Soliloquy

“Shifting Echoes” es un viaje sonoro que florece entre nubes etéreas y ritmos terrenales. Tablas pulsantes y la cromática voz de la armónica se entrelazan como enredaderas mágicas, tejiendo un paisaje en el que 4/4 y 3/4 se funden sin esfuerzo. A cada giro, audaces acordes de Rhodes emergen como flores exóticas, contrastados con delicados contrapuntos que evocan un reino vibrante y misterioso. Las melodías flotan como hojas al viento, susurrando historias de ecos vivos que mutan con cada escucha. Un abrazo místico entre lo clásico, lo moderno y lo desconocido, “Shifting Echoes” invita a perderse en sus resonancias cambiantes y contemplar la belleza fugaz de cada instante.

Shifting Echoes

To equality, democracy, freedom, and hope 💙

A joyful jazzy march to dance the tightrope to 🗽

80-85 bpm

Ordinarily I use original LoFi audio that I have recorded from live subjects, but in this song, I use a single sample in my outro from a campaign video of Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, PA, October 27, 2024.

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai MPK Professional 
E-instruments:
Concert Grand
Deep Organ
SoCal Ballad Piano
Upright Ballad Bass
Crystals and Voices synth
Rolling Chords synth 
E-percussion used:
Studio Brush Kit 
Warehouse Kit shaker
Classic House Remix Congas

Cover art is a derivative illustration with additions and alterations to the following photos:

Statue of Liberty in the afternoon by Eldar Kamalov in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty_2.JPG

 Didier Pasquette walking a tightrope between the twin statues atop the Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, as part of the opening of the 2010 Beyond/In Western New York art exhibition, by Dave Pape in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Didier_Pasquette_BIWNY_1.jpg

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Tightrope

Playtime

Ruggiero Miles - Love is all we got

Benjamin Dantès - Fahrenheit

Roberto B (@2roberto2) and I are now glad to share our "Electronic Symphony 5". It was composed by Roberto B on 22 September 2024 in MAGIX (initial composition, recording, arrangement and mix), Alex M on 20 January 2025 in Logic Pro using Akai MPK keyboard input (subsequent composition, recording, arrangement and mix), and Roberto B on 22 January 2025 in MAGIX (final composition, additions, arrangements, recording and mix), and released here on SoundCloud this Sunday morning (in Europe), 26 January 2025. We hope you'll enjoy it.

The artwork cover for the album and all its tracks uses a painting by Roberto B of 24 May 2022 annotated in Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 27 October 2024 - in coordination and agreement between the two.

Duration: 6:10 minutes

Electronic Symphony 5 - Roberto B & Alex M

noxpox - HOLY POTION

Monolith Drowned

with apologies to Kevins, past, present and future
thank you, Kevins McHale, Costner and Bacon for participating 

Never Trust A Kevin 

When I was just a little boy                                                         
There was this nasty kid                                                             
Kevin was wild, Kevin was vile                                                   
All the twisted things he did                                                        
I tried to be friendly                                                                     
I tried to play nice                                                                       
They said, “Kevin behave”                                                             
“You will scar that boy for life”                                               

Never trust a Kevin                                                                     
I can never trust a Kevin in my life                                             
Never trust a Kevin                                                                     
I can never trust a Kevin in my life                                              
                                                                            
Run from the school, coming for me 
See him beat me down the block
I'll wait till I'm older, got to get stronger 
And in time, I'll clean his clock
But that day never came
We both slowly moved away
But his legend still haunts, the pranks and the taunts
I still cringe that name today

Never trust a Kevin
I can never trust a Kevin in my life 
Never trust those Kevins 
Never trust those Kevins in your life

Kevin Smith, Kevin Bacon                                                       
The Costner, O'Leary and the                                                 
Federline nations                                                                    
 Mr. Spacey,those things they said you did                                            
And Kevin McHale..........                                                                 
You ain't no paraplegic kid!....   

….   Artie walks! .....what a fraud ......
                                            
Never trust a Kevin
You can never trust a Kevin in your life
Never trust a Kevin 
You can never trust a Kevin in your life 
Your life, my life

Too many Kevins in my world
See the way they bring me down 
Remove the K, turn the N to L
And you can call them EVIL now
So what's in a name, what's in a face
It's a childhood memory 
That's seared in my brain, I can not erase…. that Kevin close to me...

               



Never Trust A Kevin

Landscape V

There’s a treasure down deep in this garbage can
To find it, plug your nose, feel the dirt on your hands
Just remember that they never really understand 
Your personal Rosetta Stone



Never Trust A Kevin

Hand on the Rock