Watched the sky

Instead
you counted bullets on a slide

This hour is gone
You will never get it back

You could have baked bread
Fed a friend
Watered the thirsty plant
Read the forgotten page
Slept without dreaming

Instead
you raised your hand
and lowered it again

This hour is gone
You will never get it back

You could have carved a song
Bled on the strings
Run until the lungs caught fire
Kissed a mouth that mattered
Buried the silence in wine

Instead
you stared at the clock
and the clock stared back

This hour is gone
You will never get it back
This hour is gone
You will never get it back

Never
Never
Never
Never
Never

You will never get it back

Never
Never
Never
Never
Never

This Hour Is Gone

 Eerie Lake is a slow mysterious rock jam that is very heavy and also rhythmic.  I am once again totally honored to be joined by drummer Kellii Scott on this track.  His writing and playing are an immense part of what make the song!  Jeff Escudé  Guitar, Bass Guitar   Kellii Scott  Drums, Percussion

Eerie Lake (feat Kellii Scott)

I drew a line to measure truth
It bent itself into a loop
I tried to name the shape of time
It laughed and told me, "Not this time"

I chased the proof, the numbers lied
They split in two, then multiplied
The closer that I came to fact
The further it dissolved to act

Meaning hides in coded schemes
In broken clocks and endless dreams
The world’s a riddle, sharp and sly
It grins and winks each time you try

You reach for logic, it slips away
A paradox dressed in broad daylight
The punchline waits at the end of the play
It only lands when the timing’s right

Bazinga!
Bazinga!
Bazinga!
Bazinga!

Bazinga

Thanks for checking out What If?, the fifth single from my upcoming album Underground Sky. The album will be released one song at a time throughout 2025. The video for this track will be out on YouTube on October 10th.

What If? is one of the most introspective and reflective tracks I’ve made. It sits somewhere between alt-pop and classic singer songwriting, opening with stark piano chords and vocals before unfolding into layered acoustic guitars, intimate strings, pedal steel, jangling riffs, and cascading harmonies. It’s about questioning choices, imagining alternate paths, and confronting those quiet “what if” moments that linger in your mind.

Every part of this recording was done independently in my home studio. No label, no filters, no one else’s fingerprints.

Written, produced, performed & mixed by Heron @ Cracked Analogue
Artwork by Heron @ Cracked Analogue
Mastered by Toby Campen

What If?

A song about the ache of watching life move on without you. You are stuck between who you were and who you wanted to be. Still Life turns that stillness into something honest, fragile, and human.

Still Life

A song of beauty, pain, and surrender.
Inspired by Morrison’s poetic darkness, The Velvet Knife blends blues, tango, and cinematic soul — where love hurts, but creation redeems.

Tango of the Undying is a dark, hypnotic fusion of psychedelic rock and tango noir — a ritual of life, death, and desire.
Through smoke and rhythm, each song becomes a confession whispered to the night.
This is not an album — it’s a dance with the inevitable, a heartbeat shared with death and passion intertwined.
Haunting baritone vocals echo Morrison’s ghost, while Rhodes organs, bandoneons, and burning guitars paint a crimson stage where love bleeds and beauty refuses to die.
You don’t listen to this record — you feel it breathing through your bones.

Tango of the Undying

The Velvet Knife

God Machine

FROM THE ORIGINAL "BETRAYED" : 
https://on.soundcloud.com/sIfEu6bpz8L6HiZ1dC
432 Hz Verdi's tuning

BETRAYED - THE EDGE REMIX

pop punk/rock
co-produced, mixed, mastered and cover art by

@a7-recording-studio

www.a7recordingstudio.com

a7recordingstudio@gmail.com

Crawling Up The Walls

Stick To Me

My Happy Songs Do Not Make Sense

Optimism in Four Beats

Halena Morbida is the product of a middle age crisis. It is not about a particular genre, it's about the joy of creating music.

I use Ableton Live 11, Ibanez GIO electric guitar, Harley Benton electric bass guitar, HB acoustic guitar and acoustic bass guitar, Boss ME-80 processor, bongos, tambourine, cajon, and a bunch of different kinds of flutes.
 I am not a musician, I just fool around, while learning how to play my instruments. 
The artwork for the tracks is AI generated and the titles are chosen mostly using the method of free association.
Thank you for listening to my crap! 
Have a nice life while you still have it!

Still Life

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